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CONIUM MACULATUM کونیم The essential features: Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA by George Vithoulkas
CONIUM MACULATUM کونیم
Poison Hemlock.
N.O. Umbelliferae.
Tincture of fresh plant in flower.
THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES
The idea of paralysis in Conium is not so much the one we know from Socrates' death by the 'noggin of hemlock'; real paralysis comes only as an end result, and this may take a very long time, twenty years, thirty years, or more. Conium suffers with a gradually progressing weakness and paresis, and gradual is the key word here.
The idea is much more that of sclerosis, of becoming hard, especially the glands, which become swollen and indurated. A gradually progressing weakness with the formation of indurations during the decline, is the picture of Conium pathology.
Mental Paralysis and Induration
This process develops on all three levels. On the mental level, we observe a gradual decline of the intellectual capacities.
The patient becomes more and more dull; he has more and more difficulty in comprehension.
Thinking is slowed down, memory becomes weak, and the patient becomes forgetful. His five senses lose their acuity, and his reserves slowly ebb away. A frequent and characteristic symptom is an inability to sustain mental effort read more [...]
DIGITALIS – ڈیجیٹیلس The essential features: Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA by George Vithoulkas
DIGITALIS - ڈیجیٹیلس
Digitalis purpurea. The foxglove.
N.O. Scrophulariaceae.
Tincture of the second year leaves.
THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES
Digitalis is primarily a heart remedy. It should be considered when the pulse is abnormally slow and later in the pathology, fast or irregular, intermittent; where there is heart disease, with great weakness, and the patient can hardly talk, and is losing strength to the point that he feels faint. Cold skin and irregular respiration will often point to such cardiac pathology. All this can be accompanied by deathly nausea and emptiness in the stomach; weakness and dilation of the myocardium; and prostration from the slightest exertion.
Digitalis will be indicated if you have been told by the patient that when the problem started (whether acute or chronic), the pulse was very slow, even down to 40 beats per minute. Hahnemann says that Digitalis 'greatly slows down the pulse in its primary action', and this initial slowing down of the pulse rate is a guiding symptom of Digitalis in almost all cases, no matter what the pathology.
It must be understood that here the heart is in a precarious state, is really read more [...]
HEALING CRISIS: The Road to Better Health (Walter Last)
I routinely recommended to my patients right on their first visit to adopt a high-quality, low-allergy diet. When they came back two or three weeks later, they often said that they feel much better now but a week ago they had a cold. When I asked about the symptoms they turn out to be mainly a profuse mucus discharge, sometimes also diarrhoea, but rarely are there signs of a real infection. In fact, these patients just experienced their first healing crisis on their long path to better health.
This concept of a healing crisis clearly shows the opposite perceptions that drug medicine and holistic medicine have of health and the healing process. In drug medicine it is assumed that a patient who is free of disease symptoms is more or less healthy and the aim of drugs is to achieve this condition by removing any disagreeable symptoms. Frequently alternative or complementary medicine is used in the same way, instead of more or less toxic drugs just more benign remedies are being used. This is what most patients want and according to their beliefs they either use drugs or natural remedies for this purpose.
However, holistic or natural medicine, following in the footsteps of the old read more [...]
Homeopathic Remedy Natrum Muriaticum – The Essence of Materia Medica (George Vithoulkas)
The primary characteristic underlying the Natrum mur. pathology is introversion arising out of a feeling of great vulnerability to emotional injury. Natrum mur. patients are emotionally very sensitive; they experience the emotional pain of others, and feel that any form of rejection, ridicule, humiliation or grief would be personally intolerable. Consequently, they create a wall of invulnerability, become enclosed in their own worlds, and prefer to maintain control over their circumstances. They avoid being hurt at all costs.
People susceptible to developing the Natrum mur. type of pathology are emotionally sensitive and vulnerable, but quite clear and strong on mental and physical levels. Mentally, they have a high degree of objectivity and awareness, as well as a great sense of responsibility. For this reason, they are likely to be the sympathetic ear to which others turn when distressed. The emotional sensitivity and the sense of responsibility readily lead such people into fields of counseling, psychotherapy, the ministry etc. While listening sympathetically to someone else’s suffering, such people maintain their objectivity and appear to be very strong. They internally absorb read more [...]
What is Homeopathy and how it works
Homeopathy is a form of medicine which views and treats the body as a whole entity and helps it heal itself. It can be used for acute or chronic illnesses. The treatment is based on the principle that substances which are poisonous in large doses can be very beneficial in small doses. Homeopathy uses animal, vegetable and mineral preparations to cure a person's illness and prevent them from recurring. Millions of people in Britain, Europe and America are treated homeopathically.
Homeopathy regards each patient individually; practitioners then develop a personal remedy or treatment plan strictly for that patient. Homeopathy relies upon a person's inherent powers of healing - the immune system - to develop a successful therapy.
There are significant differences between the concepts used in Western medicine and those of homeopathy. In conventional medicine, symptoms are seen as a manifestation of the disease. Drugs are given to kill the bacteria or to relieve the symptom of the condition. Homeopaths, on the other hand, see the symptoms as the body's attempt to heal itself. They regard the symptom as a positive sign that the body's defense mechanism read more [...]
Mental Rubrics in Homeoapthy
LIST OF MENTAL RUBRICS / SYMPTOMS IN HOMEOPATHY:
Abandoned : Feeling of being left alone without help
Forsaken : Feeling of being left alone without help
Deserted : Feeling of being left alone when most needed
Abashed : To strike with shame
Abrupt : Unexpectedly sudden, rude
Absent minded : In attention of mind
In Absentmindedness there is no fixation of mind at all,
In Absorbed the mind is directed towards one problem. Fixed in one thought
Abstraction of mind : A destructive symptom, something in the mind has been lost
Absurd : Ridiculously unsuitable , foolish
Abusive : Habit of employing harsh insulting languages as a routine.
Cursing : Is due to some provocation by somebody or some provocative ideas
Swearing. Cursing after heated exchange with another one
Acuteness : Sharpness and keenness of mind
Adaptability loss of : Very difficult to adjust to the surroundings
Admiration : A high degree of pleasure
Admonition : Aggravation from gentle advice
Adulterous : Sexual intercourse with a female other than his lawful wife
Affability : The quality of being pleasant and at ease in talking to others
Affectation : Artificial behavior designed read more [...]
Hussain Kaisrani, The chief consultant and director at Homeopathic Consultancy, Lahore is highly educated, writer and a blogger 