A RARE REMEDY IN COMMON CONDITION

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IN A
A RARE REMEDY
COMMON CONDITION
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• DR.S.PRAVEEN KUMAR
• M.D.(HOM)
• ASST.PROF,
• JSPS GOVERNMENT HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE,
  HYDERABAD.

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RARE REMEDY CONTD.,

• Edward Whitmont states,
• As a rule, a case defies our efforts to find the
  curative remedy not because there is no remedy
  which would cover its symptom totality, but
  because we have failed to consider or to
  recognize this remedy.

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Rare rem. Contd.,

• Hahnemann had enunciated in the classification of
  diseases that there is a separate class belonging
  to one sided disorders either mental or physical
  under DYNAMIC chronic diseases.
• In these cases organopathic or lesser known or
  rare remedies are useful.

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Rare rem.contd.,

• Even in fully developed, chronic miasmatic
  category some of the lesser known remedies are
  useful to facilitate the cure.
• Whitmont cured a case with Latrodectus when many
  polychrests failed.

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Rare rem.contd.,

• CASE
• A lady aged 43 years.
• C/FMenorrhagia for several months.
• Black blood with occ.clots.
• Menses every 30/35 days
• Lasting for 20 days
• Mild pain lower abdomen.

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Rare rem.contd.,

• ASSOCIATED SYMPTOMS
• Doesnt want to talk to any body.
• Sad almost always.
• Sleeplessness.
• Ambi to chilly.
• Moderately built.
• Anaemic.

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Rare rem.contd.,

• Provisional diagnosis
• MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME.
• Remedies already used
• Sepia,Pulsatilla,Thalaspi,Millefolium,
• Fer phos,Lecithine,etc.,

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Rare rem.contd.,

• PECULIAR SYMPTOM
• BLEEDING ONLY WHILE URINATING

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Rare rem. Contd.,

• In Robin Murphys Repertory
• FEMALE chapter
• Rubric
• MENSES-URINATING,ONLY WHEN
• Only one drug in 3rd grade is there.

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Rare rem. Contd.,

• This drug was proved by none other than
  Hahnemann.
• Almost all the materia medicas dont give this
  rubric.
• MM Pura Hering Guiding symptoms also
• dont mention this symptom.

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Rare rem. Contd.,

• From source books
• THE MENSES THAT HAD CONTINUED THEIR USUAL TIME GO
  ON FOR SIX DAYS LONGER BUT ONLY WHEN MOVING, NOT
  WHEN AT RESTTHERE IS ALWAYS CUTTING IN THE
  ABDOMEN WHEN THE BLOOD IS DISCHARGED.

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MAGNETIS POLUS AUSTRALIS
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Rare rem. Contd.,

• Lessons learnt through this case
• 1)Lesser known remedies also have greater
  qualities to cure when called for.
• 2)Standard repertories have a responsible role in
  the selection of a right remedy.

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