WHAT HAS HOMŒOPATHY TO OFFER THE YOUNG MAN?

i really don't know how many drs or student had read this before,but this is something which make change in big ways for new HOMEOPATHS.

hear i am sharing it will u all which i had read in year 2000 in my first year of VHMC ,and it makes me stand where i am today 

 DR Ajay Yadavhttp://www.homeoint.org/books4/roberts/chapter01.htm

                                   

The principles and Art of Cure by Homœopathy

by HERBERT A. ROBERTS, M.D.
Presented by Médi-T

Chapter I

WHAT has homœopathy to offer the young man as a future? This question comes to us repeatedly and in our changing economic conditions it is a pertinent question.

     Perhaps we can get at the problem best by asking the young man the counter-question: "What do you want to get out of life?" Only his honest reply to the question can throw any light upon his adaptability to homœopathy and only upon an honest consideration of his adaptability can we prophesy what homœopathy has to offer him. Why is he thinking of studying medicine?

     Is he lazy and does he consider a profession an easy way to earn a living? Does he look upon medicine as a profession to be sought because of its honorable place in the community or as a position to be desired to secure a standing in society? Has he an ambition to be hailed as a great surgeon or bacteriologist? Is he thinking first of the possible financial returns?

     If he would use his foothold as a physician for a life of ease, for a position in the community or in society, or for a means of obtaining fame or wealth, homœopathy offers him little that he would care to accept.

     How does he react to the fads of the day, the bulletins of the laboratories, the specious advertising of pharmaceutical houses, the glib talk of salesmen? Does he believe that colloids are, after all, homœopathic potentiations? Or is he convinced that colloidal preparations are but recent and crude imitations of homœopathic potentiation which are inferior and far more uncertain in their effects than the proven homœopathic remedy?

     If he replies to your question of his idea of the direction of his future so that it leads you to think that he looks upon sick humanity as suffering men and women, that he has a burning desire to serve them, to help them to better health and therefore greater usefulness and happiness, then you may be sure there is a sound foundation upon which we may build a plan of life in which homœopathy will offer him great reward. We can proceed further with our probing of his character and abilities, and determine what homœopathy has to offer him by finding out what he has to offer homœopathy.

     One of the first essentials, now that we are convinced of his unselfish desire to serve, is to determine whether he has stability. If he is mercurial in temperament, easily influenced, and finds it difficult to hold a straight course, always seeking the easiest way, do not encourage him to study homœopathy.

     Homœopathy is founded upon principles that are in turn founded upon natural laws. If homœopathy is founded upon natural law, it is as basic and eternal as the hills; more, natural laws were formulated before the hills came into being. If a man follows where homœopathy leads, he must be able to follow those laws and to hold close to them regardless of the pressure of influence.

     Stability of character must have with it, and in equal measure, the quality of patience. In ordinary medicine the quality of patience seemingly is not so necessary, since we too frequently find that in extreme cases where things have taken an undesirable course the physician conforms himself that "everything possible has been done for the patient." In homœopathy, one of our greatest axioms is: WHEN IN DOUBT, DON'T. The homœopathic physician must be able to plan his course, and once having determined upon it, to stick to it until he finds good reason for changing his course; he must be able to wait.

     The man who considers homœopathy as a possible future must be a student of people and willing to become a student of philosophy. He must be able to read between the true and the false in any symptoms the patient may give; he must possess a sense of values. He must train himself to observe all those signs which the vital energy writes upon the human face, and he must be able to interpret all the signs, which show through habits and circumstances, into indications for the health-restoring medicines which he has at his command. Hours must be spent in patient study, tracing the course of the disturbance and the remedy to fit it, always basing the process upon the sound rock of natural law.

     To the young man who is equipped, and willing to undergo the training for this lifelong task, homœopathy has everything to offer.

     In the first place, homœopathy offers to the independent mind an opportunity continually to seek new verifications of the natural laws upon which this system of medicine is based. It opens up vast fields to the pioneer, and we cannot gauge the distance that eager minds may travel, nor how greatly the interpretations of these laws may influence the civilization of the future.

     Homœopathy offers a life of service to humanity, and it is the only method of healing that surely sets the sick man and sick woman on the permanent road to recovery. We must remember that though we may fail, the failure is ours; it is not the failure of homœopathy. The better knowledge we have of the "tool of our trade" the better use we should make of them.

     Homœopathy treats the sick individual; it is therefore a speciality. In spite of the trend toward group practice, group thinking and even group mode of life as seen all about us today, we have yet to be convinced that the man is not greater than the mass and that as long as intelligent thinking people realize and prize their individuality, the individual approach will hold an appeal to them. Therefore, homœopathy offers a special inducement to the man who can teach people to think and act as individuals, and to demand medical treatment as individuals.

     Homœopathy considers the man as a whole, not just his individual parts. Therefore, primarily homœopathy has less appeal for the man of mechanical bent, for it is this man who makes the best surgeon. Instead, homœopathy offers a gentler way toward health of the entire individual.

     One thing the student must consider is the differentiation between medicine and public health service. Public health service, ideally, has to do with the prevention of disease in the community, in guarding food and water supplies, in providing facilities and restrictions for adequate healthy housing conditions and in attending to the proper disposal of waste matter, so that the health of the community will be guarded against epidemics borne by impure water, milk or other food supplies, or born in insanitary or unhygienic conditions.

     Medicine ideally has to do with the cure of disease, the building up of the individual, not overlooking the proper hygiene and sanitation, but with a deeper view of the needs of the individual himself, rather than the needs of the community.

     Homœopathic medicine goes even further than this, for homœopathy seeks to relieve the individual as much as possible from the heavy burden of the hereditary tendencies he carries, and to guard against increasing this load by enabling his vital energy to provide its own immunity against disease. Homœopathy looks upon the health of the individual as a precious charge, and the return of the individual to health as almost certain if we but follow the fundamental laws.

     Another growing distinction between public health service, so called, and medicine, especially homœopathic medicine, is the increasing use of serums and vaccines. It has been claimed that these preparations are really homœopathic; even instructors in the homœopathic colleges have thought thus to demonstrate homœopathic principles. Let the young man consider this logically.

     In the first place, giving the identical instead of the similar means the difference between isopathy and homœopathy. You may say that the identical, in the case of the serum or vaccine, is potentiated, somewhat as in homœopathy, and therefore removes it from the identical sphere. Although potentiated, it does not alter the fact that it was not in the first place similar, but identical. In the second place, it has been potentiated in mass production, and potentiated and filtered, not through an inert substance, but through living creatures, and a lower order of creatures at that.

     There is a biological law that crossing the blood of higher and lower order of creatures means destruction to the species, and it is well to consider this. Practically, we may well look to the nature of growth in different orders of creatures. When an animal has a longevity of some twenty years and in that time attains a weight of half a ton, there must be a rapid cell growth. When serum from such a source, though ever so highly filtered, is injected into the human race, where normal longevity is seventy years and where 160 pounds might be considered an average weight, one can well understand the impact upon the vital energy of the human; for while the serum is considered by ordinary medicine to be potentiated past all danger, homœopathy believes that potentiated in any or all forms means a more prompt release of power than may have been possible in the normal state, it then being latent.

     One of the outstanding problems today is cancer. It intrigues the mind of the young man, and his search for the cause and cure of cancer is indefatigable. This is a challenge to the homœopathic physician as well, since he has remedial aids that ordinary practice knows not; but let the young man consider this problem in the light of public health service and its insistence on the use of serums and vaccines. Let him weigh his ability to stand upon his adherence to fundamental principles. If he takes up the task on the frontier of cancer study, will he remember the relationship between homœopathy (not isopathy) and disease conditions, or will he forget that human cell tissue is easily stimulated to over growth, under certain hereditary tendencies? He has here a field for work which offers much elbow room and all the dangers of the pioneer.

     The homœopathic school accentuates the study of the action of drugs upon healthy human beings, with little consideration of their action on the lower animals, for homœopathy recognizes that it is only through a knowledge of their action on man that we can obtain a correct perception of their applicability in disease. The field here is ripe for much investigation, and the results of such investigation would enrich the homœopathic materia medica by completing provings of some of the older remedies, and by bringing out provings of new remedies. This is an opportunity that only homœopathy offers, for the teaching of remedy reaction has ceased in ordinary medical colleges.

     The decision lies with the individual, and what he is determined to secure from his life work. If it is financial ambition, he had better not take up homœopathy. Homœopathy is a principle, and principles brook no division of loyalty. If he has at heart the desire to serve, he may find fame and riches at his door as well as that keen satisfaction of knowing that he has brought to his clientele the gift of healing in the safest, gentlest and most rapid manner.

     For the man who can help the community, as individuals, toward a higher level of health, the community has a place of honor; for the man who can assist Nature to cure serious illness a certain fame in the community there is burning, perhaps not the bright flame of the comet, but a steady glow of light for his path. For the man who spends himself unceasingly for those about him the community will return a comfortable livelihood, not the spectacular fortune offered in some lines of endeavor, but a competence which will enable him to keep his family in a well earned place in the community.

     Homœopathy as a profession carried a challenge. The possibilities of its art are infinite.

     What future has homœopathy to offer to you? Young man, what have you to offer homœopathy?

International models using homeopathy for beauty

 International models using homeopathy for beauty

Priyanka Monga, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, September 28, 2011



While Indian models may be relying on expensive cosmetic products for skin problems, international models seem to have discovered a cheap homeopathy cure for beauty problems. At the recently concluded New York Fashion Week, Arnica Montana, a homeopathic supplement, readily available in
 gels and oral supplements, was used by models as a gel to cure puffiness and get an instant glow. Not just the models, designer Philip Lim too tried the medicine and said, “I felt my skin glow.” And designer Diane Von Fursternburg tweeted “Arnica gel is the best thing for bruises.”
The medicine may be a quick fix to beauty problems, but homeopaths in the city warn against using it without medical advise. “Though Arnica Montana cures acne, puffiness and skin injuries, one must still consult the doctor before using it,” says Dr Bela Chaudhry. “The medicine should not be consumed over a prolonged period of time without medical advice,” says Dr AK Gupta of AKG’s OVIHAMS Homeopathic Clinic.
Indian models, however, are unaware of the medicine as a beauty fix. “I’ve never heard of this medicine, but I won’t mind trying it,” says model Noyonika Chatterjee. “I’m not aware of any such beauty cure,” says model Sapna Kumar. “I’d rather stay away from such medicines and stick to natural ways,” says model Diva Dhawan.

HOMEOPATHY FOR Impotency

Impotency means inability to perform normal sexual intercourse due to either premature ejaculation or failure to have or maintain satisfactory erection. This should not be confused
with sterility. An impotent may be sterile or fertile, so also sterile man may
be potent or impotent.

Penile erection and involuntary ejaculation of the semen depend on a reflex act at the sacral level. Two opposing nerves regulate the phenomenon of ejaculation. The reflex
is under the control of automatic nervous system. Sympathetic nerves (L2 & L3) through hypogastric nerve control the act of ejaculation; while parasympathetic nerves (S2, 3 & 4) through nervi erigentis control the erection. When the centre becomes hypersensitive or over sensitive, the
premature ejaculation occurs. While physiological stimuli transmitted by the central nervous system from the higher centre and androgen secretion in conjunction with higher cerebral impulses govern libido. Impotence may result from organic or psychic disturbances. It may be complete or partial. It may be with normal or impaired libido.

Organic or secondary impotence may be further divided:

• Endocrine affections
• Neurological disturbances
• Toxic affections
• Atherosclerosis of the aorta and iliac arteries.

Endocrine affections or disorders may be due to eunachism, pituitary syndrome, hypopituitarism, dwarfism, Frohlich’s syndrome, Cushing’s syndrome, acromegaly, gigantism, myxodema,
Addison’s disease, androgen deficiency, pigmentary cirrhosis, hypogonadism and
absence of libido.

Neurological disorders may be diabetic neuropathy, peripheral neuritis, medullary or spinal cord lesion, tabes dorsalis, general paralysis of the insane, trauma, Aorto-iliac
endaterectomy or tumour of the spine, spina bifida, cauda equine, disseminated
sclerosis, and blocking of sympathetic ganglia by drugs for hypertension.

Toxic affections: Farmers who happen to handle chemicals, insecticides and pesticides are known to develop impotency. But it is reversible on suspension of work.

Psychic impotence also called primary or functional may be due to:

• Fear of inadequacy,
• Emotional conflicts,
• Faulty attitude towards sex,
• Fatigue, anxiety or convalescence,
• Guilty feeling, and
• Rejection by wife.

This group comprises of 90 percent cases of impotence, while the remaining 10 percent is due to organic lesions which are often obvious at sight. In psychic impotence, there is no harmony of the body and mind or the brain and mind.

In all cases of impotence, a careful comprehensive and systemic examination to exclude organic lesions is of utmost importance. This also helps to gain confidence of the patient. Once this is done, one would be dealing mostly with common cases of psychological impotence.

Premature ejaculation is most common especially when a male is worried, fatigued or apprehensive. When it occurs occasionally in between long periods of sexual relations, one need not worry about it. It may be taken as temporary set back. But when it occurs frequently and persistently, it ought to cause concern and needs an
urgent attention. Premature ejaculation may be “post-partus” or “ante-partus”.
In the former the involuntary ejaculation occurs immediately on intromission or very soon after that. In the latter, the more serious of the two, ejaculation occurs even before the penis is introduced into the vagina. Ejaculation may take place with semi-erect condition or without erection.

Premature ejaculation is often due to hypersensitivity which may be due to:

• Physical causes such as tight prepuce or extra sensitivity of the glans penis,
• Pathological causes such as inflammatory condition or congestion of the posterior urethra, or
• Emotional cause such as fear, guilt feeling or an intense desire or passion especially after prolonged separation.

In both forms of premature ejaculation, the female partner does not get an opportunity to achieve full satisfaction and orgasm. She naturally feels hurt and rejected.
This finds itself in her behaviour, expression and talk. The male, being very touchy and sensitive of his potency, begins to feel inadequate, maladjusted and unhappy. He remains under constant tension and fear. This is the time when the wife has to be very tactful, considerate, and affectionate and refrain from remark and criticism. In fact she must do everything in her power to reassure him of his manliness and potency. This assurance must be by word, action, gesture and thought. In absence of her genuine co-operation, he is not likely to improve his functioning as a husband. A wife can be directly responsible for her husband’s poor performance. A tactless wife who often nags her husband, who is sarcastic or caustic in her remarks, who is over-critical of his actions,
which constantly argues or devalues her husband, is very likely to be neglected by her husband. Her attitude towards ‘sex is shameful’ or her refusal to participate in certain sexual fore-play may have profound effect on his
potency. In some cases, a man’s impotency may be due to his anxiety about the past experiences such as masturbation, guilt feeling or due to his homosexual tendencies. Occasionally, a man may be impotent with his own wife but potent with other women. This is called relative impotency.

In hypogonadism, if present from the puberty, the patient seldom complains of impotency because he has little or no libido. The same is true of cases of impotence due to generalized debility or convalescence following severe illness. When an organic neurologic lesion is present, the patient may complain of impotence and fail to
achieve an erection. Impotence is a common complication of diabetes mellitus and hypertensive state. In actual practice, organic lesion count for about ten percent of cases of impotence; while the rest owe their condition to
psychological factors. History of these cases is very important, in making the diagnosis. Early morning erection with full bladder or rectum is a good evidence of normal anatomical and physiological function. It has been noted
that mean urinary testosterone level is significantly higher in psychogenic impotence than in constitutional impotence.

TREATMENT:

The treatment of impotency must be on the etiologic basis. To deal with various causes individually would be beyond the scope of this article. A physician has to identify the actual cause at the root and guide the patient and his wife towards correctness and adjustment, if the treatment has to be effective and successful. Any cause in the operation has to be found out and removed by appropriate measures. Most patients need reassurance and full cooperation from their wives and physicians.
It must be impressed on every male that a man, at some time or other during his life, suffers from either want of erection or premature ejaculation or both, and that this does not mean that the condition is permanent. It should be regarded as temporary inconvenience, which passes of itself in majority of cases. It is a mistake to depend solely and immediately on drugs and their massive doses. The wife’s role in reclaiming and rehabilitating her husband’s manhood should not be belittle or made small. A good deal of success will depend on her sincere cooperation. Yet many wives are prone to be guilty in weakening and worsening their husband’s sexual power. She must learn not to feel rejected or hurt because of his failure. She must build up his ego and at the same time her ability to arouse him. At times which may suit her partner, she must take initiative in love-making. The wife who shows undue shyness and is afraid to manifest of evidence of being aroused, is really uninviting to her
husband. When she behaves in bed as she should, her husband is less likely to find himself impotent.

In patients with hypogonadism, potency can be initiated and restored by giving androgen but this is not likely to influence his infertility. Neurological causes can seldom be treated effectively. Prognosis is generally poor except in cases of spinal compression, where timely surgery can be of great help.

Mechano-therapy to help erection:

Active and Passive Desensitization as suggested by Dr. J.H.Semen and Dr.J.Wolpe (U.S.A) respectively:

In the former method, the wife is required to stimulate the male organ manually till he feels the sensation that precedes ejaculation. Repetition of this exercise or procedure day by day establishes a condition in which intense sexual stimulation is tolerated without ejaculation. Thus he learns to postpone precipitate ejaculation.

In the latter method, the couple is to engage in sexual closeness without either expecting an intercourse. They indulge in only as much actively as the male can tolerate without anxiety. As there is no set goal he must reach or no level of sexual performance he must attain, his anxiety is considerably reduced. By repeating this procedure daily, he gradually becomes more and more relaxed and is able to indulge in more intense closeness and embrace without being least anxious. He thus learns to tolerate greater amount of stimulation without precipitate ejaculation. His sexual mechanism gets re-trained to respond in the union without
fear.

Authors of these techniques of desensitization have successfully used these methods in their practice.

CASES:

A patient with psychic impotence could possibly help himself to relax and decrease the amount of tension by taking on himself a less active role during coitus. He can assign the active role to his female partner. One case of a young man who had indulged in the practice of masturbation merely for physical relief was brought
to my attention. He married and no more than one week after the ceremony his bride came weeping to me asking for advice. She coded that the young husband’s attempts at intercourse were revolting to her, as well as disturbing to her nervous system. Because she wished to have a family, she was crushed by grief at the predicament in which she found herself for she was in love with the man of her choice. Above everything else I recommended her to be patient, sympathetic and to do everything in her power to reassure him of her
confidence. Both were nervous frightened and thrown into the deepest chagrin. Rest and emotional relaxation
were needed and no attempts at intercourse should even be attempted for several weeks. Intimacy and affection and knowledge of each other were in this case the first essential. I advised the young woman that all the outgoing streams of affection and confidence should be strengthened before the final act of sex should be thought of again.

The husband should of course make a determined effort to free himself of the pernicious habit which had caused this temporary tragedy and which had such a deleterious effect upon his nerve centers. The advice was followed along with a single dose of CONIUM 1M (normal"">ill effects of masturbation- Anac, Ph ac, Pic ac, Salix Nig, Staph) and within six months not only had this marriage been successfully consummated but a baby was on its way into the world. By a strict adherence to the simple rules advised and the wife’s tactful sympathy complete potency was regained and with it an added ambition and mental understanding.

Another case of impotence through masturbation was brought to my attention but bold"">inthis case the young man indulged not merely for physical relief. His imagination was fired by feminine attire by magazine covers. HIS imagination had been perverted and fixed by the practice and he failed to break through the slavery of the habit. This man with a proper counseling session and along with a single dose of AGNUS CASTUS 1M (Perverted sexual desire – Agn Cast, Nux Vom, Plat, Staph) is now perfectly normal & is a father of a sweet little girl.

It reminds me of one more case of a 26 yrs old male who believed that he would be unable to perform normal sexual act as he was impotent. Therefore, his fiancée should not suffer unnecessarily on account of him. He insisted on her forgetting him and to marry someone else. On medical examination it was found that there was nothing wrong with his sex organs and his fear had no organic cause. Thus it was clearly impotence of psychological origin. A dose of normal"">ONOSMODIUM 1M (Fear, impotence of – Nat Mur, Onos, Pitu) along with a counseling session changed this young man’s life.

Thus Homoeopathy offers remarkable results in impotence or erectile dysfuntion cases, which may have arisen from both physical and psychological causes. Both, the mental as well as physical components of the disorder can be addressed using homoeopathic treatment. Homoeopathy offers almost 203 remedies for men suffering from erectile dysfunction (ED) or impotence. Unlike allopathic medicines, homoeopathic medicines are non toxic and non addictive. Homoeopathy doctors frequently treat patients suffering from anxiety, fear of failure to do sex, erectile dysfunction (ED) or impotence associated with stress and high blood pressure. Work stress, mid-life crisis and other issues affect men's health in various ways. Men facing the challenge of aging, retirement and finding new identities for themselves, find a particularly appropriate therapy in homoeopathy, which addresses them on mental, emotional and physical levels. When combines with benefits of good nutrition, exercise and relaxation, homoeopathy provides optimum support for such patients. Where the cause of impotence is with other system diseases and due to drug effects, there also homoeopathy provides better option.

REPERTORY OF MALE INFERTILITY

SYNTHESIS Male, Sterility:

Agn, Alet, Aur.m, Bar. M., Bor, Caul, Cis.c, Con, Dam, Fil, Form, Goss, Graph, Gun.p, Helon, lod, Lapp, Mill, Nat M, Nat.p, Phos, Sabal., Sol. lyco, Sul.ac, Teucr,
Wis, X-ray.

These medicines are taken from four authors

-Dr. J.H.Clarke

-Dr.A.T.Bryant

Dr.Jhar, and Dr.Stephenson

-Dr.J,H.Clarke (c2): From ‘ A Clinical Repertory to the Dictionary of Materia Medica’,

Agn, Alet, Aur.m, Bar.m, Borx, Caul, Con, Dam, Fil, Form, Goss, Helon, lod, Lapp, Mill, Nat.m, Nat.p, Phos, Sabal, Sul.ac, Ther,
Wies..

-These medicines are mentioned under the rubric sterility in Clinical repertory. But whether it is male or female is not specified.

-The medicines seems more deviated to the female side on reference.

-In Synthesis these medicines are seen added to the rubric - sterility in both the chapters, Male and Female.

-So, medicines under the rubric are to be further studied clinically to come at a conclusion
whether they are to be considered as valuable and reliable for the treatment of
male sterility.

SYNTHETIC REPERTORY

Male Sterility: Sulfa, X-ray.

Here the author reference for ‘Sulfa’ is mentioned to Dr.O.A.Julian’s Materia Medica.

REPERTORY TO THE HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA.

Dr.K,B.KNERR.

Male sexual Organs: Testicles: Sterility: Ferr.

Dr. K.N.MATHUR DIABETES MELLITUS, ITS DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT,

In the therapeutic part: Concomitants (of Diabetes Sterility: Aur.m.n, Aurm, Borx, Con, Graph, Helon, lod, Med, Nate, Nat.m, Phos, Thyr.

(No specification- whether Male or Female)

Dr. BERKLEY SQUIRE: A REPERTORY OF NOSODES AND SARCODES.

Male Genital: Aspermatogenesis, Oligospermia : Lepr.

Male Genital, Male Sterility, Impotence: Ambr, Bac.7, cortico, Lac.d, Lepr, Med, Psor, RNA,
Syco, ThaI, X-ray.

Dr. C. M. BOGER: SYNOPTIC KEY.

Sexual Impulse:

Sterility: Aur, Bor, Mere, Nat M, Phos.

(No specification- whether Male or Female)

Dr. RAUE.C.G. : SPECIAL PATHOLOGY AND DIAGNOSTICS WITH THERAPEUTIC HINTS.

Under the section Impotence and Sterility, the medicines mentioned in therapeutic hints
are

Agar, Agn, Baryta, Calad, Eup.pur, Gels, Hamam, Helon ,Lyco, Nat.m, Nit.ac, Phos, Phytol,
Selen, Stilling.

CLARKE.J.H: A CLINICAL REPERTORY

Sterility: Agn, Alet, Aur.m, Bar.m, Bor, Caul, Con, Fil,
Gos, Iod, Nat.p, Pho, Sabal,

Sul.ac, (Ther), Tur, Wis.

Dr. RAI BAHADUR BISHAMBAR DAS: SELECT YOUR REMEDY

Azoospermia: (Absence or diseased condition of spermatozoa in the semen)

Chininum sulph, Conium, Damiana, lodium, Strychninum.

DICTIONARY OF HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA.

Clinical Repertory part by P Freche and M flaffen

Sterility: Arg. Nit, Cobalt-nitr, Rauw serp, Sulfanil, Thyr.

Dr.J.N.SHINGHAL: QUICK BEDSIDE PRESCRIBER Sterility male: mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"">Agnus, Bufo, Nat.m, Phosphorus, Sel

TOTAL MEDICINES:

Agar, Agn, Alet, Ambr, Arg.m, Aur, Aurm, Aur.m.n, Bac.C, Bor, Bufo, Calad, Caul, Chin.s, Cis, Cobalt.nitr, Con, Cortico, Dam, Eup.pur, Ferr, FiI, Foll, Form, Gels, Goss, Graph, Gun.p, Hamam, Helon, lod, Lac d, Lapp, Lepr, Lyc. Med, Merc, Mill, Nat.c, Nat.m, Nat.p, Nep, Nit.ac, Phos, Phyt, Psor, Rauw.serp, RNA, Sabal, Selen., Sol.lyco, Still, Strych, Sul.ac, Sulfa, Syco, Thio, Ther, Thyr, Wies, X-ray.

Therapeutics:

Agnus castus: This remedy may be helpful if problems with impotence develop after a man has led a life of intense and frequent sexual activity for many years. A cold sensation felt in the genitals is a strong indication for Agnus castus. People who need this remedy are often very anxious about their health and loss of abilities, and may have problems with memory and concentration.

Argentum nitricum: This remedy may be helpful if a man’s erection fails when sexual intercourse is attempted, especially if thinking about the problem makes it worse. People who need this remedy are often nervous and imaginative. A person who needs Argentum nitricum is usually warm-blooded, with cravings for both sweets and salt.

Aurum Mur Natronatum:Psychogenic erectile dysfunction. It is useful when there is a decline of the
sexual powers, with periodic seminal emission and feeble erection or complete impotency. The erections are weak and inefficient, patients with hypochondria, melancholia and suicidal intent.

Bufo Rana: A remedy remembered for loss of erection due to involuntary emissions; discharge too
quick, spasms during coition.

Caladium: This remedy may be helpful to a man whose genitals are completely limp, despite having sexual interest. Nocturnal emissions can occur without an erection, even if dreams are not sex-related. A
person who needs this remedy often craves tobacco.

Causticum: This remedy may be indicated if physical pleasure during sex has diminished and sexual urges are reduced. The person feels tired and weak, and may experience memory loss, with a compulsive need to check things (to see that doors are locked, etc.) Prostate problems may be associated with impotence, and urine may be lost when the person coughs or sneezes.

Conium Maculatum: Impotence, insufficient erections, and absence of erections. Want of energy in coition. Erections imperfect, and of too short duration. Easy emission of semen, even without firm erections.
Dejection, after coition. Sometimes emission at mere presence of women.

Lycopodium: People who need this remedy may have problems with erections because of worry, and can also be troubled by memory loss. They often lack self-confidence (though some may overcompensate by acting
egotistically). People who need this remedy often have digestive problems with gas and bloating, and an energy slump in the late afternoon and evening.

Medorrhinum: Impotency after suppression of gonorrhoea. Emission during sleep. Semen watery, causing no
stiffness of the linen. Pain, burning along urethra when semen discharges.

Muira Puama: It is used as a tonic and aphrodisiac. Erectile dysfunction with weakness and depression are covered.

Onosmodium: It is useful in priapiasm (penis is continually erect) and in cases of Psychic Impotency.

Phosphoricum Acidum: A feeling of heaviness in glans especially when urinating. Absence of sexual desire. Neurasthenia after sexual intercourse. Weakness of sexual organs with onanism and little sexual desire.
Frequent and very debilitating pollutions. Onanism. Discharge of semen while straining at stool.

Sabal Serrulata: Discharge of prostatic fluid. Pain in back much aggravates after coitus. Drawing pains in spermatic cords ; shrunk testes. Penis shrunk and cold with urinary troubles. Hard erection, slight twisting chordee as if stretched from the root. Organs feel cold. Coitus painful at the time of emission. Sexual neurotics.

Selenium metallicum: This remedy is often helpful to men who have diminished sexual ability, especially if the problem starts after a fever or exhausting illness. The person feels weak and exhausted, but interest
is usually still present. Unusual hair-loss (body hair or eyebrows) can also suggest a need for Selenium.

Staphysagria: Gentle-natured, quiet men with deep emotions may respond to this remedy. Problems with impotence often occur from embarrassment or shyness. People who need this remedy often have a history of
emotional suppression and very sensitive feelings.

Turnera Aphrodisiaca (Damiana): An excellent remedy for impotency. Sexual debility from nervous prostration. Chronic prostatic discharge.

The above mentioned medicines are just a hint & should not be considered as final remedies. A constitutional remedy and the guidance of an experienced Homoeopath is always a better option & may help bring balance to a person’s system, both emotionally and physically.

Published in: SDHA CHRONICLE (Mar-Apr 2010)

HOMEOPATHY FOR WARTS

                             WARTS

Introduction

     HPVs (Human pappilloma virus) can infect and cause disease at any site in stratified squamous epithelium, either keratinizing (skin) or non- keratinizing (mucosa). The clinical problems encountered with such infections can be broadly divided into cutaneous warts, genital warts, oral warts and laryngeal warts.

       Warts are a very common problem in practice, particularly among children. It can affect any part of the body. In countries with highly developed medical services, referral rates of warts to dermatology clinics have greatly increased in the last four decades.

Incubation period

    Common and plantar warts: The time of acquisition of the infection can seldom the ascertained. An estimated period ranges between a few weeks and more than a year.

   Genital Warts: Incubation period of 3 weeks to 8 months, average 2.8 months. Perinatally acquired HPV infection may not manifest as genital warts for up to 2 years.

Laryngeal Warts: Only 57% of cases of laryngeal papilloma in children are diagnosed by 2 years of age.

Infectivity

       In genital warts infectiviy is highest early in the course of the disease. Any sexual contact of a patient with genital warts is likely also to be infected. There is no reliable information on the infectivity of common and plantar warts, but experience suggests that it is substantially less. The infectivity of maternal genital HPV as regards laryngeal papilloma in the child seems low.

Modes of Trasmission

     Warts are spread by direct or indirect contact. Impairment of the epithelial barrier function, by trauma (including mild abrasions), maceration or both, greatly predisposes to inoculation of virus, and is generally assumed to be required for infection, at least in fully keratinized skin, as in the following examples:

·         Plantar warts are commonly acquired from swimming pool or shower- room floors, whose rough surfaces abrade moistened keratin from infected feet and help to inoculate virus into the softened skin of others.

·         Common hand warts may spread widely round the nails in those who bite their nails or periungual skin, over habitually sucked fingers in young children, and to the lips and surrounding skin in both cases.

·         Shaving may spread wart infection over the beard area.

·         Occupational handlers of meat, fish and poultry have high incidences of hand warts, attributed to cutaneous injury and prolonged contact with wet flesh and water.

·          Genital warts have a high infectivity. The thinner mucosal surface is presumably more susceptible to inoculation of virus than is thicker keratinized skin, but in addition lesions were noted to be commonest in sites subject to greatest coital friction in both sexes.

      Histopathology

          The characteristic histological feature of viral warts is vacuolation in cells in and below the granular layer, often with basophilic inclusion bodies composed of viral particles, and eosinophilic inclusions representing abnormal keratohyaline granules. This cytopathic effect may show detailed features typical of the HPV type involved and is almost always accompanied by epidermal acanthosis and often papillomatosis.

Clinical features

                                    COMMON WARTS

Common warts (excluding plantar warts) are due mainly to HPV 2. They range in size from less than 1mm to over 1cm in diameter, and by confluence can from large masses. They are characterized by firm papules with a rough, horny surface.

site

       Commonly situated on the backs of the hands and fingers.

Age

        In children under 12 years of age. A single wart may persist unchanged for months or years, or large numbers may develop rapidly after an interval. New warts may from at sites of trauma, though this kobner isomorphic phenomenon is usually less marked than in plane warts. However, multiple warts around the nail folds are often seen in nail biters.

       Common warts are usually symptomless, but may be tender on the palmar aspects of the fingers, when fissured or when growing beneath the nail plate. Warts around the nail folds or beneath the nail may disturb the nail growth, and warts on the eyelids may be associated with keratitis or conjunctivitis.

       About 65% of warts disappear spontaneously within 2years and tend to do so earlier in boys. Neither the patient’s age nor the number of warts present influences the course. Regression of common warts is asymptomatic and occurs gradually over several weeks, usually without blackening. Malignant change is extremely rare.

                                        

                                PLANTAR WARTS    

Site

     As suggested by the name, they occur mainly on the soles of the feet. Most plantar warts are beneath pressure points, the heel or the metatarsal heads. In older girls and women they occur predominantly beneath the forefoot and toes. They are sometime found on the palms of the hand.

Appearance

     A plantar warts at first appears as a small shining ‘sago-grain’ papule, but soon assumes the typical appearance of a sharply defined, rounded lesion, with a rough, keratotic surface surrounded by a smooth collar of thickened horn. If the surface is gently pared with a scalpel the abrupt separation between the wart tissue and the protective horny ring becomes more obvious, as the epithelial ridges of the plantar skin are not continued over the surface of the wart. If the paring is continued, small bleeding points, the tips of the elongated dermal papillae, are evident.

     Mosaic wart is so described from the appearance presented by a plaque of closely grouped warts on the sole with a polygonal outline and a rough surface.

     Pain is a common but variable symptom. It may be severe and disabling but may be absent, and many warts are discovered only on routine inspection. Mosaic warts are often painless.

    The duration of plantar warts is very variable. Spontaneous regression occurs sooner in children than in adults and is delayed if hyperhidrosis or orthopaedic defects are present.

    The number of warts present does not influence the prognosis, but mosaic warts tend to be persistent. Regression is occasionally clinically inflammatory, and often culminates in blackening from thrombosed blood before the lesion separates, but in many cases simply takes the from of apparent drying and gradual separation.

Differential Diagnosis

• Plantar warts are often confused with callosities or corns, with which they may indeed be associated.
• Callosities have a uniformly smooth surface across which the epidermal ridges continue without interruption. In cases of doubt the horny layer should be gently pared.
• Corns occur on pressure points on the toes, soles or interdigital skin. When the surface is scraped it shows the absence of papillomatous surface typical of plantar warts. Corns are most painful when pressed from top as compared to the wart in which the pain is felt on pressure from the top as well as the sides.

                                              

                                         PLANE WARTS

Site

     The face and the backs of the hands and the shines are the sites of predilection. Children are most commonly affected.

Appearance

     They are smooth, flat or slightly elevated and are usually skin- coloured or grayish- yellow, but may be pigmented. They are round or polygonal in shape and very in size from 1 to 5 mm or more in diameter. Contiguous warts may coalesce and a linear arrangement in scratch marks is a characteristic feature.

      Regression of plane warts is usually heralded by inflammation in the lesions, causing itch, erythema and swelling, such that preciously unnoticed warts may become evident. Depigmented haloes may appear around the lesions. Resolution is usually complete within a month.

Differential Diagnosis 

         In differential diagnosis, lichen planus causes most difficulty. It is relatively less common in children, favours the flexor aspects of the forearms, is unusual on the face and is often itchy. The mucous membranes may be involved. The flat, polygonal papules are lilac-pink and smooth and may show wickham’s striae. In contrast, the surface of plane warts has a stippled appearance under the hand lens. The lesions in molluscum contagiosum are pearly in colour, look like solid vesicles, and when squeezed, cheese like material is demonstrated.

                         FILIFORM AND DIGITATE WARTS  

Site

      Commonly seen in males, on the face and neck, irregularly distributed, and often clustered. Digitate warts, often in small groups, also occur on the scalp in both sexes, where they are occasionally confused with epidermal naevi. Isolated warts on the limbs often assume filiform shape.

Appearance

      The lesions are flesh coloured or somewhat darker, rounded or oval papules or nodules. The size of these varies from lentil seeds to split peas (somewhat bigger). Their verrucous surface is very typical; once seen it is seldom missed. On the scalp the wart may have a cauliflower like appearance. The warts do not itch but the subungal warts may be painful. Koebner’s phenomenon represented by linear group of warts following inoculation of virus into the scratch may be seen. In the beard region, they may take the form of finger like processes: filiform warts.  

Differential Diagnosis

     A single common wart should be distinguished from Butcher’s or postmortem wart (tuberculosis cutis verrucosus), which is marked by induration around the periphery of the lesions. Verruca vulagaris should be distinguished from seborrheic warts, which are multiple, circumscribed, flat elevations covered with dark, greasy scales. They occur mainly on the trunk, forehead and temples.

                                          ANOGENITAL WARTS

      The term condyloma acuminatum (condyloma= knuckle; acuminatum= pointed), pl. condylomata acuminate, was originally used to emphasize the difference between ano- genital warts, which are usually protuberant, and the flatter syphilitic lesions, condylomata lata. It became an accepted term, mostly in the American literature, for viral anogenital warts.

      With recent developments in the understanding of HPV disease, it is clear that the term is used variously to denote (i) the classical protuberant type of anogenital wart only; (ii) all clinically identifiable HPV disease of the anogenital region including flat warts on the external genitalia and cervical ‘flat condylomas’; (iii) all clinical lesions due to the HPV types usually associated with genital warts, including those in extragenital sites, for example the mouth.

Site

    The area of frenulum, corona and glans I men, and the posterior fourchette in women, correspond to the likely sites of greatest coital friction.

Appearance

     They are often asymptomatic, but may cause discomfort, discharge or bleeding. The typical anogenital wart is soft, pink, elongated and sometimes filiform or pedunculated. The lesions are usually multiple especially on moist surfaces, and their growth can be enhanced during pregnancy, or in the presence of other local infections. Large malodorous masses may form on vulvar and perianal skin. This classical ‘acuminate’ (sometimes called papillomatous, or hyperplastic) form constitutes about two- thirds of anogenital warts.

     Patients with genital warts frequently have other genital infections. These are mainly minor conditions such as candidiasis, trichomoniasis and non- specific genital infection. The duration of anogenital warts varies from a few weeks to many years. Recurrences can be expected in about 25% of cases, the interval varying from 2 months to 23 years.

Differential Diagnosis

     Differentiation is from condylomata. In long standing cases, gaint condyloma accuminatum of Buschke and squamous cell carcinoma must be excluded by microscopic examination. Genital warts are often acquired along with other venereal infections and as such testes for syphilis and gonorrhea should be carried out.

                          EPIDERMODYSPLASIA VERRUCIFORMIS

   Invasion of viral warts in genetically predisposed persons, manifested by profuse coalescent eruptions of verruca plana type lesions, usually on the limbs.

                   

                HOMEOPATHIC APPROACH TO WARTS

    Warts are something very peculiar. Some, specially, if they are numerous, sometime heal very rapidly, whereas others isolated warts, sometime bid defiance to all treatment. This is one of the important manifestations of sycotic miasm.

    The following points should be noted very carefully during case taking:

Causation

 E.g.,

• After gonorrhea: Thuja.
• After having consumed too much salt: Nitri spiritus dulcis.
• After abuse of mercury: sarsaparilla.
• After syphilitic infection: aurum met.
• After injury: Bellis perennis.

Previous Treatment

       It is essential to know whether patient has attempted to cauterize with the help of the following:

·         Acetic acid.

·         Caustic potash.

·         Fluoric acid.

·         Silver nitrate.

·         Burning with the help of Agarbatti (a perfume stick used in India).

If it is so then it should be antidoted as follows:

• Aliments after cauterization: Caust, Nit-ac, Thuj.
• Use of Acetic acid, Caustic Potash and Fluoric acid preferably in high potencies.
• For bad effects of Silver nitrate – Use Natrium mur. In high potencies. 
• When Agarbatti is used, then to neutralize its ill effects, use Carbolicum acidum  or Causticum.
• When electric cautery is used for cauterization, it should be antidoted with drugs like Carbolicum acidum, Causticum, Radium bromatum and X-ray.

Location

E.g.,

·         Face

·         Fingers

·         Palms, etc.

     Characteristic

·         Flat

·         Fleshy

·         Hard

·         Horny

·         Pedunculated

·         Smooth, etc.

Whether warts are associated:

·         With or without inflammation.

·         With or without itching.

·         With or without bleeding.

·         With or without suppuration.

·         With or without ulceration.

·         Tender or non- tender.

Important Characteristic Sensations

            You should always enquire about e.g.:

• Burning.
• Pulsating.
• Stinging.
• Stitching.

This is very important when the wart is isolated.

     The colour of the warts

Sometimes the colour of the wart also helps us to select remedy indirectly:

·         Red: Calc Carb, Thuja. 

·         Brown: sepia, Thuja.

·         Grayish brown: Conium.

      It is strongly advised not to recommended to the patient any local application for the treatment of warts, e.g. application of lime, homeopathic mother tinctures or remedies like Salicylic acid, Fluoric acid, for the following reasons:

·         It is against the basic principle of homeopathic.

·         Recurrence rate is very high.

·         Since the cause lies within, it is futile to cure disease externally.

                  Treatment Review

·        I have observed that majority of cases get cured, where only, constitutional remedies were prescribed and occasionally those remedies, which do not produce warts in its proving, have frequently cured the cases at the beginning should be on a constitutional background.

·        Falling to respond to the above method a drug should be selected taking into account the local signs and symptoms. If this also fails then only one should take help of empirical or specific medicine.

·        It is always wise to restudy the case at least three times before seeking these specific medicines.

·        Ficus carica, Calcarea ovi testae and Calcarea calcinata are three good homeopathic remedies that I have found useful in my practice.