My Most Memorable Patients
As in practicing homeopathic medicine, Homeopathic Physicians touch many lives, and from time to time their own lives are touched by those they treat, I want to recall some of my most memorable patients in my 33 years of Homeopathic Practice.
While taking an escalator to reach the Sixth Floor regularly of the building where I had worked as Medical Officer (Homeopathy) for quite some time in 1980’s, I had a middle aged man, fair colored and of flabby musculature, lift operator, who use to greet me while on duty. One day when I noticed that he has not been shaving his beard for quite some time, I asked him the reasons and he immediately showed big warts growing on his chin and in order to hide them, he was not shaving his beard. Next day I brought 3 packets of Calcarea Carb 1M and asked him to take one dose fifteen minutes apart, early morning, empty stomach and told him to report to me after one week. After that I did not see this gentleman for quite some time and just forgot him as another lift operator replaced him for quite a few weeks. One day when I stepped in the escalator noticed a handsome fair colored, clean shaven man sitting on the stool in the elevator, I asked him to take me to the sixth floor. As the lift moved he greeted me and to my surprise he was the same gentleman who I had given the medicine for warts. He explained me smilingly while jumping up from his seat , Doctor, “After third day of taking your medicine, I was taking bath and when I wiped my face, all the warts fell on the towel and here I am clean shaven.” He then hugged me and I just thanking God, walked out of the lift. Calcarea Carb in this case proved to be his constitutional medicine and it has also one of the best remedies for warts on the face.
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases like Ulcerative Colitis, which we occasionally saw in our practice in India, has been found to be very common in Canada I remember that during the year 1997-98 ( and until now), many patients started enquiring from me if there is any permanent treatment for this ailment. One gentleman who had come to me and begged me to treat him for Ulcerative Colitis which he has been suffering from last 15 years and had been taken prednisone/ Asacol regularly and had lost tremendous amount of weight and was about to go on disability. The homeopathic medicines given to him were : Sulphur 200 one dose in the morning, Colocynth 200 one dose in the evening and Merc. Cor 200 one dose in the night for 1 month. This gentleman came to me after few years and now having been diagnosed for Oral Lichen planus for which there is no cure in Allopathy and Natrum Mur 200 one dose twice a day for 1 months cured him. Natrum Mur came to be as his constitutional remedy and resulted in permanent cure.
Another patient a child aged 7 years diagnosed as Ulcerative Colitis and on prednisone for a couple of months, came to me for rectal bleeding , nausea, loss of weight and was put on Phosphorus 30 / Ipecac 30 one dose each once a day for 2 weeks and after the bleeding stopped was put on the same trio as stated above for one month. The patient is ok now and growing happily and his other brother whom I diagnosed as Autistic and immediately advocated his parents to be put on the Speech therapy has been doing very good after some doses of Stramonium and Cina given in 200 c. He was 3 years old when he started the treatment and now started speaking and socializing with children except for some irritability which is tackled by some doses of Chamomilla 200 given S.O.S. Instant diagnosis and treatment was the result of his improvement and cure.
Another memorable case is of a boy who was having problems with his stomach in November 1999 complaining of abdominal colic and stopped going to school for months. He turned very pale always nauseous and simply had no energy. He was examined by a group of Specialists at the Montreal Children’s Hospital but nothing could be diagnosed by them and the boy was kept to suffer. As the time passed, over and above depression came dizzy spells which made the situation unbearable. All sorts of tests : brain Scan, Abdominal Scan, seeing a Gastroenterologist and psychiatrist proved futile. Furthermore the Specialist at Children’s Hospital ordered the insertion of a tube through his nose that was attached to a monitor around his stomach for 24 hours. Matters became worse and I was contacted in Toronto and agreed to take his case. Simple Trio of Sulphur Colocynth and Nux Vomica one dose each in 200c -given single dose each in morning , noon and evening cured the case and the boy became normal resuming his studies. His mother’s testimonials still exists on my web site.
While asking for the rationale for prescribing the homeopathic medicines, Dr. Kent Says, The artistic prescriber(Homeopathic Physician) must study Materia Medica long and earnestly to enable him to fix in his mind sick images, which, when needed, will infill the sick personalities of human beings. These are too numerous and too various to be named or classified. I have often known the intuitive prescriber to attempt to explain a so called marvelous cure by sayimg: “ I cannot quite say how I came to give that remedy but prescribed him.”
The anecdotes included here are but a small sampling of the memorable patients treated by me and in my next blog I would discuss about other memorable cases including Cancer/Lymphoma cured by this magical (and logical )system of Homeopathic Medicine.
“ Not my merits, Thy Grace.”