NMT150 Homeopathy Week 3 PDF

HOMEOPATHY M AT E R I A M E D I C A D E R M ATO LO G Y C A S E WEEK 3 NMT150 - Y1T2 LEARNING OBJECTIVE: TO IDENTIFY THE MAIN KEYNOTES OF SULPHUR AND GRAPHITES AND 3 MORE SO-CALLED "SKIN REMEDIES" A COUPLE OF LINKS... If you don't have textbooks, yet, or if you'd like to kn...

HOMEOPATHY M AT E R I A M E D I C A D E R M ATO LO G Y C A S E WEEK 3 NMT150 - Y1T2 LEARNING OBJECTIVE: TO IDENTIFY THE MAIN KEYNOTES OF SULPHUR AND GRAPHITES AND 3 MORE SO-CALLED "SKIN REMEDIES" A COUPLE OF LINKS... If you don't have textbooks, yet, or if you'd like to know about useful, reliable websites on the Internet: Internet Homeopathic Resources.05.pdf If you are trying to understand how the repertory is structured, the order of the chapters, etc: Structure of Synthesis Repertory.pdf CASE: YOUNG ADULT (20-SOMETHING) PRESENTS WITH UNDIFFERENTIATED RASH QUESTIONS FOR A RASH What does it feel like? (describe if pain, itching...) How did it start, what triggered or caused it? What makes it better or worse (skin, pain, itch...)? What happens when you scratch it (can improve, get worse or painful, can change location, or no change)? (Don't forget to look and describe: colour, d/c, #…) URTICA URENS APIS MELLIFICA RHUS TOX. URT I C A SKIN Ailments from UREN S ITCHING, BURNING suppressed nettle-rash, AND STINGING suppressed milk — Urticaria-like eruptions — e.g.: Vomiting after suppressed — BURNS AND SCALDS of first hives and second degree DISTURBANCES IN LACTATION (Cantharis) — Excessive swelling of breasts, — INSECT BITES and STINGS with burning and stinging; (Apis, Ledum) Agalactia... — Chicken pox (Rhus tox) RHEUMATISM (RA) associated — ALLERGIC REACTION after or alternating with hives-like eating SHELLFISH eruptions Dwarf Nettle URIC ACID DIATHESIS: gout, < Cold bathing, cool damp kidney stones air, snow-air, yearly, touch GENERAL SYMPTOMS SWELLING / EDEMA < HEAT STINGING, BURNING pains Insect bites, punctured wounds, splinters Anaphylaxis No/low thirst Sudden, rapidly developing complaints URTICARIA/HIVES with puffy swelling < night, > cold water < HEAT, touch, right side >Cold applications APIS MELLIFICA (MELLIFERA) Affinities: Skin and membranes (mucous, serous, synovial...), kidneys... MIND SYMPTOMS OF APIS PASSIONATE, intense emotions not easily expressed Simulates good mood when feeling wretched BUSY (like a bee!), ambitious, restless; AWKWARD (clumsy) Irritable; Quarrelsome JEALOUS; Ailments from grief Fear of birds APATHY; Indifference; Weepy EXEMPLES OF APIS CASES SORE THROAT: Tonsils are swollen; burning, stinging pains; hurt without swallowing; > ice cold drinks and sucking on ice. Does not want anything around neck. MEASLES: Rash has a swollen appearance like urticaria (rosy, hives). Stinging pains that cause child to cry out. Desires open air. MUMPS: Skin and eyelids puffy KIDNEYS: Inflammation, urine output is low or none CYSTITIS: Burning pain, shrieking from pain RHUS TOXICODENDRON Affinities: skin, mucous membranes, fibrous tissue (joints, tendons, sheaths), aponeurosis. Rheumatism (RA), STIFFNESS and pain. ITCHY skin, red – chicken pox, herpes, psoriasis, urticaria, cellulitis < at rest (stiffens up, restless), initial movement (but better with continuous motion, as they loosen up), COLD DAMP >heat, HOT BATHS, stretching MIND: busy, restless; dreams of travel, work; superstitious or ritualistic/compulsive behaviour SULPHUR Skin Itchy < heat Red orifices Slouches, stooped Back Pain from SULPHUR standing KEYNOTES Opiniated, Mind critical Independent Etc. SULPHUR Skin Itchy < heat Red orifices Slouches, stooped Back Pain from SULPHUR standing KEYNOTES Opiniated, Mind critical Independent POLYCHREST REMEDY Etc. http://www.homeoint.org/site/classhom/sulphur.htm SULPHUR TYPES Nervous person, quick motions, quick-tempered, plethoric, skin very sensitive to weather changes Lean, stooped shoulders, sits/walks stooped, slouches, standing is most uncomfortable position Unkempt, neglectful of appearance, "ragged philosopher" who discusses and argues ideas, speculates Etc. SULPHUR - GENERAL SX Burning discharges, burning everywhere, in and out Tendency to feel hot, too hot, easily, worse with heat, summer heat Hungry for fresh air which invigorates them Periodicity; every 7 days; maybe on Sunday mornings < baths (catch cold after), resting, standing, morning, 11am, night, left side > dry weather, motion, lying on right side Food desires: sweets, spicy, fat, meat, alcohol (hides to drink, alcoholism), fruit juices Often more thirsty than hungry  Self-critical, very critical of others Sulphur – MIND Sx (“censorious”), highly opiniated High confidence, wanting Fear of heights, recognition, full of themselves; when seeing others egotism and selfishness on a high place Collects things, curious, asks Anxiety for family questions member when Creative mind or philosopher mind something is wrong "Anxiety of Easily discouraged by little events, conscience" (guilt) with weariness of life. Indifferent, to others and to pleasure Easily annoyed, irritable Indisposition to work Too lazy to get up in the morning SULPHUR – local physical symptoms Headache: from congestion of heat, on Sundays (worse by sleeping in) Loss of hair after delivery (childbirth) Weak back muscles, back aches (< standing); stooping, leaning against walls, etc… Skin problems: eruptions, itching, burning, slow healing of wounds, hang nails, dry skin... Warts, plantar warts, corns, blisters, brittle nails, split nails, white spots on nails Sulphur-smelling perspiration, at night, on nape of neck – Averse to body or stool smells (other people's smells, more than their own, or the opposite) Epilepsy: after suppressed skin eruption; convulsions in left side of body Hot in bed, few covers, uncovers feet or seeks cool spot. Cramps in calves, in sleep… Loves catnaps, drools in sleep, wakes often, without reason, from noise,… Diarrhea drives out of bed early in the morning; large stool maybe painful (child cries) Hypoglycemia (rapid or delayed), needs to eat often, eat at night GRAPHITES (graphite = soft carbon crystal. Pencil "lead") GRAPHITES – AFFINITIES: SKIN – rough, scars, eruptions, cracks, infections Digestive organs, eyes Tendency toward obesity, chilliness, constipation  SKIN More SKIN ! THICK, hard, dry, rough Keloids (early stage) Eczema, psoriasis, herpes Unhealthy skin and nails (brittle, Oozing of sticky honey-like spots, felons, fungi (mycoses), etc) discharge => crusts, scales Fissures (lips, fingertips, nipples...) Eruptions at bends of skin Scars (cicatrices), horns/callosities GRAPHITES GI ETC. Stomach disorders leading Anemia with paleness of mucosae, to rapid emaciation or red face Pain > (warm) milk, eating Menstrual troubles, menopause Constipation, chronic, Photophobia, BLEPHARITIS during/before menses Alopecia at vertex or sides of head And anything from acne to cancer  GENERAL SYMPTOMS Tendency to develop the skin phase of MIND internal disorders Aids the absorption of scar tissue Indurations (hardening of skin or glands) Dull, slow, Suppuration (pus formation and release) timid, reserved, changeable, easily Averse to sweets, to meat G startled < warmth, night, after R Indecisive, insecure (about menstruation A consequences) > in the dark, wrapping up P Obstinate, critical, easily offended H Fidgety while sitting at work Fat, chilly, fair (Calc) I Fear something bad will happen T E S H T T P S : / / J I S H - M L D T R U S T. C O M / A - C A S E - O F - E C Z E M A - T R E AT E D - W I T H - H O M O E O PAT H I C - M E D I C I N E / THANK YOU THE NEXT 2 SLIDES GIVE SOME S U G G E S T I O N S TO H E L P YO U S T U DY T H E REMEDIES... F O L LO W E D BY R E V I E W Q U E S T I O N S W I T H ANSWERS ON THE NEXT SLIDE STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING REMEDIES v Create Flash cards (home-made) or use Quizlet (the app or website) v Listen to: Audio files/tapes, podcasts, YouTube videos... several sources are available online, in library, or create your own (on TikTok or...) v Create Drawings, Collage, Mind-maps, Algorithms… v Organize your notes in Comparative tables or in Excel spreadsheets v Make up a Story, write an Acrostic or Poem/rhymes, or use Acronyms For example, here is an easy collage of images illustrating the acute symptoms of Antimonium tartaricum (see Ipeca notes from last week). Creating a visual of the remedy can help you remember it. Organizing your notes and material will help you OWN them. Also useful: repetition, repetition, repetition... Whatever you use, review it many times! REVIEW QUESTION #1 A child with an allergic reaction presents to your clinic. The skin of their chest and arms is covered with red welts and scratch marks. What question could potentially help you differentiate between your top remedies for hives/urticaria? a) Is the skin itchy, burning? b) What happens with warm or cold compresses, baths? c) Does scratching help? d) For how long have you had this skin reaction? ANSWER TO QUESTION #1 A child with an allergic reaction presents to your clinic. The skin of their chest and arms is covered with red welts and scratch marks. What question could potentially help you differentiate between your top remedies for hives (urticaria)? a) Is the skin itchy, burning? b) Do warm or cold compresses, baths make a difference? "a) and c)" are not helpful as all c) Does scratching help? remedies can have itching and burning d) For how long have you had this skin reaction?and feel better scratching (Apis and Rhus-tox can itch more, though) plus they are leading questions d) duration doesn't help differentiate REVIEW QUESTION #2 Which remedy would you think of for a case of herpes simplex, where the eruptions appear at the corner of the lips and behind the ears? a) Rhus toxicodendron b) Sulphur c) Graphites d) Urtica urens ANSWER TO QUESTION #2 Which remedy would you think of for a case of herpes simplex, where the eruptions appear at the corner of the lips and behind the ears? a) Rhus toxicodendron Although the other remedies (especially Sulphur and Rhus-tox) can have herpes on the b) Sulphur lips and the head, Graphites tends to be affected where the skin folds, like behind the c) Graphites ears and at the corners of the mouth. Sepia is also another herpes remedy that could affect d) Urtica urens these locations. REVIEW QUESTION #3 Which of these symptoms is a keynote of Sulphur? a) Not hungry in the morning, until about 11am b) Gets worse after the menstruation ends c) Swollen, painful rash, that makes the child cry out d) Restless superstitious behaviour ANSWER TO QUESTION #3 Which of these symptoms is a keynote of Sulphur? a) Not hungry in the morning, until about 11am b) Gets worse after the menstruation ends c) Swollen, painful rash, that makes the child cry out d) Restless superstitious behaviour B is Graphites C is Apis D is Rhus tox THANK YOU H AV E A G O O D W E E K !