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Theridion curassavicum
Year 2015, Issue 8, Article 3CaseAuthor: Rajan Sankaran
The evolution of homeopathic practiceby Rajan SankaranCase 1This is a case of a nine-year-old child. He came with a paroxysmal cough, which had lasted for the past four months. I had given him Drosera, Cuprum metallicum, and several other remedies, but they did not benefit him. You may ask, what can a homeopath do when the indicated remedy fails? In my understanding, s/he has to look at the case again and prescribe!
This is what I had been taught: When the indicated remedy fails, it was not indicated! Find the correct one and it will work.
In college, I was not told: “When the indicated remedy fails give Tuberculinum or give Sulphur.” They did not advocate these escape routes! As students, we were told: “Break your head like a coconut and the case will open up!” So, this is what we do.
I called the child to the clinic again one day around 8:30 pm, after I had finished my practice and made him sit down. I told him that he was not moving from this spot until I found the remedy. I observed him for forty minutes, and then I suddenly noticed a very strange thing. The child was coughing in a very peculiar manner. He would hold the side of his chair, and every time he coughed, his knees would go up and his head would go down. I opened the COUGH chapter in Kent’s Repertory, in search for this peculiar symptom. I read from the first to the last page of that chapter because I did not know where to look for it! It was not until the last page that I found the rubric:
• Cough, violent, spasmodic jerking of the head forward and knees upward
The remedy that was mentioned under this rubric was Theridion.
I was not very sure about Theridion, so I asked his mother whether he always coughed like that. She told me: “Always. Even when he is lying down in his bed on his side, his body just comes together during the cough, he doubles up and it has been like this since the beginning.”
When the mother was telling me all this, her voice was quite loud, and the child said to her: “Keep quiet mother, I am getting a vomiting sensation.”
I looked up this second symptom in Kent’s Repertory:
• Nausea, noise, from
There were only two remedies listed in this rubric: Cocculus and Theridion, both in italics.I now had the courage to give Theridion 200 because it covered the main general modality of the case, and that was “Aggravation from noise – tremendous sensitivity to noise, so much that it causes nausea.”
Theridion cured the child within twenty-four hours. I observed the child for six years after this prescription and there was no more cough.Keywords: synergy, Guernsey, Allen, Kent, Phatak, Boenninghausen, Boger, modern homeopathy.
Remedies: Belladonna, Crotalus cascavella, Kalium bromatum, Stannum metallicum.
This is what I had been taught: When the indicated remedy fails, it was not indicated! Find the correct one and it will work.
In college, I was not told: “When the indicated remedy fails give Tuberculinum or give Sulphur.” They did not advocate these escape routes! As students, we were told: “Break your head like a coconut and the case will open up!” So, this is what we do.
I called the child to the clinic again one day around 8:30 pm, after I had finished my practice and made him sit down. I told him that he was not moving from this spot until I found the remedy. I observed him for forty minutes, and then I suddenly noticed a very strange thing. The child was coughing in a very peculiar manner. He would hold the side of his chair, and every time he coughed, his knees would go up and his head would go down. I opened the COUGH chapter in Kent’s Repertory, in search for this peculiar symptom. I read from the first to the last page of that chapter because I did not know where to look for it! It was not until the last page that I found the rubric:
• Cough, violent, spasmodic jerking of the head forward and knees upward
The remedy that was mentioned under this rubric was Theridion.
I was not very sure about Theridion, so I asked his mother whether he always coughed like that. She told me: “Always. Even when he is lying down in his bed on his side, his body just comes together during the cough, he doubles up and it has been like this since the beginning.”
When the mother was telling me all this, her voice was quite loud, and the child said to her: “Keep quiet mother, I am getting a vomiting sensation.”
I looked up this second symptom in Kent’s Repertory:
• Nausea, noise, from
There were only two remedies listed in this rubric: Cocculus and Theridion, both in italics.I now had the courage to give Theridion 200 because it covered the main general modality of the case, and that was “Aggravation from noise – tremendous sensitivity to noise, so much that it causes nausea.”
Theridion cured the child within twenty-four hours. I observed the child for six years after this prescription and there was no more cough.Keywords: synergy, Guernsey, Allen, Kent, Phatak, Boenninghausen, Boger, modern homeopathy.
Remedies: Belladonna, Crotalus cascavella, Kalium bromatum, Stannum metallicum.