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| Hpathy Ezine - August, 2006 | ||||
Revisiting "Foot Pain Can't Stand Up to Gout"-- Elaine Lewis, CHom |
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| Time again for the answer to last month's quiz! Here it is in case you missed last month's exciting, fun-filled issue: Elaine, If this story makes it in the Ezine, I am going to send my mother right to the Hpathy website so she can see it with her own eyes! Lately she seems more open. My father had gout a couple of weeks ago. He refused allopathic treatment saying that it makes him feel bad. So, let me begin by telling you a little bit about him. He is a very loving husband and father but he does not have a lot of regard for other people and he's very peevish as well. He's got a voracious appetite, loves sweets and his favorite thing to talk about is money! There's a lot of skin things going on--ringworm, eczema, fungus, dryness, scaliness, freckles/age spots, itching....So anyway, like I said, a couple of weeks ago he came down with an attack of gout. I asked him what his symptoms were, he said, "Pain and itching in the big toe." I gave him _____________30C in water four times the first day and he forgot to take it after that, but he got better anyway! In fact, for the first fifteen minutes after the remedy he was making one sarcastic remark about homeopathy after another and then suddenly the remarks stopped!
Though most of our votes were for Lycopodium this time, we still had four winners! And the winner is....... Sulphur! Three of our winners gave very good explanations:
Hi Elaine I think the correct remedy is Sulphur: its action is centrifugal from within outward having an affinity for the skin (skin afflictions) where it produces heat and burning with itching. Sulphur craves sweets, childish peevishness in grown ups, no regard for others, ravenous appetite. Laurie Francis
Dear Elaine, I dont know whether you permit this but now I think Sulphur rather than Lycopodium is better indicated. Guess what! today while generally reading about Sulphur (after Dr B's course I read the Mat Med. as a pastime!!) I found these: "Delusions; thinks rags beautiful things-that he is immensely wealthy. Childish peevishness in grown people. Irritable. Affections vitiated; very selfish, no regard for others" and thought of Caralyn's dad. And of course Sulphur is indicated for itchy gouts. Boericke specifically mentions "Extremities: rheumatic gout with itching" but Sulphur also is indicated for itchy dry skin and also for gout. Sumita
Hi Elaine, I have a habit of missing the obvious, (GOUT!) but I'm going to say that the remedy for this case is sulphur. Here are my rubrics: Pain, first toe: Ledum, sulph Talks about money was tough to track down. I used this rubric: ambition to make money: sulph peevish: I used the rubric - irritable: Sulph. I would like to have found a better rubric--one that showed affectionate to family but not for strangers. Considering all the skin issues, I went with sulphur, even though ledum did look like the obvious gout remedy. I always learn so much from these cases! It's my favorite part of the e-zine! God bless!
I'll just add that Sulphur is also in the sarcasm rubric as a 2 (there are no 3's). Plus, in the 3rd ed. of Murphy's Repertory, Murphy added a new rubric: "Mind: talking, money, about"--ars., lyc., sulph. Well, thanks to everyone who voted, and thanks also to our 4 winners: Lu Ann Batt, Sumita, Laurie Francis and from Portugal, Marina. Dr. B, what have they won? ---------------------------------------------------- This month's winners will get a special 30% discount on one order of books from Hpathy Mall. Click Here for Prize Guidelines
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Elaine Lewis, DHom, CHom takes online cases. Visit her website at: www.hpathy.com/office/ElaineLewis.asp |
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