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| Hpathy Ezine - Oct., 2004 | ||||
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Toothache - I -- Elaine Lewis |
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In October of 2003, I innocently went to the dentist-- who would have thought preventive dentistry would be fraught with danger! A few days later, the gum on the outside of my upper right 2nd molar was swollen, painful, the molar ached, the tooth felt elongated, and I couldn't bite down. It was a Saturday night, so even if I had the inclination to see the dentist about this, the office would have been closed. What to do? This was an emergency! I know that when the tooth starts to feel longer than the other teeth in the mouth, it's not a good sign. I had obviously been the victim of a "hospital infection"--though this wasn't a hospital, per se, but close enough! By all rights, I needed an antibiotic, that's the standard treatment for this, but, I've had enough experience with antibiotics to know that they either don't work, don't last, or make you very sick. So, that didn't seem like an option to me. Luckily, there's homeopathy which stimulates the healing forces in your own body! I opened my homeopathic repertory--our book of symptoms-- to the "Teeth" chapter and went through the whole thing. I saw an interesting rubric, Teeth: pain, toothache, pressure amel, of cold hand [pressing the hand to the cheek ameliorates]. There was only one remedy listed-Rhus tox! I love it when there's only one remedy, it so simplifies things! I happened to be holding my face at the time. Still, I didn't believe it could be Rhus tox. Why would I take Rhus tox for a toothache? I had never heard of such a thing! Mercury, Silica, Nitric Acid, Hepar Sulph....these are the famed toothache remedies! So, I left the house to go buy food for dinner. I stocked up on yogurt because I knew I'd be able to eat nothing else but! All the while, sooooo angry at my dentist; EX-dentist! Noting that the usual toothache remedies weren't working, I took my bottle of Rhus tox 30C out of my first aid kit after loading my groceries into the car. Incredibly, not 15 minutes later, I knew there had been a shift in the case! Still driving, I noticed that the pain was much less; I couldn't believe it! Rhus tox??? Half an hour later, I knew I was on the road to recovery--not just the road to home, and in fact, that night I ate a normal dinner! Fast-forward now to yesterday, 4 months later, my tooth started to hurt again. The first thing I did was take Rhus tox. Well, this is what I hate about homeopathy: the remedy that worked before, doesn't work now, and yesterday was no exception! "OK," I said, "fine, I'll just take Mercury!" Nothing happened. "OK, fine," I said, "I'll just take Causticum, that worked before when I had an abscess on the left side!" Nothing happened. "OK, fine," I said, "I'll just take Silica, Silica's worked for me before!" Nothing happened. By now it's time for me to pick up my daughter, who is now calling herself "Dee Dee", from school; so I left home feeling very unwell, with a sharp pain in my tooth, which felt elongated and I couldn't bite down. "I'm confident I'll find the remedy," I said, as I took a dose of Hepar Sulph. outside of Shana's, I mean "Dee Dee's", school. Hepar seemed to actually make things worse! By now I was once again in the super market, buying soup and mashed potatoes at the "hot bar", still confident that I would find the right remedy before dinner. On the way home I decided to take Belladonna becaused I sensed that the tooth was now pulsating, but that didn't help either. Once home, since the pain was sharp and Kali carb. is known for sharp pains, I decided to try that but, it didn't work. I remembered reading in one of my "homeopathy in dentistry" books that Pulsatilla was a near specific as an anti-bacterial in gum disease, so I tried that, and it actually did help a little, but, not a whole lot. Dinner rolled around and luckily I had that soup and mashed potatoes because I sure needed it! No miracle cure here, not yet anyway. By now--after dinner-- I am sitting down, repertorizing my case: Teeth: elongation, sensation of Results of weighted analysis: Causticum, Chamomilla, Bryonia, Lachesis, Silica, Mag-carb, Mercury, Mezereum, Sepia, Lycopodium. I hadn't tried Bryonia so I thought I'd go with that. Bryonia, after all, has sharp pains. Bryonia actually helped a little. After waiting a decent interval of roughly an hour (acute pain, after the right remedy, should definitely respond within an hour), I tried Chamomilla. Chamomilla seemed to help a little also. It was now bed time and I was extremely demoralized! This was not supposed to happen! I was supposed to have found the remedy by now! I didn't want to go to bed in pain; how would I sleep? I took Lachesis right before bed, and it seemed to help a little, enough that I fell asleep, but I awoke at 4 AM, still with the sharp pain. I had to do something! I thought about it and remembered that in the past Pyrogen had worked in these kinds of dental distress situations. I decided to try it. IT WORKED! Here it was, over 12 hours later, over 10 remedies later, and finally the pain started to go away; I was able to fall asleep, I woke up this morning with the tooth no longer feeling elongated and only having slight pain on biting down. "I'm going to be able to eat breakfast!" I said; last night there was no guarantee of that! In the rubric, Teeth: abscess, Pyrogen is a 3 (listed in BOLD type), which means it is very highly indicated. There are only 3 other 3's--Mercury, Silica and Hepar Sulph, all of which I had taken. The problem is, Pyrogen is in no other rubrics! It's not under "Toothache", in fact, you'd be hard pressed to find it anywhere else in this chapter! The repertory isn't perfect, and so homeopathy can be very hard sometimes. I'm at 85% improvement now. I'm leaving to go to lunch soon. I'll take my Pyrogen 200C with me, you can be sure of that; I've got it in a small, half-ounce amber bottle of water, which I succuss (shake by pounding) 10 times before each dose, and I'm taking it as needed--which is quite frequently. I will probably have to go up to 1M at some point, but that's OK, I've got this essential acute remedy all the way up to 50M. A long time ago, I realized that it was essential to order all the acute remedies up to at least 1M and some, like Arnica and Aconite, up to 10M at the very least. Thanks to homeopathy, I've weathered another storm. |
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