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Dr. Shah, despite your busy schedule as the
creator of "HOMPATH" Software and your work with patients,
you've been kind enough to present your interesting cases to us
and answer my many questions. Today I'd like to talk to you about
heart attacks. Can homeopathy be effective here?
There are 4 remedies which work beautifully. Cactus 6C when attack
is mild--give every 15 minutes. Second is Crategus when pain is
very severe. Give 6C every 15 minutes until patient responds; later
make it once hourly.
The third remedy is Lachesis when there is a choking feeling &
desire to loosen the clothes. Give 30 potency hourly. Last is Carbo
Veg 30C, mainly indicated in old people with tremendous desire for
open air and better by burping (eructations). These are four remedies
which can definitely relieve quite a few cases, based on my practice
and observation of acute cases.
During Myocardial infarction there is a physiological crisis and
you require medicine in lower potency or mother tincture to be repeated
more frequently or until patient responds. I have helped with only
low potency and it has produced desired results. Repeated every
5 to 15 minutes. The sensitivity and susceptibility are low in these
cases; so, if you give high potency it could produce aggravation
and complication.
If you know the constitutional remedy, you can give it in medium
potency and it will win over the crisis beautifully and the patient
will feel better.
Is there a special remedy for when the concomitant
symptom is pain down the left arm / shoulder / hand, for instance,
Latrodectus? What about Spigelia for sharp pains in the chest? What
if the concomitant is nausea? Does Crataegus cover all these things?
Kalmia covers all symptoms expressed by you. Spigelia does cover
sharp, sudden pain, but for Cardiac condition it has limited action.
I have not much used Spigelia for cardiac condition. Usually it
is for Migraine or similar problems.
In your experience, are heart attacks usually
sudden or are their warnings?
Normally it comes suddenly after exertion or strain. You get different
presentations like breathlessness, pain, discomfort or feeling of
distention or gas in the stomach or ineffectual urging to pass urine
or stool. If during attack one breathes deeply and coughs repeatedly,
alternately the heart gets stimulated and you can avoid complications.
Do you work in a hospital?
Yes, I was attached to a 300 bed general hospital for nearly 10
years. I was the 1st one to start Homoeopathic Department in government
allopathic hospital and I used to head the department.
More than 30% of the hospital staff was converted to Homoeopathy.
The hospital gave me a chance to treat many rare clinical conditions
and syndromes.
How did the hospital change after this? How
was it different for the staff and the patients?
The staff started taking Homoeopathic treatment for themselves
and family members and they referred many unsolved cases for Homoeopathic
treatment.
When they saw results in OPD Patients and IPD patients which did
not respond to the conventional treatment, they started switching
to homoeopathy.
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