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| Hpathy Ezine - Aug., 2004 | ||||
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Medorrhinum -- Dr. Jawahar Shah |
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Medorrhinum is predominantly an extremist. They are very self centered and hard hearted and they don't want any connection with people around them. At times they are very crude and violent. They are cruel and violent towards people, to their own children and towards animals. Here the similarity is to Lycopodium and Sepia. Both do not like their children. But in Lycopodium, they don't like children, because they don't like to take up responsibility. So they remain unmarried. They are anxious about sexual performance and duties that will be thrust upon them. Sepia has aversion to children, males and sex. Along with aggression, other extreme responses like shyness are also quite obvious. This is so pronounced that they are not able to speak during an interview. As they have tremendous sexual appetite, they visit different girls or prostitutes and may have sexually transmitted diseases, esp. Gonorrhoea. Suppression of gonorrhoea leads to the commencement of all the troubles and complications. Medorrhinum is one of the important remedies for mental retardation and poor reaction. These children are physically very weak with enlarged lymphatic glands and catch infections easily. These infections progress slowly and steadily, remain for a longer duration and take more time to resolve. The infection can act as a shock to the system and may have long lasting effects. At the mental level, there could be shock from some act of the parents. It could be some kind of hatred, jealousy, negligence and abuse from parents or relatives. The shock goes very deep into their systems and the child totally withdraws from the parents. This withdrawal and hardness can lead to 3 things: 1. They become excessively religious and start feeling that life is unreal. 2. They develop anxiety. 3. They develop suicidal tendency. So Medorrhinum becomes an important remedy for suicidal tendency in young adults. Degeneration sets in a little early in Medorrhinum. They lose their memory for names and words, even to the extent that they have to ask the names of their close friends. They begin a sentence and halfway through, forget what they were going to say. Time passes too slowly (Arg Nit, Cann Ind). Recent events appear as if had occurred years ago or things done today feel as if were done one week ago. The patient is predominantly hurried in nature, a workaholic type who is totally absorbed in his profession. He starts thinking that people are very slow and that people must hurry all the time. Right from childhood, they have fear of dark; fear that somebody is behind him and fear of monsters around him. Anxiety that something will happen all the time. Anxiety about imaginary things. Anxiety of losing fortune and fear that he/she will say some things wrong. The anxiety is expressed by biting nails of fingers and toes. It is probably the only remedy, where the patient bites his own toe nails. Most of the time, when patient is sad with weeping tendency, we think of Pulsatilla. But Medorrhinum is a very important remedy where patient cannot express his symptoms without weeping. Weeping ameliorates sadness. The last important symptom is obsession. Like Syphilinum, Medorrhinum is also an important remedy where patient wants to wash hands repeatedly. Medorrhinum is predominantly hot. Always searches for a cold place. Even the child rolls out of the bed and rolls on the ground is search of a cold spot. They do not like their feet covered. Uncovering ameliorates. Desire for A/C, a fast fan and gets aggravated in the sun. They also have a craving for ice and cold drinks. They get easily exhausted, both at mental and physical level. Dr. Jawahar Shah |
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