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Concerning the Duration of Action -- C. Von. Boenninghausen |
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Commencing with the remedies of brief action and gradually progressing to those of longer duration, the I Class would contain the following medicines having the briefest action : Acon., Camphor, Coffea, Ipecac., Laur., Mosch., Opium, Par., Rheum, Samb., Stram., and Tar. Of these medicines, most corresponding to the acutest diseaes and a necessarily rapid aid in chronic diseases, no use can be made except only as rare intermediate remedies. The II Class contains the following medicines whose action is of brief duration: Arn., Asar., Bryon., Calad., Cann., Canth., Caps., Chamom., Chelid., Chin., Cina, Cocc., Creos., Croc., Cycl., Dros., Euphras., Hyos., Ignatia, Mgs., M. arct., M. aust., Mar., Men., Nux mosch., Nux vom., Pulsat., Ran bulb., Ruta, Sabad., Scill., Secale cor., Valer., Verat., Verb., Viola od., Viola tric. Also from these remedies in properly chronic(psoric) diseases little result would be obtained. Only as intermediate remedies, or where the tedious invalidism ha its ground in the abuse of medicines, we may, in lack of more suitable remedies, expect a partial amelioration from these remedies; e.g., from Bryonia in pulmonary patients, from canthar. in Bright's Disease, from Drosera in the affections of larynx, from Nux vom. and Pulsat. in various ailments, which are not infrequently found in common life and are frequently protracted for a lengthy period. But how Chelid. in many ( of rademacher's) recipes should keep equal step and duration with other remedies of long continued action which are prescribed at the sane time is an inexplicable riddle to the true homeopath. In the III class the medicines of medium duration of action would belong, among which I count the following : Agar., Ambr., Am. mur., Anac., Ang., Ant. tart., Arg., Asaf., Bell., Bor., Bov., Brom., Cic., Clem., Colch., Con., Cupr., Dig., Dulcam., Euphorb., Guaic., Hell., Iod., Lach., Led., Magn. mur., Mercur., Mezer., Mur ac., Natr. mur., Nitr ac., Oleand., Phos. ac., Plum., Ran scel., Rhodo., Rhus., Sabin., Sarsap., Seneg., Spigel., Spong., Staph., Sulph. ac., Thuja., Zinc. The remedies here adducted may nearly all of them be used in acute as well as in chronic diseases with decided usefullness, if only with the former their course is not too rapid, or with the latter the ailment is not too inveterate and, therefore, too firmly rooted. In my many years practice it has been as striking to me as curious, that substances combined with an acid such as, e.g, Am. mur., Ant. tart., Magn. mur., Natr. mur., Nitr. ac., Phos. ac., and Sulph ac. had as it seemed to me, a much briefer duration of action than the simple basis ( Ammon carb., Ant crud., Magn carb., Natr. carb., Phos., and Sulph. ). I cannot, indeed, after so many careful observations, consider this a delusion; still it would be desirable if other careful observers would also express themselves about it. The IV Class would then receive the following ones of the medicines of long duration : Alum., Amm carb., Arsen., Aur., Bism., Carb an., Carb veg., ferr., Flour ac., Lycop., Magn. carb., Mang., Natr. acrb., Nitrum (kali nitric), Petr., Plat., Selen., Stann., Stront. These remedies belong to the so-called anti-psoric remedies, a designation which many are unwilling at this day to accept, but for which no more suitable term is known to me.With proper diet, and once brought into activity, their action will extend over several weeks and I have always observed disadvantageous results arising when during this period premature disturbance was caused by repetition of the same remedy or by giving another. Most of all we should guard against their action as extinct, when a second (or more rarely a third) primary action should develop itself. So long as the old ailments show a renewed aggravation, without the appearance of essentially new symptoms, which lie outside of the sphere of action of the remedy and mirrors itself in the total-image of the last medicine, so long we must carefully guard against giving another medicine or repeating the same medicine again, unless we would soon rue out our precipitancy. Such a course I have found most injurious among those remedies, which, like the anti-psorics, have many reciprocal actions, which in addition seem to be multiplied by being raised to higher potencies. Finally the V Class contains those remedies which contain the most long-continued action of all, namely : Ant crud., Bar., Cal-carb., Caust., Grapg., Hepar sulph., Kali carb., Phos., Sepia., Silic., and Sulph. where these remedies, the real heroes of our medical treasury for the chronic diseases, are accurately suitable and are used, they will actually perform wonders, if they are only granted the necessary time to unfold their full powers. Fortunately, they all also belong to the anti-psoric polychrests and, therefore, they find the most frequent average use. But far more then even with the preceding we shall have to guard against causing premature disturbances, since the injury caused by them is not easily made good again. What has been said above of Class IV applies here in double measure, and my journal contains many cases where a single dose continued to act beneficially for many months most manifestly, and eventually the many years chronic disease had disappeared with all its traces so completely that nothing more remained to be done. I close the brief article with the wish that the readers may examine the statements presented without prejudice, and if they are found correct, may act according to them, so that we may get rid of the unhomeopathic action which is spreading ever more generally of repeating doses, so that such action may, as before, be left to allopaths. |
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