Volume 108 Number 2
AJHM Summer2015 71
Asafoetida
my help
.
He sought me because I had successfully treated
a friend of his afflicted with chronic asthma
. Every bodily
exertion, every coition, but especially every rich meal, even
every meal of which he partook to satiety, brought on his
asthma.
After many remedies had been tried in vain,
Asa-
foetida
9 first repeated twice, then four, five to seven times
a day finally freed him completely from his attacks
.
A year
later in consequence of several dietetic errors a moderate
relapse occurred, but I succeeded in removing it by the
same remedy
.
13
13.
Baby, 18 months, was
severely burned in palms of
hands
on April 28
.
Found her in much pain, and crying
from that and the fright
.
Dressed the hands with dilute car-
bolic acid and gave internally
Opium
200, with the result
that she slept well all night
.
The hands did well till May 12,
when one of them developed some exuberant granulations,
for which the family used burnt alum, and then sent for me
.
I found a
raw ulcer, bleeding easily, black blood, edges
elevated and indurated. Child very nervous, had not slept
well for two nights. Crying at even the sight of bandages
or the doctor. Asafoetida
200 not only eased the nervous
condition and allowed the child and the family to sleep, but
started the ulcer along the road to rapid healing
.
14
14.
Facial neuralgia
.
Facial neuralgia is one of the most
difficult diseases to handle…Homoeopathy can cure
countless diseases which are “absolutely incurable” from
the orthodox point of view, and very frequently the right
remedy may be chosen by the sufferer, if he studies the ho-
moeopathic “Materia Medica” and is willing to do a little
experimenting
.
I have been permitted to see a letter writ-
ten by a well—known lady, addressed to the principal of
an old—established and celebrated firm of homoeopathic
chemists
.
She writes: “I have had the most extraordinary
relief from
Asafoetida
3 X, and would be glad to have a
large bottle of the same medicine
.
I have had five years
of everlasting face ache, and every kind of treatment and
medicine had been tried with absolutely no result
.
At the
end of a week with
Asafoetida
I was prepared to jump over
the moon
.
This medicine should be given to any sufferer
from
chronic pain in eyes, teeth and jawbones
, which doc-
tors seem to know nothing about
.
This happened about six
months ago
.
One of the most remarkable facts of many,
consequent upon my treatment, is this, that I am now able
to write and read a thing I have not been able to do for more
than an hour for years without excruciating pain and this
without glasses which were given to me to gain relief
.
“I
am, “Very sincerely yours
.
“Mrs
.
L
.
B”
.
The chemist, in sending me this letter, wrote to me:
“This certainly is a rather unusual remedy for facial
neuralgia
.
The lady got the tip from Boericke’s
Materia
Medica
, in which she read the words, “
Orbital neuralgia,
better pressure and rest.
” Occasionally a layman can cure
homeopathically diseases which no orthodox physician can
cure
.
The lady took the medicine in the 3x strength
.
Of
course it must be borne in mind that
Asafoetida
will not
cure all facial neuralgias but only those which show the
same symptoms which
Asafoetida
has produced in provers
who have experimented with the drug
.
15
15.
Female, 29, Aug
.
1, 1932, married
.
History of cys-
tic degeneration of left ovary
.
Operated by a celebrated
homeopathic surgeon in 1928
.
Her symptoms had been
growing worse for the past six months
.
She was nervous,
constipated, and suffered from flatulence, nausea, vomiting
and pain during menstruation
.
Her physician discovered
pathology of the right ovary and advised an operation
.
A
close relative, a prominent homeopathic physician in his
special field, sent her to me for homeopathic prescribing
instead
.
I elicited sensitiveness of the right ovary on palpi-
tation
.
She was very desirous of having a child, a longing
that had never been fulfilled
.
I prescribed
Apis
6 four times
daily
.
She had no nausea, vomiting or other symptoms dur-
ing the next menstrual period
.
I continued
Apis
intermit-
tently
.
She grew better in every way
.
October 1, 1932
.
Flatulence during the menses, with a sensation as if gas
were coming up into the throat, and the feeling of a lump.
I prescribed
Asafoetida
3 four times daily
.
All symptoms
vanished rapidly
.
On March 23, 1933, she was delivered of
a bouncing boy
.
She is in perfect health today
.
16
16. Syphilis and Rheumatism
.
A man, 22, has suffered
from lumbago and rheumatism of right hip—joint due to
syphilis, who placed himself under the treatment of an al-
lopath who gave him several medicines but of no good
.
At
last despairing of recovery came to my office on June 5
.
On enquiry I learned that he has used all sorts of mercurial
preparations at the hand of the former doctor
.
The
pain
increased at night and was relieved by pressure.
He was
very anxious. Ill humor, great disgust for food
, diarrhea
sometimes painful,
distension of abdomen with feeling as if
peristaltic action were reversed, relieved by passing flatus.
Frequent pain from place to place
.
Under the above cir-
cumstances I gave him
Asafoetida
30, one drop dose thrice
daily
.
After three days the bowels were all right
.
This was
continued for a month, and he was cured
.
No complaint
since then
.
17
17.
Phillip, 8, consults for
asthma
which has so far defied
all other therapies
.
The attacks he suffers are
sudden, in-
tense
, and
slow to subside
under the different treatments
attempted
.
On two occasions, he has even had lung prob-
lems serious enough to appear on X-rays
.
The mother tells
me that
while he is sleeping, she sometimes hears gurgling
noises coming from his stomach.
An X-ray of the passage
from the esophagus through the stomach to the small in-
testine shows a massive reflux reaching the upper third of
the esophagus
.
Allopathic treatment (Gaviscon) stops the
asthma for six months—which is already enormous prog-
ress—but the attacks recur as soon as Phillip stops taking
the syrup
.
After one dose of
Asafoetida
15 CH, no new
