Fuss/Schritt/Schuh
Acanthocephala
terminalis. = Leaf Footed Bug/= Clown Bug
Antennaria = Katzenpfötchen./= rozenkransje Leber Asterales.
Aqui. = Garden columbine (= Harlekin)/= Culver wort (culver =
Taube)/= Jack-In-Trousers/= Mary’s Bells/=
Granny’s Bonnet/= European Crow-foot/= meeting houses/= Klockenblome/= Handschuh/
Calceolaria integrifolia = Pantoffelblume Lamiales.
Cypr. = Frauenschuhwurzel/= Valeriane
americana/= Lady’s slipper
Dioscorea elephantipes = Elefantenfuß/=
Schildkrötenpflanze Dioscoreales.
Gink-b. = Yin-Hsing/= Ya Chio (=
„Entenfuß"/= „Elefantenohr"/=
„Mädchenhaarbaum")/= Yin kuo
Lycps-v. = Wolfsfuß/= Marubede virgine/= Bingle weed
Keratin w = Pferdehuf
Lim. = horseshoecrab/= Degenkrabbe/= „lebend Fossil“
Megalodonten
(Fossilien.) = Kuhtritt/= Geissenfüßle Mollusca. = als Schutz im
Fundament eingebaut
Nab. = Lion's foot/= Rattlesnake root/=
White lettuce/= Gall of the earth/= Cancer weed
Ol-an. = Stinköl/= Oleum Cornu Cervi hergestellt aus Hufen/Klauen von Rindern
Oxalis pes-caprae. (= Bermuda butter-cup./= African wood-sorrel/= Bermuda sorrel/= Buttercup oxalis/= Cape sorrel/= English weed/= Goat.'s-foot./= Sourgrass Oxydales.).
Plan-m. = Breitwegerich/= Plantain/= Lungenblatt/= Wundwegerich/= Ballenkraut/= Wegtritt/= Saurüssel/= Mausöhrle/“Herrscher des Weges”/“Fußabtritts des weißen Mannes“
Polyg-a. = Vogelknöterich/=
Renoué/= Knot grass/= Bian-xu/=
Wegtritt
Polym. = bear’s foot
Puls. = Kuhschelle/= Wolfspfote/= Windflower/= Osterglöckchen/= Schafblume
Ran-s. = Gift-hahnenfuß/=
Morteaux vaches/= Celeryleaved crowtort
Rosa. Kelkblätter = UNgleich gestaltet/gleicht Drudenfuss.
Scol. = Hundertfüßler
Swida sanguinea = rode kornoelje/= Blutroter Hartriegel/= ganzepoothout Cornales.
Thysanoptera = Fransenflügler/= Thripse/= Blasenfüße/= Gewittertierchen/-würmer/-fliegen Arthropoda.
Toxi. = Moccasinschlange
Uva. = Bärentraube/Blätter/=
Busserola/= Common bearberry/= bear’s claw
Pain in the heel is a common problem (obese person). A calcaneal spur is a small bony projection that is formed on
the calcaneus or heel bone. Caused by putting too
much pressure on the sinew
Ant-c.: corns on the soles and
occasionally on the palms. The corns are very painful when walking (hard
ground). The nails may also be brittle and growing out of shape.
Aran.: Pain in the heel < in damp weather (during the rains = monsoon).
Sensation of swelling in the affected heel.
Calc.
Calc-f.: Painful heel > heat treatment
(calcaneal spur)
Lyc.: Pain (r.) present even at rest
(not walking). Feels he has treaded on a pebble. Pain < 16 – 20 h./at
night/warm or hot applications. Improves somewhat on walking around.
[Adrien Badeau]
Paeonia.: ulcers from poor fitting shoes, ulcers from
pressure as in bed sores, ulcers on lower part of body which are sensitive and
painful; (Also consider new shoes.)
[Dr. Sultan M. Bihari]
“If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit”
All-c.: ulcers on heel from friction of
shoes
Arist-cl.: Blasen durch reiben.
Plan. Blasen durch Reibung.
Chilblains is tissue injury that occurs when a predisposed individual is
exposed to cold and humidity. Capillary beds in the skin are damaged resulting
in redness, inflammation, itching and blisters.
Agar.: Burning and itching as if frozen. Parts
hot, swollen, red. Chronic inflammation of
external nose.
Puls.: The inflammation is livid, with itching and
throbbing; < evening. A dose night and morning.
Sulph.: The inflammation and itching are severe, and the chilblains do not
yield to other remedies. A dose night
and morning.
Petr.: Itching and burning like fire.
Heel painfully swollen, red.
Nit-ac.: Itching, swelling, pain especially in very
cold weather. Inflammation from a slight degree of cold.
Zinc-met.: Chillbains on hand, itching and swelling
violently.
Externally:
Arn.: Often useful during the first or inflammatory stage, swelling hard,
shining, and painful, with itching. A
dose morning and evening.
Rub the chilblains with a liniment
of equal parts of strong tincture of Arnica and Glycerine.
Tamus.: Lightly paint the chilblains if they are too tender to bear
rubbing (dark coloured). Apply with a camel’s hair brush, allowing it to dry
in.
Burning-feet-Syndrom
Sec.: Entspricht genau dem
Krankheitsbild des Burning-feet-Syndroms. (< Wärme).
Tan-ac.:
Felsensporn?
[Sigrid Bieger]
Gefunden in einem Forum
Leider habe ich keine direkte Antwort auf Ihre Frage. Aber ich habe 2x Fersensporn mit je 2 Gaben Calc. C 200 (2x 5 Gbl. im Abstand von 4 Wochen) weg bekommen.
Der Sporn war nach 3 Mon. verschwunden. Gruß S.Bieger
[Andrea Rentea,
M.D.]
Feet occupy a special place in some holistic systems of medicine. They
have been known to represent the whole body in oriental systems of medicine, a
crucial point in kinesiology and in chiropractic treatment for the alignment of
the entire spinal system.
R.S.: feet are correlated with the spiritual constitution of man.
People of different temperaments use the feet differently. The choleric
child walks on the heels, with a more pronounced gait, a sanguine child skips
more or might be more of a toe-walker, the gait being light and airy.
The sole of the foot can be said to represent three areas: the heel
representing the will, the middle arch area the feeling, and the front and toes
the thinking. That is why when one tests water temperature, one tries to
"sense" with ones toes, not with ones heels.
There are numerous curative eurythmy exercises
that involve the foot gestures. All consonants and vowels have their own foot
gesture that accompanies the arm movements. Furthermore using palpation, one
can feel how some feet are dry and warm and reflect the corresponding element
of predominance, whereas in others they are moist and cold. Some are pink in
color and very youthful, whereas other feet are bony and slim.
One of the principles of anthroposophical
medicine is the treatment of illnesses including the feet. I have been very
successful treating women's illnesses (migraines) by recommending that the
patient do frequent foot baths with an anthroposophic
remedy consisting of homeopathic silver in the water. (Argentum
D6 one would use a teaspoon of that for approximately two quarts of water.) The
reason for the choice of silver is what we know through the spiritual resources
of R.S.'s knowledge. It has also come down through
tradition that the moon forces are represented by silver. The silver forces are
especially connected to women's physiology.
Another example is a patient with swollen ankles where the diagnosis is
a kidney weakness such that the water elimination from the body is impaired.
One would then ask the patient to rub into the skin anthroposophically
prepared homeopathic copper 2 - 3x daily around the ankles and into the feet.
(This also can be obtained from one of the several anthroposophical
pharmacies.) The rationale for this treatment is that the kidney is essentially
ruled by the planet Venus, a planet which in turn is associated with copper.
[Ellis Barker]
The feet of the civilized are a disgrace. The majority have abnormal or
crippled feet. Most feet one sees are anaemic, soft,
ill-shaped, and are ornamented with sunken arches, swollen or displaced ankles,
enlarged toe joints, bunions, corns and callouses.
Worse of all are the toes. In many cases the toes look like a badly made bunch
of ill-shape carrots grown on stony soil. The feet of women are worse than
those of men. I have seen many elegant women who have driven up to my house in
a Rolls Royce, with feet crippled and deformed which would disgrace the poorest
charwoman. Many of this sufferers explained to me, that they had suffered with
their feet for years or decades and that they had been treated in vain by the
greatest specialists. Some time ago I was visited by the Hon. Mrs. B., a very
wealthy woman. She was superbly dressed, wore very elegant shoes and stockings,
but complained about her feet.
Her toes were crushed and crumpled
up. Walking was agony for her. When in Switzerland, she tried to do a little
walking, the pain in her toes became atrocious, apparently gangrene set in, and
some of the toes had to be amputated.
Dentists and physicians have told us that
neglect of the teeth is apt to lead to pyorrhoea
which poisons the whole system, and that systemic poisoning from the mouth
aggravates every disease or disorder and may produce many
of the most serious diseases. Hence
a mania of extracting all teeth has set in. It is perhaps not sufficiently
known that serious disorders and diseases of the feet are apt to have a
profound influence on the body as a whole.
Feet which produce an incessant
nagging pain, crippling their owner, are bound to create bad temper,
depression, nervousness, faulty posture and in due course degeneration of
important organs. The Hon. Mrs. B. had never been able to take proper exercise
and she kept an excellent cook, a disastrous combination.
The health of the feet, like that of the teeth,
is in the first place a question of nutrition. The foundation of flabby, strengthless feet, of swollen ankles and toe joints, of
sunken arches, etc., is well and truly laid in the cradle and in the mothers
womb. A diet poor in essential food elements produces weakening of the bones,
called rickets, soft teeth, soft joints, soft ligaments, etc. Dietetic
regulation can arrest dental decay, can cure pyorrhoea,
and can vastly strengthen weak and useless feet. Further assistance can be
given by homoeopathic remedies. Calc., Calc-p., Sil.
and other indicated remedies, given in infinitely small doses, are able to cure
that feet and sunken arches, even in people over fifty, especially if combined
with a well chosen diet, activation of elimination from the bowel, and a few
simple exercises.
Feet which have been weakened by faulty
nutrition are injured still further by faultily made footwear. If one looks at
the windows of shoe shops one sees a very attractive display of beautifully
shaped shoes and boots in tempting colours, but
unfortunately the articles of footwear displayed, though attractive to the eye,
bear no resemblance to the natural human foot. They have as little resemblance
to the natural foot as the lay figures in
fashion shops have to the human
body. Tempted by the pretty articles in the window, customers enter the shops
and say that they would like to be fitted with a shoe which they had found
particularly attractive. The average
shop attendant is too wise to offer
a comfortable shoe. It would be pronounced ugly. So he hands out some
attractive shoes which are pronounced too tight. "But, madam, they are
extremely becoming to you, very smart, the
latest fashion, they get a little
wider in the wear,
you will promptly get used to
them." The pretty article squeezes together and crushes the toes, makes
walking painful, but the wearer heroically tries to disregard her discomforts.
It is surprising how quickly a foot can be
distorted. I have always worn ample and very easy shoes. One day my bootmaker provided me with shoes which caused some
discomfort on one of the toes. I was foolish enough to disregard it for two or
three days, imagining that the shoe would adapt itself to the foot. I found, to
my amazement, that in few days it had produced something like a hammer toe. It
takes months to get rid of a distortion which has been created in a few days or
in a few hours. I know men and women who can walk only a few yards owing to the
constitutional weakness of their feet and the subsequent distortion produced by
the bootmaker.
All boot shops are filled with pretty,
attractive and smart footwear. I myself and other people have gone in despair
from shot to shop and have not found a single pair of ready-made shoes that
would fit. It seems to me that manufacturers make an insufficient number of
sizes. That is a most regrettable economy which lead to the universal crippling
of feet. Customers are persuaded to wear shoes which are too small or too
large, too narrow or too wide. Most people do not know what foot comfort means.
Unfortunately one cannot get comfortable footwear by having shoes made to
measure. The art of making shoes to measure has died out. It has been killed
by the manufacturers, and the few
surviving artisans who make boots and shoes to measure rarely succeed in
providing us with what we want.
Some time ago I complained about the position to
my friend, Sir Herbert Barker, the famous manipulating surgeon (highest
authority on the disorders of the feet).
Cured tens of thousands of people
of their foot troubles. He told me that he had experienced the same difficulty
and that, in order to overcome it, he had devised a special shoe made on
natural physiological lines and that he had induced Mr. Charles H. Baber, of
303 Regent Street,
to manufacture it. I went to the
shop in Regent Street but felt very sceptical. During
more than half a century I had tried in vain to obtain a ready-made shoe that
would fit me. To my amazement they fitted me in a minute with the most
comfortable shoes I have ever worn. They enable me to do tramps of thirty miles
a day and at the same time they are as comfortable as well-worn slippers.
I cannot explain the technicalities
of these shoes which, in honour of the inventor, are
called "Sir Herbert Barker Shoes." I only know that there is in that
shop a bewildering profusion of models to fit every foot, normal or abnormal.
After fitting me with the best shoes I have ever had, a painstaking attendant
took me to an X-ray apparatus which clearly showed that the shoes selected were
not only comfortable, but were physiologically correct.
The normal second toe is a little
longer than the big toe. It is so in my feet. Many second toes are pushed in
and curled up or converted into hammer toes by shoes which are too short or too
narrow, or both. I could clearly see that the shoes were correct not only by
the feel, but also by the eye. I think Sir Herbert Barker has done a work of
national importance in devising this new kind of shoes and inducing a firm to
produce them. I am sure these shoes must sooner or later become models for all
the manufacturers who, I hope, will abandon the present methods of production
of insufficient ranges and sizes and of faulty shapes. I think I ought to add
that the shoes described are not cheap, but then an ill-fitting shoe is not
cheap at any price.
Allerlei: China: Schuh -
Eintracht, Harmonie
Hallix valgus = Bunion
[Dr. Lippe]
Nit-ac.: for bunions with swelling and with
stinging pains. Almost a specific.
„Hasenfuß„ = ängstlicher Mensch
[WALA]
Aktuelles Magazin und Nachrichten Damit Sie keine kalten Füße bekommen
Anthroprosophische Medizin, Erkältungszeit
Damit Sie keine kalten Füße bekommen
Es gibt sie: eine direkte Verbindung zwischen kalten Füßen und der Durchblutung der Nasenschleimhaut. Wenn uns also im Herbst sinkende Außentemperaturen und aufkommende Nässe kalte
Füße bescheren, hat dies zur Folge, dass die Nasen- und Rachenschleimhaut weniger durchblutet und damit die körpereigene Abwehr geschwächt wird. Eindringende Viren haben jetzt leichtes
Spiel und die Ansteckungsgefahr für Erkältungserkrankungen wächst. Jetzt gilt es, den Füßen ordentlich einzuheizen, denn oft kündigen kalte Füße oder Frösteln eine nahende Erkältung an.
Was können wir also tun, um einen wärmenden Impuls an unsere Füße zu schicken?
Tipp 1: Das Fußbad
Sehr gut gelingt eine Durchwärmung der Füße über ein ansteigendes Fußbad. Hierfür baden Sie Ihre Füße in angenehm warmem Wasser mit dem Dr. Hauschka Wind und Wetter Bad und geben in mehreren Schritten heißes Wasser dazu, bis zu einer Temperatur von ca. 40 °C. 15 Minuten reichen aus, um den Körper zu erwärmen. Nach dem Abtrocknen halten Sie Ihre Füße mit Wollsocken länger warm. Auch Thermosohlen sind nützliche Erfindungen, um die Füße vor Auskühlung zu bewahren.
Tipp 2: Wärme aus der Tube
Die WALA Kupfer Salbe rot* fördert die Durchblutung und bildet eine sanfte Wärmehülle mit einem langanhaltenden Effekt (auch unterwegs). Die vielseitig einsetzbare durchblutungsfördernde Salbe ist bei chronisch kalten Füßen oder Händen und für jede Altersgruppe geeignet. Sie ist zudem frei von künstlichen Duft-, Farb- und Konservierungsstoffen.
Tipp 3: Wärme von innen
Bei einer beginnenden Erkältung sind die sonst warmen Hände und Füße kalt und der Kopf fühlt sich heiß an. Besonders hilfreich in dieser Phase und auch in der Zeit der Genesung sind WALA Meteoreisen Globuli velati*. Das aus Meteoriten stammende Eisen reguliert gemeinsam mit Phosphor und Bergkristall den „auf dem Kopf stehenden“ Wärmehaushalt des Körpers und stärkt so die Abwehrkräfte.
Tipp 4: Wärme von außen
Kneipp-Bäder bringen die Durchblutung genauso in Schwung wie ein Saunagang. Wer es noch etwas intensiver möchte, kann sich ein Zehen-Workout gönnen. Dazu setzen Sie sich mit geradem Rücken auf den Boden und ziehen Ihre Knie an, sodass die Oberschenkel einen Winkel von ca. 90 Grad zu den Unterschenkeln bilden. Tippen Sie nun die Zehen Ihres rechten Fußes und zeitgleich den Ballen Ihres linken Fußes auf den Boden. Führen Sie die Übung abwechselnd in immer schnellerer Folge und ca. 1/2 Minute lang durch, dann pausieren Sie kurz und wiederholen Sie das Ganze noch einmal. Anschließend lassen Sie Ihre Füße abwechselnd kreisen - pro Fuß und Drehrichtung zehnmal. Führen Sie immer größer werdende kreisende Bewegungen in beiden Richtungen mit Ihren Füßen aus.
Acanthocephala terminalis. = Leaf Footed Bug/= Clown Bug
Antennaria = Katzenpfötchen./= rozenkransje Leber Asterales.
Aqui. = Garden columbine (= Harlekin)/= Culver wort (culver = Taube)/= Jack-In-Trousers/= Mary’s Bells/= Granny’s Bonnet/= European Crow-foot/= meeting houses/= Klockenblome/= Handschuh/= Narrenkappen/= Weiberkappen/= Schlotterhose/= Adlerblue
Calceolaria integrifolia = Pantoffelblume Lamiales.
Cypr. = Frauenschuhwurzel/= Valeriane
americana/= Lady’s slipper
Dioscorea elephantipes = Elefantenfuß/= Schildkrötenpflanze Dioscoreales.
Gink-b. = Yin-Hsing/= Ya Chio (=
„Entenfuß"/= „Elefantenohr"/=
„Mädchenhaarbaum")/= Yin kuo
Lycps-v. = Wolfsfuß/= Marubede virgine/= Bingle weed
Keratin w = Pferdehuf
Lim. = horseshoecrab/= Degenkrabbe/= „lebend Fossil“
Megalodonten (Fossilien.) = Kuhtritt/= Geissenfüßle Mollusca. = als Schutz
im Fundament eingebaut
Nab. = Lion's foot/= Rattlesnake root/= White lettuce/= Gall of the earth/=
Cancer weed
Ol-an. = Stinköl/= Oleum Cornu Cervi hergestellt aus Hufen/Klauen von Rindern
Oxalis pes-caprae. (= Bermuda butter-cup./= African wood-sorrel/= Bermuda sorrel/= Buttercup oxalis/= Cape sorrel/= English weed/= Goat.'s-foot./= Sourgrass Oxydales.).
Plan-m. = Breitwegerich/= Plantain/= Lungenblatt/= Wundwegerich/= Ballenkraut/= Wegtritt/= Saurüssel/= Mausöhrle/“Herrscher des Weges”/“Fussabtritts des weißen Mannes“
Polyg-a. = Vogelknöterich/= Renoué/= Knot grass/=
Bian-xu/= Wegtritt
Polym. = bear’s foot
Puls. = Kuhschelle/= Wolfspfote/= Windflower/= Osterglöckchen/= Schafblume
Ran-s. = Gift-hahnenfuß/= Morteaux vaches/= Celeryleaved crowtort
Rosa. Kelkblätter = UNgleich gestaltet/gleicht Drudenfuss.
Scol. = Hundertfüßler
Swida sanguinea = rode kornoelje/= Blutroter Hartriegel/= ganzepoothout Cornales.
Thysanoptera = Fransenflügler/= Thripse/= Blasenfüße/= Gewittertierchen/-würmer/-fliegen Arthropoda.
Toxi. = Moccasinschlange
Uva. = Bärentraube/Blätter/= Busserola/=
Common bearberry/= bear’s claw
Pain in the heel is a common problem (obese person). A calcaneal spur is
a small bony projection that is formed on the calcaneus or heel bone. Caused by
putting too much pressure on the sinew
on the soles of the feet, usually over a long period of time.
Aran.: Pain in the heel < in damp
weather (during the rains = monsoon). Sensation of swelling in the affected
heel.
Calc-f.: Painful heel > heat treatment (calcaneal
spur)
Lyc.: Pain (r.) present even at rest
i.e. when not walking. Feels he has treaded on a pebble. Pain < 16 – 20
h./at night/warm or hot applications. It improves somewhat on walking around.
Ant-c.: corns on the soles and
occasionally on the palms. The corns are very painful when walking (hard
ground). The nails may also be brittle and growing out of shape.
[Adrien Badeau]
Paeonia.: ulcers from poor fitting shoes,
ulcers from pressure as in bed sores, ulcers on lower part of body which are
sensitive and painful; (Also consider new shoes.)
[Dr. Sultan M. Bihari]
“If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit”
All-c.: ulcers on heel from friction of shoes
Arist-cl.: Blasen durch reiben.
Plan. Blasen durch reiben.
Chilblains is tissue injury that occurs when a
predisposed individual is exposed to cold and humidity. Capillary beds in the
skin are damaged resulting in redness, inflammation, itching and blisters.
Agar.: Burning and itching as if frozen.
Parts hot, swollen, red. Chronic inflammation of external nose.
Puls.: The inflammation is livid, with
itching and throbbing; < evening. A dose night and morning.
Sulph.: The inflammation and itching are
severe, and the chilblains do not yield to other remedies. A dose night and morning.
Petr.: Itching and burning like fire.
Heel painfully swollen, red.
Nit-ac.: Itching, swelling, pain especially
in very cold weather. Inflammation from a slight degree of cold.
Zinc-met.: Chillbains on hand, itching and
swelling violently.
Externally :
Arn.: Often useful during the first or
inflammatory stage, swelling hard, shining, and painful, with itching. A dose morning and evening.
Rub the chilblains with a liniment
of equal parts of strong tincture of Arnica and Glycerine.
Tamus.: Lightly paint the chilblains if
they are too tender to bear rubbing (dark coloured). Apply with a camel’s hair
brush, allowing it to dry in.
Burning-feet-Syndrom
Sec.: Entspricht genau dem
Krankheitsbild des Burning-feet-Syndroms. (< Wärme).
[Andrea Rentea, M.D.]
Feet occupy a special place in some holistic systems of medicine. They have
been known to represent the whole body in oriental systems of medicine, a
crucial point in kinesiology and in chiropractic treatment for the alignment of
the entire spinal system.
R.S.: feet are correlated with the spiritual constitution of man.
People of different temperaments use the feet differently. The choleric
child walks on the heels, with a more pronounced gait, a sanguine child skips
more or might be more of a toe-walker, the gait being light and airy.
The sole of the foot can be said to represent three areas: the heel
representing the will, the middle arch area the feeling, and the front and toes
the thinking. That is why when one tests water temperature, one tries to
"sense" with ones toes, not with ones heels.
There are numerous curative eurythmy exercises that involve the foot
gestures. All consonants and vowels have their own foot gesture that
accompanies the arm movements. Furthermore using palpation, one can feel how
some feet are dry and warm and reflect the corresponding element of predominance,
whereas in others they are moist and cold. Some are pink in color and very
youthful, whereas other feet are bony and slim.
One of the principles of anthroposophical medicine is the treatment of
illnesses including the feet. I have been very successful treating women's
illnesses (migraines) by recommending that the patient do frequent foot baths
with an anthroposophic remedy consisting of homeopathic silver in the water.
(Argentum D6 one would use a teaspoon of that for approximately two quarts of
water.) The reason for the choice of silver is what we know through the
spiritual resources of R.S.'s knowledge. It has also come down through
tradition that the moon forces are represented by silver. The silver forces are
especially connected to women's physiology.
Another example is a patient with swollen ankles where the diagnosis is
a kidney weakness such that the water elimination from the body is impaired.
One would then ask the patient to rub into the skin anthroposophically prepared
homeopathic copper 2 - 3x daily around the ankles and into the feet. (This also
can be obtained from one of the several anthroposophical pharmacies.) The
rationale for this treatment is that the kidney is essentially ruled by the
planet Venus, a planet which in turn is associated with copper.
[Ellis Barker]
The feet of the civilized are a disgrace. The majority have abnormal or
crippled feet. Most feet one sees are anaemic, soft, ill-shaped, and are
ornamented with sunken arches, swollen or displaced ankles, enlarged toe
joints, bunions, corns and callouses. Worse of all are the toes. In many cases
the toes look like a badly made bunch of ill-shape carrots grown on stony soil.
The feet of women are worse than those of men. I have seen many elegant women
who have driven up to my house in a Rolls Royce, with feet crippled and
deformed which would disgrace the poorest charwoman. Many of this sufferers
explained to me, that they had suffered with their feet for years or decades
and that they had been treated in vain by the greatest specialists. Some time
ago I was visited by the Hon. Mrs. B., a very wealthy woman. She was superbly
dressed, wore very elegant shoes and stockings, but complained about her feet.
Her toes were crushed and crumpled
up. Walking was agony for her. When in Switzerland, she tried to do a little
walking, the pain in her toes became atrocious, apparently gangrene set in, and
some of the toes had to be amputated.
Dentists and physicians have told us that
neglect of the teeth is apt to lead to pyorrhoea which poisons the whole
system, and that systemic poisoning from the mouth aggravates every disease or
disorder and may produce many
of the most serious diseases. Hence
a mania of extracting all teeth has set in. It is perhaps not sufficiently
known that serious disorders and diseases of the feet are apt to have a
profound influence on the body as a whole.
Feet which produce an incessant
nagging pain, crippling their owner, are bound to create bad temper,
depression, nervousness, faulty posture and in due course degeneration of
important organs. The Hon. Mrs. B. had never been able to take proper exercise
and she kept an excellent cook, a disastrous combination.
The health of the feet, like that of the teeth,
is in the first place a question of nutrition. The foundation of flabby,
strengthless feet, of swollen ankles and toe joints, of sunken arches, etc., is
well and truly laid in the cradle and in the mothers womb. A diet poor in
essential food elements produces weakening of the bones, called rickets, soft
teeth, soft joints, soft ligaments, etc. Dietetic regulation can arrest dental
decay, can cure pyorrhoea, and can vastly strengthen weak and useless feet.
Further assistance can be given by homoeopathic remedies. Calc., Calc-p., Sil.
and other indicated remedies, given in infinitely small doses, are able to cure
that feet and sunken arches, even in people over fifty, especially if combined
with a well chosen diet, activation of elimination from the bowel, and a few
simple exercises.
Feet which have been weakened by faulty
nutrition are injured still further by faultily made footwear. If one looks at
the windows of shoe shops one sees a very attractive display of beautifully
shaped shoes and boots in tempting colours, but unfortunately the articles of
footwear displayed, though attractive to the eye, bear no resemblance to the
natural human foot. They have as little resemblance to the natural foot as the
lay figures in
fashion shops have to the human
body. Tempted by the pretty articles in the window, customers enter the shops
and say that they would like to be fitted with a shoe which they had found
particularly attractive. The average
shop attendant is too wise to offer
a comfortable shoe. It would be pronounced ugly. So he hands out some
attractive shoes which are pronounced too tight. "But, madam, they are
extremely becoming to you, very smart, the
latest fashion, they get a little
wider in the wear,
you will promptly get used to
them." The pretty article squeezes together and crushes the toes, makes
walking painful, but the wearer heroically tries to disregard her discomforts.
It is surprising how quickly a foot can be
distorted. I have always worn ample and very easy shoes. One day my bootmaker
provided me with shoes which caused some discomfort on one of the toes. I was
foolish enough to disregard it for two or three days, imagining that the shoe
would adapt itself to the foot. I found, to my amazement, that in few days it
had produced something like a hammer toe. It takes months to get rid of a
distortion which has been created in a few days or in a few hours. I know men
and women who can walk only a few yards owing to the constitutional weakness of
their feet and the subsequent distortion produced by the bootmaker.
All boot shops are filled with pretty,
attractive and smart footwear. I myself and other people have gone in despair
from shot to shop and have not found a single pair of ready-made shoes that
would fit. It seems to me that manufacturers make an insufficient number of
sizes. That is a most regrettable economy which lead to the universal crippling
of feet. Customers are persuaded to wear shoes which are too small or too
large, too narrow or too wide. Most people do not know what foot comfort means.
Unfortunately one cannot get comfortable footwear by having shoes made to
measure. The art of making shoes to measure has died out. It has been killed
by the manufacturers, and the few
surviving artisans who make boots and shoes to measure rarely succeed in providing
us with what we want.
Some time ago I complained about the position to
my friend, Sir Herbert Barker, the famous manipulating surgeon (highest
authority on the disorders of the feet).
Cured tens of thousands of people
of their foot troubles. He told me that he had experienced the same difficulty
and that, in order to overcome it, he had devised a special shoe made on
natural physiological lines and that he had induced Mr. Charles H. Baber, of
303 Regent Street,
to manufacture it. I went to the
shop in Regent Street but felt very sceptical. During more than half a century
I had tried in vain to obtain a ready-made shoe that would fit me. To my
amazement they fitted me in a minute with the most comfortable shoes I have
ever worn. They enable me to do tramps of thirty miles a day and at the same
time they are as comfortable as well-worn slippers.
I cannot explain the technicalities
of these shoes which, in honour of the inventor, are called "Sir Herbert
Barker Shoes." I only know that there is in that shop a bewildering
profusion of models to fit every foot, normal or abnormal.
After fitting me with the best shoes I have ever had, a painstaking attendant
took me to an X-ray apparatus which clearly showed that the shoes selected were
not only comfortable, but were physiologically correct.
The normal second toe is a little
longer than the big toe. It is so in my feet. Many second toes are pushed in
and curled up or converted into hammer toes by shoes which are too short or too
narrow, or both. I could clearly see that the shoes were correct not only by
the feel, but also by the eye. I think Sir Herbert Barker has done a work of
national importance in devising this new kind of shoes and inducing a firm to
produce them. I am sure these shoes must sooner or later become models for all
the manufacturers who, I hope, will abandon the present methods of production
of insufficient ranges and sizes and of faulty shapes. I think I ought to add
that the shoes described are not cheap, but then an ill-fitting shoe is not
cheap at any price.
Allerlei: China: Schuh - Eintracht, Harmonie
Hallix valgus = Bunion
[Dr. Lippe]
Nit-ac.:for bunions with swelling and with stinging pains. Almost a specific.
Art-vg.:die alten Römer sagten ihr eine heilende Wirkung auf die Füße zu.
Auch heute noch nehmen Wanderer, denen die Füße wehtun, Beifußblätter und legen
sie in ihre Sandalen,
damit sie länger laufen können.
„Hasenfuß„ = ängstlicher Mensch
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