Sarcodes Anhang 3
[Ghanshyam Kalathia and Meeta Nihlani]
The Function in Sarcodes
To find the common themes between sarcode remedies I selected the following
seven remedies and compared them in my computer program with the help of the
Complete Repertory. Seventeen rubrics appear which have less than 50 remedies.
Out of those 17 rubrics, 7 rubrics had commonality. As follows:
A. 7 Medicines…
Corticotropinum (Cortico)
Cortisonum (Cortiso)
Deoxy-ribonucleic acid
(Des-ac)
Follicullinum (Foll)
Histaminum (Hist)
Thalamus (Thal)
Thyroidinum (Thyr)
B. Rubrics from Complete Repertory
Mind - MEMORY, WEAKNESS,
NAMES, FOR PROPER (47) 1 Cortico, 1 Hist.
Generals - DEVELOPMENT
ARRESTED (24) 1 Des-ac. 1 Thyr.
Generals - HYPOTENSION (25) 1
Cortico. 1 Hist.
Generals - INJURIES, SLOW
REPAIR OF BROKEN BONES (24) 1 Des-ac. 2 Thyr.
Generals - MYXEDEMA (6) 1
Cortico. 2 Thyr.
Generals - OLD AGE, PREMATURE (34) 1 Cortico.
1 Des-ac.
Female Sexual - MENSES,
ABSENT, GIRLS IN (5)1 Cortico. 1 Cortiso. 1 Thala.
All rubrics are related to function, because they all are related to
memory (mental functioning), physical development and hypo or hyper
physiological functions, so now my confidence increases. Now I try to examine
each remedy individually. This time I narrow down the remedies which appeared
in the rubrics. I select only the rubrics which have 10, or less than 10
remedies. The list is:
a. Corticotropinum
Mind - DISORIENTED with
everything
Throat - DRY General singers
b. Cortisonum
Mind - EXCITEMENT # indecision
Mind - IRRITABLE when travel
goes too slow
Mind - MANNISH habits of girls
Skin - HAIR excessive growth
Generals - HYPERTENSION
children
c. Deoxy-ribonucleic acid
Mind - ANGUISH > from motion (1)
d. Follicullinum
Mind - DULLNESS during
climacteric period (2)
Mind - SLOWNESS during
climacteric period (1)
Female Sexual -
HYPERFOLLICULINIA (1)
Generals - OVULATION during
ailments (2)
e. Histaminum
Mind - RESTLESS during waiting (1)
Mind - WALK, walking hard > mental symptoms (1)
Taste - PERFUME like wine tastes (1)
f. Thalamus
Female Sexual - MENSES absent, amenorrhea in young girls (9) (1 cortico,
1 cortiso),
g. Thyroidinum
Mind - RESTLESSNESS # stupor
(1)
Bladder - URINATION
involuntary in nervous and irritable children (2)
Chest - MILK disappearing when
menses returned (1)
Skin - HAIRY on unusual parts
(6)
Generals - EXERTION, physical
impossible (5)
Generals - HYPERTROPHY from
excessive exertion (1)
Generals - PARALYSIS General
pseudo-hypertrophic (4)
Try to see the pattern in small remedies also. The list is…
Cholesterinum
Sleep - SLEEPLESS General over fatigue, from mental and
physical (3)
Hypothalamus
Female Sexual - MENSES absent,
amenorrhea exertion, after mental and physical (1)
Mind - AVERSION men (3)
Generals - in PUBERTY ailments
in girls (10)
Ovinum
Mind - RESTLESS in climacteric
period (29)
Mind - SENSITIVE during
climacteric period (12)
Female Sexual - ATROPHY Ovaries (11)
Female Sexual - INFANTILISMUS genitalis
(12)
Generals - OLD age, premature (45)
Generals - OLD people,
complaints in decay (12)
Pitutaria posterior
Mind - FEAR impotency, of (5)
Mind - FEAR of involuntary
urination at night (3)
Chest - MILK increased, too
profuse (42)
Skin - HAIR falls out (21)
RNA
Mind - LEARNING difficult (24)
Generals - HYPOTENSION (41)
Generals - HYPOTHYROIDISM (10)
Urea
Bladder - URGING to urinate, morbid desire sediment, with much (1)
The repertory search (above) using computer software helps to find the
“function” (memory/mental functioning, physical development , pre-mature
development, arrested development, issues of stages of development like
menopause/climacteric period, menarche etc. and hypo or hyper physiological
functions), so the ‘function’ is the obvious thing for sarcodes and now we can
easily see some pattern in all the rubrics and what they are related to…”
Physiological function… test,
smell, menses, ovary, pregnancy, puberty, menopause, old-age, child age.
Hyper- or hypo-function…
Extrasystole, Myxedema, Hypotension/-thyreoidism,
Hypertension/-folliculinia/-plasy, Paralysis, Hypertrophy, Atrophy, Impotency.
Medicines: Used in Homoeopathy
1. Adrenalin.
(Epinephrine)
Internal secretion of supra renal glands. It is the active principle of
the medulla of the suprarenal gland. Its presence is essential to the
activities of the sympathetic nerve.
It stimulate the sympathetic nerve, causing constriction of the
peripheral nerves resulting in rise in blood pressure and showing down of
pulses strengthening of heart beat.
Therapeutically it is a powerful astringent and thermostatic and is
invaluable in checking capillary hemorrhages from all parts, where the local or
direct application is feasible. Hemorrhagic condition is not due to the
defective coagulation
It is indicated in acute congestion of lungs, Asthma, Graves disease,
Addison’s disease, chronic aortitis, angina, hemophilia, chlorosis, hay fever,
serum sickness. It is effective in angina and aortitis when there is a
sensation of thoracic constriction and anguish. As with vertigo, nausea and
vomiting, Abdominal pain.
Shock or heart failure during anaesthesia in cases rise in blood
pressure by acting on nerve ending in vessel wall
Note: - It should not be repeated too frequently
It is very effective in addisons disease with pigmentation of skin
(Bronzing) loss of strength, wasting, rapid pulse. It is effective haematoma
,pain in adrenal region.
It can be given in hay fever and in certain inflammation of eye and it
can be used locally to cause blanching of the part and to present haemorrhage
before minor operations.
It should be given with great care in pregnancy.
Cholesterin. is a
substance crystallising in bathels with a mother of pearl. Having a fatty feel.
Occurs in the blood and brain,
yolk of eggs, seed and buds of plants, but most in the bile and biliary
calculi. Therapeutically it is recommended as a remedy for cancer of the liver.
They are pale, anaemic, complain of headaches, exhaustion, nervousness, acne
vulgaris, constipation and menses may be absent or scanty.
Again in climacterics period it is indicated when the flow ceases and
there is tendency to obesity and increased blood pressure.
Hot flushes, psychosis and visual irritation not only at the natural
climateric, but in those that are the result of hysterectomy and oophorectomy
it is also indicated.
The pruritus vulva that attends some of those cases has been speedily
relieved by it.
It is to be recommended in the neurasthenic woman who complains of
headache, neuromuscular weakness, Mental irritability insomnia and a group of
indefinite symptoms that are dependant upon menstrual and ovarian disturbances.
It is of service in certain cases of sterility, when bacterial
infection, cervical stenosis and other local causes are eliminated.
It can be given in case of nausea attends with the early months of
pregnancy.
It is very useful in relieving the pain in breast that disturb some
women before and during menstruation
It should be remembered in increased blood pressure in women at the
climateric period when the usual causes can be eliminated as arteriosclerosis,
nephritis.
(In these cases if it is found that blood pressure is being reduced too
rapidly, and palpitation of the heart, nausea, vomiting and mental depression
is taking place of should be stopped or dose should be reduced.)
It is effective in case of pelvic pain, delayed menses or insufficient
flower clot formation.
It should be administered with care. Blood pressure should observe if
reduction is too great, medicine should be stopped.
A phosphorus - containing complex organic body prepared from the yolk of
egg and animal brain.Lecithin has a favorable influence upon the nutritive
condition and especially upon the blood, hence its use in anemia and
convalescence, neurasthenia and insomnia. It increases the number of red
corpuscles and amount of hemoglobin. It is an excellent galactogog, renders
milk more nourishing and increases quantity. Causes an immediate decrease in
the excretion of the phosphate.
It is indicated in faulty nutrition when there is an excessive exertion
of phosphates, the patients is weak and exhausted.
It should be thought of in the tuberculosis of the young, they are
tired, weak and complain of loss of flesh, short breath and general exhaustion.
The mammary glands
The extract is prepared from the glands of the cow and sheep.
There is a relation b/w these glands and corpus luteum and also with
uterus. By prolonging lactation women can prolong the period of amenorrhea. The
administration of an extract of these gland is most useful in the profuse
menstruation of all young girls. Also in the young girls when the period occurs
every two o weeks. It has been employed in uterine fibroids with menorrhagia
and metorrhagia. The associated mastodynia is much relieved. It should be used
with care during pregnancy as exponents with animals showed it to have an
abortifacient action.It have also been employed as a galactogogue.
Testicular extract.
It can be used in case of senile decay and nervous breakdown according
to brown - sequard.
It can be also used in climacteric sufferings.
Testicular extract contains much nucleoprotein, and like all nucleins
has a tendency to lower blood pressure.
Extract from the ovary of cow / sheep or pig.
Can be given to these sufferings following the excision of ovaries
(lower triturations)
Climacteric disturbances especially nervous sufferings.
Cutaneous disorders, acne resource prurigo etc.,
Ovarian cyst.
Complaints> during menses (like zin lach)
Pancreatinum
Extract of pancreatic and salivary glands of OX or sheep.
It is effective in conditions due to faulty action of the pancreas.
According to Dr. Burnett it is very effective in gout. It is effective
for intestinal digestion. Pain an hour or more after eating.
Lienteric diarrhoea.
An extract of the parotid glands of the OX has been used.
It is effective in ovarian hyperemia and headache, reflex from ovarian
disturbances.
Dysmenorrhea and Menorhagia.
Prepared from pepsin a digestive enzyme produced in the stomach which
converts protein into peptones, produced from the stomach of Pig.
Indicated in when there is evidence of imperfect digestion, with pain in
the region of the stomach, as observed in neurasthenia, diseases of nervous
system, acute protracted diseases, surgical diseases,
traumatism, gastric cancer and ulcer.
It can be remembered in marasmus of children who have been fed on
artificial foods.
It is useful in diarrhea of children and adults, dependent upon
indigestion of the food.
When placental extract is administered to nursing mothers the amount of
milk is increased, and the infant receiving this milk grows more rapidly.
It acts as galactagogue.
Pituitary exercises a superior control over the growth and development
of the sexual organs. Stimulates muscular activity and overcomes uterine
inertia. Its influence over unstriped muscular fibre is marked.
Cerebral hemorrhage. Will check hemorrhage and add absorption of clot.
Utrerine inertia in second stage of labour where as it is fully dilated.
High blood pressure, chronic nephritis, prostatitis.
Vertigo, difficult mental concentration, confusion and fullness deep in
frontal region.
During pregnancy and before menses the gland is enlarged in certain
cases the enlarged gland before and during menstrual period is attended with
menstrual headache. This is usually relieved by the administration of the
remedy.
Pituitary headache have been cured by the whole gland.
In stout women with amenorrhoea and this type of headache. It is usually
relieved by this medicine (along thyroidinum).
It is also effective in menorrhagia and metorrhagia. It is more
servicible in heart failure and in shock when the blood pressure is very low.
It should be thought of following parturition and laprotomy when the urinary
bladder is semi - paralyzed. In continence of the urine both in adult and
children, it has been of service, also in nocturnal enuresis.
In the fatigue syndrome asthenia with weakness and neuromuscular pains,
also after parturition when the mother remains weak, does not gain her strength
and the uterus does not contract normally, an extract of the whole gland is
useful.
It should be thought of in epilepsy., especially in young children and in youth (when
it should be studied in connection with thyroid and parathyroid) The whole
gland should be used.
Extract of the anterior lobe should be thought of in rickets.
Extract of the posterior lobe should be used in diabetes insipid us.
Secretin
This is formed in the cells of the duodenum when they are acted upon by
hydrochloric acid. It passes into the blood rather than along the alimentary
canal.
It activates the intestinal pancreatic secretions. It stimulates the
peristalsis of the intestines and helps to relieve constipation. It is of
benefit in gastro hepatic intestinal or digestive insufficiencies.
It assists in raising the low urea output.
Through its action in assisting intestinal peristalsis it assist in
overcoming constipation and relieving intestinal stasis, fermentation and
putrefaction.
The spleen
It seems to produce leucocytes and lymphocytes during intra uterine
life. It is a part in formation of red cells. Under certain conditions of the
bone marrow this may continue after birth. It is believed that it act as an
activator of the pancreas and stomach by furnishing an internal secretion which
elaborates trypsin.
An extract of the spleen has been employed in the malarial cachexia.It
has been employed in enlargement of the spleen.
Thymus.
It has been employed in certain cases of exophthlmic goiter. When the
thymus is enlarged, in rheumatic arthritis, rachitis and marasmus.
Dried thyroid gland of the sheep is used for the preparation.
It produces anemia, emaciation, muscular weakness, sweating, headache,
nervous tremor of face and limbs, tingling sensations, paralysis etc.
In myxoedema and cretinism it is very effective. It is effective in
Rheumatoid arthritis, infantile wasting, Rickets and delayed union of
fractures. It is very effective in undecended testis in boys. Thyroid weakness
causes decided craving for large amount of sweets. It is of use in psoriasis
and pityriasis rubra.
Arrested development of children. It improves the memory. It is very
useful in goiter, excessive obesity, mammary tumour and uterine fibroid. Great
weakness and hunger yet looses flesh. Noctural enuresis ,agalactea and vomiting
of pregnancy.
Patient is chilly. It is also effects in various type of oedema, because
it is a powerful diuretic.
A state of puffiness and obesity may be regarded as the keynote
indication of thyroidinum. Among the pathogenetic effect of thyroidinum optic
neuritis and accommodative asthenopia have been observed. It has been noted in
the action of growth of hair. T is falling of hair from scalp and abnormal
growth in other parts. According to Dr. Burnett brawny swelling is the key note
of thyroidinum.
[Ghanshyam Kalathia]
A discussion of sarcodes from the perspective of Sankaran’s Sensation,
along with two illustrative cases.
The sarcodes are prepared from healthy tissue or secretions, so they
have the potential of that particular tissue. If we understand that
potentiality of tissue then we can easily prescribe the sarcode. With this
article I’ll try to make you familiar with sarcodes as a group.
First I’ll present two cases and then discuss sarcodes in detail.
Cases:
The illustrating cases are
taken and analyzed using Dr. Sankaran’s method of levels and sensation.
D: = Doctor, author; P: =
patient; HG = hand gesture. My comments are in (brackets).
Case 1
First consultation on 27th may 2007
A student of commerce, a 24 year old man came to my clinic complaining
of allergic rhinitis and his verbatim comments are as follows…
D: Tell me what’s your problem?
P: I have attacks of continued sneezing since 2 years. It is after
environmental change or after exposure to dust. I think my problem is purely
allergic.
D: Tell me more about this allergy.
P: Allergy means you have some problem, I mean you missed something in
your body or you have adverse effect of something or you are sensitive to it.
In my allergy constant sneezing is there, and because of sneezing I can’t walk,
talk or do anything properly.
D: Can you tell me more about this allergy?
P: Allergy means your body has not capacity to bear a particular thing.
Any waste or anything like… virus, bacteria, chemicals that don’t like your
body. You have some deficiency that’s why this allergy happens. Your body has
not capacity to bear it.
(I want to know about
local details of the complaint, but he is describing the allergy only according
to his way, so it’s a flow with him)
D: What do you mean by deficiency?
P: You have any kind of deficiency and from that your body can’t fight with
bacteria and finally your capacity is going low. (HG-he moves both his palms
slowly towards the ground.)
D: Capacity?
P: Your body’s bearing capacity is your capacity and your body’s working
capacity is your power. If sometime things go beyond your power, then your body
cannot bear it.
D: Tell me more about power?
P: You are taking food, right! From the food your body gets energy
(HG-he uplift his both palms.) and energy will give you power and power is
essential to maintain working of all organisms. (HG-he makes circular action
with right hand.)
D: Tell me more about energy?
P: Energy will bring the balance. (HG- he balances both his palms
horizontally.) Energy keeps the balance of blood supply and balance of all
organs. It supplies whatever any system requires. The energy is generated from
digestion of food and by the help of energy you do all your work. If energy is
not enough, you feel weakness and you start wasting gradually.
(At this stage I believe that all this information is a product of his thinking,
but he talks spontaneously and fluently ‘as if he is giving lecture on this
topic’. Later I got to understand why he spoke this way. According to Dr. Rajan
Sankaran this thing is tuning as “non-human song in the human being”. Let me
explain: He talks about something other than himself, I mean he talks ‘as if he
is observer of this topic’. He didn’t realize he was talking about himself… so
capacity, power, deficiency, energy these are non-human words of his story.)
D: Can you tell me about this weakness?
P: If you don’t take food then you feel a weakness and your body is not
able to do any work and then your good heath is gone and finally your balance
is disturbed.
D: Can you talk about this balance of the body? (He’s following
beautifully so I do not change the questions)
P: The body can generate (HG-he makes circular action with right hand.)
the energy and that generated energy will give all requirements (HG-he moves
his right hand from right to left.) to all systems and at that time there is
not any deficiency. Energy also gives an immunity and immunity fights all
foreign particles.
D: What is immunity?
P: In your body you have some natural forces, and those forces are
created (HG-he makes circular action with right hand.) from foods by the body.
Forces are required for protection of all systems, otherwise allergens are
killing you.
D: Tell more about forces.
P: They are naturally created (HG-he makes a circular action with his
right hand.) and automatically doing their work. (HG-he moves his right hand
from right to left.) They give protection. They have potential for all
deficiencies. That is an arrangement of nature, you can’t change them. That was
generated in the body and destroyed in the body. (HG-his hands flow apart.)
They work non-stop, everywhere and any moment in the body. You can’t see them
or feel them. They are there and work automatically, naturally.
(He does “circular action with his right hand” repetitively when
describing ‘maintaining’, ‘creating’, ‘generating’. So I think this HG is his
energy pattern so I ask the next question for HG.)
D: When you talk about ‘energy being created’ you do a movement like
this (I do same HG.,What do you mean by this action?
P: I mean energy is created in your body (HG-circular action) and then
energy does work (HG-flow right to left) in your body according to your body’s
requirement and then that energy is automatically destroyed (HG-falling apart)
in the body.
D: Tell more about energy being created, working and being destroyed? (I
do all three HG)
P: I think this kind of process happens in everyone’s body. Some energy
or force is generated in the body and it works spontaneously according to rules
and regulation and at one point it is destroyed in the body. Then your body
creates new energy, then it works and after some time it is destroyed and this
cycle goes on and on.
(He beautifully describing one process, like…
something created, worked and then destroyed in the body. Everything happens in
the body so I think his described process is a
“physiological process” and my experience from
other cases is that the sensation in the form of “physiological process” is the
sensation of sarcodes.)
D: Now tell me about your nature? (I have confidence now, so I change
the topic because I want to relate the above process in another area of his
life.)
P: I like a calmer environment. I don’t like noises. I like a little
cold in the environment. I like to do my all work according to a timetable. I
don’t like dirtiness. I prefer cleanliness. If things are according to my way,
I feel satisfied.
D: Just talk about satisfaction.
P: If I finish my routines regularly I feel satisfied. If the
environment is friendly I feel really fresh. You can’t get tired and your
energy is pouring in your body. You feel excited; do this…. body feels
balanced. Your systems works automatically without applying too much mind. At
that time you want to do more and more work. Your body can get rejuvenation
(navchetana). Your all systems feel fully healthy. (He pauses for some time.)
From work you get experience; from experience you do new work more
easily and from that you balance your systems spontaneously. In the same way
our body also make balances, with the help of some kind of processes like
digestion, metabolism and finally these all processes give you life-governing
force or energy. This all happens cyclically and automatically.
(In the other area of
his life he also describes “physiological processes” with the help of the
following words…’Balance’, ‘Work’, ‘Digestion’, ‘Metabolism’, ‘Energy’,
‘Everything happen cyclically and automatically’. So this is the confirmation
of a sarcode. We’ll discuss this latter on.)
D: What food do you like, dislike?
P: I like sweets too much and I always want a balanced diet. One thing I
want to tell you doctor, is that after eating I require some food in the form
of sugar every one to two hours.
D: Can you tell me about your dreams?
P: I never get dreams.
Plan: He describe spontaneously his perceptions of energy, so I think
his state is at the delusion level. I give him RNA 1mk.
Analysis of case-1
We get his story in the form of ‘physiological processes’ so the sarcode
kingdom is confirmed. I want a remedy that has the potential of “created,
maintained and destroyed”. At this stage I didn’t have any idea of the remedy,
so I’m going through all sarcode remedies and I get one beautiful reference
from Murphy’s Materia Medica… “Hunger with need to nibble throughout the day,
especially sugar (written in bold)” for RNA. But what about the above mentioned
process? I checked in a textbook of physiology, medical dictionary and RNA
related information on the internet and I got some references which made
everything clear. These are the references…
“RNA is nucleic acid that controls protein synthesis in all living
cells. In the cell there are three types of RNA…Messenger RNA, transfer RNA and
ribosomal RNA”. Here I am impressed with word “synthesis” because it is a
process of creating something.
“The RNA control protein synthesis” …it means RNA helps to create the
proteins from amino acids and maintain protein’s work by controlling its
biochemical activities. Whenever any cell requires heat or energy, RNA destroy
proteins, so protein turns into amino acids and this process gives heat and
energy to the cell.
Some important references about proteins…
“Proteins are a source of heat and energy to the body and they are
essential for growth, the building of new tissue, repair of injured tissue and
maintenance of body weight.”
“Protein has the ability to elicit an immune response when coupled with
a hapten.”
Follow up after one month
D: How are you?
P: I’m fine. There have not been any sneezing attacks from one month and
energetically I also feel well. Since I started your medicine, I feel fresh in
the morning.
D: How is your desire for food even after eating?
P: My eating habit is changed now, but mentally I feel that I want
something in the form of sweets. Taking something every one or two hours is
changed now. I take some sweet one hour after eating and then I require
nothing.
Plan: He has not had any attack of allergic cold and he is physically
feeling good, so repetition of dose is not required.
Follow up after 6 months
D: How do you feel now?
P: Good, I have not any problem regarding allergy, and mood wise I also
feel good.
D: From 6 months ago to today what difference do you see?
P: At that time I was very narrow minded, I mean I was very time bonded.
At that time I was like… “You do something at any cost”, but now I decide
before I do anything if a situation requires that I do it. In short, I’m free
from that narrow mindedness. I mean I’m free from “Do work according to time
table” and “health consciousness”. Before I took food according to its
nutritional values, but now I take any food, whatever I have in our house.
Plan: I think mentally he is free from his perception and till today he
had not any physical complaint, so I didn’t repeat the medicine. (In total he
required two doses of 1mk, the last dose on 3rd September 2007)
(After 7 months, he has not come to my clinic,
but since I’m his family’s doctor, one or another of his family comes to me, so
I’m indirectly in contact with him. He is still alright till today)
Case # 2
First consultation on 11th September 2007
27 years old female lab chemist came to me for treatment of falling hair
and pimples. These are her verbatim comments:
D: Tell me about your problem
P: I suffer from constipation since long ago and I also have pimples and
my hair falls out. With the pimples, black heads and dots are the main thing.
These complaints all increase during my menses. I have more oily skin so I
think this is the cause of pimples.
D: What’s bothering you most?
P: Constipation. Because of constipation my routine gets disturbed. You
don’t like to do anything and that’s why your regularity is disturbed. I think
these skin related complaints are because of hormones.
D: Tell me more about skin related complaints.
P: I want an attractive face… I mean spotless skin is important for your
life and career. If you have good hair growth then you feel good, you feel
confident and you feel that you have a good personality.
D: Talk more about personality?
P: If you have knowledge it is ok, but you must be lucrative and by this
way you make good impact on others. I think all my complaints happen because of
my irregular lifestyle. If your blood purification is not perfect, then you get
skin complaints and finally all things depend on your cleanliness.
D: Tell me about irregular lifestyle?
P: If your diet is irregular, I mean you eat outside too much or don’t
maintain body cleanliness or don’t take a bath regularly then your body’s
purification system gets disturbed. Your habit of sleeping, drinking and eating
is not perfect or regular then also your purification system is disturbed and
disturbed purification produce skin problems.
D: Tell me more about body purification?
P: You get ill frequently by imperfect purification (HG- she makes fists
with both palms.) and finally you get weakness. You do any little work and get
tired or your eyesight gets weak. You have hair loss and pimples.
D: What is imperfect purification?
P: Imperfect purification means…from your body excretory materials are
not totally discarded and because of that there’s some impurity stuck (HG- she
makes fists with both palms.) inside your blood. In the constipation also some
materials stay inside. (HG-makes fists) If your system is not regularly
discarding waste (HG-she open up both fists and hands falls apart) then that
bad materials stay (HG-makes fists) in your blood and that impurity produce the
effects on your skin. But you are regular in your routine the problems are
solved automatically; I mean regularity is important for maintenance of your
health.
(She makes forcefully two
fists when she describes “imperfect purification” and she opens up her both
fist and hands move outward when she describes “discarding waste” so I think
this is the energy pattern in her and I ask about HG for more confirmation.)
D: When you describe ‘impurity’ you do some actions with your hands.
What you mean by this (I do same HG)?
P: By impurity some unnecessary products are staying (HG-both fists) in
your blood and that will produce the problems. Purification by excretory
systems and filtration are essential for your life and health.
D: Excretory systems? (New word)
P: With the help of excretory systems the body removes (HG-hands falls
apart) waste from blood, but if purification system is disturbed then some
impurity stays (HG-fists) inside your body then impurity circulates in your
blood and may produce problems. So process of filtration and purification by
excretory system is essential for maintaining the health.
(She describes “purification” and “filtration” as
a process of excretory system, so this is clearly a sensation of sarcode as
‘physiological processes’.)
D: What is your personality, your nature? (Now we do confirmation of
same sensation in other areas of her life.)
P: Whenever I’m fully satisfied from my work or from my life, I have a
good mood. At that time I take everything positively. When I was satisfied and
anything is the wrong way, I take it as a challenge and I try to solve it with
my best efforts.
D: Tell me more about self-satisfaction?
P: Suppose I do hard work and I’m getting a full result. At that time my
confidence is on top. At that time I’m fully satisfied and I try to make
impossible things possible. If instead, from my hard work I didn’t get a
result, then I get stuck (HG-fists) in it. I want always to have easy flow
(HG-make flow with hands) of work, otherwise I get frustration (HG-fists). In
my whole life I want a certain type of clarity. I mean I must be clear (HG-flow
of hands) from where I am and where I want to go. If clarity is not there, then
I get frustration (HG-fists).
D: More about clarity and frustration?
P: You want clarity. In future you must know where to go and where to
stop or what you want. This is an easy flow of life (HG-flow). If my way is
fuzzy (HG-fists) then I become frustrated, but if clarity is there, I work with
double force. If anything is full of hope, why not get going?
(Her problem lies between “stuck” and “flow”
and she describe her whole story with the help of the same HG as ‘physiological
processes’, so a sarcode is confirmed.)
D: Can you tell about your dreams?
P: I don’t get any dreams. Actually I’m a heavy sleeper.
D: Please talk about your interests and hobbies?
P: In my life I want to develop new ideas and try to make them true.
This is my hobby.
D: Your likes and dislikes in foods?
P: I like onion, spicy things and potatoes very much. I don’t like all
guts.
D: Any problem related to urine or stool?
P: Yes, very good question, otherwise I forget it. My urine smells so
strong that if any drop remain on my under wear this will smell a lot and I
feel embarrassed when I sit with others. You know doctor, I have to pass urine
every 20 to 30 minutes.
Plan: She has strong and clear perception that her complaint is due to
impurity, so I think she is at the delusion level and I give Urea pura. 1mk
Analysis of case-2
She clearly talks about the process of ‘purification and filtration’ so
I’m sure about a sarcode and she describe that all processes happen in the ‘excretory
system’, so she required any medicine that has potential regarding
‘purification and filtration’ of excretory system. Urea pura passed through all
above mentioned processes in the excretory system, so I prescribe her Urea.
I got the following references for Urea…
Reference from Murphy’s M.M.:
frequent urging to urinate with complaints of much sediment in urine.
Reference from internet… Urea
is a colorless, odorless white prismatic crystal that is the chief nitrogenous
constituent of urine. It is formed in the liver from ammonia derived from amino acids by deamination. Then it is
excreted because it is waste (un-necessary) product.
Follow up after two months
D: How are you?
P: I have less problems regarding hair falling and now I’m not suffering
from constipation, but the pimples are still not improving.
D: Complaints regarding urine?
P: Thank you very much doctor. My desire to urinate in short intervals
is changed, now I go one or two hourly. And the most important thing is now my
urine does not smell too strong.
D: Now generally how do you feel?
P: I feel energetically better and I do my routine regularly. I think
constipation is gone so my morning routines get regular and because of
regularity most of my problems are solved. But doctor when will you make my
face free from pimples?
Plan: She does well with Urea, so no repetition only SL
Follow up after nine months
She is doing well with Urea till today and in total required two doses
of 1mk. These are her comments:
“I’m regular in my routines and office work”
“Initially I’m pushy towards my work, but now I do work according to its
demand”
“I believe… now I’m not demanding that ‘all work must be easy going’”
Plan: No repetition of dose.
Follow up after one and half year
D: What you see as the difference now and before treatment?
P: When I was coming initially to you at that time I was focusing on my
goals… one after another, that is changed now completely. Now I take interest
in other things also. Initially I was always searching for new things,
otherwise I got bored, but now I’m get settling down. Now I can enjoy
everything instead of only doing one thing after another.
D: Any complaints?
P: Really not anything is bothering me. Internally now I feel calmness.
Thanks a lot from my heart doctor; you make me free from that all nuisance.
The sarcode is prepared from healthy tissue or a part and that tissue
and has a useful and healthy function. So the question arises, why would
anybody require a remedy made from useful and healthy tissues? The answer is,
because when the whole being responds as if it were that one part, this can be
considered as disease and that person requires a sarcode (The Sensation in
Homoeopathy, page: 681).
My understanding of sarcodes is as follows: If we understand the
behaviour of healthy tissue we easily understand sarcodes. The function and
usefulness is a healthy tissue’s quality. Healthy tissue functions in an
appropriate and perfect way… no hyper-function, no hypo-function. To work
properly, perfectly and appropriately is its aim.
A sarcode is prepared from healthy tissue, so it has a direct relation
to physiology. The physiological process, phenomenon or function is the
sensation of a sarcode.
So in any patient requiring a sarcode you get the issue about
‘physiological process’ and the above two cases give you a beautiful
illustration of how ‘The physiological process’ is their central issue. The
sarcode patient’s language can be confused with the minerals because they
sometime speak about functions, but a mineral’s function is related to
structure. The mineral sensation expresses as… “I’m missing something” or “I’m
losing something”. The sarcode function is expressed as…”I must function
properly, perfectly, appropriately and as it is required, neither less nor
more”.
Some sensation words for sarcodes:
Body, Nutrition, Energy, Filtration, Metabolism, Digestion, Power,
Strength, Balance, Co-ordination, Cooperation, Handling, Caring, Immunity,
Deficiency, Capacity, Generated, Created, Maintained, Destroyed, Health, Food,
Weakness, Wasting, Blood circulation, Healthy systems, Organs, Works according
to rules and regulation, Everything happen cyclically and automatically.
[Ghanshyam Kalathia]
The Language of Sarcodes
As classical homoeopaths, we can recognize how patients needing a
mineral remedy
Talk… they all have a particular style. Similarly all other kingdoms
have their own specific pattern of expression. In this article I am trying to
give a hint of how patients needing a sarcode can be recognized by their
language and expression. In homoeopathy we have the following sarcode remedies:
Adrenalinum,
Cholesterinum,
DNA.
Histaminum.
Insulinum.
Oophorinum,
Orchitinum,
Pancreatinum.
Parathyroidinum.
Pepsinum,
Pituitaria glandula anterior.
Pituitaria glandula posterior.
Pituitaria glandula.
RNA.,
Thyroidinum
But we seldom use them as frequently as other kingdom’s remedies,
because our knowledge of them is slight. My aim is to make the sarcodes more
familiar.
The illustrating case is taken and analyzed using Dr. Sankaran’s method
of levels and sensation.
Prior to this case I did not know anything about sarcodes besides that
Dr. Sankaran said about them in a seminar that if “a healthy tissue (in
particular) takes over the whole being of a patient, that points to a sarcode.”
(Reference: The Sensation in Homoeopathy, page: 681).
A Case of Cortisonum
(D: = Doctor, myself. P: = Patient. HG = Hand Gesture. My comments and
my thought = Analysis
From start to end I did not understand anything regarding which medicine
to give, but I knew - being quite confident about Sankaran’s method - that if I
understand the energy and sensation of the case I will finally find the right
remedy.
First consultation on 23rd March 2007
A fair-skinned lady, 27 years old, soft-voiced, pharmaceutical
laboratory technician.
D: Tell me what’s your problem?
P: A cold, a running nose; in the morning I get tired. I have to go out
to blow my nose frequently and I feel some cough also…this goes on and on and
on… once it stops it starts again. There is little constipation also and during
menses I have severe pain and my periods are mostly irregular… either early or
late. It is not perfect in any way, but after periods I become all right. I
even feel better than before.
[This is level 1 and 2: Name and fact]
D: What’s bothering you the most? (I ask this question because the chief
complaint is an entry point into the case.)
P: First thing is this cold and second is my sensitive skin. I feel
complete dryness and if I apply a cream for the dryness of the skin some little
reddish pimples come up. For a long time my body has been oversensitive. (My
observation: she smiles saying this sentence as if it is a very special thing
for her.)
[She has two main complaints, the first is a
cold and the second is sensitive skin. But sensitivity is common to both and is
not related to local complaints only, but is related to the whole body. So the
case is generalized now.]
D: I am not following you, so please tell about over sensitiveness?
P: Whatever you do it reacts suddenly, even for a simple thing. As if an
adverse reaction is coming. For example my grandmamma is sensitive, she feels
bad immediately… sensitive people think in one way only. They become
disappointed very easily.
[This comes out of the blue. I never heard this
kind of story. The information is not clearly related to any kingdom, so I
think it is source language
(level 6c or sensation c; a. is kingdom, b.
sub-kingdom, c. source)].
D: Can you tell me more about sensitive nature? [The case is going
directly deeper to the sensation level, so I think emotions (level 3) and
images (level 4) are very few.]
P: They (she means sensitive people) feel up and down very fast, their
reaction is immediate. Suppose they saw a television serial, the normal persons
sees it for the sake of enjoyment. But these people get much more involved in
it and their reactions are strong.
[What is sensitivity? Sensitivity means
reactions are coming very fast and immediate. This is related to source, a substance
that is available in nature.]
D: Tell me more about reactions?
P: Whatever happens they react to them. For any action the reaction is
coming. They are not tackling all situations; others are required to handle
them… Suppose if any relative has died, at that time she reacts so much that
the people are handling her rather than the diseased person. Sensitivity is a
good thing, but if it crosses the limit then it has a bad effect.
[Others are required to handle it…this is
another quality of the substance.]
D: I understand, please continue.
P: Immediate, fast reaction is coming (HG… as if hands are flowing
horizontally with speed), not only for bad things, for good things also. They
take every thing to heart very fast.
[HG is energy (level 6) of the case. Anything
described without energy is not the vital sensation. The sensation must have
energy.]
D: What is their immediate reaction?
P: To immediately give an answer or do any action, like any reaction is
coming after action.
D: What is action and reaction? (I want some specificity.)
P: If you do anything, that’s your action. Suppose you take a bath with
cold water, that is your action and if after that you feel cold, that is your
reaction.
[Means sensitivity has fast and immediate
action and reaction.]
D: What do you mean by sensitivity? (Now I have a command on the case,
and know where I am in the case… so I ask a question, from where I start.)
P: They get (she means sensitive people) easily happy or sad in a particular
situation. Everybody is sensitive, but normal people have the stability and do
not become immediately happy or sad.
D: What’s stability? (Stability is a new word.)
P: They do not become this or this
(HG: hands fall in one direction then in other),
which means they do not become unstable easily. They do not react very fast.
[This HG is most characteristic (peculiar) of
the case. Some more sensations are stability and instability. Instability means
you react very fast.]
D: What is unstable?
P: They cannot handle a situation. You cannot rely on them. You can’t
judge what they do. They do anything at any time… In relation to things, they
are not durable. The thing is not stable, gets cracked immediately…You cannot
trust it. You can use it as an alternative source. You cannot rely on it.
D: Go on, I get it.
P: They cannot handle a situation. They cannot understand to do a
particular thing.
They are naïve. They are not practical. They are not doing anything
perfectly. The outcome of the work of sensitive people is not 100%. Mostly they
fail.
[Practical is opposite of unstable and
oversensitive.]
D: Who is a practical person? (She talks steadily in the third person,
so I do not want to disturb her rhythm, that’s why I ask who rather than what.)
P: They (she means practical persons) handle a situation without
becoming too sensitive. They are 100% sure about their action. They do every
thing properly. They are proper and perfect everywhere in their life. They do
perfectly, they act perfectly, they walk perfectly and they react perfectly.
[That means in order not to become sensitive
and unstable you must become perfect and proper.]
D: Talk about your dreams? (As she talked a lot about this issue, I now
ask about something completely different.)
P: Dreams are so many, but they are always irrelevant. I am confused
mostly after waking. In the dreams I feel as if in a different world.
D: Different world? (To push her gently further I ask the question as if
I’m not get understanding it.)
P: I can’t remember correctly, but they are not related to your real
life. It has not any connection to your life.
D: Connection? (Connection is a new word.)
P: Connection is joining two different things. In connection both things
have a link.
D: Joining the two things means what?
P: Means two things are completely different and they join together,
they have connection, a link. The things are different but the link is the
same. Link is connecting to each other.
(HG all fingers folded in centre and both hands
facing each other - I ask about HG, but she can’t answer properly.)
[Two different things are connected and join
together by Link. This is source language directly related to the substance.]
D: Tell me about your nature?
P: By nature I’m a calm person. I don’t like disputes and naturally I’m
not a mixing type.
(She means she prefers solitude). If I mix-up then after some time there
is not any problem, but I can’t easily approach anybody. And I’m practical… I
mean I handle anything beautifully.
D: Handle means?
P: I mean handling or take care of… If you handle the thing haphazardly
you lose the thing very fast.
D: Handling or caring means?
P: Suppose you have a thing and you take care properly or appropriately,
that is handling or caring. But if you are not handling properly the things are
destroyed very fast.
Suppose this is my mobile phone and I use it roughly then it gets
destroyed. In case of relationships also, if you cannot handle properly or
behave haphazardly, you lose the relationships. But if you take care properly
and perfectly they last a long time. I mean the durability is increased.
[For a long time you handle and take care of…
or you must do it properly and appropriately otherwise you lose it…. This is
SARCODE language, which I explain later on.]
D: Your interests and hobbies?
P: I like TV. And needle work is my favorite. I like to make the best
things from the west (she means non-useful things). This is innovative work.
Every time I make new things, something different from normal.
D: What do you like on TV?
P: I like fantasy movies; I mean they are not possible in real life…
e.g. science fiction pictures or technology pictures.
[This information comes a second time. In
dreams also she goes into a different world (fantasy world).]
D: What do you like in food?
P: Spicy, I eat everything but food must be tasty.
D: Which seasons do you like?
P: I don’t like sun and winter. My skin becomes dry and scaly in the cold
and becomes red in the sun heat. Some immediate rashes come after heat or cold.
Prescription: (I do not have 1MK) Cortisonum 200C
[I think her
imagination is powerful, which means she is at delusion level so I want to give
1MK.]
[She created a beautiful image of a sensitive
person and from that we get all the sensations.]
Follow-up after one month
D: How do you feel now?
P: Good, energetically much better, but this allergy is tremendous. The
sneezing, running nose is always there.
D: Energetically better means?
P: After waking in the morning you feel fresh and energetic, right… That
kind of energy and freshness I have now, but when I have this allergic attack I
feel loose and mood-less (meaning without energy).
D: What’s energetic?
P: You do any work, fast… fast… As you wake up you start routine
immediately. At that time you are applying your full force to do a work, and
your total energy is working to complete a work.
D: PMS, periods?
P: I finished my period, but all complaints are as they were. Also
constipation is increased.
Prescription: Cortisonum 1MK one dose. (She has not any major changes so
I change the potency.)
Follow-up after three months
D: How you feel now?
P: Fine, I feel dramatically well. My skin is completely better and constipation
is gone.
First important thing is my periods are now on regular time, but this
allergy is still there. At the time of allergic attack I become hyper, and I
get angry very fast.
D: What is hyper?
P: Hyper means anything much higher.
D: What kind of dreams you get now?
P: Not any specific, some sentimental only.
D: Tell me about sentimental?
P: Too emotional. Immediately, very fast you get influenced… Like… you
become happy and sad very fast. Sentimental people ʼs speed to get happy
or sad is much higher than normal people.
Prescription: no dose, only Sac Lac. (She has the same complaint at
sensation level, but the medicine works beautifully on other levels, so I don’t
repeat the dose and my plan is to wait and watch.)
Follow-up after nine months
D: How do you feel now?
P: Good…no sneezing, no cold, nothing.
D: What is the difference between today and nine months before?
P: Initially I jumped from one moment to the next very fast without much
thinking and previously I got involved in a particular situation very easily,
but now I can learn how to see things without being oversensitive. (Rather than
projecting, now she accepts that “she is oversensitive”. I think this is the
cure. Not being stuck at any level and flowing with a situation is a sign of
health.) (Then after one and a half years she is fine, she has no complaint in
regard to allergy, constipation and menses. She got three doses of Cortisonum
1MK in total.)
Analysis of case
After completing the history of this case I became confused… is this a
mineral case?
Or is it anything else? The central issue of this case is
oversensitivity/instability but not as in plants where it usually concerns one
sensation and the exactly opposite reaction (active and passive reaction). Here
it is more like a mineral where it concerns the presence or absence of a
symptom - oversensitivity in this case. Her style of talking is like a mineral
but different. Mineral patients speak in terms of lacking something in the
structure, here it is stability. Once they have it they are complete. So it is
clear to me that her language is unlike mineral cases and as per my knowledge
of all other kingdoms this case is neither related to animal, plant, nosode nor
imponderabilia. That is why I considered a sarcode and then I referred to all
the sarcode remedies and finally I found beautiful references in Murphy’s
Materia Medica and my confidence was increased when I saw similar references
from the medical dictionary as well.
The references are as follow:
A) References from Murphy’s material medica for Cortisonum. (Important
words written in bold)
Psoric and allergic constitutions
General lack of reaction, decrease of the organic reactional capacity.
(Opposite to her state)
Better from menstrual flow
< in the morning, worse from heat or sun stroke
Unstable mood, alternating between euphoria and melancholy. (This is
related to her state)
Euphoria, quick change of mood. (This is related to fast and immediate
action)
Irritability when bus is going too slow. (This is the pace of her state)
B) References from medical dictionary for cortisone and corticosteroids.
A hormone of the cortex of the adrenal gland
It acts upon carbohydrate metabolism and influences the nutrition and
growth of tissues
To the class of steroids belong sterols e. g. cholesterol, bile acids,
adrenal hormones, sex hormones and vitamin D
Corticosteroids are largely used in the treatment of allergic reactions
Corticosteroids do not initiate cellular or enzymatic activity, but
permit many biochemical reactions to proceed at optimal rates
Used as an anti-inflammatory agent and in the treatment of Addison’s
disease
Negative effect is they can reactivate latent infections and mask acute
disorders
Analysis according to levels
Nowadays I analyze all my cases according to levels:
A - Level 1 and 2, name and fact
Allergy, sensitive skin, menses
irregular, constipation
B - Level 3, Emotions
Anger and oversensitivity
C - Level 4, Delusion
I’m practical and stable
D - Level 5, Sensation.
a) The sensation that is related to kingdom
(sarcode)
Functioning properly, perfect
and appropriate
Some words… handling/caring,
100% outcome
b) The sensation that is related to a
subkingdom
This is not clear in this case
c) The sensation related to substance (source)
Oversensitivity with fast and immediate action
and reaction
Instability with someone
required to handle her
Two different things are
connected and join together with a link (I cannot get any information about
this sensation. Not in materia medica, not in provings, and not on internet.
So I think
this is my limitation!)
E - Level 6 Energy; pace, speed, movement and color
Hands flow horizontally with
speed when she was describing action and reaction of oversensitivity. The
action and reaction is fast and immediate
Hands fall in one direction and
then in another when she was describing instability.
All fingers folded in centre and
both hands facing each other when she wasdescribing two different things
connected with a link
Information on sarcodes
Initially I didn’t know anything about sarcodes, but nowadays I gain
knowledge from some cases and if I get a chance, I’ll present those cases also.
My understanding of sarcodes is as follows… the sarcode is prepared from
healthy tissue or a part. That tissue has a useful and healthy function. So the
question arises, why would anybody require a remedy made from useful and
healthy tissues? The answer is, because when the whole being responds as if it
were that one part, this can be considered as disease and that person requires
a sarcode. If we understand the behavior of healthy tissue we easily understand
sarcodes. The function and usefulness is a healthy tissue’s quality. Healthy
tissue functions in an appropriate and perfect way… non hyper function, no hypo
function. To work properly, perfectly and appropriately is its aim.
A sarcode is prepared from healthy tissue so it has a direct relation to
physiology. The physiological process, phenomenon or function is the sensation
of a sarcode. Most of the words related to physiology are sarcode sensation
words.
For example:
Nutrition, Energy, Filtration, Metabolism,
Digestion, Power, Strength, Balance, Co-ordination,
Cooperation, Handling, Caring, etc
Now let’s look at the Cortisonum case in regard to sarcode sensations. A
Cortisonum patient believes that if she cannot become practical or perfect or
appropriate then she becomes oversensitive and unstable. Or in other words, if
I function (act, talk, walk, react) perfectly, I will not become unstable and
oversensitive. This is the disease in her. In this case perfectly, properly,
appropriately are sarcode words and those words in regard to function (act,
talk, walk, react) is the pattern or language of this sarcode.
All sensation words of a sarcode are in regard to physiological
functions, and these include acting, reacting, talking, walking, sleeping,
digestion, metabolism, filtration, excretion, etc.
I give some examples of sarcode cases whose language confused me. The
patient was talking as if he read a book of physiology. These are some
extracted sentences from that case:
“You have some deficiency and because of that
you have this allergy.”
“Your body has not capacity to bear that toxic
material.”
“Energy is created from food and that energy
gives you power. Power made immunity and immunity is required for fighting the
allergens.”
“Energy will bring the balance. Energy is
generated from your food and that energy will give you whatever your body requires.”
…this is the language of sarcode. In minerals you also find sensation in
regard to function, but a mineral’s function is related to structure. The
mineral sensation expresses as… I’m missing something or I’m losing something.
While sarcode function is expressed as…I must function properly, perfectly,
appropriately and as it is required, neither less nor more.
I believe, this is not a complete work in any way; so your feedback is
required to strengthen me. If you have any case or proving please share it,
because sharing is the important aspect of growing. I believe that I developed
because of my group Discovery Forum (run by Dr. Pravin Marselin). In meetings,
we share our ideas and that makes us free from prejudice.
[Ghanshyam Kalathia]
Exploring sarcodes: a very hurried man
D. = Ghanshyam Kalathia; P: = patient; HG = hand gesture; my comments
are in (brackets).
First consultation 4th, June 2007
A 35 year old businessman came to my clinic for treatment of allergic
bronchitis; his verbatim report is as follows.
D. Tell me all about your problem?
P: I have a problem of asthma; during asthmatic attacks there is a
wheezing sound. This problem is my routine problem and I have become used to
it.
(Observation: He blinked his eyelids very fast
and forcefully.)
D. Tell me more about your asthma.
P: One and half years beforehand, I had severe acidity. At that time, I
wasn’t even able to take any food, so I took some herbal preparations and I
recovered completely from acidity. After that, my health was fine, but suddenly
one night, I woke up due to difficulty breathing; I became scared from the
wheezing sound of my respiration and my family members also got scared to see
me in that situation, so they took me to the hospital immediately. After half
an hour, I became totally normal but since then, I get these attacks every ten
to fifteen days. I take so many therapies but nothing is very effective, so I
came to you.
(This is the level of names and facts.)
D. What did you feel during the first attack? (shifting his level from
fact to feeling.)
P: At that time, I got really scared, with much perspiration, but now, I
have nothing to get scared of because I know that this wheezing happens due to
a narrowing of my respiration tube. Almost all asthma patients have the same
problems. Asthma is the enemy of sleep: during deep sleep, I suddenly had
breathing problems
(HG - he makes a fist with great speed.)
and that arouses me because air is not able to come out of my lungs. I
think my lungs get blocked and then they give orders to my brain and
immediately brain awakens me.
(His speech is very fast.)
D. I understand, please go on.
P: During these attacks, I feel some heaviness in my chest as if my
system is not ready to remove gases, so my breath neither comes in nor goes out;
if at that time I take an asthalin (etophylin) inhaler then my system becomes
normal. Since this asthma, I also have complaints of weakness - I feel that my
legs start to get weaker.
D. Please tell me about weakness?
P: I am really scared to become paralyzed. I feel as if the functioning
of my whole system is going to stop. I believe that the cells of my brain are
dying. Doctors tell me that it is
nothing serious, but if I have nothing wrong, why would I get all these
complaints?
D. What do you feel in your legs?
P: Suddenly my legs become loose (HG - he hangs his palm downward and
oscillates it) as if there is not any power in them. It is as though my legs
are sluggish, with no movement.
(HG -hanging). I think
that the activity and the blood supply of my brain become sluggish.
(His talking pattern is in the form of ‘as if’:
that means these all are his perceptions, but they are still at a local level.
With the next question, I try to make them generalized.)
D. Forget about your body; please tell me what is ‘sluggish’?
(‘Sluggish’ has been mentioned more than twice).
P: Sluggish means there is not any power in you. Anything becoming
totally loose (HG - hanging) is sluggish. An altered blood supply in your brain
makes you sluggish. Blood makes you powerful, otherwise you become totally
loose (HG - hanging) as if you are a plastic bag filled up with water.
(He shifted from ‘I’ to ‘You,’ that means he’s
now generalizing.)
D. Tell me more about ‘sluggish’ and ‘loose’?
P: Sluggish means it is not paralysis, but you have little or no
movement. Your power is completely drained out. The experience of sluggishness
is the same as when you have severe dehydration: in dehydration your body
becomes totally loose (HG -hanging).
(He talk about ‘Experience,’ that means he is
now at sensation level. He hangs his palm downward and makes very slow
oscillatory movement when he describes sluggish
repetitively, so I ask the next questions about
HG.)
D. When you talk about sluggishness you make some hand gestures, what is
your experience of this? (I make the same HG).
P: Sluggish means you have very low blood pressure and it is not
possible to move (HG - hanging) anything in your body. Your movement is because
of your tone. Your blood has all kinds of bio-chemicals that keep your tone up.
(HG - he makes a tight fist). If there is any alteration in your bio-chemicals
then your body loses its tone very soon.
D. Bio-chemicals? (New word)
P: I mean the contents of blood. In the blood, we have different kind of
contents like cells, minerals, hormones, proteins, vitamins, etc. But if the
blood’s ingredients are altered, then suddenly, your blood pressure goes down
and from low BP and you feel weakness (HG -hanging). The body maintains all the
contents of blood automatically and many processes are involved in it. So,
finally, blood gives power (HG - he makes a tight fist) to the whole system.
(Here, HG of ‘hanging palm’ and ‘tight fist’
describe his energy pattern and ‘sluggish’, ‘loose’ and ‘tone’ are sensations,
but to which kingdom do these sensations belong? His description “many
processes are involved in maintaining the BP with the help of certain
bio-chemicals” makes me think of sarcodes because ‘blood’, ‘processes’ and
‘bio-chemicals’ are words from physiology; my experience from other cases is
that any sensation relating to physiology is a sarcode sensation.)
D. Now, tell me about your nature? (I want confirmation of sensations in
other areas of his life.)
P: I’m a jittery kind of person, I want everything fast and I can’t bear
waiting. Sometimes, I start fighting when something doesn’t happen my way. If I
don’t find a solution then, I become restless because I want to solve
everything very fast. When I chase any problem, I always go to the roots and I
correct them very quickly.
D. Tell me more about ‘I want all solutions’?
P: If you don’t find a solution then you are gone. If you drop down when
fighting, then your opponent can overpower you. If you don’t have any power (HG
- tight fist) then what is the difference between you and a water-filled bag?
You are nothing. (HG - hanging)
D. Please describe ‘water-filled bag’?
P: A water-filled bag is
completely loose (HG - hanging). It has no tone and no capacity to do anything.
It’s dropped whatever way you want to drop it, it’s moved whatever way you want
to move it. It has no capacity to stand tight (HG - tight fist).
(Same story of ‘loose’,
‘tight’ and ‘tone’)
D. Please tell me about your dreams?
P: I never remember any dreams.
D. Your interests and hobbies?
P: I am very fond of driving the car at speeds of 120-140 km/h. I never
get tired of driving continuously for 400 to 500 km.
Prescription: Histamine 1MK
Analysis
His description of physiological words ‘blood’, ‘processes’, ‘bio-chemicals’
makes me think of sarcodes, but I don’t know the sensations of ‘sluggish’,
‘loose’, ‘tight’, ‘tone’. I look up all the sarcodes and from the materia
medica come beautiful references.
A. Murphy’s materia medica (Important words are written in bold)
Histamine is a capillary vessel dilator, an arterial vessel constrictor,
a hypertensive in carnivores and herbivores; it constricts the bronchi and
arouses the smooth tissues of the intestine, the uterus and the gastric and
pancreatic salivary secretions and is normally used in the form of Histamine
bi-chlorhydrate, which serves as stock for homeopathic preparations. Histamine
has general asthenia as after physical exertion. Dryness of the mucous
membranes. Feeling of constriction in different parts of the heart. Quivering
and cramping contracture of the muscles. Irritable, susceptible, impatient with
the need to walk up and down. Sensitive to the slightest trifles. Impatient,
restless, with the need to move from place to place aimlessly. Quarrelsome,
melancholic, sad, prostration which disappears by forceful walking. Waiting
makes him particularly nervous, needs to walk up and down. Pain and gastric
constriction when receiving news or remembering a painful experience.
Contracture and muscular twitching of the eyelids and around the eyes.
Spasmodic closing of the eyelids. Allergic and psoric constitutions. Asthma or
chronic bronchitis with lack of air, feeling of oppression or constriction in
the chest. Coughing fits which almost choke him.
B. Synoptic materia medica
"It is a powerful stimulant of gastric secretion, a constrictor of
bronchial smooth muscle and a vasodilator [capillaries and arterioles] that
causes a fall in blood pressure." [Stedman's][See: Jayesh Shah, Hurried
and quarrelsome - Two cases of histamine, Homoeopathic Links, 3/97]
Constriction and Dilatation are the basic potentials of Histamine which
are expressed as ‘tight’ and ‘loose’ in this case, so finally everything makes
sense.
Follow-up after one month
D. How are you?
P: I’m fine. Since taking your medicine, I had two wheezing attacks, but
this time they did not last too long. I took an inhaler and I recovered
immediately.
D. What about other complaints?
P: No other complaints except this asthma. The weakness in my legs is
gone now.
D. Any dreams?
P: I remember one… I had an examination and the bus did not come on
time; I can’t tolerate waiting, so when the bus finally came, I fought
(verbally) with the driver.
Plan: There are not many changes in his emotional state, but he starts
improving at a local level, so wait and watch.
Follow up after six months
His wife calls me one morning to say that her husband has severe
acidity. He is on a liquid diet because he can’t bear simple food. He has
eructations and sometimes he vomits. I advise her to repeat the dose: he
recovers quickly from the acidity.
Follow up after ten months
D. How are you?
P: I’m fine. Thank you. During the last six months, I have not had a
single attack of asthma. Unbelievable! One dose can cure acidity? In the past,
I took 3kg of herbal powders to treat the acidity, but you cured me with only
one dose!
D. This is true; if your medicine is perfectly matched with your state
then sometimes we get miraculous results. Tell me what differences do you notice
between the past and now?
P: I used to be a very jittery kind of person, but now I think first
before making any decision. In the past, I couldn’t wait for anything; I wanted
everything straight away, but now, I first take a look at the situation and
then I act accordingly. These changes make me business-wise also. In short, now
I feel young.
(My observation: he speak slowly now and he has
very little spasmodic blinking.)
Until today, he has not had any complaints; he required four doses of
histamine 1MK in total.
Information on sarcodes
You can find further information about sarcodes in my article “The
Language of sarcodes” in ‘Homeopathic Links 1/10’. These are some selected
paragraphs from the article.
A sarcode is prepared from healthy tissue and that tissue has a useful
and healthy function. Why would anybody require a remedy made from useful and
healthy tissues? When the whole being responds as if it were that one part,
this can be considered as disease and that person requires a corresponding
sarcode (See The Sensation in Homoeopathy, page: 681).A sarcode is prepared
from healthy tissue, so it has a direct relation to physiology. The
physiological process, phenomenon or function is the sensation of a
sarcode.Sarcode patient’s language is often confused with the language of
minerals because they sometimes speak about functions, but a mineral's function
is related to structure. The mineral sensation is expressed as… “I'm missing
something” or “I'm losing something,” while sarcode function is expressed as…“I
must function properly, perfectly, appropriately and as required, neither more
nor less.”
The sarcodes are prepared from healthy tissue or secretion, so they have
the potential of that particular tissue. If we understand that potentiality of tissue
then we can easily prescribe sarcodes.
Let’s look at the Histamine case with regard to potentiality. First, you
ask the question: why does the body require histamine? What is role of
histamine in the body? Histamine is meant for capillary dilatation and arterial
constriction, or dilatation and constriction of smooth muscles, so dilatation
and constriction is the potentiality of histamine. If somebody’s whole being
responds as if he is histamine, then we prescribe histamine and it makes him
more ‘human’.
THE STORY OF SARCODES
First we discuss my journey about how I discovered the general theme of
sarcodes, then we see what is that general theme.
After my first case of sarcode I tried a lot to get a “general theme”
about sarcodes, but I failed; because we have not enough information in our
materia medica and not enough provings. For making generalization of sarcodes I
tried to compare each and every remedy of sarcodes but I didn’t get any common
clue between them, so I got tired and put them aside.
But, fortunately two months latter one interview of a patient (the
patient of RNA… made me think further about generalization of sarcode, because
he talked two hours continuously about “physiology”. So at that time I thought,
why should “body” not be a general theme of sarcode? Ultimately all sarcode
remedies are coming from the “body”! So finally my general understanding became
clear. Let’s discuss the themes step by step.
THE GENERAL THEMES OF SARCODES
First we see Dr. Rajan Sankaran’s view and try to understand his opinion
and then we see how I understand the sarcodes.
• “Any particular cell (tissue/secretion) take over the whole being is
indication of sarcode”.
In one seminar he explains this thing beautifully. His sentence… “For
understanding this in a better way please take as an example that all people in
a state become policemen, then imagine what’s the situation in the state? The
same situation happens in any particular patient of a sarcode where their whole
being becomes like any particular cell (tissue/secretion). I mean, some police
is required in the state but when the whole state becomes police, it creates a
problem and requires treatment”.
• “A sarcode is indicated when its function is seen predominantly in the
case, when it becomes global and affects every thing.” [3]
Here his explanation has one word added ‘function’, which is something
more precise then the previous explanation. So the understanding is when any
cell becomes the whole organism then their expression in human terms is the ‘function’.
When patient’s central issues are related to ‘functions of the body’ then we
think of sarcodes.
Dr. Sankaran’s explanation is basic, but we have to understand that
basis and make it in a kind of “practical form” which we can apply easily in all
cases of sarcodes.
What is the ‘function’ in sarcodes?
If we look in our body we observe one thing…that every cell in the body
is functioning throughout its whole life; if they stop functioning the body
can’t survive, so the “function” is basic criteria of body’s survival mechanism
and I understand the sensation of every kingdom by their survival mechanism.
• Plants are self dependant and on receiving any stimuli give reaction
according to it, so their survival mechanism is to take the sensation and give a
reaction.
• Animals are dependant on their environment so they experience threat
from environment to their survival, so their survival mechanism is ‘survive’.
• Minerals are structure and they have to complete their structure by
loosing or gaining something, so their survival mechanism is to loose something
or gain something.
Similarly if we understand the survival mechanism of the body we
understand a sarcode’s sensation. If the body wants to tell (express) anything,
it speaks in the form of “physiology”, so the physiology is the language of the
body.
• The body survives with the help of
physiological processes, so the ‘body function’ is the core issue in sarcodes.
Exploring the sensation of sarcode
The sensation of sarcode would be expressed in the form of “functions of
the body”. When we pass through all levels in the process of case taking and
when we reach at the level of sensation, at that time the patient starts to
talk about the functions. At this stage their expressions are related to
“Action” rather then “Effect”. I mean the patient put weight on “Action” and
these actions are related to the “Body”. Actions are like… doing, working,
maintaining etc.
E.g., when our Histamine patient talks about sensation he feels that he
cannot do anything or he cannot work or his body cannot maintain blood
ingredients. So here he puts weight on ‘doing’, ‘working’ and ‘maintaining’. So
it becomes clear that he is talking about functions and that these are related
to blood, brain or body. So things become logical if we understand he is
talking about “Body functions = Physiology”.
Function may confuse us with the mineral kingdom because minerals also
have functions as a sensation, but minerals’ functions are related to their row
in the periodic table: they are related to existence, separation, identity,
security, performance, leadership or letting go. Sarcodes’ functions are
related to “Body”. For example: health, blood, blood circulation, immunity,
deficiency, excretion, filtration etc.
Sarcode patients’ expressions confuse us with “local or physical”
information, because when a patient talks about local detail that is also
related to the body, but the basic difference is the sarcode patient talks
local-like information at the sensation level.
E.g., if patients talk at the level of fact they express very minute
energy while at the level of sensation the energy is plenty and the pattern of
energy is repetitive and obvious: they have movement (hand gesture/ body
gesture/ facial expressions), sound and colour for expression of their
experience while these things are lacking at the local level.
When I examine all cases of sarcodes I see one pattern in their
functions. Their attitude is they want to maintain their state. This kind of
understanding comes to my mind when I re-examine my cortisone case. During
re-examination I wonder why anybody wants to become ‘proper, perfect and
appropriate’? The answer is: she wants to maintain her state otherwise she
becomes ‘oversensitive or unstable’. I mean if you don’t maintain your state
then you become “hyper” or “hypo” functions wise and that’s creating a problem
in the sarcode. This kind of ‘attitude’ expressed beautifully in Dr. Sankaran’s
DNA case. The patient maintains the attitude of ‘find something better’ and
changed his place six times! This kind of attitude forced him to work in sharp,
focused and right direction. In the case we see some more features like: I
can’t sit in one place, changes constantly; (2) I always try to survive in
difficult situation. These expressions support our idea of maintaining.
I give one more example of ‘maintaining’ attitude. My RNA patient wants
to work according to a time-table. He wants everything to be perfect and
according to his way. Suppose his mom cooked “cari” instead of “dal”, but he
doesn’t eat it, because cari is for Wednesday not for Sunday in his time-table
of food. He becomes so much nutrition conscious that he made a fixed menu of
food for a week and strictly follows that. This is the attitude of his
behaviour. If he eats something irregularly then he looses his ‘healthy state’,
which is he tries to maintain constantly by making a time-table for food.
How to select any particular remedy from sarcode kingdom?
In above chapter we discuss about general theme of sarcode but how to
choose a sarcode remedy is one another issue that must be understood perfectly.
“Potential” of any sarcode remedy makes their choice of prescription. For
better way to understand this topic let’s make comparison of sarcodes with
India. The Indians are recognized by their language, Hindi, but anybody coming
from Maharastra state speaks Marathi also, or anybody coming from Gujrat state
also speaks Gujrati, but their national language is Hindi. In the same way all
sarcodes speak the language of “physiology” as a general, but at particular
level they speak a different language of depending on “where they coming from”.
For example, in the ‘Histamine’ case physiology is his language of sarcode but
he also speaks the language of ‘contraction and dilatation’, because histamine’s
potential is to contract or dilate vessels.
In other words, if a patient expresses complaints at sensation level he
talks about ‘function of body’ which confirms the sarcode, but the type and quality
of function point to a particular remedy. In my Urea case the physiological
process is conformation of sarcode but the expressions of ‘excretion and
filtration’ make the choice of Urea.
DD.:
1. Nosodes: (Here described the themes of
nosodes I learn from Dr. Sachindra and Bhavisha Joshi)
First of all we compare sarcodes with nosodes
because nosodes also have the issue within themselves rather then surroundings.
Nosodes are diseased tissue so they want to become normal
while sarcodes are normal tissues already. For
better way to understand please take one example… One man falls in the pit on
the road and tries to come out of it, while another man becomes
conscious of a pit in the road and tries not to
fall into it. The man in the pit is nosode and the man on the road is sarcode.
The fallen person thinks he’s the stupid one who did not see properly
and fell in this big problem so he becomes
desperate to come out of it and finally feels helpless. He sees others on the
road and feels they are lucky and he’s unlucky, faulted, abnormal and
weak compared to the others. A person who is
not fallen into a pit he’s aware of thinks he must become perfect, proper and
conscious to prevent falling in. He tries his best to maintain his
place. He must try to become better so he never
ever falls into it.
2. Minerals: Some times the word “function” may confuse minerals and
sarcodes because minerals also has a function as a “sensation”, but minerals
functions are regarding something missing
or loosing to make a
complete structure; they speak related to function of specific issue of
separation, identity, security, performance, leadership while sarcodes’
“functions” are mostly
functions of the body
and by the help of that function they want to maintain their healthy state or
even become better.
3. Remedies of 11th Column: ‘maintaining’ is also an issue of 11th
column of the periodic table. They constantly try to maintain their state and
do not want to loose it. But their sensations are
related to specific
issues of the row. E.g. they have issues of security (Cuprum), performance
(Argentum), leadership (Aurum) etc. While sarcodes want to maintain their
healthy state. They
are conscious to not
become hyper or hypo in their functions.
4. Cancer miasm: ‘perfection’ is also an issue of cancer miasm. They
constantly try to become perfect and are conscious to not become chaotic. But
in the cancer miasm it is a coping mechanism
and their issue is
something different than ‘perfection’. The issues of remedies belonging to the
cancer miasm depend on the kingdom they belong to. While ‘perfection’ is an
attitude of a
sarcode because they
wants to maintain their healthy state.
Some sensation words for sarcodes…
Body, Nutrition, Energy, Filtration, Metabolism, Digestion, Power,
Strength, Balance, Co-ordination, Cooperation, Handling, Caring, Immunity,
Deficiency, Capacity, Health, Food, Weakness, Wasting, Blood circulation,
Healthy systems, Organs
I believe that my work on sarcode is not a final and complete work, but
it is a first step and if we work together I’m sure we make it complete. I try
my best and now it’s your turn…
Vorwort/Suchen. Zeichen/Abkürzungen. Impressum.