Sarcodes Anhang
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 & showing down of pulses strengthening of heart
beat.
Therapeutically it is a powerful astringent
& thermostatic & 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 & aortitis
when there is a sensation of thoracic constriction $ anguish.Ass
with Vertigo, nausea & vomiting, Abdominal pain.
Shock or heart failure during anesthesia as it 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 & it can be used locally to cause blanching of the part
& to present hemorrhage before minor operations.
It should be given great care to pregnent women
Cholesterin. is a substance crystallising in bathels with a mother of pearl. Having a fatty feel.
It occur in the blood & brain, yolk of
eggs, seed & buds of plants, but most in the bile & 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 & 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
& ovarian disturbances.
It is of service in certain cases of sterility,
when bacterial infection, cervical stenosis &
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 & 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 & 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 & animal brain.Lecithin
has a favorable influence upon the nutritive
condition & especially upon the blood, hence its use in anemia
& 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 & 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 & sheep.
There is a relation b/w these glands &
corpus luteum & 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 & 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 & Menorhagia.
Pepsinum.
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 & ulcer.
It can be remembered in marasmus
of children who have been fed on artificial foods.
It is useful in diarrhea
of children & 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 & fullness deep in frontal region.
During pregnancy & before menses the gland
is enlarged in certain cases the enlarged gland before & 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 & 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 &
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 & relieving intestinal
stasis, fermentation & 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 &
limbs, tingling sensations, paralysis etc.
In myxoedema &
cretinism it is very effective. It is effective in Rheumatoid arthritis,
infantile wasting, Rickets & 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 & pityriasis rubra.
Arrested development of children. It improves
the memory. It is very useful in goiter, excessive
obesity, mammary tumour & 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 & 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 & 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.
Information on Sarcodes
You get some explanation about sarcodes from my article “The Language of sarcodes” in ‘Homeopathic Links 1/10′. These are some
selected paragraphs from the article:
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.]
R Y
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
Worse
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
was describing 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.