The unique mode of action of homeopathy comes into play especially in the treatment of acute traumatic cases. Whatever injury a patient sustains in an accident, they will be able to return to work within 24 hours (fractures are, of course, the exception).
Arnica! Arnica!! Is that really our only remedy for treating traumatically caused injuries?
Can it really be that everyone – from the beginner to the experienced therapist – prescribes only Arnica for every kind of injury? Arnica and nothing else? That cannot be, because homeopathy is an exact and precisely targeted therapy. Therefore:
1. Arnica is indicated for blunt-force injuries to individual, localized parts of the body. It stops the bleeding and quickly reduces the swelling.
2. Train/road traffic accidents: A person rolls off the roof of a moving train at high speed or their two-wheeler skids and they are catapulted from the vehicle. The spine is dislocated, i.e. the framework of the body is jolted and the spinal column is twisted. This situation calls for the remedy Cicuta virosa. No Arnica in the world could help here. Cicuta virosa is an important remedy for traffic accidents.
3. Someone tries to jump onto the loading area of a moving lorry, falls and strikes the back of their head. They lose consciousness, are taken to hospital and are discharged after a few days in the hope that everything will be all right. Six months later the patient's entire left side is paralysed. The indicated remedy is Phosphorus and only Phosphorus. It would be ignorant and foolish to give Arnica in this case. Phosphorus is given for injuries to the back of the head.
4. A sudden impact on the coccyx is treated with Hypericum and not Arnica.
5. At this point we would like to report a successfully healed case: A man falls from a height of 15 metres into the depths and is admitted to hospital with bleeding and fractures.
His bone fractures heal, but when he is discharged after six weeks the man cannot walk. The doctors say they can do nothing more for him. Once home, the patient is treated for months by a homeopath, but without success. A layperson in medicine who had read my book obtains Millefolium 10M from the pharmacy and gives the patient a pellet under the tongue, saying he will certainly be able to walk again the next day. That is what happened. (S. Boericke's Materia Medica – Millefolium: Evil consequences of a fall from a height). The homeopath had treated the man with Arnica and more Arnica. Are there really no other remedies for traumatic injuries?
6. A woman accidentally scalds her face with boiling tea water and is blinded in both eyes. A routine homeopath gave Cantharis, which did not help. A single dose of Carbolicum acidum C200 restored the patient's sight within a few minutes. (See Calvin B. Knerr, Repertory of Hering’s Guiding Symptoms – GENERAL – Injuries – Burns – extensive: Carb-ac. Carbolicum acidum is indicated when deeper tissue structures are affected.)
7. A foetus gives no signs of life in the eighth month of pregnancy. Before the patient is taken to the operating theatre for a termination, she takes a single dose of Cantharis 10M and the unborn child is delivered spontaneously and without complications by the mother (see Calvin B. Knerr's REPERTORY – PREGNANCY – Foetus – Stillbirth: Canth, Cimx, Puls).
Has it been officially forbidden to use Boericke's Materia Medica and Knerr's Repertory? What prevents homeopaths from studying Dr A.W. Yingling's "Handbook of Midwifery" in detail? Why do so few homeopaths make use of Knerr, Lilienthal, Yingling, Boericke or Hering, etc.? I personally use these works extensively and with great success. Homeopathy is founded on eternal laws of nature; there are no theoretical musings or rigid principles for it.
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