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CHRISTINA ARI ¦ ACUTE REMEDIES LEDUM AND BORRELIA / CONSTITUTION REMEDIES SPECTRUM OF HOMEOPATHY
BORRELIOSIS
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For the last two years mother and son have not required medical
treatment. Both are doing well.
COMMENTS ON THE HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT
OF BORRELIOSIS INFECTION
In southern Austria, on the border to Slovenia, there is a very
high incidence of borreliosis in the population. I have treated
numerous infections and, due to this intensive encounter with
the pathogen, I have developed a tried-and-tested approach
to treatment.
Comments on acute treatment: borreliosis is generally trans-
mitted by ticks. There is no absolutely safe method to avoid tick
bites. If a tick has attached to the skin, it should be carefully
removed by mechanical means. As an acute measure, I recom-
mend the immediate application of blister ointment and an
occlusion plaster dressing of the bite for 48 hours, as well as
taking two or three individual doses of Ledum 12D.
If the skin looks normal after removing the dressing, nothing
should be done at first. If, however, there is a sharply defined
circular reddening (this can occur days and weeks later, or maybe
not at all!), we can assume that there has been contact with
the pathogen. In such cases, I commence treatment with
Ledum, initially three doses a day, or at least until I can find an
individual or constitutional remedy for the affected person. The
intercurrent application of an occasional dose of the Borreliosis
nosode in the potency 200D has also proved worthwhile. With
this initial treatment of erythema migrans, there is generally an
increase in the size, together with a paling and dissolution of
the rim of the reddening. The dimension of the lesion should
be regularly measured and tracked. The reddening can vary in
an unpredictable way and, instead of quickly dissolving, it can
spread to large areas of the entire skin and remain for months.
As long as the process takes place on the skin surface, those
affected generally feel healthy.
If an acute illness develops during this process, this should be
treated primarily, with an acute remedy if needed, as long as
the constitutional remedy cannot be recognized in the sum of
observable symptoms. If no acute picture can be seen, the
cause of the disturbance should be sought, since only a deeply
acting treatment following the law of similars can bring
borreliosis to a standstill.
The use of Ledum palustre at the beginning of the borreliosis
infection has proved itself in my practice. It helps to reveal the
masked pathogen and entice it to the surface. It promotes the
illness process from the inside to the outside. Primarily rigid
illness symptoms then become more reactive, which enables
differentiation of whether they are purely pathognomonic or
constitutional. Ledum enables us to distinguish the chaff from
the wheat, so aiding individual remedy selection. In my re-
search, I could establish that in several cases the use of Ledum
on its own was sufficient to bring the infection to a prolonged
halt. Ledum palustre, from the Ericaceae family, has a strong
relationship to the Iron series – this is a remedy that seeks to
restore order.
DESTABILIZATION AND LOSS OF EARLY SYSTEMS
OF ORDER AS A REASON FOR ILLNESS WITH
BORRELIOSIS
It is known that some people tend to be more easily affected
by ticks than others, and there is a similar affinity for certain
pathogens. Are there people who are potentially more liable to
fall ill with Borreliosis or are there specific effects that promote
such an infection?
While working with and analyzing the illness, I noticed some
striking common factors. Complaints are frequently triggered
by the loss of familiar certainty in the everyday life of those
affected. Such factors include difficulties adapting after moving,
destabilization due to loss of relationships, as well as loss of
security in the areas of work and responsibilities. These people
were effectively thrown off balance, stressed and unsettled,
and infection occurred in such unstable situations.
USE OF REMEDIES FROM THE THIRD AND
FOURTH SERIES OF THE PERIODIC TABLE
In the three cases presented here, we can easily recognize this
fundamental disturbance. This makes it understandable that
remedies from the third and fourth series of the periodic table
are frequently required. Here, we find remedies that help those
people whose sense of order in life has been undermined, and
here you can find those remedies that are able to heal damage
to the basis of relationships, families and friendships.
CHRISTINA ARI
Studied Arts and medicine in
Vienna, doctorate in 1983. Study
of homeopathy since 1987 with
Dorcsi, Mattitsch, Sankaran, and
Scholten. She has her own prac-
tice since 1990 and works with
the Austrian Society for Homeo-
pathic Medicine (ÖGHM) since
1991. International presentations
with emphasis on Folliculinum, Hawaii remedies and stone
remedies.
Publications in the HIÖ (“Homeopathy in Austria”),
DocHom (Documenta Homeopathica) volume 30 on
Pele‘s hair.
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