Homoeopathy — Page 350
Graphites 350 so that the child can sleep peacefully at night. However, the eczematous skin starts discharging again after some time. In this condition, Graphites should also be used as an adjuvant. It helps to a certain extent. Therefore, it is better that the resistant type of illnesses like eczema should be treated with a number of similarly acting remedies, complimentary to each other. If the itching amounts to restlessness, Arsenic 1000 will also be very useful. It is especially very effective against dry eczema. Even if all the symptoms are not present, the element of restlessness is such that Arsenic will benefit to some extent although the relief may only be temporary. No doubt, the proper use of Arsenic would be of avail where the patient exhibits most of the signs and symptoms of Arsenic. It must be well remembered that the treatment is proper only when the nature of the medicine, as well as the constitution of the patient, are properly evaluated and matched. The assumption that a medicine that is effective against a particular disease will cure all the patients of that disease is only wishful thinking. At the same time it is not necessary that an effective cure for each disease has been discovered, or any doctor has full knowledge about the treatment of every sickness. Therefore it is not right to prolong the illness of a patient unnecessarily while the patient is not getting better under the treatment of one doctor. One should honestly admit that some other doctor may be able to offer a better treatment. There is no harm in accepting defeat. The patient should be referred to somebody more qualified. Graphites is a very useful drug for its own specific kind of eczema. f the patient has other symptoms of Graphites, then this drug alone will suffice. Otherwise, in cases of various types of eczemas (with super- added infections) Graphites is only used as an adjuvant remedy. If the skin becomes raw and red, as is the case with early symptoms of Psoriasis, then Graphites should be prescribed. This symptom of the skin is also associated with Silicea. However, the indication of Graphites is the sticky exudate oozing from the skin. Graphites is also very useful for the treatment of cancer. The tendency towards the formation of a cancer is in the nature of every carbon compound. Having healed, some wounds burst open again and again and ultimately become cancerous. Even after surgical removal, they tend to recur after some time. In such cases, one should always