Homoeopathy — Page 585
Pulsatilla 585 also be the effective treatment. Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla. In case a fever does not subside with Pulsatilla and the patient feels hot, or similarly, if certain infections do not respond to treatment with Pulsatilla despite their symptoms being of Pulsatilla, then in this situation, the patient should be treated with Silicea. In my experience, Silicea has often been effective. In the beginning, I did not treat such patients with Silicea; then I realised that since Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla, it is possible that Silicea may be effective even though the disease has not responded to Pulsatilla. Pulsatilla is an excellent treatment for mumps. It prevents the migration of the diseases to other sites. If not treated appropriately, the disease may seriously afflict the reproductive organs. Such patients are then rendered sterile forever. In such cases, the first treatment of choice is Abrotanum. If Abrotanum is ineffective, Pulsatilla should be used. One similarity between these two drugs is that the aches and pains keep shifting from one location to another. Abrotanum pains keep shifting all over the body. However, the Pulsatilla pains migrate in a particular direction i. e. either from left to right or from right to left. This symptom is also found in Lac Caninum, whose pains migrate rapidly. In Abrotanum, it is mostly the nature of the disease that changes into another disease. For example, if lung cancer spreads into the bone then the remedies of a migrating nature should be considered, Abrotanum being one such remedy. However, the most effective remedy is Phosphorus. Whether the cancer has started in the bones or has spread to the bones from somewhere else, in both cases Phosphorus is the best. In Pulsatilla, stomach ailments such as irritation, sour belches and distension of the abdomen with gas, etc. start within a few hours of eating food. In Nux Vomica, the ailments aggravate on an empty stomach. The patient finds some relief on taking food, but the discomfort returns in an hour or so. The Pulsatilla patient has a dry mouth yet does not feel thirsty. The liver produces an excessive amount of bile, which regurgitates into the mouth with nausea. Oily food causes distension of the abdomen and diarrhoea consisting of greenish, watery stools (more so at night). Soft stools, yet constipation , are typical of Pulsatilla. Despite the repeated urge of going to the lavatory, the patient does not feel fully relieved. There is a similar feeling in Nux Vomica also. However, in