Mirza Tahir Ahmad James Tyler Kent
Medorrhinum is prepared from the toxic substances of Gonorrhoea. It has proved to be very useful in the treatment of inherited Gonorrhoeal diseases. The role of Syphilinum in the treatment of hereditary Syphilis is similar to that of Medorrhinum in hereditary Gonorrhoea. If these remedies are not used, then these diseases become a permanent part of the person’s life, flaring up every now and then and become difficult to get rid off. Some eminent doctors are of the opinion that syphilis and gonorrhoea have been present in human society since ancient times and their toxins have been passed on from generation to generation. The sufferer does not have to contract the disease personally. His/her symptoms of syphilis and gonorrhoea may very well be hereditary in nature.
Previously, the treatment of syphilis was considered to be very difficult. It consisted of mercury compounds. Nowadays, penicillin given continuously for a month is considered to offer a complete cure. According to homoeopathy, syphilis is incurable. It simply disguises itself in different forms. It becomes dormant, only to reappear when the conditions become favourable. Modern research in allopathy is also supportive of this homoeopathic view. During research on AIDS in America, it came to be known that many AIDS patients suddenly showed signs of syphilis, although previously they had no trace of it. On retracing their family history, it was observed without a shadow of doubt, that the ancestors of at least some of them suffered from syphilis, which was treated with Mercury compounds. However the Syphilis was only suppressed and persisted in dormant form. Similar is the case with gonorrhoea. This also gets passed on from generation to generation. Unless completely uprooted, the treatment of gonorrhoea and resultant diseases would only prove superficial. The diseases of the reproductive organs in men as well as in women, due to the result of gonorrhoea having been suppressed, may present in two different forms i.e. over-excitement or total palliation. There may be complete loss of libido. In short, the sexual behaviour of the patient is extreme, either one way or the other, but nothing in between. Medorrhinum is considered to be the most highly valued treatment of suppressed gonorrhoea (latent gonorrhoea). In fact, most of the doctors advise using it first and foremost. Medorrhinum in high potency will surface the symptoms of latent gonorrhoea, which can then be treated appropriately. Furthermore, dangerous consequences will also be thus avoided.
Asthma also is related to Medorrhinum. Marasmus (the wasting disease of the children), asthma, chronic nasal catarrh, ringworm and special forms of warts remain dormant in the body as sequelae of suppressed gonorrhoea, only to express themselves on and off. The warts of any kind and form not amenable to Thuja may respond to Medorrhinum.
Some women, who suffer from irregularity of periods, pain or nervous weakness after marriage, may need to be treated with Medorrhinum. Patients feel extremely cold yet sweat profusely. The palms of their hands may feel like burning, though the right and left hands may become cold alternately, or sometimes both hands at the same time.
Multiple joint pains and rheumatism provided other symptoms of Medorrhinum are also present, benefit significantly from Medorrhinum. Although, most of its ailments present from sunrise to sunset, some become especially pronounced at night such as seeing ghosts or dead people in frightful dreams all night. Urinary symptoms also become more severe at night, such as frequent urination or urgency to the extent that the patient may not be able to make it to the lavatory. Such patients also have some swelling or inflammation of the prostate glands.
Thuja also resembles Medorrhinum in certain respects. Most of its symptoms worsen after midnight. In multiple joint pains, Medorrhinum will surface the true symptoms of the latent disease so it may be treated easily.
Another symptom of Medorrhinum is the sensation of pins and needles all over, along with urticaria. Noise, especially a loud noise, causes mental anguish and then urticaria. In Medorrhinum, swelling of feet and legs is usual. The lower legs (below the knees) become cold. Sometimes, the soles of the feet are extremely sensitive; so much so that the patient will is not able to walk on his feet. He will either crawl on his knees or walk extremely carefully, putting minimum pressure on the sole of the feet. On walking a little, the feet become warm making the walk easier. But afterwards, the discomfort in the soles becomes more intense.
Another salient feature of Medorrhinum is that the time seems to pass very slowly. Young boys and girls feel as if somebody is standing behind them. They become frequently startled and look back to see if somebody has quietly approached them from behind. They believe that they are being watched. Medorrhinum, as well as Phosphorus, is very useful to abate this feeling. In Phosphorus also, the patient has a feeling as if somebody is peeping over him. The toxic effects of certain diseases cause this feeling.
In Medorrhinum, the patient is afraid of the dark and has a fear of falling. The Scalp feels tense and tight. Medorrhinum has also been very successful in the treatment of skin conditions and dandruff. Its symptoms pertaining to the hair are similar to those of Natrum Mur. Both of these remedies are related to gonorrhoeal diseases. In Natrum Mur, the hair becomes dry and brittle along with severe dandruff. In certain cases, Medorrhinum alone can cure these conditions.
Some people become nervous easily. Objects start to dance before them. The vision becomes blurred and does not focus. Black or brown spots appear before the eyes. The patient may have double vision. If these symptoms become chronic, then Medorrhinum will be found very useful. Hallucinations, tension in the eyes, mental anguish and falling eyelashes can also be successfully treated with Medorrhinum. Also in Medorrhinum as in Apis, there are bags below the eyes. In Apis, the swelling hangs, while in Medorrhinum the swelling is rather diffuse.
Medorrhinum, given in very high potency, is also useful in the treatment of chronic nasal catarrh. It shows that there is a deepseated residue of gonorrhoea, which is out of the reach of common remedies. Medorrhinum is useful in chronic catarrh as the disease is deep-seated it will only respond to high potency of Medorrhinum CM or at least 10000. It proves to be extremely valuable in this condition. Medorrhinum is very useful if the patient feels extremely hungry and craves to eat insatiably when nervous, or similarly if his severe thirst becomes unquenchable. Extreme hunger is also known in Psorinum, but it mostly bothers at night.
Medorrhinum has been found useful in the treatment of ascites (accumulation of water in the abdomen due to liver disease), as well as the swelling and inflammation of glands in the groins.
The constipation of Medorrhinum is characterised by stools in the form of dry rounded droppings. The urine is scanty, brown in colour, very pungent and less frequent. It is possible that Medorrhinum may also be helpful to patients who have been rendered physically disabled and limp due to chronic joint pains. It is also useful in the treatment of frequent urination due to neurosis but not due to diabetes.
Medorrhinum is also closely linked to conditions related to the kidney, urinary bladder and prostate gland. The first and foremost treatment of kidney pain (renal colic) is Aconite 1000 and Belladonna 1000 combined, two doses given ten minutes apart. The patient will, by the grace of God, get better immediately. If the kidney pain gets worse with cold, then Mag Phos 6X repeated a few times or simply one dose of Colocynth CM will offer magical relief. After the relief of pain, its root cause i.e. the kidney stones, must be treated appropriately. If the kidney pain is caused by inflammation or infection rather than by stones, the proper curative treatment should be sought, and this could be Medorrhinum.
Medorrhinum is also related to deafness, especially nerve deafness, in which the patient feels no pain. Medorrhinum is useful in chronic and progressive deafness. However, Sulphur should not be overlooked. In fact, I have treated patients who had developed deafness due to the thickening of the bone around the auditory nerve (otosclerosis) with Sulphur CM. The thickening tendency of the bone disappeared and hearing did not deteriorate any further.
In Medorrhinum, the teeth being very sensitive hurt on chewing food. Ulcers, having jagged margins, also form in the mouth. Medorrhinum has also been found beneficial in the treatment of chronic ankle pain.
Medorrhinum is deeply related to asthma also. Generally, Nat Sulph is considered to be a very effective remedy for asthma. Natrum Sulph is often found useful in the treatment of children presenting symptoms of a familial type of gonorrhoea, but sometimes Medorrhinum may also be required, so as to better express the latent symptoms of gonorrhoea. Calcarea Sulph is also reported to be very effective in the treatment of gonorrhoea. If phlegm becomes deeply seated in the lungs and is difficult to cough out, and other homoeopathic remedies have proved ineffective, then Medorrhinum may offer substantial cure. Kali Iodide and Arsenic Iodide are also useful for the expulsion of deep-seated phlegm from the lungs. For the treatment of deep ulcers resulting from the dislodgment of thick sputum or phlegm, Kali Iodide is better, but for relatively superficial ulcers, Arsenic Iodide is better.
Medorrhinum is considered very useful in the treatment of lightning type of joint pains associated with severe pain in the chest. Like Lachesis, its pain and burning is also over the left side of the chest. Slip disc with resulting nerve root pain (sciatica) should be thoroughly investigated before treatment. If the investigation is inconclusive then Medorrhinum can be given in high potency and then wait for seven to ten days. I happened to treat one such patient with Colocynth based on his symptoms. He responded well, but after a while, the condition stopped improving any further. So I gave him Medorrhinum instead of Colocynth CM wherupon his original symptoms returned including the severe pain. Had I continued to treat him with a high potency of Medorrhinum, he might have been completely cured. The patient was rather impatient, so I gave him Colocynth, instead of Medorrhinum as I had proposed. This time, Colocynth proved to be much more effective. I failed to follow him further and do not know whether he was fully cured or not.
Sometimes, the legs may feel very heavy due to pain in the back. The legs become stiff. This is suggestive of Medorrhinum. At times, the spasm impedes circulation. This remedy also shows sign of cramp especially in the calves of the legs. If a person feels cramps in the legs on standing for a long time, then Mag Phos 6X may also be
useful. In Medorrhinum however, cramps also affect the under surface of the feet, which tend to be drawn and turn inwards.
Many of the symptoms of Medorrhinum become worse in the heat of the sun. Humidity and the seaside offer relief. Some of the symptoms become worse at night, as detailed above.
Potency: 30 to CM
by Mirza Tahir Ahmad
MEDORRHINUM
Children: One of the many uses of this remedy is in the inherited complaints of children.
The physician of long and active experience meets many obstinate cases in children. The infant soon emaciates and becomes marasmic, or a child becomes asthmatic, or suffers with vicious catarrh of nose or eyelids, or has ringworm on the scalp or face, or is dwarfed; and after some waste of time it comes to mind that the father was treated for gonorrhea that was obstinate and perhaps had condylomata on the genitalia.
This remedy will cure, or begin the recovery. The woman married several years desires to become a mother. She was healthy when she married, but now she has ovarian pains, menstrual troubles, she has lost all sexual response, is growing pale and waxy, and becoming violently sensitive and nervous.
The husband's history gives the cause, and this remedy will cure. The pale waxy young men, who crave stimulants and tobacco, who are sensitive to drafts, become stiff after exertion and walking, who perspire easily and are extremely sensitive to cold, who have never been well since having a gonorrhea cured by injections.
Rheumatic symptoms in every part of the body. Some symptoms are worse in the daytime. The usual comparison with Syphilinum, which reads,
"Med. in daytime and Syph. at night," does not hold good as a sweeping statement. It is true that many Syph. pains are worse nights.
It is true that some sycotic and Medorrhinum symptoms are worse daytimes. It is also true that many sycotic symptoms are violent day and night. It is also true that the mental symptoms of Med. are most violent at night. It will not do to be too sweeping with circumstances of this nosode.
The rheumatic inflammations are worse from motion, but where swelling is not present these patients act like Rhus patients; they are sensitive to cold, suffer from aching and torturesome pains, and find relief only in motion - like Rhus. Most sycotic patients suffer from cold, some are sensitive to heat.
Sore, bruised and lame, as if he had taken a deep cold and was coming down with a fever. The pains come on with a feeling of general tension. Obstinate cases of rheumatism. Losing flesh. Walks stooped, becoming clumsy. Stumbles. Looks as if he were going into quick consumption. Intense nervous sensibility, respecting touch of garment or a lock of hair by any one not en rapport.
Trembling and quivering; growing steadily weaker. Intense formication all over the body. Starts from the slightest noise. Feels faint and wants to be fanned, Wants open air. Cold and pulseless, with cold sweat.
Oedema of the limbs with great soreness and dropsy of serous sacs. Externally sensitive to cold damp weather. Subject to neuralgias. Stitching, tearing pains. The pains are ameliorated by heat. Drawing pains in back and limbs. The patient is extremely sensitive to pain. The remedy should never be used low.
Mind: Forgetful of facts, figures and names; of what he has read.
Makes mistakes in writing, of spelling, and words. Time move too slowly; everybody moves too slowly. He is in a constant hurry, in such a hurry that he gets out of breath. She is in such a hurry that she feels faint. Confusion of mind, dazed; fear of sensation; loses the idea when speaking. Great difficulty in stating her symptoms, loses herself and must be asked over again.
Thinks some one is behind her; hears whispering. Sees faces that peer at her from behind the furniture (Phos.). Everything seems unreal (Alum.).
Wild desperate feeling as if incipient insanity. Weeps when talking. Exhilaration in evening. Changeable state of mind; one moment sad, the next mirthful. Presentiment of death. Frightened sensation on waking as if something dreadful had happened. Fear of the dark. Anxiety about her salvation.
Vertigo when stooping; ameliorated lying; aggravated from motion. Fear of falling.
Head: Wandering neuralgia of head, worse in cold damp weather.
Sharp pains come and go suddenly. No part of head is free from pain. Pain aggravated from light, and on coughing. Burning pains deep in, as if in brain. Extreme tension of scalp. Band across forehead. Pain in occiput and nape, aggravated on motion. Intense itching of scalp. Herpetic eruptions on scalp; ringworm. Copious dandruff. Hair dry and crispy.
Eyes: Flickering before the eyes.
Blurred vision, and black or brown spots in the field of vision. Objects look double, or small. Sees imaginary objects. Eyes feel drawn. Tension in the muscles. Pain in eyes on turning them. Sensation of sand in eyes. Sensation of sticks. inflammation of conjunctiva with ulceration of the cornea. Blepharitis with much swelling. Lids stuck together in the morning. Margins red and excoriated. Ptosis. Smarting of lids. Eyelashes fall out. Swelling under eyes, as in Bright's disease.
Ears: Impaired hearing and total deafness.
Imagines he hears voices or people in conversation, At first the hearing is very acute. Pain along Eustachian tubes into ears. Crawling in ears. Itching in ears. Stitching pains in ears.
Nose: This remedy cures obstinate nasal catarrh, also post nasal obstruction with loss of smell.
Mucus, white or yellow. A middle aged man was cured of an obstinate nasal discharge by Med. very high and a discharge from the urethra which had been suppressed many years before came back and acted like a chronic gleet, and finally subsided without other treatment.
Bleeding from the nose, and bloody nasal discharge. Nose sensitive to inhaled air. Itching and crawling in nose.
The greenish yellow, waxy, sickly face of the sycotic patient looks like that of the Arsenic patient, but strange to say, Arsenic does not otherwise correspond to the symptoms, but may be mistaken for it. The skin shines, and is often covered by blotches and there are fever blisters about the mouth. Herpes on the face.
Epithelioma of wing of nose, or on lip. Rheumatic pains and stiffness of face. Swelling of the submaxillary glands.
Mouth: The teeth are always sensitive when chewing.
The taste is perverted, and the tongue is foul and white at base. The mouth is full of canker sores. Ulcers in the mouth and on the tongue.
The breath is foul. Stringy mucus in mouth and throat. Mouth dry and feels burnt. Catarrh of throat, and thick white mucus is constantly drawn from posterior nares.
Stomach: Ravenous hunger, even after eating.
Unquenchable thirst. Craves stimulants, tobacco, sweets, green fruit, ice, sour things, oranges, ale, salt. Nausea after eating, and after drinking water. Vomiting of mucus and bile, Sour and bitter vomiting. Violent retching. Vomiting without nausea.
Gnawing in stomach, not relieved by eating or drinking. Trembling in stomach. Clawing in stomach, aggravated by drawing up the knees. Sinking in stomach. Agonizing pains in stomach.
Liver: Terrible pains in liver.
Grasping pains in liver and spleen. It has cured ascites. Pulsation felt in abdomen. Pain and swelling of the inguinal glands.
A young man who had been in good flesh and health took gonorrhoea. He was treated by injection. Soon he began to lose flesh. He suffered from pain in the groin, which compelled him to walk bent. He became pale and waxy; stiff and lame all over, and was very sensitive to cold.
Took cold frequently, which seemed never to get quite well. After Med. very high the discharge returned, and he seemed quite well. Pain in spermatic cords.
Infants: This remedy has cured many cases of marasmus in infants that had inherited sycosis from a parent.
Children of a sycotic father are especially subject to attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea, and emaciation. They resist well selected chronic remedies, or are only palliated by well selected remedies. After Med. high they thrive, and remedies act better.
Stools: Constipation.
Can pass stool only by leaning far back when straining at stool. Inactivity of the rectum. Round balls, and hard lumpy stool. Oozing of moisture at the anus, smelling like fishbrine.
Urines: Scanty, high-colored, strong-smelling urine in a patient suffering from rheumatic lameness and stiffness.
Sensitive to cold, with tenderness of the soles. In albuminous urine with hyaline casts when the patient is waxy and there is oedema of feet and ankles, and the soles so tender he can scarcely walk on them, the skin of soles is bluish and hot; also when the swollen legs are so sore he cannot have them touched, or endure the pressure to ascertain whether the swelling will or will not pit on pressure.
In the above conditions Med. will act promptly if there has been gonorrhoeal history. Inflammation of bladder, prostate gland or kidneys. Copious mucus in urine. Renal colic. Parenchymatic inflammation of the kidneys. Copious pale urine. Frequent urination at night. Loses urine in bed. Inactivity of the bladder and feeble stream of urine. It has cured many cases of polyuria.
Genitals: Nocturnal emissions and impotency in young men who have had gonorrhoea several times, especially if treated by injections.
Prolonged gleety discharge with rheumatic symptoms and declining health. For gonorrhoeal rheumatism it is a most important remedy. It controls the rheumatic symptoms and restores the discharge.
It has cured induration of testes, and pain in the spermatic cords. Pain in left spermatic cord, left sciatic nerve and lumbago from every exposure to a draft in one who suffered from gonorrhoea several years ago and was cured by Med. 10 M. at long intervals.
Chronic pain in ovarian region. Sterility. Painful menstruation. Obstinate leucorrhoea. Enlarged ovaries. Violent itching of vulva and vagina. Profuse menses. Drawing in sacrum as if menses would come on, Cutting like knives in whole pelvic region.
Burning in scrotum and hips during menses.
Respiration is difficult.
Suffocation and short breath on slight exertion. Asthma in children of sycotic parents (Nat. s.). Spasms of the glottis with clucking in the larynx; air expelled with difficulty, but inhaled with ease. Several cases of asthma have been cured by this remedy. Dryness of the larynx causes spasms and cough on falling asleep.
Most obstinate catarrh of air passages with copious viscid expectoration has been cured by this remedy. Cannot cough deep enough to reach the phlegm (Caust.). The cough is ameliorated by lying on the abdomen, is aggravated at night. The expectoration. is yellow, white or green, viscid, difficult to raise. Cough worse in a warm room.
Many of the patients that need this remedy look sick, pale, and walk stooped as if about to go into phthisis. Dry cough, with rattling in chest. Great heat, even burning in chest. Many pains in chest. Rheumatic, sharp pains through chest on exposure to damp cold air.
When patients who have suffered from gonorrhoea seem to be taking on a phtisical complex of symptoms and the paucity of individualizing symptoms makes the remedy doubtful, this remedy will bring better reaction, and sometimes be the remedy for many months.
Intense pain in chest on coughing. Sensation of coldness in chest and mammae. Stitching pain in chest. The chest is sore to touch, and aggravated by the motion of breathing.
The heart manifests all the symptoms usual to rheumatic constitutions. Dyspnea; fluttering heart; palpitation. The pains are acute, cutting, stitching; aggravated by motion. Burning in heart, extending to left arm.
Back: "Lame back" is the common complaint of these patients.
It is generally a lumbago, or it is a lumbo-sacral pain, and often extends into the lower limbs. Crural or sciatic pains. Drawing in nape and back. Pain across the back, from left to right shoulders. Great heat in the upper part of spine. Stiffness in the back on rising, or beginning to move. Pains all aggravated in cold damp weather. Tender spine, Soreness in region of kidneys.
Limbs: Chronic rheumatic pains in limbs in cold damp weather.
The limbs are lame and stiff. Stitching pains all over the body, and in limbs. Sharp pains. The patient is extremely sensitive to pain, and feels pain as sharp and stitching. Some of the pains come on during motion, and some are better from continued motion. Cold extremities. Burning palms and soles, Trembling of the limbs. Rheumatic pains in shoulders aggravated from motion.
Numbness of arms and hands, worse left. Trembling hands and arms. Burning palms, wants them fanned. Right hand cold, then left. Cold hands. Heat and numbness of back of hands.
Trembling weakness and numbness of lower limbs. Awkwardness of legs, they do not go where they are willed to go. Numbness of thighs. Must stretch the lower limbs constantly. Drawing pains and tension in legs. Rheumatic pains. Stiffness and soreness in flesh and periosteum. Shooting up the legs during a thunderstorm.
Restlessness in legs, must move them constantly. Aching, drawing in legs and thighs, in sciatic and crural nerves, ameliorated by continued motion. Legs numb and heavy, like wood. Legs cold up to the knees.
Contraction of muscles of posterior part of thigh down to knee. Cramps in soles and calves. Weak ankles. Burning feet, wants them uncovered and fanned. Legs swollen to knees, and pit upon pressure. Sore bruised legs, ankles and soles. Soles sore and bruised, look blue. He cannot walk on the soles. Swelling and itching of the soles. It cures the tenderness in the soles so common in chronic gonorrhoeal rheumatism. Tenderness of soles so that be had to walk on his knees. Cold sweaty feet.
Sleep: Can sleep only on the back with bands over head.
Sleeps on her knees with face forced into the pillow. Terrible dreams of ghosts and dead people; she dreads the nights.
Sleepy but cannot sleep. Sleeplessness fore part of night. Copious night sweats.
by James Tyler Kent