Food Allergy=Tonsil Stones _{Page 2 of 4}

o.k.

murthy

What I meant was that a membrane which becomes dry ,normally shrinks.

However in your case that may not be a correct statement. You have a sensation of dryness. It doesn't really mean the membrane is dry.

How many doses of Wyethia you took so far?

It is surprising that your doctor didn't prescribe anything. What did he say?

Murthy

We can't be sure of your stomach acid still coming up, unless you hve symptoms of heartburn too.

Murthy

You should stop taking Wyethia in unchanged doses now.

Let us try to analyse your case symptomatically, forgetting a while about epiglottis.

If you have Kent, look at the throat chapter, and let me know all the rubrics ,you feel apply to you.

If you don't have Kent, go for the Remedy Finder on this site, and mark all your symptoms, and post the final grid here.

You did a good thing in ordering Hepat and Chlorum. We may need them.

Murthy

The repertisation brings out Lachesis as the most prominent remedy covering all most all the symptoms, followed by hepar.

However Hepar doesn't have the external throat sensitive to touch.

I suggest you to try Lachesis in the following manner.

Get a 500ml. bottle, fill it with about 250ml. of water, add two drops of Lachesis 200c to it, shake well and mix about a teasponful out of the RSB(remedy solution bottle) in a cup of water, and take a teaspoon out of the cup.

The above is one dose.

Take a dose every two hours, and make sure that you succuss the RSB well before taking a fresh dose.

Take a maximum of six doses and stop.

Report after 24 hours.

Lachesis is a prominent throat remedy and hopefully it should provide you relief.

Murthy

I forgot to add to throw away the water from the cup, after taking a dose.

Murthy

it's o.k.

even 30c should help.

murthy

Yes.You told about it before too.

Murthy

I am summarising your problems.

I have different method of identifying the remedy.

Pl. correct if anything to be corrected/added in the following:-

You are suffering for almost a week and unable to identify he correct remedy.

THROAT:

'It looks off white but also see some red almost like veins in it.

'aggravate when swallowing from food or drink. tongue is also coated

' first found a large mass behind my soft pallate on the right side

' epiglottis is horribly inflamed'

'The pain in throat is dull in the morning and then gets worse as day goes on.
By afternoon it is at its worst and remains until next day '


..Pain aggravates during the day is due to use of tongue during day time and better in the night is due to rest in the night...

'today tongue is heavily coated, white in colour.'

..Shows that infection is travelling in the entestine too...

I am giving below the comparision of effect on Throat of the followig medicines:-

WYETHIA

Throat.--Constant clearing and hemming. Dry, posterior nares; no relief from clearing. Throat feels swollen; epiglottis dry and burning. Difficult swallowing. Constant desire to swallow saliva. Uvula feels elongated

LACHESIS

Throat.--Sore, worse LEFT side, swallowing liquids. Quinsy. Septic parotiditis. Dry, intensely swollen, externally and internally. Diphtheria; membrane dusky, blackish; pain aggravated by hot drinks; chronic sore throat, with much hawking; mucus sticks, and cannot be forced up or down. Very painful; worse slightest pressure, touch is even more annoying. In diphtheria, etc, the trouble began on the left side. Tonsils purplish. Purple, livid color of throat. Feeling as if something was swollen which must be swallowed; worse, swallowing saliva or liquids. Pain into ear. Collar and neck-band must be very loose

SILICEA
Throat.--Periodical quinsy. Pricking as of a pin in tonsil. Colds settle in throat. Parotid glands swollen (Bell; Rhus; Calc). Stinging pain on swallowing. Hard, cold swelling of cervical glands

BELLADONNA
.--Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion (Ginseng); red, worse on RIGHT side. Tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition; worse, liquids. Sensation of a lump. Œsophagus dry; feels contracted. Spasms in throat. Continual inclination to swallow. Scraping sensation. Muscles of deglutition very sensitive. Hypertrophy of mucous membrane.


As you have insight on the medicines and have stuudied, I felt that you also look to Silecea and Belladona.

You had a white patch indicative of septic effect. You have inflamation and red. This is arising out of the infection that you caught from the food.

Now since the problem started from RIGHT side with a white patch, area is inflamed and red.

my advise to you is to consider

'Belladona'

in lower potency say 6 and in repeat doses.

Belladona';s complaints come on suddenly, with great force, stay for some time and disappear suddenly.

Bell';s complaints normally come due to exposure of the head to cold in winter/cold weather.The sudden exposure to cold in plethoric individuals, is one of the most prominent causes of the Bell. sickness.

Great liability to take cold; sensitive to drafts of air, especially when uncovering the head; from having the hair cut; tonsils become inflamed after riding in a cold wind.

Some of the Bell's complaints come on exposure to sun too.

Causation.„ŸHair-cutting. Head, getting wet. Sausages. Sun. Wind, walking in.

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The above is compiled from various Materia medicas to show it's charecteristics.

It is a purely acute remedy, for complaints that arise mainly due to exposure to cold, and sometimes to sun.

Bell works, be it a sore throat, fever,headache, stiffness of neck or any other complaint, only if the causation is there and ofcourse when the symptoms tally.

More over, even for complaints for which Bell is suitable initially, if it doesn't abort the condition quickly, the symptoms will change to point out some other remedy.

Bell is never indicated for chronic problems that linger on.

One should understand the 'pace' of the remdy, as they are called.

Some medicines are useful for complaints of purely acute nature. Aconite, and Belladona head that list, some others being Chamomilla and coffea.

Murthy

This is from Farrington

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The character of the diseases in which Belladonna is indicated is acute, sudden and violent. The very rapidity of the onset of the trouble should at once suggest Belladonna. For example, a child is perfectly well on going to bed. A few hours afterwards it is aroused with violent symptoms, jerking of the limbs, irritation of the brain, and screaming out during sleep. All these symptoms suggest Belladonna.

So too in inflammations, if they are violent and come suddenly, and are almost overwhelming in their intensity, Belladonna is again suggested. We may think of it in abscess, whether this be an abscess of the tonsil, a boil, or any other kind of abscess when pus develops with lightning-like rapidity. Hence we find it indicated in phlegmonous erysipelas, which quickly goes on to suppuration. The affected parts become greatly swollen. Pus works its way through the tissues between the various muscles. The very suddenness of the attack suggests Belladonna, The pains are quite consistent with this character of the drug. They come suddenly and last a greater or less length of time, and then cease as suddenly as they began. So much for the general character of Belladonna.

The throat is a prominent point of attack in the Belladonna proving. The inflammation which it develops there is of a very common kind. Looking into the throat, you find the fauces inflamed and bright red; the tonsils enlarged, particularly the right, with tendency of the disease to extend towards the left. All these symptoms have the same rapidity of progress that we noticed with the Belladonna symptoms elsewhere. There is great contraction of the fauces and glottis, so that any attempt to swallow is followed by sudden constriction of the throat and ejection of the food through the nose and mouth. The patient makes an attempt to drink, and the moment the water touches the fauces it is ejected, and escapes in any way it can. The patient seems to be worse from swallowing fluids, more so, in fact, than from either saliva or solids. The tonsils rapidly suppurate; the glands in the neck, externally, are commonly involved, and are to be felt as hard but very sensitive kernels in the neck. Sometimes, you find a pearly-white exudate on the fauces, which is seen to be mucus and not fibrin.

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Mark those words.

'The inflammation which it develops there(throat) is of a very common kind'.

Murthy

It is not enough to depend on Boericke alone for prescribing.

It is no doubt a handy reference book, but it doesn't cover the remedies in detail in their various facets.

To use Boericke efficiently, you must first know the essence of a remedy through other books. Then Boericke can be used for quick reference.

Murthy

Oh! I see the problem is not 'acute'

You mentioned -'Bell is never indicated for chronic problems that linger on'

Is it a chronic problem?

I felt that Chronic diseases—are such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

I have experience that inflamation which is visibly redish and with septic condition is taken care by this remedy without any side effects.Yes such situation develops suddenly.

However from your own notings as above about Belladona :-from Farrington

'So too in inflammations, if they are violent and come suddenly, and are almost overwhelming in their intensity, Belladonna is again suggested. We may think of it in abscess, whether this be an abscess of the tonsil, a boil, or any other kind of abscess when pus develops with lightning-like rapidity'

'The throat is a prominent point of attack in the Belladonna proving'


In the instant case the problem has come sudenly due to taking a particular food and there is abscess and also in throat.

I do not know why Belladona will not work.

However, if Boeruche is not to be relied upon then this book should be banned.

How is the original problem? Do you feel any diference?

Murthy

Is there cough with the elongated uvula? Is it a new symptom that happened after taking Lachesis?

What exactly is the discomfort you are having now?

Murthy

O.k.

I presume you took six doses as suggested from the RSB. If there is no added discomfort other than the usual one, we will wait for a day, to see whether the remedy has any effect.

Come back tomorrow morning and report. No more medicine for today.

Murthy