heart prob., indigestion, sneezing _{Page 9 of 14}

Today in evening after meals my father suddenly came back after a short walk and put the fan on full.
My mother asked why he felt hot. He said, 'Just a bit of discomfort'. He was sitting on bed bent forward. I too was there.
He then said that he was having gases. My mother got concerned and she too got anxious and uneasy. She said she started to sweat and needed fan.
Soon my father started farting and burping with loud sounds. He had already been farting. On asking he told that he ate 'daal-bati' in afternoon. We felt that even if he ate less, it must have been heavy on digestion.
After 10-15 minutes, burping continued. He had already taken Gelusil and I gave him another tablet.
His burping was as if the trapped gas got expelled with much louder sound.
Then he saw the usual TV show lying down.
This is about 1 1/2 hour now.
He is better but lying down and getting up.

My mother has got upset and worried. She is very anxious.
She too went into kitchen. I found that she too took a tablet of Gelusil.

I am full of office work that I saw never before.

Dear Sameer, please suggest/advise what to do.
I feel really fed up. It is so difficult handle father's and mother's heatlh troubles while I myself find it hard to sustain.

I can still hear loud burping from another room. This is my father's usual state but especially 'burping with louder sound' is there when he has lot of trouble.
Of course my father is also very anxious and afraid. He was sitting with one hand pressed on cheek waiting for trouble to die out.

Please reply early.

Calc. 30 and 200 helped him but higher potencies didn't. His improvement died out. Pulsatilla did nothing and Thuja did something of trouble. Sulphur 30 seemed to be very helpful but here we are with Sulphur 200 - Today my father digestion is very disturbed.

Thanks for comments kadwa but sorry, I think you do not have full information. My mistake perhaps. It is a bit surprising that you have drawn a conclusion rather quickly.

Perhaps you do not understand that my father and my family we live in 'concern' of illness and have very restricted diet. In fact we have observed that the very anxiety causes more problems than the diet itself or any work. (Even though we are aware, we have not been able to change out mentality and that is why homeopathy.)

We always eat 'dal-bati' equivalent of 'dal-roti' and no more. Be it the 'ghee' (oil), calories, mass of food or anything else. My father has problem with combinations which prove incompatible at certain times. Even if he ate the usual 'roti' as afternoon 'snack' he would have faced trouble. He was already complaining.

Those people who constantly restrict a variety of foods in the name of weight reduction are further causing problems to themselves. Not only they are missing fat soluble vitamins and the necessary lubrication and other things but they invite problems with constant 'raw' food and unnecessary 'fibre'.

You can several articles on this. For example something like poridge or barely (don't remember that fibrous food) taken too much causes interference with abosorption of certain vitamins while not proving additional advantage due to fibre. All renowned dieticians have told that large gaps in food (to prevent excess calories or whatever...) cause body to release cholestrol for working and this cause more deposition. Whereas small diet at freqeunt intervals is more helpful (for people with problems).
(Of course I personally do not agree to a very frequent diet, say every 2 hours, in ideal conditions.)

My father did not used to eat till 6 pm after a very light meal at 10 am. We have urged him to take breakfast in afternoon.
He is thin and sort of 'underweight'. He has dry body. Some lubrication will only help him but still his body does not absorb fat. That is the trouble.
Before and after his bypass surgery he never had excess cholestrol and his lipid profie is normal. Still, his heart vessels had to be worked upon. What do you think of it? When the cholestrol and weight problem itself is not there, How do we relate the diet to 'heart patient'?
These are the very things homeopaths should understand better, isn't it.
kadwa ji, I do not find your comments scientific.

'Aap ne hamari family ki dukhati ragon pe achaanak haath rakh diyaa. Zaahir hai karaah to zor se nikalegi hee...'

I have written too much. Perhaps it is not appropriate to try to convince people like this.

'Aap poora case padhiye. Hamare ghar rahane aayiye aur phir tippani kijiye.'

Today is my father's birthday by 'tithi'. Your one sentence is adverse to all the hard work he has done to keep himself fit.

This wil unnecessarily make Sameer feel like I am snake whose tail has been stepped upon....

I may appear to have deviated from the main question that was raised.
I add:
The chronic indigestion is not helped by further restrictions in diet than what we are already having.

I have lot of reasons to expect homeoapthy to work.

kadwa ji,
I am sorry for over reacting. I got offended too much which was unnecessary.

There are many families with good bonding. If our family were to grow spiritually more, it would be better. Then, illnesses are also less.
Anyway.

Sameer ji,
A small comment, lest I may forget. My father was complaining of stomach-ache on his own. He is also sneezing much again.
After waiting a little more we need to do something.

Dear Sameer Sir.
My father again complained of 'pet-dard' today. Two days ago also he asked me if there was any local homeopath available. I asked him to keep a little more patience. I think stomach-ache cause such trouble that he is desperate to do something. He is already taking Gelusil and today he told he now started Zinetac also but 'no use'.
Today he said, 'I plan to do a stool test'.
He and I, we both do not understand why there is so much stomach-ache.
Can you advise something?

Dear Sameer Sir,
I came to know in office that my father had 'ghabarahat+paseenaa+gas' in morning. He did not go to office on regular time. Later I asked him and he confirmed that he the usual gas trouble with uneasiness+fright+some ball of gas in stomach, etc.
Neighborhood doctor was called. He checked him and did not see an immediate problem. He asked him to try to relax and take Antax. As I mentioned in earlier post, the doctor advised stool test.

By evening my father was relatively ok but he has gone through quite an episode.

I still think he has kidney stone and it is an imp culprit.

There is only one thing:
In last week a neighbor told him early morning at 7 that another neighbor doctor of 52 died last night due to sudden heart failure.
Then today morning he again got news that yet another neighbor (though older) died of heart trouble.

My feeling is that such incidents may aggravate his mental state but they are not the cause(s). He is already feeling unwell in past 2 weeks or even more.

You asked us to wait 10 days. It is already 9 now. You have been so kind to take his case. I request you suggest a remedy early if that is possible.
Atmosphere in house is rather tense.

Dear Sameer Sir, your reply is awaited rather desperately.

Please reply here too. I do not know what allopathy my father is taking, I mean antacids most likely...they give him relief...

Sameer Sir it has been really very kind of you to find time and reply to our cases.

Please advise here too at the earliest possible.

Dear Sameer Sir, reply eagerly awaited.
In past week my father took Pantodac for 5 days. I had suggested him in case he wasn't comfortable.
He said today that 'gases still get filled' in the abdomen which means the abdominal ache has been relieved but the 'gas' problem is still troublesome.

Kindly tell what to do Sir.

He did not talk of abdomen/stomach aching. He seemed to mean that Pantodac had helped, etc.

Dear Sir, Please reply.
My father's sneezing increases sometimes. Other problems in hanging.

SameerSir. Reply awaited.

I gave him Arg. Nitr. 200, two drops in 150 ml water, one spoon from that, at 7 pm on 9 Oct. 2010. (Dr. Reckeweg)
Yesterday there was sort of belching in 2 hours and he is sneezing a lot today. Reaction has started.

I was a bit surprised by choice of Arg. Nitr. but feel relaxed since it is very likely to act on digestion.

It is 12 days now after Argentum Nitricum 200c dose.

Three days ago my father said that there was relief w.r.t stomach ache. Some relief in gases also. But problem of gas was still there. I asked him how he felt mentally. He said, 'Ok as such...'

Next day without my asking he told me that after eating he would feel that his stomach was full....for half an hour or more.

Today he went on a several km drive. In evening he told that before going he ate less. Only 1 1/2 small 'roti'. Then he came at 4 pm. Then he ate only rice. This made him comfortable w.r.t digestion. He felt better.

I reminded him my suggestion that he should try 'not' to rest after 10 am till 1 pm if possible. Just recently I had a hunch and I had suggested him to eat rice or 'dahi+rice' late in afternoon instead of 'roti' whenever possible. I think the 'hunch' had a sense....

I think he has improved.

Dr. Sameer please suggest what next.

As usual I am inclined to give next dose (of anything, any potency).
We tend to deteriorate too much if the vital force is not stimulated soon enough with a remedy. Then things again start from zero or even negative even as the potency is higher.
My desperation... or
just another hunch...!

Ah! I saw your reply before my post after update of my post.
Interestingly, my response is still in accordance with request of long wait....
Patience for patient....so tough.....

So what I feared.
My father has that back ache since yesterday. Perhaps because of that long drive or may be other reason.
Yesterday we were in open ground for about 1 1/2 hour. There was that usual cool weather at night. Today my father is sneezing excessively.
More importantly, I found him mentally excited. He was impatient and sort of anxious. The of course he would talk strongly and loudly.

Dear Sameer ji, I know that once you ask us to wait means we have to.

But I just wish to tell why I fear the gap in remedies. If we plot graph of response versus time after giving a remedy what we would see is this. Assume a time of 1 month after a 200 dose. First the line goes down due to aggravation. It may be 5 days. Then there is some improvement. Perhaps 7 to 10 days. Say 10. Then, the (positive) effect, if there was, goes down quickly within 2 weeks. After that we are not sure of permanent improvement. If we still wait looking at the positive effect of 7-10 days, the person (my father) goes to nearly the same state. This is last 2 weeks. So, the average (+ve) value is about zero. Now suppose we give 1M, again there is more aggr. and if we wait for several weeks even as the graph is not going up much, then that portion of graph is again having low average value over that long period (even when the remedy seems apparently correct). After all this, if the (good) state of the person is an 'increasing' function and therefore attains a final more +ve average value we can still be happy.
But experimental observations do not seems to indicate that way. Generally it seems to me that people like us, my father, etc. perhaps require more repetitive stimulations of vital force to work with some reasonable efficiency without much suffering.

Mine are not detailed scientific observations and obviously there is not much theory behind it but nevertheless it is a fact that there are 'some' observations that I described.

I hope the post did not disturb your busy schedule. For any other reason too if my post has displeased you then I am sorry and I apologize. I am already sure you are putting best efforts and you know better how to go deal with patients (given the constraints of remote treatment...etc., etc.)

Finally I request your comments, if any.

It is slmost two weeks.
As I posted (elsewhere) my mother had said 2-3 days ago that my father seemed 'udaas', dull/upset/depressed, etc. and he wouldn't speak much.

My father told me 3 days ago that he had been taking Zinetac (ranitidine) for about 10 days. I scolded him a little that he did not tell me. I mean I had told him to take any allopathic medicine that suited him but only he should inform me so that when I wrote here, it should be known.
Now he has stopped.

Today I asked him how he felt. He said that problem of 'gases' was still there in less intensity. 'The stomach feels filled after eating...' is what he added. There has been some improvement in his problems of digestion but they are continued. His sneezing is about the same.

In 2-3 days there will be lot of Diwali activity and he is going to be concerned mentally as well as physically face more problems.

Sameer ji, please suggest what next.