Von Grauvogl and Ayurvedic medicine

It has only recently come to my notice that the ‘Constitutions ‘ of Von Grauvogl originate in Ayurdavedic Medical theory. To clarify this point I give below Von Grauvogl’s definitions of these constitutions.


THE OXYGENOID CONSTITUTION
It will thus be seen that remedies for the Oxygenoid constitution are largely anti-syphilitic remedies as recognised in homeopathy. And Grauvogl expressly states : " The law of similars must always decide the special indication .

Dr. Pascal, in an article contributed to the Bulletin de l'Homeopathie on Grauvogl's Constitutions, gives the following summary of the Oxygenoid which may be usefully appended, although it may appear to involve repetition :
In this oxygen predominates, or rather the proteid matters are struck with instability with a morbid facility of division.
Oxidations are rapid though often incomplete. Consumption of tissue arrives more rapidly than in normal conditions of life. Hydrocarbons and albuminoids being rapidly burnt up, leave the tissues defenseless against the burning power of oxygen. Oxygenoids are thin and weigh less than carbo-nitrogenoids of equal volume. . This provokes the using up of proteid materials and
the cellular framework Scrofula rickets , infantile atrophy and various states called " anemia "result from this.
Oxygenoids feel better in an atmosphere saturated with nitrogen and carbon, in the midst of resinous, fatty or empyreumatic vapours.
They refuse easily oxidisable, animal foods. and seek for fats and . hydrocarbons s which oxidise slowly.
They are worse when dryness is changing to humidity, before storms; before and during tempestuous winds and better when it begins to rain or snow and the electric equilibrium is restored.
They are worse in foggy weather, and when, with a temperate air, mists rise from the forests. This is the opposite of what obtains in the carbo-nitrogenoids with whom fogs, like those of England, provoke melancholy and tendency to suicide.
Nevertheless there is a certain rainy time which relieves hydrogenoids and aggravates oxygenoids. This is when hen the air is charged with ozone and the highest points of the mountains are not covered with mists.
In brief, electric disturbances aggravate, and electric equilibrium relieves oxygenoids.
In the last analysis the phenomena can be traced to a plus or a minus of atmospheric ozone.
Electric attractions polarise atmos-pheric pheric oxygen and transform it into ozone (oxygen polarised negatively) and antozone (oxygen polarised positively); it is after undergoing this modification that it becomes an effective and energetic oxidiser. Electric disturbances then act as hyperoxidants and this accounts for their aggravations.
However, watery excess enables hydrogenoids to bear hyper-oxidation better, for it demands a still greater storage of heat. This is why rainy weather, charged with ozone relieves hydrogenoids under certain circumstances whilst it,a aggravates oxygenoids .
Other symptoms constantly found in oxygenoids are : Excessive elimination of urea and phosphates;
' Plethora – great quantity of blood
Much oxygen fixed on the hemoglobin ; Excessive thinness.
Animal heat, strong after meals and feeble in the intervals.
Vigorous appetite which persists astonishingly during illnesses.
Abstinence, on the contrary, is badly tolerated.
> by Rest and Food.
- < by Cold, Sea-air, Low altitudes.
- Oxygenoids are what are commonly called nervous individuals characterised by great physical and mental activity.

TREATMENT.
Grauvogl puts in the first rank Kali iod. since it-absorbs all the ozone. Rademacher gives the first pIace to Ferrum.
Among, remedies having a direct action on oxygenoids are the Carbons and compounds rich in carbon, Graphites, Petrol., Benzin., Citric ac., Hydr. ac., Laurocerasus, and also, by inference, Antozonised water, which is probably equal to Iodosmised water (l'eau iodosmée) ; Nitr. ac. and a great number of bodies. capable of checking the destructive process: Ars., Chi, Chi sul., Kalí bichr
The law of similars always decides special indications.

ICARBO-NITROGENOID CONSTITUTION
This constitution is characterised by in sufficient oxygenation and the diseases it produces are called diseases of retarded nutrition. This makes for increased liability to disease and perverted nutrition.
After a period of obesity, thinness follows. Albuminoids are decomposed like the hydrocarbons. There is pseudo-albuminaria; phosphaturia, acetonemia, rickets and osteomalachia.
General symptoms great frequency of respirations with ' shallowness ; short breath, frequent
Pulse blood charged with melanotic cellules. Constipation or diarrhoea, flatulence, urinary troubles, gouty pain, in the head gouty swellings . vertigo, ataxia, dullness of the head ; "somnolence, yawning, hypochondriasis, irritability and extraordinary impatience.,
Copious uric acid and oxalates in urine. Epistaxis and hemorrhoids. -Pruritus. -Precocious baldness with perspiration of the head.-Cerebral fatigue. Unhealthy skin, fetid and acid perspiration, boils, eczema, urticaria.
CAUSES OF AGGRAVATION.
I. Everything which hinders oxidation.
2. Everything which increases hydrocarbons and albuminoids.
3. Everything which diminishes the alkalinity of the humours .

CARBO-NITROGENOID CONSTITUTION
3. Everything which diminishes the alkalinity of the humours.
< Rest. Non-ozonised mists.
< Irritation of cerebro-spinal or sympathetic. nervous system.
< Sexual excesses. < Over-feeding. < Confined air. < Chagrin.
< Respiratory insufficiency.
< Loss of blood or blood-letting which diminishes the number of blood globules and consequently oxydation.
< Excess of Sodium salts, like sea salt, which hinders cellular osmosis and diminishes the quantity of water in the tissues.

TREATMENT.
The Carbo-nitrogenoid lacks ozone and is rich in carbon and nitrogen. Consequently it finds its chief remedy in ozone and ozonated water.
Applicable also are all remedies which facilitate the splitting up of hydrocarbons and albuminoíds and the discharging of oxygen chemically into the heart of the tissues. For example :
Cupr., Phos., Sulph., Camph., Hepar sulph. Aco., Merc., Aur., Argent, Plumb., Plat., 0il. tereb., Rhus., Dulc., Cham., Lyc., Bov., Bel., Nux 30 (alone - not alternated as for Hydrogenoids), Digit., Hyos., Apis., Lob, infl.