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blocked eustachion tubes - again

Hi, I'm 31 and have a history of ear problems.
Gromits and skin graft for perforated ear drum as child.
As an adult, whenever I get a cold (which is probably 3 or 4 times a year) it usually ends up with me being on antibiotics for blocked ears! In the past this has cleared the ears. 2 years ago I had a very bad cold that lasted for about 3 months, with blocked ears and hearing loss in both ears, had lots of different antibiotics and then suddenly fell ill with bacterial meningitis. I recovered and was told that the meningitis came from the ear infection. A week later I had grommits put in both ears and my hearing came back. I've been told that I have narrow eustachion tubes which become blocked when I get a cold. I'm now 9 days into a cold and although the cold itself has gone (and all the thick bloody mucus) my ears are still blocked. I have no pain at all just loss of hearing in both ears and complete paranoia that I might contract meningitis again! Have just been researching ear problems on the internet and came across this site. Any help or advice would be most appreciated.
 
  happymama on 2005-11-01
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Recent items on Q potencies have caused me to look again at the work of Dr Cooper. I have prepared remedies in this way and can personally testify to the fact that they work!
In my personal case I was getting deaf in the right ear , where I had a mastoid operation when young. I had some Bluebell `( Agraphis Nutans ) and a SINGLE DROP of this at 21 day intervals --- three doses – cured the problem. This was over 2 years ago , so one can say that it is a permanent cure.




ARBORIVITAL TINCTURES

These are prepared as follows.

A] The selected plant must be growing in the soil of the planet earth – not a pot--.The reason for this is that only in this way is it in connection with all the energies of the earth, which include gravity.
B] The living plant with its connection to the roots at all times, is bent over so that the flower with buds and stalk are in a small screw top container. This is then lightly bruised between the thumb and finger. Bruised without destroying any part of the plant, this is solely to allow the alcohol easy access to the interior of the plant.
C] A sunny day is necessary as this is part of the energy we are drawing into the remedy. When the plant is thus set up then it is submerged in alcohol/rectified spirit. It is then left for 60 minutes , simply topping up as there is evaporation.
D] At the end of this time put the lid on – you have your tincture.
E] To use it you need a small eye dropper bottle , into which you put a small quantity.


D] GET ONE DROP ONLY IN THE DROPPER AND PUT IT ON THE TONGUE. THIS IS A DOSE , AND IT SHOULD NOT BE REPEATED FOR 3/4 WEEKS.













ENT clinic in the late 19th cent
Records of Dr R.T.Cooper
Who used arborivital remedies to cure cases of Cancer.


The case is in every way characteristic of the , remedy a tendency to free discharge from mucous membranes, relaxed condition of the system generally and a proness to take cold on exposure to cold winds. Its action certainly reminds us of scilla maratima, next to which is usually described in works on botany both being of the same natural order , the liliaceae.
I have seen however, sufficient of the action of the remedy to convince me that there are strong points of difference between the two, and that in the bluebell of the wood we have a remedy for children which in some points is of extreme importance. Bear in mind the improvement above recorded, resulted from a single dose,the occurrence of a vaginal discharge while under the In influence of the remedy is very interesting , for more than once I I have observed irregularities in this sphere of the organism to be modified by it There was no change of diet or mode of living whatever , and a like remark applies to all the cases unless otherwise stated.
Another case we may mention is that of a girl 5 1/2 years for whom, on the 10th of September 1892, agraphis nutans was prescribed. She had a sore throat a week ago leaving profuse discharge from the left ear with deafness, the child's general condition being feeble. improvement in every way was recorded, child in every way stronger and better, ear discharge much less and deafness apparently gone.
In the case of a girl of 12 where post nasal growths and enlarged tonsils had followed upon diptheria some six years previously, a single dose of agraphis nutans was followed by a lessening of the symptoms, viz,talking in the sleep , mouth open, fulness of the tonsils, twitchings of the nose ,loss of smell, recurring colds in the head, and improvement has continued under the same given at intervals of several weeks.
A governess of 30 admitted the 10th September, 1892, very deaf in both ears for five years. with hissing tinnitus,cause unknown, very nervous and weak, easily tired, constant headache across the forehead and bridge of the nose ,aggravated by high winds [has just returned from a sea voyage which in every way made her ears worse], dry feeling and burning in the throat, monthly period followed by profuse leucorrhea, no pain or backache. Repeat agraphis nutans. Ist October1892, hearing much improved, tinnitus less, head lighter,deafness appears much less and the creaking in her head , as if a bell was ringing is much less.
At the same time the force associated with the material particles of the plant, the original growth force,derived from potentization by means of exposure of the living plant in spirit will represent as nearly as possible, each of them a definite power, which in contrast. with ordinary homeopathic preparations , is in Agraphus Nutans ,vel Hyacinthus Nutans,vel Hyacinthus Non Scriptus, the common bluebell of the woods, natural order Liliacae . Tincture made with rectified spirit and juice of the budding stalk and young leaves March 1892 .
This remedy which was one of the first, that engaged my attention and which has continued to interest me more and more every day, posesses an action that seems in every way definite and distinct .
The plant itself has at all times been a favorite ; one of our earliest spring flowers, it brightens and lends colour all the early year to our shaded woods.The bluebell shades itself in shrubberies and while nestling close to the wood-anemone takes care to be well shaded by the smaller hazel twigs, beneath which it is so often found , from the cold easterly breezes.
Its action as a remedy finds remarkable illustration in the case of a little girl five years of age living at Brixton, who was admitted under me at the L. H Hospital June 11, 1892, with deafness and otorrhea of both cars, dating twelve months back. and a history of three had attacks of bronchitis; one at a year old, one at two years and a third at three. Her eyes and nose discharged profusely and had to be bathed every morning. The little girl has always been subject to cough and for four or five months has been bringing up dark gray mucus. Bowels, are regular appetite poor, and perspires much in bed.
Agraphis Nutans . June 25 1892, altogether better but has a hacking cough with beady phlegm first thing in the morning, discharge much less from both eyes and nose:.August 6th, 1892.- Once during the interval a discharge vaginal in situation and catamenial in appearance, was noticed but did not continue. In every possible way the child has improved ; hearing much better the eye and nose no longer require bathing, and through discharge is still seen it is very much less.
Many times additional alcohol has been freely added from time to time to prevent evaporation. All I aim at in the preperation is to secure and preserve the growth force , and to prepare the tincupre in such a way as to leave as little doubt about its presence. For this reason I advocate the preparation of Arborivital tinctures in the field from the living plant , the preparer carrying with him a container into which the budding stalk and youmg leaves of the plant are placed fresh as they grow , and upon these simply crushed between finger and thumb should be poured rectified spirit. But more than this, In order the efficacy of the tincture and to secure with certainty the power of the growth-force am in the habit of plunging the living stalk while yet connected with theplant into the spirit, and allowing the strongest sunlight that usually plays upon it in its native habitat to fall upon the phial filled with the spirit the stalk being at tile same time immersed in it.
Thus our tinctures are presumably potentised and each potentisation will represent five minutes exposure. When the branches are thus subjected to the spirit and the sunlight for an hour I find that the branch and its leaves have in most cases withered ; at the termination and therefore, of each twelfth potency a fresh branch or stalk are subjected to the same process.
Thus: Plantago lanceolata A will be plantago lanceolata 12th arborivital mother tincture. The12th I have used that thus the remedy has has a more certain curative influence
To say that such preparations are stronger than others as has been claimed for the homeopathic dilutions, would require a definition of the word stronger and I therefore avoid this statement purposely , all I comit myself to is that tinctures thus potentized represent powers different from those prepared ill the ordinary way, and that their curative properties are as far as I can judge from clinical experience , more certain. The arborivital tincture., will, therefore, be potentised directly from plants as they grow,and are hence to coin a word , termed heliosthens and a drop of a high heliosthen say 12 , will mean a drop of as definite material strength as it as it is possible to obtain from a plant by the action of rectified spirit upon it , plus any strength communicated to it by our method of potentising and which of necessity is of purely hypothetical quantity . At the same time the force




In the cases of Cancer the below shows some of the power of this method.

Thus, in the case of the poor woman referred to, I learned before prescribing that the period came dark and in clotted lumps, that she had had a sensation of something moving inside the abdomen, with a livid complexion changing now and then to yellow, and a general feeling of. pressure in the abdomen, with weighty feeling towards the womb- these added to my general experience with the effects of this particular remedy, led me to Crocus Sativus. ,
So that the more striking generalities were used as pointers or 'Keynotes', and Cooper regarded cancer of the internal type as amenable to this treatment. My contention, in a word, is this, that in the living plants we get a force, which, if applied in accordance with the laws of Life to disease, will arrest its progress, and even cause its dispersal. Further, that while artificial preparations, dilutions, and triturations are required for the better demonstration of such a force in mineral substances, they are not required for proving the existence of a like force in plant-remedies.
To this force I gave the name Arborivital, and the action that results therefrom Arborivital Action. I further state that some of the most easily acted upon forms of chronic disease, such as are the cancers, have for this reason, remained, at this enlightened age, upon the list of uncured and incurable diseases.'
Let us then consider a specific case that he quotes in "Cancer and Cancer Symptoms" P 5/6 8/9 10/11. "A lady asked me if I would take up the case of a poor woman suffering I cancer, in whom the right kidney had been removed some eighteen months before, and in whom the cancer had broken out again at the site of the operation and around the bladder.
Without seeing the patient, and from my experience in such cases, I replied that in all probability there was a great deal of cancerous growth present. If so, the likelihood was in favor of its being easily acted on, and consequently, that disease would give out almost immediate she took a dose of the indicated remedy. The patient therefore, I went on to say, will probably be frightened, and discontinue treatment.
The lady's reply was significant; "There is not the slightest fear of the poor woman being frightened, for she is now under the influence of morphia, and is entirely despaired of by all the doctors who have seen her." On February 10 of this year (1899), 1 sent her a dose of a very simple remedy - Saffron Crocus - and on the 14th day her daughter came to me to know what was to be done. Her mother, though constipated previously, had next day after the dose, broken into the most violent diarrhea a; even her food passed through her at once, and she felt fearfully depressed and low.
Recognising the fact that all this was to be fully explained by the out- pouring of the disease, I simply advised copious draughts of very hot water in sips, and the discontinuance as far as possible of the morphia she had been taking. If, then the ignorant and superstitious idea obtaining that there must be some proportion between the amount of disease material and the size and virulence of the dispersing agent, any attempt at curing the disease is simply hopeless. For is it not evident that if a large quantity of such a substance is necessarily associated with a proportion amount of force. Such force, if in relationship with the disease, will be so great as to cause a rapid giving way of diseased tissue and will thus tend to poison the patient?
'While if, in such a case as the above, the doses, though small are too frequently repeated, the effect will be the same. The too rapid dispersal of the diseased material will act as a poison not alone to the life of the adjoining tissues but to that of the patient thus rapidly infected? "
Those medicines - simple plant-remedies - can thus influence these forms of disease is not a matter of mere theory; my knowledge of it is evolved from deliberate clinical observation extending over more than thirty years. The matter is simply one of relationship; it is not a matter of quantity of material. ,
Were there no evidence forthcoming but that furnished by the above case, it alone would prove the preliminary statement that the cancers, and especially the internal ones, can easily be acted on. But can this Force, so powerful in disturbing a disease mass. be utilised for curative purposes? In the case referred to, an immense carcinomatous mass extended from close below the liver down to the pelvis on the right side, and at the site of operation this pointed and threatened to ulcerate. A patient whose body is so full of cancerous material and with but a single kidney left after the operator has done his work. She is not under any circumstances likely to recover; but that she is being acted upon, and acted upon beneficially, is evident from the pain having changed in character and severity. From stabbing, shooting pains to dull and dragging ones - and from the fact that the patient no longer requires morphia for her pains, and is having sufficient sleep. Though as I write, a fortnight has elapsed since this patient took a dose of a very simple remedy, Juniper comm, her entreaty is not to be given another yet awhile; and she is perfectly right. The action started is a beneficial one, but it is attended with greater changes than the poor patient can comfortably endure. Its violence must be allowed to tone down before a repetition of such effects can be safely endured.


To conclude let us consider a final case that Cooper felt was unarguable because the patient was opened up and found to be inoperable due to the extent of the cancer. He was then sewn back up again before he put himself in Cooper's hands.
To go on actual experience, Geo A. Murrel, aged 40, was seen by me July 22 1898.
History - Fifteen years subject to dyspeptic pains, and twelve years ago strained himself lifting a kitchen range, felt the strain severely below the chest, and dates his suffering from then, though even before this was dyspeptic. Was treated in the Heart Hospital under Dr.-, after having been an outpatient for six months'.
In the middle of January 1898, severe pains set in between the liver and stomach and he went into Westminster Hospital, the diagnosis being neuralgia of the stomach from gastric catarrh. Was discharged unrelieved and was then seen by several other physicians. In March was advised to go into the Cancer Hospital, Brompton, where he was operated on; the statement made to him after the operation being that adhesions had been found between the stomach and thoracic wall.
That a cancerous growth and thickening of the pyloric extremity of the duodenum, and that it was impossible to remove all the diseased tissue. Some temporary relief followed upon the operation, and he was discharged from the hospital under promise of his returning if the pain reappeared.
The patient from whom these particulars are gathered, writes to me that "The Cancer Hospital also arranged with Dr D. -, a French specialist to come over (to the hospital). I (the patient) consented to another operation under him; but when my case was fully explained to him he went back (to France) without doing anything, as I understood that they could not do me any good."
This was after having obtained re-admission to the hospital owing to the return of his agonising pains. After being six weeks in hospital on this second occasion he returned home. And was assured by his own doctor that everything possible had been done for him, and that he could not possibly live long, and that he must bear the pain while life lasted.
The copy of his doctor's certificate is in my possession, dated July 19 in which it is stated that the patient "is totally unable to follow any employment." " The case, therefore, admits of no doubt as to its nature or as to its severity."
I first saw him on the 6th of July 22, 1898; he was then writhing in agony on his bed, and could keep nothing long on his stomach; warm foods relieved, cold drinks aggravated. ,
The pains were worse at night, and began in the stomach, spreading from there to the heart and between the shoulders, as if an iron brick were being forced through the stomach and chest."
The patient felt the growth to be rapidly enlarging, and pointed to the visible bulging underneath the attachment of the diaphragm, where there is marked dullness of percussion, the bulging extending to scrobiculus cordis. His tongue is red and coated towards the back, bowels confined, though sometimes had diarrhea. His family history is good, except that his father died at the age of 73 of gastric ulcerations.
On July 27 he wrote that he had had terrible pains on Saturday the 23rd, and had vomited twice. At 6-0/clock p.m. of this day had taken a unit dose of Ornithogalum Umbellatum, and afterwards reported that it was followed by great pains. He felt almost frantic at 3 am and again at I p.m. when the bowels acted. At 3 am he began taking 3 grains every third hour of Carbo Vegetabilis 3x. The pain however, still kept on, and affected not alone the stomach but the whole body, and as he thought the Carbo Veg increased the pains he left it off on the Tuesday following.
On the next day he wrote me that since being under me a frothy substance comes up which gives great relief.
From this report I concluded the Ornithogalum Umbel had touched the disease, and had acted beneficially, though restricted in its operation by the Carbo Vgetabilis. The expulsion of a frothy substance with relief was, I considered, sufficient evidence of beneficial action. For this reason I sent him Ornithogalurn Umbel again, and in unit dose. This he took on the evening of July 28 and almost immediately after began bringing up a black jelly-like substance, with great relief to pain and general improvement in his condition.
Being away from town in August the patient frequently wrote me, the report on August 29 being as follows: - "l am pleased to tell you that I keep fairly well, although at times I have great pain in the lower part of the stomach. I have also great difficulty in going to sleep, owing to the creepy sensation in my limbs. I also find that when I sit down my legs and feet go all of a creep, and I am unable to keep still, and cannot read unless I walk about. My feet also ache and swell."
1, I deferred prescribing till September 9 when the same was again given, and on September 18 he writes-- "I am pleased to say the sleeplessness a night time had gradually gone away. I can now sleep much better. I still find slight pains at the bottom of my stomach, and also a little more swelling. I still feel weak and unable to walk far at a time, but of course the weather has been very trying even to strong people.
"I am pleased and thankful for the progress I have made, and have to thank you for the splendid results of your treatment. I could not possibly have lived much longer in the terrible suffering I was in."
On September 30 1 saw him, and he informed me that after the dose the feet and ankles began to swell, but gradually got better. And that a week ago the right leg felt as if it were bruised, and is now painful and angry looking - it is swollen and tense, and pits on pressure. He feels, too, when eating, as if the food chokes in the stomach, some flatus, bowels regular.
On this occasion I gave him another dose of the Ornith Umbel. The side effect of it, however, was to confirm my belief that this swelling of the absorbents, shown by the condition of the right leg and the previous swollen condition of the feet and ankles. These resulted from the high pressure put upon the emunctories owing to the setting free of the poison in the system. "
" In a few days after he came to me in a great fright and pulling up his trousers showed me the terrible condition, as he thought, of his legs. They were swollen, and great red streaks and patches could be seen coursing down the limbs. -,
Believing that this was due to that rapid elimination of the cancer poison I rather astonished him by insisting upon his walking away without any medicine whatever.
Since then, his recovery has gone on uninterruptedly, and though since this last report he has taken two or three doses of the Ornithog Umn, he has not had any other medicine. I except a unit dose of Alinaria officinalis, and is now in the state of health set forth in this letter received from him as I write: -
Elm Lodge, Feltham, Middlesex May 3,1899
"Dr -Cooper
"Dear Sir, -“In addition to my previous letters to you, I must tell you I have had no pain since the first week in August last; I certainly feel a slight weakness in the stomach at times, but not always. “ "My appetite is wonderfully good, and I can eat almost any kind i food, and am also able to enjoy my meals, which I had not done ft years; am able to get about well, and carry on my-business without fatigue. “
"I have rejoined the Volunteer force and have done two or three good stiff marches, besides firing in competitions, and feel no ill effects. I have never felt so well for nearly twenty years. I feet wonderfully well now, and have gained the two stone odd which I lost during my illness. Everyone I meet, whether in Kensington, Shepherd's Bush, or Feltham, is astonished when they see me, 'and all speak of the marvelous cure affected by yourself. “
"I am, dear sir, "Yours faithfully,
"Geo A Murrell."
. Evidence could not be stronger in favor of my assertion that these internal cancers are most amenable to treatment, of all the forms of chronic complaints. There is none other that so surely deprives the patient of life and in which life can be with such certainty restored by the influence of simple remedies. This is the lesson of Murrell's case, and his very existence on earth is an undeniable testimony to its import. "'
I have quoted this case at length to show that a homeopathic method of this sort does not go "out of date" and, being effective, should be given a wider airing and more thorough testing. Cooper also makes the point that his Arborivital system is not so rapid or effective where cancer is external, and on the surface of the body.
The evidence of the influence of unit doses upon the external forms of cancer, of which the cancers of the breast form by far the larger proportion. Is by no means so completely satisfactory; the cancers of external parts, speaking very broadly, require a longer period of time before the tremendous power of the Arborivital doses manifests itself. Showing evident diminution in size, and moreover, it is more difficult to get the cancers, pent up as they are in the form of swellings, to disperse when thus localised.
 
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