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Experiences with Hypericum perforatum
EXPERIENCES
Tuberculinum :
Pyrogen :
WITH
ItYPERICUM
PERFORATUM
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A monthly dose of the 30th potency is usually sufficient to confer protection." For the symptoms that hang o n - - t h e cough, weakness and weariness and the sweating. Always keep this remedy in mind when treating sore throats with frequent tonsillitis and enlarged tonsils. A nosode in line with a patient's constitution or family history has frequently given striking results, allowing the previously well indicated but inactive remedy to take hold. For the long continued symptoms which may reach a septic state. Bed feels too hard. Great debility.
Reprinted from the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society News Letter, with the kind permission of the Editor
Experiences with Hypericum perforatum Dn. JOSg
VICENTE
PI1NEROS
More than one hundred species of the family Hypericaceae are known. We have here a Hypericum of the Andes called "chites" and among the curative species H. glutinosum called lunarian; others are called Spanish broom, stickfast and San Juan grass, but in the homceopathie preparations I-[ypericum perforatum L. is used, commonly called grass of Santa Lucia, perforated St. John's wort of Europe and grass of a thousand needles. Hypericum, so valuable and effective, has accompanied me for many years, especially in the treatment of common accidents in our countryside, as for example, in infected chilblains, for which the principal medicament has been applied as much internally as externally. In wounds and scratches caused by wooden splinters, nails, wire, etc. Where tetanus is presumed, infectious illness, of rapid and dangerous development, as in seed sowing, with cattle, stables, etc. I have also used it in cases of violent headache, migraine, neuralgia of the throat, eczema in children of only a few months, and rectal irritation produced by diarrhoea, in children of less than 1 year of age. Translation from the Spanish of an item published in La Homeopatia, the OfficialOrgan of the Homeopathic Institute of Colombia, in July 1969. Translator: Mrs. Nona Davey
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THE
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HOM(EOPATHIC
JOURNAL
I n the very strong nervous pains after wounds or operations; in the nervous systems of drunkards and for persistent hiccough. For t r a u m a of the brain and the medulla for the spinal column I have used it with Acidum phos., with surprising results. I n the veterinary sphere it fulfils one of its major roles, by using it in a mixture of castor oil and vegetable charcoal mixed with ground cattle hooves, taking care when using it to wash the affected p a r t well and then cover it with the mixture, protecting it as well as possible. Oil of Hypericum is very efficacious in the treatment of sores occasioned b y long periods in bed, it is prepared from the extract of the plant mixed with linseed oil. I n homceopathic treatment, the recommended doses are 6x and 30x.
Obituary T~OMAS PATERSON, M.B., CH.e., Honorary Member of the Faculty of Homceopathy. This fine old doctor aged 84 years, who died on 23 October 1969, would have practised medicine for sixty years if he had lived three months longer. I n 1910 he qualified at Glasgow University. He first worked in general practice in Coatbridge, using a bicycle as his means of conveyance. Later he was an assistant in a mining area, Catrine, in Ayrshire, and still later assisted the famous Dr. Dishington. Although he was no relation, Dr. Tom was responsible for introducing Homceopathy to Dr. John Paterson, who later became famous for his research on the bacteriological aspects of Homceopathy and the bowel nosodes. I n 1921 he was an assistant physician at the new Homceopathic Sick Children's Hospital at Mount Vernon. This hospital dealt with m a n y poor marasmic babies or children and on occasions Dr. Paterson was known to have walked the five miles from Parkhead over to the hospital and back when he had to see an extremely ill child as the result of an emergency night call when public transport was no longer available. I n 1934 he became an assistant physician at the Homceopathie Dispensary at 5 Lynedoch Crescent, but in 1955, when he was 70, his official contract was terminated. He then continued his work on a voluntary basis. The Board of Management of the Homceopathie Hospitals and the Scottish homceopathic doctors thought so highly of his dedicated work that they decided to present him with an honorarium on account of his forty-six years of unstinted service. This was also recognized b y the British Faculty of Homceop a t h y when it granted him an Honorary Membership in 1967.
Tuberculinum :
Pyrogen :
WITH
ItYPERICUM
PERFORATUM
117
A monthly dose of the 30th potency is usually sufficient to confer protection." For the symptoms that hang o n - - t h e cough, weakness and weariness and the sweating. Always keep this remedy in mind when treating sore throats with frequent tonsillitis and enlarged tonsils. A nosode in line with a patient's constitution or family history has frequently given striking results, allowing the previously well indicated but inactive remedy to take hold. For the long continued symptoms which may reach a septic state. Bed feels too hard. Great debility.
Reprinted from the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society News Letter, with the kind permission of the Editor
Experiences with Hypericum perforatum Dn. JOSg
VICENTE
PI1NEROS
More than one hundred species of the family Hypericaceae are known. We have here a Hypericum of the Andes called "chites" and among the curative species H. glutinosum called lunarian; others are called Spanish broom, stickfast and San Juan grass, but in the homceopathie preparations I-[ypericum perforatum L. is used, commonly called grass of Santa Lucia, perforated St. John's wort of Europe and grass of a thousand needles. Hypericum, so valuable and effective, has accompanied me for many years, especially in the treatment of common accidents in our countryside, as for example, in infected chilblains, for which the principal medicament has been applied as much internally as externally. In wounds and scratches caused by wooden splinters, nails, wire, etc. Where tetanus is presumed, infectious illness, of rapid and dangerous development, as in seed sowing, with cattle, stables, etc. I have also used it in cases of violent headache, migraine, neuralgia of the throat, eczema in children of only a few months, and rectal irritation produced by diarrhoea, in children of less than 1 year of age. Translation from the Spanish of an item published in La Homeopatia, the OfficialOrgan of the Homeopathic Institute of Colombia, in July 1969. Translator: Mrs. Nona Davey
118
THE
BRITISI~
HOM(EOPATHIC
JOURNAL
I n the very strong nervous pains after wounds or operations; in the nervous systems of drunkards and for persistent hiccough. For t r a u m a of the brain and the medulla for the spinal column I have used it with Acidum phos., with surprising results. I n the veterinary sphere it fulfils one of its major roles, by using it in a mixture of castor oil and vegetable charcoal mixed with ground cattle hooves, taking care when using it to wash the affected p a r t well and then cover it with the mixture, protecting it as well as possible. Oil of Hypericum is very efficacious in the treatment of sores occasioned b y long periods in bed, it is prepared from the extract of the plant mixed with linseed oil. I n homceopathic treatment, the recommended doses are 6x and 30x.
Obituary T~OMAS PATERSON, M.B., CH.e., Honorary Member of the Faculty of Homceopathy. This fine old doctor aged 84 years, who died on 23 October 1969, would have practised medicine for sixty years if he had lived three months longer. I n 1910 he qualified at Glasgow University. He first worked in general practice in Coatbridge, using a bicycle as his means of conveyance. Later he was an assistant in a mining area, Catrine, in Ayrshire, and still later assisted the famous Dr. Dishington. Although he was no relation, Dr. Tom was responsible for introducing Homceopathy to Dr. John Paterson, who later became famous for his research on the bacteriological aspects of Homceopathy and the bowel nosodes. I n 1921 he was an assistant physician at the new Homceopathic Sick Children's Hospital at Mount Vernon. This hospital dealt with m a n y poor marasmic babies or children and on occasions Dr. Paterson was known to have walked the five miles from Parkhead over to the hospital and back when he had to see an extremely ill child as the result of an emergency night call when public transport was no longer available. I n 1934 he became an assistant physician at the Homceopathie Dispensary at 5 Lynedoch Crescent, but in 1955, when he was 70, his official contract was terminated. He then continued his work on a voluntary basis. The Board of Management of the Homceopathie Hospitals and the Scottish homceopathic doctors thought so highly of his dedicated work that they decided to present him with an honorarium on account of his forty-six years of unstinted service. This was also recognized b y the British Faculty of Homceop a t h y when it granted him an Honorary Membership in 1967.