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Optic nerve atrophy treated with Calcium carbonicum
252 Optic nerve atrophy treated with Calcium carbonicum
H. LEERS An eight-year-old boy with hereditary optic nerve atrophy and a poor prognosis (eye hospital) whose symptoms on repertorization clearly pointed to Calcium carbonicum responded to a single dose of the 200th potency combined with a change to a healthier diet and lifestyle. All HomOop Ztg 1991; 236:115-116 Primary biliary cirrhosis treated with Hedera helix
P. K O E N I G Hedera helix has become part of the armamen-
British Hom~eopathicJournal tarium thanks ot the work of J. Mezger, whose drug proving and clinical report refer to a marked relationship to the liver, thyroid and joints. The history is given of a woman with primary biliary cirrhosis who also had a history of nodular goitre. Long-term treatment with Hedera helix 5c proved successful. A remarkable symptom was the ravenousness coinciding with epigastric symptoms. Other symptoms: palpitations/pulsation in chest extending to neck; waking at 3 am, worse lying on right; tiredness after eating. Mezger called this a markedly left-sided drug and apart from the local symptoms, the history showed predominantly left-sided problems. All Homdop Ztg 1991; 236:143-9
English-language journals reviewed by Steven Kayne and Dr N. J. Pratt, French-language journals by Drs D. Cado-Leclerq and E. Callebout, German-language journals by A. R. Meuss, and both Portuguese and Spanish-language journals by Dr Erika Hagelberg.
H. LEERS An eight-year-old boy with hereditary optic nerve atrophy and a poor prognosis (eye hospital) whose symptoms on repertorization clearly pointed to Calcium carbonicum responded to a single dose of the 200th potency combined with a change to a healthier diet and lifestyle. All HomOop Ztg 1991; 236:115-116 Primary biliary cirrhosis treated with Hedera helix
P. K O E N I G Hedera helix has become part of the armamen-
British Hom~eopathicJournal tarium thanks ot the work of J. Mezger, whose drug proving and clinical report refer to a marked relationship to the liver, thyroid and joints. The history is given of a woman with primary biliary cirrhosis who also had a history of nodular goitre. Long-term treatment with Hedera helix 5c proved successful. A remarkable symptom was the ravenousness coinciding with epigastric symptoms. Other symptoms: palpitations/pulsation in chest extending to neck; waking at 3 am, worse lying on right; tiredness after eating. Mezger called this a markedly left-sided drug and apart from the local symptoms, the history showed predominantly left-sided problems. All Homdop Ztg 1991; 236:143-9
English-language journals reviewed by Steven Kayne and Dr N. J. Pratt, French-language journals by Drs D. Cado-Leclerq and E. Callebout, German-language journals by A. R. Meuss, and both Portuguese and Spanish-language journals by Dr Erika Hagelberg.