X-Ray – A reflection from the clinical bedside

Minimum Syndrome of Maximum Value – X-ray – Has the property of stimulating cellular metabolism. Arouses the reactive vitality, mentally and physically. Brings to the surface suppressed symptoms, especially sycotic and those due to mixed infections. Its homeopathic action is thus centrifugal, towards the periphery.

AGGRAVATION:

  • Night
  • In Evening
  • Open Air
  • On Swallowing

AMELIORATION:

  • WARMTH
  • WARM APPLICATIONS

APPEARANCE – ON OBSERVATION

  • Rough and scaly palms (Kali ars)
  • PSORIASIS
  • Warty growths
  • Dry & wrinkled skin (Ars)
  • Eczema- Dry, Itching (Alum, Mez, Psor, Sep, Tell)

PATIENT AS A PERSON

  • Sexual desire lost (Agnus, Calad, Graph, Lyc, Nat m)
  • Lewd dreams (Aur, Bor, Calc c, Kali p, Phos, Staph)
  • General tiredness and sickly feeling (Gels, Kali p, Lach)
  • Tendency for warty growths (Nit ac, Thuj)
  • Tendency for painful cracks (Graph, Nat m, Petr)
  • Lateral surface of the tongue feels eroded; patient as a person desires hot but better by cold

MEDICINE AS A REMEDY:

  • A medicine having a strong background of Syphilis & Sycosis
  • It has got the power of re-producing the suppressed gonorrheal discharge (Med, Thuj)
  • It has got profound effect on the sexual glands and their secretions:
    – Atrophy of ovaries (Apis, Bar m, Carboneum s, Con, Helon, Iod, Sulph)
    – Atrophy of testes (Aur, Bar c, Caps, Carbo an, Gels, Iod, Kali I, Lyss, Plb, Staph, Zinc)
  • Painful throat on swallowing (Bell, Merc, Nit ac)
  • Psoriasis (Ars, Kali ars, Merc, Sep)

FRIEND PHILOSOPHER GUIDE GURU

  • Electricitas: Nervous tremors. Palpitation. Restless. Anxiety. Headache. H/O recurrent or severe electric shock.
  • Radium brom: H/O radioactive exposure. Chronic rheumatic problem, whether osteo or rheumatic.
  • Sepia: Any reflex symptom developing from uterine irritation (Lil tig- with sexual impulse & anxiety about salvation)
  • Syphilinum: with its indications
  • Tuberculinum
  • Sulph
  • Medo
  • Platina
  • Phos
  • Rhodo
  • Thuja

WHEN INDICATED REMEDY FAILS

  • It is one of the best remedy when the constitutional remedy fails to act or develop a proper reaction—- we prescribe X-Ray especially when we have obstinate skin diseases like Melanoma or non-suppurative recurrent eczema.
  • Sterility (Aur, Bor, Nat c, Nat m, Sep, Zinc)
  • Anemia & leukemia (Apis, Calc p, Ferr, Graph, Kali p, Lach, Merc, Nit ac, Puls, Sep)
  • Rheumatic pains (Bry, Kali iod, Rhus tox)

FEW CONCOMITANT CLINICAL TIPS

  • Fl ac: Bad effects of X-Ray: damage; burns; recurrent exposure
  • Lach: Agranulocytosis after exposure to X-Ray
  • Rad brom: to antidote the bad effects of X-Ray in a patient who has had H/O X-Ray treatment (Rad iod- with indications of Iodum)
  • Avena & Nux vom: Hangover cases having a history of/ bad effects of X-Ray exposure

 

From the desk of: Prof. L. M. Khan

HOD Organon, Homoeopathic Philosophy, Chronic Disease & Psychology
National Institute of Homoeopathy, Kolkata, India.


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