BIOCHEMIC SYSTEM OF MEDICINE - A BOON TO HOMOEOPATHY
BIO = LIVING (LIFE), CHEMIC = CHEMICAL.
Abstract
A German physician Dr. Schussler realized that a deficiency of certain tissue salts can lead to a number of diseases. These salts are normal components of healthy tissues are essential for the growth and development of the body. Although this system is considered to be an offshoot of Homoeopathy, it has its independent standing. It means chemical activity in living or life.
Introduction
Biochemic combinations or cell salts or tissue salts have been dispensed as combination since the time of Schussller. These salts are normal components of healthy tissues are essential for the growth and development of the body. Although this system is considered to be an offshoot of Homoeopathy, it has its independent standing. Unlike homeopathic medicines that are in thousands and are available in various potencies or scales, the biochemic remedies are just twelve in number and are available in the 3X, 6X, 12X, 30X, and 200X potencies.
NATRUM MURIATICUM
§ Emaciation though eating well
§ Ill effects of malaria, marshy place and masturbation
§ Craves salt ; Aversion to bread
§ Hypochondriac mood after constipation
§ Involuntary urination while coughing
§ Vesicular eruptions at the border of the hair roots, urticarial rash and ring worms
§ Mind: Dwells on past unpleasant events, sad, depressed, melancholic, disappointment, hysterical, weeping tendency, hypochondriac
FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM
§ First aid in injury
§ First stage of any diseases
§ Pain comes suddenly and disappears suddenly
§ Haemorrhage: Blood profuse, bright red, coagulate easily
§ Hungry after vomiting, must eat, food allergies
KALIUM PHOSPHORICUM
§ Weariness, weakness, exhaustion in septic diseases
§ Motor and sensory nerves paretic to paralytic stage
§ Necrosis and gangrenous conditions
§ Twitching and jerking with numbness
§ Disorientation with time, space and personality
§ Produces euthanasia in grave diseases
§ Mind: Brain tonic, bashful, shy, timid. Home sickness; disappointment; lack of self confidence; loss of memory; weeping tendency; insominia.
NATRUM SULPHURICUM
§ Biochemic Thuja, where history of warts, condylomata, gonorrhea, over growth etc
§ Hydrogenoid remedy – cannot tolerate water in any form
§ Preeminently a liver remedy – jaundice and diabetes
§ Early morning diarrhea – Greenish watery stool with mucus flatus
§ Important remedy for humid asthma in children
§ Pnemonia – left lower lobe lying on left side
§ Mind; Music makes her sad, suicidal disposition by shooting or by hanging psychoneurosis
KALI MURIATICUM
§ Biochemic Sulphur
§ Second stage of inflammation
§ Ill effects after vaccination
§ Specific drug for follicular tonsillitis and otitis media
§ Skin: Burns, Warts and chronic eczema
§ Chief remedy in stuffy cold, diphtheria and croup
CALCAREA FLOURICA
§ Glands and ducts induration and tumour like female breast, tonsils, nodosities
§ Bone: Osteophytes, corn, callosities, osteosclerosis, exostosis, caries
§ Blood vessels: Loss of elasticity of wall and their valves, varicose veins and ulcers, piles etc
§ Cracks in palm and soles, cataract, corneal opacity in eyes
§ Croupy cough, asthma with lumpy discharges
§ Mind: Fear of poverty
MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA
§ Pain: Crampy, neuralgic, spasmodic, electric like: comes suddenly, disappears suddenly
§ Right sided complaints
§ Chorea and convulsion in teething children without fever
§ Prevents deposition of calcium and cancerous condition
KALI SULPHURICUM
§ Third stage of inflammation
§ Pain: Sharp, shooting, shifting, spotty
§ Always irritable, hungry, always constipated
§ Sweat promoter
§ Chief remedy in respiratory disorders like sinusitis, lung abscess etc
NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM
§ Hyperacidity, worms and gouty disposition
§ Constipation in obstructive jaundice, stool clay coloured
§ Gonorrhoea and Diabetes
§ Infertility in female due to excessive acidic vaginal secretion
§ Thin, watery frequent emission of semen during night with severe backache
§ Diarrhoea early morning, acrid, burning, golden yellow, sour smelling with much flatus
§ Mind: Easily started, feels as if some misfortune will happen, hears footsteps in next room
CALCEREA SULPHURICA
§ Antiseptic similar to broad spectrum antibiotics inflammation, suppurative tendency, eruption with vent formation
§ Immunological deficiency and autoimmune diseases
§ Pyrexia of unknown origin and septicemia
§ Painless fistula about anus
§ Prevents stone formation
SILICEA
§ Malassimilation of food. Retarted growth in children with enlarged head, open fontanelles and sutures
§ Skin: Unhealthy, ulcerative and suppurative tendency, profuse offensive sweat
§ Ill effects after vaccination
§ Headache from nape of neck to vertex, settles over right eye, periodical by profuse urination
§ Eyes: Turbidity of lens and vitreous humour, styes
§ Constipation: Shy stool, requires to be removed mechanically
§ Nails: White spots, brittle, whitlow
§ Mind: Want of grit, anticipatory anxiety, shy, timid, capriciousness, obstinate, fixed ideas, pin mania, wants to be magnified
CALCAREA PHOSPHORIA
§ Craves for bacon, ham. Salted or smoked meats, PICA
§ Dentition diarrhea, spluttering
§ Fistula in ano alternates with chest symptoms
§ Tendencies to catch cold, growing rapidly, haemorrhage
§ Mind: Alternating states. Fear and frights. Wants to be magnetized
DOSAGE:
Dr. Schuessler and other writers recommended 2 grains to 5 grains of the powder per dose for the adult and the same dose for children as for adults.
However, it is also seen that if 1/2 or 1 grain of the powder (single medicine) is dissolved in 4 ozs. of water (preferably luke warm) and one tea-spoonful is given every 2 or 3 hours in chronic cases and every few minutes in serious fatal diseases like Cholera, it is generally even more efficacious than the same given in powder form.
FIVE PHOS BIOCHEMIC COMBINATION
Homoeopathy is one of the most popular holistic systems of medicine. The aim of homoeopathy is not only to treat deficiency symptoms but to address its underlying cause and individual susceptibility. As far as therapeutic medication is concerned, several well-proved remedies are available for various deficiency symptoms that can be selected on the basis of cause, condition, sensation and modalities of the complaints. A few remedies are known to help in proper assimilation of nutrients, certain biochemics such as Ferrum phos, Calcarea phos, Kali phos, Natrum phos and Mag phos. Five Phos is used as a general tonic for those people who are busy most of the time in mental work especially for students. The use of Five Phos keeps the person tired free all the day long.
If the mental, physical, general and nervous weakness due to loss of vital fluid occur, then Five Phos is considerd a useful remedy. These symptoms may also appear because of any sudden shock. Five Phos is also useful when the physical, mental & general strength becomes weak. Five Phos regulates the lost strength. It also increases haemoglobin of lactating mothers and elderly women. Five Phos is used as a general tonic for those people who are busy most of the time in mental work especially for students. The use of Five Phos keeps the person tired free all the day long. A genere tonic for all chronically wasting diseases; anaemia of young quickly growing people. Recommended for women who have been weakened by frequent childbearing. General debility and exhaustion with a lack of vitality.
Conclusion
In Homoeopathy whatever the drug that we ultimately use contains chemicals which may be organic or inorganic. The source may be from vegetable, animal kingdom or may be mineral, sarcode or nosode. For example, Colocynth which is derived from vegetable kingdom contains Magnesium phosphate (Mag-phos); Arnica and China contain Potassium phosphate (Kali-phos); Lycopodium contains Silicea and so on. Biochemic salts are nothing but Homoeopathic medicines in the Decimal scale.
References
1. The Twelve schuessler tissue remedies, by Father Muller’s Homoeopathic poor dispensary, Mangalore.
2. The Biochemic System of Medicine of Schussler by George.W.Carey
3. Boericke & Dewey, Boericke’s the 12 tissue remedies of schussler.
4. J.B. Chapman, and Edward Perry’s The Biochemic Handbook.
5. http://www.homoeopathy for all.com
6. http://www.homoeopathynet.com/
