SUN
SIGNS AND BIOCHEMIC MEDICINES
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. 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.
Bio = Living (life),
Chemic = Chemical.
It means chemical
activity in living or life. 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.
Dr George Washington Carey went beyond seeing a connection between the sun signs and the tissue salts. Dr. George W. Carey came up with his theory of a person’s astrological sign corresponding to a particular biochemic salt. The fact is that there are twelve months and twelve sun signs and there are twelve biochemic salts. These are the salts that go with each of the sun signs according to Dr. Carey. A few doses a month will help to maintain the balance in the body. Each person's astrological salt can be given together with the salt necessary for the ailment concerned. In this article we discuss about biochemic medicines prescriptions on the basic of zodiac signs.
AQUARIUS
(21 Januvary – 19 February) – 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
PISCES
(20 February – 20March) – 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
ARIES (21
March-20 April) – 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.
TAURUS(
21 April – 21 May) – 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
GEMINI- (22
May – 21 June) – 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
CANCER (22
June – 23 July)– 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
LEO (24
July – 23 August) – 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
VIRGO (24
August – 23 September) – 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
LIBRA (24 September – 23 October) 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
SCORPIO (24
October – 19 November) – 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
SAGITTARIUS (20
November – 21December) – 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
CAPRICORN(22
December – 20 January) – 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.
BIOCHEMICS AND SPECIFIC
PROBLEMS
SYMPTOM S / DIAGNOSIS
|
BIOCHEMIC INDICATED
|
Abscess (bleeding), boils
(painful)
|
SILICEA, CALC SULPH
|
Acidity, indigestion, heart
burn, peptic ulcer
|
NAT PHOS
|
Allergic bronchitis
(cough,wheezing),breathing disorders
|
KALI MUR
|
Allergic rhinitis (sneezing,
cold, headache)
|
NAT MUR,
NAT SULPH
|
Angina (Chest pain)
|
MAG PHOS
|
Anxiety, tension
|
KALI PHOS
|
Constipation
|
NAT MUR
|
Corns (feet)
|
SIL
|
Diabetes
|
NAT SULPH
|
Fever
|
FERR PHOS, KALI PHOS
|
Hair falling - thin hair
strands
|
NAT MUR
|
Hair falls due to weakness or
ailments suffering from
|
CAL PHOS
|
Hair falls in bunches
|
SIL
|
Hair growth - to stimulate
|
CALC PHOS & SIL
|
Hair loss (bald spots) due to
dandruff
|
KALI SULPH
|
Impotency
|
CAL PHOS / KALI PHOS
|
Jaundice
|
FERR PHOS, KALI MUR, NAT SULPH
|
Leucorrhoea
|
CAL PHOS / KALI MUR / NAT MUR
|
Lumbago - aches worse by cold
& better by heat & pressure
|
MAG PHOS
|
Lumbago - pain at nape &
cervical region
|
CALC PHOS
|
Lumbago - pain worse while
resting, better by heat.
|
CALC FLUOR
|
Mania (depressions, mental
problems)
|
KALI PHOS
|
Mouth ulcers
|
FERR PHOS, KALI MUR, NAT PHOS
|
Obesity (overweight)
|
CALC PHOS, NAT MUR & SIL
|
Osteoarthritis
|
MAG PHOS
|
Pain - colic, abdominal,
stomach
|
MAG PHOS
|
Paralysis
|
CALC PHOS, KALI PHOS, MAG PHOS
|
Piles (Itching, bleeding)
|
CALC FLUOR
|
Pimples , acne
|
CALC PHOS
|
Sinusitis
|
KALI MUR & SIL
|
Sleeplessness (Insomnia)
|
KALI PHOS & FERR PHOS
|
Stone in kidney
|
MAG PHOS TO ALLEVIATE PAIN
SIL & CALC PHOS TO DISSOLVE STONE |
Suicidal disposition (wants to
die)
|
KALI PHOS
|
Tonsillitis, pharyngitis, sore
throat
|
KALI MUR
|
Toothache
|
KALI PHOS
|
Typhoid (fever)
|
FERR PHOS, KALI PHOS & KALI
MUR
|
Vertigo (giddiness)
|
KALI PHOS
|
Weakness, general debility,
exhaustion
|
KALI PHOS
|
Worms (children)
|
NAT PHOS & KALI MUR
|
References
1. The Biochemic System of Medicine of Schussler by George.W.Carey
- http://www.homeoint.org/site/deepak/biochemic.htm
- The Biochemic Handbook, J.B. Chapman, and Edward Perry
- The Twelve Tissue Remedies of Schussler by Boericke and Dewey
- The Twelve Schuessler Tissue Remedies by The Father Muller’s Homoeopathic Poor Dispensary.
- Homoeopathy for All – Homoeopathic hand book and Planner 2006.
Dr. S. SABARIRAJAN., M.D. (Hom) (Gen.med)
