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Gonorrheal virus.
Introduced by Dr. Swan.
All the proving and cures made with high potencies.
Adaptability:
Suited to the patients having constitutional effect of
maltreated or suppressed gonorrhea.
For women with chronic pelvic disorder (ovaritis, salpingitis,
pelvic cellulitis, fibroids, cysts and other morbid growths of
the uterus and ovary) especially if symptoms points to
malignancy with or without sycotic origin.
For persons suffering from gout, rheumatism, neuralgia and
diseases of the spinal cord and it's membranes - even organic
lesions ending in paralysis which can be traced to a sycotic
origin.
Children - pale, rachitic, dwarfed and stunted in growth.
Mentally dull and weak.
Thermal
reaction:
Hot patient with localised cold spot - cold breast, cold leg
in sciatica, cold feeling in lumbar region.
Miasm: Sycosis.
Diathesis: Rheumatic and gouty diathesis.
Medorrhinum is a
remedy that goes to extreme in its pathology in all the
levels - physical, mental and intellectual. It seems incapable
of maintaining a neutral stable state. For example,
1. Very talkative <-----------------------> Very timid, less
communicative.
2. Weakness of memory <--------------------> Very alert and very
active
(Absent minded) minded.
3. Every thing done in a great hurry <-----------> desire to
procrastinate.
4. Cruelty to animals <-------------> Extreme fond of animals.
5. Happiness <-----------------------> Gloominess.
6. Introspective / self-accusative <----------------> Reproaches
others.
7. Anticipate death with fear of death <---------------> is sure
that she is
worse but has no fear of death.
Speaks calmly about it.
8. Fear of darkness <---------------->But amelioration with
onset of darkness.
9. Hot patient <----------------> great sensitive to draught of
cold air and
take cold
easily. .
Mind:
1.Great weakness of memory or absent minded.
Cannot remember very familiar names has to ask name of her most
intimate friend. In conversation he would occasionally stop and
on resuming make remark that he could not think what word he
wanted to use. Weakness of memory where they must write every
thing down on a piece of paper and they forget where they put
this piece of paper.
Conversely this patient can have a period of being very alert,
and active mindedness. During this period he remembers
everything and
Understands quietly.
2. Procastinative personalities or desire to procastinate.
Because of this procastinating nature medorrhinum has great
excitement while doing things. He cannot do any thing with ease.
He postpones every thing and then if fails he blame others
(reproaches others)
3. Clairvoyance:
Medorrhinum feels very clear in his mind as if he sees things,
which normally cannot be seen. Feel matters more sensitively
before they occur and generally correctly i.e. predict the
future very correctly.
4. Time passes too slowly.
In clairvoyant state of clear perception thoughts happens so
fast, they run to each other so fast that each minute seems half
an hour (too many thoughts in too short time).
He is in a great hurry when doing anything. In such a hurry that
she
gets fatigued. Anxiety when a time is set. (Kent) -- he is very
hurried to arrive on time. Because he has no clear perception of
time.
5. Fear of misfortune.
(It may be due clairvoyance.)
Feeling as if some thing going to happen
" Prophesying disagreeable events "
6. Anticipation ailments from.
When a time is set, he gets very tense.
Physical sign of anxiety
1. Restlessness of feet. Feet are in constant motion while
sitting.
2. Constant biting of nails - they are great nail biters
3. Constant washing of hands.
7. Fear of darkness. Irritable if the room is not light enough
to make every thing distinct.
8. Introspective, self-accusative and remorseful.
9. Impairment of mental faculties
-- Delusion.
Sees faces wherever he turns his eyes.
He feels that somebody is walking behind him.
Hears whispering.
Sees large people in room, large rats running.
Felt a delicate hand soothing her head from front to back.
Sensation as if all life were unreal like a dream.
10. Cruelty to animal.
He ties up his dog and beat it savagely over a minor annoyance.
He enjoys inflicting pain on animals.
Another
medorrhinum patient may be the exact opposite -- that is very
fond of animals. The pet became the central focus of the
patient's life consuming incredible attention and energy and
perhaps interfering the patient's occupation.
11. Desperate feeling.
Feeling as if he had committed unpardonable sin and was going to
hell.
Cannot speak without crying.
Tendency to suicide. (Gets up in night take his pistol but his
wife prevents him.)
12. Over sensitive both mentally and physically.
Everything startles her. '' News coming to her seems to touch
her heart before she hears it “.
A word or look of seeming harshness put her in despondency for
hours.
13. Great selfishness.
14. Very impatient.
He is in a great hurry in doing anything. He cannot wait, he
must do immediately what he feels.
15. Mental symptoms aggravated when thinking of them.
16. All these mental symptoms are most violent during night.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
1. Aggravation from sunrise to sunset.
All brighter in evening. Aggravation early morning hours is a
leading characteristic of all sycotic medicines.
2. Over sensitiveness.
Every thing startles her. Nervous sensibility especially to
touch of garments or a lock of hair by anyone.
4. Desires --
Salt, sweets, hard green fruits, ice, sour things, orange.
Desire for a combination of salt, sweets, and fat -- is a good
indication for medorrhinum -- Vithoulkas.
4. Peculiarities of sleep.
a) Asleep but hears everything, answers questions as if awake.
b) Bites tip of tongue during sleep.
c) Sleeps at night on her knees with face forced in pillow or
sleep on back with hands overhead.
d) Profuse perspiration face and neck during sleep.
e) Sleepy but cannot sleep.
f) If she lies on either side the contents of lower part of the
chest and abdomen seems to press upon each other and cause
discomfort.
5. Dreams.
Horrid -- of ghost and dead people.
Painful.
Exhausting.
Dreams that she is drinking.
6. Intense thirst -- Even dreams that she is drinking.
7. Hot patient but great sensitiveness to draught of air and
takes cold easily. At the same time there is great desire to be
fanned. < Sun, by warmth of bed, entering a warm room.
8. In a state of collapse want to be fanned all the time and
craves fresh air. Skin cold and bathed with cold perspiration
yet throws of covers.
9. Burning of hands and feet. Wants them uncovered and fanned.
10. Tongue –
Thick brown coating or white coating at base.
Coated thickly in morning with bad taste.
11. Teeth --
Easily decaying teeth with serrated edges.
Yellowness of teeth.
12. Eye -- Sensation as if the upper eyelid has a cartilage in
it.
13. Can only pass stool by leaning very far back.
Very painful as if there is a lump on posterior surface of
sphincter; so painful as to cause tears.
14. Asthma -- only > by lying on face, and protruding tongue.
15. Pain in the heart region from apex to base.
16. Breast and nipples are sore and sensitive to touch.
Breast cold as ice to touch especially the nipples, rest of the
body is warm.
17. Relief with onset of discharge. (Leucorrhea, postnasal
discharge or even a urethral discharge.)
18. Great sensitivity of the soles of the feet.
They are so tender that the patient cannot walk. He is not able
to cross hot sand.
19. General amelioration at sea side and aggravation when
thinking of the ailments.
20. Profuse perspiration on face and upper lip.
21. Urinary -- Renal colic with sensation as of passing calculi.
Pain with great craving for ice.
Nocturnal enuresis -- < over work, or play.
< Extremes of heat and cold. When best-selected remedies
fails.
22. Medorrhinum symptoms are characteristically ameliorated in
the evening after the onset of darkness but medorrhinum has fear
of darkness.
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