Lapis lazuli

A pathogenesy developed by the team of Escola Paulista de Homeopatia
São Paulo – Brazil

 

Lapis Lazuli (lap-l)
A PROVING (1)

Paulo Rosenbaum; Silvia Waisse-Priven; Fábio S. Mangolini;
Anamaria N. Nunes; Tânia Magalhães; Maisa Misiara; Rita Tocantins

 

RESUMO
Apresentamos aqui os resultados da experimentação patogenética de Lapis lazuli. A experimentação foi realizada segundo o protocolo de experimentação de Brosimum gaudichaudii (Congresso Nacional de Homeopatia- Rs- 1998) adaptado às necessidades do grupo. Acrescenta-se o estudo temático do medicamento, as rubricas repertoriais, o diagnóstico diferencial e a sugestão de novas rubricas repertoriais. A realização da experimentação gerou a postulação de algumas diretrizes práticas a serem incorporadas no protocolo.

 

ABSTRACT
The results of the proving of Lapis Lazuli are presented. The proving followed the protocol adopted for Brosimum gaudichaudii (Congresso Nacional de Homeopatia - RS - 1998), further modified to adjust to our group's demands. They are also presented a thematic study of the remedy, its repertorial rubrics, its differential diagnosis and new rubrics that ought to be added to the repertory. The experience created the need of suggesting new practical guidelines to be included in the protocol.

Uniterms
Homeopathy - Trials of drugs - Proving - Lapis lazuli
Homeopatia - Experimentação de medicamentos - Patogenesia - Lápis Lázuli

 

INTRODUCTION
What is a proving? Basically, it's an experimental procedure that systematically questions nature as to obtain empirical data that ground the employment of remedies in human beings and animals.

A remedy by itself is an abstraction: it only gains actual life and expression when in contact with a living creature.

On the other hand, it can be also considered a powerful tool in the discovery of anthropological knowledge. Remedies enable us to probe human trajectories, to trail physiologies, to depict healthy and diseased states, to modify the receptors of the information they convey, to suppress symptoms, to palliate symptoms, to heal.

Difficulties are inherently immense: scientific objections, the complexity of recording subjective data, observation, dataanalysis, and so on. Any trial is complex, but homeopathic proving have the additional disadvantages of lack of financial and institutional support.

Experimental science is destined to continual advance. But as we, homeopaths, remain amateurish, advance will be as slow as it has been, which may only darken our medical and cultural potential. The symptoms obtained in the proving of Lapis lazuli, notwithstanding its small number, are sufficient to allow for the prescription of this remedy in actual practice. Proving never are anything but fragmentary hints, yet, when well interpreted and applied, project us to a wider scope of knowledge: to that which is essential in every patient, his/hers hermeneutic totality.

 

MATERIAL AND METHODS (2)
The proving of Lapis lazuli, a Brazilian gem, was effected in São Paulo, Brazil, during 2000 and 2001. The double-blind method was adopted; the substance being revealed after the proving was over. The experimental protocol of Brosimum gaudichaudii (Congresso Nacional de Homeopatia, RS, 1998) was employed, with eventual alterations according to our group's specific needs.

Two series of vials were employed, labeled "pathogenetic proving" (vials 01 and 02). Vials #1 were distributed to provers after a 30-day auto-observation period and an initial homeopathic interview (See Appendix - Protocol). They were instructed to take one daily dose, every morning, for 30 days and should contact the Proving Directors weekly or if disturbing symptoms were to appear. Vials #2 were distributed in the second stage.

Although it was asked of the pharmacists to include placebos - as the protocol establishes - after the opening of the sealed envelope, it was find out that all vials contained Lapis lazuli 90th Korsakovian potency.

 

DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROVING
Our team, including provers and proving directors, initially was composed of 10 members. Before the actual proving, provers were subjected to laboratory tests and a regular homeopathic consultation, after an initial 30-day period of autoobservation, systematically recorded in standardized notebooks. One of the provers quitted and a second was rejected by the proving director - upon consulting the prover's cardiologist - as exams revealed high levels of cholesterol.

 

RESULTS: MATERIA MEDICA OF LAPIS LAZULI

MIND

P1 - USS-M

Went back to work, happy, happiness itself - before I was always tired, the day seemed too long. More resolute, confident, different posture, firmer, lee doubting. I am not so tense, anxious as before, I ponder about the attitude to adopt, before I used to go mad, now I am calmer.

P2 - day 12 - NS/USS-M

Night, very irritable, impatient when contradicted. It was not due to (my habitual) hastiness, but I could not let go of trifles. I told my girlfriend not to argue because it was useless, it would be worse. I felt irritability as a tension, heat in the head, as if irritability was located in the face and head. I stayed at home, quiet, waiting for it to go away. Intense irritability that hindered clear thinking. Situations when I would usually not argue, I would argue. Looking for arguments, disagreement. Irritability without a cause, when anybody was talking, ameliorated by sitting, quiet, without speaking to anybody. If I talked to someone, I could not control myself (Usually the prover ameliorates by talking problems). (2 hours).

P2 - 14 - NS

The same irritability, people speaking, traffic, everything irritated me, was a contrariety. Irritated and would answer: "I didn't like it", I could not let go but reacted and answered (1 hour).

P3 - 13 - USS-M

Less irritated with traffic than usually, notwithstanding all abuse of drivers.

P3 - USS-M

Sensation of agony because there is too much people in the world and there will not be enough food - Malthus Theory - is worse.

P3 - 5 - NS

General subjective feeling of well being depicted as serenity.

P3 - 7 - NS

General subjective feeling of well being depicted as serenity.

 

VERTIGO

P1- USS-M

Dizzy in cold weather (usually is dizzy in hot weather), I had that dream (of falling from a precipice and floating). During dizziness, perspiration, more in the head, ashen, not feeling well. Cold perspiration in forehead, icy cold hands.

 

HEAD

P1- 4 - NS?

At 11:00am, pain in left side of head, with nausea. Continual pain. Disappeared by 6:00 pm.

P1- USS-M

Very slight headache, went away with no remedy.

P1- USS-M

Diminution of scalp spots: they were like coins, round, scaly, hair threads with them, they suppurate after the remedy. I stopped thinking and they disappeared.

P1- NC

Heaviness in forehead, sensation of rocking forwards as if would fall.

P2 - NS

Headache below the right eye, afternoon.

P2 - 1 - NS

Stitches in the left side of the nape, afternoon, extending to the whole head, lasting a few seconds, until establish in one point of the forehead, above the right eye, where it remained a few hours.

P3 - NS

General discomfort, abdominal pain, headache in all of head, in the nape, at 8:00pm.

P3 - 9 - NS

Contraction of the right rhomboid muscle, in the nape, from 2:00pm to midnight, accompanied by occipital and vertex headache, as a pressure.

 

FACE

P1- NC

Much perspiration in the face.

P2 - 29 - USS-M

15 days after stopping the remedy, pimples in the face. They usually inflame, but this time inflammation was 1 week delayed. In face and ears.

 

EYES

P1- 9 - NS

Eyes very red, as if I had wept a lot. I think it is the smog. I was very tired when came back home.

 

EARS

P2 - 1- NS

Acute whistle left ear, lasts seconds, morning.

P2 - 4 - NS

Afternoon, sensation of hearing a whistle in right ear, lasting seconds.

P3 - 6 - NS

Night, acute whistle in right ear, slight, increasing until it seemed to be inside the head, worse in the light. Accompanied by intense general discomfort, with dizziness, desire to be quiet, not moving, that actually slightly ameliorate the symptom (2 hours: 7-9 pm).

 

NOSE

P1- 11 - NS

High fever last night.Woke up with pain in throat, on the right side and abundant coryza. Chills during the night, with abundant perspiration.

P1- NC

Cough produces vomit, expectoration of lumps of mucus, would vomit every time; expectorating, fluid coryza.

P1- NC

Woke up sneezing, it seemed as flu in the beginning, in paroxysms of 4 or 5 (before rising from bed).

P3 - 2 - NS

Burning deep in nostrils, as when water comes out through the nose. It provokes slight anxiety and worries concerning the obstruction and lack of air. 2-4 pm.

P3 - 2 - NC

Slight clear coryza.

P3 - 14 - NC

Epistaxis of small amount of blood, related to exertion or trauma, 2:00 pm.

 

MOUTH

P1- 12 - NS

Without appetite for food, could not make myself eat, as if the palate had vanished.

P3 - 1 - NS

Slight formication around lips, 10:00 am.

P3 - 2 - NS

Formication around the mouth and in palate, for about 30 minutes, slight intensity, 8:00 am.

P3 - 1 - NS

Metallic taste in mouth, at midnight.

P3 - 5 - NS

Metallic taste in mouth, 9:00 am.

P3 - 5 - NS

Metallic taste in mouth, night.

P3 - 2 - USS-M

Ptyalism, 9:00 am.

P3 - 5 - USS-M

Ptyalism, night.

 

THROAT

P1 - 11 - NS

High fever last night.Woke up with pain in throat, on the right side and abundant coryza. Chills during the night, with abundant perspiration.

 

STOMACH

P1 - 12 - NS

Without appetite for food, could not make myself eat, as if the palate had vanished.

P1 - USS-M

Before, desire for creamy cakes, now for cakes without filling (orange).

P1 - USS-M

Before aversion of chicken, I am eating chicken again.

P1 - USS-M

Only eating cooked (leafy) vegetables: if raw, they seem tasteless.

P1 - USS-M

Drinking milk again.

P1 - USS-M

Melon, I like it, but it used to produce heartburn, now it does not produce it any more.

P1 - USS-M

Watermelon used to produce heartburn, no more.

P1 - NC

Heartburn after cucumbers.

P3 - 7 - NS

Undefined discomfort, indefinite sensation in the area of bowels. Sensation of emptiness alternating with sensation of fullness in epigastrium, 2:00 pm.

P3 - 3 - USS-M

Heartburn after eating chocolate and chocolate cake, burning in epigastrium and behind sternum (before: desire for chocolate).

P3 - 5 - USS-M

Heartburn after chocolate.

P3 - 6 - USS-M

Heartburn after chocolate.

P3 - 9 - NS

Indigestion after lunch (rice, fried potatoes, roasted chicken): constant eructation.

P2 - USS-M

Eating less hurriedly.

 

ABDOMEN

P3 - 7 - NS

Undefined discomfort, indefinite sensation in the area of bowels. Sensation of emptiness alternating with sensation of fullness in epigastrium, 2:00 pm.

P3 - NS

General discomfort, abdominal pain, headache in all of head, in the nape, at 8:00 pm.

P3 - 1 - NS

Slight abdominal colic, 10:00am.

P3 - 1 - NS

Intense diffuse abdominal colic, 7:00 pm.

 

STOOLS

P3 - 4 - NS

Fetid pasty stools.

P3 -13 - NS

Fetid pasty stools.

P3 - 1 - NS

Soft stools, large amount.

P3 - 5 - NS

Urgency to pass soft stools.

P3 -2 - NS

Soft stools.

P3 - 3 - NS

Soft stools.

 

LARYNX AND TRACHEA

P1 - OSR

Laryngitis with hoarseness (I had it 15 years ago). Lost desire for food and talking. Usually, I do not lose appetite when ill, now I cannot eat sweets, cakes, soup, milk (tasteless). It lasted 1 week. Indisposed to talk.

 

COUGH

P1 - NC

Cough produces vomit, expectoration of lumps of mucus, would vomit every time; expectorating, fluid coryza.

P3 - 2 - NC

Slight dry cough.

 

BACK

P2 - 1 - OSR

Pressure in the back, left side, returned, slighter. Night, cramp sensation in left shoulder, neck muscles, it lasted a few hours.

P2 - 1 - NS

Stitches in the left side of the nape, afternoon, extending to the whole head, lasting a few seconds, until establish in one point of the forehead, above the right eye, where it remained a few hours.

P2 - 1 - USS-M

Stitches in right shoulder, not as fine as needles, 5:00pm; the following day, closer to the neck and intermittent for a few hours.

P2 - 4 - USS-M

Stitches in right shoulder, next to the neck, omoplate; short duration, sporadically along the day. The following day, migrating stitches, less located in omoplate, the rear part of the shoulder-joint (2 hours).

P3 - 1 - NS

General discomfort, abdominal pain, headache in all of head, in the nape, at 8:00 pm.

P3 - 11 - NS

Slight pain rhomboid muscle, right side, hinders turning the head to the right.

P3 - 13 - NS

Pain rhomboid muscle, right, slight.

P3 - 14 - NS

Pain rhomboid muscle, right, slight.

P3 - 15 - NS

Backache, rhomboid area.

P3 - 4 - NS

General muscular backache. Discomfort to lie down, no comfortable position.

P3 - 4 - NS

Lumbar pain, discomfort to lie down.

P3 - 7 - NS

Pain in omoplate, paravertebral, between omoplate and spine, hinders physical activity. Muscular contraction of the rhomboid muscle, on the right, difficult to turn the neck to the right. Pain is constant, moderate intensity, lasts until falling asleep.

P3 - 9 - NS

Contraction of the right rhomboid muscle, in the nape, from 2:00 pm to midnight, accompanied by occipital and vertex headache, as a pressure.

P3 - 10 - NS

Pain in right rhomboid muscle, slight intensity.

 

EXTREMITIES

P3 - 7 - NS

Pain in the joints of the lower limbs, in the upper limbs pain also in muscles. Slight intensity.

P3 - 7 - NS

General pain in joints: shoulders, pelvic, a kind of a discomfort, no position ameliorates. Discomfort in muscles of lower limbs. 9:00 pm.

 

CHILLS

P1 - 11 - NS

High fever last night.Woke up with pain in throat, on the right side and abundant coryza. Chills during the night, with abundant perspiration.

 

FEVER

P1 - 11 - NS

High fever last night.Woke up with pain in throat, on the right side and abundant coryza. Chills during the night, with abundant perspiration.

P1 - 12 - NS

High fever with copious perspiration.

P1 - 13 - NS

Whole body so sore that it seems as if a truck had ran over me. Very tired. Only one fever episode. I feel very cold when feverish and I shake.

 

PERSPIRATION

P1 - 11 - NS

High fever last night.Woke up with pain in throat, on the right side and abundant coryza. Chills during the night, with abundant perspiration.

P1 - 12 - NS

High fever with copious perspiration.

 

SKIN

P1 - USS-M

Skin less oily than before.

P2 - 29 - USS-M

15 days after stopping the remedy, pimples in the face. They usually inflame, but this time inflammation was 1 week delayed. In face and ears.

 

GENERALS

P1 - 8 - USS-M

Weariness much aggravated in the evening.

P1 - 13 - NS

Whole body so sore that it seems as if a truck had ran over me. Very tired. Only one fever episode. I feel very cold when feverish and I shake.

P1 - 7 - USS-M

Weariness still intense, difficult to say some words, I know what I want to say but it simply does not go out.

P2 - USS-M

(Has the habit of cracking his joints), it ameliorated after the remedy; after stopping the remedy, it came back.

P2 - 6 - USS-M

Discomfort, not amounting to dizziness, desire to be quiet, not moving, sitting.

P2 - USS-M

Light bothers me, night (before: fear of darkness).

P3 - 5 - NS

Weariness, general tiredness, indisposed to do things. Asthenia? Desire to sleep all day long.

P3 - 1 - NS

General discomfort, abdominal pain, headache in all of head, in the nape, at 8:00 pm.

 

SUBJECTIVE

P1 - 10 - NC

Feeling very bad, dizziness in the afternoon. Difficult to work because thinking is slow, feeling very heavy.

 

DREAMS

P1 - NC

Dream of a woman in Morocco, tanned; when covered.

 

PARTIAL CONCLUSIONS

Some difficulties were met before, during and even after the actual proving: availability of a minimum of participants, compliance with schedule, evaluation of results. Nevertheless, they did not impede the continuation of the proving. As positive effects, besides the production of the symptoms peculiar to a Brazilian substance never tested before, we achieved a better understanding concerning the homeopathic remedy and the value of symptoms in the materia medica. A second proving is presently under development.

 

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APPENDIX: PROTOCOL

1. CONSENT FORM

I,_______, Identity card # ___________, Social Security # _________, agree to participate in the homeopathic proving conducted by the Research Group of the Scientific Department of the EPH. I am aware that:

• The substance tested may elicit disturbing symptoms;
• I will be able to stop my participation the moment I desire;
• It may be interrupted if the proving Directors evaluate that there is my health is at risk.

 

I declare that I am aware of the contents of the trial protocol and do not hold the proving team liable to whatever may happen, as I participate in this proving of my own free will, in the hope of contributing to the advance of homeopathic science.

 

___________________________

(Signature)- Notarial certification.

Name
Place
Date

Proving Directors:

1) General Director. Medical Identification #

2) Clinical Director. Medical identification #

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2. THE PROVING DYNAMICS

Having complied with the initial requirements of the protocol, the proving consists of the following stages:

1. Ascription of provers to the Clinical Directors (CD). Every pair of prover-CD will discuss the PROVING DIARY, how it is to be recorded, and need of permanent availability. The initial auto-observation period is extremely helpful in this stage.
2. Distribution to provers of numbered vials that will have to be kept in boxes, protected from electromagnetic fields, strong odors, etc. It is not mandatory that all provers test all vials: this will depend on the schedule set by the General Director (GD).
3. After the selection of the vial, the prover will drop 5 drops directly below the tongue, once every day, without ingesting any neither fluid nor solid substances nor smoking tobacco 30 minutes before and after the trial substance. The vial must be shaken 10 times before ingestion.
4. Ingestion will continue until symptoms appear, when it will be discontinued. If no symptoms appear on the 15th day, ingestion will be also discontinued.
5. If no symptoms appear, after a 30-day resting period, the next vial will be started.
6. When symptoms appear, ingestion must be discontinued, symptoms recorded and discussed with the CD.
7. After the disappearance of symptoms, wait 30 days before starting the next vial.
8. Women will begin the proving on the first day after the end of the menses (abiding to the 30-day drug-free period mentioned above).
9. The same sequence will be repeated with every vial.

The proving may be discontinued at the local level by the CDs and/or the GD.

 

3. THE PROVING DIARY

The proving diary will be elaborated by the Proving Team or it may follow any model that fulfills the requirements established by the group.

It ought to contain the truthful record of the prover symptoms and will be discussed weekly with the CD. Any severe clinical complication must be immediately reported to the CD.

The record of symptoms will follow the same pattern both in the auto-observation diary and the proving diary, according to:

• Initial circumstances.
• Sensations.
• Time.
• Weather conditions.
• Place.
• Periodicity.
• Rhythm.
• Extensions.
• Alternations.
• Concomitances.
• Modalities of amelioration and aggravation.
• Mood for the duration of the symptom.
• Images and metaphors.

The diary must include all data that reflect a perfect record concerning the beginning and discontinuation of the doses. The prover will only use the front of the page, leaving the back empty for the DC remarks.

 

4. MODEL

A. Identification of the prover (code).

B. Procedure:

1. The prover will legibly write the vial number.
2. Date, month, year;Weather conditions; Place.
3. The prover will permanently carry the diary with him/her in order to be able to record each symptom, indicating the time, place, modality, sequence, etc.
4. Symptoms must be recorded in a simple and natural language. Terms must be subjective-objective, i.e. provers must express themselves spontaneously, through the common descriptive language and employing analogies. It is essential to be true to the flux of speech, such as it expresses itself, even in the case of abstract images. Eventual interpretations may be included between brackets { }.

Medical jargon ought to be omitted, as the record is not devised to decode medical terms but to achieve the maximal accuracy of the individual's reaction. But whenever this is not possible, the prover may employ technical terms.

C. Before the proving:

During the 2 weeks before the proving, the prover must record all symptoms, including those that he/she usually feels. Avoid every kind of excess.

D. Diet:

1. The prover will not alter his/hers usual diet, which ought to be as simple as possible.
2. Those used to regular use of coffee, tobacco, seasonings, alcohol, etc. may take them with moderation.
3. Those who only use the substances above occasionally will abstain from them. If they eventually use them, they will have to record the occasion.

E. Other remedies:

1. During the proving, the prover will not be able to use any other kind of remedies, including topical.
2. Avoid camphor, unusual perfumes, medicated lotions and creams, teas, laxatives, etc.

F. How to take the remedy:

1. See above, "Dynamics of the proving".
2. It must be kept in mind that a few well described symptoms are much more valuable than many of them that do not distinguish characteristic and imaginary symptoms.
3. The remedy must be discontinued immediately after symptoms begin to appear and should not be repeated.

G. Recording symptoms:

1. Date, hour and place of dose-intake.
2. Weather conditions.
3. Physical condition.
4. Date and hour of the symptom's appearance.
5. Disappearance of an old symptom.
6. Reappearance of a new symptom.
7. Aggravation or modification of a usual symptom.

H. Every symptom will be described according to the following modalities:

1. Chronological order.
2. Localization and Bodily Sides.
3. Sensations as if...
4. Gradual or abrupt appearance and disappearance.
5. Duration.
6. Modalities of amelioration and aggravation:
   
   • Open air, cold, sun, exposure, bathing, crowded romm, narrow places, in the bed, etc. 
   • Before and after storms; change of weather.
   • Darkness, etc.
   • Local or general motion.
   • Inspiring, exhaling, coughing, sneezing.
   • Laughing, screaming, talking.
   • During exertion; stretching; running; walking; standing; sitting; rising; bending; laying over something; resting upon something.
   • Washing.
   • Covering; uncovering; undressing.
   • Reading; writing; mental exertion.
   • Yawning, etc.
   • By sleep; dreams.
   • Before, during or after meals; which meals; drinking; eating; swallowing.
   • Before, during and after menses; sexual intercourse; passing stools; passing urine.
   • Vomit; eructation; flatulence.
   • Perspiration.
   • Smoking; drinking alcohol (and which drinks).
   • Thinking on his/her symptoms.
   • By odors.
   • By music; noise.
   • By touch; hard or strong pressure.
   • When alone or in company.
   • By any emotion: sadness, worry, bad news, reproof, reproach, indignation, contradiction, humiliation, mortification, disappointment, anger, happiness, surprises.
   • If symptoms are: constant, continual, periodic, acute, intermittent, etc.
   • Extension and direction of sensations.
   • Other modalities.

I. Laboratory tests:

Lab tests will be ordered before the proving and whenever necessary according to the CD/GD.

 

 

ADDENDUM 1

The proving Group of the Fundação de Estudos Médicos do Paraná established the following guidelines, which are attached to the Proving Diary:

• Identify your records with the Prover Code, not with your name.
• Identify your records with the vial number to which symptoms correspond.
• Enumerate in ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd) every day of the proving. The first day is the day when you began to take the remedy. Begin a new for each vial.
• Identify every day you take the remedy.
• State the duration of each symptom, from date and hour of appearance to date and hour of disappearance.
• State dates of beginning and end of menses.
• In each symptom, record:
  Adverbs:
  Why? Triggers; initial conditions.
  Where? Organ; extension; physical environment.
  How? Sensations as if...; Rhythm (how it begins, develops and ends); Alternations; Concomitances, etc.
• Factors that ameliorate and aggravate.
• Emotional state during symptoms.
• Intensity: (+) Slight; (++) Moderate; (+++) Strong, intense.
• DC: Check in the repertory if data are sufficiently clear and precise as to belong in a rubric or sub-rubric.
• DC: Classify the prover's symptoms as:
• NS: New symptom.
• USS-UnM: Usual sporadic symptom, unmodified
• USS-M: Usual sporadic symptom, modified
• OSR: Old symptom returned.
• O: Others.

 

ADDENDUM 2

The Proving Group of the Escola Paulista de Homeopatia added:

• Record even the most ephemeral sensations.
  If you do not know how to classify a symptom, do not classify it or rate it
  NC: no classification.
• In the case of concomitances, state the smallest details; whenever be case, state the general effect that symptoms produced to you.
• Dreams: write them down as soon as you wake up; if possible, tape them.
• Severe symptoms: write them down and immediately call your CD.
• Pay attention to the spatial and geographical context of each symptom: when applicable, describe the environment. State when you are in a journey.
• Pay attention to family and job contexts.
• Record eventual commentaries that friends, relatives, coworkers may do.
• CD: Do not compare the patient's symptoms with symptoms of already known remedies.

 

REPERTORIAL SYMPTOMS

MIND - CONVERSATION - agg.
MIND - DELUSIONS - starve - being starved
MIND - DELUSIONS - starve - family will
MIND - FEAR - starving, of
MIND - IMPATIENCE - contradiction; at slightest
MIND - IRRITABILITY - conversation, from
MIND - IRRITABILITY - spoken to, when
MIND - IRRITABILITY - talking, while
MIND - MEMORY - weakness of memory - expressing oneself, for
MIND - MEMORY - weakness of memory - words, of
MIND - QUIET disposition
MIND - QUIET; wants to be
MIND - TACITURN
MIND - TRANQUILLITY, serenity, calmness
VERTIGO - BALANCING, sensation of
VERTIGO - PERSPIRATION
VERTIGO - ROCKING - as if
VERTIGO - WEATHER - cold
HEAD - ERUPTIONS - scales
HEAD - HEAT
HEAD - HEAT - contradiction, from
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Forehead
HEAD - NOISES in head
HEAD - PAIN - accompanied by - nausea
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - eyes - above
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - extending to - head - over whole head
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - left
EYE - PAIN - weeping, after - as after weeping
EAR - NOISES in - whistling
EAR - NOISES in - whistling - left
EAR - NOISES in - whistling - right
NOSE - CORYZA
NOSE - CORYZA - sore throat, with
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - exertion, from
NOSE - PAIN - burning, smarting - Nostrils
NOSE - PAIN - burning, smarting - Root - inside
NOSE - SNEEZING - morning - waking, on
FACE - FORMICATION
FACE - FORMICATION - Lips
FACE - PAIN - Eye - below
FACE - PERSPIRATION
MOUTH - CRAWLING - Palate
MOUTH - NUMBNESS
MOUTH - NUMBNESS - Palate
MOUTH - SALIVATION - night
MOUTH - SPEECH - difficult - weakness; from
MOUTH - TASTE - metallic
MOUTH - TASTE - wanting, tastelessness of food
THROAT - PAIN - right
STOMACH - APPETITE - wanting
STOMACH - EMPTINESS
STOMACH - FULLNESS, sensation of
STOMACH - NAUSEA - cough, during
STOMACH - VOMITING - coughing
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cramping, griping
STOOL - ODOR - offensive
STOOL - PASTY, papescent
STOOL - SOFT
LARYNX AND TRACHEA - VOICE - hoarseness
COUGH - DRY
BACK - PAIN - Cervical region - turning head - right; to
BACK - PAIN - cramping - Dorsal region - scapulae - left
BACK - PAIN - cramping - Dorsal region - scapulae - right
BACK - PAIN - Dorsal region - motion - on
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - lying - while
BACK - PAIN - lying - while
BACK - PAIN - pressing
BACK - PAIN - stitching - Cervical region
BACK - PAIN - stitching - Cervical region - extending to - head
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands - vertigo, with
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Nates
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Shoulder - right
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - stitching - Shoulder - right
EXTREMITIES - RESTLESSNESS - Lower limbs
DREAMS - FALLING - abyss, into an
DREAMS - FLOATING
CHILL - NIGHT
CHILL - PERSPIRATION - with perspiration; chill
FEVER - SHIVERING, with
GENERALS - COLD - internal coldness with external heat
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - chicken - desire
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - chocolate - agg.
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - cucumbers - agg.
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - dry food - desire
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - milk - desire
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - vegetables - aversion - raw
GENERALS - HEAVINESS
GENERALS - LIGHT - agg.
GENERALS - MOTION - agg.
GENERALS - PAIN - crushed, as if
GENERALS - WEARINESS - evening
GENERALS - WEARINESS - talking, after

 

RUBRICAS NOVAS

• Peso na testa, sensação de balançar para frente como se fosse cair.
  • Head,
  • Heaviness
  • Forehead,
  • Balancing sensation (as if falling)
• Meu corpo está tão dolorido que é como se um caminhão tivesse passado por cima de mim (1 - SN)
  • Generals,
  • Body,
  • Painful,
  • As if ran over by a truck,
• Desconforto para deitar não encontro posição confortável. (2 - SN)
  • Sleep
  • Position
  • Lying, while
  • Uncomfortable
• Formigamento perioral e palato +/- 30 minutos. Leve intensidade. Às 8h00 (2 - SN)
• Formigamento leve em torno dos lábios. Às 10h00 (2 - SN)
  • Mouth,
  • Formication,
  • Palate (8:00am)
  • Mouth
  • Formication,
  • Lips, around (10:00 am)
• Piora sensação de agonia por ter gente demais no mundo e vai faltar comida (Teoria de Malthus). (2 - SAM)
  • Mind,
  • Delusions,
  • Starving, humankind will starve
• À noite, apito agudo ouvido D, leve, aumentando até que parecia estar dentro da cabeça, piora na luz (3 - SN)
  • Ear,
  • Noise,
  • Whistling,
  • Light agg.
• Irritação sentida como tensão, calor na cabeça (OBS: experimentador sente outros sintomas habitualmente no rosto, como por exemplo a febre), como se irritação estivesse localizada no rosto e na cabeça (3 - SN/SAM)
  • Head,
  • Heat,
  • As if tension
  • Head,
  • Irritability, feels in
• Irritação intensa, a ponto de impedir raciocinar com clareza (3 - SN/SAM)
  • Mind,
  • Thinking difficult,
  • Irritability from,

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

MARIM, M (org.). Brosimum gaudichaudii: experimentação pura. São Paulo, Editora Organon, 1998.

MURE, B. Patogenesia Brasileira com Repertório e Estudo Farmacológico, São Paulo, Roca, 1999.

PRICE, E. "Provings of Drugs". Transactions 47th Session of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. Philadelphia,

Sherman & Co. Printers, 1894.

ROSENBAUM, P. et al. Protocolo feito pelo grupo NEAH- E.P.H durante o ano de 2000 a partir da experimentação de

Brosimum Gaudichaudii. São Paulo, 2000.

 

Notas:

(1)

Departamento Científico
Escola Paulista de Homeopatia
Rua Estado de Israel, 639 - Vila Clementino
04022-001 - São Paulo, SP - Brasil
Tel: + (55) (11) 5571-8583
http://www.escoladehomeopatia.org.br/

(2)

Drugs and all material pharmaceutical support was offered by Dra. Amarylis de Toledo César.

 

 

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Its main objective is to promote and spread the knowledge about homeopathy through education, research and service to the community, specially the needy population.

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