For those of you who are interested in the bowel nosodes I offer the following: - They are prepared from cultures of non-lactose fermenting flora of the intestinal tract. First isolated in 1880 by a bacteriologist - Eberth. Bach did much work on them from a homeopathic point of view. Started to prepare vaccines from dead cultures and treating patients with injections. In 1919 he joined the London Homeopathic Hospital as a bacteriologist and started potentising bacteria a year later. I think some provings were carried out in 1929 and then he concentrated on the Flower Rx. In 1928 Elisabeth and John Patterson did much work on the nosodes and did a protracted programme of provings and clinical trials.
These are deep acting remedies from the highest mental to the lowest physical. They can be used at any time IF THE PICTURE FITS.
Where there is a group of remedies indicated but no clear picture of any - if the group of remedies is related to a bowel nosode than that nosode can be given to help clarify the picture. Can also be given when the indicated remedy fails - they may unblock.
Bowel nosodes can take up to 3 months before they take full effect. After 4-6 weeks the picture should start to get clearer. It is generally thought that you do not prescribe another bowel nosode or repeat within 3 months. They can be prescribed sometimes specifically for antibiotic poisoning (Gaertner + Morgan), skin drugs will need Morgan, digestive drugs will need Proteus.
They are not often used under 30c although Patterson used 6. It is considered that 30 and 200 are the best potencies to use. In children it is best not to go above 30, unless you have a good reason to, on the first prescription.
There is a wonderful little book called A Treatise On Bowel Nosodes, by Dr V. R. Agrawal (1981) - it might still be available especially from Indian book publishers.
BACILLUS No. 7 Looks dark, pale,
puffy, heavy closed eyelids, tense and tired, mental fatigue, unfit for
any mental effort = physical exhaustion, even the thought of it, Angio-neurotic
oedema, retinal bleeding, catarrhal deafness, tonsillitis and quinsy, asthma,
bronchial catarrh, tough sticky mucous which is difficult to raise, 2am
(Kali Carb associate remedy). Stiff neck 'cracks like a nut', fibrositis of neck and shoulders, spinal osteo-arthritis, backache, heat
and rest, damp and cold and on beginning to move, slow pulse, lowered
blood pressure, faint when standing long, excessive perspiration, averse
fat, eructations and flatulence, pain in liver region, digestive Sx related
to lack of nerve and muscle tone, sense of fullness after food, swollen
thyroid, rheumatoid arthritis, blood vessels burst in fingers, joints swollen
and painful, pain shoots up and down, left hip fixed, rheumatic nodules
anywhere, feeble urine flow, loss of sexual function, constipation and
haemorrhoids, sensitive to colds and drafts and cold damp air, sleeps light,
wakes 2-3 am, skin has lots of cracks, hot and scaly skin.
*Associated remedies = Ars. Iod; Brom;
Calc.Iod; Ferrum Iod; Iodum; Kali Bich; Kali Brom; Kali Iod; Kali.
Nit; Merc. Iod; Nat. Iod.
BACILLUS No. 10 Fair, florid,
dark, pale, anxious and active, irritable and depressed, H/A forehead and
left eye, catarrh, spongy gums, halitosis, fatty cysts on neck, asthma,
cough morning, sputum difficult to raise, averse egg and bread tomatoes
and tea, desires sweets and chocs and fried fish, anorexic, nausea and
vomiting, gall bladder pain, tender coccyx, rheumatism of thigh and left
knee, frequent urination pruritis vulvae, leucorrhea greenish, flesh round
groin raw, pain left and right iliac fossa, bowels sluggish moves only
in morning, warts on hands flat or pointed, ringworm.
*Associated remedies = Aralia; Calc. Phos;
Kali Bich; Nat. Sulph; sepia; Thuja.
DYS. CO. Unlike the other bowel
nosodes Dys. Co. is unable to form gas, it only forms acid.
Has a special action on the nervous system, the heart and the duodenum.
It is sometimes called the heart nosode. Thin, fair hair, dark lashes,
pale skin, tense and nervous, full of fears, shy, lacks confidence, apprehensive,
worries, blush easily, claustrophobia, face looks anxious, fear of the
future, sensitive to criticism, carry much on their shoulders, hypersensitive,
lack initiative, feeble powers of concentration, they are impatient because
they fear they cannot accomplish the task, lose the power to relax, very
restless, fears felt in cars, buses, lifts, fear of thunder and storms,
wants to be alone but fears being alone, brain fag, depressed and tired
gets worn out with the stress, fidgets all the time, H/A over eyes or vertex,
periodic H/A (every 7-14 days), blinding H/A, scalp painful, anaemia, bluish
pallor, twitching muscles, eye inflammations, colours and spots before
the eyes, hay fever, frequent nose colds, enlarged thyroid, recurrent tonsillitis,
pertussis like cough, desires sweets milk fat and salt, indigestion eating,
distension, heartburn, nausea morning on waking, acrid vomiting, thirst, cold drinks but stomach Sx,
lying down, wakes at midnight-1 am
with acute stomach pain, vomiting, duodenal ulcers, palpitations with
fears, valvular heart disease, menses irregular, morning diarrhoea with
burning, diarrhoea and constipation alternate, bruises and bleeds easily,
has trouble sleeping, sudden shock whilst sleeping, herpes and scaly eruptions,
flat warts, gummy discharge, dry brittle hair, cold and chilly warmth, air and space, perspire easily, 3-6 am.
*Associated remedies = Anacardium; Arg.
Nit; Ars. Alb; Cad. Met; Kalm; Verat. Alb; Verat.
Vir.
GAERTNER Keynote here is nutrition, thought
to be the 'childrens nosode'. Fair, blue eyes, freckles, pale, long
dark eyelashes, nervous alone, intelligent, excitable, irritable,
bites nails, hypersensitive, overactive brain with undernourished body
or underdeveloped, styes, discharging ears with every cut tooth, catarrh,
deep fissures in tongue, bronchial colds, desires oats cheese eggs milk
sugar and sweets, averse bread butter meat and fish, vomits after
sweets, H/A with vomiting - great action on digestive system good for kids
fed on 'artificial' diets, cannot digest fat, rheumatism shoulders
night, chilblains hands in winter, soles of feet covered with blisters,
blood and mucous in urine, diarrhea every few weeks, thread worms, wants
company and light to sleep, sleep walks, not afraid of dark but has night
terrors.
*Associated remedies = Calc. Flour; Calc.
Phos; Calc. Sil; Kali.Phos; Merc. Viv; Nat. Phos; Nat.
Sil; Phos; Phyto; Puls; Sil; Syph; Zinc. Phos.
MORGAN Florid, red lips and cheeks,
portly build, tense, active, weepy, depressed, irritable, introspective,
anxious about state of health, avoids company, fears crowds, suicidal tendency,
H/A frontal occipital and vertex, migraines every week, H/A heat and thundery weather, hairy face, acne, lids granular, styes, catarrhal deafness,
sinus problems, post nasal catarrh, cracks in skin of face, burning tongue,
tongue coated slimy and dry, warts on tongue, enlarged thyroid, throat
dry and burning, bronchitis every winter, n.b.w.s. bronchitis, nasal
congestion, fibrositis neck back shoulders, desires fat sweets eggs and butter
but eggs and butter, burning eructations, pains in liver
and gall bladder, gall stones, jaundice, congestion of gastric mucous,
bilious attacks with severe H/A vomiting, not much appetite but has to
eat at 11 am, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, easy brusing, fingers swollen,
arms puffy and stiff, pain in soles of feet, urine corrosive and contains
sugar, fibroid and uterine polyps, thickening skin with deep cracks, bleeding
and moist eczema heat washing and wool.
*Associated remedies = Alum; Bar. Carb;
Calc. Carb; Calc. Sulph; Carbo Veg; Carbo Sulph; Digitalis;
Ferrum Carb; Graphites; Kali Carb; Mag Carb; Med; Nat. Carb; Petr;
Psor; Sep; Sulph; Tub.
MORGAN-GAERTNER The picture is nearly that
of Lycopodium. Irritable, quick tempered, impatient, tense, nervous,
restless, weepy depressed, jealous, fears crowds excitement and company,
claustrophobic, bites nails, flushed face, loses hair, herpetic eruptions
left side face, styes and cysts on lids, nasal and post nasal catarrh, bitter
and bad taste in mouth, pins and needles in tongue, ticklish coughs, recurrent
tonsillitis, palpitations at night which waken eructations
flatus and moving about, desires sweets salt eggs meat hot food, averse
to fat eggs meat, flatulent indigestion excessive eructations, sourness,
vomiting after food, duodenal ulcers, distended feeling, pain right and
left hypochondria and epigastrium, pain in gall bladder, right sided rheumatics,
renal colic, irritable before menses, constipation - stool is hard and
dry, itching painful piles, cannot sleep but drowsy after food, night terrors
- shouts in sleep, many skin eruptions - psoriasis vesicles warts urticaria shingles,
everything 4-8 pm.
*Associated remedies = Chel; Chen; Hell; Hep.
Sulph; Lach; Lyc; Merc. Sulph; Sang; Tarax.
PROTEUS Brain storm characterizes this
remedy. Suddenness of onset is strong Sx. Effect the nervous system, nervous
tension, temper tantrums, can become violent with no control, kicks and throws
objects, face goes red and the eyes bulge, ailments from long term stress and
strain, averse to company, tense irritable and depressed, mentally stubborn and
unresponsive, ailments are also intractable, background of emotional tension in
the family, loners but do not like to be ignored, H/A frontal < before menses,
H/A in am, migraines with blurred vision, stuffed nose indoors, cracks in corner
of mouth, bronchitis with much rattling mucous, averse butter pork eggs, desires
fat sweets salt butter eggs but eggs,
acid heartburn, sourness not eating, digestive Sx secondary to nervous
Sx, hands feel dead and burn at night, contraction of palms and fingers,
cramps in calves, feet feel frozen, burning urethra, constipation s.a.i.
ball in bowel, very itchy piles, sensitive skin - boils and herpes.
*Associated remedies = Amm. Mur; Aur.
Mur; Apis; Bar. Mur; Borax; Conium; Cup. Met; Calc. Mur;
Ferr. Mur; Ign; Kali. Mur; Mag. Mur; Nat. Mur;
Secale.
SYC. CO Keynotes is irritability.
Sallow puffy greasy skin, nervous, tense, cross, restless, sensitive to
cold, bites nails, outbursts of temper, fear of dark and being left alone,
fear of animals and dogs, infected sinus and mininges, persistent H/A every
week, H/A left side lasts for weeks, throbbings heat and rest noise,
H/A menses, sweating of head at night, premature grey hair, face is
puffy in the morning, malignant growth right cheek, eyes inflamed, deafness
and excessive formation of wax, lots of nasal and post nasal catarrh, cracks
around mouth, deep ulcers on tongue, external goitre, enlarged adenoids
and tonsils, profuse mucous in throat in morning, asthma damp, cough 2-3 am, hard cough 2/4/6 am, croupy coughs, averse to eggs fat milk
cream salt sugar veg tea vinegar cheese meat, egg = nausea,
fat onions oranges, desires butter fat cheese sweets milk salt, finicky
appetite, acid flatulence, chronic irritation of whole alimentary canal,
ankles swollen and stiff, feet restless at night in bed, uterine polyps,
malignancy, impotency, pain left ovary at menses, has to stool on rising,
restless sleep, night terrors, night perspiration 12-4 am, wakes 2-3
am, dreams of dead bodies, catarrhs in all forms anywhere.
Associated remedies = Antim. Tart; Ferrum
Met; Nat. Sulph; Rhus. Tox; Thuja; Bacill.
There is not much information on Mutabile; Cocci;
or Faecalis but the associated remedies are thus:- MUTABILE = Ferrum Phos;
Kali Sulph; Puls.
COCCI = Tub; Baccill.
FAECALIS = Sepia.
If anyone has any illustrative cases of the Bowel Nosodes I am sure we would be interested to read them.
Best wishes,
Joy Lucas RSHom. joy.lucas@ntlworld.com