3/26/2023 0 Comments Symphytum 30c homeopathic![]() A good acute clinical case and prompt treatment can start improvements and move the case quickly beyond the critical phase. In critical cases like this, taking the constitutional case can wait. ![]() It was important to get started with treatment as soon as possible. It was already several days after the stroke. She was on a respirator.īrain scans found that after the hemorrhage, blood had pooled and coagulated in one area on the right side of the brain. Stertorous breathing had begun before the pneumonia developed, and she now had rattling respiration deep in her lungs, as if drowning in her own phlegm. A left-sided paralysis was suspected since she was unable to move the fingers of her left hand or lift that arm and could not move her left leg, foot or even great toe. She was muttering and only occasionally responsive to attempts to talk to her. Eleanor had a bloated face that was dusky red and hot to touch. She had developed pneumonia with a fever, and was on Keflex and three other medications. She did respond to questions by making sounds and shaking or nodding her head. Harriet described Eleanor as “semi-conscious” and unable to speak. She would then travel back the same day and take her the remedies, administering them herself. She would describe her sister’s appearance and observational symptoms, since Eleanor was unable to talk. She reasoned, “At the very least she can use all the help she can get!” The first few consultations were conducted with Harriet travelling six hours to Durham to speak with me in person. Harriet, aged 62, was a retired hospital administrator and did not trust that conventional treatment was going to do her sister much good. Eleanor was currently on a ventilator and taking several medications. Her breathing was noisy, with a snoring sound. Her older sister Eleanor, aged 70, had collapsed after she suffered a hemorrhagic stroke and, “was now in a bad way.” She was lying in the hospital bed, nearly unconscious, and tests showed she was completely paralyzed on the left side. Harriet called from Roanoke, VA, about six hours from Durham, NC, where I then practiced. ![]() In this article I hope to convey some of the triumphs, as well as difficulties, we homeopaths may encounter while working with the victims of brain injury and their families.Ĭase # 1: Hemiplegia after Hemorrhagic Stroke with Hematoma It is perhaps because of the very severity and hopelessness of these cases that they constitute some of the most frustrating and at the same time most rewarding work a homeopath can engage in. This article first appeared in The American Homeopath, vol 19.Ĭerebrovascular injuries, whether from trauma, surgery or internal chronic conditions, are all too often the cause of permanent disability, if not fatal outcomes.
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