Lachesis This time we ’ ll use my second go-to book , which I love for Stage 1 remedy understanding : Boger ' s A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica . 2 This book is very simple . See Image 3 .
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Boger writes using great economy of words but gives the best information you can get about particular remedies in a summarised form . That is his genius .
Consider the different regions he deals with from the very start : throat and cutaneous nerves ; vasomotor and sympathetic nervous system ; and blood , heart and circulation . These are the different spheres of action , or the affinity organs , of Lachesis at Stage 1 . The reader can readily find the pathology Lachesis is capable of creating and of helping to treat . See Image 4 .
Here you see intensity , rapid onset , prostration and malignancy . See Image 5 ,
Here you see the sepsis , the disintegration , the gangrene , the diabetic gangrene , the carbuncles , the blueness , and so on : all the different aspects of the pathophysiology of Lachesis .
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Merc Sol This time let ’ s use my next go-to book , Boericke ’ s Materia Medica . 3 Again , this is another beautiful book for Stage 1 information . See Image 6 .
Here he states : ‘ Very often indicated in the secondary stage of syphilis . There is febrile chloro-anaemia ; rheumatoid pains behind sternum and around joints ; and ulcerations of mouth and throat ’.
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but also , ‘ after a certain ’ amount of time , it produces the opposite effects , which are ‘ impoverishment , discoloration , and liquefaction of the blood ’.
You can see that the author has described the exact pathophysiology of iron deficiency anaemia that this remedy is capable of altering physiologically and , hence , of resolving .
What else do you see ? ‘ Hereditary syphilis manifestations ; bullae ; abscesses ; snuffles ; marasmus ; stomatitis ’. In other words , you see ‘ destructive inflammations ’ everywhere .
These are the excellent Stage 1 books that you need to study and through them filter out the pathophysiological information . That will become your Stage 1 part of that remedy ’ s materia medica .
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