| Did anyone miss last month's quiz? Really?
I'm surprised because like most of my tooth cases, it was soooooo
interesting!
OK, here it is again:
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Shana, what are we doing?
It's time for the quiz, mom!
Again? Already?
Yes!
Where does the time go?
Who's our patient of the month?
Shana, as you know, we're in hard times. There is a lack
of everything nowadays--a lack of jobs, a lack of men who are
interested in me, and yes, a lack of patients! Luckily, I have
had, yet again, another dental abscess!
Mom, again with the dental abscess? Dental
abscesses are boring, and besides, people go to the dentist for
that!
Well, Shana, then "people" are making a big
mistake, because all the dentist can do is prescribe an antibiotic
which may or may not work, but which will surely upset their stomach
and cost an arm and a leg! Besides, my story is sooooooooo interesting
as usual!
I suddenly remembered I have homework to
do!
Fine! See if I care! Now, where was I..... Ah yes, It
was a beautiful day in Philadelphia, the birds were singing, there
was a dead spider in the doorway....
That's because you killed it!
Shana, how many times have I told you not to interrupt
Mommy when she's fondly reminiscing!? So, despite being taken
by the joys of city life in the dead of winter, I was able to
focus on only one thing, namely--it's back! The dental abscess!
Does anyone remember the Apis "Toothiness" quiz from
November '08?
Oh, yes, Mom, I'm sure everyone remembers
it!
Well off course they do, Shana! Here's part of it:
Now, as I'm sure everyone remembers from the July ezine...
Mom, no one remembers the July ezine!
... the molar on my lower left side had begun to hurt; specifically,
touching the top of the tooth was very painful and I had very
little hope for holding on to that tooth until Pyrogen performed
yet another homeopathic wonder for me! Now, fast-forward to
one month ago. I was totally minding my own business when gradually
I felt an "incident" brewing in that same tooth! I
didn't worry because I "knew" that all I had to do
was repeat the Pyrogen! I did, and it didn't work!
If there was ever any proof needed that every case is different,
this was certainly it! After Pyrogen didn't work, I became suspicious
and checked to see if I had the same tooth sensitivity on the
top of the tooth as I did last time, and, in fact, no, the sensation
from last time was not there. I looked in the mirror and there
it was as big as life -- a huge swelling of the gum on the facial
side! "Oh my God, an abscess!"
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So, here we are again, back to square one! I, of course,
did what? That's right, repeated Apis 30C! But nothing happened.
So, I went up to Apis 200C, and nothing happened. I said to myself,
"Elaine, check to see if that same 'stinging pain on touch'
is still there from last time." Well, you guessed it, it
wasn't! "Apis isn't going to work this time!" I lamented.
"Now what?" What was the sensation this time, that was
the question! The best I could come up with was that it was a
"sore" sensation. "Maybe Arnica!" I thought;
but, Arnica only worked a little. In the meantime, I tried Silica
30C but after several hours passed, I noticed no difference. In
the end, I decided to use the "Abscess, acute" rubric
and "sore" pain rubric, plus noted that the bad tooth
in question was a lower left molar. With that, I came upon the
right remedy; which, by the way, worked in less than an hour despite
the abscess having been present for several days while I fooled
around with Apis and Arnica!
Now, I know these rubrics don't seem very informative
or very peculiar or characteristic, but, you will be surprised
to hear that only two remedies covered the whole case, and since
I had already tried one of them, it made the choice rather easy!
Another homeopathic miracle, and, once again, I get to
keep this obnoxious tooth; yay me.
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Totals:
- Zinc-2
- Mercury
- Bryonia
- Chamomilla
- Nat-mur.
- Rhus tox.
- Sulphur
You know, I'm beginning to think Shana is right. No one
cares about my exciting dental cases! But let it happen just once
to you--(and believe me, it will)--and you'll be calling all over
town, frantically, with "What's the remedy?! I can't chew,
I can't eat, I can't sleep, the dentist is all booked up!"
Well, I am trying to help you! Yes, homeopathy DOES work for these
problems. You'd think there would be at least one homeopath out
there, other than me, with enough nerve to present dental cases;
but noooooooooo! Everyone would so much rather hear about lunatics
on a shooting spree! Oh sure, it sounds romantic, but how often
is this going to be a problem for you compared with the number of
times you're going to get a toothache in your life? I rest my case!
Let's hear from our winner, Veronique:
Elaine,
I did a quick rep in a rush...and I didn't keep it.
Mainly, I used Boenninghausen and full Synthesis.
As I remember, I used the following:
1 - Generals - abcesses
2 - teeth - sore pain
3 - Teeth - lower
4 - teeth - pain sore
5 - teeth - pain molars
6 - teeth pain molars lower
7 - teeth pain - molars - left
8 - generals - abcesses - acute
9 - Teeth - bicuspids and molars
10 - Teeth - sore pain - bicuspids and molars
11 - Teeth - gums swelled
1 - 2- 3- 9- 10- 11 are from Boenninghausen
4- 5- 6- 7- 8- are from Syntehsis
With
Teeth - sore pain (Bg).......... eliminative
teeth - pain - sore (Synthesis).......................eliminative
generals abscesses - acute (Synthesis)........eliminative
the three first rx are Bell, rhus t. and sil
but in my rep don't know how I did it but I had rhus t. and sil
first,
sorry I lost my repertorization.
Veronique
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Yes, I also came up with Silica and Rhus tox as covering the whole
case; and since I had already tried Silica, it made the choice of
RHUS TOX rather easy. It's funny, Veronique used
a lot more rubrics than I did, and yet we both came up with Rhus
tox. Really, all I had to go on was: Acute abscess, Sore sensation,
Molars: lower and left. It's not alot, and you might wonder, "Rhus
tox? The itch remedy? The sprain remedy?????" It makes you
think, doesn't it? The moral is: some cases have no "essence"
and sometimes the "constitutional remedy" is irrelevant;
plus, there are uses for our remedies other than the ones we're
all-too-familiar with! Do we need to take a 2 hour case for a toothache?
Are you doing "good" homeopathy if you take a two-hour
constitutional case for a dental abscess? No! Ask yourself, "Does
this problem eminate from the person's core personality, or is it
the result of a rotten tooth?" If it's the result of a rotten
tooth, then delving into the person's core isn't going to help you
solve it. You need to take the case of the presenting symptoms;
the disease, in other words.
By the way, Mercury and Sulphur were also good choices, as they
also came up high in my repertorization. You know, if you're down
to four remedies in an acute case, just try the most likely one
and get started, don't fret over not being able to land on one remedy
decisively. Notice how many remedies I tried before landing on Rhus
tox! But when I did, I knew within an hour that I had found the
right remedy.
Dr. B, what has Veronique won?
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