Who remembers last month’s exciting quiz presented by Caralyn about her increasingly popular father and his really bad leg cramps? Here it is again:
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Well, Kelly, what have you got for me this month?
A toothache and a splinter.
That’s it?
I can maybe throw in a backache for the right price.
Kelly, this is the Sankaran issue, we have to at least try to look good!
I AM trying!!!
Good grief! I’m going to have to go with Caralyn’s father!
Caralyn’s father again? What is it this time?
Let’s have Caralyn explain it. So that’s Caralyn in 5-4-3-2-and…cue Caralyn!
Egads! Am I on?
I think so…
OK! So, here we are again, back in the lovely Hpathy.com amphitheater in beautiful downtown….place….and my father, once again, is suffering from another malady!
Thank goodness or we’d have been stuck with Kelly’s splinter and a toothache!
I think everyone here knew that my father had gout, then he had allergies, and now he has very bad leg cramps! My mother said he was actually crying with the pain!
OMG! That’s gotta hurt!
He has suffered with this for as long as he can remember. This is the routine: During sleep he is awakened by a BAD CRAMP in his calf. This randomly happens to either leg. For a man who does not complain much he simply says that he wakes up and he has to walk. He walks around for about 15 minutes until the pain fades away. He basically knows what to expect; that is, until the other night when he visited us.
According to him, he had the worst cramp ever! He walked and walked around the living room for more than half an hour while the rest of the family slept. The sensation was so strong and the discomfort so debilitating that he could not “walk off” the pain. Eventually the pain subsided. However, during breakfast he said that he felt the aftermath of the pain. His leg was throbbing. Earlier that week, in addition, he said that he had pulled something in his knee. This knee injury was quite painful so he found himself favoring the other knee. Now the other knee was hurting from the extra pressure. To make a long story short he was having a painful week. Now both knees were hurting. His legs were throbbing from the cramps and he was feeling completely wiped out.
What a calamity!
Exactly! So, I asked my father a lot of questions, pretending that I was someone who might be able to help him.
Caralyn, you ARE that person!
So, I asked him to describe the pain. He said that the pain felt like something too large was trying to fit into something too small. He said that the feeling was of a tightness. He said that the only thing that helped his pain was to walk. I asked about thirst. “What do you like to drink, Dad?” “Milk,” he said.
It was at that point that my stand-up comedian father, who loves nothing more than to poke fun at the “witchcraft” we call homeopathy, agreed to take a few pellets under his tongue of the remedy I suggested, _________ 30C.
I felt like my choice was appropriate, but honestly did not feel confident that I could help him. After 20 minutes, I said to my father, “Dad tomorrow I think that you will feel much better.” To my utter shock he said, “I already do. My legs have stopped throbbing.” Well yahoo for me! My father then said, “Where can I go to get this stuff?”
Amazing! Caralyn, how is he now?
The throbbing subsided right away, the cramps have not come back and the next day his knees felt better. They started to hurt a few days later, just slightly. He repeated the __________ in water, twice a day for a week. He feels fine now.
Do you know what Jimmy McCracklin says?
No. But knowing you, I have a feeling he’s some sort of rock and roll star from the ’50’s.
You guessed it! He says you gotta do “The Walk”!
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So, how did we do? Let me tell you, a lot of you were not fooled! The remedy was…… Rhus tox!
Now listen people, this is very basic: a person gets an injury or a cramp or a strain and they feel like their only choice is to walk; they have to walk. That’s Rhus tox, you can’t mistake it! Brooks wrote in saying, “I look forward to your analysis…” I said, “What analysis? He has to walk—Rhus tox!”
Now, I know a lot of you sent in an array of “restless” remedies, like Arsenicum and Tuberculinum. But these restless remedies are coming from the mental plane, not the physical plane like this patient, AND they’re not necessarily better for all the walking they’re doing!
Rhus tox is definitely better for walking! A Rhus tox sprained ankle will actually improve from “The Walk”, believe me I know! When I was a teenager, I sprained my ankle and was home from school for a week or longer, and then on the day I went back to school, it was very painful for me to walk but by the afternoon when I came home? After a full day of walking? I was literally back to normal, the improvement was overwhelming!
In Rhus tox, movement really does ameliorate; whereas, with Arsenicum, yes, they are very restless and pacing back and forth, but not any better for it.
So, as far as rubrics are concerned? If you really needed any? We’ve got:
Murphy’s Repertory–
Legs: cramps, calves, motion amel.–Argentum, Bryonia, Ferrum, Rhus t.
Legs: cramps, calves, bed, in–There are 23 remedies, I’ll just list the ones in bold: Rhus tox, Sulphur, Calc-c., Carbn-s.
Then there’s the “Desires milk” which we know helps confirm Rhus tox; plus, the description of the sensation: “Something too large is trying to fit into something too small.” That’s in the repertory as Generals: constriction sensation, too tight, in other words. Rhus tox is in bold for that.
And our winners are….
Akanksha Agnihotri
Sapna
Jayashree Kanoi
Dr. Wequar Ali Khan
Jaspreet
M.K.Harish
B. Madhavi
See you again next time!
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Elaine Lewis, DHom, CHom.
Elaine takes online cases.
Visit her website at: https://ElaineLewis.hpathy.com
