CHOLESTERINUM. – The Materia Medica of the Nosodes. By Henry Clay ALLEN, M. D. – Presented and arranged by Dr Robert Séror

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The Materia
Medica of the Nosodes.
By Henry Clay ALLEN, M. D.
Presented and arranged by Dr Robert Séror.

CHOLESTERINUM.
(C26
H44
O)

To the late Dr. Wilhelm Ameke, of Berlin, we are indebted for the
first mention of this remedy.

From him Dr.

Burnett
obtained the suggestion and used the lower potencies with more or less
success for several years, a description of which he gives us in his
Diseases of the Liver.

Unfortunately the remedy was either given in alternation or
followed by other remedies in such a manner as to greatly mar the
validity of its clinical work.

Swan

appears to
have taken his hint from Burnett’s
work and potentized the remedy, using a gall-stone for his
preparations.

Like many of the rest of the nosodes originally introduced by

Swan,
the work was necessarily empirical, yet he affirms after much
experience that it is “almost a specific for gall-stone colic ;
relieves the distress at once.” And this after failure with Nux,
Cinchona, Carduus, Podophyllum and other apparently well-selected
remedies.

Yingling reports some cures of gall-stone colic and other diseases
of the liver in the

Medical
Advance, page 549,
August, 1908,
and arrives at the following conclusion :

In gall-stone colic the patient suffers so severely that it is
almost impossible to obtain symptoms. In such a case, when

I
cannot give a well selected remedy, of late I
rely on Cholesterinum, and thus far it has never failed.

It should have a proving. Until then it can be used instead of
Morphine in cases where the symptoms cannot be obtained for the proper
selection of a remedy. Where a case of routine work is necessary, as
it is sometimes,

I
believe the homeopathic guess should be given the preference. It is
very improbable that a person suffering from gall-stone colic will
wait very long for the physician to study the case.

Clarke

says, it
is found in the blood, in the brain, the yolk of eggs, seeds and buds
of plants, but is most abundant in the bile and biliary calculi. It
occurs in the form of crystals with a mother-of-pearl lustre, and is
fatty to the touch. It is soluble in both alcohol and ether.

Ameke

claimed to
have derived great advantage from its use in cases diagnosed as cancer
of the liver, or in such obstinate engorgements that malignancy was
suspected.

Burnett

claims
to have twice cured cancer of the liver with it, and “in hepatic
engorgements that by reason of their intractable and slow yielding to
well-selected remedies make one think interrogationally of
cancer.”

In such conditions, where the diagnosis is in doubt, especially if
the patient has been subjected to repeated attacks of biliary colic,
Cholesterinum, he claims, is very satisfactory and at times its action
even striking.

Yingling

reports
the following cases :

Woman, age

60.

Frequent attacks of gall-stones, involving liver and region of
stomach.

Attacks come suddenly and cease suddenly.

Pain is pushing in region of gall duct.

Vomits much odorless hot water.

Very pale, then became yellow.

Marked acidity of stomach since last attack.

Erratic rheumatism

;
pain < in damp, rainy weather.

No appetite

;
food nauseates.

Region of liver sore, sensitive to touch or jar,

< lying on the sides.

Before the attacks profuse urine

;
scanty and dark since.

Tongue coated dirty, yellowish white.

Heart becomes very weak, can hardly feel pulse.

Very weak, unable to breathe deeply.

This women was practically cured in a year, under various potencies
of Cholesterinum, from the

2m.
to the drum.

Man, age

64,
for three years has been passing gall-stones.

Vomits bile and becomes very yellow.

Has received Morphine which causes such disastrous – after effects
that he is away from business nearly a week.

With one attack was in bed several weeks, and required a long time
after to recover from bad effects.

Liver very sensitive and sore

;
pressure in front or behind very painful, worse in region of gall
duct.

Bending or any sudden motion aggravates.

Had severe attacks of ague in Wabash bottoms when young.

Is a large, portly man.

Cholesterinum

2m.
not only promptly relieved acute attacks, but has effected a practical
cure.

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