Tip of the day

Eel Serum is very sympathetic to Kidneys

Mr. Muhammad Hanif, 36 years of age came to my clinic from Kahuta in April, 2009 with Abdominal Ultrasound report. According to the report, the patient was suffering from “Bilateral chronic (Grade I) renal parenchymal disease (CRF). – Medullary nephrocalcinosis – Lt. renal cyst of 18mm”. The Ceatinine was 4.6 mg/dL whereas the normal reference value in adult male is upto 1.3 mg/dL. His elder brother Muhammad Saeed who was accompanying him was very pessimistic, downhearted and hopeless about the recovery as the Allopath doctors have asked for the arrangement of a kidney from a donor for transplantation or prepare for the dialysis treatment. Both options were too risky and expensive to afford for the poor family. After taking the symptoms, I prescribed Eel Serum-30 with Apocynum-Q and Solidago-3X. The swelling on both the ankles started reducing and the burning in urine also improved after 10 days. In May, 2009, I asked the patient to have a laboratory test so as to know the value of Creatinine. The laboratory report was encouraging as the Creatinine value lowered down to 3.3 mg/dL. The above medicines were continued for another month and the laboratory report of June, 2009 showed further dropping of Creatinine to 2.8 mg/dL. Then the patient suddenly stopped the free of cost treatment for the reasons still unknown to me. By chance, the patient happened to meet me in Raja Bazar in October, 2009 and told that he was satisfied with the recovery and did not need any further treatment. I was just stunned and walked away silently.

Homoeo Dr. Sultan Mahmood
HillView Avenue,
Rawalpindi

Obesity and Homeopathy

Few words about writer

Dr. SAYEED AHMAD is a renowned and successful Homœopath for more than 25 years. He has been awarded Honours with Diploma "D. I. Hom." for securing highest 97% marks from The British Institute of Homœopathy, England. He is writer of 13 books on homeopathy.

Homeopathy for Humanity Society Pakistan is proud to publsh his articles on homeopathy with his permission.

Obesity
Dr. Sayeed Ahmad D. I. Hom. (London)

WHAT IS OBESITY :

Obesity can be best described as the most common nutritional disorder specially in the affluent group of people. It is a condition in which excessive accumulation of fat takes place in the body due to intake of food in excess of physiological requirements. Therefore, overnutrition is as much malnutrition as undernutrition is. An excess of 50 calories per day can increase about 25 Kgs in a period of ten years.

Obesity has been classified into 3 types as follows, depending upon the excess in weight :

Above Normal Weight :
Mildly obese 10-15%
Moderately obese 10-20%
Very obese 20% and above.
Obesity is generally caused by two factors i. e. :
1. Exogenous
– Overeating or intake of excessive energy.
2. Endogenous
-- Due to inherent metabolic disturbance of the body.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE OBESE :

Obesity should not be taken lightly. Obesity means you are 20% or more above the recommended weight for your sex, age, height and bone structure. Extra pounds beneath the 20% mark simply mean you are over-weight.

CAUSES OF OBESITY :
Obesity can occur both in male and female at any age. However, it is more common in female.
Some of the following factors may contribute to the development of obesity :
1. It is common in those who take excess of food with little physical work or exercise.
2. Excessive eating habits is also one of the factors.
Obesity is rarely seen amongst active persons and it is more common in those with sedentary habits.

ADVERSE EFFECT OF OBESITY :

1. Obesity reduces the life expectancy.
2. Obesity produces the following physical disabilities :
a. Abdominal Hernias.
b. Varicose Veins.
c. Flat Feet.
d. Bronchitis.
e. Osteoarthritis of Knee, Hips and Lumber Spine.
3. Due to poor reflexes, liable to fall down on slippery floors.
4. High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
It leads to greater wear and tear of the entire vascular system and consequently it doubles the risk of heart attack and stroke. It may also cause damage to kidneys.
5. It also produces metabolic disorders such as :
a. Gout.
b. Cholesterol in Arteries.
c. Stone in Gall Bladder.
d. Diabetes Mellitus.

It is needless to add that ‘Excess Weight’ (Obesity) is linked to a higher risk of heart diseases and therefore it increases the overall risk of death particularly to persons with Diabetes or Cardiovascular disease.

REDUCING WEIGHT (OBESITY)

It is estimated that an active person will burn about 12-13 calories a day per pound of body weight. Therefore, a person having weight 140 pounds will need roughly 1700-1800 calories a day to maintain that weight, and less to reduce it. This can be used as a guideline for planning weight loss programme, by reducing calorie intake.

It is already stated that obesity is caused by intake of excess calorie and furthermore the lack of physical work or exercise is also one of the contributory factors. Thus, reducing weight means one has to reduce calorie intake by reducing his high-calorie diet. It may therefore be suggested to an obese adult to stick to his daily diet providing 1300 kcal (calorie) which may help in reducing about 0.5 – 1 Kg a week. The reducing diets should contain adequate amounts of Proteins, Vitamins and Minerals. Once the body weight comes to the standard level according to the height, the weight maintenance diets (adequate in Proteins, Vitamins and Minerals) should be taken to keep weight constant i. e. between 1700-1800 kcal (calories). Therefore, daily diet should contain balanced amount of cereals, pulses, green leafy vegetables, other vegetables, roots and tubers, fruits, milk, fats and oils, sugar and jaggery, groundnut (roasted) ; meat /fish /eggs (to be excluded by vegetarian).

IMPORTANT TIPS TO REDUCE OBESITY :

1. You may not eat or drink the following :
a. Bacon, Fatty Meats, Sausages.
b. Beer, Liquor, Wines.
c. Butter, Margarines.
d. Cakes, Cookies, Crackers, Doughnuts, Pastries, Pies.
e. Candy, Chocolates, Nuts.
f. Creams – Sweet and Sour, Cream, Cheese, Non-Dairy Cream.
g. French Fried Potatoes, Potato Chips.
h. Pizza, Popcorn, Snack Foods.
i. Gelatin Desserts, Puddings (Sugar-Sweetened).
j. Gravies and Sauces.
k. Honey, Jams, Jellies, Sugar and Syrup.
l. Ice Cream, Ices, Ice Milk, Sherbets.
m. Milk Whole.
n. Muffins, Pan Cakes, Waffles.
o. Olives.
p. Soda (Sugar-Sweetened).
q. Yogurt (Fruit-Flavoured).
2. Buy a reliable scale to weight yourself and a kitchen scale to weight your food.
3. Set a long term weight loss aim.
4. Cut down on salt.
5. Eat from a small plate.
6. Do not skip meals – else being hungry you will overeat at the next meal.
7. Do not eat while you are out.
8. Weigh yourself quite often.
9. Do not be tempted by prohibited foods.
10. Do not eat while reading, watching TV, Video or games, etc.
11. Keep tempting foods out of sight.
12. Try to relax.
13. Control your urge to eat.
14. Control the amount you eat.
15. Do not finish everything on your plate.
16. Eat little at dinner.
17. Shop only after eating.
18. Eat in the same place invariably.
19. Chew your food completely, never gulp it.
20. When you are angry, drink water.
21. Do not eat between meals except raw carrots.
22. Remove skin or visible fat from meat.
23. Do not use butter or sauce on vegetables.
24. Drink 7-8 glasses of water a day.
25. Do not eat fried foods.
26. Walk after night meal.
27. Be vegetarian to lose weight.
28. Use skim milk instead of cow or buffalo milk.
29. Walk daily in the morning.
30. Avoid foods high in saturated fat and cholesterol.

As a matter of fact, the Author of this article (Dr. Sayeed Ahmad) was also one of the victims of obesity. Control over diets, doing daily light exercise and taking of Homœopathic Medicines greatly helped him to win over this problem. A few years ago, his weight was 84 Kgs with an height of 5 feet 6 inches and consequently he was obese and over-weight and presently his weight is about 64 Kgs and only due to his own homœopathic treatment he could reduce about twenty Kgs and he is now fit and fine.

LEADING HOMŒOPATHIC MEDICINES FOR REDUCING OBESITY :

AMMONIUM CARB

Fat patients with weak heart. For women who are tired and weary and take cold easily and lead a sedentary life. Dry coryza and stoppage of the nose, chiefly at night, with danger of suffocation. With long continued coryza, can only breathe through the mouth. Women with premature and too copious menses, with emission of black and acrid blood. Sadness, with disposition to weep. Timidity of character. Disgust with life. Heedlessness. Great absence of mind and weakness of memory. Vertigo, on reading in a sitting posture. Chilly patient with great sensitiveness to cold open air, <> by warmth.

AMMONIUM MUR

In case the body is fat and legs are thin. With large buttocks. Full of grief, but cannot weep. Irritability and disposition to be angry. Very severe ulcerative pain in the heel, > by rubbing. The feet get very cold in the evening in bed.

ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM

Children and young person with tendency to grow fat with coated moist white tongue. The subject needing this remedy may belch a great deal, and the eructations may taste of the ingesta. Bloating after eating. < By heat is a marked characteristic. The symptoms are < in the heat of the Sun. Nails discoloured and deformed. Corns and callous excrescences on the feet. Alternate diarrhœa and constipation especially in aged persons.

AURUM METALLICUM

Fat patients with Arteriosclerosis and high blood pressure. With fatty degeneration of heart. Patients with melancholy, hopelessness, profound depression, tendency to suicide and longing for death. Pain in heart region extending down left arm to fingers. Chilliness predominates ; coldness of hands and feet, sometimes lasting all night.

CALCAREA CARBONICA.

This is the main remedy for reducing obesity. The characteristic symptom is sweating on the forehead which wets the pillow when sleeping. It should be given in 200 potency with weekly repetition. This can be prescribed to obese children also. The patient’s hand is soft, warm, and moist ; a boneless hand with clammy feet. Great sensitiveness to cold, damp air. Dread of bathing and water. Great weakness on ascending, on walking and talking.

CALOTROPIS GIGANTEA

This medicine is helpful in reducing the obesity without decreasing the weight i. e. flesh will be decreased, the muscles will become harder and firmer. Heat in stomach is a good guiding symptom. CAPSICUM. It is particularly suited to people who are weak of lax fiber and who have little vital heat. The digestion is poor and they suffer from myalgia (aching and jerking of muscles). They have burning pains but hate the cold. Often indicated in old people who have exhausted their vitality. This remedy is very suitable for children also. The mental state shows home-sickness. > From heat is the most important modality.

CARLSBAD

Its chief fame has been gained by its action on the liver, and in the treatment of obesity and diabetes. Sensitiveness to cold air ; great liability to take cold. Sweats more easily. > In open air ; on motion. The breath smells offensive, the tongue is white and feels furry. The patient is self-satisfied, very talkative and uncommondly good-humoured. Discouraged and anxious about domestic duties. Absent-minded ; heedless ; forgets names.

ESCULENTINE

One of the great fat reducers. May be alternated with Phytoline. Both remedies should be used in mother tincture.

FERRUM METALLICUM

Obesity with anæmia, face puffy with pitting of flesh. This remedy is recommended to children also. Delicate girls, fearfully constipated, with low spirits. The pulse of the patient is full and yielding. <> in warm air. Great lassitude and general weakness. Great need to lie down.

FUCUS VESICULOSUS

It is given when Calcarea Carbonica fails. It should be given in drop doses of mother tincture. It is very effective in cases of indigestion, obstinate constipation and flatulence. It is suitable to people with enlarged thyroid glands. Goitre has been cured with it.

GRAPHITES

Obesity in females with delayed menstruation. Indicated for fair, fat, chilly, constipated people who have skin trouble. Helpful to those who have lost desire for sex.

KALI BICHROMICUM

It is especially suited to fair-haired, fat persons, especially fat, chubby children ; fat, sluggish people. Gastric symptoms supersede rheumatic symptoms. Liability to take cold in the open air. Great debility, with desire to lie down.

KALI CARBONICUM

This remedy is especially good for older fat people who are characterized by sweat, backache and weakness. This remedy should be used cautiously in Bright’s disease and Tuberculosis. This remedy is for dark haired persons of lax fibre and inclined to be fat.

PHYTOLACCA BERRY

One of the effective weight and corpulence reducing remedies.

PHYTOLINE

This remedy is a great fat reducer. It is recommended if the patient is having difficulty in walking, sitting, palpitation, dyspnœa on least exertion, nausea, eructations. It is used in mother tincture.

THYROIDINUM.

In excessive obesity, it acts better in pale patients rather than those of high colour. This remedy is a powerful diuretic and is very useful in myxodema and various types of edema.

NOTE :

Any information given in this article is not intended to be taken as a replacement for medical advice. Therefore, it is very important that the patients should avoid self-treatment and rather consult the most abled and qualified classical homœopath and take the treatment under his proper guidance and advice since you may need constitutional treatment.

However, if you are interested in your treatment for obesity or any other ailments, you may kindly get in touch with the Author of this article (Dr. Sayeed Ahmad) by e-mail for further information.

For more information regarding Obesity, please study the Author’s Book "Obesity and Health", published by B. Jain Publishers (P) Ltd., New Delhi (India).

Sterility in female and male

Sterility in female and male

Dr. Sayeed Ahmad D. I. Hom. (London)
sayeed_ahmad1@rediffmail.com

Several lacs of females and males are suffering from STERILITY in India and all over the world. There is a general understanding that perhaps homœopathy has nothing to offer on this subject. As a fact of the matter, homœopathy can greatly assist to those couples who are not blessed with a child in spite of their ardent desire and efforts due to sterility either on the part of the female or the male. Homœopathy can change their life to happiness by begetting children in their homes as well as fertile and healthy life. However, on the other hand, treating sterility homœopathically is the most safest and effective in the hands of qualified classical homœopathic practitioners.

STERILITY means difficult or no conception and in other word it is inability on the part of the female or the male partner to produce any offspring.

Formerly and even now the ignorant society or the relations attributed the non-birth of children to the sterility in the female and ignored the husband altogether. It should be noted that in man sterility and impotence are two different terms. Impotence means inability to sexually gratify a woman and sterility means inability to impregnate her. An impotent can be sterile. For conception, only the discharge of semen with living sperms is required. It does not matter whether the erection is strong or the retentive power is long or the female is duly satisfied. The sterility on the part of the male is the absence of living sperms in the semen. Either they are not present at all or are dead. In such a case a man cannot produce however virile he may be. Gonorrhœa and Syphilis are the common and unquestionable causes of depriving the semen of spermatozoa.

Thus the first step to be taken is to get the semen tested before the cause is assigned to the sterility of the wife. If the semen is found lacking in sperms, a well qualified homœopathic practitioner can assist in producing them in plenty. However, if the semen is found quite normal then the cause should be treated out in the female.

CAUSES OF STERILITY IN FEMALES :

• Sometimes the cause is the presence of acidic secretions specially lactic acid in the vagina and soon as the semen is discharged all the sperms are killed as they cannot live in acid. But the acidity is only detrimental to pregnancy when the male organ is too small to ejaculate the semen direct into the uterus.
• In individual females the depth of the vaginal cavity varies. In every female the depth is equal to the length of her finger. Thus, female possessing a long middle finger requires a long organ and vice versa. A male organ a little (1 or 2 inches) longer than her middle finger is quite sufficient for her individual purpose.
• Having intercourse when both the partners are not willing.
• The correct posture of intercourse is also imperative. Thus, female should lie flat on the back with the man upon her with his face downwards. Her legs should be intercross each other over the man. This posture brings the uterus a little forward and it increases the possibility of impregnation.
• Intercourse should take place 3 hours after meals. Intercourse should not be taken place just after meals or taking plenty of water.
• It is also injurious when one (female or male) is extremely hungry or thirsty.
• Sexual meeting should never be arranged during menses.
• Place of sexual meeting should be free from interruption and it should be peaceful and comfortable. One should not have any fear of some ones intrusion or arrival during the act of intercourse.
• Diet which is sour or rich in acids should be given up.
• Leucorrhœa, painful and scanty menses, amenorrhœa, excessive menstrual flow are also responsible for sterility.
• Sometimes sterility is due to failure of the ovaries to yield the ova. Conception is only possible when sperm comes in contact with the ovum of the same side.
• Female’s right and left ovaries produce one ovum every month. One month there is the right ovum and the other month the left. The left sperm and right ovum, and the right sperm and the left ovum cannot unite. Thus pregnancy does not take place.
• It should be found out if she is FRIGID or if there is any abnormality in menses. It is also imperative to find her sexual feelings.
• When there is a fault in ovaries, menses are scanty and there is pain in the breast.
• New growths – fibroids and cancer, etc.
• Sterility is also caused if there is any tumour in uterus or ovary.
• Discharge of mucus from vagina after an embrace in female and sterility as a result thereof.
• Prolapsus of uterus. Uterine displacement.
• Hypertrophy of the cervix.
• Too frequent intercourse.
• Irregularity of menses.
• Dysmenorrhœa.
• Constipation.
• Inflammation of vagina due to leucorrhœa.
• Dwindling of breast and ovaries.
• Excessive and premature menses.
• Hard work (less of sexual passion).
• Sterility in female with excessive sexual desire.
• Mental worries, grief and hiding of her sorrows.
• Constitutional cause.
• Sometimes sterility is due to the weakness of the uterus which is incapable of holding the fœtus. This weakness of the uterus is also the common cause of abortion.
• For having children, remember to have intercourse on the last day of the menstrual period or on the third, fifth or seventh day after the period has ceased.
• Chronic diseases.
• Other causes of sterility may be diabetes, ulceration of the os uteri, fibroid tumours and enlargement of the uterus.
• Hysteria.
• Debilitating diseases like anæmia, tuberculosis, causing amenorrhœa and scanty menses.
• Endocrinal deficiencies. Obesity due to defective thyroid secretion.
• Incompatibility between husband and wife.
• Absence of any essential part of the genitalia i. e. removal of uterus, tubes or ovaries.
• Atresia of cervix and rudimentary uterus.
• Imperforate hymen.
• Malformation or destruction of tubes – due to inflammatory condition like gonorrheal salpingits, appendicitis, etc. (If the lining membrane of the tube is affected, the sterility would be absolute).
• Partial stenosis of the tubes. It is associated with imperfectly developed uterus (almost an incurable condition).

RUBIN’S TEST is performed to see whether the tube is potent or not, blocked or permeable. Another way of test of the potency and permeability of the tubes is by introduction of a dye (lipoidol), injected into the uterus ; a subsequent X-ray will show not only that the tubes are blocked or not, but also the sites where they are blocked.
• Inflammatory conditions : such as endometritis, endocervicitis.
• Cystic ovaries or destroyed as well, due to tumours, etc.
• Vaginismus.
• Trauma to the parts.

CAUSES OF STERILITY IN MALE :

• Impotency of long standing.
• Short and curved penis.
• Undescended or atrophied testes.
• Defective seminal discharges : no sperms or undeveloped sperms or a few sperm non-motile sperms ; this may be due to some previous or present disease of the testes, like mumps, tuberculosis, gonorrhœa, syphilis, etc.
• Sexual neurasthenia.
• It should be found out if he is having habits of masturbation or suffering from night-falls, spermatorrhœa, impotence or any venereal diseases.
• Loss of sexual powers with lascivious fancies.
• Semen thin and odourless.
• On attempting coition, penis relaxes.
• Involuntary emissions, discharge too quick, spasms during coition, effects of masturbation, disposition to handle organs.

HOMŒOPATHIC TREATMENT.

FEMALE STERILITY

Agnus Castus.
Sterility, with suppressed menses, and want of sexual desire. Swelling and inflammation of the uterus. Transparent leucorrhœa. Leucorrhœa spotting linen yellow.

Aletris Farinosa.
When sterility is due to weakness of the uterus. This remedy tones up the uterus. Amenorrhœa or delayed menses from atony ; weariness of mind and body. Leucorrhœa white stringy with debility. Weak emaciated people.

Aurum Met.
Sterility due to depression and tendency to suicide. Menses too late ; and scanty or absent. Leucorrhœa profuse and corroding, yellow, thick white, not offensive, aggravation by walking.

Aurum Mur. Nat.
Specific for sterility. It may be given in 3x trituration. It cures ulceration, induration, chronic metritis, ulcers of the os, swelling of the ovary. Also covers prolapsus of the uterus.

Baryta Carb.
Sterility due to dwindling of ovaries and mammary glands, yet the lymphatics become enlarged and infiltrated. Catamenia too feeble, and of too short duration.

Baryta Mur.
Sterility. Catamenia too early. Leucorrhœa. Indurations, tumour or atrophy of ovaries. Nymphomania.

Borax.
Sterility. Leucorrhœa corrosive and thick like starch. Catamenia premature and too copious, of a pale red colour. Dread of downward motion and labour.

Calcarea Carb.
Sterility with catamenia too early, and too profuse. Calcarea Carb. has cold, clammy feet, as if there were damp stockings on. Obesity.

Caulophyllum.
Sterility after leucorrhœa in a woman married ten years ago was cured with this remedy.

Conium Mac.
Sterility with suppressed menstruation. Unsatisfied sexual desire and sufferings therefrom. Obstinate constipation of long standing. Faintness after stool.

Eupatorium Pur.
Sterility from ovarian atony.

Filix Mas.
Sterility. Pale face with blue rings around eyes. Worm symptoms especially with constipation.

Gossypium Her.
Sterility from uterine torpor.

Helonias.
Sterility with loss of sexual desire. Profound mental gloom. Leucorrhœa with atony and anæmia. Women with prolapsus from atony. Menses too frequent and profuse in women who are feeble from loss of blood. Flow passive : dark, coagulated, offensive. Always better when doing something, when the mind is engaged. Fault finding and cannot endure the least contradiction.

Iodium.
Atrophy of ovaries and breasts, with sterility. Catamenia at one time too late, at another too early. Menses premature, violent and copious. Eats ravenously yet emaciates. Lachrymose disposition and mental dejection. Effects of amorousness ; of disappointed love.

Kali Brom.
Sterility from excessive sexual indulgence and atrophy of ovaries.

Millefolium.
Sterility with too profuse menstruation, or tendency to miscarry. Hæmorrhage from uterus from too violent exertions. Suppressed menstruation with epileptic attacks.

Natrum Carb.
Discharge of mucus from vagina after an embrace or coition in the women and sterility as a result thereof. Joyous talkativeness.

Natrum Mur.
Sterility. With too early and too profuse menstruation. Coition painful from dryness of vagina. Leucorrhœa with headache. Abundant discharge of transparent, whitish and thick mucus from vagina. Obliged to weep. Hypochondriacal, tired of life. Joyless, taciturn. Anxiety respecting the future.

Pituitary.
It regulates action of ‘corpus luteum’ in sterile women and favours conception in many cases. Uterus, breasts and other sexual organs are not fully developed.

Phosphorus.
Sterility on account of excessive voluptuousness, or if menstruation comes on too late and is too profuse.

Platinum.
Sterility in women with excessive sexual desire. It has cured sterility of 12 years standing. Catamenia too early and too profuse (blood dark and coagulated). Leucorrhœa, like white of egg flowing chiefly after urinating and on rising from a seat.

Sepia.
It is the head remedy for sterility. There is irregularity of menses with leucorrhœa and constipation. Menses are too late and scanty or early and profuse, with sharp cutting pains. Leucorrhœa is yellow, greenish with much itching. Prolapse of the uterus and vagina. Vagina painful during coition. Lack of affection for those whom she loved before is a marked mental symptom. Sadness and dejection with tears.

Sulphuricum Acidum.
Sterility, with catamenia premature and too profuse. Acrid and burning, or milk-like leucorrhœa. Prolapse of vagina. The patient is weak and exhausted.

Thuja.
Sterility with leucorrhœa. Anæmia may also be present. Hair on the face and legs of women with offensive perspiration about the genitals.

Thyroidinum.
The uterus is very small in size. Excessive obesity. Uterine fibroid. Fatigued easily, with weak pulse, tendency to fainting, palpitation, cold hands and feet, low blood pressure, chilliness and sensitive to cold.

MALE STERILITY

Chininum Sulph.
Absence of spermatozoa with suppression or diminution of sexual desire.

Conium Mac.
Absence of spermatozoa accompanied with impotency ; insufficient erections. Want of energy in coition. Emissions provoked by presence of women.

Damiana (Turnera Aph.)
Absence of spermatozoa in impotency due to sexual neurasthenia. Chronic prostatic discharge.

Iodium.
Indicated in persons who have violent or constant erections with increased sexual desire ; testicles become small and painful.

Strychninum.
When azoospermism is accompanied with great sexual desire and/or swelling of testicles.


NOTE :
Any information given in this article is not intended to be taken as a replacement for medical advice. Any person with a condition requiring medical attention should consult a qualified classical homœopath. If you wish, you may please contact the Author by e-mail for further information and treatment.

Impotency and Homeopathy

Few words about the writer

Dr. SAYEED AHMAD is a renowned and successful Homœopath for more than 25 years. He has been awarded Honours with Diploma "D. I. Hom." for securing highest 97% marks from The British Institute of Homœopathy, England. He is writer of 13 books on homeopathy.

Homeopathy for Humanity Society Pakistan is proud to publsh his articles on homeopathy with his permission.

Impotency and Homeopathy
Dr. Sayeed Ahmad D. I. Hom. (London)
sayeed_ahmad1@rediffmail.com

Impotency signifies a permanent condition of inability to effect sexual intercourse successfully. It is the worst calamity one can encounter in life which takes away the pleasure and bliss of youth. It is very humiliating for a person to find himself ineffective while performing coitus, since on the other part the female partner expects the male partner to give her immense sexual pleasure and gratification during the course of sexual union. Real bliss of married life lies in the sexual harmony of the couple. Thus a woman can never love an impotent. The impotent person is not regarded at all by women even though he is rich, handsome and affluent in wealth. Only because of this factor, in many instances, young and rich women of high families are heard of having eloped with or been seduced by their menials without caring their husbands. They reject their impotent husbands and enter into illicit relationship with someone else. A woman is happier and more contented with a poor man who is potent and virile than a man devoid of sexual power. The impotency of a person also brings disharmony in domestic life. Occasionally it frustrates people to commit suicide or makes insane too.

Therefore prior to marriage, young persons should consult a qualified doctor to check about his sexual problems and potency. Unless and until he is perfectly healthy in his sexual performance, he should shelve the idea of getting married till he is medically and sexually fit to satisfy his wife fully to her gratification.

The symptoms of impotency are as follows :

1. Speedy discharge (premature ejaculation).
2. Reduction in the time occupied by male in sexual acts.
3. Imperfect or partial erection of a short duration and subsides before the sexual act is started.
4. Erection does not take place at any time of the day or night or if it occurs, it is very flaccid.
5. Male finishes without causing much excitement in the female and it does not make any difference whether she is satisfied or not.
6. Strong and frequent erection followed by premature ejaculation is a signal for imminent sexual impotence.
7. Penile erection is seldom activated. Very rarely is a few drops of semen discharged.
8. No sexual passion, no erection, no discharge.
9. Semen thin and odourless.
10. Absence of morning erections.
11. Nocturnal discharges without erections or the erections are loose and during dreams it occurs at the mere attempt of kissing, embracing or just during insertion of the penis or before it.
12. Hanging of testicles loose.
13. Immediate softening of erection after seminal emission.

There are also several factors responsible for impotency, such as :

1. Complication of diabetes mellitus.
2. Psychological disturbances e. g. anxieties, worries, fears, etc.
3. Debilitating illnesses e. g. pernicious anæmia, leukæmia, etc.
4. Bad effects of alcoholism, drugs and tobacco.
5. Masturbation and artificial sexual devices.
6. Long continued celibacy.
7. Venereal diseases e. g. syphilis and gonorrhœa.
8. Sexual excesses.
9. Neurological condition e. g. peripheral neuritis, spina bifida, tabes dorsalis, etc.
10. Deficient secretion of testosterone.
11. Repeated radiation through X-ray, cobalt, chemotherapy, etc.
12. Vitamin deficiency.
13. Tumour of the brain, spinal cord and testes.
14. Congenital malformation of the lower portion of spinal cord.
15. Pelvic inflammatory diseases.
16. Vertebral and spinal injury.
17. Obesity.
18. Coitus interruptus.
19. Suppression of sexual desire.
20. Early marriage (Before the age of twenty). Smaller the age, the more unripe the system is.

21. To cohabit with a woman who is much older or of very small age. (Thus a man should marry a girl about six to nine years younger than him. Regarding girls, they should get married only after she has experienced 36 menstrual periods, as advised in the Vedas).

22. Exercising a sexual intercourse in distorted positions.
23. Intercourse just after a full meal or when extremely hungry or when very much tired.
24. Intercourse when one is afflicted with grief and anxiety.
25. Washing of the male organ with cold water just after coition.

The potency of a male can be calculated by the following factors :

1. The distance at which the stream of urine falls when passed with deliberate force.
2. The responsive upward move of the testicles at the time of coughing.
3. The potency of a male is in proportion to the degree of rigidity of erection at the time of a nocturnal emission.
4. Early morning erection of penis with a full bladder is the good evidence of normal physiological and anatomical functioning.

5. A man who has a strong and hard thigh is possessed of strong sexual organs. A man who is unable to walk with his knees straight but keeps them slightly bent due to weakness of the muscles of the thighs, is sure to be weak in sexual vigour.

Young men are emphasized that they should not rely upon short period treatments in the hands of quacks or unqualified doctors and instead they should consult any well qualified homœopaths to win over their problems once for all. One should bear in mind that impotency cannot be cured permanently in a shorter period of time.
It is needless to add that in the market there are several medicines available with great publicity of those products but they are stimulating and if prescribed without first adapting the system for their use produce reverse results. Such medicines produce a temporary stimulation followed by reaction and the user becomes even worse.

HOMŒOPATHIC TREATMENT

The following is the brief description of homœopathic remedies for impotency. Interested persons should study the Author’s Book "Homœopathic Management of Male Sexual Disorders", published by B. Jain Publishers (P) Ltd., New Delhi (India), for affluent knowledge and information on various other sexual problems in a much greater details.

Absence of sexual desire and erections with impotency. ----- Camph.
Absence of erections. Impotence. ----- Caust.
Diminished sexual desire with absence of erections. ----- Mag-c.
Entire absence of erections and desire. ----- Nuph.
Feeble erections or none at all. ----- Phos.
Absence of erections, and all sexual desire. ----- Sumb.
Erection absent, when coition is attempted. ----- Arg-n.
Erections absent, even after amorous caresses. ----- Calad.
Erection absent with excitement. ----- Sel.
Weakness or total absence of erections. ----- Lyc.
Flaccidity and relaxation of penis. ----- Prun.
Penis relaxed and shrunken. ----- Cann-i.
Penis relaxed during embrace. ----- Nux-v.
Penis cold and relaxed. ----- Gels., Dios.
Penis remain relaxed during excitement and sexual desire. -- Calad.
Effects of onanism ; face sunken, abashed look ; melancholy ; Nocturnal emissions ; backache, legs weak ; organ relaxed. -- Staph.
Complete impotence. ----- Coloc.
Impotency with mental depression. ----- Calad.
Complete loss of sexual power, testicles atrophied. ----- Iod.
Impotence occasioned by a cold ; preceding diabetes. ----- Mosch.
During coition, feeble erection. Impotence. ----- Sel.
Impotency in elderly men. ----- Lyc.
Impotency with melancholy, loss of memory. ----- Kali-br.
Impotency ; genitals cold, testicles shrunk, penis shrunk and cold with urinary troubles. --- Sabal-s.
An excellent remedy for impotency. Give 5-10 drops a dose thrice daily. ----- Damiana.
Impotency due to masturbation. ----- Calad.
Impotency due to fall or blow. ----- Arn., Hyper.
An excellent remedy for neurasthenic impotency. ----- Yohim.

NOTE :

Any information given in this article is not intended to be taken as a replacement for medical advice. Any person with a condition requiring medical attention should consult a qualified classical homœopath.

The Author of this article is pleased to offer his best services for the treatment of impotency or any other sexual disorders based on classical homœopathy and thus interested persons can get in touch with him by e-mail for further information.

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Three cases by Dr Sultan Mahmood

• The wife of my nephew having 3 months pregnancy reported about uterine cramps and haemorrhage (spotting). She was advised to take complete bed rest with caulophyllum-3X alternated by Viburnum Op-Q 4 times a day. After 3 weeks, the possible threat of miscarriage was averted.

• I had a case of fetus malposition detected after ultrasound report during the 8th month of pregnancy. The gynaecologist declared to the patient for caesarean section. When contacted, she was given Pulsatilla-200 alternated by Caulophyllum-200 for one week and the fetus turned to normal position.

• A patient of Cervical spondylosis was cured by Cimicifuga-200 alternated by Strychninum-30.

Contributed by:
H/Dr. Sultan Mahmood
HillView Avenue,
Rawalpindi

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Stomach disorder/Stomach related problems and homeopathy Part-5
Symptoms
Gastric indigestion, with drum like distension of abdomen.
Suggested Medicine
Colch

Symptoms
Weight, faintness, sinking, can retain nothing; vomiting of bile; sticking pain, with pressure and intolerance of anything tight.
Suggested Medicine
Crot

Symptoms
Foulness; excessive nausea, not better from vomiting; eructations of sour fluid, setting teeth on edge.
Suggested Medicine
Dig

Symptoms
Gastralgia, with heavy pressure in stomach and vomiting of food right after eating.
Suggested Medicine
Ferr

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Stomach disorder/Stomach related problems and homeopathy Part-4


Symptoms
Burning in stomach with burning thirst; retching, vomiting of blood stained mucus.
Suggested Medicine
Canth

Symptoms
Burning in stomach extending to back and spine; contractive pain in stomach; extending into chest, with abdominal distension; sour, rancid eructations, putrid changes in the food before digesting.
Suggested Medicine
Carbo. v

Symptoms
Gastralgia, with bitter, sour vomiting.
Suggested Medicine
Cham

Symptoms
Pain from stomach to right shoulder blade, worse from eating.
Suggested Medicine
Chel

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Some useful clinical tips

-Do not forget to try Nux Vomica, Carbo Veg. and Pulsatilla while treating dyspepsia.

-The combination of Silicea-10M + Hepar Sulph-200 are very effective in suppurated injuries/wounds, abscesses and boils. However, Calcarea Sulph-200 and Myristica-200 are also of great value.

- 3-4 doses of Petroleum-1M are sufficient enough to cure the bleeding cracks of heels.

- In sexual debility, Sulphur-200 should be given due consideration alongwith other indicated remedies.

- In fainting attacks, Nux Moschata and Moschus have been found very useful.

- Rheumatic pains of small joints/wrists have often been cured with Actea Spicata-30 and Caulophyllum-30.

- Remember a dose Pyrogenium-200 while starting the treatment of fever.

Contributed by:
Homoeo Dr. Sultan Mahmood,
Hill View Avenue,
Rawalpindi

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Stomach disorder/Stomach related problems and homeopathy Part-3

Symptoms
Flatulency; feels that eructations would relieve, but can't belch.
Suggested Medicine
Asaf

Symptoms
Pain in one spot; pressing, convulsive, agonizing; from stomach to spine; with vomiting and purging; emptiness in stomach; eructations of gas after drinking.
Suggested Medicine
Bis

Symptoms
Pressure as from a hard stone; soreness in stomach when coughing.
Suggested Medicine
Bry