Revista Médica de Homeopatía最新文献

Homeopathy is a medical doctrine that had its heyday in the Barcelona of the 19th century. Introduced in the last century by Fèlix Janer i Bertran in Catalonia, it was followed by many doctors convinced of the goodness of the treatments. Some practitioners had outstanding teaching activities, both by publishing articles in various homeopathic journals and in the organization of institutions where the practitioners of this specialty met, as is the case of the Homeopathic Academy of Barcelona created 125 years ago. In this article, a review is presented on the most important biographical aspects of the most prestigious homeopaths in Catalonia that have been incorporated in the Gallery of Catalan Doctors, such as Joaquim Hysern i Molleras, Joan Sanllehy i Metges, Salvi Almató i Ribera, Claudi Tricaz i Arnillas, Joan Solé i Pla, Enric Peiró i Rando, Modest Furest i Roca, and Miquel Ramis i Matas.

Diabetic lumbosacral radiculoplexopathy or diabetic amyotrophy is a rare disorder of the peripheral nerves associated with diabetes mellitus. There is often pain and asymmetrical weakness of proximal muscles of the lower limbs, progressive, and acute or subacute onset, and also sensory symptoms, such as paresthesia, allodynia and autonomic dysfunction. The case is presented of a diabetic patient who showed intolerance to the conventional drug amitriptyline and was treated in a primary care center with Gelsemium 30 CH, obtaining a complete remission of the symptoms described.

In homeopathy, analysis of historical, literary and film figures has been a didactic way of introducing materia medica, which is identifying the patterns of the homeopathic medicinal product and facilitating its learning. This method has a great practical relevance and is attractive, but could also be prone to errors at the same time and cannot avoid the subjectivity of the speaker. The main handicap is that it will never be possible to ascertain whether the remedy worked or not. Once this limitation has been accepted, the useful part of this hypotheses exercise is that signs and symptoms of the figure are linked to a pattern of the medicinal product, and this helps understand and retain this information, as vital as it is for the homeopathic practitioner. It could be considered as a good tool to explain the materia medica; secondary and complementary to the real stories of real patients who have been cured with the described medicinal product. Steve Job's life was a story of personal and business creation of great complexity and power. Based on published biographical studies (material), I carried out a repertorial and thematic analysis of his physical, emotional and behavioral symptoms (method) to identify what would be the most similar pattern to correspond to the Steve Jobs figure if he had been our patient. After repertorial analysis, the materia medica that better applies is assessed and explained, with a differential diagnosis of actinide remedies that symbolize the invisible and spiritual power of the minerals of the periodic table. This is one of the objectives of the present work: to make the actinides known with this exercise.

Hahnemann used two repertories written by himself, which were never published, and the copy of another, hand-made by Jahr and published later (1835) under his direct supervision, but the repertory that he used and eulogized explicitly, in a footnote of paragraph §153 of his great work the Organon of the Art of Cure, was that of Boenninghausen (1832, 1835, 1846), the first one published (in German), with a preface by Hahnemann himself, now translated again (to English and Spanish) from the original German, reviewed and restored by some contemporary authors. We present Boenninghausen's repertory, based on the way Hahnemann and Boenninghausen handled a case, taking into account the main symptomatology, the characteristic selection, the evaluation, and the practical application in all cases, acute and chronic, physical and mental.