Diary of a Homeopath: 24.1.18: Emergencies and Surgery

This week I'm dealing with a few emergencies that are not run of the mill.  

Case 1:  AS [UK] Fall through 3 flights
First off I responded to a hospital call from a patient who fell 3 floors into a small space and had to be rescued by the fire brigade.  

When I spoke to her [amazingly alive] in hospital, she was experiencing periods where her vision was upside down.  The first remedy I suggested was aconite for the shock.  
Arnica seemed to resolve the reversed vision and she was discharged with serious bruising and a whole lot of hair-line fractures.  
For the bruising she is using arnica cream applied directly and homeopathic arnica by mouth.  
She has also had bellis perennis for the internal bruising [excellent after a fall or after giving birth].  
We've just added a daily dose of symphytum 6c [comfrey to the gardeners and herbalist among you] to assist healing of the fractures she has in clavicle, hips and legs.  
She's using mag phos for pain also.

A railing outside her rented London flat had been removed and she came home in the dark, 'lent' against it whilst finding her keys and plunged down.  Her backpack rode up as she fell and protected her head as she landed, or she'd likely have died.  

Case 2: MC [USA]: Support after surgery on Spinal Nerves. 

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My patient, who has cerebral palsy and ASD has had spinal surgery today.  He's using hypericum and mag phos for the recovery phase.  There's a good 'post-surgery' shopping list in my first aid section here.  Do your shopping before the surgery and have the remedies to hand.  You may also like to detox the anaesthetics and pain meds you've taken during surgery.  That can be done homeopathically.   Hopefully, he's sleeping Pacific side right now.  Update expected later today.  

Case 3: EH [USA, Eastern]: Allergic [anaphalaxis] reaction. 

This patient didn't have an epipen when her mum texted on my urgent line to say she was recovering from a reaction but still in a state of upset.  She given her a pair of remedies she had for use alongside an epipen and she'd just given them to her daughter, who was recovering nicely, she told me.  Those homeopathic remedies are carbolic acid 10M and apis 10M in a homeopathic solution.  This brought down the itching, swelling in her throat as well as stopped the vomiting.  She wanted to know should she give aconite.  Yes, she should.  However, by the time we finished talking, her daughter was nice and calm and feeling OK.  
Be sure you have your epipens folks!  

I have another patient who has anaphalactic responses to sulphites [caused by a particular antibiotic she was given during cellulitis] and sulphites are in epipens, so carbolic acid + apis is a great remedy for her to calm her response both to the sulphites and the epipen.  
Ideally, as we progress through treatment [in both cases], their histamine responses will be calmer.  We are looking at modulating histamine production with homeopathic histamine, alongside detoxing meds [ie the causative antibiotic], doing gut repair and general 'constitutional' homeopathic treatment.  

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