PLETHORA, PLETHORIC INDIVIDUALS, PRECOCITY


PLETHORA, PLETHORIC INDIVIDUALS, PRECOCITY
Prof. V. Krishnamurthy,

To the new-comer desiring to learn homoeopathy:  You must keep the name of disease (pathology) off your mind while trying to find the remedy for a patient.  We do not merely prescribe on pathology alone.  In allopathy no doctor would prescribe insulin for typhoid, nor antibiotics for diabetes.  This is because they treat diseases.
In homoeopathy we treat ‘a patient with diabetes’ or ‘a patient with typhoid’ and so on and so forth.  What is the difference? 
In homoeopathy one and the same remedy may be indicated for typhoid in one patient and for diabetes in another patient.  If this is so, we go to the question as to what is the basis for prescribing in homoeopathy as separate and distinct from allopathy or for that matter other systems of medicine.
 
Classification of patients for making the prescription in homoeopathy is not on name of diseases or pathology; but it is on an altogether different classification.  Such classifications are as they already exist in different patients.
Let us now go to (case No. 5 and 6 on page 11) where Petroleum was prescribed for a patient with hypertension, diabetes, diarrhoea etc.  whereas the same remedy was prescribed for eczema in another patient.  That was because both patients felt that death was near and so they must hurry to settle affairs.
 
What we have to learn is not remedies for diabetes, for jaundice etc. but different classification of patient (irrespective of the name of the diseases they are suffering from) as is found from time immemorial and which doctors of all other systems had been simply ignoring.
 
We have already learnt some such classifications:
 
‘Symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups.’ This straightaway points to the homoeo medicine Cuprum met.  Whatever may be the name of disease that the patient may be suffering, if a patient reports this syndrome this remedy would cure the underlying pathology. 
 
By all the above we do not mean to say that diagnosis or pathology is not at all useful.  In life threatening emergencies the case is different.  There such life threatening symptoms (septicaemia, haemorrhage etc.) becomes general symptom and on such general symptom (be it pathology or not) we can straightaway prescribe.  For example, if jaundice develops during the course of serious diseases—terminal cancer etc. it is known as malignant jaundice.  The foremost remedy that we should think for this condition is Crotalus horridus.  Of course, after the patient recovers partly or fully we have to follow up the case with other remedies as per indication.  The totality of a patient at any given time points to one remedy only and that remedy at that time is called similimum for that patient.  ‘One remedy at any given time’ is the rule and not one remedy throughout the lifetime of a patient. 
 
Before making use of repertories you must learn the different terms, most of which have no relevance for other systems of medicine.]
‘Plethora’ means ‘excess or abundant energy in body.’  These persons are called plethoric individuals.
 
The dictionary defines 'plethora' as  over-fullness or excess in any way; [an excess of (bodily fluid, particularly blood.)  Excessive fullness of blood.]
Plethoric persons can do the job of ten persons single-handedly, both quantitatively as well as qualitatively.  Other examples of plethoric persons are those who have done several Ph.D.s or who do Ph. D. at their sixtieth year of age; also those who have done several postgraduates studied in many subjects;   also those who start studying, learning and mastering a subject or art even at their forty-five years of age.  The term ‘tiredness’ is not in their vocabulary.   Work for them is worship.  The workaholics. Old age is not a deterrent for them. 
 
Therefore, in the absence of more valuable symptoms in a case, if you find the patient is of the above type you may use the term plethora. This is a general symptom.
We see a person drinking liquor daily morning till night with little or no food. In an average individual this would mean vomiting, headache etc. But there are persons who are not at all affected by drinking whole day and this repeated day after day, we call this abdominal plethora. Also those who take food daily in enormous quantity without putting on weight or any after-effects; these persons are also known plethoric excess energy in body or mind.
 
If the student of homoeopathy does not learn these terms he would be a signal failure in practice and it is because of these reasons that failures are more and thus homoeopathy has gone into disrepute.
 
Plethoric individuals (plethora, plethoric = Excess or abundant energy in body.  For example, those who had done several Ph.D.’s or doing Ph.D. at his 60th year of age.): 1, Acon., Aur-met., Bell., Cal-c., Lyc., Phos., Sep., Sulph.; 2, Arn., Bry., Chin., Ferr., Nat-m., Nux v., Rhus, Thuj.
 
    —Complaints of plethoric, debilitated, hypochondriac, or nervous individuals. The principal remedies are: Acon., Amb., Am-c., Arn., Aur-met., Bell., Bry., Cal-c., Carb-v., Caust., Chin., Croc., Fer., Hep., Iod., Kalm., Kreos., Lyc., Natr-m., Nux-v., Op., Petr., Phos., Phos-ac., Rhus., Samb., Sarsap., Senn., Sep., Sil., Stann., Sulph., Thuj.
 
  —nervous, very irritable individuals: Acon., Amb., Arn., Aur-met., Bell., Cal-c., Chin., Ferr., Lyc., Nux v., Petr., Samb.
 
Under some remedies in some materia medicas you would find the term ‘abdominal plethora.’  Let us explain this.  (l)  Mr. Y daily drinks  country liquor;  does not care for food.  Any amount of liquor would be withstood by his abdomen (whereas if we take that country liquor even for one day, we would vomit or get abdominal pain).  Here, Mr. Y is said to be having abdominal plethora.
Remedies for ‘plethora’:
 
Arnica. - in cases of sanguine plethoric people with lively expression, nervous women, very red face, disposed to cerebral congestion. ---prolapsus uteri.
Artemisia - girl, aged 18, strong, well developed, plethoric; epilepsy.
Asarum - plethoric young woman suffered for years from headaches.
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