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Triumphant Conclusion: Mumbai-Based Motorist Team’s Unique Healing with Homeopathy Campaign

A motorist team led by a homeopathic doctor from Mumbai has successfully concluded the ground breaking “Heal with Homeopathy” campaign, which took place from July 23, 2022. The campaign covered a challenging route spanning Mumbai, Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Ladakh, Leh, Chandigarh, and back to Mumbai, traversing some of the highest locations on their bikes. This pioneering campaign holds the distinction of being the world’s first homeopathy initiative conducted in such demanding circumstances, exploring breathtaking landscapes. The team expresses heartfelt gratitude for the overwhelming support and well wishes received, contributing to the resounding success of the campaign. The campaign’s social media posts were widely shared, spreading awareness about the power of homeopathy.

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Alnus serrulata – Drug is Also Called as Alnus rubra – Schwabe India

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Schwabe News Volume 2 | Issue 5 | October 2011

Alnus serrulata

This drug is also called as Alnus rubra. This new proving has been published in the American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine and Homoeopathic Links, 3/99, p. 166. Only abstract has been given below and for the eloborated proving details, readers are requested to refer the original publication.

Mind

No desire to engage with others. No desire to learn anything. Can easily fall asleep at any time. Don’t care about anything. Feeling of being completely alone in the world. Irritability with people, depression, yearn for acknowledgement. Feeling of overly responsible for others. Anxiety of conscience and feeling of guilt. Lack of Confidence: no sense of purpose or self worth. Uncomfortable around people, like I am not good enough. Sensitive, weak memory, short-term memory seems shot; very forgetful. Mistakes: Difficulty writing notes in class; writing similar-appearing words, but not the correct ones; i.e., ‘began’ instead of became. Mind is slow and clumsy. Fears: Fear of spiders. The world seems scary, dark and lonely. Nostalgia, thoughts of the past, friends and situations.  Everything seems familiar again. Time seems to go too slowly.

Head

Headache begins to encircle eyes over the bone, though not the inner orbit. Headache, severe, frontal, worse from light, fasting. Better from pressure. Headache from cold, damp weather and barometric changes. Headache, sudden onset, from familiar smells. Headache better from lying on the painful side; then able to sleep.

Eyes

Eyes always dry. Hot feeling in the eyes. Intense photophobia, even when the lids are closed. Eyes feel generally sticky. Pain in muscles of the eyes, worse on moving them outside of direct field of vision.

Ears

Constant itch in the right ear.

Nose

Dry feeling in the sinuses. Nose discharge watery, intermittent, profuse, copious, worse in damp weather after eating, from motion, walking, bending, etc. Discharge with blood, chronic nose drip, worse from exercise.

Face

Dry lips. Face warm. Face flushed, across nose and cheeks. Heat sensation in the upper cheeks.

Mouth

Dry mouth and tongue.

Throat

Irritation of the naso-pharynx, worse from swallowing, worse in dry air, better from drinking water-up to three litres in seven hours. Swallowing discomfort. Glands are swollen and sensitive.

Burning sensation. A constant burning in the throat.

Stomach

Appetite, strong.  Keeps eating even though one is not hungry and food has no flavour; “nothing tastes good or excites me.  I don’t enjoy eating”. Thirst extreme, feels dehydrated. Inability to digest food. Bloated abdomen, indigestion, sluggish digestion, a general feeling of being uncomfortable in the abdomen. Gurgling in the stomach and abdomen. Alternating constipation and diarrhoea. Vomiting at night after eating too much or a normal amount of food; water can even make one vomit. There is a constant feeling of pressure in lower abdomen, a bearing down feeling in the lower colon, like a cramping, a dull pressure on both sides of abdomen.

Abdomen

Feels bloated.

Female

Strong sexual desire before menses. Intense sexual desire, but don’t want to be near anyone; no desire to follow through on it.

Respiratory

Dry cough, worse from cold air, better from shallow breathing, worse from dry air, lying down, better from open mouth breathing, hot shower, motion. Cough more violent in the evening.

Barking cough. Deep cough.  Thick and heavy. Difficult to raise the thick mucus with cough.

Back

Tension in the upper back from coughing. An aching between the shoulder blades, worse from coughing, clearing throat.

Chest

Dry feeling in the chest. Burning sensation from cough. Pain in chest with the cough. Feels like someone is stepping on chest. Chest feels tight and heavy.

Extremities

Awkward and clumsy with hands. Tremor of the hands in the morning. Very cold feet, like ice cubes. Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms in the hands and knees that usually only occur in the wet, cold weather. Heavy feeling of legs and feet when walking. Whole body feels swollen as if from oedema; skin feels tight and puffy. Burning pain in the muscles of the legs from running. Itchy skin on the thighs; after scratching there are bruises and petechiae. Bones are more painful when press on them; the periosteum is painful. Hand swollen after exertion, after running a long distance. Feet numb and tingle, pins and needles; numb from the downward.

Sleep

Very difficult to get to sleep, awake for three hours by pains and cough. Not rested on waking after sleeping for ten hours. Sluggish and tired upon waking. Sleeps all day; still can’t get rested. Wake at night from three to four a.m.; then can’t go back to bed as feel energetic.  Then go back to bed at 6.30 a.m. and wake up tired.

Dreams

Of long adventures.

Skin

Hot feeling in the skin.

Generalities

Food: Desire for brown rice, plain tortilla chips, black licorice. Extreme stomach cramps and vomiting from eating yoghurt. Get colds easily and bronchitis. Vibration of body, up and down, beginning in head, then working its way down through the body. Better on waking for one hour. Influenza with aversion to movement, a feeling of heaviness, chills, fever, aching; better from a warm bath, warm clothes, covering the eyes, earplugs and sleep. Overall feeling of achy, like having the flu with sore muscles and joints. Better and more energetic when outside the house. Better energy when entering a new room. Generally better with motion. Motion is a necessity. Tired and sluggish on waking. Very chilly, even when outside in the sun. Hot at night in bed.

 

Reference:
  1. American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine Volume 99 Number 4, Winter 2006.
  2. Homoeopathic Links, 3/99, p. 166.

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