Anecdotal Cases
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1998 Mar / Apr VOL VII NO 2.
Dr. Vishpala Parthasarthy
'Staph / Phos / Calc-c / Mag-m

I have compiled several eye cases from my experience, and narrating them in form of anecdotes. This will make for easier reading. If you enjoy this mode, do write back to me. 1 long cases of macular oedema will follow, so that you get your usual fare too. Another case of macular oedema has already been presented in the Magissue. Please refer that to refresh your memory. 

The Case of an old injury:
Our Dog Churchill is a heavy, well-built boxer, whose affection is sometimes more painful than non-affection. Once, when he was a frisky pup, in 1996, he was so excited when Ravi came home that he jumped up abd down like a canon-ball till finally his rock-like head made full contact with Ravi's left eye socket. There was tremendous pain and watering for a couple of days. I gave him some remedy and it subsided. We forgot about it. 

In February 98, Ravi suddenly developed severe pain in the same eye with lachrymation. He rememberered the pain as being the same like the old box of our boxer! I discredited that, since that was such a old story- about 2 yr-old story. Usual remedies did not work.. So I sent him to my ophthalmic friend, Nishita, for a check up. She said it could be an old injury! I was astounded! She gave him 2 types of eye-drops to put and said bandage your eye. Not for Ravi the usual taped bandage. He wanted one like the one-eyed pirate. Must be some lurking childhood fantasy which he wanted to fulfill. But for that fantasy, I had to really run around orgainizing such a eye-patch (and one would not do as it would have to be washed the next day!).Within 3 hours I had got it made to his specifications. But that was 3 hours too many! Then I looked up the repertory for old injury, pain from. Staph. Was the remedy given? 2 doses of Staph 200 and the pain, lachrymation and the eye patch disappeared! And now it is 2 mths. And the eye patch rests in a corner of a drawer ready for use, maybe 2 yrs kateer when it may rear its ugly head again! 

And Nishita was certainly very miffed when I described the episode. She went round complaining to all and sundry that every time she did the dirty work and hard work of diagnosing and I went away with the credit! 

Case 2:
This time it was me. Today I have decided to regale you with family anecdotes. Anyway, I developed Glaucoma in 1997. As usual I went to Nishita.She checked me and said the tension in the left eye was high and Glaucoma has no cure but for eye-drops for a lifetime. That time the reading was 27 in the left and 17 in the right. She gave me Glaucoma drops to put. A bit unnerved by the diagnosis, I started the drops, along with a Homoeopathic remedy. 

Every mth I would go to Nishita for checking the tension and she would say, Vishpala are you putting your drops regularly?" and I would say" Yes Nishita I am putting drops" By 1997, I started replying "No, Nishita I am not putting drops, but I am coming to you for check-up regularly to see that it is maintained". From Sept 97 it has been quite normal. The follow up with tension reading and the remedy are given below.

Case 3:
A young girl, 15, came in Dec 96, for recurrent styes on the upper lids, alternately right and left, every 15 days and would last about a week. She would also get hammering type of headaches every month from exposure to sun with pain in the right eye. 

She was obese weighing 78 kg on 5ft 2 frame! She was extremely fond of eating all food except vegetables, exactly like her mother who was also fair, fat and flabby and happy-go lucky.. Our patient too was normally of cheerful, happy-go-lucky disposition, but that day, she got a chance to criticize her mother to a doctor and her mother's friend and she did so with vengeance. Here I learn that Calc can also be vengeful.

This typical Calc girl got a dose of Calc-c 200 and her stye of many months gradually vanished. She took no further treatment. 

Case 4: 
And now finally a long case with full details like I am wont to give:
Male, 38 years came in July 92 (my2nd case of Macular Oedema)
CC- Diminished Vision [L] eye.
Eye- Dull ache 2-3/day
Evening Headaches (B.P 140/90) LASER & Steroids not helped.
Associated Complaints- Chest pain and palpitations

Life Story- Born 1954; Father-Advocate; Mother-Very Strict. If late at night, Mother would clear up the table and let him go hungry.
Patient Shy, Sensitive and Bright. Craved love which he never got from his parents. Was never close to parents. Studied law. Met wife, who is from Sikkim, through common friend and got married.
Lives separately. So feels guilty. To make up goes every weekend to meet parents.
All his suppressed emotions get expressed in violent dreams.

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