Warts, Polyp, Molluscum And Homoeopathy 
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1994 Mar / Apr Vol III No 2.
Sarla Sonawala.
Cases.
` Caust / Thuj / Nat-m / Lyc / Nit-ac / Sil.

CASE 1:

A girl, Miss TN, 12 years of age had 3-4 warts on the fingers of the right hand. Thuja 200, then 1M was given with good hopes. To my consternation the number of warts went upto the ominous 13. I reviewed the case this revealed a very affectionate nature with care for each member of family in sickness or grief, together with craving for salt, aversion to sweets, and right-handed warts. Why not Causticum? The remedy in 1M and 10M potency, in infrequent doses, removed the warts one and all.

Few months back her mother came to me for her old aching joints. On enquiry, she informed that the girl is married, blessed with a son, happy and wartless.

CASE 2:

Miss PT, 8 years old, came with small pearl-like growths on face, neck and chest more on right side. But this time Causticum refused to oblige.

The dermatologist was consulted and I learned a name "Molluscum contagiosum" given to these growths. I was tempted to give Tuberculinum as the opening dose on account of the word "contagiosum". Working out the case pointed to the following facts.

The girl enjoyed pickles and spices, came down with headache on her return from school at noon, was touchy by temper and turned her face away at the least raised voice. Often she closed her room, wept inside and refused to open the door. Natrum mur seemed to fit in as the constitutional remedy.

Natrum-mur 1M, then 10M, interpolated by Tuberculinum shrank and removed the growths without a trace, within 6-8 months.

Case 3:

The girls younger brother, 6 years of age, developed similar affection on the chin and chest.

The boy had different mental and physical make-up. He craved sweets and soups, had a week digestion, and a wiser head on his little shoulders. Holding his fathers hand, he would go to their grain shop every Sunday, sell the ware, collect and count the money.

He responded to Lycopodium 200 and 1000 in infrequent doses with Tuberculinum 1M thrown in during quiescent phase.

All pearl-like dots disappeared within some months with improved digestion a bonus.

CASE 4:

A married woman, 25 years old, had a polyp-like growth on the inner side of vulva. She complained of painful coition, occasionally with a little bleeding. I would have given her Nitric-acid, even without a few cracks on tongue and liking for fried, spicy food. The remedy was given in 30 potency daily one dose.

On the third weekly visit she presented a piece of blood-stained cloth with a little fleshy thing sticking in. Henceforth no pain, no blood and marital bliss restored.

CASE 5:

A boy of 4, son of a social worker and a municipal corporator had a pea to millet-like growths scattered all over the body. Chronic colds, icy-cold hands with intolerance of winter, opted for Silica. Silica alone in 200 potency made each growth suppurate and then disappear.

Almost a year later, neither peas nor millets on skin!

How I wish I could tell you a few more cases with runaway success! I have had two cases first a mother, then her married daughter with history of warts in three generations in maternal line. With remedies constitutional as well as intercurrent potencies high and low repetitions frequent and infrequent, I could not make a dent in the world of warts. If few disappeared, others raised their heads, and the cycle continued until I saw no more of the patients.

Is Similimum evasive and yet to be chased? Do warts, always and invariably, need to be wiped off? Is it a dream utopian to cure each and every case that comes to us?.