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I first met Gheorghe more than 15 years ago at a Homeopathic Conference. We were both invited as
delegates from our respective countries to attend a Bird Flu Convention. It was at the start of the global
Pandemic concern. That first evening over drinks, he shared some of his research on Hahnemann and
his thoughts on the possible connections of the thoughts of Hahnemann and the Italian Renaissance
philosopher Marsilio Ficino. I was very impressed with the scope of his knowledge and his scholarly
approach.
Over the span of years since, I have urged Gheorghe to share his works regarding Homeopathy
and Semiotics with an English speaking audience. It is now about one year and a half that this has come
to fruition. Since then I have had the privilege of regular conversations and the sharing of cases with
this wonderful doctor and am grateful for the opportunity.
I have been studying and practicing Homeopathy for over 35 years and teaching for over 25. I
can recognize important work when exposed to it. Gheorghe asked to see some of my published cases
and after reviewing them he said “Joe, only one thing is missing - Pictures”. The visible realm of
symptomatology. I have been so struck with this fact. Predominantly our work is literary - matching
the written proving symptoms - the totality - to the verbal expression of the patient. Often we use some
observational information.
Dr. Jurj, who also has his doctorate in Semiotics, has taken the observation of the visible world
of the patient to a level not seen before in my experience - although as he points out - so many of these
observations have remained buried in the old works and not frequently used. To watch him work as he
minutely examines the skin for clues, then the mouth, the back, the gestures, posture and the gait is
truly to learn to see and observe afresh. Gheorghe feels that if a person has been living in a remedy state
for some time, surely there will be reliable visible clues expressed by his physical body and if carefully
gathered and examined for coherence could they not be a valued part of the totality? His experience
with serious pathology and the immense video library he has amassed over 30 years proves this to be
correct. In this very thoughtful and entertaining volume we have many gems - the proven results of his
years of work.
The presentation of this book is so impressive thanks to the unique artistic and medical talent of Emil
Ibragimov. At each individual remedy you will at first be presented with delightfully thoughtful and
creative images as well as pictures of real patients all meant to visually impress you with what is unique
in each remedy. Then in overlay style the succinct descriptive text will appear. Each image was long
considered before Emil gave them life. Some depict the presentation of the patient or symptom as a
caricature. Some are beautifully symbolic or meant to create effect. Even the fonts and colors were
selected as part of the overall effect of the remedy image.
So much attention to detail. All are so memorable. My deep gratitude to Gheorghe and Emil for the
love and care so evident in this presentation.
I ask each one of you to linger over each of these remedy presentations - learn them well - test these
observations for yourself - and hopefully even add to the body of useful observations. Use this wonderful
little book as a gateway to a new world of observation and precision in Homeopathic prescribing.
Enjoy!
Joseph Kellerstein
Canada, Toronto
Here I must remind you that this book does not encourage any
superficial or simplistic approach to our patients, and a real study of
Materia Medica is a prerequisite for the successful practice of every
homeopath.
I have focused on some of the main proven key symptoms, while not
excluding others.
In general, the drugs in the book are in alphabetical order, but in some
cases we preferred to show the drugs one after the other, without
taking into account the alphabet, because we considered them to be
closely interrelated. This is the case with Allium cepa and Euphrasia,
with Aletris and Helonias, with Arum, Cina and Caladium, or with
certain specific classes of medicines, such as Nosodes or Snakes.
We chose this path, and Emil stressed many times that images should
be bright, unusual and easy to remember. The images, description, and
visual effects are important in themselves, but we worked much more
on the holistic presentation of the drug than on its individual
symptoms, much more with drawings than with photos (although we
added many photos from my patients ' files depicting important signs of
the drugs). More attention was paid to creating a memorable image of
the drug, which could cause such emotions that the reader will
remember, than to the very description of the depicted symptoms. We
tried to give meaning to every detail in every drawing - the shape of the
letter in the name, the color of the background, in a kind of internal
symbolism designed to create a holistic impression and facilitate
understanding.
It is now a fact that people use more digital means to read and obtain
information than traditional paper books (such readers are becoming
fewer as the Gutenberg era gives way to the digital era). In the end, we
decided to use a more modern format - an e-book, rather than a
traditional paper book, as this allows us to make the illustrations more
dynamic, and the information that comes gradually, step by step, almost
in a cartoon style, is better suited to the didactic design of the book that
we wanted to create. This book was conceived as a "click" book ("click" -
pressing the space bar), opening page by page, and not as a traditional
"scroll" book, read line by line. At the end of each visual presentation of a
homeopathic medicine, a summary text is placed, which is intended to
remember the previously presented characteristics and facilitate the
search for the necessary information, if the reader wants to find some
symptoms, using the name of the homeopathic medicine or by keywords.
Gheorghe Jurj.
Emil Ibragimov.
July, 2021.
The relation with fatigue and weakness is prominent: acids may appear
as necessary remedies after long and intense periods of mental (students)
or physical exertions (sportsmen, constantly exposed to metabolic
acidosis that is not properly balanced by food and hydration). Sometimes
they appear at the end of exhausting diseases or long convalescences.
An example: a very thin girl of 3 y. o. who doesn’t speak. During her first
year, feeding was the biggest problem, as she was vomiting after every meal.
Not even now she cannot drink milk or any milk products because she gets
digestive troubles. In RADAR keynotes I found this interesting mental
feature” seems as if they decided not to communicate with others”. After Aethusa
30 CH she began speaking in one month.
Stools are dry, remain for long time in the rectum (sometimes
they have to be removed mechanically), with ineffectual urging
and straining, or without any urging. Every other symptom is
aggravated with constipation including paralysis and headaches,
and ameliorated with the emission of stool. In some cases,
constipation may alternate with diarrhea. (In SYNTHESIS repertory we
have in fact 33 symptoms of diarrhea. I treated one case of very serious episode of
diarrhea, with no urging, in an old woman, who presented all the other signs of the
remedy).
In old age skin is pale and so dry it hangs down in folds, the
face is nkled and arcus senilis is present from early ages. A
peculiar symptom: sensation of cobweb on the face. Lacquered
tongue.
The main tropisms of ammonium remedies are respiratory and metabolic system. The
voice is characteristic when speaking because a overlap it, as
if the nose would be blocked. . The nose might be blocked by adenoids,
secretions or just congestion of mucosa. Dryness of nose alternates with period of
running nose with transparent but acrid and , while the lips are dry,
cracked in corners.
The metabolism and kidney are affected: stones, nephritis, even uremia or kidney
failure (remember ammonium is the last product of protein metabolism eliminated by
kidney, hence in uremia the ammoniacal foetor). Often heaviness in the lumbar region
with stiffness when rising.
For the second root determinative is the typology, constitution and some well-known
generalities. For example, Ammonia:
Many elusions: the high buildings will fall on him, the wall will
crush, etc. (in Radar repertory, we can find 76 rubrics on fears , and 68 rubrics
showing delusions related to the remedy).
It has a special relation with time: feels time pressure always, time
goes too fast and never is enough, feels he must run to catch time,
always in hurry, doing things fast but never fast enough.
One year, I was confronted with a flu micro-epidemy with high fever,
soreness and lameness. The genius epidemicus I found after a mother
told me that her kid complained” mom, the pillow is too hard”; she
changed the pillow with a softer one, but the kid still complained.
A characteristic keynote is :
in behavior, appetite, mood, symptoms.
Extreme stubbornness, they are cross, jump up
and down the floor and shout, scream, cry making
cycling movements with their legs without taking into
account their parents and anybody around. Nothing
makes them happy, they refuse things they have
asked for, do not want to be touched, carried (Cham)
or caressed.
Appetite may vary from meal to meal with either
ravenous fits or complete refusal.
around anus, with local eruptions that may easily get infected.
with discomfort.
or candidiasis.
My first case was a 5 y.o. girl with perivulvar pimples and vesicular eruption, itching and
a need to rub the area (making parents think she masturbated) very nervous, sensitive to
noises (covered her ears when the sounds, voices, music was too loud) and fear of falling
asleep. On local inspection I saw oxyurs around the anal orifice. I took the rubric Female
Genitalia – Itching – worms and the only remedy was Caladium that I prescribed in D6. The
effect was very rapid: in the first three days she expelled a lot of oxyurs in the stool, and
after that the eruption, itching and anxieties were gone forever.
aggravation to tobacco.
But the most important keynote comes from the physical part,
where everything is related with gas, huge abdominal
distension, flatulence or incarcerated flatus, explosive eructations
concomitant or alternating with sensation of a lump or a ball rising
in the throat, like constricted, with difficult respiration, associated
with palpitations.
4. Mentally: fears and need for order are the main general
characteristics. Fears of all kind (future, disease, insects,
animals in general). Need for order in general or from time
to time (fits of cleaning and arranging thinks).
Face is yellowish, sunken, with dark rings around the eyes. Abdomen is
inflated all over (women patients may say “I am inflated as I would be in the
5th month of pregnancy”), aggravated by raw vegetables. There is huge
thirst for large quantities of water, sensitiveness to odors ( Colch., Bry.,
Sep.). Perspiration always aggravates.
In children:
- very dry spasmodic cough, in long fits, with the face becoming red
(Coccus cacti, Corallium) with suffocation ameliorated by cold drinks
(Mang.).
Mentally they were described as rigid, disciplined, speaking sharp like giving
orders (military behavior).
A case of mine: a man of 68 y. o. came for recurrent episodes of atrial fibrillation (every two
or three weeks), always with a slow rhythm, at the slightest effort. Depressed, with thoughts or
nostalgic memories about who he was and his actual state (Aurum) with an enlarged prostate
on ultrasound examination and typical symptoms for enlarged prostate (3-4 nocturnal need for
micturition, a heavy sensation in pelvis and dribbling). Digitalis 10 X and then 15 X cut up his
fibrillation episodes, improved depression and prostatic complaints.
Emil has depicted here Anubis, with his very straight position and
pulling the lower back forward, like the position of one of my patients
with recurrent sciatica that disappeared for ten years after Dioscorea.
After ten years he made it again after a huge physical effort but
improved again from the first doses of Dioscorea 30. In Materia
Medica we find this in the symptom «better standing erect».