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How to use the MMHV online
The Veterinary Materia Medica has been developed over the last two decades by veterinary surgeon Jacques Milleman (France), aided by several other members of the IAVH. The original version is in French and two volumes have been published in German by Sonntag-Verlag in 2005 and 2007 respectively.
Until recently, there was no English version of this extensive work, so Edward de Beukelaer, IAVH member and soon-to-be president of the IAVH, has taken on this mammoth task of translating and coordinating the material and intends to present the remedies in a new concept,
where each remedy will be emailed exclusively to all IAVH members on completion.
A translation into Spanish has already begun by Marcela Muñoz (Columbia), two into German by Dr. Bernhard Hornig (Germany), one into Japanese by Minako Kuroda (Japan) and one in Hungarian by Andrea György (Hungary). It is very exciting to see this unique database being transformed into a multi-lingual fountain of knowledge, which – I am sure – will benefit us all for years to come.
To access the Materia Medica please:
• Log into the IAVH website – www.iavh.org.
• Type in your membership number and password.
• Go to the member’s area and scroll down to the MMHV. Here you find all the remedies available so far.
If you cannot remember your log-in information please email the IAVH office – office@iavh.org and they will be happy to help.
Enjoy Cimicifuga, which I have chosen to include in this issue of the Mag. Please use this source for your convenience in everyday work with your clients.
Malene
CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA
The remedy is also known in the classical
like to control things using their reason but brings back the occasional bird and mouse. soon they lose control over their functions
due to their efforts of controlling their Occasionally it looks as if she has seen emotions.Tobecreative,onehastoletgoof something and then starts frantically licking
references under the name Actaea Racemosa (Act-r). In the conclusion of his extensive study of the materia medica of this remedy Jacques Millemann retains the following keynotes:
• Restlessness on a background of depression and melancholy
• Fear of becoming crazy: fears that the brain has become too large for the skull
• Pains radiating from inwards to outwards
• Pain going from one hip to another passing
along the pubis
• Pain in the left breast worse during the
menopause
• Very painful lumbago extending through the
hips to the inside of the thighs
• Rheumatic pains with stiffness and tension
of the muscles in the neck and the back
• Neck pain after catching cold or raising the
arms
• The more copious the menstrual flow the
more there is pain
• Mental problems alternate with physical
problems
• Delusion the head is caught in black clouds
• Inefficient and very painful contractions of
the uterus during delivery
• Loquacity with the pains
Caricature
“You will give birth in pain” (D Grandgeorge) to which J Millemann adds “ with agitation and panic”.
The French study groups Graph and AFADH summarise the remedy as follows:
“The patient suffers from a struggle between their reason and their emotions. They would
the control of the emotions; if one lets go of this control this may upset all the plans. They will not accept any help from anybody, because they want to be able to create out of themselves. The way the society works is perceived to be restricting their possibilities”.
Cimicifuga suffers from the loss of control over its vegetative functions.
Cases
Edward De Beukelaer
Deidre and her garden.
Deidre is an 11-year-old Burmese cat. She was
taken on through a Burmese cat club, when her previous owners could not look after her anymore; they travelled frequently. They looked for a good home. The current owners still keep in touch with the previous owners. ‘I still feel we look after the cat for them’. She was treated by a colleague for arthritis of the elbows. The right is worse than the left. According to the owners, the pain got worse when another vet handled her roughly during a consultation.
‘The first week she stayed with us, she didn’t eat or drink and then suddenly she came out and was ok. She has always been a sickie cat: she tends to vomit easily. Also she has always licked her stomach, causing fur loss. The fur has recently started to grow back (when the arthritis started, and through the use of a calming pheromone: Feliway®).
There are lots of other cats in our garden and one of them is vicious. Deidre is nervous to go in the garden, so I go out with her. When she goes next door, the neighbour chases her. Nevertheless she is still a good hunter and
herself (over-grooming). She is nervous about flies and bees. She tries to catch them but she is also jumpy about them. She hates being bitten by insects (midges outside?). Sometimes a bit of black dirt on the floor makes her nervous, she thinks it is an insect.
She is terrified about hot air balloons passing over the house. (They live in an area where there is much hot air ballooning going on). She gets worried. She is also worried about the neighbour using a strimmer in the garden. This is better since we have used the Feliway® in the house.
She loves the warmth of the greenhouse. She sleeps very close to our faces, as close as she can. One night she was grinding her teeth, when the elbow was painful. She is very affectionate; she loves people. She runs to the door when people visit and will sit on their laps. If our visitors don’t like cats she sits at their side. She is in control of us and tells us what to do for her although she is not too pushy. She is cuddly and sits under our jumpers. When we put her in the kennels once, she stayed for 10 days under the heating pad: she hated it. When the other cats are in the garden she stays upstairs; it disturbs her when there are other cats out in the garden. The doors to the garden are always open. She is always vigilant about other cats being there. Other cats coming in the garden are insulting to her. We go out with her in the morning. In our previous house, we used to have a larger garden, the over-grooming started when we moved to this house with a smaller garden and many other cats.
She will sleep in any box we take out. As soon as her travel box comes out she will be in it straight away, although she knows it is the box
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