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Paws and tail are warm but without any tonus. A short prick from a pin between her toes causes a slight but perceptible tremble. There is no muscle wasting in spite of a clearly visible backbone.
Anamnesis & Diagnosis
As I examine the animal, Mr. K says: “Go on with your charade! I believe only in what I see!”. What a challenge, issued by a sceptic. The palpation shows a displacement of the lumbar vertebrae L3-L4. The motor spinal neurons are affected but the sensibility is still present – hope is still present. But I do not find any trophic amyotrophy.
An osteopathic treatment is impossible: Orore jumps on her forelegs like a mad basketball and tries to bite me.
About every 10 days, the dog suddenly clamps her teeth firmly shut, then her body is shaken by short spasms for about 30 seconds. Afterwards she is quiet, wants to run off and starts dragging her rear end.
Remedy search
A first prescription of Natrum sulf 30 CH: 1 dosis to be repeated a week later is supposed to fight the post-traumatic edema.
I search help in Voisin’s Repertory, seeing the sceptic allopath’s attitude, I cannot begin a complete anamnesis. Page 513 chapter on ‘Paralysis’ I read a warning: “Homeopathic treatment can only give results, if the lesion of the nerves is not too old (1 year maximum) and if the lesions are not irreversible” and an advice: “The remedies should be given in high or very high dilutions and repeated frequently”. The repertorisation gives me the following remedies: Ars 3+ , Bung-f 2+ , Creosol 2+, Plb 4+ and Plb- 4+. In Kollitsch’s Materia Medica, p. 396 I read: Bung-f: “progressive paralysis, medullary and bulbar”.
Differential diagnostis
Arsenicum 3+: motor and sensory paralysis, coldness of the affected extremity. Orore looks still very young and has warm legs and tail. Bungarus fasciatus 2+: progressive paralysis with amyotrophy.
Creosol 2+ would have cold paws, liver and kidney troubles, eventually even dyspnoea. Plumbum 4+ & Plumbum iodatum 4+ would have constipation, aggravated by a sedentary way of life, would be more trembling and show a retraction of the flexor tendons.
So I prescribe Bungarus fasciatus 30 CH (3 granules twice a day for 5 days).
The remedy found in Voisin’s Repertory and in Kollitsch’s materia medica didn’t have a pathogenesis but a precise indication: “Progressive paralysis of central origin with clear or rapid amyotrophy”. Nowadays we have one, thanks to Dr. Farokh Master.
Of course Orore doesn’t have any amyotrophy but ... gets a one hour massage every day.
The immediate results
The owner phones three days later: Orore can stand a little, staggers somewhat and falls: Bungarus fasciatus given for 2 more days.
3 weeks later the owner phones and I hear that Orore walks alone, about 50 steps, falls when turning and stands up again.
1 month later, Mrs. K... tells me on the phone: “There is no more progress”. We repeat Bung-f, C 30 for some days.
2 weeks later in consultation: Orore cannot stay still, shivers a lot. Left by herself, she stands up, runs away on the gravel, falls down, stands up again and runs. “She walks better in the forest than on asphalt”, says Mrs K.
2 weeks later by phone I hear that Orore runs alone more than 300 m. sometimes falling on her side once or twice. For 2 months she hasn’t had any convulsion. Instruction: stop all treatment, inform me and wait. The doctor husband cannot believe such a placebo effect.
Longer follow up
Before writing up the case, I call Mrs K: 4 months after the last follow-up, the family vet vaccinates Orore against rabies. Three weeks later the bitch has a leucorrhoea with over 40o C fever and show 2 mammary cysts. To prevent a mammary cancer, a ovario-hysterectomy is performed. Everything seems to be well.
But 2 months later in the night, Orore has a short epileptic fit and walking is deteriorated. Prescription: 6 granules Bungarus fasciatus C 30. 10 days later, just after New Year, Mrs K phones me to wish me a happy new year : Orore walks with her and Mr. K. The sceptic allopath cannot understand. Because the convulsive fits keeps repeating, I prescribe a single dose of Tarentula C 30 (Convulsions, compression of spinal column: Tarent: only remedy).
2 months later follow-up: Orore didn’t have any more fits.
2 months later, Dr. K stops a bout of diarrhoea with 2 doses of ImodiumTM without asking me first. The next day, the skin of the dog’s belly looks purple and the treatment is a Dexamethasone ointment. The day after, Orore is sad, doesn’t eat any more and for the first time in her life she doesn’t greet her beloved mistress. The belly is not red anymore. Orore stands up with great difficulty and falls paralysed again. This time there is absolutely no sensibility in her hind legs and Bung-f doesn’t work any more. 2 weeks later, Orore is put to sleep.
A paralysed Dachshund
Presentation
Mrs B presents her kind, long-haired, ginger, female Dachshund with paralyzed hind legs, drawn forward. Since a fortnight she has been treated by a colleague without result.
Clinical examination
A careful palpation reveals a vertebral problem in D5-D6. Cranially, there is a hypersensitive,
painful zone where the vertebral spine seems depressed. A starting amyotrophy can be seen already. Remember what Henry Voisin said: “Paralysis of central origin with rapid amyotrophy”.
Treatment
Bungarus fasciatus 30 CH; 3 granules twice a day.
After 8 days treatment the dog scampers, follows the owner from one room to the other.
A week later he walks around the whole house. 3 weeks later, he trots normally with a wobble every now and then. Sometimes he falls when turning around.
Follow up
1 month later there is an alert: The dog has yellow vomiting mostly during the night. The bitch is well only when carried in somebody’s arms. Fear of being alone, seeking consolation, which clearly ameliorates: a single dose of Pulsatilla 200 K is given.
24 hours later, everything is perfect. The dog is fine, plays with Beethoven, the St. Bernard in the family and accompanies the family on her walks.
A paralysed optical nerve
Presentation
Shiva is a male lhassa-apso, rescued from an opium addict and adopted by my dear friend Dr. S, homeopath, osteopath and clairvoyant to a certain extent. He is a lively little dog, affectionate and happy with life. One day he runs away into town and comes back, staggering. The pupil of his right eye is wide open and shows no photosensitive reflex. Our independent osteopathic diagnoses correspond:
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