QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT

by

Would suggest a complete blood count and chest x-ray in addition to a careful check on the weight trend, urine and blood pressure. Careful inquiry should be made into the patients eating habits and mode of life and corrections made according to indications. The possibility of a tuberculous process must be considered. A case of this kind could easily have an emotional etiology.

NOTE: Send questions to Dr. Eugene Underhill, Jr., 2010 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,

Question: WHAT WOULD LIKELY BE THE CAUSE OF AMENORRHOEA, NOT DUE TO PREGNANCY, IN A NERVOUS BUT OTHERWISE APPARENTLY HEALTHY YOUNG WOMAN?

Answer: If the patient appears well nourished and there are no evidences of thyroid disorder we would expect to obtain the history of some severe emotional shock such as anger, jealousy, fright or grief. Usually some such upsetting occurrence precedes the amenorrhoea and the remedy which is wholly similar to the efficient cause will cure the patient and re-establish the menstrual flow.

Question: WHAT HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDY WOULD YOU ADVISE IN A CASE OF FUNCTIONAL AMENORRHOEA?

Answer: Most certainly the remedy would depend upon the cause of the disorder and the symptoms of the patient, in other words the totality of the case. If the cause was fright the symptoms might present the picture of Aconite, Opium, Phosphorus or Pulsatilla. If grief caused the trouble think of Ignatia, Natrum mur., Phosphoric acid and other grief remedies.

Question: A young woman, apparently in good health, donated a pint of blood to the Red Cross. An hour after she reached home she fainted. This was six months ago and she has never menstruated since. HOW WOULD YOU APPROACH SUCH A CASE? Answer: Would suggest a complete blood count and chest x-ray in addition to a careful check on the weight trend, urine and blood pressure. Careful inquiry should be made into the patients eating habits and mode of life and corrections made according to indications. The possibility of a tuberculous process must be considered. A case of this kind could easily have an emotional etiology. However, a pint of ones life blood cannot be laughed off by everyone. Such a depletion might throw a borderline case completely off balance.

Related posts:

  1. QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT The same rule holds in the case of the traumatic remedies. Dont give a fellow Ledum and then punch him in the eye. Punch him first and then give him Ledum. Similarly Rhus tox. will act more favourably following rather than preceding a severe sprain or strain....
  2. QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT Apparently so, although this is probably taking too superficial a view of the problem. The probabilities are that some prior disorder as yet unobserved by the patient or his family has conditioned him, or in World War II parlance has softened him so the emotional shock would be absorbed rather than thrown off by the constitution....
  3. QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT This position strengthens the spine and favors early use of the arms, neck and shoulders. It helps to prevent flattening of the occiput in children suffering from disturbed calcium metabolism. The prone position is a good one to cultivate at all ages and stages of life. In advanced years it prevents passive congestion along the cerebrospinal axis....
  4. QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT This position strengthens the spine and favors early use of the arms, neck and shoulders. It helps to prevent flattening of the occiput in children suffering from disturbed calcium metabolism. The prone position is a good one to cultivate at all ages and stages of life. In advanced years it prevents passive congestion along the cerebrospinal axis....
Allan D. Sutherland
Dr. Sutherland graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia and was editor of the Homeopathic Recorder and the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy.
Allan D. Sutherland was born in Northfield, Vermont in 1897, delivered by the local homeopathic physician. The son of a Canadian Episcopalian minister, his father had arrived there to lead the local parish five years earlier and met his mother, who was the daughter of the president of the University of Norwich. Four years after Allan’s birth, ministerial work lead the family first to North Carolina and then to Connecticut a few years afterward.
Starting in 1920, Sutherland began his premedical studies and a year later, he began his medical education at Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia.
Sutherland graduated in 1925 and went on to intern at both Children’s Homeopathic Hospital and St. Luke’s Homeopathic Hospital. He then was appointed the chief resident at Children’s. With the conclusion of his residency and 2 years of clinical experience under his belt, Sutherland opened his own practice in Philadelphia while retaining a position at Children’s in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department.
In 1928, Sutherland decided to set up practice in Brattleboro.