Abstract: An ultrasound scan reveals a complication in the fetus of a young mother of two children in the third trimester of her pregnancy: kidney congestion. The author describes the anti-miasmatic procedure to reach the fetus and have a positive chronic homoeopathic effect on this anomaly. In the end, the young woman was able to give birth to a healthy child at home.
A mother of two was pregnant again, in her 31st week. To date, the pregnancy had been relatively unremarkable, so much so that the young woman did not consider it necessary to start chronic treatment for herself. Until recently, only her first two children had received anti-miasmatic remedies. But this situation changed suddenly when the mother called my practice and told me: “Yesterday my baby was found to have blocked kidneys on the ultrasound scan. Can you do something there?”
This was difficult because, apart from the kidney blockage, which is the expression of a clearly pronounced miasmatic burden, there were no symptoms found in the fetus. As a rule, you can’t treat a fetus separately at all, because they show hardly any (or no) symptoms of their own and are firmly integrated into the mother-child system throughout the pregnancy.
In addition, there is no single rubric in the entire Kent Repertory with the entry “kidney congestion”, “reflux”, or the like, so that this symptom could not be repertorized anyway. So we had no choice but to search for a few miasmatic symptoms in the pregnant mother and give her an appropriate remedy and hope that this would help the unborn child as well.
Up until a few days earlier, the mother had complained of nighttime dizziness while lying down, especially when the moon was full. By contrast, nothing was out of the ordinary during the day. There were also varicose veins in the left thigh; these extended from the labia to the back of the knee.
The first three months of pregnancy were characterized by diarrhea “due to excitement at work”. The young woman liked to eat sweets and ice cream, even in the middle of winter (in Germany cold sometimes with snow). A familiar case of athlete’s foot flared up temporarily between the toes; she had previously had a much worse case of it.
There was also discharge, “quite a lot, white to yellowish, slightly sour smell”. Otherwise, the woman regularly suffers from an allergic runny nose with violent sneezing attacks, itchy eyes, and a watery nasal secretion in the summer months “until about November”, which she often self-treated with Natrum muriati*** 12X. “
A short while ago, it was back for two days.” When asked, it turned out that it was sometimes a little asthmatic, at least when it started about three years earlier. We couldn’t find out any other acute issues.
From the family anamnesis I took for her children, the woman had reported the following: severe diaper rash at three months, treated with cortisone in the hospital for about 8 weeks; quite late menarche (only at the age of 15), then menses only every three months; later the birth control pill, after discontinuation at 22, no periods for about nine months until “jump-started” with hormones; a pseudo-pregnancy which ended with a curettage; two genital fungal infections; “constant bronchitis” as a child; many vaccinations “that were mandatory in the former GDR”; previously warts on the hands and a corn on the foot.
The first two pregnancies went smoothly, according to the woman. However, it turned out that she was “constantly afraid of losing the child and afraid of disability”. She also (routinely) took iodine and magnesium, “because the belly would frequently get so hard”. She would get charley-horses and increased discharge at night, which did not receive any further treatment. In addition, in the third trimester, there was severe gastrointestinal flu and bronchitis with fever.
In addition, the parents and siblings of the young woman also had high blood pressure, pneumonia, a nickel allergy (earrings), warts, an appendectomy, fungal infections, cysts on the ovary, fibroids, menopausal symptoms, enlarged thyroid glands, gallstones, a urethral ulcer, colon cancer, allergy-related asthma, and an allergy to cats.
Based on all this information and correlations – a strongly sycotic acute and chronic miasmatic condition (Kent rubric “Generalities – Sycosis”, with 52 remedies) –, after careful consideration I decided that she should start with Medorrhinum LM12, 5 drops in a gl*** of water, stir well (don’t use a metal spoon!), take only one spoonful, every two days in the morning. Also because Medorrhinum is a brilliant accompanying pregnancy remedy based on my more than 35 years of practical experience.
Two weeks later, I got my first feedback: the renal congestion was still there, but “my child has become much calmer and wriggles much less”. In addition, “the allergic runny nose is coming through again”, with evening sneezing fits.
“Otherwise I’m fine”, an obviously re***ured mother said over the phone. Even the doctor said it wasn’t all that bad; the little boy’s urinary bladder had filled, meaning the scheduled Doppler sonogram at the university hospital could be canceled. Finally, the mother told me about her itchy foot, which also improved. Only with the discharge were there no changes. We decided to continue with the remedy.
In the 37th week, she had only positive things to report. “According to ultrasound, everything is much better.” The kidney blockage had decreased significantly! We were relieved, discussed the course of the remaining symptoms, and did not change the prescribed remedy. For the upcoming home birth, however, we discussed in detail the compulsory homoeopathic childbirth kit.
And so the young woman gave birth to a healthy boy who had wrapped the umbilical cord lightly around his neck, which shows that we should have started removing the miasms much earlier, but still had APGAR values of 9/10/10 and was quite viable.
During the boy’s initial visits to the doctor, the pediatrician notes “a slightly blocked kidney on the left, but not of concern”. Otherwise, the baby was doing very well; he fed well, the excretions worked well, and his sleep was satisfactory.
Only a few rounds of gas, the occasional red bottom, and a very thin, watery stool, a stork bite birthmark on the neck and at the root of the nose, as well as a light sniffling because of a stuffy nose were recognizable as further signs of miasmatic burdens: “The Sycotic Infant” by John Henry Allen (see my book “GENTLE MEDICINE”).
For this reason, and, of course, because the Medorrhinum has done so well in the womb, we continued it immediately after the birth, namely one drop in a gl*** of water, stir well, take only one spoonful every three days. The success proved us right because there were no longer any signs of kidney blockage at the next pediatric examination.
This example shows with striking clarity that pregnancy, the mother and child together, must be considered holistically, and that chronic anti-miasmatic treatment of the mother will, in any case, also reach the unborn child. In this case, it was the other way around, because it was primarily about the fetus. However, since the baby in utero can only be treated indirectly, the pregnant mother also had to be treated anti-miasmatically.
Bibliography
- Allen, J. H., The Chronic Miasms, 1921, Reprint Edition 2006, B. Jain Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Dehli
- Grätz, Joachim-F., GENTLE MEDICINE – The True Causes of Disease, Healing, and Health, 2021, Balboa Press, Bloomington, USA, gentle-medicine.com
- Grätz, Joachim-F., Kl***ische Homöopathie für die junge Familie. (Cl***ical Homoeopathy for the Young Family – Desire to Have Children, Pregnancy Support and Birth, Toddler Care, Developmental Disorders and Disabilities, Natural Development), 3./3. Edition 2013/2016; Tisani Verlag, Oberhausen i. Obb
Band 1: Grundlagen und Praxis der anti-miasmatischen Behandlung (Volume 1: Basics and Practice of Anti-miasmatic Treatment);
Band 2: Anti-miasmatische Fallbeispiele aus der Praxis (Volume 2: Anti-miasmatic Case Studies from Practice). - Hahnemann, S., Organon of Medicine, 6th edition, 1982, J. P. Tarcher, Inc.
Dr. Joachim-F. Grätz
Oberhausen i. Obb.
Germany
