First Chapter THE CASE OF INCURABLE ECZEMA In 1990 a magazine published my article about homeopathy, which in our country at the time was as yet completely unknown as a method of treatment. The editor of the magazine asked me if I could cure his two year old daughter from the chronic eczema, which had defied any orthodox treatment. It worked - the eczema disappeared without showing any tendency to recur. After this, the editor, buoyed by the success, remembered one really big problem - his relative, a paediatrician from a small town in Southern Bohemia had a five year old daughter who suffered since the age of one from a severe eczema. They had tried everything, but corticoids and other contemporary prescription drugs failed them completely. The disease was spreading constantly and it had made its mark not only on the life of the child, but on the life of the whole family. At night the girl suffered from pains and itches, she could not sleep and neither could her parents. So it went on for four years. To prevent her from scratching the dripping wet rash that covered most of her body she was forced to wear a pair of heavy woollen gloves to bed, even in summer. Her constant discomfort understandably affected her environment. And the prognosis was bad, the things were going to get worse. One day we had met in the editorial office at the river embankment. The father, a bearded paediatrician, seemed reserved, making it obvious that he was not to be easily hoaxed. The mother was tense. Only five year old Alenka was relatively calm. She was used to it that her life, despite all the parental care, was mostly unpleasant, and she phlegmatically accepted it. Nothing would surprise her. Her face was transfigured by the enduring rash, her eyebrows were irregular, her facial expressions restricted, as any movement to her was clearly irritating or painful. Her little face appeared stiff. It was covered by a nasty reddish rash, and so was the rest of her body. I struggled to overcome an overwhelming compulsion to scratch myself here and there - the child seemed to radiate the itch everywhere. Then we began the homeopathic interview, the basic and essential part of an examination. The girl kept quiet and the parents talked. They said, that they had tried everything possible, all known courses of orthodox treatment, but to no avail. Exhausted from the disease was not only the child, but also themselves. The problems came in the first year of her life. First there was only a rash on her thighs, it has began to spread. Particularly to the folds of her limbs, after having a bath and after scratching herself. When she scratched herself, abscesses formed on the skin. The child's condition deteriorated at night, when she scratched herself excessively and cried. Things got worse after a midday sleep or when the child was exposed to warmth, in the sunlight, in summer, in a hot room and under the blanket. The physical symptoms always increased when the girl was agitated, particularly when she demanded something in vehemence. In addition to this, she often suffered from colds and lately also from cough, which after a prolonged physical exertion becomes asthmatic. The father was well aware of the fact that eczema in children is often accompanied by asthma, that sometimes a fully blown bronchial asthma develops after the eczema, this was another cause of worries about the girl's future. After all, asthma could be a life-threatening disease. Through further inquiry I learnt that the girl behaved well in the pre-school, that she was sociable, that she was fond of sweets and refused to eat meat, except for chicken. She eat little and she loved margarine. She drunk a lot, only cold drinks, the hot drinks she refused. Rather shy, her timidity became more pronounced as she was getting older. The following day the father collected from me a vial with white lens-like pills, described as Sulphur 200. He was instructed to give the child a single pill to be sucked in the mouth without any water. One hour before taking it and one hour after, no food nor drink. With it came my advice to stop any current orthodox treatment, at least two days before taking the remedy. This made the father hesitant, though he agreed with the former. He maintained that if the child would not get her treatment, she would suffer a lot and the ointment would have to be quickly applied. I said, however, that the psychological effect of the remedy could be almost instant, that the remedy would soon relieve the suffering, even though in the early stages of treatment the eczema would not be affected or it may even get a little worse. With regard to the eczema they had to be patient, the treatment and the cure of a chronic illness is a long term proposition. The doctor left full of determination, but also full of doubts. For three months I had no news from them, until the phone rang late at night. I heard the rather anxious and somewhat exasperated voice of the paediatrician from Southern Bohemia: "What should we do?! It's awful! We did everything as you'd told us. For three months she's not been on any medication - and, indeed, the pains and the itch had gone almost immediately. Now she sleeps well and so do we. But the eczema's hardly changed. And the cough! The last two days she's been coughing herself to near exhaustion. The fact is, she's no longer so asthmatic. But this dreadful cough! She coughs almost constantly. Shouldn't I give her some cough mixture?" "No," I answered. "Just hang on in there. Don't do anything just yet, call me in two days." Again several months went by, without any news from them. Then, unannounced, one day they invaded my flat. They were joyful and they looked happy. Alenka had no eczema and no other problems. The cough went away the day after the phone call, and after that the eczema gradually disappeared. First in the face, then on the body, last on the legs. The child was healthy and for six months she had not taken any chemical preparations or any other medication. Such are moments, when one feels that things in this world must have some purpose. Approximately a year after our first meeting they visited me for the third time. Alenka was still all right, but they said that occasionally a light eczema had appeared in the folds of her elbows. She was given Sulphur C1000, a single dose. A single sugary pill. Only now I had noticed that Alenka was an above average pretty, blond little girl. She had started to go to school. According to the message from her father, the recurring rash had disappeared within days after taking the remedy for the second time. Was this a miraculous cure, completely out of the ordinary? Not at all. It always happens, whenever the principles of homeopathic cure are correctly followed.
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