Homeopathy in Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine by MICHAEL FRASS MD and MARTIN BUNDNER MD (editors)

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Homeopathy in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Michael Frass, MD & Martin Bündner, MD (editors)

 

Many books that we sell are GOOD…but some are EXCEPTIONAL…and THIS book is exceptional!  Actually, this book is a “state-of-the art” MODEL TEXTBOOK for the future of homeopathy!  It is a textbook, with two-colors of ink used, with detailed materia medica, detailed listing of rubrics (symptoms from a repertory) that enable you to find the best remedy more easily, and is highly referenced.

This is a unique work, which documents how homeopathy can achieve predictably successful results in emergencies such as anaphylactic shock, acute abdomen, acute asthma, myocardial infarction of the inferior wall, and edema of the glottis.

The book contains 145 well-documented case histories, similar to those written by the old American homeopathic clinicians. In each case it is clearly demonstrated how to quickly find the best remedy using straightforward Kentian repertorisation. The results are impressive. The authors show that conventional treatment and homeopathy can perfectly complement each other.

This work offers also a lot of general information on homeopathy like potentisation, source materials used in homeopathic remedies and methods of administration. It also comprises a stringently edited materia medica of the most important 70 remedies for ICU and emergency situations.

Both editors have extensive experience in emergency medicine and homeopathy. Michael Frass is former head of the intensive internal medicine unit at the Medical University of Vienna and Martin Bünder also has long-standing service in rescue and emergency medicine.

 

Table of contents

I Introduction …1

1 Homeopathy in intensive care and emergency medicine …3

1.1 Using homeopathy in a clinical setting …3

1.2 Principles of classical homeopathy …5

2 Intensive medicine: development and current status …17

3 Aspects of adjuvant homeopathic treatment in intensive medicine …27

3.1 General …27

3.2 Anamnesis …28

3.3 Information …28

3.4 Administering remedies/choice of potency/repeat administration …28

3.5 Assessment/changing remedies/follow-up …29

3.6 Indications/contraindications …29

3.7 Combining conventional and homeopathic medications and viewpoints …30

3.8 Continuing homeopathic treatment after periods in ICU …31

3.9 End-of-life care…31

3.10 Effects on the climate in ICU wards…32

3.11 Suggestion and placebo effects …32

3.12 Summary and studies …32

4 Remedy production and quality …37

4.1 Pharmaceutical aspects of homeopathy in intensive care medicine …37

4.2 Source materials used in potentised homeopathic remedies …38

4.2.1 Plants …39

4.2.2 Fungi and lichens …39

4.2.3 Minerals and metals …39

4.2.4 Animal kingdom …39

4.2.5 Products of disease, nosodes …41

4.3 Quality criteria …42

4.4 Potentisation …43

4.4.1 Source materials …43

4.4.2 Potentisation: dilution and succussion …43

4.4.3 Types of potency …45

4.4.4 Triturations …48

4.4.5 Labelling …49

4.4.6 Prescription …50

4.4.7 Shelf-life of homeopathic remedies …51

4.4.8 Drug legislation …51

4.4.9 Taking potentised remedies …53

4.4.10 Methods of administration …53

4.5 Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia …53

4.6 ICU remedy kit …55

 

II Intensive care medicine …85

1 Infectious diseases …87

1.1 Sepsis …87

1.2 Serious local infections …111

1.2.1 Ludwig’s angina (Quinsy) …112

1.2.2 Hip joint abscess …116

1.2.3 Cricoid perichondritis …118

2 Disorders of Haemostasis …121

2.1 Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) …122

2.2 Bleeding after therapeutic puncture wound …126

2.3 Pulmonary embolism …128

3 Heart, circulation and blood vessels …133

3.1 Angina pectoris …134

3.2 Myocardial infarction …138

3.3 Aortic dissection …142

3.4 Cardiomyopathy, heart transplant …146

3.4.1 Cardiomyopathy …146

3.4.2 Heart transplant …152

3.5 Pulmonary oedema …154

4 Lungs …167

4.1 Lung diseases …167

4.1.1 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) …168

4.1.2 Pneumonia …175

4.2 Withdrawal from respirator and extubation …179

4.2.1 Withdrawal from respiration devices (weaning) …179

4.2.2 Extubation …185

5 Kidneys …189

5.1 Homeopathy in cases of kidney disease …189

5.2 Acute renal failure (ARF) …190

6 Gastrointestinal tract …195

6.1 Homeopathy for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract …195

6.2 Acute abdomen …196

7 Perioperative care …199

7.1 Intraoperative blood loss …200

7.2 Postoperative transitory psychotic syndrome …204

8 Toxicology …213

8.1 Homeopathy in case of poisoning …213

8.2 Death cap mushroom poisoning …214

 

III Emergency medicine …219

9 Traumatology …221

9.1 Trauma to the extremities …229

9.2 Spinal trauma …237

9.3 Thoracic trauma …242

9.4 Craniocerebral trauma (CCT) …244

9.5 Abdominal trauma …249

10 Cardiovascular emergencies …253

10.1 Cardiac arrhythmias …253

10.2 Hypertensive crisis …259

10.3 Pulmonary embolism …264

10.4 Acute venous occlusion …271

10.5 Angina pectoris and myocardial infarction …276

10.6 Cardiac arrest (resuscitation) …285

11 Lungs …293

11.1 Asthma bronchiale …293

11.2 Pulmonary oedema …304

11.3 Hyperventilation syndrome (tetany) …309

12 Gastroenterological emergencies …315

12.1 Acute abdomen …315

12.2 Homeopathic treatment …318

13 Intoxication …347

13.1 Drugs …347

13.2 Intoxication from medication …352

13.3 Poisoning with industrial and household substances …361

14 Neurological emergencies …381

14.1 Apoplexy and intracranial bleeding …381

14.2 Epilepsy …401

14.3 Meningitis and encephalitis …408

14.4 Disc prolapse …413

15 Psychiatric emergencies …417

15.1 Delirium …418

15.2 Agitation …420

15.3 Acute psychosis …424

16 Gynaecology and obstetrics …431

16.1 Genital bleeding outside pregnancy …431

16.2 Emergencies during pregnancy …436

16.3 Birth and birth complications …445

16.3.1 Normal birth …445

16.3.2 Birth complications …445

17 Urological emergencies …457

17.1 Acute urinary retention …457

17.2 Renal and ureteral colic …461

17.3 Urosepsis (UTI) …465

17.4 Injuries to the urogenital tract …471

18 Thermal emergencies …477

18.1 Hypothermia and frostbite …477

18.2 Burns and scalds …484

18.3 Heat damage …490

IV Materia medica …497

19 Materia medica …499

19.1 Introduction …499

19.2 Materia medica …500

Index of remedies …525

Index …529

 

ISBN: 978-3-95582-077-0

Paperback; 539 pages

3rd Edition

2.5 Lbs.