Pointers that point to the cure
By Dr. T. K. Moore

1. A symptom causing suffering is completely recorded only when its history, origin, progress and conditions attached, circumstances of aggravation, of amelioration, time of occurrence and of greatest intensity, how affected by position, rest, motion, eating, drinking or the performance of any body function, by mental emotions or by any other cause. All this is included in the totality of each single symptom.

2. In conditions the result of uninterrupted grief and vexation, unless the cause of these injurious influences can be removed, Homeopathy will not avail.

3. It is expecting too much of Homeopathy to cure symptoms expressing protest against a continuing and removable cause. Find the cause, mental, moral, physical or hygienic. Remove that cause or causes. Then if aught else remain, Homeopathy will take care of that.

4. The Homeopathic aggravation is a sign of incipient cure, which may be expected with certainty.

5. If the aggravation is violent, let him smell camphor but do not change the remedy.

6. You can avoid aggravation from a high potency by giving it in three doses two hours apart.

7. When the moon is decreasing, Phos, Sil, etc., may be used in patients having damaged organs, safely and with good effect.

8. In advanced disease, malignant or tubercular, the most terrible thing you can do is to give the indicated remedy in high potency. Give anything but that.

9. In chronics the latest symptoms, even though they may appear insignificant, are always the most important in the selection of a remedy. The oldest are the least important. All symptoms in between must be arranged in order of their appearance. Only such patients remain well and are really cured who have been rid of their symptoms in the reverse order of their development.

10. In epilepsy you will never cure, unless you find a remedy that covers and corresponds in every respect to the acute attack. Then follow with the complementary or chronic remedy as the curative. The chronic remedy given during the attack would aggravate too strongly.

11. Usually disease leaves by an eruption or by discharge from mucous membrane.

12. A remedy which can bring a symptom or symptoms to the surface, usually will cure those symptoms without further medication. Therefore watch and wait.

13. A remedy given, well indicated, then a diarrhoea, rash or excessive sweat, medical aggravation or any old symptom returned or even symptoms worse and patient better: give a remedy now and disaster is sure.

14. If after giving a remedy there is itching of the soles, it is a good indication.

15. In dropsies of general origin, the indicated remedy 30^th to 400^th potency, repeated frequently, several days, and renewed when necessary, sweeps out the fluid with great relief.

16. There is in the lower potencies a wealth of remedies, especially in acute cases.

17. In organic disease, where there is much pathology, use the lower potencies.

18. In hardening of the coronary arteries, as well as in general decompensation, where pathology overshadows symptoms, try Crataegus, one drop of the tincture night and morning.

19. In hydrocephalus, when the child screams, throws the head backward, moves it to and fro, makes convulsive movements of the limbs, Acon, Bell, Arn, Rhus, and Hell did no good, in high potency. The child was cured by the tincture of Hell, ten drops in an ounce of water, first every five minutes, then every half hour.

20. A watery solution of one minute pellet of the 50^th potency must be taken in small parts if we do not wish to produce too violent reaction in sensitive patients.

21. High potencies are two-edged swords and must be handled with care.

22. I get much better results and quicker from the 10m and 50m than I do from 2c.

23. If you are not sure, give a placebo and wait. A week’s placebo to start with anyway.

24. Subjects most responsive to the curative action of a certain remedy, will in health react easily to that remedy.

25. When patients appear to get up a tolerance for remedies, a complementary remedy will sometimes keep the patient from going stale.

26. When one remedy benefits but does not cure, its complement will usually carry the case on toward health.

27. Dropping back in your potency, 50m to 40m, will likewise help to increase reactibility.

28. I find that high potencies followed by lower ones act especially well in young vital adults.

29. Unable to get symptoms from children, size up the parents and see what they need, or needed before the birth of the child.

30.  Be not discouraged when a chronic patient goes down and down under careful Homeopathic prescribing. The low ebb seems to let the morbid action run out. Waiting, or a new remedy at the psychological moment, stages a surprising comeback.

31. View each case individually and entirely, not as one or more diseases, but as an individual under the influence of some force, for which is sought a remedy capable of developing s similar symptoms-picture in healthy individuals.

32. Forget the symptoms peculiar to the disease and those of the ultimates. Prescribe on the symptoms of the patient.

33.  There must be a general correspondence between all the symptoms of the patient and those of the remedy.

34. Homeopathy is based on vital stimulation and curative reaction.

35. One sees how greatly, mentally and physically, Staph resembles that most sensitive of sensitive remedies, Hepar. These patients are so sensitive that the least action or word troubles or annoys their feelings. Anger and indignation.

36. A nosode in line with the patient’s constitution or family history has sometimes given striking results, allowing the previous well indicated but inactive remedy to take hold.

37. Never send an Iodum patient to a warm climate.

38. Do not overwork by keynotes. They are signposts to shorten our research, not to suppress it.

39. Keep your remedy bottles out of sunlight and have no camphor near them.

40. Never give Merc to a case with a dry skin.

41.  Colocynth cures colic again and again. Then Kali c. steps in to end the tyrouble.

42. Elderly case, blustery weather, vomiting much frothy blood-tinged mucus, high temperature, mucous rales, dyspnoea, all set for pneumonia: Verat. V. He will be better next day.

43. Always prescribe Naja in heart cases where symptoms are scarce, unless guided away from it by some specific symptom.

44. Do not forget the beneficial effect of Phos the night before a major operation.

45. A jewel in surgical shock: Strontium carb.

46. After salvarsan the simillimum is often the antidote.

47. Thuja is the antidote to massive doses of arsenic.

48. Entire inability to sweat: Graph and Hepar as well as Alumina.

49. Nocturnal epilepsy or chorea: Calc is valuable, especially after Sulph.

50. Breast tumour: if symptoms lead to it, study Lac can.

51. Platina is haughty, Lyc, imperious. But do not forget that Ipecac is contemptuous. He despises the chief and everyone and everything and grows stout on it.

52.  In nine cases out of ten, when appendicitis comes on with a rush, I have found it calls for Bell.

53. Gels is rarely found of benefit in superficial affections of the eye, but is especially adapted to disease of the fundus and paralysis of the nerves.

54. In croup without fever, think of  Kali bi or Brom, the latter if there is cyanosis.

55. Merc iodatus rubrum has intense headache above eyes, in the turbinates and facial bones, holds face in hands and groans, with catarrhal  trouble or sinusitis acute.

56. Postpartum fever: Sulph cm, one dose, has never failed in my experience.

57. Think of Merc corr in toxic conditions of pregnancy and Phos in albuminuria of pregnancy

58. Lycopodium: Soreness of throat commencing on the right side and passing to left, where it becomes fixed.

59. Lycopodium: Right tonsil affected first, then left.

60. No remedy equals Kali s. for rattling in the chest following acute inflammation and after bronchopneumonia, when from every change of weather the child coughs and chest rattles.

61. In capillary bronchitis of children, chest full of mucous rales, bluish face and sweating, Ant t 1m (Jenichen) will work wonders.

62. If I could have but one remedy for the prostate, it would be Causticum.

63. Influenzin is more often indicated in chronics than any other remedy.

64. Always keep Tub in mind when treating sore throats, with frequent tonsillitis and enlarged tonsils.

65. Calc may be repeated many times in young people with benefit. Seldom repeat in old people.

66. Bell 2c to dm given in solution every twenty-four to forty-eight hours prevents scarlet fever in exposed children.

67. Keep a scarlet fever patient warm and in the sun.

68. Hypericum compress in red inflamed suppurations takes away the pain and aids healing.

69. One has over and over again seen shingles clear up with two or three doses of Ran b. 10m.

70. Nat m, Sepia and Calc very seldom bear repetition in chronic cases.

71. Aconite will  seldom or never cure a quiet, calm, equable patient. Nux v. will not cure where the disposition is mild and phlegmatic. Puls will not cure if happy, gay and obstinate. If imperturbable and not easily frightened, do not use Ign.

72. Unless there are specific indications for some other drug, I begin all cases of intermittent fever with Ipecac, thus curing many cases by the first prescription and saving myself much unnecessary seeking and comparing.

73. A Kali c characteristic: Any bang, shock, bad news or fear is felt in the stomach.

74. Ign also has a gone feeling at the pit of the stomach of nervous origin.

75. Cham is unsuited for patients who bear pain calmly and patiently.

76. Ferr phos in earache and mastoiditis leads everything. More cases of mastoiditis call for Ferr phos than any other remedy. It equals Cham in earache of children. It may be repeated often. Use the dm.

77. In earache do not use Ferr phos below the  12^th. The low will often work when the high fails.

78. Inserstitial keratitis: Merc c 2c , three doses, twelve hours. In one week use the 203^rd with same dosage. Next week use the 205^th. Raise the potency each fourth dose.

79. Puls, above all other remedies, has the power to unlock suppressions of modern serum therapy.

80. When the well selected remedy acts only a short time and the symptoms agree, consider Sulph, Calc s, Psor, Tub, Med or other nosodes.

81. It is rarely advisable to begin treatment of a chronic case with Lyc.

82. In the desire for salt and fat, Sulph only competes with Nit ac, but in lower type.

83. Where the tenderness of a perforating wound is worse than the appearance would suggest, think of Hypericum rather than Ledum.

84. Among the antidotes of Merc (Hep cold, Kali i hot) especially when the mercurialization has taken an excitable form, consider Nit ac.

85. In obstinate cases of sterility study Nat. c.

86. Diphtheria prophylactic: Think of Carb ac, 30x, b.i.d. or the tinct. Gtt. T. in ½ glass of water, b.i.d., for three days.

87. The acute complaints of Sil are often worse in a warm room and from heat.

88. Calendula 2c, a few drops on a compress on ulcerations after herpes zoster or carbuncles, heals very rapidly.

89. Staph is an excellent remedy for injuries to the sexual organs.

90. In paralysis after novocaine, think of Coca, Phos, or Plb.

91. The pitted face of smallpox, in every case, even when the disease was forty years ago, clears up to a marvelous extent with a few doses of Variolinum in highest potency. We are slow to appreciate what may be done by treating a long ago acute disease, such as smallpox, scarlet fever or diphtheria, which has left something that indicated remedies do not cure. Recently we have seen a great change for the better in a young woman with severe heart lesions, aortic and mitral, from scarlet fever in childhood, by Scarlatinum.

Whoever contributes to Homeopathy will have done a thing worth while.