Homeopathic Remedy DNA

There are a number of homoeopathic medicines which have been partially proved but have much clinical importance; Carcinosin is one of such medicines which had fragmentary proving but it was Dr.Donald M.Foubister who by his intense clinical studies brought out the carcinosin drug picture. Now carcinosin is used as one of the constitutional medicines through out the world. Spectacular cures have been obtained by judicial use of carcinosin and the credit goes to Dr.D.M.Foubister.

DNA is a less known homoeopathic medicine but having wide clinical applications. Deoxyribonucleic [ DNA ] is the fundamental genetic material of all the cells. DNA was proved by Dr. O.A.Julian of Paris from 1970 to1972. DNA has great utility in paediatric practice. I find this medicine mostly getting indicated in adolescence and in early adulthood.I have also used this medicine for a few middle aged men whose behavior is like that of adolescents.

The DNA children and adolescents are mentally idiotic but sexually precocious. They are nervous and emotionally unstable .Comprehension is difficult. They confuse one subject with the other and hence they are mostly backward in schools and colleges. Though they are mentally backward physically they are restless, they want to be occupied always. They do not want to be idle, but because of their mental backwardness, they are unable to accomplish their works. This failure inhibits them and makes them turn inwards. In short DNA people are 'DUAL PERSONALITY'. People-on one side having desire to work, to conquer easily but on the other side idiotic, sluggish and resentful. This double personality reflects in their sexuality also. They are sexually precocious and tend to seduce. But their unstable, hypersensitive, irritable attitude results in failure in their relation with the mates. This failure leads into a reserved attitude, they want to get isolated leading to a state of onanism. The DNA people are anxious with out any reason. They are highly irritable and vexed of worldly affairs, asking questions like "what is the use of doing this or that?

These people are subjected to headaches - usually throbbing pain in frontal and temporal regions, left sided headache over the orbit (by movement) by lying, after a short sleep and closing the eyes, head ache with urge to pass stool which does not relieve the headache.

Difficulty in seeing distant objects, extreme ocular fatigue, shining points before the eyes which disappear by closing the eyes.

Gums bleed when brushing the teeth, white coated tongue.Sensation of a splinter in the throat.Hunger pangs between meals. pain in the epigastrium and gastric distension > by food. Tendency to constipation with dry, hard stools, exacerbated flatulence and borborygmus .and in stomach. Tendency to diarrhoea after meals. Head ache and nausea after drinking wine.

In both sexes, libido is usually increased and sometimes decreased, erotic dreams, menses: late, scanty, stops after half day and then begins after two days with yellowish leucorrhoea in the interval, pain in the left shoulder -great pain when raising the arm above the head < by movement, In cold and damp weather, humidity, pain in the metacarpophalangeal joint of the right thumb, habitual manual awkwardness.

Restless sleep with lascivious dreams. irresistible desire for sleep on the bed. grts up out of bed in the middle of the night and stands up after a sensation of shock or of being drowned.

Eczema, alopecia,folliculitis, psoriasis, herpes and varicose ulcers are some of the skin manifestations. eruption of the margins of the arms with burning and oozing.

The use of DNA helps to increase the appetite and to put on weight.

Aggravation :  By movement, by wine

Amelioration : By rest, lying on darkness, closing eyes, cold weather

To sum up, the DNA child or adolescent is a grumbler, rushed than sluggish, pleasant than unpleasant, often sensual, seducer and idiot

The clinical indications are numerous going from mongolism, to oilgophrenia.

GENERALITIES-MIND

• General hypersensitivity i.e., asthenia. general well being, feels on top form in the morning, but extremely irritable.with general feeling of discomfort in the morning which makes him bad tempered, nervous disposition, needs to work and to finish everything undertaken during the day, does not want to be idle, but on the other side difficulty in assembling thoughts, poor powers of concentration, hence impossible for him to work, periods of dual personality.
• Head : Pulsating headache < by movement lying down with hands under the nape of the neck. headache with urge to pass stool which does not relieve the headache.
• Mouth : gums bleed when brushing the teeth. Tongue white coated which can not be easily cleaned, sensitive gums.
• Stomach, Intestine, Abdomen : Hunger pangs between meals, pain in the epigastrium , gastric distension, not> by food, tendency to constipation with dry, hard stools, flatulence and rumbling, burning in oesphagus and in stomach. Tendency to diarrhoea after meals with flatulence.
• Circulatory System :  nocturnal, recurring cramps in calves.
• Throat : splinter like feeling in the throat < morning on waking < 6pm raw feeling of a foreign body, especially on the left side >by cold water and by swallowing.
• Eyes  : Difficulty in seeing distant objects .extreme ocular fatigue.
• Urinary :Sometimes scanty and yellow ; sometimes copious and pale.
• Genitalia : libido increased - some times decreased, erotic dreams.
• Locomotor : pain in left shoulder < movement < cold and damp : humidity.
• Skin : Eczema, psoriasis, alopecia, seborrhea, folliculitis, of thighs, marginal anal eczematous rash with burning and oozing
• Mod : < from movement > from rest, lying in the dark, laterality: leftside

Comparisons :  The following medicines are closely related to DNA :

Aethusa cynapium : is related to DNA in idiocy in children, in capacity to think, confusion and poor school performance. The DNA idiocy is a genetical one where as, aetusa idiocy is due to a faulty calcium metabalism as evidenced by intolerance of milk, indigestion of teething children and epileptic spasm, complete absence of thirst is a positive diagnostic feature of aeuthusa.

Baryata carbonica : is also related to DNA in idiotic children, Baryata carb child is mentally and physically dwarfish - this is a normal one - usually due to hypothyroid state. baryata carb is related to DNA in alopecia also.

Medorrhinum : children are also dwarfs with a history of sycosis in parents.

Igntia is also similar to DNA in emotional instability. Ignatia is quick to perceive, intelligent and mild in disposition where as DNA is slow in grasping difficulty in concentration. Idiotic and irritable. Ignatia is the remedy of great contradictions and DNA also has some elements of this.

Pulsatilla : is another medicine similar to DNA in emotional instability, pulsatilla is mild and DNA have the symptom - late scanty menses with the intermittent flow - in common.

Arsenicum album : is related to DNA in mental restlessness. arsenic album restlessness is associated with fastidiousness, with an attempt to achieve perfection, where as DNA is physically restless and mentally backward.

Kali Brom :  is closely related to DNA both are mostly indicated for children and in adolescents. They find difficulty in getting on well at school. they are dull and apparently lacking in intelligence.

Lycopodium : is opposite of DNA as lycopodium people are mentally developed but physically weak, Lycopodium and DNA are similar in their action on gastro intestinal tract. Hunger pangs between meals, pain in epigastrium, gastric distension burning in oesophagus and stomach and diaorhea after eating, but the key note symptom 'good appetite, but a few mouthfuls fill up to the throat is characterstic of lycopodium. both the symptoms -increased sexual desire are covered by both lycopodium and DNA, lycopodium is similar to DNA in its emotional instability also.

Anacardium : is another important remedy for 'dual personality ' he feels as if having two wills. one commanding him to do what the other forbids. He is highly forgetful and to cover up this he becomes a bit fastidious (foubister). He also becomes highly irritable and malicious.

Natrum muriaticum : is related to DNA in headache relieved by sleep, natrum mur also gets indicated in some types of mental retardation where the child is slow in learning to talk.and the child craves for salt.

Phosphorus : is also related to DNA in headache relieved by sleep. phosphorus is also closely related to DNA in its sexual precocity. phosphorus children and adolescents are highly active ; ambicious and very affectionate. They need love and they easily reciprocate it.

Sanguinaria : is also related to DNA headache mostly relieved by sleep. Sanguinaria headache is mostly right sided and DNA headache is mostly left sided. sanguinaria headache is associated with urge to pass stool but no relief from defecation.

Lachesis :  is a left sided remedy like DNA, lachesis patients are loquacious, suspicious and jealous - these characters are not observed in DNA patients. Both lachesis and DNA patients are sensitive both mentally and physically.

Psorinum : is akin to DNA in skin affections and in hunger pangs between meals.

Antium crud :  has the symptoms thickly white coated tongue, both antium crud DNA are cross and peevish.

NOTE :- As DNA is not yet fully proved and as we have not got enough clinical verifications, readers who get opportunity to use this medicine, are requested and the results to the author.This will help us to get a wider drug picture of DNA.