Words: Dr Anne VERVARCKE Pamela [name changed], a girl of 16; she lives in Belgium. The girl has a history of blind rage, which has caused her to be suspended and ultimately barred from several schools. She says she gets into a blind rage, using brutal, coarse language. She says she is not proud of

Words: Dr Joette CALABRESE Little Joey had his first ear infection. His bright red face and obvious pain put his mother into a panic mode, and although she didn’t want to, she felt she needed to get to the doctor to get a course of antibiotics for him. The antibiotics worked great and cleared up

Words: Dr Joseph KELLERSTEIN Studying the homeopathic Materia Medica — the scientific compilation of remedial substances used in the practice of homeopathic medicine — can seem like spending time playing video games. You think you’re making it to the next level, but really it’s only a fantasy. Well, just get one severe case of infectious

Words: Dr Julian Jonas A few weeks ago a call came into the office from a patient whose wife was in the grips of a bad case of sciatica. He was hoping I could prescribe a remedy by speaking with his wife over the phone since they lived about five hours away. It was evening

Words: Dr Joseph KELLERSTEIN Elderly patients always seemed tricky regarding their reporting and response to treatment. Either I could not get a clear case, or there were so many aggravating factors that characterising the illness was difficult. Give them a remedy and when assessing the follow-up carefully there is either no clear response, or it

Words: Dr Carleen JOHNSON David Tom, a forty-eight-year-old man, had had a head-on collision with an adult moose when he was returning home from work at 5:15pm on the evening of November 1 — a few years ago. The first passers-by found him unconscious and bleeding. He regained consciousness and became belligerent as the arriving

Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK Nearly 99 per cent of normal, healthy children attain day-time bladder control by age five. However, about 20 per cent of boys and about 10 per cent of girls may as yet have nocturnal [night-time] incontinence, or bedwetting, at age 7. Statistics suggests that 1 per cent of boys and

Words: Dr Miranda CASTRO My friend Mary’s daughter called recently and said, “Help. My mom’s all swollen up, and she keeps saying she’ll be okay in the morning, but she’s been swollen for two days now and she isn’t okay at all. I’m very worried about her.” Mary was suffering from a terrible case of

Words: Dr Julian JONAS Angela was a bubbly, sensitive and anxious eight-year-old whose parents first sought out homeopathic treatment for her about a year ago. A half-year earlier, she suddenly developed a throat clearing tic one evening while attending a children’s theatre programme. Over the next month, other tics, like eye blinking, mouth movements, high-pitched screams and

Words: Dr Robert KALADISH December was mild for a Toronto winter, but the steel grey skies were familiar. Janey, my receptionist, handed me the intake form indicative of a new patient waiting to begin our 2-hour initial visit. On reviewing the form and seeing the reason for the visit to be a peripheral neuropathy with