Il y aurait beaucoup à dire, d'ailleurs, sur les produits plus ou moins toxiques que les chirurgiens dentistes implantent dans nos dents : fils d'arsenic pour dévitaliser, amalgames dentaires à base de métaux lourds ou de résines plastiques, chevilles métalliques, etc.

La plupart d'entre-nous connait quelqu'un qui, ayant présenté des symptômes d'asthénie chronique imputés au mercure accumulé dans son organisme, a dû se faire traiter pour éliminer ce mercure,
attribué à des amalgames dentaires. Le traitement en question étant, évidemment, assez coûteux.

Les amalgames à base de résines polymérisées semblent avoir à présent remplacé les amalgames mercuriels, chez la plupart des dentistes, en France.
Cependant, d'une part, les résines ne sont pas aussi résistantes que les "plombages" au mercure et doivent être remplacées à moyen terme (dix ans environ) ; d'autre part, l'innocuité des résines plastiques n'est pas démontrée à ce jour, leur usage étant trop récent (env. 15 ans) pour en évaluer correctement les effets.

En Europe du nord, l'application d'implants beaucoup plus résistants à base de métaux non toxiques
("inlay") est pratiquée, je crois, depuis plusieurs décennies, mais est beaucoup plus coûteuse.

Nous avons probablement affaire chez nous, depuis trop longtemps, à des professionnels désinformés, voire manipulés par les industriels, avec la bénédiction des instances de tutelle : amalgames au mercure hier, résines polymérisées aujourd'hui.

Cette situation contribue sans doute au développement d'une industrie florissante, au détriment de la santé des patients et de l'équilibre financier du système de santé.

merci pour cette contribution sur le jeûne thérapeutique, et surtout pour le lien permettant de regarder
l'émission diffusée sur Arte.

En la regardant, je ne peux m'empêcher à la (fameuse) cure de Breuss (cure de 6 semaines pendant
laquelle on ne consomme que du jus de légumes crus, tout en buvant des tisanes - d'autres infos sont disponibles sur internet).
Breuss avait conçue cette cure au début du 20eme siècle, comme solution thérapeutique pour différents
types de cancer, la composition des tisanes étant adaptée au type de cancer à traiter.

D'après les témoignages, cette cure induit au moins une perte de poids significative, qui serait certainement très bénéfique pour les individus présentant une surcharge pondérale due à leur mode de vie sédentaire et à leur alimentation trop riche.
En espérant toutefois que la réalimentation après cure n'engendre pas de reprise de poids trop importante.

Les témoignages sur le traitement du cancer par cette cure semblent plus nuancés, et, sauf erreur de ma
part, il n'existe pas de données chiffrées sérieuses sur ses effets thérapeutiques.
Peut-être parce qu'elle a toujours été ignorée par le corps médical.

We base our science of prescribing on the totality of symptoms. Hahnemann and his followers were wise in this, for the simple totality will relieve most cases. Yet it is the experience of most prescribers that the totality of symptoms does not always give permanent relief. The cause of the disease must be considered. Very often the prescriber is at sea, unable to comprehend the case, hence unable to select a remedy suitable to the case, because there is a want of knowledge of the cause of disease. Some simple question or statement of the patient often unravels the knotty skein, lifts the veil, and leads to the curative remedy. The following case is one of these. I give the case fully, so that it may be properly studied, though a part of it does not refer to the amalgam.

Mercurial poisoning, removal of amalgam fillings

Mercurius solubilis

Jan. 9, 1897,
Miss C. made the following statement:
Nine years ago she had the measles; she was quite sick for two weeks, but when she got over them she seemed all right.
For eight years she has had pimples on the face, chest and arms, very thick, angry looking and sore. They come out in small blisters, then form small ulcers or sores. Worse when she catches cold, before menses, from meat and rich food, especially pork, grease or fats. Last summer she lived in a blackberry patch and ate many blackberries, and during the time she did not have a single pimple on her face or body.

At times little boils form on the face.
She craves lemons, pickles and vinegar; she thinks vinegar helps to digest meat and uses it freely when using meat.
Her father had the itch.
Now she has a bad cold, eyes water and are painful; nose discharges a rather thin fluid. She has been chilly and hot; face red and flushed; head hot.
Face, chest and arms are covered very thickly with pimples or small vesicles and tiny sores from them; some spots look like measles.
Two spots below the clavicle feel heavy and cause cough; cough dry.
Some sweat at night.
Fever yesterday. Thirsty.
Throat raw and sore; quite red.
Fauces red and inflamed.
Bowels now costive.
Tongue coated a very thick, dirty white.
Scrofula on the father's side.
Bell.200 (B. T.) in water, three doses two hours apart.

P. M. not so well. Chest painful.
Eyes and catarrhal trouble some better.
More like measles.
Puls.200 (B. T.) two doses two hours apart.

Jan. 10.
Measles out all over upper part of the body and confluent; face one solid mass, like one large measle; face feels stiff and drawn.
Chest and eyes much better.
But little cough.
Feels generally better.
S. L.

Jan. 12.
Doing well. Measles beginning to fade. Sleepless last night. Cough troublesome this morning.
Dros.40m (F.) one dose.

Jan. 18.
Came to office.
Feels faint during the day; in a warm room feels faint and heart flutters.
Has spells of sinking away, and heart seems to stop beating; knows what is going on about her, but cannot handle her hands nor move; spells last all day. Has had several spells during last couple years. At first spell the heart seemed to stop and then gave a hard beat: great weakness and pain about the heart.

Empty feeling in the stomach, not better by eating. Feels better from active exercise.
Pains through head and eyes; catarrh, discharge white with occasional scabs from nose; some greenish plugs in the past.
Feels worse when hungry and when meals are not regular.
Craves pickles and vinegar. Averse to sweets and cake.
Acne of face usually profuse; very little since she had the measles, but now coming out on the forehead.
Stomach bloats; clothes feel too tight; heart beats too fast; short of breath.
Feet bloated; worse when on feet; worse in the afternoon.
Feet usually cold, but warm since taking cold baths.
Heart is worse when stomach is worse.
Since the whooping cough her eyes are very troublesome. Oculist says her optic nerve is distorted and other nerves paralyzed. Can't distinguish capital F. and P. and some other letters.
Menses usually irregular and painful. At first three periods she washed in cold water, menses stopping. Pains in ovaries and small of back continuous. Flow very dark red, very offensive. Pain one week before period in the lower abdomen and back; vulva swollen before; also breasts swollen.
Sep.40m (F.) three doses, one each night.

Jan. 25.
Pimples are getting better, especially on the body.
Generally better except the cough; thought the medicine very powerful.
Coughs much during exercise, and going into warm room or into cold air; cough caused by a pressure on upper part of chest. Worse laughing, talking, singing. Dry, no expectoration. Always catching cold; takes cold so easily.
Had sore throat a couple of nights.
Feels weak.
Heart beats rapidly, and hard on going up stairs.
Has a cold spot between shoulders, must sit with warmed pillow to back; the spot feels like a piece of ice; when applying warmth to the spot "it feels like driving a pain through the lungs from the spot."
From hard study after supper the food failed to digest, with greasy eructations.
Phos.500 (B. T.) one dose.

Jan. 28.
Cough was much better; general relief, but has taken another bad cold from being in a cold room and now has a Bad cough; none at night, but during the day and evening till bed time. Irritation or tickling in throat-pit and upper part of the lungs. Cough very dry. Tightness of chest.
Lungs feel heavy like a weight or pressure, and as if full of something. No rattling.
Muscles of abdomen sore from coughing.
Slight nausea before rising in the morning.
Cough causes gagging at times, and causes headache; deep, dry cough.
Slight discharge from nose.
Feels generally worse from coughing.
Swelling of the feet.
Soreness in every muscle, worse in the shin bones.
Cough from taking cold; sensitive to cold.
Though not well marked in a dry cough, nor in a day cough, yet I concluded to give
Hep.1m (B. T.) three doses two hours apart.

Jan. 30.
Cough was nearly well, felt so much better in every way. (Antidotal).
Has taken a new cold, with a slight cough.
"Takes cold so very easy." Tonsils are full of holes from sore throat. Food gets into these holes and annoys her. She has had large holes in tonsils filled with cheesy matter which she used to pull out with a needle. This was nearly seven years ago; none now.
Aggravation not marked.
Hep.1m (B. and T.)

Jan. 31.
Has another cold from a very slight exposure.
Fever; head very hot. Cough, especially when talking.
Skin hot.
Bell.20m (F.) two doses every two hours.

Feb. 1.
Much better in every way; about well.
S. L.

Feb. 2.
Set up at night in a rather cool room and studied her lessons till after midnight.
Eyes have sharp pains, shooting across from inside outward.
All muscles around eyes feel sore on movement.
Aching of the eyeballs.
Light very painful; lachrymation.
Teeth all ache badly.
Jaws ache like from a cold, worse after resting awhile and after sleep.
Throat feels sore along sides and under the ears.
Irritable and cross.
Nux Vom.cm (H. S.) three doses two hours till better.
P. M. Eyes are extremely painful and cause her great agony; least light, even through a thick window shade, causes pain to be intensified; keeps eyes covered and squirms about in misery.
Teeth and jaws are better.
It may be eye-strain; least effort to use eyes causes excruciating suffering.
Ruta grav.40m (F) three doses, one hour till better.

Feb. 5.
All symptoms were quite a good deal better, but eyes ache very severely by the least use, even to look at a person, and a glance at the light - any kind of light - puts her in the most terrible distress for a long time.
Beneath eyes very dark spots.
Face covered with quite large pimples which are not distinctly visible at all times.
No menses since January 3.
Cutting pains through eyes, especially when opening and exposing them to the least light. Worse candle light, stove light, after looking at the light, flickering light; better from hot water, but not from heat.
Pains go to the temples.
Eyeballs ache and are sore; worse as above.
Sensation as if eyeballs were cut in half horizontally.
Throbbing in the temples.
Aching in the cheek bones.
Headache from eyes up over head; worse when eyes are worse.
All the teeth ache.
Parotid glands are very painful, though not swollen.
Aching in the jaws like as if a bad cold had settled in them; better chewing motion.
No menses this month.
Gums are sore and swollen, worse on right side where wisdom tooth is.
Itching of eyelids, worse inner canthi.

Has ten amalgam fillings in teeth; these have been in her mouth for over eight years. Her troubles have all been present since eight years ago and since the presence of the amalgam fillings. At this visit a number of her symptoms called to mind mercurial poisoning, when a question brought out the fact of the amalgam fillings. I took the time to fully explain this subject to her, stating that many excellent men rejected it, and asked her to carefully watch the effect of the next medicine as it would decide the matter in her case, as it was antidotal to mercurial poisoning.

Merc. viv.cm (F. C.) one dose.

Prompt relief in every way. Felt that eyes were better in less than six minutes and in half an hour she went to sleep and slept for about five hours. She was surprised at the change in her eyes on awaking. After several hours there was no pain in eyes and she could look about the room in comfort. Next day she was up and about. No pain from light of day nor of the lamp, but eyes feel weak and she feels that she dare not use them. This one dose of a high potency of Mercury has performed a miracle, in her esteem, and she is fully convinced that the amalgam fillings is the only cause of all her troubles; she decides they must come out. Her eyes remain easy and painless without use.
On the 10th of February she decides to go to the dentist. Early in the morning she attempted to read a letter and in making out a single word her eyes pained badly and continued painful for nearly an hour. This convinced her she must not use her eyes till the amalgams were removed. She had no more medicine. Two days were spent in changing the amalgams for gold fillings. The ordeal was very exhausting to her.

February 13
she came to the office in smiles, and reported: "Feels ever so much better already and I was able to read and study without my eyes hurting me, and without the usual glasses, the very next afternoon." "Eyes feel so much stronger; I feel stronger all over." Her eyes continued to improve, she pursues her studies in comfort and no more trouble with eyes, though she has had no more medicine since the amalgams were removed.
This seems like a clear demonstration of the evil effect of amalgam fillings, and also shows that Merc. vive. is antidotal.

It must not be assumed that Mercury is poisonous to all persons. Many can use amalgam fillings or Vulcanite plates without marked ill effects, possibly with none; but the prescriber must keep in mind mercurial poisoning as a possible explanation in these troublesome cases