GAERTNER (Bach)

The keynote for this nosode is "malnutrition" and as this would imply, it is the nosode applicable to the treatment of many diseases of childhood, but it is also found to be of value in the other extreme of life associated with malignancy. Marked emaciation may be taken as an indication for the use of the Gaertner nosode.

Mentals. Mostly observed in the child ; hypersensitive to all impressions, psychical or physical ; overactive brain with under-nourished body.

Digestion. It is in the digestive tract that the B. Gaertner has its greatest action, and this often manifests itself about the age of 6 months at the time when the infant is put on to artificial feeding.

The inability to digest fat -cœliac disease ; ketosis ; "intestinal infantilism"- are all disease complexes found under the "proving" of the B. Gaertner preparations ; also chronic gastro-enteritis ; tabes mesenterica ; threadworms. The clearing of threadworms is difficult and usually requires prolonged treatment.

If you combine the clinical picture of three well known remedies with which you are familiar, Phosphorus, Silicea, Merc. viv., you will have before you a very good clinical picture of the "proving" of Gaertner (Bach).