Lower Limb and Lower Spine

I am a self-study homeopath doctor in the family for day-to-day deases like cough and cold, fever, child normal diseases, etc. But some of our friends and relatives come to me for some treatments. I give my advices with medicine or without medicines. This is purely social services on humanity ground. Such a man came at the age of 37 with a lumbago developed due to using soft bed and pain some time going to back hip and his front thigh get numbed if he stands more than 30 minutes. I have given him Rust 200 and Macrotinum 200. Got 75% cure. The same patient came at the age of 47 complaining back head pain due to gap in spine discs (4 discs). I have given him Rust 200 and Cal Flour 200. Got 100 relief and x-ray proofed there is no gap.

Last year in April 2010 at the age of 52 he came again to me with a complain of right heel pain (tearing and burning), Better normal walking, worse sleep and sitting and evening/night and hot foods. He was diagnosed Osteoarthritis. I have given him Thuja IM 3 doses at 30 days gap but no cure. I prescribed Sulphar 200 for 2 weeks, then Cal Car 200 for 2 weeks, then Lyco 200 for 2 weeks. He got 40% relief. Then I have given Rust 1M (at ten days gap), Syphlinium 1M (at ten days gap) for 2 Months, supported by Formica Rufa 30, Rham Calif 200. kali car 200, and Arg. Met 200. Since he has developed slight symptoms of Phytolacca due to Syphlinium he had also it few doses. In homeopath I got only one medicine for degeneration of cartilage and it is (Arg. Met). His heel pain gone about 100% but he feels pain now in 1st toe (light pain). In addition, he feels still slight stiffness in knee after getting from sleep and after getting from long sitting. His nature of job is sitting. He also feels slight boring pain (splinter like) around right and left knee (right more) while ascending from stairs and also climbing stairs but lesser than ascending and from jumping and pressure at knee. Knee also slightly cracks without giving any pain while kneeing down and getting up from kneeing down.

As for lumbago, he has still 25% pain and some time lesser. Some time pain goes to back hip and front thigh feels numbness at standing for longer time. Cold and damp do not increase his pain similarly hot weather does not relive his pain. I think his father and grand mother used to have slight knee pain. Grateful if you could advise the proper medicine for osteoarthritis and lumbago with above symptoms.

I will later write about two young patients who approached me lately for inflammation of Irisand cornea.

Hashmi
Jeddah