Re: [H] Combos vs. Singles

Irene has put her finger on something really important here in
homoeopathy's practice via a tested principle as opposed to the trial and
error that holds sway everywhere else -- a principle whose foundation is in
fact the testing, the pathogenetic proving, that revealed the principle.
Again, thanks, Irene.

John

On 22 December 2011 16:40, Irene de Villiers <furryboots@icehouse.net>wrote:

>
> On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Wendy Howard wrote:
> > How is it SO much time and energy is expended on perpetually going round
> in the same circles?! Shouldn't the singular failure of this debate to
> advance so much as one step forward in ... what, 200 years? ... be telling
> us something fundamental and axiomatic about this question?! That, to quote
> Einstein, "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness
> that created it."?
>
> Whatever level of consciousness produced the problem of combos, and tried
> to piggyback on the valid reputation of a genuine medical system, by
> misappropriating its name without any semblance of similar application, is
> exactly where the thinking needs to change and become honest.
>
> Mixtures are just that. They are not homeopathy. It is fraudulent to
> pretend otherwise.
>
> > Homeopathy does not exist in isolation. It utilises exactly the same
> universal principles used in many systems of healing.
>
> Not so. It is the only system that uses the Law of Similars, which is what
> defines it as homeopathy.
> Pretending anything else does that, is simply incorrect. No combo can do
> that.
>
> > It's one among many, there are all manner of shades of grey in between
> and we don't know the half of it yet.
>
> Not true. Law of Similars is as clear and easy to follow as that other
> natural law - the e Law of Gravity - and equally unmistakeable as a natural
> law. It's not an idea man invented. Homeopathy is by definition the system
> that uses it.
> The objections that occur, are to the misuse of the term homeopathy to
> refer to anything other than this Law of Similars.
> Mixologists TRY to pretend that what they do is homeopathy as that would
> be greatly to their advantage. Fancy having free access to 200 y ears of
> excellent reputation and trying to sell your unrelated product based on
> that reputation! A great selling point commercially - but there's no truth
> in it. Mixologists have no connection or cause to hang on the coat tails of
> the genuine system defined by Hahnemann and called homeopathy.

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