Re: [H] Combos vs. Singles

:D Irene, from trucks to symphonies: another delightful analogy!

We seem to be in agreement an awful lot lately. It's worrying. Have you
come down with a fever, or am I hallucinating?

John

On 21 December 2011 23:49, Irene de Villiers <furryboots@icehouse.net>wrote:

>
> On Dec 20, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Shannon Nelson wrote:
>
> > we don't expect the
> > patient to experience every symptom in the remedy picture!
>
> Quite so, especially as the average remedy has ten thousand rubrics.
> (remedies have rubrics not symptoms, that makes it still clearer)
>
> > It's the
> > ones they *have* that are important.
>
> The patient's illness *symptoms* are the starting point in any case. They
> should be present within the huge range of a remedy's *rubrics* - that's
> what makes them homeopathic/similar.
> What other rubrics the remedy has, are irrelevant, as they were not chosen
> to be part of the case.
>
> Since a remedy has ten thousand rubrics, it is easy to claim a match to
> just about anyone - as many of those rubrics will be present - if you look
> for some to be there, they likely will be there.
>
> But they are not relevant as ONLY the illness symptoms and their rubrics
> count as that is what needs to be cured - and those must be within the
> remedy's rubrics "repertoire".
>
> If the patient has Mozart's K545 symptoms, it does not matter if the
> remedy can also play Beethoven's ninth and a Debussy's Sonata number 4.
> You only need whatever remedy can best play Mozart's K545 best.
>
> Namaste,
> Irene
>

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