Re: [H] Susan's question [was: Combos vs. Singles

Hi, Shannon --

On 22 December 2011 00:53, Shannon Nelson <shannonnelson@tds.net> wrote:

Other reasons were more "political": he feared (and I would think
>> probably quite rightly) that part of what distinguished the practice
>> of homeopathy from the practice of the "mainstream medicine" of his
>> day (applies also to ours), was the principle of *single* remedy,
>> chosen to have a deep, subtle and specific effect of causing "the
>> whole" to rebalance -- really amazingly elegant, isn't it! I think
>>
>
> Actually, that sounds exactly like biomedicine, and not like homoeopathy
> at all. It even describes quite well the prescription of penicillin for
> ear discharge that you called homoeopathic but that was not. Is that
> because you forgot *again* what homoeopathy is while you were writing
> that sentence? Homoeopathy is not a practice that aims to have any *
> specific* effect, and it certainly doesn't aim to cause the whole to
> rebalance.
>
>
> Wow, now you've completely lost me! What does it aim for then? How would
> you describe it?
>
>
> But if by this you meant what I hope you meant -- that the intent in
> choosing the most homoeopathic (i.e. *symptomatically* similar) medicine
> is to dynamically annihilate the entirety of the natural derangement to
> which it is similar -- then it's an important concept to remember when
> considering the basis for combination prescriptions, which never (because
> they cannot) take into account the entire derangement.
>
>
> Sure, have it your way.
> I would think that when you "dynamically annihilate the ... derangement",
> you will then have a rebalancing. That's kind of what homeostasis is about
> about. Or are you thinking there should be a hole left behind?
>

Perhaps I was looking for slippery slopes that you in fact had no intention
of skiing down; if so, I apologise. My concern there was only that there's
an easy slippery slope from the quest for an outcome that is vague and
probably holistic (rebalancing) to the quest for *particular effects* that
has so corrupted modern homoeopaths that they think nothing of judging the
value of a prescription by its success in removing the chief complaint.

Kind regards,

John

--

"And if care became the ethical basis of citizenship? Our parliaments,
guided by such ideas, would be very different places."

—Paul Ginsborg, *Democracy: Crisis and Renewal*, London: Profile, 2008.
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