Let me offer you thanks for the reasoning you've described here. This
approach sounds at least thoughtful. It is apparently *homoeopathic* only
transiently and superficially, but that's neither here nor there (as I
don't think you're claiming it to enter into homoeopathy at all); the
interesting thing is to know how it's done and why.
Hughes used low-potency and even crude medicines on the basis of his
understanding that organic problems required material solutions. His
approach, whilst being a bit rough and lacking in the possibility of the
refinement that potentisation offers, was by and large squarely
homoeopathic.
In stark contrast, Compton-Burnett, who typically used the same kinds of
medicines as Hughes did and typically (but not always) used them singly as
Hughes did, rarely practised homoeopathy. It was organ therapy, it was
perhaps herbology, it was certainly highly intuitive, and it was doubtless
highly successful. By and large, however, it was not, however,
homoeopathy: it lacked the basis that all homoeopathic practice requires,
knowledge of pathogenesis. His knowledgeableness of disease and his
dedication prevented others from calling it as it was, but that's the
incontestable fact of the matter.
There is no less respect due to him for that, except in that he did
homoeopathy no service by allowing a persistent confusion between it and
his organ therapies.
Shannon will be the first to jump up and down with questions for you
concerning how you decide this or prescribe that in this system, and her
energy for such pursuit unerringly earns my admiration. What those of us
who respect the necessity of the law of similars to homoeopathy draw the
line at is the insistence by some that homoeopaths somehow adopt these
"similar" practices without basis in the law of similars into homoeopathy,
allmost as though that would not utterly obliterate homoeopathy's sole
distinction from all else.
Thanks again. Kind regards,
John
On 23 December 2011 09:53, Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD. <jroz@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> If I still had some hair on my head, they would stand straight right now,
> in
> horror and awe at reading the total lack of knowledge and misunderstanding
> about the real, scientific, way to use complex remedies.
>
>
>
> Some of us DO know homeopathy inside out at all levels......
>
>
>
> I am not talking about the OTC, commercially prepared bottles, "this for
> that": this is allopathy indeed, using dynamised substances, not
> homeopathy.
>
>
>
>
> I am not talking about the complex remedies used in Homotoxicology,
> Anthroposophical Medicine, Homeobotanical medicine, or the Reckeweg system:
> those are homotoxicological, anthroposophical, homeobotanical and Reckeweg
> remedies prescribed according to their respective principles of practice,
> and they do not call themselves Homeopaths.
>
>
>
> The complexist approach is different: first it is a clinical,
> pathology-oriented approach, aimed at treating a state of disease in a
> system or organ of a patient, using the symptoms, signs and modalities
> developed by that system/organ and not relating to "totality" of the
> patient
>
>
> Example: a patient with liver insufficiency or hepatitis; most of the
> general symptoms and signs that I would include in a
> classical/Hahnemaniann/Kentian approach are the result of the metabolic
> imbalance due to the liver situation. Any "constitution", any "miasm" will
> present with almost the same clinical symptoms and the few individual
> variations specific to a patient are not enough to prescribe upon, if at
> all
> perceptible. Therefore it is indicated to treat the liver status first,
> remove the pathological symptoms and signs, THEN get to the essential core
> of the problem that has led to liver insufficiency or hepatitis.
>
> Within that plan it is possible to "take the case" of an organ: which part
> of the liver is enlarged leads to different remedies, the local symptoms,
> aggravations, amelioration and modalities will provide a list of different
> remedies. So far nothing much different.....but we are here dealing with a
> very physical system where physiology and biochemistry are perturbed; the
> different remedies have different modes of actions (and some of us know
> them
> when studied from a herbalist point of view, just compare the MM for
> Taraxacum, Silybum and Cynara in herbal and homeopathic textbooks....) and
> despite what many have written, they DO work in synergy.
>
> In situations like that, what is important is not to know which remedy was
> effective, but that the TREATMENT was effective, the patient is back to his
> normal previous status, now we can go on and treat deeply.
>
>
>
> Here is a treatment I prescribed yesterday to a colleague in his seventies
> with sudden (a few months ago) appearance of a mitral valve prolapse with
> slowly progressing heart failure and shortness of breath.
>
> Those are the rubrics I used (Mac Rep and RefWorks):
>
>
>
> Heart & circulation; HEART and region of; valves, valvular complaints;
> mitral (27)
>
> Respiration; GASPING; heart complaints, in (1)
>
> Generalities; HEART complaints, in (311)
>
> Respiration; DIFFICULT; heart complaints, in (67)
>
> Respiration; DIFFICULT; heart complaints, in; valvular (2)
>
> Mitral valve prolapse (4) :
>
> Mitral valve (47) : Respiration; DIFFICULT; exertion agg. (123)
>
> Heart & circulation; EXERCISE, after; slight (50)
>
>
>
> The major remedies that appeared useful here are Lauroceraseus, Strophantus
> and Apocynum Cannabinum. I eliminated the animal remedies (snakes...) as
> being too potent for him right now and the others as not being sufficiently
> heart specific, settled on those 3 using HERBAL indications, which are
> exactly the same in homeopathic materia medicas, only more developed....so
> yes, you could say this is a herbal prescription using potentised herbs, if
> you want.
>
> As a first stage he will take them separately, for a simple reason: IMO he
> will be able to stop the Apocynum quickly, if that prescription works, then
> we can adapt the doses of the others (that is the PLURALISTIC approach),
> then both remaining remedies will be put together to form a combo/complex
> specific to his cardiac condition and prepared according to repertorisation
> and materia medica.
>
>
>
> That is how you create a combo/complex remedy, that is how you use multiple
> remedies at the same time.
>
> What is not acceptable for practitioners is to throw into the same bottle
> remedies that vaguely related to a few symptoms and hope for the best.
>
>
>
> Have a Happy New Year and a Merry Hanukkah.
>
>
>
> Joe.
--
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guided by such ideas, would be very different places."
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