Re: [H] Combos vs. Singles

On 19 December 2011 23:43, Shannon Nelson <shannonnelson@tds.net> wrote:

>
> On Dec 19, 2011, at 3:48 AM, Fran Sheffield wrote:
>
> > It is certainly an area we need more research in. For starters:
> >
> > 1. Do complexes cancel out some of the pathogenetic symptoms of some
> > of
> > the remedies in the mix (I think they do).
>
> I have been told -- in years long past -- that some homeopaths would
> make up complexes for a patient based upon good knowledge of how those
> remedies were known to interact with each other. (In most cases this
> appears not to be the case, tho.)
>

That's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time! Good knowledge? Of
drug interactions? Hilarious! Thank you, Shannon. Good knowledge!

> 2. Does the same thing happen with chords of potencies in a complex.
>
> Some people use chords regularly. I wonder if any of those people are
> on here now, and if they would feel brave enough to mention it? :o)
> I can't now remember who'd mentioned it -- in years long past, before
> civil discussion of "disputed areas" had become to energetically
> rejected by certain members.
>

There's no reason for them to fear the ire of homoeopaths if they're not
going to claim that polypharmacy is a "kind" of homoeopathy!

> 3. How many remedies and how many potencies are too much (I am shocked
> > at the number going into some complexes).
>
> I wonder if you are thinking of something like the Apex formulas?
> Huge numbers of remedies and potencies. But they are both used and
> formulated by something different from the familiar homeopathic
> process. That's about all I know about that... Reading the
> ingredients list it *looks* like a sort of combination homeopathic
> (because of some familiar names, and also because of potency labels),
> but they aren't, and aren't marketed as such.
>

There you go again. All combinations are in the same boat, Shannon, in
terms of whether they're homoeopathic to anything or anybody. The
conjecture that similarity of one symptom makes it somehow homoeopathic
inherently assumes that other medicineswill not share a single symptom with
the patient. Do you know a single medicine that you can say with
reasonable certainty does not have in common with anybody you know a single
symptom?

When you begin applying your critical faculties to this combination stuff,
you see that actually it's so much hot air and not much else.

The follow-up is of course another area that polypharmacists can say
nothing about.

Anyway, I'll be interested to see answers to my questions, Shannon, when
you're ready.

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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