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Priorities in Choosing Essence Remedies
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A Guide to Selecting Symptoms
Here is how to find one or several homeopathic remedis that are supposed to help you very well according to homeopathic teachings:First decide on your troubles: Try to find out what ails you, and find succinct words for it. These words may be found in homeopathic works too, for example "extremely anxious", or "extreme anxiety", if you like. The other symptoms are "eyelids turn inwards", "the mouth is full of white fungus" and there is "offensive diarrhoea", "burning pain in great toes with loss of nails" and "voluptuous dreams at night". If you learn to look up in appropriate homeopathic books, you find one remedy that appears to match all these symptoms, and that is the remedy Bovista. There are other mind symptoms there than just anxiety. There is also "sensitive", "awkward", and so on. If some of these other symptoms also seem to match the case, fine!
The work of a homeopath is to check in rather big books or his or her memory to find one or a few remedy that together match the most weighty and peculiar of these symptoms. Odd symptoms are really helpers in this little detective work. The brilliant homeopath leafs openly and circumspect through the works of reference. The mediocre homeopath hides his books, thinking it seems like a sign of weaknesss to find remedies from searching in that way. And the not so good homeopath thinks he has it all in his head - and then he or she is probably mistaken.
See that you find a good homeopath from these insider tips.
Be that as it may, learn to let these rules of the thumb guide the selections you make: The inward first, the upper things after that, the odd and peculiar things along with the upper things - and then the strong and clear physical troubles, if any. From inside out. Look up in the finest homeopathic books for the symptoms and try to find one or a few remedies that appear to "cover" or match the symptoms. Usually the inmost disturbances are to be ranked first, the inner involves "the mind" with its emotions, as you find it classified.
Look with pleasure into the most likely remedies for the guiding symptoms. It may happen that two or three remedies are found for each trouble (symptom). If so, it is perfectly legal to try all three at a time. Others hold stricter views, even notorious views in such matters: They try to find just one remedy for each person, and very often it cannot be done. One or two remedies at a time tend to be common.
Standard Routine
Here is one approach: In choosing the remedies, go for the strongest, most severe symptoms that you are aware of, as they surface. Study the remedy or remedies that contain these guiding symptoms. That is what the Materia Medica (List of Remedies with their guiding symptoms) is for, basically. Have this tiny ranking list uppermost in mind when you survey the remedy you hope could yield help:- Mind symptoms weigh the most. Feelings are included among them.
- Peculiarities: Oddities or particular guiding symptoms come second on the ranking list when you are to choose remedies.
- Physical troubles: Severe or marked body symptoms are further down on the ranking list. And you may drop them for flower essences, as you like. I for my part would like to peek into that too, but do as you please.
- Give clear mind symptoms 4 points each
- Give "low-mind" emotions 4
- Give oddities (peculiar symptoms or special features) 3 - 5 points each.
- Give the other strong symptoms 2 points each.
Choosing Remedies
"Aversion to medical diagnosis" is quite a guiding symptom to old
homeopathy
YOU ASSESS the guiding symptoms and rank them as shown earlier. Here is more
information to that end, and it draws on guidelines from Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. In his
Organon § 104 and 152 there are many explicit directions.- In finding the suitable remedy or remedies, learn to consider the whole set of symptoms first, and pay particular attention certain concomitants - the particular troubles - in any case.
- The term modalities comes next. In remedy descriptions they refer to explicit changes occurring both in a disease picture and the guiding symptoms of remedies. Cravings and aversions to such as various foods help in deciding assist in selecting a remedy. Cravings and aversions are modalities, or modifiers; Modalities inform about such as periodical returns of certain ailmens, at what time or hour of the day symptoms or persons are better or worse, and much else.
As for medical diagnosis, it may come in handy, but according to homeopathic theory, remedies are selected differently: by assessing "thoroughly mapped" ailments and being very specific about details in any concrete case. The two ways may complement each other, however. For example, in any concrete case the medical diagnosis should serve to leave out of consideration the homeopathic remedies that hardly match the symptoms of the disease.
For sure, medical diagnosis may assist.
It is further thought that some diseases can be nipped in the bud by well selected remedies. Once we know the complete disease picture, we may select homeopathic remedies that conform to the whole set of disease symptoms and the budding forms and facets of that disease.
By some, pathological observations and explanations may not be thought to be of much value in this sort of existential therapy, but, as hinted at above, they deserve to be reckoned with in the selection of remedy.
A wealth of examples of poisoning oneself and others by steps and
taking notes of that!
WE ARE to observe the peculiarities of the disease as we can. Changes of
personality and temperament are thought to be of special value, and need to be well
marked, especially when striking. Also, intellectual and moral proclivities serve as
indications for mental affections.It is quite to select the right remedy if there exists a well-drawn "picture" or "map" of it. By matching such a map with the person's various symptoms, a helpful remedy can be found, or a good choice may be made between different remedies.
One should ascertain the seat of the local disease quite accurately, and stick to finding remedies for striking or singular symptoms, as mentioned earlier.
Then there is the topic of poisonings. In its earlier phases, homeopathy was based on self-poisoning and poisoning of others by certain rigid provings. The accumulated symptoms were written down in schemes. John Henry Clarke's Dictionary furnishes a wealth of examples of it. One of the old homeopathic theories is that "like cures like". Some like it in Latin, similia similibus curentur: "similars cure similiars". If I am not mistaken, it can be quite a freak teaching. Two examples may do so far:
- Lead is a heavy metal. It accumulates in the organism and brings on paralysis and death when enough toxic effects have been reached. If homeopathic lead helps, does it help the organism to get rid of its accumulated lead? How can these things be explained?
- Many homeopathic remedies have not been selected on the basis of the "like cure like" program at all. And that program looks shaky to me.
Can homeopathic Technesium 99 keep us healthy with Technesium 99 in our bodies, or does it help the organism in getting rid of it? The same goes for lead and a long row of other metals that the body ordinarly does not (easily) get rid of unaided. I think we could need some research along these lines, for I do not like to believe without evidence, do not like just being told instead of finding out of things.
So far it has been established that "choice should be made from among remedies with the closest guiding symptoms all over". €
It helps to be quickly able to choose among remedies. Many things help. To know about diseases helps to, since they are quite dynamic, and may come in more than just one single "shape". Hence it is said in homeopathy that "Much depends upon a knowledge of the cause (Anamnesis) of disease."
Much also depends on perceiving and understanding the implications of symptoms. Many different diseases have some symptoms in common, others not. Diagnosis work helps in assessing what could be what, and diagnosis work is far from easy.
Something very, very different can be fit for prevention far and wide
too
IN FORMER and classic homeopathy one learns to examine and judge symptoms at
surface levels, forming a picture on top of that, and comparing it to remedy descriptions,
aiming for a closely matching remedy - or two or three. Assessing particular diseases as
diagnosed and described by the medical profession at large, is said to be much unrelated.
This means that strict, classic homeopathy is very different from ordinary medicine in
some basic ways. Still, the two ways may be used hand in hand, in complementary manner.
Let us do that.Ordinary homeopathy further deals with recognizing types (personalities) and corresponding remedies. Such "types" are in fact the guiding symptoms of a score or so of much used remedies. Some, like me, drop those "remedy personality types" altogether. Instead the focus is on guiding symptoms that are striking, extraordinary, and peculiar (characteristic) inside the whole set of guiding symptoms, as said above.
Homeopathic remedies can also be used for prevention of diseases. This old use is
called homoeopathic prophylaxis. It is said that remedies that cure the fully developed
diseases will protect exposed persons. €If a classic homeopath finds no peculiar symptoms, he may refuse to try to select homeopathic remedies. But general knowledge of diseases and troubles could help in such work. I think the homeopath should try that part of the whole gamut too, for in my experience such work offers considerable help. (7)
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Ad: Clarke, John Henry: A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. 3 vols. The Homeopathic Publishing Company. London, 1900 (vol 1) and 1902 (vols 2 and 3).Bm: Hamilton, W. R., A. R. Woolley, & A. C. Bishop: Bergarter, mineraler, fossiler: En felthåndbok. Gyldendal. Oslo, 1975.
Eos: Hochleitner, Rupert: Edelsteiner og smykkesteiner. Cappelen. Oslo, 1996.
Epg: Bariand, Pierre. The Larousse Encyclopedia of Precious Gems. Translated by Emmanuel Fritsch. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992.
Mb: Garmo, Torgeir T & Walter Schumann: Mileral- og bergarter: Ei felthandbok med fargebilete. NKS. Oslo, 1979.
Smk: Schumann, Walter: Smykkestener. Aschehoug. Oslo, 1978.
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