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I mean true cure cannot be cured - only disease can. So if someone has genuinely been cured by a remedy, then this cannot be undone by the same remedy or another one.

Palliation on the other hand can easily be undone, either by repetition of the remedy or by using other remedies, or even by taking coffee or other kinds of powerful stimulants.

Albapapa - remedies take longer than a few days to work in chronic cases. You are using an LM, so it is quite suitable for daily dosing until you see a response, although I would still reassess everyday rather than mechanically repeating it.

You may also need to go up to the next potency, if this one has done its work.

You are remembering to hit the bottle firmly against the palm of the hand aren't you?

yes I have succussed it as you said. But the point about the gallicum acidum is that it did not touch all the mental symptoms. It helped with smell, acne and his jealousy for the siblings, plus it made him more demonstrative in hi affection. But what about all the rest? He is as terrified as before and as in the clouds as before. He is 15 and has to sleep in the same bed as the father, his head completely covered because he sees things in the room, though will not admit anymore that he is scared. You are saying that I should use the gallicum every day? Can you be more precise about the dosing? It is in a liquid form. But can you also consider the possibility of a remedy, please?

You gave the impression that he had a wonderful result from that remedy, that he was like a different child. My understanding was that you felt this was a good remedy for him - from all those symptoms you have been giving in the last few posts, do I understand that very little of his case actually changed?

the facts are as I have stated them. His acrid smell disappeared and his acne too, his mood improved and his relationship with members of the family has become more distended and affectionate, but his mental connotations as I have described them, his incapacity to take any responsibility for himself, such as finding out exactly the time and place of a meeting or preparing breakfast or doing anything when he is asked to do it, the excessive fears and all the rest as I have recounted quite carefully( you can ask more questions) has not changed. The result of the gallicum has been remarkable, but partial. To have to sit next to a boy who smells so much despite washing himself and using deodorants, is not in itelf a small achievement and I can't imagine any allopathic drug being able to do this in such a short time and delicate way. But probably his problem is layered and we have to pass to the next layer.

If the remedy did as much as you feel it did, the best thing to do is to pursue the remedy until it no longer helps him.

Either use the LM daily, or move to the next potency.

You must overcome the strength of the disease, and that can only be done by repeated dosing, or by increasing the potency.

Changing remedies because of a partial result, after so few doses, would be a shame.

It was very lengthy to obtain the gallicum acidum by post, so I will repeat the same potency daily. Please, for how long, and what should I do exactly for the succussion?

Succuss twice before putting the drops in water.

Repeat until either there are no more symptoms, or your son aggravates. Aggravation usually takes place when a particular potency has finished its usefulness.

Once the aggravation comes, stop the remedy, wait for it to die down, and then the next step would be to go to LM 11.

Also keep an eye out for new symptoms, or a return of old symptoms - either of which also means you stop giving him the remedy.

I would like to report about the gallicum. Yesterday was the seconf day and there was a marked improvement. Like the first time I gave him the gallicum a bit more than a month ago, his face changed expression, there is obviously some depression of some sort that the remedy ameliorates. His face was like that of a little boy without a care and not gloomy like it often is. We succussed it ten times from one cup to another. So we should continue until the picture changes for better or for worst?

I would say yes continue. The instructions given for using LM potencies is to continue until the aggravation occurs, which is a sign the medicine has stopped working.

Hi Albapapa,

I was wondering how repeated doses of the Gall-ac were working for your son?

David Kempson

we are repeating the dose everyday, as you suggested. The mood is stable, geberally good. As for the other aspects: lack of motivation to engage in anything serious such as school or sport nothing has changed. Last night we were coming back from a trip and strangely enough he helped us to unpack. We were very surprised and hopeful, but today the mistery was revealed: he wanted our permission to go to a ball with his friends on tuesday which is the day of our 25th anniversdary. If we should insist that he doesn't go, he whould sulk and spoil everything. So he is very selfish and manipulative as usual and has no regard for others. He does not go to school but goes out in the evening to play. What do you think? Should we start thinking of another remedy?

something very typical of my son is a total lack of sense of duty and blatant ungfairness to others but at the same time he likes to be the judge of every situations and picks on people's misbehaviour. He will not belt up in the car, but must make sure that his siblings will be belted up just to oppress them, he must be the one who divides the orange juice between them, or the one who tells them off for being unfair to each other and dish out a sentence for punishment, a tell tale. The sense of righteousness in somebody who doesn't do anything right is quite a striking feature in him. He is very indecisive and cannot make up his mind most of the time. I have soemtime thought he could be anacardium because he seems to have two wills all the time, but I am not sure. Basically, my son has received a negative imprint of the world because he was not cared for in the first years of his life, and so does not trust anybody, does not see authority in anybody, is constantly pushing people to a reaction, provoking them, and then will say ' I was just jocking'. He will make his sister cry to console her. In this sense I would say he has two wills.

I don't know if I have mentioned that he has an attraction-fear of evil, the supernatural, the bizarre and mosntruous which he believes exists, and at the same time a strong denial of God's existence, which according to me is due to his feeling of inadequacy so deep that cannot conceive a being who is all good and who might love him, but maybe feels forsaken by God if there is one. Possibly even too guilty to entertain the idea of a God.

He is easily offended. Does not like pressure,never liked it. If as a child I would rest on him, he would move away, same now. Impulsive when talks. SIngs a lot. Dances a lot. Has difficulty reading in the sense that he doesn't say all letters correctly. Has lucdicrous ideas sometime, irrelevant in his argumentation. However at the same time he is a fast thinker, very spirited and witty. But if you ask him a question, he often does not answer or answers slowly or in an appropriate way.

Please brisbanehomeopath, can you answer me?

It is probably best to review this case from the very beginning.

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Please use the new homeopathy patient intake form and give us information about your case, and hopefully someone will help you begin correct homeoapthic treatment.

http://abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/239454/

The problem with giving advice on a prescription that I didn't make, is that I cannot with any confidence keep you focussed on the prescription.

It appears to me that you yourself do not have much confidence in it. And so HI's advice is probably good, the case should be taken from the beginning.

Orginally I did say, that if you felt Gall-ac was the right remedy, then it is likely he will need to move up in potency. I understand you feel it is too difficult to get higher potencies. If that is what he needs, nothing else will substitute.

If you want a new remedy, we can all have a look at the case and see what comes up.

I think this case should be looked at from the beginning with the information that is in the intake form, and that hasn't been discussed in this conversation yet.

thank you, i have created a new post:
http://www.abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/254641/

I spent some time today reviewing this case. How are things going with the repetition of Gall-Ac? Is there still improvement with daily use?