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A few questions

Why is sulphur the number 1 remedy for ailments from embarassment?

I dont even know what the difference between embarassment or humiliation is. Dont know which one of those 2 fits me.



Why is lycopodium not mentioned under ailments from scorn in bold type as I would expect it to be? This means being belittled, right?


A person being egoistic but mindful of not causing this to make people leave him alone as he needs them cannot really be platina?


what is the difference between forsaken feeling or desire for company? Isnt this one and the same. Suprised to see lycopodium not under forsaken feeling.

If someone hates boasting and is mindful, monitoring himself for any boasting does that mean lycopodium is out of question?

What remedy would someone need who never all his life could have had a girlfriend because it just seems dangerous, or really uncomfortable


If any questions could be answered that would be great.
 
  vitamin.X on 2011-10-03
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
This is one of the things a homoeopath is taught, how to differentiate between all the various expresions, symptoms, and rubrics representing them in the repetory. Study of repetory is a major part of homoeopathic teaching, and often takes years to master (if ever).

Just google the words, you can get the meanings online. Whether or not you can tell what you have personally is unlikely since you cannot be objective about it, and any word might seem right because everything is being filtered through that feeling for you. So if you have humiliation, embarassment will sound right too.

Trying to find a remedy to fit every little thing in your case is a sure way to get nowhere at all in homoeopathy. You have to be able to create a totality out of all the symptoms, and match that totality to image of the remedy. What a totality is again is a major part of homoeopathic study, and takes much skill and experience.

The totality is the tapestry on which all the little symptoms are threaded. You must be able to stand back to look at it, to see it.

This is just like looking at a painting on a wall - if you stand right up against it you will have no idea what you are looking at. Only by being able to stand right back can you take the whole thing in, and see what it really is.

You cannot do this with your own life. How do you step right back from yourself, to look without any feeling or judgement or attachment? You cannot. And so you will be stuck up against the wall seening only tiny bits, textures and brush strokes and random colours, none of which will make a coherent picture for you.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Thanks

Correct. I tried to take a step back often and it is still difficult for me to see.

And my issue seems bigger than a lack of confidence or fear of failure. Much bigger
I just cannot be with other people as I am to different. Above them I guess?... but in reality this means I am below them and this is just a defence mechanism I am assuming.

But than I start thinking how come I want social contact on the other hand. Dont want to stay alone and die alone. Deep down I want to experience life with people and maybe I am overanalyzing and this could still mean platina. I fear it doesnt fit though.


Well I dont know, Time will tell. I did not want to start a new remedy, no other one seems to fit.
 
vitamin.X last decade
Ah so confusing, sometimes I am egoistic but at other times want to appear the opposite of egoistic in hope people will not leave me

As example here:

''Above them I guess?... but in reality this means I am below them and this is just a defence mechanism I am assuming.''

I put that there just so I will be seen as the most reasonable, approachable, uncomplicated guy who is a joy to deal with and has no egoizem present whatsoever.


Maybe my issues is being left by people? The 'I must never feel forsaken' core of aurum muriaticum natronatum.

I just dont know. I dont know anything. It is horrible.

Sorry, ignore
[message edited by vitamin.X on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:52:34 BST]
 
vitamin.X last decade
Ah I regret having taken Platina. I should have taken something else. The guit, worthlessness, lack of self confidence, the emotional vulnerability around love doesnt fit.

I am never egoistic in real life with strangers. And not even with my father. It is ok to be around my mother or brothers as they will not leave. But when my father critizises me or whatever I dont take this lightly. When he tells me that I need to do something with my life not either. It makes me feel more distant, disconnected. Horrible feeling and I never want to feel this way.

I should have known and not taken Platina! If I knew it was my similimum I would have not have second thoughts
 
vitamin.X last decade
Again you are wrong.

Do you think that you take a remedy and all pain magically vanishes?

This a naive, romantic and simplistic view of healing, that has no place in the real world.

The simillimum hurts, alot. For those people with mental health problems, there will be pain, upheaval, and heartache as they begin to shift out of one way of seeing the world into another. The homoeopath's job is to support, reassure and guide them through this pain until they begin to see the light at the other side.

Many of my mental health patients may not be able to see the positive results of the remedy for a month or longer.

So you can see how you could easily have already sabotaged your own cure.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
How depressing
 
vitamin.X last decade
Well it was depressing at first as this would mean Platina surely must be palliation. But I have hope. I felt immediately better, more together after taking it. I looked at a picture of myself right now just where my nose looks asymmetrical and big, really anything but perfect and I am fine with it. In my case I do not believe that it can get any worse or more painful than it was. It can only get better. And that quickly.

I took later in the afternoon also aurum metallicum 1M just 1 drop. Pretty bad, but my situation is one of where waiting and doing nothing is even worse. So am not going to feel guilty or bad. I had my panic moments and later was a bit theatrical and lively outside. Also experienced life without depression and it felt great. A great experience. But probably was just placebo. And instantly after I took Platina I felt better. Could look in the mirror again and just know with certainty again that I look good. I did not want to mention the aurum out of fear of hearing how bad this is and the panic reaction this would cause. But I am fine now. Feel I am non-reactive again and can deal with it. Platina is surely a good remedy for me.


There will be nothing painful in terms of healing in my case. I am my worst enemy and that is the painful stuff. It can only get better.
 
vitamin.X last decade
I also must have a delusion that people want to 'break' me. Which I just noticed and out of this used to come the 'nothing can defeat me' mindset.

What could be painful in my healing? Finding out that I am not as big or great as I think I am? I already know that or that I lost my good looks and became maybe even ugly? I already had to go through that too.

Or that people dont like me and dont want to be with me? That is on my mind a lot of times too.
[message edited by vitamin.X on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:40:21 BST]
 
vitamin.X last decade
When I chat to girls often on dating sites I dont know what to say. I try to think of something interesting but nothing I come up with sounds interesting enough. I believe I feel inferior or below the girls and try to keep up with them. Sound like I am on their level but I doubt I can do so. That I will be found out and left/rejected in the end. Which leaves me feeling horrible.

So many girls stop chatting with me and it s*cks. It never goes anywhere except when I chat with girls that arent pretty. There I dont feel anxiety or that I cannot do it.

This shouldnt be happening to me. I should have no problem chatting with any girl

I am just somehow confident when it comes to arguing, but otherwise I am not.

I believe whoever reads this must be laughing at me, for having problems chatting with girls over the internet. I dont think much of myself and probably it is the opposite of the impression I might be giving of myself to people on here. But I dont know.
[message edited by vitamin.X on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:19:29 BST]
 
vitamin.X last decade
QUESTION:


-Is there a way to test whether Platina is my similimum or not?


-If platina isnt listed for hairfall and I have hairfall can it still be my similimum?


What type of prescribing is this when they say anarcadium follows well after Platina? Does this mean anarcadium would be the similimum than?


... Someone knocked on the door today and I couldnt open up. Opening doors is the worst. I just see the picture of me being unmovable, having to stay there still (restricted movement?), and look at the other person face to face all the time. To difficult in case my anxiety comes up and I cannot mmove away. If I would do that it would be really weird. This picture of the possiblity that this could happen makes me not want to open up. Although I have trouble answering the phone too, in case I will not be able to speak clearly so the other person will understand me. Panic, anxiety

What a horrible feeling this is when you cannot speak clearly and the person did not understand you. Worse than scum.
[message edited by vitamin.X on Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:36:27 BST]
 
vitamin.X last decade
If I could get the confidence that I can do things. Speak, keep eye contact that would be wonderful but it seems so IMPOSSIBLE. When I have to do such things, I check in with my body, notice the tensions and stress already and know in advance the same thing will happen again
 
vitamin.X last decade
I told a girl online after seeing a picture of her that if she would want to go on a date with me I would have to buy her some new shoes... I sent her messages before but she ignored me that is why I sent such message... And than later she took that picture down with her not good looking shoes in it. And this is so humiliating. How can somebody take a picture down and not worry about what I will think now? If I were the girl I would expect getting more messages of abuse, humiliation, laughter for taking the picture down. As this makes you look like scum, no? A person with real low self esteem.

That would be my experience of it. Taking the picture down would just invite more laughter, abuse, best just to leave altogether from the website. Or not even put pictures up that do not look good in the first place
[message edited by vitamin.X on Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:00:16 BST]
 
vitamin.X last decade
feeling calm and security in stomach again. And have motivation to want to do something again.
[message edited by vitamin.X on Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:42:05 BST]
 
vitamin.X last decade
I don't understand the question of 'testing' a remedy. What do you mean by that?

Hairfall is a general non-descript symptom. Every remedy covers it. It is not part of of the unique picture of any remedy and would never decide your choice of medicine.

'Follows well' generally means that the first remedy was only a partial similar, and a second remedy is needed (because the first one didn't cover the whole case). Through the experience of other homoeopaths it has been found that some remedies are similar enough to each other that sometimes when one doesn't fully improve the problem, another of the listed remedies 'might'.

However, this is shortcut homoeopathy, and fails more often than it works. It is mainly to remind homoeopaths of various similarities between remedies, in case they have forgotten a remedy that could be useful in a situation.

For a remedy to 'follow well' it must cover the things that are either not improving, or are constantly relapsing (first remedy has no power to 'hold'). So this still requires case-taking, analysis, and knowledge of materia medica to decide if that remedy fits. There are many remedies not listed that can follow well, always based on the Law of Similars.

However if the first remedy was only palliative, and the second remedy is not the simillimum, this remedy can actually undo the palliation of the first (therefore putting the patient back where they were before). In such a case the 'follows well' remedy becomes an antidote.
[message edited by brisbanehomoeopath on Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:45:30 BST]
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
ok thanks a lot.

with testing a remedy I meant I often read that when you go up in potency the accuracy of prescription becomes visible. Or somewhere else I once read taking a remedy in 2c potency will quickly show whether it is similimum or not. If you prove it you can throw it away and if you dont it is likely your similimum. Is that correct?


I feel good right now. Calm, feeling of security in stomach again. I had so many strange dreams tonight. Like one was taking a minute of silence on a racetrack in Italy with the mafia for the brother of Ferrari's founder who died there. Than another dream I was dreaming I am possesed by evil and aggravating. Evil, demons wanted to take my body over and control my body and the name anarcadium also came up in the dream. I dont know why I dream about remedies. It was quite a strange dream, I was possesed
 
vitamin.X last decade
Actually it is highly unlikely 2c would show anything - that kind of potency would only be useful in the most generalized gross pathologies (no pecuilar or indiviualizing symptoms, no mental or emotional issues).

The only way you know that you have taken your Simillimum is if you observe closely Direction of Cure to see how deeply the remedy penetrates. The potency and the remedy must be correct to get full cure, as well as the dosage (frequency). The Simillimum can only be determined by its effect - there is no other way. There is no way to know this ahead of time.

People can prove their simillimum as easily, if not more easily, than any other remedy, since they are very sensitive to it. However, following the proving would come deep long lasting cure (assuming the potency was also close to what they need).

There are no shortcuts in homoeopathy.
[message edited by brisbanehomoeopath on Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:19:11 BST]
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Ok.

Well I have my hopes up. No other remedy I have taken so far comes close to Platina that is why I always got so restless. Here with Platina I feel a deep seated sense of well being. Today I feel like a calcarea, secure at home, interested in things I could do at home and it just feels good. I also feel like I can have social contact and not a single worry that something isnt right yet, The deeply depressing things in the background like my appearance etc. are not here. That is how it feels like when I think about it. But in reality I would still get anxiety I am sure.

I will wait and see. I think I have taken doses the wrong way. I see the dose is usually increased but I have taken a big first dose and than decreased the size/strength of following doses.

I believe I will need sulphur or combination once as I always theorize all day long about my case.
[message edited by vitamin.X on Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:34:11 BST]
 
vitamin.X last decade
I want to become rich. A few years ago I worked on a website day and night for a year that I thought will bring me lots of money. I was reading books on e-commerce for half a year all the time but than when it came to creating the content I was never happy with my writing. So I quit. And started playing video games and not want care about anything anymore. Whatever will happen will happens I thought. But than I had an argument with my brother half a year later and I did not want to live like this anymore and from than on was intensely involved with self help again till this date. And I cannot believe that I do not succeed in anything!?? Despite my hard work with no stopping. Energy is never the problem, maybe getting out of my comfort zone is?
 
vitamin.X last decade
You won't need Sulphur is Platina is your simillimum.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Hmmm there is something that triggered me a bit. I was thinking in my head over about what I will all talk about in my next post, this is something I always do and one of those things I wanted to talk about is …how strange it is that your mind tells you that this and that needs to be a certain way before you can socialize. But right now at least in the comfort of my own home it feels like there is nothing that needs to be a certain way. There are so many people around and I can make contact with them and enjoy it… So the moment I thought about this I got triggered with the whole approval seeking issue. Thinking about how that is exactly what a homeopath wants to hear and he will take that as a sign of cure and I will get approval… That is what I thought palladium is like. I read in a book how they will always say what the homeopath wants to hear.

Hmm maybe I could use it after the platina not before it as I did. Palladium was good at first but in the end it turned out a bit too intense. So I had to take Platina and the intensity of my ego disappeared instantly. And since then I could never really get up to such intensity ever again. So if I took palladium again after platina will do all it can do, this would also indicate whether platina was curative or palliative based on if I get the same strong ego intensity back I am assuming.

I have my doubts about platina fitting me on paper. Lycopodium or similar remedies like that would be a much better fit. Since I am egoistic but also approval seeking & pleasing which Platina is not at all as far as I know. But I do get the big ego like Platina does I would say. When someone sort of crushes me with critic etc. , when it gets too much the ego comes down. It is like a cycle that keeps repeating itself whenever I get attacked really heavily, get almost finished and therefore I cannot be defeated. Nothing can defeat me. This protective defence mechanism did not make sense to me at all at first, but now I get it.

I don’t know anything, it is all speculation and I could make a case for lots of remedies being my remedy anyway. I got triggered by the approval seeking. Feel a bit unstable now. I also get triggered when I appear small and have the big small alternations. Hmmm I do not open doors because I feel like I will freeze, be unmovable. Hmm but I feel the best when I am excessively expressive, theatrical, attention seeking, I have no worry in the world than as I know people will be around me always than. It is a bit over the top and wished it would be a bit less though. It is how I felt yesterday after I took the Platina and went outside. Everything was in alignment and harmony. Not the depressive, closed, boring, expressionless face. Therefore I doubt lycopodium would fit me and decided to not take it.
 
vitamin.X last decade
Hmmm I have been thinking of what you said yesterday that the simmilimum is painful, it hurts and I have been connecting it with the palladium experience.

If this rule is always true without exception I must assume palladium was the right one rather? and more doses of it would slowly make me get over the ego intensity etc?

I said yesterday that I dont see what could be painful in my healing although there surely must be something and the things that would be are: my appearance which will never make me be something special, great. Giving up things like that.

I took the palladium experience as a sure sign I need platina, but now that it is supposed to be painful and hurt I am not sure.

All that was cured with palladium I could say was that I would not accept defeat. Never ever. I exposed myself to any feared situation I had to, no hiding, none of that and did not back down. I was competive, but not in a way to compete with other people, rather me on the top and not let anyone defeat me. And a strong desire to be someone great. Which made me fear I will get crazy like Platina does and think I am a movie star or something if this will get more intense


Please advise. Whether this was cure or not. I would not want to take another dose out of fear that it would get even more intense the next time as I know I would get crazy than and think I am some movie star or something. The intensity was on the limit of sanity I believe lol
 
vitamin.X last decade
^^^^
advise on above post would be appreciated


I am not Platina. I watched this TV-show again with the Platina character which an older woman plays. She is so overbearing and cannot say a sentence without mentioning how she is better from everyone. And she does that with confidence. I do not understand why people around her have not left her, why they still bother being with her. They turn their eyes behind her back every time she speaks.
I could never hurt people like this woman does. I would be so anxious and also fear everyone will just leave me. This woman would never seek approval, attention or be pleasing as me. No way.
Am very confused on what to do now and why Platina somehow works for me.

I read syphilitic miasm wants to either change or destroy the stressor which must be my miasm as I do this every time when I am in my bad state and look at my face.
 
vitamin.X last decade
How do you know that character is a Platina character? How would even recognize that remedy in a real life person? I have no idea where you get all these ideas from. You continue to only talk about yourself but attach those things to all sorts of different remedies.

You also continue to corrupt your own language with remedy language from the books. You are now even confusing yourself. The more you read, the more confused you get. I imagine that one day you will be every remedy there is.

Palladium did not cure anything, it simply produced in you a symptom that you liked because it fulfilled your disease state condition - to be powerful and undefeatable. Being powerful and undefeatable is as much your sickness as being weak and victimised.

How can you not be competing with people, but be at the top and not be defeated by them? You are so convinced you are not an animal remedy that you even let that idea corrupt what you say.

I don't know what you can do to clean up this mess. You really should just abandon homoeopathy for a long while so that your natural state reasserts itself. Maybe then someone can make sense of it.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
I assume based on her behaviour she is Platina. But it doesnt even matter. She is haughty and I am not like that at all was my point.

I wonder why Palladium would do that but not platina if I apparently am an animal. Would make sense if Platina and palladium gave the same reaction than


Lol yea I might be trying to not appear like an animal.


Ok will see what I will do
 
vitamin.X last decade
Being hurt or hurting other people is on my mind always so I highly doubt I could be Platina. Reading replies is often difficult for me and I have to force myself. As I mentioned often I just have this tough exterior.
 
vitamin.X last decade

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