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NWS serious acute infection, how would you start the case??

Wanted to say hello to all fellow classical homeopaths. I am looking for some advice from other professionals as to how they would deal with the following cases.

I have had a lady under treatment for a year that has made some good improvements under traditional classical treatment based off the totality of the symptoms. She has 'never been well' since getting a herpes infection 20 years ago. In this case I decided to try herpes 30C, one time dose.

There was a return of 3 old symptoms in the proper order following 'Herrings Law of cure'.

At this point do you keep dosing with the herpes remedy since its action has now stopped after a month?

If this was a nosode remedy then you usually would not use it more than once(only used as an intercurrent remedy).

What do others think??




I have another lady coming in next week who tells me she has 'never been well since' she contracted the west nile virus. Would you guys think it would be wise to start the case with the west nile remedy?

I am two years out of school and am trying to learn all I can so I hope some professional can help. Thank you ahead of time for you help everyone.

Cheers
 
  Fernando on 2014-05-18
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Hello Fernando, welcome to the forum.

Nosodes can be used as often as they are indicated, up until the time they are no longer indicated. Intercurrent is an unfortunate term which has been disconnected from our normal guidelines for treatment. It implies there are two states running alongside each other, which conflicts with our understanding of how the vital force operates. There is just the state, which either needs the nosode or it needs another remedy.

However, your grounds for 'indication' is not based on the law of similars, so you are in unknown territory. The guidelines we use are based on the idea that the totality is being addressed, and if you continue using a nosode in an isopathic way, you run the risk of losing sight of the totality. I am not saying that isopathy cannot sometimes be useful - Tinnus Smits developed a whole therapy out of it. You just need to be careful about progressing along through a case with a remedy that has not been given on the basis of the peculiar symptoms it produces.

Have you properly reassessed the case? What exactly does the patient say about the changes? Did the return of old symptoms resolve on its own? Was there general improvement after they resolved? Where exactly did those improvements take place? Has anything new arisen?

Most importantly, has the state changed?

I think that the use of isopathy can promote laziness, so you need to be on your guard as a student in going down this path. It is only to be used when all else fails - I would not get into the habit of starting cases this way. You are not practicing homoeopathically when you do this.

My experience over the years (over 20 now) is that when I see people coming from Naturopaths who love to use isopathic remedies (candida is totally abused this way) I have seen a lot of suppression. The peculiarity of the case has to be respected to get genuine long term cure, and isopathy ignores that.
 
Evocationer 9 years ago
Wow, thank you very much for the advice.

To answer your questions, the return of the old sypmtoms can and went on there own over the course of a month off 1 dose of the nosode. That was basically it, no new symptoms I could find out about. I think it would be best for me to completely retake the case.


So to ask another question...

I understood this to be somewhat acceptable in classical homeopathy because we are treating a 'never well since' as opposed to someone coming in with influenza and us prescribing the influenza remedy/nosode. Are these two scenarios the same in your experience?

Thank you for giving me some insight on this subject. It is very helpful.

Cheers
 
Fernando 9 years ago
'I understood this to be somewhat acceptable in classical homeopathy because we are treating a 'never well since' as opposed to someone coming in with influenza and us prescribing the influenza remedy/nosode. Are these two scenarios the same in your experience?'

Yes those two scenarios are exactly the same. The only difference is that one is in the present and one is in the past - otherwise no genuine similarity is being used to prescribe. It is closer to the allopathic approach - in fact one could call it allopathy (using something other than the specific symptoms to prescribe).

Remember that the name of something is not a true symptom in homoeopathy.

Classical homoeopathy applies the basic principles in practice, and the first of those is always Similarity. Every person who gets the flu does not have the same symptoms, so why would we give the same remedy to everyone who is never well since the flu? What kind of flu did they have - that would be the proper question. There is no logic assuming one medicine fits all the people who have ever been harmed by a particular pathogen (or substance). That has not been our experience as homoeopaths.

Now, having said all that, we do indeed observe that applying the isopathic remedy does something, it may even do something beneficial. It rarely cures the case though - and at times it just seems to bring even more symptoms up. I think when it does benefit the patient the most is when there is a certain degree of similarity - which may be luck since some of those medicines have very little proving information (if any at all).

So I think you should use them carefully, keeping them for cases where either the disease itself has left a specific imprint that is clear and well defined, or you have reached a dead end in looking for a similar.
 
Evocationer 9 years ago
Thank you Evocationer, you really helped clear things up for me,totality of the symptoms it is, have a good weekend.

Cheers
 
Fernando 9 years ago
You're very welcome :)

I used to teach homoeopathic philosophy, so I am always happy to discuss it.
 
Evocationer 9 years ago

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