homeopathy basics

Be cautious while using higher potencies for chronic problems. (1M and above )

Never exceed three doses at a stretch. Wait at least for 15 days before reassessing the case.

Higher potencies may cause aggravations if repeated over a long time. Sometimes they tend to produce troublesome accessory symptoms belonging to the medicine.

However in acute problems higher potencies can be given frequently, provided you are sure of the medicine. The surer you are, the higher you can go.

As an example...

Arnica is the indicated medicine in almost all cases of injury/sprain due to falls/accidents. No individualisation is required. You can go as high as CM. Give in split water doses every two hours till improvement sets in.

Strong odors are likely to antidote homeopathic medicines.

It is always better to keep your mouth free from odors. That is the reason homeopaths suggest to take the medicine half an hour before or after meals.

Almost every one new to homeopathy would be told about this, but there are two more things to remember about odors.

One of them is perfumes, room sprays etc..and the other one is camphor/incense stick fumes.

You should take the medicine before you use any sprays. Avoid chemical room fresheners while using homeopathic medicines.

Be away from camphor fumes/incense sticks used for religious purposes.

These precautions will make the medicine work as it is supposed to do. Any negligence while taking the medicine may not give the desired effect.

In a nutshell

No odors in your mouth, on you, and around you while taking the medicine.

You should change your doctor. He is treating you very superficially.

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Argentum nitricum
Argentum nitricum is to be used in the homeopathic treatment of patients afflicted by a chronic hoarseness in the voice, this remedy can also be used in the treatment of patients with a loss of voice, and the remedy also treats the form of laryngitis experienced by many singers. The condition causes a cough whenever the person sings in a high note. Physical symptoms which are apparent include soreness in the larynx and along the pit of the throat. The individuals airways in the throat have a coating of very thick mucus. When the person is swallowing there is a sensation of some splinter stuck in the larynx and the windpipes. The physical symptoms experienced by the patient also include a sensation of hair like tickling along the inner throat. Physical symptoms also include the presence of choking sensations, as if some food has lodged itself in the upper throat after a meal. Psychological symptoms include helplessness and a feeling of being numb and paralyzed. Physical symptoms like a burning or drying sensation in the throat is also present at most times of the day and night. The condition of the patient can worsen after midnight, the condition of the patient is also aggravated by fear and anticipation of events, and anxiety can worsen the symptoms, the consumption of sugar, staying in a warm room can all worsen the condition of the patient. The condition of the patient improves when he or she stays out of doors exposed to the cool air. The presence of one or more of these symptoms requires the immediate use of Argentum nitricum as a homeopathic remedy in the treatment of the laryngitis.
Causticum
Causticum is to be used in the homeopathic treatment of patients afflicted by a case of chronic laryngitis and other related throat problems. Physical symptoms include the presence of a soreness and rawness in the throat, the throat may also have a burning and dry sensation most of the time. Further physical symptoms in the patient include a tenderness in the larynx and all along the throat. Physical symptoms felt by the patient include a hoarse, hollow, husky and cracking voice. The person may also have a very weak voice, and this could be because of paralysis setting in on the vocal chords. Physical symptoms also include the accumulation of mucus in the throat, this collected mucus may be very hard to expel and the patient may be hawking or choking at most times, the affected individual will also complain of a sense of being constricted slowly around the throat. The patient may feel a lot of pressure in the area of the larynx when blowing the nose or when exhaling with force. The symptoms may also include a sensation of some foreign body stuck in the throat. The condition of the patient can greatly worsen when exposed to dry and cold weather, when the person inspires he or she may feel a lot of discomfort, symptoms also worsen with a lot of coughing after midnight which disturbs sleep, the condition of the patient is also aggravated when he or she is speaking, or when he or she strains the voice. The presence of one or more of these symptoms requires the immediate use of Causticum as a homeopathic remedy in the treatment of the laryngitis.

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He simply selected the two most common medicines prescribed for hoarseness. But your case is not simple hoarseness, but a polyp on vocal chords.

Simple this for that won't work in your case. That too giving two medicines together at a stretch for months together is a big no,no in proper homeopathy.

You need a miasmatic analysis, thorough case taking, and well thought out prescription.

Look for a oldtimer professional who still believes in classical homeopathy and willing to spend time and energy on your case.

Avoid cold showers while taking Rhustox.

That may antidote the remedy and prevent you from getting the intended results.

Is it the correct medicine?

What does the homeopath look for primarily, when the patient returns for the second prescription?

It may be after a month , in case of chronic cases.

He looks for these things, to know whether medicine worked or not.

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a) A quantum jump in the sense of well being.

b) Improved energy.

c) Increased appetite.

d) Better quality of sleep.

e) Harmony and tranquillity of temperament.

Stability (in obese people) or weight gain in under weight subjects.
Clarity of the existing or presenting symptoms or even lighter symptoms.
Suppressed symptoms (even of years ago) reappear on the surface and are permanently eradicated. This reappearance can be in a very transient form, which may not even be visible to the naked eye.

source:http://www.homeoint.org/articles/banerjea/miasmaticpresc.htm...

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Read the above article.

It tells you a lot about what is miasmatic prescribing and what is not.

He says this is one of the ways, a case is mismanaged.

' The original disease is joined by an artificial chronic disease (due to homoeopathic medical malpractice, e.g. as in cases of polypharmacy, too frequent repetition of doses or the usage of combinations where the action of such applications has not been proved on healthy human beings.'

Dr.Banerjia is born into a family of homeopaths, spanning three generations, and he knows what he is talking about.

Murthy
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From old records.

Many homeopaths are either unaware or not willing to use water doses. I can vouch from experience that this is the most effective method to nudge the patient towards cure, without any aggravations/fear of proving the medicine.


246 Sixth Edition

Every perceptibly progressive and strikingly increasing amelioration during treatment is a condition which, as long as it lasts, completely precludes every repetition of the administration of any medicine whatsoever, because all the good the medicine taken continues to effect is now hastening towards its completion. This is not infrequently the cause in acute diseases, but in more chronic diseases, on the other hand, a single dose of an appropriately selected homœopathic remedy will at times complete even with but slowly progressive improvement and give the help which such a remedy in such a case can accomplish naturally within 40, 50, 60, 100 days.

This is, however, but rarely the case; and besides, it must be a matter of great importance to the physician as well as to the patient that were it possible, this period should be diminished to one-half, one-quarter, and even still less, so that a much more rapid cure might be obtained.

And this may be very happily affected, as recent and oft-repeated observations have taught me under the following conditions: firstly, if the medicine selected with the utmost care was perfectly homœopathic; secondly, if it is highly potentized, dissolved in water and given in proper small dose that experience has taught as the most suitable in definite intervals for the quickest accomplishment of the cure but with the precaution, that the degree of every dose deviate somewhat from the preceding and following in order that the vital principle which is to be altered to a similar medicinal disease be not aroused to untoward reactions and revolt as is always the case1 with unmodified and especially rapidly repeated doses.

What I said in the fifth edition of the Organon, in a long note to this paragraph in order to prevent these undesirable reactions of the vital energy, was all the experience I then had justified. But during the last four or five years, however, all these difficulties are wholly solved by my new altered but perfected method.

The same carefully selected medicine may now be given daily and for months, if necessary in this way, namely, after the lower degree of potency has been used for one or two weeks in the treatment of chronic disease, advance is made in the same way to higher degrees, (beginning according to the new dynamization method, taught herewith with the use of the lowest degrees).

The three legged stool concept for choosing the medicine

From earlier discussions.

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Hi Murthy,

I have been wondering about two things. My aim is to understand how homeopathy works - that's why I am "teasing" you with these questions.

First: you wrote that it is important that at least three important symptoms are the same. How do you evaluate/scale which are "the important symptoms"? Which symptoms are not important?
Are the similar symptoms more important than similar personal features?
I tend to write everything down because I don't know how to scale them.

Second: you seem to always recommend to take the remedy for three days.
I saw this one site in the net (http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Bookshelf/Books/21/97.cf...) about earwax and there the remedy 6x was recommended to take 7 days.
Is it so, that you take lower potency longer time and higher potency shorter time - or how does it goes?

Maria
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Re: too much earwax From bandarbabu2000
You always ask difficult questions.

Anyway, let me try.

Important means that are prominent.Which has changed since on the onset of problem.You don't have to look for them.They should be obvious.

For example,in fevers,you may fel thirsty,yet you don't want to take much water at a time,you tend to take only sips at a time,but often,this is a sure indication for Ars.alb.

If the fever keeps rising around 1A.M. or 1P.M. this is another prominent symptom.

If you are very anxious,keep tossing in bed,this is another prominent symptom.

If you can find all the three symptoms,you can be sure Ars.alb will cure you.

Similarly, a Bryonia fever,generally has headache,the headache increases very much,by any motion,the patient lies like a log,without any movement,as movement makes him worse,drinks less frequently but more at a time,his lips and mouth tend to be dry.

Did you get the three prominent symptoms of Bry?
If you find the same,in a patient,Bry will definitely cure.

Ofcourse, I am giving you easy examples.But,this is how,you have to compare medicines.

Now,regarding potency and repetetion,many books were written.It is very difficult to answer in a few sentences.

But,we can say,generally,for chronic problems,if lower potencies are used,they are to be used for a long time.If, higher potencies,they tend to bring a reaction quickly,and hence the caution of giving a few doses and waiting.

But,all these things are secondary,and the most important thing is to choose the correct medicine.

It needs experience,proper knowledge of materia medica and ofcourse ,the knowledge of homeopathic philosophy.

Read as many books as you can lay your hands on.Try to differentiate similar remedies,for a particular condition.

Sleeplessness may be there in 10 medicines.See,how they are different from one another.Try to match with the symptoms your son has.

The three symptoms are called sometimes 'three legs of a stool.'Unless you have minimum three legs the stool can't be balanced.Similarly,unless atleast three prominent symtoms match,your remdy may not work.

Murthy

When is individualisation not required and this for that sort of prescriptions work in homeopathy?

If a majority of the human population react and get the same symptoms on receiving a particular stimulus, this for that works.

When people get body pains after an accidental fall, most of us get typical arnica symptoms. That is why Arnica is given first in such cases without any individualisation.

However when people are exposed to dry cold winds, each person responds differently. Individualisation is a must for such cases.

Posology

http://www.homeoint.org/books4/close/chapter13.htm

After reading many books both old and new including the latest, I am literally at the cross roads.

Homeopathy is amenable for many many interpretetions and every author tries to support his point of view.

Some seem logical, some probable, some out right outlandish, and some doubtful.

I used to be very vehement in criticising prescriptions that deviate from the strict Hannemanian homeopathy.

At some point of time I started pondering over the fact that there are many variations in the way people prescribe and all claim some success..can't deny that as otherwise they won't be in buisiness..when I say buisiness that includes those who do it as a hobby without expecting any rewards.

Hahn proposed a way to follow in Organon. It is based on his perception. Some people find it very difficult to follow it..fail when they try to do so and looked for alternatives.

Some tried combinations, some tried poly pharmacy, some use only mentals, some use sensations, some use the periodic table, some use dreams and some even tried to standardise the therapy based on the disease name.
There are many many variations.

All of them claim they benefitted atleast some of the patients. All of them claim no patient is worse because of their treatment.

I was worried about the suppession that may ensure because of wrong methods. I am not so sure now. I tend to believe now that it is difficult to suppress with homeopathic remedies.

So I stopped criticising others and read everybody with a open mind. May be five years from now (when I retire from my present job) my thinking may crystallise one way or the other or I may accept all the possibilities. Who knows? :-)

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From earlier posts..2010 sept 28
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