| In the hotseat this month we meet somebody who is
very active in the French speaking European homeopathy community.
Before I went to his school, my first homeopathic course and efforts
left me disillusioned to the point where I wondered whether it was
worth pursuing.
Here he comes:
Edward:
Dear Marc, welcome to the homeopathy hot seat. You are one of the
most active people in the French homeopathic community, can you
tell us a little more about who you are?
Marc: You know very well that I am just a little
village vet in Belgium who practices homeopathy.
Edward:
I thought you might say that. You are not going to get away with
playing the humble homeopath. We want some of your real stuff for
this Ezine.
You run a successful school for homeopathy in Belgium where with
the help of a group of veterinary surgeons and doctors you teach
classical homeopathy to a mixture of doctors, veterinary surgeons,
dentists and pharmacists. Students come mainly from Belgium and
France and occasionally from other European countries. You are also
invited as a speaker to most congresses that are held in the French
language.
I know one of your passions is homeopathic
thinking through its history and to current times. Can you tell
us where your reading and thinking has taken you?
Marc: It is my opinion that there are three main
figures who have marked the evolution in homeopathy: Hahnemann,
Kent and Masi. I will explain this in an overview of the evolution
of homeopathic thinking during the last two centuries.
I will make an attempt to explain why and how different views established
themselves and then predict the future of each of them.
Edward:
I am sure that you want to start from the beginning.
Marc: Over 200 years ago, an exceptional man, Hahnemann
was searching for a accurate METHOD to guide the medical practitioner
in his prescriptions.
He was dissatisfied with the way that medicine was practiced in
his time. It took him 20 years, from his first experimentation with
China [Peruvian Bark] (1790) until the publication of the 1st Organon
(1810), to create and fine-tune a technique he called homeopathy.
He used a blend of known medical ideas to which he added his own
genius to formulate his new principle. The rigour of this new principle
stood out in stark contrast to the lack of cohesion and principles
in contemporary medicine.
In 1796, he formulated the essential characteristics that suffice
to define the homeopathicity of any future evolution of the art
of homeopathy.
1) experimentation of remedies by healthy provers.
2) individualization of the patient.
3) choice of medicine according to the law of similars, implicating
the unicity of treatment. (one remedy only)
4) the principles of dilution and dynamisation.
Thereafter, he spend the rest of his life doing two things. He
continued to develop the Materia Medica (he experimented with about
100 remedies) and he tested the validity of his theory in daily
practice.
His work left us with a wide open door to a confrontation with
the problem of chronic disease. In other words, he left us with
the sticky problem of the long term efficacy of our prescriptions.
Many authors (Allen, Roberts, Ghatak, Ortega, Paschero, …)
treated this problem after him, preparing the ground for Masi to
make a third important step for homeopathy.
Edward:
I think you will have to explain yourself, I can hear some rustling
in the audience.
Marc: OK, I will get there step by step. Hahnemann
delivered the first materials and general principles of the method.This
was the first step in homeopathic science.
The next step happened a century later (Kent). In between, many
great names of homeopathic medicine appeared on the stage. They
did not bring any progress to the methodology. They were missionaries
(Des Guidi, Jahr, Mure, etc). They spread the word and continued
to make great efforts in experimenting with drugs.
They were followed by those who made the great compilation: Allen
and Hering. Their colossal work produced enough material for the
homeopaths to digest for a century. Their work has been indispensable
to the progress of homeopathy but they have not contributed to the
progress in methodology.
The amount of information compiled had become too much to memorize
or to use in daily practice. The efficacy of prescriptions remained
insufficient. Many homeopaths searched in different directions.
There were good and less good efforts, it was not for the lack of
effort but progress needed to be made.
Edward:
I think you are arriving at Kent now.
Marc: Yes. A system needed to be found to make
all this material more accessible.
There are those who created the Synthetic Materia Medica (Nash,
Cowperthwaite, Lippe, Duprat, and others). They allowed an easier
memorization of the information.
Others pushed the ways in directions that did not fully comply with
homeopathic principles: complexism and pluralism found their adherents.
Isopathy also appeared on the scene.
There is no reason to dismiss these techniques. Although they do
not fully encompass the homeopathic principles, they have delivered
their positive input. Isopathy has delivered many of the nosodes
that now make up part of our therapeutic tools.
It is important to keep an interest in what others do and simultaneously
distinguish clearly what can be called homeopathy according to Hahnemann’s
principles. Good homeopathy will only stay clear from the heresies
(which are only abusive efforts of simplification or cover-ups)
when it manages to become more comprehensible and straightforward
to apply.
The concept of the Repertory, already present at the time of Hahnemann,
did in the 19-20th century, thanks to Kent, progress to a new magnitude.
The mass of information did not need memorization but the application
of a rigorous METHOD. The difficulty of memorization was supplanted
adequately.
Edward:
I suppose this is where homeopathy makes a step forward: Kent teaches
us to repertorize.
Marc: This was the second step: Kent delivered
the repertorial technique. Prescriptions improved and for fifty
years no further research took place in this direction.
We in the French community remember those (like Schmidt and his
pupils) who passed on the torch from Kent’s work and through
their missionary work kept the good word on homeopathy in Europe.
Against the upcoming of pluralism it was important that these guardians
of the temple promoted the rigour of homeopathic prescription.
Then there was appearance of the computer. The computer allowed
an increase in the amount of repertorial information and facilitated
the work. But this did not revolutionize the methodology. The tools
changed but not the method.
The only progress that computers helped to achieve is the theory/use
of the primitive symptoms. This work was highlighted by the Brussels
School of Homeopathy (Belgium) and inspired by the work of Masi.
Those who refused to use the repertories (mostly pluralists) soon
found out that the synthetic Materia Medica’s limited their
possibilities. The long term chronic treatments were mostly undertaken
by those who embraced high quality homeopathy. But there was need
for new progress in methodology.
Edward:
I remember meeting many colleagues who had landed in your school,
just like me, dissatisfied with what we learned in more pluralistic
circles. You helped us to become successful homeopaths. To get there,
we had to sit through your afternoons on homeopathic philosophy
but I am sure this was indispensable. Don’t give the readers
too hard a time!
Marc: Homeopathy is a serious medicine. For it
to stay serious we have to know what we are doing and why we are
using the systems we use.
After Kent, Dr. Masi took the next step.
Edward:
I remember the controversy about Masi in my first homeopathy school.
It is not unusual that controversy precedes progress.
Marc: Masi brought us a method to approach the
symptomatology of the patient and that of the Materia Medica. This
happened in the second part of the 20th century in Argentina.
Following the work of others (Ghatak and Paschero in particular)
a new idea took shape. Masi understood it and tried to develop it.
Consequently the efficacy of our prescriptions improve in quality
and duration when it ‘touches’ the mental suffering
of our patients.
Previously, following Hahnemann and Kent, all mental symptoms were
important. Masi taught us to differentiate between the value of
different mental symptoms.
He makes a distinction between suffering and reaction to this suffering
within the patient and in the pathogenesis of remedies. He tries
to create an order within the mental symptoms.
There are two aspects in his work: the analysis of the patient
for better prescription and the analysis of the symptoms in the
pathogenesis of remedies to improve their understanding.
These new ideas change profoundly the method of working. Masi
also brings a cohesion into the Materia Medica by unifying the symptoms
of each remedy. By doing so he liberates the homeopath from using
the enumeration of symptoms in the pathogenesis.
He also opens the way to an additional similitude: he creates a
link between the type of the lesion (Hypo, hyper or dys) and the
patient's existential attitude.
Edward:
Can you explain this in more detail?
Marc: Masi distinguishes the symptoms of suffering
which indicate the vulnerability of the patient (Hypo). These are
divided in two groups:
the sensations which bear no relation to reality (Dreams, delusions,
sensations as if,..)
and a second group of sensations related to reality (Fears, aversions,
…).
He says that the first group are the more important ones.
Five nuclei can be found in the patient’s vulnerability:
The nucleus of loss: The imaginary sense of a lack of one or more
natural faculties. The patient asks himself: ‘Which of my
natural faculties is depleted, not allowing me to be happy?’
The nucleus of culpability: This is the imaginary culpability: ‘What
have I done that can explain this insufficiency?’
The nucleus of castigation: The apprehended (imaginary) consequences:
‘Which consequences should I fear due to this insufficiency?’
The nucleus of nostalgia: This is about the imaginary impossibility
to live the present in an acceptable way because of the insufficiency.
I would like to add ‘the sense of hope’ to this nucleus.
Hope as in the sense of the nostalgia of the future as explained
by André Compte-Sponville.
The nucleus of justification: The imaginary justification: ‘What
external cause may explain what I have done?’
According to Masi, in opposition to this ‘suffering’,
an individual (patient and experimenter!) will develop a defense
reaction. These reactions can have four modalities: the individual
will impose him/herself manifestly or veiled (‘hyper’),
will escape or destruct (‘Dys’):
- The patient will ignore the imaginary deficiency (egotrophy).
He/she will fight and win over the world (enemy) in a manifest
way or in a dissimulated way. This reaction which asks for a continuous
effort, will offer the patient a false sensation of happiness.
The patient may seem in perfect health (or cured).
- Instead of ignoring the deficiency, the patient may (egolysis)
escape the problem through auto-destruction.
- The patient may solve the problem by destructing the world (=enemy)
(heterolysis).
Out of respect for Hahnemann, Masi, like many others did before
him (Allen, Roberts, Ortega,..) used the words Psora (primary and
secondary) sycosis and syphilis. The use of the same words by different
authors explaining different concepts and at the same time trying
to solve the same problem (long term efficacy of homeopathic prescription)
has caused much confusion within homeopathic circles over the last
200 years.
A third step is made. Masi has developed a new way to approach the
patient’s symptoms and the Materia Medica.
Masi and the various groups working along his ideas, have adopted
a structured, overall approach for the categorization of the mental
symptoms of patients and pathogenesis. Although for many remedies
not all categories of this schema can be filled with mental symptoms,
the general idea is adapted to all cases, usually with the help
of Thomism ideas (Thomas D’Aquino).
In the meantime, in India, the United states and Northern Europe,
other ways to approach the Materia Medica come to the forefront.
Patients are classified according to the reign to which they belong:
mineral, vegetal, animal. If the patient is thought to be a salt,
is it more magnesia or kalium, carbonicum, phosphorus or muriaticum?
In other cases the patient is thought to ‘be a’ snake
remedy, a drug, a spider… etc. Such approaches are efforts
to classify remedies according to their common characteristics relying
on the nature of the substance.
Edward:
I know from being in your classes you have set this to be one of
your missions; draw attention to the difference between classification
of remedies according to reigns, species and periodic table for
remedy selection purposes compared to highlighting the individuality
in each remedy.
Marc: I believe this is an important method to
study the Materia Medica. Rather than starting to organize remedies
in classification categories first, I start from the individualization
of the substance.
When I study a remedy I ask the following question first: ‘What
is there strange, unusual, bizarre in the substance that makes the
homeopathic remedy, which makes it different from all other remedies
we know?’
Could this approach be a new step ahead? I am convinced it is.
Masi’s ideas have inspired many homeopaths. Others were interested
in his ideas but were rebuffed by the practical implications or
by Masi’s discourse. The former can be divided in two groups:
Those who were very interested in the analysis of the patient. (i.e.
Brussels School of Homeopathy)
Those who were interested in the new way of analyzing the Materia
Medica. (several study groups in French speaking Europe: GEHU, CLH,
Petroleum, …)
The Brussels team has, based on Masi’s work, progressed in
the valorization and hierarchisation of the patient’s symptoms
to improve the use of the repertory. They developed the idea of
the primitive symptom; the most important symptom of the patient
that will allow one to repertorize using few and often small rubrics.
The other groups understood the importance of recognizing the suffering
of the patient and the reaction to this suffering. They understood
and used this approach to study the Materia Medica but they found
it difficult to use the Thomism concepts imposed by Masi.
In the mean time, little by little, in different corners of the
world, sprouted a new way to study the Materia Medica using the
nature of the substance. Two tendencies can be distinguished. As
mentioned before, Americans, Indians and Northern Europeans used
the nature of the substance to group different remedies in classes.
Other homeopaths used the characteristics of each individual substance
to study the Materia Medica. (Soirot presented Bryonia in 1990,
Lamothe presented Tarentula in 1992, Rouchosseé presented
Apis in 1993, etc)
I believe myself to be one of the principal advocates of this approach
and promoter of the systematic application of this method to study
and present our remedies. (Presentation during the Congress of the
CLH (Belgium) in 1995)
In this presentation, I insisted on the relationship that exists
between the nature of the substance and the symptoms present in
its pathogenesis.
What allows me to think that we made a further step in the homeopathic
methodology? Masi’s system of studying and organizing the
symptoms of the patient and the Materia Medica makes use of the
Thomism philosophy.
Although this approach has many advantages, in my opinion, the
choice of the guide is not really appropriate. Apart from the symptoms
they can find in the Materia Medica, those who follow Masi do not
make use of a reliable guide, specific for each remedy that indicates
how to arrange these symptoms in Masi’s schema.
After having studied several remedies, I can now explain more precisely
my approach. Starting from the idea that there is a link between
the nature of the homeopathic remedy and the symptoms present in
its Materia Medica (1995), I have taken a further step.
In the same way as Hahnemann explained how to approach the patient,
I ask the following question when I approach a remedy: ‘What
is there strange, unusual, bizarre in this substance that differentiates
it from all other substances we use to prepare our homeopathic remedies?’
This approach offers a valuable guide, adapted to each individual
remedy without using a filter-like Thomism in Masi’s method,
to discover what may be the essence of each remedy and what reactions
are the consequence of this essence.
Just like Masi and followers, I distinguish essence and reactions
to the essence, but I do not feel the need to find the 5 nuclei,
according to Masi, within the symptoms of the pathogenesis.
Compared to the modern tendency where the question is: ‘What
does this remedy have in common with one or more other remedies?’,
I ask the opposing question: ‘what is characteristic in this
remedy that makes it different from all other remedies?’.
This is a fundamental difference! Jean-Jacques Veillard told me
that I ‘look for the shortest connection between the nature
of the substance and the originality of the remedy using only the
pathways in the pathogenesis.’
This approach offers an extra similitude: both the patient and
the remedy are studied using the individualization approach.
Masi and his predecessors (Allen, Roberts, Ortega, etc) explained
the similitude between the existential attitude (‘Hypo’,
‘hyper’ or ‘dys’) of the patient and the
way the illnesses (lesions, symptoms) developed in the patient (=
anticipates in a way which is ‘hypo’, ‘hyper’
or ‘dys’). This new method allows us to go even further
and discover that the symptomatic targeting of each remedy is not
random.
It is clear to see the limits of theory of the signatures, as proposed
before Hahnemann. It is impossible to deduce the action of a remedy
using this theory even though some homeopaths still use extrapolated
symptoms to prescribe remedies which seriously lack in pathogenesis
information.
I want to make a clear dissociation between this practice and the
methodology I propose. It is in the same sense that Hahnemann rejected
categorically the ideas of Paracelses. The technique of individualization
of the substance, inspired from likewise concepts, allows for a
better use of the contents of the ‘prüfung’. We
can ascertain, without hesitation, that this approach respects in
all ways the four criteria of homeopathicity as established by Hahnemann.
Edward:
Thank you, Marc, I am sure you raised a few eyebrows. It would be
lovely if you could share one of your cases to show your approach.
Marc: With pleasure. The following is a case that
shows very well how I evolved from the more classical approach to
this new concept.
Kalli is a German Shepherd belonging to our neighbours. I know her
well, her kennel is 10 meters away from our garden.
I see her for the first time when she is seven.
In the summer she often has skin problems. That summer is the fourth
time the skin plays up. Up until then a herbal mixture had been
sufficient to control the problem but when the mixture failed she
was presented to me.
On both flanks, the hairs were broken and all over the skin was
very greasy. After stroking her my hand felt grubby. There were
eruptions on the edges of the lips around the lip junction.
She is impetuous and has a tendency to bite, coming from behind;
she is not highly intelligent. The owners keep her in her kennel
most of the time. Instead of going into the shelter, she will stay
outside in the run whatever the weather; cold, warm, windy or wet.
She enjoys rolling in the wet grass. In the evening she stays inside
with her owners until they go to bed. She will always lie with her
head against a wall or a piece of furniture: her head needs to touch
something.
In her kennel she barks a lot. She has a peculiar way of doing this:
she will systematically bark at each corner of the kennel. At the
same time she jumps up slightly with her front legs and keeps her
head pointed in the air. (It took me a long time to understand this
peculiar symptom.)
Although we were good neighbours and frequently visited through
a gate between the gardens, we had to be careful because she would
come from behind and try to bite us. Nevertheless, none of us considered
her to be a nasty dog. She is as friendly with the cat, who is allowed
to eat from her bowl, as with the neighbours’ little girl,
whose orders she obeys without difficulty. She also allows the birds
to eat from her bowl.
Frequently, she makes little escapes from the garden jumping down
from the garden which is elevated from the road. As soon as her
owner reminds her to come back she will jump immediately but calmly
back in the garden. She will also do so when her neighbour, the
vet (me), taps on the window of his consultation room!!!
When the owners went on holiday a few years prior, she stopped eating
all together. The following years she stayed in her kennel and was
walked and fed by somebody within the family. When the owner’s
cat was killed on the road, she searched for her for a long time.
The owner said that the worst thing that could happen to her is
to have to live in another environment or with an other family.
(Usually owners would say that it would be dramatic for the dog
‘to lose its family’. This an important difference in
nuance which is important for the remedy.)
There is one medical episode when she suffered from a very enlarged
spleen after she had been in season.
At this first consultation, I make the following repertorisation:
Mind, impetuous.
Mind, desire to go home, coupled with, homesickness.
Generals, summer aggravates.
Abdomen, swelling, spleen, menses during.
Natrum mur covers all the symptoms and she receives a dose in
200k and later 1M which controls the skin for a year. A renewal
of the Nat mur 1M later makes no difference.
Edward:
This is typical where a case becomes difficult: a 'second' consultation
after an initial remedy seemed to work well. It is good to know
that even experienced homeopaths encounter the same difficulties.
Marc: That is the reality of homeopathy for which
we have to develop and teach good systems to allow for progress.
Next summer, an eruption appeared between the shoulders. She received
a dose of Pulsatilla 200 to no avail. Even worse, she develops a
cataract in the right eye.
During a new consultation, the owner repeats that the cat and the
birds are allowed to eat from her bowl, that Kalli barks frequently
‘as if she is defending her territory’. She is fearful,
she has let the burglars enter the house when the owners were there.
She also has become stiff when rising. (this is a usual evolution
of hip disease in German Shepherds) She still escapes from the garden
and returns as readily as before.
I write in the sidelines of my dossier my feeling that she ‘wants
to be part of the family without limits’.
She still comes from behind to nip our legs when we enter the garden
but I am allowed to examine her when she is in the surgery. She
still continues this unusual barking in each of the four corners
of the kennel.
She receives Silicea 200 twice that summer to no effect. The situation
gets worse in August; the end of her tail becomes infected. It is
swollen painful and white. She develops a fever and becomes depressed.
This happened again when the owners were on holiday.
Then I give her the right remedy: Magnesia Muriaticum given in 30K
twice per day for three days. And all skin complaints recede rapidly.
She receives a further 30K dose in November (96), then a 200K in
December, a 200K in May (97) and then a 1M in December (97) and
May (98) again. This last dose did not seem to work but Mag-m. 30K
(several doses) delivered a good result.
The following observations appear to me important in this dossier:
- The rheumatic pains are worse during the first movement.
- she sleeps with her head against something.
- she is very calm in my surgery and falls asleep in the middle
of the room (the neighbours are like the family)
- escapes but returns as soon as is called back.
- she is attached to the family but has no preference for any
of the members of the family,
- all the friends of the family are always welcome.
- she doesn’t mind the cats and birds eating from her bowl.
My conclusion is that Kalli does not cause any stirring in the
‘family’.
In June 98, the rheumatism becomes much worse, she can barely walk.
She takes Mag-m. 30K twice per day for a few days and the rheumatism
disappears nearly completely when a large discharging, crusty, nasty
looking patch appears on both her flanks. This lesion disappears
on its own in a months time.
Six months later, at the time of the writing of this case, she shows
barely any signs of pain in her joints.
Discussion
I would use for title in this case: ‘Keep together!’
What is strange, unusual and bizarre about Magnesia Muriaticum that
distinguishes it from all other remedies?
This salt is the only salt in our Materia Medica that has the quality
of ‘deliquescence’. This is the property that certain
substances have to liquefy slowly when exposed to the atmosphere
through absorbing the humidity in the air. What is also important,
is the state Mag-m. will be in after this process. The word deliquescence
is also used in a humorous way to indicate ‘disappear’,
‘melt away’.
Magnesium Chloride needs to be associated to six molecules of water
to exist in crystal form (MgCl2 .6H2O). If it contains less than
6 molecules of water per molecule it cannot take this form, if it
contains more, it disappears = melts away (delusion clouds over
head, delusion danger of water).
The problematic (essence) of this remedy appears to be the cohesion
of the group without it life would be impossible. (delusion mutilated
body, fear of robbers), (Delusion of wedding = creating a family
group).
I will now show how we can examine its Materia Medica
from this angle.
What is the group in the eyes of Mag-mur?
This can be different things: family nucleus, the family through
the generations, mother-child, a group of friends, everything that
unites.
Mag-mur will do everything which seems important to him/her to be
part of this group. It is very important to keep the others in regard
and look out for friendship;
- delusion he is friendless (1/1) (although this is a wrong
translation from the German word ‘freundless’, lets
admit that it serves the purpose)
- feels obliged to comply with the wish of others
- delusion pressured by those around him, to perform (1/1)
- industrious. Should this entry not be related to: delusion,
reading- after her, which makes her read faster, someone is reading
(1/1) : ‘tries to keep the rhythm to stay in the group’.
- sensitive to reprimands.
- delusion, pressured by those about him to perform.
Magn-m. is sad when he cannot be part of the group;
- sadness alone
- forsaken feeling
- homesickness
There will be a permanent display of the efforts to protect the
cohesion of the group:
- sense of responsibility (Morrison) (In a case published in
Homeopathic Links the patient dreams he is in the last carriage
of a train, the wagon’s panorama is elevated. The patient
sees the locomotive and in the distance can see a point too narrow
for the train to pass. He panics; the train will derail and he
can’t do anything about it = responsibility to protect a
group. G. Loutan uses the image of the giraffe: Mag-m wants to
be able to look ahead to protect.)
- indifference to pleasure
- patient
- peace maker, dislikes confrontation of any sort; diplomatic
(Morrison).
- helps others.
He finds it difficult to break the cohesion of the group. Whitmont
says that Mag-m. can resent an important violence which is hidden
and controlled, which can lead to nervous collapse.
Sleep aggravates because during that time he cannot accomplish his
role.
- anxiety in the evening in bed in closing his eyes. (2/1)
- confusion while lying
- unconsciousness while lying (2)
- weeping in sleep
The constant effort causes collapse:
- marked depressive tendency
- Helplessness in the sense of a feeling of being lost.
- manic-depressive (2)
- heart disturbances
- misanthropy
Due to the permanent effort:
- time passes too slowly and appears longer
Then follows:
- excessive resignation.
Both losing and absorbing can cause the loss of cohesion of Mag-m.
- anxiety during menses
-excitement before and during menses
- mental symptoms during menses
- sadness during menses
- irritability coition after
- ailments from sexual excesses
- anxiety before stool
In the same sense of fear of loss, delivery for both mother and
child, Mag-m. can be a stressful moment: the cohesion between mother
and child is lost. Labour is arrested due to spasms.
Mag-m. suffers both from losing and absorbing (liver disturbance);
eating, reading, learning will aggravate.
-anxiety while reading (3)
- fancies on reading (he becomes too ‘united’ with
what he reads) (3)
- confusion from mental exertion (1)
- mental exertion aggravate (1)
- confusion during dinner (1/1)
- confusion after dinner (1/1)
- fear after dinner
- fear after eating food
- sadness eating before
he can only eat small amounts at a time
- desire to nibble
When absorbing is dangerous, it is better to refuse:
- smell and taste diminished
- nose is blocked
- cannot open eyes
- conversation talk of others aggravate
Masi talked of a similitude between the existentialist modalities
of the individual and the ‘sense’ of the lesion. Searching
through Lippe, we discover that the physical symptoms of Mag-m.
are not random.
- stool knotty covered with mucus (like sheep dung) (3) ; there
is no coherence between them.
- children are unable to digest milk, it passes undigested (3) :
after mother and child are separated following birth giving, to
accept the mothers milk is like accepting and ‘digesting’
this separation which may cause deliquescence.
There is also a slowness in changing teeth and rickets in children
again suggesting the nostalgia of the union mother child.
There are violent hiccups before and after eating, suggesting
opposition to absorbing matter.
Pain in heart better when moving about: when moving about is in
the occupation of keeping the cohesion.
Metrorrhagia worse at night in bed, causing hysteria (3) ; the efforts
to protect the cohesion stops at night and, worse, there is loss
of substance = panic.
It is difficult to keep in control of the hydration status:
- great tendency of the head to sweat (3)
- urine can only be passed by bearing down with the abdominal
muscles (1)
- continual rising of white froth in the mouth
The overall modalities are very indicative as well:
- sea-bathing aggravates
- hard pressure ameliorates (3)
- immediately after eating aggravates (1)
- motion ameliorates (3) and sitting aggravates (3)
Conclusion:
From the sense of the need for cohesion of the group comes the following:
- ‘losing’ and ‘absorbing’ cause problems.
- Need to belong to a group
- Keeps stormy emotions inside.
- Need to protect the cohesion of the group
- Sleep aggravates (because his effort is stopped)
- Can cause either disease or resignation.
Edward:
When I discovered your presentation of remedies, for me this opened
the door to successful practice. The system offers both a simple
title to remember an indication of the essence of the remedy and
at the same time a framework to study the Materia Medica. I know
that many of my colleagues doctors and vets alike have also benefited
from your work.
Thank you very much, Marc. It was a pleasure
to have you around. I am sure that you have, as usual, delivered
some powder for arguments. I am also sure that balanced arguments
will benefit homeopathy as a whole.
Marc: Because you have all been so good listeners,
I offer you 3 more remedies approached in the same way: Curare,
Hepar sulfur and Moschus.
Edward:
It seems that we are spoiled again. We will keep the reader in anticipation
and publish these remedies in the next Ezine.
Marc Brunson is a veterinary surgeon in Belgium
Address: 1 Rue Vignoble, 4130 Esneux, Belgium
E-mail: clh@skynet.be |
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