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| Hpathy Ezine - Oct., 2004 | ||||
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Keynotes and Tidbits -- Shirley Reischman |
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In a previous issue, I stated that Dr. J.T. Kent thought prescribing on keynotes was suppressive and since I consider myself to be Kentian, a few of the cases below may come as a surprise to many of you. However, I would like to pass on some of my experiences. Several of these were in my first year of practice, when (in hind site) I didn't really know much of anything about case taking or even much about the remedies. They were what I call the miracle cures which gave me hope and sustained me while I struggled with becoming a homeopath. In retrospect, maybe the real miracle isn't that the remedies worked, but that I was able to find them at all with my limited skills. One evening, I got a call from a neighbor who said she was feeling sick and wondered if I could help her. It was a pleasant night, so she walked the few blocks to my house. When she arrived about ½ hour after she called, I asked her what time she left her house. It had been about 20 minutes earlier. I then asked her to tell me what was happening and she replied that she just didn't feel good, but didn't have any particular symptoms and that she began to feel better as she strolled toward my house. I was still fairly new to homeopathy and was not able to elicit any additional symptoms from her. Based on her not having any definite symptoms and feeling better after a slow walk outside, I gave her Ferr-phos. She called me the next morning and said she felt 100% better! Another time, someone came to my office with the flu. On her way in, she tripped over the curve and hurt her knee and ankle. The ankle was starting to swell and she was in a lot of pain. I decided that the injury was more pressing than the flu, so I gave her Arnica, which cured the flu. At the time, I only knew Arnica as a first aid remedy. Now, of course, I know it more fully, but at the time the result really surprised me. I also realized that sometimes when a person needs a particular remedy, something comes into their life that forces the situation. If she hadn't injured herself, I don't think I would have found the remedy. This next case is one of the most amazing I've had and a real miracle cure! He was a gentleman in his early 30's who came to me for a problem with hemorrhoids. He didn't have a lot of symptoms to go on and I wasn't skilled enough to ask the right questions to get a better case. From the information he gave me, there were four remedies that seemed equally indicated. He seemed both temperamentally and by body type to be a typical Nux-v: dark complexioned and wiry, with a type A personality. Since he drank a dozen cups of coffee a day and was a three pack a day smoker, I was concerned about his antidoting a higher potency, so I gave him a 6X Nux-v on the spot. I was giving him instructions for taking the remedy at home when he put his head down on the desk and fell asleep! He used the Nux-v off and on for several months and cured his hemorrhoids. When he came back a few months later, he was down to three cups of coffee a day and half a pack of cigarettes. He also reported that he hadn't told me during the initial interview, but he had Thalassaemia anemia. Since taking the remedy, he had gone almost twice as long before needing a transfusion! What was even more astounding to me was that he had dated the same lady for almost 12 years and had avoided all hints of marriage, even breaking up with her for short periods when she pressed him. Yet a few months after starting the remedy, he proposed to her. Shortly thereafter, they married, had a family and seemed to be quite happy for many years, at which time I lost contact with them. I've since recognized that Nux-v can have a fear of marriage, but at the time it surprised me. It also brought home to me the fact that the right remedy, even in a very low potency can produce life changing experiences for a person. And it also convinced me that 'constitutional' prescribing is valid. If I had had the whole case, I may have found Nux-v to fit his symptoms perfectly, but I didn't have the whole case and used his constitution to make the differential. |
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