Using Os's approach--to see each patient as just a person with symptoms--is the best approach. Find remedies to address the totality of the case, and don't forget about the mental/emotional symptoms and their importance.

In the cases I wrote about earlier, one woman's MS symptoms were temporarily palliated with remedies chosen to address those symptoms as a priority--but when the homeopath had an opportunity to see her interact with her husband, he realised that her mental/emotional state was demonstrably more like Pulsatilla. It was that remedy which finally "did the trick" for that patient.

In another case, a friend of mine gave his father a dose of a remedy he determined to be his dad's "constitutional" remedy...and he was in his second year of study at the time. His father had just been diagnosed with MS. He was given a dose of Nat Mur. There has been no recurrence of the illness, doctors believe they made an error interpreting his diagnostic tests.

In one other case, a young woman (early 30's, ran her own massage therapy clinic, had overbooked her patients and not scheduled enough time for her own homeopathic consultation...) spent her entire time in consultation talking about how her family didn't realize how much work they were creating for her, how they were such a problem for her that they were the reason she had started to become ill. She repeatedly spoke of how others were to blame for her various states of unpreparedness, illness, lateness, etc. She was given lycopodium, and has also "recovered" from the MS threat.

Divina

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