A remedy should not be producing new symptoms. While it is true moving a disease onto the skin is one of the signs of good direction of cure, the symptoms that come back still should be old ones.

I had a patient come to me for headaches and depression who had been to see a homoeopath in England some 2 years previous. She was given a remedy that got rid of the headaches, but produced psoriasis and eczema, neither of which she had ever had before. These symptoms remained for 2 years, then the headaches came back, on top of these new skin conditions!

This was not direction of cure. The headaches simply got moved around. The remedy I prescribed solved all the symptoms, and brought back on old (non-skin) symptom for a few weeks.

Some skin conditions are so generalised that patients often can't remember having them.If the patient feels better in themselves, then I guess you have to assume the direction is correct. But new symptoms should not arise from a remedy if it is the similimum - that is the definition of a proving - which may happen also from too much of a good remedy.

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.