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DavidJK · #18 (**permalink**) 20th January 2002, 08:07 AM

While it is true everyone has a mother and a father, it is not true that everyone's major issue is with them. That is the important factor when using Scholten's method - you must identify the BIG issues in the person's life. It is not necessary to diagnose on the basis of every little issue, or on common things either.

I have found that many people have trouble with Scholten's method, especially students and new homoeopaths - they have a tendency to simplify the themes in the remedies - every angry person gets Magnesium, everyone with a problem with their Mother gets a Muriaticum. But this is counter to the idea of Rare, Strange and Peculiar - you must still look for what is unexpected in the case.

I often let the patient answer this question - What is the part of your life that you have the most trouble with? - that will often lead me to the series and even the element they need.

Using this method, I have cured:

Malaria with Calc-phos
Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome with Am-brom
Lymphomatoid Papulosis with Am-sulph
Severe dysmenorrhoea + intense fears of the dark and of ghosts with Cobolt met
2 x cases of Morning sickness with Am-mur and Beryllium
Psoriais and depression with Hydrogen
Damage to a hip joint in an aerobics instructor with Kali-phos
Anxiety attacks with Vanadium
Repeating colds and flus and sneezing with Kali-sil
Chronic diarrhoea with Mag-sulph
Insomnia + exhaustion with Am-carb
Severe mood swings + cervical pain with Mag-phos
Chronic chest infections with Oxygen
An acute cough with Ferrum met
Depression with Chromium met
Candida infection with Am-phos
Shoulder pain and chronic skin infections with Ferr-sulph

I still use the traditional methods for choosing a remedy, but this method has often been invaluable in helping to cure cases that otherwise seemed mysterious to me. Many of these people never needed any more treatment - the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome patient, who was scheduled for open-heart surgery one month after I saw him (which he never needed), is still well 2 years later from a single dose of Am-brom. That has got to say something powerul on behalf of this method.

Also remember, the Scholten's method is not just a "mentals" method. He strongly advises that when choosing an element for the person, that the generals and even some of the particulars fit as well. It is possible to make a Scholten prescription on nothing but physical symptoms - people often seem to forget or ignore this aspect.

Scholten created his theories by looking at the provings and clinical experiences of traditional remedies, and examined those things common to Natrum remedies, common to Magnesium remedies etc. He did not pull these ideas out of the air, and he was certainly not the first to conjecture that the component elements of remedies shared traits - Kent did this, as did others.

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