The topical calendula will not interfere with the potentized remedy; but it may suppress your skin symptoms on your scalp, which will just cause the whole problem to linger.

If the Natrum Muriaticum were the best remedy for your case, it would simply be repeated when necessary, and over the course of time, take care of the symptoms you listed--scalp symptoms, the herpes symptoms, the swelling symptoms, etc. etc. etc.

We do not prescribe a medicine for each ailment: we only prescribe a medicine for each patient. So: if the natrum muriaticum were your similimum, you'd only need to change its potency and/or redose when the time for redosing came.

But, if you've been using other remedies at the same time as the Natrum muriaticum, you'd have absolutely no way to know what medicine was causing what reaction. Using more than one remedy at a time makes it impossible to manage the case properly, and make sure the reactions we see are curative reactions.

And that reason is the real reason why homeopaths only use one remedy at a time...and match the remedy to the individual patient's total symptom picture (NOT to the various symptoms the patient may have).

As I said, your homeopath and I were in the same classes and clinics together...and I know for a fact I wasn't taught to do things any other way than the classical way. But, as I said, I don't have a conventional medical background, as your homeopath does.

Please just ask her to use one remedy for the entire totality--if graphites fits the entire case as it looks now, then ONLY use that remedy...and nothing else! There's no other way to know whether or not it is having any kind of effect on you, otherwise.

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