Dear Joe,

This bulletin board should be renamed Horror Story Hotline, because we hear these cries for help a lot, and they all relate to high-potency prescribing, often in repeated daily or weekly doses. It's unfortunate that because homeopathy "looks" so easy, and the remedies are so easy to obtain, and people feel sooooooo professional when they prescribe 200C and above, the potential for harming someone is quite considerable.

People think they're so much better off going to an MD or DC for homeopathy when, in fact, a lay homeopath may know a lot more and may actually be able to help you. For example, In our repertory
(book of symptoms with matching remedies), there's a rubric "Headache at 5 AM". There's only 4 remedies in that rubric; Kali Iodatum scores very high. This is definitely a rubric we'd be looking at in your case. Then there's another rubric, "Generals, periodicity, complaints return at same hour." Then, if we could just find one more very individualizing rubric for you, we'd probably have your remedy.

So, that's how it's done.

Why don't you log onto Dr. Leela's web site--she takes patients over the web, I'm sure you've seen her posts here. Check her out.

Snoopy