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DavidJK · #4 (**permalink**) 2nd January 2003, 09:35 AM

Many practitioners do not know the difference between a similar cure and a similimum cure - some colleges do not even teach it. The term 'similimum' can be confusing to students - as Opium has said, many students and practitioners assume any similar remedy is good enough. This may come partly because health and disease are not explained very well to them - if they do not know what they are aiming for, then they never know that they have not reached it.

How do we know when we have given the similimum? It is not simply the disappearance of presenting symptoms - just as health is not simply the absence of disease. A person must be better than they were before - on mental, emotional and physical levels. The mind should be clearer, their feelings more balanced, their body stronger. The patient should be quite different - they should make a "jump to freedom" which transforms their state dramatically.

I looked through some of my files to see the type of language patients use when they experience the similimum.

"My senses have been heightened"
"Felt on a high"
"Feel more soft and caring"
"Have been really calm"
"Feel more mature"
"So much more in control of my life"
"Things are so much clearer"
"Have become more responsible"
"Feel stronger like a new person"
"Feel more at ease with myself"
"Things that really used to bug me don't affect me anymore"
"Feel more rational"
"Great energy inside me"
"Feel bullet-proof"
"Able to make decisions about my life and happy with them"
"Feel like I have stepped out of my old body and into a new one"
"Feel more happy - living life for life's sake"
"Nothing can go wrong in the world at the moment"
"Feel like I am getting a new start"
"Feel like a huge weight has lifted from me"
"Feel as if a cloud has lifted and I can see everything more clearly."
"Food tastes better"
"Have enrolled to do adult education - feel I want to better myself and that I have the ability to do it now."
"Feel like I did 10 years ago, before I got sick"
"Feel brilliant - on top of everything - like nothing can bring me down."
"I am able to look at my behaviour now and see what I have been doing and why."

I wondered about the idea of 2% - this is not the first time I have heard that figure. If I see 20 patients a week, then that would mean less than one would get the simillimum - I think I do better than that, but you can't be sure until you have seen the patient after a year - to be sure there have been no relapses or new diseases appearing. Also, the simillimum at any one time will be different, as it is necessary to treat the miasm as it appears.