Thanks Opium.

The reason I say the simillimum may change, is that when you apply a remedy, that person's state changes and moves away from the remedy. The root of their illness is diminished, but that is not to say that there only one root (alias Miasm). As you reduce the influence of one miasm in the person, another may come to the front - which may call for a completely different remedy. I am refering to mainly long term management of a case.

The person may, as the remedy diminishes the influence of their miasm, then require remedies for epidemics - more healthy more acute remedies, perhaps remedies for traumas and accidents they suffer after receiving treatment.They may also require specific remedies for old symptoms that may reappear under the action of the similimum - remedies they may have needed at that time in the past, but of course never received.

Sankaran talks at length about multiple roots in the one person, with events in that person's life deciding which root becomes active. After you have reduced the strength of one root, another may be stimulated into producing disease if the person comes in contact with the appropriate exciting cause.

[ 03. January 2003, 06:18: Message edited by: DavidJK ]

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