Tautology by definition is a treatment using a homoeopathic preparation of an allopathica of which the person under treatment has previously received a large coercive dose WITH suspected or apparently injurious results. This is in fact isopathy - treatment of disease by the causal agent. Not to be confused with homoeopathy.

I have found that the treatment of Bipolar states needs to have the genetic or familial trait that occurs addressed.
merrilee

blissgogo-hpy@yahoo.com wrote:
Hoping someone has expert knowledge to share...

I've been on lithium carbonate for the most part of the last 25 years. Bipolar 1 and 2 run in my family and this is inherited. I've been under homeopathic care for the last 7 years, the last 5 with one "famous" homeopath, using basically one remedy, from low to ultra high C potency and recently LM. I have experienced much with this remedy, it even allows me to reduce and eliminate lithium BUT overall I am not right being off lithium, I'm unbalanced emotionally and physically. Plus, the remedy, a polychrest, has a wide range of other actions that causes disturbance and disruption along with positive effects. While it is a useful remedy, it certainly hasn't cured me and I've learned you can't pick and choose which actions of a the remedy you want to occur. Also, the management and use of lithium work differently than a remedy, you need to build up a certain blood level which takes weeks to become "settled". Changing dosage up/down causes mental instability until the blood level
settles. So, taking a remedy which has a faster action and reducing lithium is not pleasant since they act at different rates. And lithium dosage/usage is well documented while finding correct potency, dosage, frequency of a remedy is too individualistic and variable.

So, before I totally abandon classical homeopathy, I thought what could happen if I take the remedy lithium carbonicum? Tautologically speaking, it should counter the negative effects of lithium, but will it counter the postive effects too? While lithium carbonate is classified a drug, it's only a mineral compound. Lithium carbonicum is a proven remedy whose materia medica doesn't relate to bipolar/mania but some of the rubrics occur when taking lithium carbonate. Possibly/likely the proving did not include those who had a predisposition to bipolar thus no rubrics appeared or the remedy is useless for bipolar.

Since lithium the drug works so well for me, I'm wondering what to expect from lithium as remedy. Can it help me or cause a psychiatric hospitalization?? I've been catatonic and have had ECT shock years ago when first diagnosed and when going off lithiium pre-homeopathic treatment. It's a testament to classical homeopathy treatment that I was able to go off lithium and not have this severity occur again so I'm cautious. Though, in all honesty, I'm better on lithium and maybe my body is addicted in some way to it having used it so long. More concern is how many years I can stay on lithium before my kidneys decline or other side effects take hold. Can taking lithium carbonicum prevent those side effects, eliminate the need for lithium carbonate, enhance it's action or just complement it?

Susan