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Originally Posted by jeff
I realise this is too 'picky' a subject to really argue about. Similar can be contained in 'same' though not the other way about. The symptom picture of a patient with TB would match a very high persentage of the remedy picture of Tub. which one could call 'same' or 'similar' or whatever.
Anyway, I'll leave it at that.
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What is different is that the remedie is not given homoeopathically but simply for the disease state itself. As in for another example Thyroidinium in thyroid disease, regardless of how the disease is in fact manifesting the difference of symptoms which we would look for as homoeopaths. Similar (homoeo) resemblance to or of the same kind (dictionary definition). Same (iso) monotonous, uniform, unvarying. Isopathy is a simplification of the homoeopathic process a therapeutic approach. Which must not detract from the fact that it is a usefull tool for any homoeopath but they will not automatically cure the disease from which they are derived ( in my experience). Read Organon 6th edition footnot 63 and compare it to the 5th edition footnote 5 to see how Hahnemann's views on this subject changed. In the higher attenuations Isopathy is effectively homoeopathy.
merrilee