Dear Shannon

Believe me. I expected this question.

If you are sure that the onset of illness is since birth, start from there. That is the way it has to be for the present day cases like ADD, ADHD and a host of other similar illnesses.

However when there is a perceptible change say since grief/ having typhoid/ pregnancy and delivery etc..etc, then it is better to start from there, so as the current layer is effectively removed.

As each layer is removed try to go back in history , if it is possible. In many cases you won't have reliable data to go back very far.

If you can really go back to the stage when the person is born (if he has born healthy) by succesfully removing each layer, then only the concept of a 'constitutional' medicine perhaps make sense.

However even then, another misfortune, another infection, another indiscretion may change the picture again and you need a different remedy.

I don't believe in the concept of a constitutional remedy helping even the acute problems. If the same acute problem is recuring time and again despite each episode being cleared with acutely chosen remedies, it is the time to go back to the timeline when this particular complaint started. There is no point in going further back unless this problem is succesfully resolved.

I can quote the case of my wife. (My most experimented upon patient. :-).) She used to get bouts of fever and cold and coryza quite often. Every time I used to abort with the appropriate medicine. But there is no let up in the frequency of once in in a month or so,until I gave a single dose of Typhoidinum.It is now almost a year since she had fever.

We can discuss further.

Murthy