Thanks for your answers to date.

I am familiar with the 'magical' relief of pain following the use of Homeopathic remedies, but only on myself and family. I am seeking an answer from someone who is experienced in pain management in a wide variety of chronic disorders in which pain is a very debilitating component of their symptom profiles. Assumably the effect of the similimum would be to at least reduce the dose of allopathic analgesics and hopefully eliminate the need for them completely. I am also aware of the important significance of pain as a guide component to the choice of the second and subsequent prescriptions.

What I am trying to determine is whether the experience of pain has any healing value of itself, and whether its alleviation by allopathic analgesics would be regarded as suppression in the same sense as the use of cortisone in cases of hay fever for example. (counter-productive) Let me give you a possible answer to my question:

"Yes, the experience of pain by the patient is necessary because it stimulates the contraction of various muscle groups which assist in the overall healing process".

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DenisGibbon