I think pain simply acts as an important warning. You touch a hot object, like a frying pan, and you drop it immediately, you don't make things worse by continuing to hold on to it, thanks to the pain.

About case management, homeopathy is really the way to go. Opiates are not good, they do not speed along the healing process, they slow down the healing in a variety of ways. There is absolutely no reason why a person in any kind of pain should not be given the appropriate homeopathic remedy. In fact, in any patient you have, the first thing you must do is take the case of the pain or discomfort the patient is in, that is order of business number one. You do not take the constitutional case of someone in pain. Very often the remedy is Bryonia--sharp pain, slightest motion makes the pain worse. Think of bryonia in broken bones or fractures. Pain shoots up the limb, hypericum. Pain is a sore, bruised sensation, Arnica. Pain is stinging and needle-like, Apis. And so on. Also, you have to get the potency right. Here is where your high potencies come in, a 30C might not cut it.

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