Hello all;

I've been seeing a homeopath in Winnipeg, MB for general wellness (and a circulatory condition in my left arm). After about 3 to 4 months of treatment, I began to get a tingling/numbness in my ring and pinky fingers of my left arm. Rhus Toxicod was recomended for use on an as required basis. I felt personally that the problem was physical, as in an impingement of the ulnar nerve. There has been some easing up of the parasthesia in that arm, and it can be corelated to the times I took the tincture. I just don't understand the affect of the medication on the body's systems. The clinic I go to is very busy and they are most anxious and willing to discuss things, but sometimes I feel that I am using too much of their time and I leave before asking all of the questions that I have. Any insight here would be welcome.

JonO If you are not adverse to alternative treatment, you might consider having a Chiropractor check your upper back (neck and shoulder) for a possible pinched nerve or disk problem. Also a deep tissue massage might get you back in shape. (I just read your profile and see that you are a massage therepist. I have a hernieted disk in my neck and have only gotten relief ( after enduring trigger point injections and prescription drugs) after having a deep tissue massage. I'm sure there is Homeopathic treatment for your problem, and you are wise to seek advise here, but until you can get the remedies, some hands- on treatment might be able to give you some relief. Good luck and good health.

Agree on that , its a chiropractic symptome, but if it was not there before rhus t, its from rhus t, and no chiro symptome, its a artificial problem caused by rhust , and it shows, along with the repeated use of it, that this is not homeopathy, byt quackery.
Belive me, i know, i have chiropractic training too!

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Homeopat MNNH Geir E.T. Marcussen
email: getm@eunet.no
http://www.homeopati.no

Quackery???

You don't have all the info, what do you base that statement on. If you read my post, you should have understood that the rhus Tox was given after the condition (ulnar nerve, tingling etc,) developed and I have noticed a beneficial effect from it.
I have been taking sulphur, colobrina (sp), arnica montana, and a few others at different times over the last few months. I have seen chiro's, vascular surgeons, GP's, physio's and herbalists for the veinous insuficiency in my left arm. I've had ultra sound and also a radiographic procedure using radioactive opaque material injected under pressure into the vein. The allopaths said take coumadin for the rest of your life and just live with it. There is some varicosity showing just distal to the humeral head on the anterior aspect. The smaller viens on the anterior of the shoulder are larger now, assumingly carrying the extra load. This problem (the veinous insuficiency) first showed up about 18 months ago.
Before you jump to the conclusion of quackery you should get the facts. The clinic that I go to is a teaching college, and has among it's students M.D.'s. I have noticed some improvements in my general health, but am still trying to get to the bottom of the circulatory problem with my left arm.

This is not homeopathy, its quackery, you have a prooving of the remedy, use one dose camphor c30, and no more of that rhus tox, and no more of those quackers.

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Homeopat MNNH Geir E.T. Marcussen
email: getm@eunet.no http://www.homeopati.no


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May i ask, whats your intention of using this base, when you start to critisise upon this false belives, it can not be that you want help, you have no respect, you want to start anarguemnt in order to defend quackery!

Organon, is the foundation of homeopathy, the rules of homeopathy is founded, not on personal delusions.
Read up on organon, repeated dosages is not homeopathy!

And a md is a md, a quacker, playing with homeopathy! A md will never become a homeopat, but is a counterfeit of the original, and a destroyer of homeopathy, and in you they found a beliver, a beliver who comes and ask a real homeopath, and just start to criticise the real thing, get lost pal, keep to your mds, dont come her and insult homeopaty or us, based upon lies about homeopathy! Or upon misgiuided beliefs about the real thing!
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Homeopat MNNH Geir E.T. Marcussen
email: getm@eunet.no http://www.homeopati.no


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GM

I certainly did not come here to start an argument. I came here for guidance and to ask some questions about Homeopathy in general, and about some of my specific treatments. My limited knowledge of homeopathy tells me that the whole person must be treated. I also believe that anybody with the desire to find and practise the truths can do so from any background, whatever those truths may be. We grow as we learn and we change our ways as we become more knowledgeable. I cannot defend the homeopath that I have been seeing except in the positive benefits that I have experienced. If I have insulted you or homeopathy, then I am truly sorry, for I came here to learn, not to antagonize.
I have kept complete records on my treatments and I would be willing to share them with you in the hopes of determining wether or not it is beneficial, and wether or not it is true to homeopathy, or as you say "quackery". I seek the truth, not confrontation.

Jon O. Phillips LMT

Dear JonO - go ahead and post your case history....GM is one of the best prescribers although he can be a bit temperamental....ignore that and post your case...he'll help.

Also - don't worry about what your Homeopath did in the past...as GM will get everything sorted (or one of the other Homeopaths on here)...you have come to the right place - be assured of that. A lot of us have received excellent help on this BB...so persevere...and post your history. You'll see.

Good luck,
Lisa

Well, then accept what i say, and post your story..all medications too, what where, when..
and dont mention mds again, i dont tolerate them at all,as Hahnemann did not..(and the only dr mds that became homeopats, they quitted being mds.)esp when impersonating to be homeopaths.. except for the surgeons, who are the only ones who have limited knowldege. Acute medisin for damages is needed!

Okay Lisa (thanks)

Let me start over, at the beginning.
Male: 48 years, 210 lbs, 6'2", blue eyed, blonde, skin fair & sunburns easily
Married, happily with 2 grown children ages 21 and 27, both separated from us by many miles in opposite directions in this huge country
Past drinker, 2 to 10 drinks daily, quit 3 years ago, past smoker, a pack a day, quit 12 years ago
Worked in a newsprint mill for 21 years, (just quit last week), many airborne chemicals in the mill environment. Sulphur, cleaning compounds, petrochemical oil vapours, to name a few
Sufferred from heartburn, (better now), lactose intolerant, no allergies
Always had pimples, buttocks, (the odd one one my face too), about 2 years ago pimples in scalp started and still persist today
Nov '98 noticed left arm very blue when working bent over, raised arm and it drained very slowly. Now still turns blue, but drains quickly when raised, some varicosity present anterior, superior humerus area, enlarged veins on anterior shoulder, occasionaly felt coolness in arm and some minor swelling and redness, but no pain or loss of function
Tingling in 4th and 5th digits started about 2 months ago, it comes and goes
Have lots of hangnails
Twitching in right eye has recently been noticed, related to stress, I believe
Eye "strain" also noticed on occasion, have bifocals, was just tested by optometrist and lens perscription is okay by him
Major carreer change from electronics technician/electrician to massage therapist is causing some financial worries
I have also suffered from classic migraine headaches over the years (since early teens), some stress induced, some light induced and some food induced, are fewer and far between, and am now usually able to "shut them off" upon first noticing the aura developing

I am currently taking coumadin 10 mg per day perscribed by unmentionable

I also am taking herbs, vitamins and minerals
Magnesium 250 mg/day
Zinc 25 mg/day
Ginko/Hawthorn 425 mg/day
Vit C 500mg/day
Oil (linseed and cod combined)500 mg/day
Other herbs in varying combinations
Physillium hulls in the evening to cleanse the colon

I have about 20 differrent homeopathic remedies from the person I was seeing in Winnipeg. These are Dolisos brand "tinctures" from Montreal
Calcar carb 200ch
Ruta grav 200ch
Mercurius cya 200ch
Lycopod clav 200ch
Arnica montana 200ch
Rhus toxicod 200ch
Kalium carb 200ch
Colubrina 1mk
Lachesis mutus 200ch
Metallum album 200ch
Gelsemium sem 200ch
Argentum nitr 200 ch
Bryonis d 1mk
Medorphin (k) 1mk
Natrum mur 200ch
Ignatia amara 200ch
Phosphorous 200ch
Bacillinum 1 mk
Tuberculin 1 mk

any other information required?

Thanks all for any help.




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