Is there any difference between dark or white chocolate if someone has a strong desire for a special kind of chocolate?

And about the word anticipatory and the rubrics around this, I´m not sure I understand them right...Is there someone who would like to explain it to me?

Thanks.

As far as I know, white chocolate is not chocolate. It has no cocoa in it. It doesnt taste like chocolate either. I would define it as a sweet rather than a chocolate if it were brought up in a case.

Could you be a little more specific in your other question (anticipatory). Is it the word you're having trouble with? Or is it the meaning of the rubrics and when to use them? I'm not clear on your question.

craving for dark chocolate = Nat Mur

Nat Mur craves bitter things, that's why they like dark chocolate, as gien writes.
They do also like milk chocolate because it is sweet and creamy like breastmilk.
In a case where chocolate craving is prominent it is useful to consider what aspect of the chocolate the patient craves - eg. the sweet, milkiness, the bitterness, the bitter-sweet. That can guide you to a prescription through understanding the case. It's the kind of practical thinking that makes for a good homoeopath, rather than routine rubric use.

Desire for dark chocolate, is, nm, china and bryonia.

Thank you for your help in this "chocolate-matter" and I will try to specify my other question too. I´m reading Geukens´"Homoeopathic Practice" and he uses "anticipatory fear" a lot, he says that we always give Arg-nitr but there is other remedies too as for ex Lyc. I couldn´t find any rubric Fear, anticipatory or likewise, but I don´t really understand eather what he means with it. I looked up the word in dictionary, but I don´t know in what sense is it used in the Repertory ... So if you could PLEASE enlighten me...

Anticipation is a kind of nervous fear that happens when you are looking forward to a particular event. For instance Exam nerves is a type of anticipatory anxiety, as is Stage fright, Fear of Public Speaking, Fear of going to the dentist, amongst many others. Look under Ailments from anticipation, or Excitment on anticipating events.

White chocolate still contains cocoa butter...much like dark chocolate.

RF

Hi,

There are some really good articles available on the different remedies' cravings for chocolate. It can point to many different remedies, particularly cancer miasm remedies/asthmatic remedies, depending on exactly what type of chocolate is craved.

For example: carcinosin, possibly Nat Mur (though it is not always true in this case), staphysagria, lac caninum all have cravings for dark chocolate. The truest dark chocolate craving is in the carcinosin picture: with everyone else in this example almost any kind of chocolate can "do the trick". It depends on how much the individual craves sugar and/or other ingredients or effects of the chocolate.

The magnesium remedies will often also crave chocolate--one reason may be the need for the trace amount of magnesium in chocolate. It is just as bioavailable in chocolate as it is in other food sources, just much more palatable...hence its preferential treatment as a food source.

Chocolate has some unsavoury ingredients, as you may have read--one of them in particular being an ingredient which "sneaks" its way in and is allowed in controlled amounts...such as (I so hate to say it) cockroach parts. Interestingly, blatta--cockroach--happens to be one of our largest remedies for asthma: I have heard some accounts of asthmatic children who feel better during the holidays when they are traditionally given chocolate--easter and christmas, for example--probably because they are eating trace amounts of the homeopathic substance they may need in its "crude" state! Bizarre, but it may be true...

Anyway, there are probably many reasons for the "craving" for chocolate, and these reasons would be good to know in order to differentiate between remedies. To learn all about the actual substance and what its components do in the body, I'd recommend Jeremy Sherr's Proving of Chocolate, in which he details information about its make-up, as well as its nutritive and physiological effects on the body. The proving notes themselves are, naturally, quite revealing of its effects too. If you want to read up on remedies who crave the substance, there are a number of articles in the New England Journal of Homeopathy's Fall 1996 issue--the issue has several articles on carcinosin which go into the craving at length.

Divina

What about the newer remedy of Chocolate itself???? Isn't craving of chocolate an indication in that remedy too?
Or are these newer provings a bit on the weak side still?

Zmyst