Anna,

I hope you are aware (and I sense that you are) that I am not prescribing for you. I posted some answers to your questions about the remedy in question, that's all. I don't know you, and I don't know anything about your case, but I do know something about the remedies you've asked about. You live thousands of miles away from me and I only see patients in person. Period.

I am also quite capable of reading, and I did see in your previous posts that you were not interested in taking another remedy just yet; you just wanted to have a conventional exam to see what was going on, and take it from there when things are a little clearer. Please understand that I respect that and think it is a responsible reaction to your own situation. What has been the outcome of that battery of tests at the GP, anyway? Please don't put it off because any information you could find would be helpful for you (and your homeopath) to know.

One more thing about the remedy: actually, anacardium is the kind of drug which treats syphilis, advanced cancers, and severe mental illnesses--as well as skin symptoms and obesity (because everything gets temporarily better by eating, and anacardium has lots of pain, esp mental/emotional). Yes, it can be anti-psoric--but it is also quite a destructive drug. Rarely does any remedy fall into categorization for only one miasm; anacardium is no exception. I personally have never met an anacardium patient who has not survived some form of intensely violent trauma in their past, whether they had to endure it on their own persons or witness it taking place with someone very close to them, and were powerless to stop what was going on. I'm sure they exist, but I've never seen them. But do consider that it isn't one of those "happy go lucky" remedies...there is a very severe disturbance in that economy. Indecision and ambiguity is really not the precise state of the remedy. Truly, in this remedy, the "left hand doesn't know what the right hand has done", because it can't (and would not want to) remember! Indecision and ambiguity implies that the left and right hands both hold something equally intriguing, but there's no ability to discern which one is more intriguing, and worse, a sense that the wrong decision won't be correctable, and the better option will always be lost. So no decision is made!

I wish you all the best as you try to heal whatever ails you--speedy recovery, and may the GP delivers news that brings peace of mind on the issue. I don't see why a full case taking, completed by someone competent and impartial, who could prescribe a well chosen remedy, could not help you.

Divina

[This message has been edited by Divina (edited 02 January 2001).]

Dear Anna,
You are not indecisive! You have made the decision to not decide on a remedy at present. That IS decisive! It really is! (Who says making decisions all the time is such a great thing anyway?!)