My neighbor (who thinks homeopathy is hocus pocus) called and asked if I had anything for a cold. Well I got his symptoms and gave him a dose of Aconite 30C and 3 hours later he felt fine, that was 3 days ago and he is all better. Yeah me! This was my first try at treating someone, other than family and normally I would have posted hear but the computer was down. Boy it felt good.

Was wondering if anyone wanted to share stories of their first success.

Dear Barb,

How did you know it was Aconite?

Snoopy

Congratulations! First case is really special, but I still feel awe at each successful prescription! (sorry Snoopy - you missed the point- It's not how you got there-It's the wonder of the Homoeopathic cure!)

Barb, that's really nice. Glad to hear you are officially a prescriber now.

I don't recall the first, but I do remember a time when after an accident I had internal bleeding and was in a bad way. One dose of Arnica 200 I immediately I felt the pulsating blood flow cease. Ahhhh, I always remember that relief. Lovely arnica.

Well, Ozzie, I do think you are partially correct--but definitely "how you got there" is part of the point...

My first prescription was, of course, totally unplanned and not on one of the human species--it was my uncle's cat! I visited him one evening and wondered why the cat wasn't keeping him company. When I asked, he told me that the cat was suddenly "hiding" around the house--not answering when called, not eating much, and strangely, allowing you to pick her up (but then she would meow painfully). I recognized that this meant she was dying. So we found the kitty and decided to take her to the vet the next day.

When the vet saw her, he immediately got angry with me/or the cat--can't tell which. Turns out he had advised my uncle to allow him to perform operations on the animal in the past, something my uncle had always refused. I learned from him that he was bitter about treating the animal for recurrent asthma over the years (he would give it steroid injections, a quick fix solution which would allow her to breathe easily again) but he was furious that my uncle refused any further treatment for her. Because I had no idea what to look for as a symptom in the animal, he took the cat away and performed an exam--then came back and showed me that the cat had jaundice, pain in the liver area, and (he'd have to do a deeper exam and test to find out) he suspected it had liver cancer. He wanted to euthanise the cat immediately. Of course, the tone of his voice was as if he were furious with me for "allowing the animal to suffer such pain"...then he was even angrier with me for telling him I would have to inform my uncle about what he found, and I would like to try an alternative method of treatment since he believed there was no longer any hope. He insisted on doing tests to confirm the cancer, so I told him to do them--but I would be back in an hour or so to check on her myself.

When I left the vet's office, I thought--well, the only thing I know for certain about the animal is that she has jaundice--everything else is just the vet's speculation. I also learned that she has had asthma in the past. One other thing I knew about her is that she loved, above all else, to be massaged--in fact, even though she was in that passive and unresponsive state cats go into before their death, massage would actually "bring her about" for a second--she would respond just a little bit to your presence. Two years before, she had injured her leg jumping from a high fence, and she had limped ever since...as the vet felt she had fractured a bone in her leg. So, with all this running through my mind I turned into the driveway of a local bookstore where I knew they'd have a book on homeopathy for pets...and looked up jaundice, desires massage (or magnetisation), and her history of asthma. Then I went to a nearby health food store and picked up a tubule of phosphorus 12c and another of phos 30c. I went back to the vet, and in front of him, gave the cat 2 pillules of the 12c, which she took without argument. I left her with the vet, who told me he'd call with his diagnosis--and a bill--later that day. When he did call, it was to confirm the cancer: but when I showed up at the appointed time to meet with him, he wasn't there, and didn't even have the courtesy to ask his staff to tell me he'd been called away! No wonder my uncle had argued with him in the past--he would never be mistaken for a compassionate physician! So, in anger, I took the cat home to my uncle--but when I did I noticed that all the yellow colouring in her ears had already turned back to its healthy "pink" colour!! I gave her a dose of the 30c, told my uncle about the ordeal and sympathized with his fury about the vet (he swore never to return) and that was that. He HATED the vet, and refused to believe the cat was sick at all--just more finicky and standoffish than usual.

The next day, the cat was better--eating again and responsive. Within the next day or so, her colouring returned to normal. She got a great big abcess on her chin (poor thing) which cleared in about a week. But afterwards, she was happy, healthy, hungry, responsive and affectionate, in the pink, and walking without a limp for the first time in years!

That was a year and a half ago. The cat is very much alive and well today. To date, there's been no return of the problematic asthma, either. The cat is even able to climb the high fences again, into the fruit trees in the back yard, and is more than her old self. What a great pity it would have been if there hadn't been homeopathy!

Divina

Barb, congratulations on your first cure (outside the family)! It's nice to make converts, too.

And Divina, that was a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Divina, I know that how we get to the prescription is important, but it seemed appropriate to congratulate first as the very first successful prescription seems amazing. Although still a student I am amazed at how this all works so well. My husband has a weak back and I repertorized him and gave Rhus Tox 30 and the effect was immediate and he was reluctantly converted!! I am still naive enough to think that each success should be celebrated. I believe my son avoided serious scarring by repertorizing Cantharis and giving in 200c potency after he was burnt in a accident. Each time a blister came up, I gave him a pillule and I watched the blisters disappear. I took arnica and rescue remedy for myself and although I sought medical attention for him the Doctor was amazed at his recovery. No scarring at all even though it was on first appearance a bad facial burn. I realize not all cases respond so immediately and think of a patient in Student Clinic who responded really well to a prescription of Silica 6x and who commented "we don't have to put up with just getting old" as her GP had told her.

Hi Ozzie,

I agree with you--every success is to be celebrated, along with the process of thought which created it! I love the story about the burns on your son. I bet he is still grateful. Husbands (and wives too, in some cases), I have noticed, are a little less grateful, and a little more prone to be reluctant. Its a strange phenomenon, isn't it? Its as if they are mystified, a little scared, but also a bit in awe!

Divina