does one's constitutional remedy ever change?

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"The need to perform adjustments for covariates...weakens the findings." BMJ Clinical Evidence: Mental Health, (No. 11), p. 95.... It's that simple, guys: bad numbers make bad science.

Now thats a loaded question.

nah! just a 'yes' or 'no' ought to do it.

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"The need to perform adjustments for covariates...weakens the findings." BMJ Clinical Evidence: Mental Health, (No. 11), p. 95.... It's that simple, guys: bad numbers make bad science.

Considering, that there is no remedy which can treat constitution, ie. a constitutional remedy-- the question lacks relevance.

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My old homeopathic doctor..who I believe was a kentian...say that even though my mother had alzheimers..her remedy for when she would get sick with colds, etc..would still be calc carb...he made the point that that wouldn't change. The last time she got sick it was bell that helped her which is considered an acute of calc carb. So what that means..I don't know. but I do know this...my mother's personality still comes out in different ways in the same manner as when she was well...inspite of her alzheimers.

[ 23. December 2003, 21:00: Message edited by: carolorr ]

The notion of constitutional and so-called "acute" remedies is not really part of classical homeopathy.

Jost Kunzli, a master homeopath par excellence who rarely made any mistakes in word or deed, said he did not find a need for changes of medicine once he found the person's actual simillimum.

I could find that actual quote if necessary, but the gist of it reads like that and referred to decades of treatment till a person expired.

This squares with what I understand about the simillimum ("thing most similar") and merely simile medicines, for the latter are close enough to precipitate a curative reaction but require additional prescriptions to complete a cure, which of course does not always happen because of the intrinsically extraordinary difficulties of proper homeotherapeutics.

I've said this sort of thing here many times by invoking Adolph Lippe's phrase about "zig zagging a case" with simile drugs until a medicine is introduced into our materia medica ("materials of medicine") and pharmacopia that covers a case as the simillimum.

But, given all of that as qualifing remarks, I know the questioner's kindly heart and psychologist's mindset, so it seems to me that the proper answer to his question is no, assuming he means to improperly use the term "constitutional remedy" as synonymous with simillimum.

This is simply a problem that's part of our times, folks, but these issues will collapse as time goes on and actual Hahnemannian/classical homeopathy takes its proper place at the height of therapeutics and the two false forms of homeopathy fade into the background and then away into oblivian (as allopathic and novice-level understandings of medical issues) along with allopathic therapeutics in diseases.

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PS. Nice quote, Bach; i.e., it helps since it's so easy to dismiss Freud as a stupid fool with purely allopathic ideas and practices.

[ 23. December 2003, 23:41: Message edited by: Hahnemannian444 ]

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I think this is a good question. I don't think one's constitution changes--its basically the same, all through our lives. However I do know it can, at times, express itself in different intensities--therefore a constitutional remedy may not always be the best remedy for the job (which may be done more effectively, for example, by its "acute" or "chronic" related remedy.

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thank you, all. i am taken by albert's idea that i would have done better to ask if one's 'simillimum' ever changes - granting also his stipulation that, as i would have it, the 'simillimum' might not exist in our as yet incomplete pharmacopoeia. at the least, this handily trumps hans' easy dismissal of the question, which, i am proud to say, i fully anticipated. :razz:

soooooo, hans...?

[ 24. December 2003, 01:35: Message edited by: bwv11 ]

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"The need to perform adjustments for covariates...weakens the findings." BMJ Clinical Evidence: Mental Health, (No. 11), p. 95.... It's that simple, guys: bad numbers make bad science.

Bach,

It's always a matter of perception.

I'd like to know why, for example, a dose of phos 200c works like magic whenever I get a flu. I never suffer with it for longer than half an hour, no matter how bad the symptoms are, no matter even what kind of symptoms I get. One dose, no worries.

I've stumped my homeopath about my "constitutional" remedy for over 3 years now, however, getting great results from remedies like Aurum, or silica, and carcinosin, and sepia; but nothing ever really works as well as that phos...which, by the way, we've tried at several potencies, with no luck except when I'm achy, headachy, fluish, and possibly extremely weak and even nauseated and vomiting. I've come a long way from where I've been, though, so that's okay by me. Knowing what to take when I need a flu remedy helps quite a lot.

What does one say? That my "constitutional" remedy just doesn't apply? Or that phos is a "similimum" only when I'm very, very ill with the flu? I'm not sure and I know everyone will have an opinion on cases like this just because each will perceive the situation differently.

[ 24. December 2003, 01:49: Message edited by: ChaChaHeels ]

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so, if 'constitution' (temperament) never changes, which is ok by me, then what does change is its expression either through 'illness' or through 'personality.' both of these, however, are like close-fitting gloves, or put another way, constitution is the superstructure - traits and symptoms the facade, through which we perceive the superstructure, however dimly. this is why an illness in "bill" is different than the same illness in "molly." even the same symptom may be more 'characteristic' for one than for another, though its grading in the repertory, obviously, remains unchanged.

the temporary does not exist except as a transient realization of the permanent, hans. this is why there are constitutional remedies.

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