Hello Everybody !

I am preparing a lecture on Psychosomatic affections and the Homeopathic approach.
The typical "Psychosomatic type personality ", according to Psycology is the one with "ALEXISTHIMIA" (spelling?),that is people that that are unable to get in contact with their own feelings. This is due to "repression" a defensive mechanism to avoid anguish.ie: they have diarrhea,but cannot link it to fear. Now the question:Where can I find in the repertory an equivalent to alexisthimia and repression of feelings as mentioned? I found in Radar and Murphys rep. the rubric "unfeeling" (19 remedies), but it mentions crossreferences to cruelty and lack of moral feeling, which is not what I seek.Also there are 7 rubrics related to suppression of anger, desires etc, that might be related.
Does any body know any rubric, hint, specific remedy or an article that might be useful for my work??
Thanks for your help!!

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M.A.

I believe Ozone may (?) have this type of feeling. They feel empty and apart from the World.

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RSHom - Registered Homeopath

Dear Maria,

Robin Murphy has two seminars on tape on homeopathy and psychology. You can order them online by going to www.alchemilla.com
and scrolling down to, and clicking on:
Hahnemann Academy of North America
and then scrolling down to
Online Store (and clicking on that).

Meanwhile, you can also go to Minimum Price Books (www.minimum.com) and check out the books they have available on homeopathy and psychology. I know there are a number of them.

Also, in Murphy's Repertory, in the Mind Chapter, there's: Emotions: ailments after
suppressed emotions-Carc.(3), Nat-m.(2),
sep.(1), Staph.(3).

So, there you have it.

Snoopy

Ricky and Snoopy:

This board is amazing!!!Thank you for your prompt response.

Ricky: Sorry to be a burden,but do you know by chance,where can I get information on OZONE. My Mat.Med.doesnt have this remedy.

Snoopy:Thanks for these tips.I will start to work on them.
MariaL
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Dear Maria,

I would have to argue that nearly every case I have ever seen involved the translation of emotions down into physical symptoms, with most people being totally unaware of the connection. This is more like general homoeopathic philosophy, rather than specific remedies.

There are many rubrics, esp the ones that include "(emotion) alternating with physical complaints", "ailments from anticipation"," ailments from grief", " ailments from excitment" etc etc

Emotions need to be controlled by the intellect - plb, valer, viol-o

Suppression of natural inclinations - carc, sil, staph

Remedies known to do this also include Niccolum, Cuprum, any of the Kali's.

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.

Anxiety, alternating with indifference
Benumbed
Apathy
Indifference
Stupified/Stupefaction
Estranged
Imprudence
Indiscretion
Memory weaknes, expressing one's self for
Sensitiveness, want of
Absorbed
Sulky
Thinking, aversion to
Will, contradiction of

Some keywords and rubrics that might be of help to U.....

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Ozone is also in Scholten's "Elements" and Vermeulen 2 .

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RSHom - Registered Homeopath

THANK YOU SO MUCH, David,Dr.Bhatia,and JVolkman for your answers and your time.

I´ve been checking some of the remedies David said.I agree with what he says that any remedy may use this conversion mechanism, but dont you think that it is more probably that a sycotic remedy may be more prone to repress and hide emotions and psoric people tend naturally to be more expressive ?
Another doubt: what does exactly the rubric "UNEELING" mean? Is unfeeling towards personal emotions( not being able to tell if they are jealous, angry or sad),or towards other people (unsympathetic)?
Still another question,sorry: I looked up the remedies David said but cant understand the Kalis group inclusion.And last: where did you find the sympton "Suppression of natural inclinations "?

Thanks to all of you for your help.

MariaL

Interesting your view on Sychosis in our society,David. Thats why the high cancer rates nowadays.
I will include these comments.
Thank you very much!!!

MariaL

Dear Maria,

one of the keynotes of Kali the element is control, in fact this is a keynote of all the ferrum series. They must control their emotions, which then express themselves somatically. Kali-carb feels anxiety and fear in their stomach, for instance.

While it is true that sychotic remedies hide things, all remedies have the mind-emotion-body link. And besides, we live in a sycotic society, and many patients are multimiasmatic now, so nearly everyone you see will have some sycosis in their case. Modern medicine is VERY sycotic, and is perpetuating the misery of this miasm.

Unfeeling can mean many things. It may mean no compassion, or hard-hearted, or indifferent to others, or insensible to pain, or unable to feel their own emotions. Each remedy has a complex expression, and the repertory simplifies it into one word. This makes the repetory inappropriate for studying remedies, but great for reminding us to look at a particular remedy when analysing a case.

The rubric you mentioned I found in the Complete, under the word Suppression.

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.