Well I am now on Silica for my cough and it seems to be getting better but slowly. I don't feel tightness in the chest and I don't sound like I am barking. I went back to my homeopth and he said lets try silica. I read up on silica and it did seem to describe me as a child. Very weak,cronic ear infections. I never did miss a day of school when I was young but I was a pale, quiet, weak, shy child.

What is strange is Sepia, Nat Mur and Pusitilla all describe me and when I went back to my homeopath I also mentioned Sulpher which I felt was me too. So far all remedies have worked for me on some levels for some things. Dose that mean I don't have a constitutional remedy or do I?

Danielle

Dear Danielle,

this is exactly the problem every practitioner has when looking at a patient's case. There will be half-a-dozen remedies that seem to suit, but it will be only a superficial similarity. The trick is to be able to see the core to the case, the part which is in most distress. Often it is a remedy that has suited most of the bad times in their life, but this remedy will be invisible to the person that needs it. We cannot choose our own remedies - if we could, we would not really need them, the awareness we had would make us feel better. Disease is primarily about Delusion, a misguided belief about the world and our place in it. If we knew we had a delusion, we would then be on the road to be free of it.

There are symptoms in a case, and then there are the important symptoms. Many of the lesser symptoms may or may not be covered by the remedy that helps. The important symptoms must be covered by the remedy. The skill in being a homoeopath is telling the difference between them.

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Thanks for your response. Well the silica seems to have helped my cough but it is slow and I don't mind at all. It seems ever day it gets less and less but it has yet to completely go away but my homeopath said Silica is slow acting and to give it time to work.

Well I guess I spoke to soon. I am starting to cough more today and having trouble breathing. I just want to go home and take a hot shower so I can breath again. I wonder what happend. It feels like a turn for the worse. He only gave me one does of silica in his office under my tongue and it might have been a 30C but not sure,in a powder form. After taking it I could breath very well and my cough seemed to slowly get better a week later though I am just starting to feel very stuffed up in my right nostril and my cough seems to be comming baclk with my chest starting to feel tight?

So I am not coughing like I was yesterday but my homeopath called me last night and told me to go out and get Silica 200 and put it in water. I feel a little stuffy in my right nostril and still coughing but very little as opposed to yesterday where ia was coughing a lot. He was wondering if I just palliated the cough but I do feel better so maybe not? I do not have a tightening in my chest and not coughing as much but still coughing.

So I got silica 200 and took twice in water. I am still coughing and seem to be coughing more. I guess I will wait now and see what happens.

Any suggestions

Hi Danielle...sorry this is still ongoing.

I wonder if it would be best to re-take your whole case - and go from there.

Is there any expectoration (is it productive, dry, etc)? Can you describe the cough?

Perhaps someone here, will commit to helping you with you case - otherwise you could call your homeopath again and ask him/her for clarification as to whether s/he thinks things are moving along as they should be. I suspect something isn't right since the cough is still there, though...

I wish I knew enough to help - but I'm still studying...hang in there .
Lisa

[ 03 October 2001: Message edited by: LisaAnnan ]

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Thanks Lisa,
At first the silica seemed to help. I could breath really well about 10 minutes later and the cough seemed to calm down. It wasn't that it got more productive and I was able to cough up stuff it just seems to slow down, less coughing and only a little coughing here and there with no barking cough and no tightening of the chest. Then about 10 days later the cough got worse. Still not a barking cough just kind of dry and more frequent. That is when I called my homeopath. It seemed to flare up for one day and then the next day was not so bad but still coughing a little. Worse at night before sleep and better in the morning upon waking. After taking it a second time at 200c in water I fellt more coughing but not a productive cough just dry and I felt the need to cough. I took one more dose and the same thing . Today I feel like there is fluid in my chest and I am coughing. Also the right side of my nose is a little stuffy. I have a pylop in each nostril so it's hard to breath anyway but the right side pylop is much larger and makes it hard to breath. I'm not sure if it's the pylop that makes it hard to breath or if it's just the right side that is hard to breath. But I am still coughing and I had though it was going away on the silica. Last note is the top of my head right side seems to feel a little pain when I cough. Not all the time but if the cough gets deep I feel a pain on the top of my head. And I just remembered when I took the silica a second time I felt very hot. Not a hot flash but just hot kinda like I was gonna sweat.

One other note it seems that the one dry dose always does me well and after that the liguid always seems to give me problems or not do anything. And maybe I have once been on the right remedy but the potency was not right?

I just don't know anymore. I am running out of funds to go see my homeopath and he gave me a break this month but I never though I would still be in this situation 3 years later. I am improving a little but still need help.

[ 03 October 2001: Message edited by: Danielle ]

Hi Danielle,
That the cough is not productive worries me. Again, I'm only a student, but I'm sort of going on what my own homeopath and I have discussed about coughs (recently).

For e.g. I came down with flu-like symptoms a few days ago. I had a dry, irritating cough - not terrible - but I knew the flu that had hit others was coming on in me. I rang her and told her how I was feeling. (as a side note...my daughter was well into this flu at this point - and she pointed out to me that my sx were very similar to hers). In any case, she was concerned that the cough was dry - unproductive. Said we needed to get the mucous moving - discharges flowing.

I was prescribed a remedy - and within two hours - was coughing up yukkkkky mucous. It didn't abort my flu per sé - but I wasn't stuck with the dry irritating cough anymore either. Today, I'm still coughing some, but I can tell you that I know that I am on the mend. My fever is gone now - tho I'm still tired, etc, but I'm definitely healing much quicker than others here that have this flu!!! That is no doubt. Some have had this for weeks now and my flu is mild in comparison.

Okay, my case at the mo - is an acute.

Your case, on the other hand, isn't in an acute phase anymore, from my understanding, and this is what has been worrying to me since you first began posting about this cough weeks ago. And, as I said before, I know it is important to get something like a cough sorted - before it turns chronic.

I am thinking out loud here - so please - other homeopaths correct me or add clarification, etc - but I wonder if a dose of Sulph 30c (and wait at least 3 days) would help clear things a bit for Danielle - and bring the picture to the surface.

I know that when my son's case was mucky (he had a cough that had gone on for 3 months earlier this year!) he was given one dose of Sulph 30c. Cough was productive for about a day and then completely gone in about 4 days or so and he was well. (BTW he's doing very well since - hasn't caught this recent flu!)

Incidentally, my current flu - which my homeopath said is making the rounds round the world - was prescribed on Genus Epidemicus - and I got Sulph (coincidentally) 200c. As I said above the cough was productive within 2 hours (it was a drastic change in that short period) - for anyone else who is having flu symptoms - that is one of the GE rem's at the mo - of course, sx matching!

Anyhow, I was just thinking a bit, out loud - and I wish some of the other homeopaths would help out - not just with the cough - but take a look at your whole case and see where things have gone wrong. I can't see that things have gone well - so one would think that re-taking the whole case would be the way to go!

"Trying remedies" isn't the solution, imo - your case needs looking into - otherwise trying this and that remedy will muck up the true picture.

Let's see if anyone will lend a hand now . Also, I would advise you to post your case in full - give you CURRENT list of complaints. Also, note your state BEFORE trying the batch of remedies in the past few weeks when the cough began. And your history would be helpful. Make sure you say what your desires and aversions are as well, etc.

All the best,
Lisa

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Thanks so much for your response Lisa. I had told my homeopath Sulfur seemed like the remedy next but he thought Silica first and if that does not work Sulfur next. Well The silica seemed to work but I was not coughing up anything I just seemed to slowly feel better but was still coughing a little but not like before. My homeopath did retake my case but sometimes I think it's the dose he has wrong and not the remedy and then sometimes I feel like every remedy has helped but the way he tells me to take it is didfferent from what people say on here?

I will post everything on here I guess and see what people coem up with because I am confused?? He seems to spend alot of time with me and always calls me back and we seem to work together well but he dose conflict what people say on here regarding aggravations and I'm just not sure anymore what to say but that I don't feel well and it is effecting my overall life and putting me in a state of limbo.

He feels since the cough is a cough from before that that mean something and a constitutional remedy need to be found that also helps the cough.