When people on this Bulletin Board start to agree, I know we've hit a home run! Thank you, Ricky. Actually, I believe it was Shirley who said, "Wait to see your homeopath again." What I said was, we wouldn't want to prescribe for you until we knew what the other homeopath prescribed that didn't work; and I wouldn't feel right recommending a return to the other homeopath without finding out what the prescription was, because, what if we found out it was--oh, I don't know, Tuberculinum--it seems to be what everyone is prescribing nowadays--it would be hard to recommend returning to this person; but, if the prescription were Nat-m, or Phos. or something that made sense, it would be a different story.

Snoopy

Dear Snoopy,
Thanks again for all of the time you're putting into my case. Can you recommend a good kit (beginner's or first aid?) and perhaps a good starting book. I've taken out a few from the library, but I have no real way to judge quality or accuracy. Any recommendations for a supplier on the web?
I've been watching you prescribe for a while now and I do think that I favor your approach as opposed to the one dose approach. However, I now have the problem of not a lot of money to start another homeopath with. Maybe I should get the kit and whatever remedies I need for my current acutes and work with them for now, at least until I hear from my current homeopath.
Thanks so much again,
Merl

Dear Merl,

It's a good idea--what you just said: buying a book, a first aid kit, treating your acutes as they come up, and waiting to see your homeopath again. If she's a good prescriber, it may be worth keeping her. She might be open-minded to a suggestion that you would prefer taking her next prescription in daily low potencies so that you can be free to treat acutes as they arise, because your acutes are very serious and life-threatening. She may go along with that.

But, you know, we're still here, and if your homeopath seems to be flakey, perhaps we can help you through this. Here's a web site for you where you can order remedy kits and single remedies and books:
www.homeopathic.com

Snoopy

Merl,

Also, go to the Homeopathy Home homepage and click on "Services and Supplies" at the top of the page and you will see lots of places that sell books and remedy kits. It's best to buy a 30C kit of 100 remedies, which would include cuprum and a host of diarrhea remedies! It may seem expensive, but its cost is a little over a dollar a remedy; when sold separately, these remedies cost over $5.00 a tube! It's a tremendous savings. The other thing is, in a tiny 1/2 dram tube, there are 1800 tiny pellets, and you only need a pinch--in fact, one tiny pellet is a dose; so you should never run out--it's a great investment.

By the way, do you want to give us your husband's case?

Snoopy

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Snoopy,
My husband's case, ugh. I could. I know he'd welcome the help. Definately too cheap to ever get around to putting out money for homepatic advice. No judgement intended, really. It's just a fact.
Thanks for the advice on where to get the kits and what I should purchase. Will get on it right away.
Will also try to get the info on my husband to you in the next day or so. Speed depends on how emotional it is for me to look at him this closely. Thanks much for the offer. The good thing about him is I know I won't have to talk him into taking a remedy or sneak it to him. He's already expressed an interest.
Thanks again. Will write soon.
Merl

Dear Merl,

You and I must have been posting at the same time; I just saw your post about not being sure if it was cold sweat or what. In such a situation as you described, I would still
try Veratrum alb. because it has diarrhea with prostration, which is what you're describing. When I get diarrhea, I usually wind up taking a number of remedies--I go into the bathroom with my homeopathic first aid kit--and I generally start with arsenicum, but I never really know what the remedy is going to be--sometimes it's veratrum alb, sometimes it's podophyllum...I just keeptrying til one works; so, I would never want to have just one remedy. So feel free to buy veratrum alb, even if it's not the right remedy--someday it will be, I promise you!

I'm looking here in the repertory under
Rectum: diarrhea, cold applications ameliorate-cycl., lyc., puls.(2).
That last one is pulsatilla, a remedy that's hard to distinguish from Carcinosin and Staphysagria because these are all the mild temperment remedies--the remedies that try to help and share and give of themselves, and the funny thing is that your dreams are Pulsatilla. "Dreams of black animals".
There are only two remedies in that rubric-arnica(1) and pulsatilla(2). So, I think it would be a good idea to have puls. on hand for the bathroom attacks--you should really have a first-aid kit.

The thing with carcinosin is, first of all it's an ailments from abuse remedy. Your dream of "the state takes over"--this is a carc. dream. The carc. state is one of invasion. Here's a cell minding it's own business when suddenly it's being encroached upon by other cells, and it can't do anything about it! It's helpless! Staph. is very similar to Carc, but Staph. is very sensitive. They imagine insults, imagine that they are insulted, slighted. They keep quiet about it, and then one day they are out of sorts and they just BLOW UP at the offending party, may throw something at him or pick up something and smash it! This over-sensitivity can be seen on the physical level with sensitivities to odors and noise, cutting pains, pains extending to the teeth, etc.

But what would make one choose carc. would be that in the patient, you see remedy pictures of so many different remedies that you can't decide; plus, you see the picture of carc., which is: nice people who can't say no, never ask for help, love the ocean, love chocolate, love thunderstorms, plus, in your case, ovarian cysts, so--you settle on carc, eventhough you see Puls., Staph, Nat-m--in other words, you see other remedies, but not enough to prescribe on. For instance, pulsatilla has an aversion to fat; but you love fat!

Now for your question about "What if I take cuprum or whatever as an acute--how does that impact on my chronic remedy?"

That's a very good question.

There are two kinds of homeopaths--there are Kentians and
Hahnemannians. Kentians are high potency prescribers, such as your homeopath. You've already seen the down-side of this method:
Aggravations and then nothing. And you have to wait and wait. Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, was not pleased with this set-up, eventhough it was his creation. He changed his mind in the 6th edition of The Organon, which unfortunately Kent, and the other well-known masters, never saw because they died before it's publication. So now, eventhough the 6th Ed. of the Organon is available, most homeopaths have not read it and still follow Kent.
What Hahanemann said was this: one-dose-high-and-wait is cruel. He believed in daily low potencies so that the person recovers gradually and painlessly, and so that he or she has the freedom to manage the case when acutes pop up--such as asthma attacks. You wouldn't want to be told, "Don't treat that asthma attack, you'll antidote your constitutional remedy!" That's insane! So with low potencies, you just take your cuprum when the cough starts, and when you recover, go right back to your chronic remedy, and there's no worry about antidoting because you're going to take another dose of the chronic anyway. I hope I'm not getting too technical for you. It's just to answer your question. Yes, with high potency prescribing, you will be instructed not to take any remedies on your own. The low potency prescribers, on the other hand, will say, get yourself a home remedy kit and some books so you can take care of acutes and injuries, so that you can be independent and not have this high potency lording over you, telling you don't treat this and don't treat that, and you have to suffer or you'll antidote the remedy.

So, I've laid out for you the 2 schools of prescribing, so you can choose which one most appeals to you. On the side of Kentian prescribing, I have to say, some people don't want to be independent, they would rather rely on their homeopath; don't want to take the trouble to learn homeopathy, don't want to have to take the remedy every day, don't mind the aggravation, etc. We have a patient on another thread who heard both sides and said she's rather take the single dose, and she didn't mind an aggravation, and she's improving. So I don't mean to come down on Kentian prescribrs like a ton of bricks, I just needed to answer your question about how do the acute remedies fit into an over-all prescribing plan.

Snoopy

Dear Merl, take your time--we have our hands full here at the free clinic.

Snoopy

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Hi everybody,

So here's an update on me. I've been taking Nat Mur in different doses for months now. There have been some noticeable emotional results. As I read in someone else's case, I felt more like myself. I reacted better to stress and adversity over the first two weeks of my current treatment (LM in water, succussed X 10 taken twice daily). However, I must say that my physical symptoms have not improved. My homeopath says she has ordered a "stronger" dose for me to start. (when it arrives)

Today I got news that will have to be dealt with allopathically, I'm afraid. I was diagnosed with uterine cancer this morning. Surgery will more than likely be scheduled for next week. As you can imagine, I'm feeling rather yucky about this. Physically, I was already not feeling very well. This diagnosis makes every little ache, etc, something to be feared. Emotionally, I'm mostly afraid. (not overwhelmingly, but certainly constantly)

I don't even know what I want at this point. I e-mailed my homeopath to ask her what, I guess, I also want to know from you. Is there anything that I can be doing to support myself through this homeopathically?
As always, thanks for your support.
Merl

I'm so very sorry to hear this, Merl. I know there will be many healing thoughts coming to you. Mine are starting now.

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