The use of Aconite and Ferrum Phos and that in the UK practitioners have better results than in the US for treating acute colds, minor viral illnesses, etc. because they have a heavy use of Ferrum Phos in the beginning stages of illness?

I just found it interesting.

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new info to me.

Barb,

All homeopaths some of them are the members of Homeopathyhome discussion board are residing in different cities. But whenever someone called us to participate in seminar, workshop or for medical camp, we went there and participated and contributed according to the demand. It is our habit. Why I am telling you, just to inform you that its not new information to me.

When I have been called to deliver a lecture at multan city some three years ago. The city Multan is 1000 miles away from my actual city. I delivered a lecture on variation of potency and effectiveness of homeopathic medicine. My honourable members from Pakistan will verify my statement those who participated in the seminar. (I hope).

Nice to see many of these at HHBB, all these members look so close to me, I feel, I am at my home in this discussion board and all members from Pakistan are invited here. Although they are living in far flung areas of Pakistan.

We live in different localities and vicinities. We eat different food having different medicinal ingredients. We drink water having different variations of salts or ingredients etc. This all affect our body chemistry.

Did you observe that some people developed goiter while living in some particular field. For example, when I visited with a team in SARAI ALAMGIR region (an area of Dr. Majid Acupuncturist www.pain-research.com I am going to send him mail to join HHBB), We see lot of goiter suffering people. This was due to the deficiency of iodine etc in that area.

Peoples do affect with the chemicals or ingredients found in food or water in a particular area. As they eat from their own ground. Hence all these chemicals affect their body chemistry.

In the same way some potencies work in some particular place and some do not work in some particular locality the reason is very simple, just due to the presence of high ratio of chemicals found in their body. It may be possible that some compulsory salts or chemicals are missing in our body due to living in some particular field.

That is why some medicines work brilliantly in our body in some particular place and some do not. I will give you another example. I used to prescribe cina 30 to my patient having pin worm complains when other symptoms do call to Cina. It never failed. But it gamely failed when a patient came from Skardo (people drink heavy water and live on hills having deficiency of oxygen) I again took his all symptoms, but the medicine was again Cina. I thought the potency is not working due to the vicinity. I put three drops of oxygenum 200 over his tongue and asked him to start this medicine cina 30 tomorrow tds. Believe me, it readily worked and the patient got relieve from his complain. After that I developed habit of asking region to patients.

I applied this formula over many patient that were visited to my clinic and I found positive response.

I believe that each potency of any medicine works but if a potency is not working at some particular place then it does not mean that it has no result in that particular potency. I believe that it is due to the environmental factor, which is affecting the patient in which he or she is living.

Secondly, if a potency say Belladonna 6 is not working in my city then it will definitely work at some other place like Lahore or Islamabad.

It is also common observation that homeopaths say cina has result in 200 potency only. It never works in 30 potency. But my observation is that it only works in 30 and it has no result in 200. Perhaps this variation in medicine selection and potency is due to the variation of area to area.

And the reason, I have already mentioned.

[ 25. December 2002, 03:57: Message edited by: Arshad Sheikh Homeopath ]

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Dr. Arshad Sheikh is a prominent homeopath in Pakistan and is enjoying good reputable status in the homeopathic world. He has been practicing homeopathy for many years.

Whenever I visited Islamabad, I always passed through his clinic while watching his big sign board which he displayed on G.T. Road, Lalamusa. He loves friend and pay great respect to each visitor. I met him for the first time in a seminar.

I requested him on his mobile to comment on the info wrote in Q-potencies article, which respected Hans wrote. As I feel myself not competent.

Thank you.

Dear Barb,

My first experience with homeopathy was probably with Ferrum Phos and colds. I keep it by my bed, and if for some reason I wake up with a sore throat in the middle of the night, I pop a 30C pellet in my mouth and am usually well by morning.

Snoopy

I think Arshad Sheikh makes a good point about different climates, environment, etc. Some remedies are very different in California than in Ohio.

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To whom it may concern (anonymous mail sender to me) I have the ability to handle such person. This bb is new to me but not this internet. I have been using internet for many years. Discussing on internet is my habit. I need some time to read all previous threads.

Don't confuse with the name ARSHAD. Every third person has this name. I am from sheikh family and entirly depend upon my daily practice. I have no contact with any other ARSHAD except my teacher who delivered lecture in a workshop which was organized by Pakistan Homeopathic Society.

You also objected on my post. Madam/Sir, I did not told you anything new. The method is called KORSAKOV METHOD. He developed a new method of producing dilutions. Whereas Hahnemann used a new vial for each dilution, Korsakoff simply emptied the vial in use and added 99 parts of water/alcohol to produce the next dilution. Observation had convinced him that at least one drop equivalent of the solution remained in the vial when empty. Thus, adding the 99 drop sof water/alcohol to the same vial when "empty" had the same effect as taking a drop of the solution and putting it in a new vial with 99 drops of water/alcohol. This method was less expensive and time-consuming than Hahnemann's more precise and methodical approach, and worked particularly well in the higher potencies. For example, to produce a 200C potency by Hahnemann's method would require 200 vials, whereas this could be done with only one vial using the Korsakoff method. The latter also lends itself better to mechanization. Thus, the Korsakoff method is generally the one most used today, particularly and almost exclusively in the higher potencies (above 200C). To distinguish the two methods, the potencies made using the Hahnemannian approach are designated with an H (e.g., 3CH) and the potencies made by the Korsakoff method have the designation K (200CK or 200K).

[ 25. December 2002, 20:47: Message edited by: Arshad Sheikh Homeopath ]

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What I am observing, a very strange atmosphere at this BB. Over 6500 members are sleeping? [img]redface.gif[/img]

Shirley Reischman, I am happy, atleast someone among 6500 members broken the silence on this board.

I am habitual visiter at different discussion board not belinging to homeopathy? I always found jolly good personalities. Chatting with each other.

But here I feel alone .... so dry

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I am from the UK and I would only prescribe Aconite for a cold or minor viral illness if it has been caused by the wind.e.g. I gave aconite 30 every hour for an impending flu after a walk on a windy beach the previous day and after about 4 doses it went. I have never given ferrum Phos for a cold. I have just got over a minor 2 day cold and my attitude towards them is not to suppress it with homeopathy as it is the body's natural way of getting rid of toxins. Doesn't anyone else feel this way about a cold? Flu is different. There has been a nausea type of flu around which has responded very well to Ipec. Apparently some hospitals have been closed because of its rapid spread.

[ 27. December 2002, 17:17: Message edited by: Ricky ]

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Ricky, I think taking remedies at random in a cold can supress, but if the symptoms fit, i.e., it's the similimum, the remedy helps strengthen the resistance. A case in point - I am working with a 60 yr old female who has had a suseptibilty to colds since childhood. She has gotten about 10 a year with all of them going into bronchitis. While I was working out her constitutional remedy, she developed another one. I ended up giving her two different remedies in 30C twice each as the cold progressed over several days. It did not go into bronchitis and she said it was very different from her other colds. It's been several months now and she hasn't had another cold - a record for her. In the meantime, I worked out her constitutional. It was neither of the remedies I gave for the 'acute'. But the right remedies, prescribed on the presenting symptoms did a lot for her resistance. I really don't think anything was supressed because the symptoms developed according to Herings law.

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