Dear members

The term homeopathy is formulated and defined by Hahnemann in his Organon and chronic disease.
This definition forms the basis of discussion.
It is the disease- signs and disease-symptoms, which call forward the curative remedy by similitude in homeopathy.
It is the disease which needs treatment and not the person as such.
When talking of homeopathy, Hahnemann refers to the disease throughout his works, and not to human existence as such being disease.

There are many healers who think they are homeopaths and have not realized what homeopathy is. They then talk of forms of homeopathy without knowledge of the truth.

Let us look into this idea, that homeopathy treats the person and not the disease.
This would mean, that NOT the disease-symptoms are the indications for the selection of the curative remedy.
This means that the remedy should not cure the disease but should cure the person.
If it is to cure the person, then it would eliminate the person.
This would lead to an ‘’endloes’’ kind of treatment: patient gone—disease gone.

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Hans Weitbrecht
Consultant Homeopath

I have never seen a disease walk into my office by itself that was not attached to a person or an animal. This is an unnecessary demarcation and really shows the polarity or mind split in those who are content to see all causation only in a literal and linear reality - which completely denies the existence of synchronicity and "analogy in agreement with experience".

I agree with ChrisG

Another way to look at this is you treat the disease and you treat the persons response to the stress/disease. In fact if you look at rubrics you select for most cases you are treating both the disease and the persons response to disease and in fact that is another part of the idea of treatinbg the totality of the disease.

Picking remedies just on specifics about the disease without the rubrics in terms of how the person responds to the disease is happhazard and only part of the time will you find the simillimum. This is one reason why so many cases are not cured.

I see many cases at the BB where homepaths pick a remedy on one peculiar symptom and yet I seldom see that case continue to get postings or news the person was cured. This happens all the time at this site and you think these people would get a clue...such is life in homeopathy!

While peopel may not agree, while the disease
and modlaities and peculiar issues ar ea consideraiton, the persons response to it is more important in remedy selection as it is their response be it physical symptoms, emotional or mental that show they are strianing against the stress that needs to be reduced for the body to heal itslef.

Later
JO

[ 10. November 2002, 15:21: Message edited by: john oljace ]

A beautifully designed questionnaire is available on the following link

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Snoopy,

Did you manage to give a final shape to your questionnaire after receiving feedback. If yes, please post it so that we may benefit from it.

Thanks.

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dear snoopy
kindly post your final version of questionnaire to this forum.
thanks
dr manish agarwala

When I read your first post I wanted to ask you what a typical remedy would be for the case that you mentioned? You had me really drawn in there, and it was like reading a mystery novel without the ending. ^.- I'm so new at this.

Then I came across your second post:

In regards to that, I am a web designer / programmer .. Let me know if you need any help, eh?

I am intersted to know,what was the feedback of our members on the use of these questioneries?

Did any body try to use them?

If so,how useful they are?

Murthy

Reading this extremely interesting thread has led me to theorise that a good homeopath also needs to be a good psychologist!
Many of the questions asked of a patient, her/his replies, observations made, interpretations and methods and/or methodologies used to extract useful data are very similar to what happens in a psychosomatic session. Patients can be notoriously lacking in any awareness or insight as to the importance particular symptoms, particularly if they are chronic as they see this as the 'norm' (for them), therefore, fail to understand and provide much-needed information.
A good homeopath can elicit these crucial pieces of the jigsaw and see clearly the 'whole' picture. Or in some situations, one can be stumped as to a remedy until the patient voluntarily supplies something that she/he may think is unimportant and vaguely mentions it as though it were as much use to the homeopathic practitioner as an "ashtray on a motorbike!"
I've personally had occasions where this has happened and been left feeling quite speechless, like, "why didn't you tell me this three weeks ago?"
One funny example was a friend of a friend who came to me for help. She was dark-haired, slender and appeared to be quite emotionless and rigid. I was not able to help her with her problem and referred her to a qualified homeopath who discovered that she actually was a natural blonde, had been plump all her life until a recent crash diet, often wept copiously and actually was quite shy. Pulsatilla fixed her straightaway!!!
If only I'd known she was a 'real' blonde, had only recently become quite thin and her rigidity was partly due to shyness and a deep sense of sadness and partly due to a fanatical adherence to a particular religion that abhorred 'new age' stuff (e.g. homeopathy).
It was a good lesson for me as obviously I did not have the skills needed to 'see beyond' the person in front of me.
Fiona

P.S. Boericke actually mentions religious melancholy under Pulsatilla...

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference.
(Robert Frost 1874 – 1963)