I shall be grateful, if any members of Homeopathy Home can explain to me how two remedies can be antidotal to each other and at the same time complementary to each other too --- e.g. Bryonia and Rhus Tox, Lycopodium and Pulsatilla, ...

Some remedies are similar in action to each other, so one can carry on the good work of the other or can be used after each other in an acute situation. At the same time, they antidote each other; and because the original remedy has been antidoted, the second can be given without fear that it will interact with the first and cause problems.

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Shirley Reischman

dear jumma,

The concept of antidote is different in homeopathy as compared to the concept admissible in homeopathy?

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<b>Lady Dr. Meena</b>

Thank you, Shirley; thank you, Meena;

Can you please explain what you have said in a little greater detail.

Jumma

When it is said that when a medicine x antidotes another medicine y, the former takes away the effects (not just the side-effects) of the latter; that the former un-does what the latter has done.

This being the case --- if it is the case --- how can a remedy both anti-dote and complement another remedy?

I invite fellow members to spare some time and explain this point to me.

Jumma

It doesn't take away what the former remedy has done. It merely stops the action.

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Shirley Reischman

Shirley,

Can I get some reference for substantiating such an understanding of "antidoting" a remedy, i.e. stopping, not taking away the effects of the preceding medicine.

Jumma

I don't really know of any reference material. Maybe someone else does. My comments are based on my own experiences.

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Shirley Reischman

References you can look at for more information about antidoting and how it is done include the Organon.

Aphorism 250 basically states that a medicine which is poorly selected can be antidoted by one which is homeopathic to the case (that is, selected more carefully, taking into account the old symptoms as well as any new symptoms brought up by the "wrong" remedy).

What we have come to document as clinical infomration based on this process--what you now can see as "antidotes" for specific remedies--is based on gathered information from this process of remedy administration and case management.

Lots of this in the Organon.

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you might find of interest the article by boenninghausen on the concordances [remedy relationships] available in english translation at
www.boger-boenninghausen.com

boenninghausen observed, understood and used the relationships in a precise and creative way.