Dear Dr. Leela
For further refferences on the term ALLOPATHIC read the paragraphs relating to this term in: Hahnemann: The Organon of the healing art.

A remedy only becomes suitable for a case by its symptom-similitude.

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Hi dr. Leela,

I think Hans means by allopathic advice, "Give Apis for this disease, give Pulsatilla for chicken pox," etc. And he's probably saying that Dr. B didn't take the boy's case, and that we shouldn't be "trying" remedies, as it were, because we could cause harm.

Snoopy

Dear Hans,
I think most if not all of us have studied the Organon of Hahnemann and aphorisms/footnotes related to the term ALLOPAHTY including the introduction.

IT seems you are judging that Apis is not chosen on symptoms similitude but on the basis of a disease diagnosis. IS that so?

Otherwise you are making judgements that some of us (on this board) are allopaths and not homeopaths ("allopathic advise"). OR otherwise, incompetent homeopaths or otherwise unprofessional homeopaths.
Unfortunately, I'm seeing a LOT of judgement in your posts.

[ 10. April 2003, 20:28: Message edited by: doctorleela ]

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I'm sorry I can't give you better information but my husband is dyslexic...he said the boy is getting better..all the sores are disappearing and that he never took the remedy.(Maybe he held it)....but the name of what he had escaped him...but someone else in his school is coming down with the same symptoms. It wasn't scarlet fever.

Going back to the first post, Arnica is the first remedy I think of for refusing to admit there is anything wrong with them, although I am not offering this as a prescription for this case.

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Opium and Ignatia also say they're fine; I didn't know about apis, though; thanks dr. leela.

Snoopy

Hans says:

Remedy-repetition in the short intervals of the same potency is prone to prolong suffering.

Aphorism 282 has a footnote which I am wondering is the exception to the rule of one remedy and wait...that where the disturbance is showing itself on the skin..etc. Would this case have been one of these exceptions with all those hives and welts and sores?

The text you are refering to is interesting.
But you do not seem to have read it carefully. Your words do NOT sum it up correctly. You may reread the § plus footnote and note which precisely defined cases Hahnemann is refering to. You will then recognize that the case you described here ( unless extremely distorted in your description ) does by no means fall into the type mentioned by H., and that neither your generalization ( in your last post ) catches what he tries to express.
Please be always very careful when backing up something with Organon §§s, even when tentatively and only in a questioning way ( as you did here ). Misquotes and -representations seem to be almost as widespread as correct ones, so a more careful attitude should be demanded from the teriffic "Homoeopathic community" in this ( as well as in many other ) regard(s).

And since you mentioned it:
If you look a tiny bit further you may also read the following § ( 283 ) which should teach a thing in general, and with regard to this case as well.
The games repeatedly played here are sickening.
But never mind and happily continue entertaining yourself: that's what this "Home of H." ( of all names ! ) platform is for, is it not ?

Panthera

Hello Panthera,
Sound advise as usual.

What I can say for Carol, is that she's learning, adn open to it. If we could help instruct and correct without judgement and condemmation, it would be ideal.

But then where is "ideal"? Certainly not on this board, as you mention? So one learns to acccept it and help ones best.

Here I see people with opinions, and qualified opinions. DO you see any game going on this particular thread? I'd be happy to know.

doctorleela

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Dr Leela, I want to reply to what you (and Panthera) just posted. But, I don't want to take Carol's thread off topic so I'm going to post it in the Coffee Shop. Please have a look there.