yesterday, I was discussing with my colleague distributor about the law of similar and she asked me to give an example of the application of law of similar from the natural world in which we are living. Could you please help me.

How can we prove law of similar infront of newcomer?

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I heard this or read it...if you have a burn on your body...and you pour as hot water as you can on it...it will take away the pain

See, She has heared and not practically proved. I want to inform you that both example do not come under the category of law of similar. Practically if you will pour hot water you will not relive pain.

This is the level of person who got registeration in early days of this board and is considered to be a pillar of homeopathy at this forum.

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<b>All the best<br />Khokhar<br />(CAM Expert)</b>

Dear Khokhar,

In fact the thing about the burns and treating them with heat, rather than cooling them is from Organon of Hahnemann, he describes it in the Introduction. You are welcome to check this.

And while it is true that if you heat the burned part, which I myself do often as I cook and burn my fingers with, for example, a fry-pan, at first the pain will increase, but then the burn would heal quite quickly without leaving any scars or anything, whereas cooling it usually prolongs the healing very much.

I have also heard a several people's personal experiences of healing burns with heating them, and it always happens very quickly.

Elena

If we apply cold water on burns even then we get relieve from pain and burning. I think this example is not suitable to prove law of similar.

[ 16. April 2003, 08:04: Message edited by: Kausar Naheed ]

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Dear Kausar,

well, yes, it helps, but it takes much longer - Hahnemann gives an example of a volonteer woman who had burns on 2 arms, and one was cooled and received conventional treatment, and other was kept warm with some specific oil - the latter arm healed in no time, the other one - which was originally cooled took weeks to heal.

It's for you to choose -how long do you wish to suffer!

I even read in a book by one Russian homeopath, who used to be a medical doctor and who was converted to homeopathy because of this treatment of burns. He was on a picnic and burned his arm severely with boiling water from the kettle. He was a doctor and knew what was ahead of him if he took conventional treatment, but there was a homeopathic doctor with him, who suggested him to warm his arm near the camp fire, which he did, disbelieving, and in two days there were almost no trace of burns or anything.

I thought, the original question on this thread was related to some everyday life thing, not to some hardly curable pathology, that is not likely to get cured at all, but something that gets cured anyway, but ... Well, as I wrote above - it's up to you to choose your own way of being and healing.

Regards!

HelenaZ

OH, yes, and I forgot to mentiont that the same Russian doctor about whom I worte in the previous post remarked that ever since that experience with burns, all his subsequent burns always healed up much better and sooner, than they used to before that experience, which, in fact, means that his body has greatly benefitted from this treatment in some subtle way - he became kind of "immune" towards burns, his body got stronger, which means - more healthy. Is this not cure? In a wider sense that simple cure of a little burn?

(Not to speak about his discovery of the whole universe of homeopathy after the incident, of course.)

I wonder if anything similar might happen after usual allopathic treatment?

Regards,

HelenaZ

[ 16. April 2003, 09:26: Message edited by: helenaz ]

Khokhar: all my best to you, too.

[ 17. April 2003, 15:48: Message edited by: carolorr ]

Thank you madam... At this stage, I can guess the mental state of your mind. Thanks for remaining online.

[ 16. April 2003, 11:39: Message edited by: Khokhar ]

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I heard this or read it...if you have a burn on your body...and you pour as hot water as you can on it...it will take away the pain. Of course, this isn't exactly like common knowledge.

I suppose that also means icepacks on frostbite.

I wonder myself...in therapy...when the therapist(usually in family therapy) starts expressing the feelings of craziness that are surpressed in the family as a whole. I mean the therapist starts screaming and trying to climb the walls...its a big relief for the family.

Dear Carol,

In fact, I meant to support you, I'm sorry you had to read such things.

HelenaZ