Edited: "But I don't refer to this level of characteristic symptoms of drugs....Hering, from the Preface to THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA, says:

'The definition of a characteristic being "a symptom not found under more than one remedy" is quite erroneous. Such a unicum occurring among a large collection of symptoms should be looked upon with suspicion. On the contrary, all our approved characteristics, as they have been corroborated time and time again, are never such as are found in one medicine alone.'

"...Now I [again] quote Hering about this from the Preface of his magnum opus, THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA:

"....'Up to this point homeopathy was a complete success. But the more Hahnemann turned his attention to treating chronic diseases the less permanent his successes were. Hering wrote, "Hahnemann made the same discovery that we all do: some patients get well, some don't. When the remedy was exactly similar [the possibility of which increases with more well-known drugs]..."

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One junior homeopath contacted me and said "My selected remedy is not working but I am dam sure the selection is absoutly correct. I said what is the case. He explained all the symptoms. I asked the name of the remedy he said phos. I said ok give the same phos in the same potency but in drop doses in teaspoon ful of water.

He came after three weeks and said the patient has been cured. Do you know the reason? The patient was suffering with increased thirst of cold water, increased urination, weight loss fatique and vomiting etc. He took all other relevent symptoms of the patient and selected Phos 30. The remedy was correct, the potency was right and the homeopathic case taking was excellent but unfortunatly no positive result was obtained.

He discussed the case with me. I said the patient might be a diabetic. Don't give him your selected potency on sweety blankets. The blankets were increasing his sugar level and no pathological result was coming.

You see after diagnosing the case the patient was cured with same the potency and with the same remedy.

This is the importance of the diagnosing the case. Homeopaths do not believe on this topic and don't want to believe too. They are lack of knowledge and diagnosing capibilities.

dear james

congratulations on a cure of diabetes.

you mention i am not familiar with this term but it sounds like a lot of sweety.

as a matter of course i usually administer all remedies via a tiny amount of sugar - 1 or 2 poppyseed granules - dissolved in water with a little alcohol, to be taken over several days.

what does your experience show regarding whether such a tiny amount of sugar would adversely affect the remedy action for a diabetic patient?

thank you.

Do you know what are blankets. When you will administer these tablets four time a day then this will certainly raise the level of sugar in the blood. Dear ANNA you are younger then me but you got my point. The purpose of the mail was to give you touch of that point.

Dear 007,

I once had a dental abscess and took the right remedy and it didn't work. I was shocked, and all I could think to do was put it in water and darned if it didn't work after that! It was Nit-ac. 1M. I knew it was the right remedy because it was previously working in 200C, then stopped.
I thought surely it would work in 1M and when it didn't, all I could think to do was put it in water.

Hahnemann makes a point of saying that all dosing should be in water. Your case is a perfect example of that. Of course you're not always going to have water with you, but, when I'm able to put the remedy in water, and especially if I know I'm going to be repeating it, I put it in water, and then all subsequent doses are stirred or succussed as per #247 of the Organon.

Snoopy

No I disagree with great care and respect. Administration of remedy in water is absoutly not necessary. Hahnemann was wrong. I observed in India that 80 percent homeopaths are using sugar of milk, pellets, diskets, blankets and globules. I hardly observed any homeopath giving medicine in dilution form. Dilution also costly. Again they are getting results. Hahnemann was wrong in his opinion. :razz:

I'm not saying pellets don't work, but there's clearly something magical about putting the remedy in water, and more importantly, you can prevent accidental antidoting this way; I've seen remedies tragically antidoted all too often. I think Divina gave the most recent example of this when she told the story of how she thought her Phosphorus flu was relapsing and so she redosed with it and the whole case fell apart. Redosing in water with succussions or vigorous stirring would have spared her that outcome. It's in the Organon.

It's one thing to say that you have read this book, but you'll miss a lot if you don't know what to look for. This is why, in a historical city like Philadelphia, we have tour guides, because otherwise you pass by something every day and have no idea that, for instance, you're standing on the spot of the country's first homeopathic hospital unless someone points it out
to you. (This actually happened to me. My daughter said, "Look at this Mom, 'on this spot stood the Hahnemann Medical College of Pennsylvania'" I said, "What? How come I never saw that?")

Snoopy

Snoopy...does this same principle apply if its 6 months later...or even longer..a year or two..to give a slightly different or just different potency?

I wish to keep this posting alive, so I have reposted here like this for that reason.

I am honestly astonished that there have been no responses to one of the most important papers in homeopathic history.

Anyway, this will move it up again where it belongs due to my having quoted Dr. Keller here at length.