Very interesting. First, you don't have access to legitimate homeopathy. You have a rather liberal usage of the word, but I can tell you're talking about low-potency and high-potency pseudo homeopaths (LPHs & HPHs). Hahnemann dismissed both as "beginners, bunglers and aggravators/despoilers of diseases" in the following typically succinct terms from pp. 121-22 of THE CHRONIC DISEASES:
“As to the second chief error in the cure of chronic diseases (the unhomoeopathic choice of the medicine)[,] the homoeopathic beginner (many, I am sorry to say, remain such beginners their life long) sins chiefly through inexactness, lack of earnestness and through love of ease.
“With the great conscientiousness which [that] should be shown in the restoration of a human life endangered by sickness more than in anything else, the homoeopath, if he would act in a manner worthy of his calling, should investigate first the whole state of the patient, the internal cause as far as it is remembered [UCD] and the cause of the continuance of the ailment, his mode of life, his quality as to mind, soul and body [UCD] together with all his symptoms (see directions in Organon), and then he should [and he should then] carefully find out in the work on Chronic Diseases as well as in the work on Materia Medica Pura a remedy covering in similarity, as far as possible, all the moments [factors], or at least the most striking and peculiar ones, with its own peculiar symptoms; and for this purpose he should not be satisfied with any of the existing repertories [large symptom indexes] – a carelessness only too frequent; for these books are only intended to give light hints as to one or another remedy [medicine] that might be selected, but they can never dispense him from making the research at the first fountain heads [i.e., the materia medica or “materials of medicine” from the provings]. He who does not take the trouble of treading this path in all critical and complicated diseases, and, indeed, with all patience and intelligence [UCD] but contents himself with the vague hints of the repertories in the choice of a remedy, and who thus quickly dispatches one patient after the other, does not deserve the honorable title of a genuine homoeopath [UCD] but is rather to be called a bungler, who on that account has continually to change his remedies until the patient loses patience; and as his [the patient’s] ailments have[,] of course[,] only been aggravated[,] he must leave this aggravator of diseases, whereby the art itself suffers discredit instead of the unworthy disciple of art.
“This disgraceful love of ease (in the calling which demands the most conscientious care) often induces such would-be homoeopaths to give their medicines merely from the (often problematic) statement of their use (ab usu in morbis) [“according to the names of the diseases”] which are enumerated in the introductions to the medicines, a method which is altogether faulty and strongly savors of allopathy, as these statements usually only give a few symptoms. They [These statements of their previously effective clinical effectiveness or curative effects in specific diseases] should only serve as a confirmation of a choice made according to the pure actions of the medicines [per our time-tested indications of similarity or homeopathicity as proved by the match of uncommon or characteristic symptoms of the case with the proving reports in the various materia medica]; but [they should] never [be solely used] to determine the selection of a remedy [medicine] which can cure [that will become the person’s remedy] only when used according to the exact similitude of its homoeopathic symptoms. There are, we are sorry to say, even authors who advise following this empiric pathway of error!”
Put simply, you don't want truck with LPHs and HPHs unless you're a Hahnemannian who can tell them to shut up. What fun, huh?
Next, there are no uncommon symptoms in your description. With all of these details, have you not noted any details of symptoms you'd call strange, rare and peculiar? Any well-recorded symptom will have four parameters: Location, sensation, modalities and concommitants (not always the latter). Go back as far as necessary to search for them, for a person will generally require the same medicine as their remedy all during life. Table 7 from my manuscript material might help even though it doesn't copy well here:
Kent's Hierarchy of Symptoms
After the Chart by Daniel Cook, M.D.*
I. Uncommon Symptoms
1. Generals (“I” symptoms)
A. Mental Generals
1. Disordered affections (loves, hates & emotions)
2. Disordered intellect (perception, cognition & concentration)
3. Disordered memory
B. Physical Generals
1. General modalities or aggravations & ameliorations from different circumstances: Time of day, weather, temperature, motion, position, food, sleep, etc.
2. General sensations and states of the organism as a whole or of many of its parts
3. Food aversions & cravings
4. Sexual appetites, cravings & aversions
5. Menstruation
6. Sleep symptoms
7. Bodily secretions & the blood
2. Particulars (“My” symptoms)
A. Individual Parts of the Body
1. Vital organs & systems
2. Skin
3. Other individual parts
II. Common Symptoms (Identical list w/out stipulations)
3. Generals
A. Mentals
1. Affections
2. Intellect
3. Memory
B. Physicals
1. General Modalities
2. General Sensations
3. Food Aversions, Desires
4. Sexuality
5. Menstruation
6. Sleep
7. Secretions & Blood
4. Particulars
A. Individual Parts
1. Vital organs & systems
2. Skin
3. Other individual parts
Table 7
* From THE VALUE OF SYMPTOMS, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMEOPATHY, 86:3, Autumn 1993, pp. 150-165. Developed by Dr. Cook after the rudimentary schema of four boxes presented by Will Klunker, M.D., in Vol. II of the SYNTHETIC REPERTORY: SLEEP, DREAMS, SEXUALITY. Extended by Dr. Cook to include the explicit criteria from the 1911 paper by James Tyler Kent, M.D., titled THE TREND OF THOUGHT NECESSARY FOR THE COMPREHENSION AND RETENTION OF HOMEOPATHY, which is to be found in several homeopathic medical journals as well as on pp. 598-605 of KENT’S MINOR WRITINGS ON HOMEOPATHY, edited by K-H. Gypser, M.D.
If it interests you, you strike me as a cognate of either Nux vomica or Platina. That doesn't say much since only the simillimum ("thing most similar") will ever do any good, but Belladonna is a cognate of Nux-v. Those two will marry each other because they're both reprehensible creatures who're unable to love, but you don't strike me that way, so it would likely only be found among their cognates if this dumb and wholly unreliable observation is correct. Thomas J. Watson, the founding CEO of IBM, was a sterling example of a Nux-v. patient. Read about him in IBM AND THE HOLOCAUSE, and be shocked that he was essentially responsible for the Holocaust and most of the rapid-deployment means and the identification of people and things that allowed the Nazis to do their horrible deeds. Nux-v. patients are true scoundrels without any morals; reprobates, criminals, tyrants, truly bad people very often found as businessmen and executives. They'd all be exiled or executed if we were even slightly civilized, and I won't treat them anymore becuase I find them fully irredeemable and deserving of what awaits them from allopaths murdering them and after life. Very bad people, and they all look like rats, too. Do you look like a rat? I doubt it. (Inside stuff: Nux vomica is the source of strychnine. Isn't that insteresting?) I doubt you're that bad, too, but women needing a medicine will simply always be a little different from men by nature. Belladonna patients are generally the turnkeys, the jailers and tyrants by nature, and I doubt you're like that. Both Bell. and Nux-v. are quite unlovable, and that seems to be a contraindication. Platina is exuberant to say the least. Everybody in the George Vithoulkas school of thought of high-potency pseudo homeopathy always talks about their sexual nature, but you miss the boat if you think that way about them. I like 'em, but I like the Roadrunner, too, so what does that tell you? Lachesis is tied in there as a cognate, but lots of drugs are related when really examined. In fact, it looks like a spider's web the way all medicines tie together, so don't make much of this observation. You're a typical patient today, but I suspect it would go well for you when you actually report your case -- probably best in private. The details of a case determine the medicine, and you haven't given any. Study the Hierarchy of Symptoms above, and think in terms of location, sensation, modalities and concommitants. Take your time, and reflect well. Everybody has uncommon symptoms. Something strange, rare and peculiar. Three will lead like a straight line to the indicated remedy. It's quite marvelous when it all comes together, but there's so far no case to prescribe upon. Give a go, sweetie. "I used to have . . . , but I didn't think it was important." It's surprising how often that preceeds something important. Isn't that interesting?
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Albert, also Hahnemannian444B
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