Hello everyone,

I've got a nasty hayfever. Every June, when the nature is the most beautifull, my eyes, nose and throat itch terribly so I have to stay indoors most of the time.

Being a student of astrology for many years and being interested in homeopathy at the same time, I was trying to find a remedy for my hayfever using homeopathic sources of information only, but nothing helped.

One day I became angry on myself and decided that if I am pretending to be an astrologer, I should use my knowledge to find a remedy. I have figured out that from the astrological point of view my hayfever should be symbolized by the Moon, poorly placed in my horoscope and having a square of Mars.

Now if I wanted to find a remedy for myself, this should be some compound of Argentum (silver = Moon in astrology), probably some salt of silver (Moon squared by Mars). I had Argentum nitricum 6C and I tried it. All the symptoms of hayfever disappeared immediately.

Now each time I have that hayfever, I take Argentum nitricum and it helps - but not for long, for half a day maybe.

This year I started learning homeopathy properly and it would be naturally to think about taking a higher potency of Argentum nitr. However I find that this remedy is not my similimum, not at all. Even more, it has in the Kent's repertory none of the symptoms which it removes in my case. But it is the only remedy which managed to help me! So this is a puzzle.

If anybody is looking for astrological keys to homeopathy, I would be most interested to communicate with them.


Thanks,

Alexander

Most often the deep acting constitutional remedy needs to be prescribed for a true cure to happen. What you used is perhaps only acting on a acute level,thus the re-occurant problem. If the case was taken properly with miasmatic predisposition the Well indicated remedy would be found for a lasting healing. The other addition to this is your physical body might need detoxing from environmental maintaining causefactors. For instance if a person has taken antibiotics their immune starts to faulter,havoc lays waiting in forms of 'allergy'.............seen it often. This must be addressed along with the 'correct' homeopathic prescribing.
There is no shortcuts to proper casetaking,your journey to a 'cure' is there, one cannot self prescribe,please make an appt with a trained classical homeopath near you.If your immune was working properly you would not have these JUNE allergies.
GT

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Dear Alexander,

Have you read the whole of Materia Medica article about Argentum Nitricum? WHat should match is not the particular symptoms of hayfever, but the whole picture of yourself - seen from many different angles, but the art of being able to find those different angles that matter and that are specific and peculiar for a person is something that requires a lot of time to learn/acquire. And most of the time it is not possible to see oneself objectively - otherwise you'd need no treatment, probably, being able to solve all emotional/spiritual problems yourself and there would be no need to bring up physical symptoms to alert yourself that something's wrong and you need to do something - and usually one needs to ask another homeopath (or healer) to help them to get better.

I'm sorry that I do not know anything about astrology myself, my husband is very interested though, but I know that there are people who add this information while looking for a remedy, the Principle of the Devon School of Homeopathy, where I'm enrolled, knows a lot about the subject and welcomes when the student use this information when they study the remedies or the person, to give them clues. He asked me once if I thought there is something - some area of knowledge - that would NOT be useful in homeopathy - and indeed, there is NONE! But studying homeopathy itself is quite a challenge, as well as serious approach to astrology, it takes a lot of time, so one needs to resource oneself judiciously... THere are no short-cuts in anything fundamental...

And finally, I'm not sure many people with this kiind of interests visit this site, maybe you should try the other one too - www.hpathy.com (if I'm not mistaken) - post there to look for like-minded people!

Best of luck!

Elena

Dear Gina,

I do understand this now and I know this is not the proper path to follow, even thought it helps. The curious thing however is that the remedy which helped does not have those symptoms. I could probably find them in the newer repertories - perhaps allergies weren't that widespread in Kent's times.

Well, I feel like being a student of homeopathy, I should reserve this problem for myself and hope that my tutors will help me to sort it out

Thanks,

Alexander

This is what C. M. Boger says--Disease variations may be due to time, season, sidereal influences, meteorological conditions, occupation, location, etc. To match different types of disease to the remedies is the duty of the homoeopath and the true homoeopathist only is capable and able to meet such a situation.

Dear Elena,

We are the students of the same school, by the way I am in Unit 3 now.

Yes I had. The strange thing is that Argentum nitricum is almost a perfect description for my father's personality. As for me, after listening the lecture on Sulphur by Misha Norland, I have recognized myself immediately - in the active type of Sulphur. Most of its features match my personality precisely, although some work through their polatity - e.g. I adore sunny weather and hot baths

I guess in most cases it isn't, but I'd think that in cases with strong vitality the simillimum can be almost obvious. I have actually tried taking Sulphur 200 and from the reaction I would say that it really works for me as a textbook example. After an aggravation, old symptoms started reappearing in the reverse order. For example right now I have that old annoying dull pain in the lower back which tortured me for years but which I didn't have in the last 10 years or so. And from what was happenning before, I'd think that it will disappear in a few days and some of the still older symptoms will come... Quite an amazing thing to experience!

I think this manifestation of the law of Hering is a kind of confirmation that Sulphur is my constitutional remedy.

Astrology looks most tempting for me in that it gives a specific unique signature to everyone. And that signature shows potential health problems. I'd think it should be possible, having a number of cases where through a proper classical homeopathic approach a true simillimum was found, to find a specific astrological signature for that remedy. And knowing this signature could assist in complicated cases.

Thanks for this, I will try.

Many thanks,

Alexander

When I was faced with many cases of an epidemic of sudden rheumatic fever (Chikungunya) here in Maharashtra, I proceeded systemically on Hahnemann’s advice and found out remdies of this epidemic. The onset was so violent that patients were extremely thankful for an immediate relief. But then came a period when though according to Hering’s law the symptoms lost ground, they held on to the finger joints. This continued for weeks and months. So one day I set out to fight these REMNANTS and searched for remedies answereing sudden onset of symptoms but slow removal (something similar to hayfever), and what a surprise Argentum Nitircum anwered loudly.

Dear Alexander,

If you have found Sulphur and it works like this - great! THen you just have to wait till the things stop moving and check what is left etc. You will get an idea what to do next as you follow through the course, although I'm sure you already can do the necessary assessments in some degree.

I'm in Unit 12, but I'm stuck in my studies with a small child right now...

How long are you in Scotland? I suppose you're from RUssia (or your parents?) - where from? I'm from Siberia myself.

Anyway, best of luck with your studies and your research of connections with astrology! I have my idea that not only there is a need to individualize the patient's disease, but also the healer/practicioner's approach - everyone should explore their own possibilities and use them at their full! THat's the guarantee of success in treatment of patients, but also a great deal of personal growth and satisfaction will become possible and always so much yet to study and research - you should be happy as a Sulphur, especially!
And Misha is very much of the same opinion, as far as I could gather, he encourages his students do develop themselves - maybe there is someone who is interested in this and browses the Devon School forum on this site, have you tried to post there?

Elena

Dear Arun,

Did you choose Argentum nitricum on the basis of this modality only: sudden onset of symptoms but slow removal, - or were there appropriate symptoms also?

And can you give me an approximate dates when this epidemic occured?

Thanks,

Alexander

Yes. I am not able to recall the exact way I arrived at Arg. Nit. but I remember that Sulphur, Staphysagria ,Lycopodium also emerged as strong contenders..
This epidemic of Sudden Acute Rheumatic Fever Affecting Multiple Joints, Chill, Nausea, Vomiting, Giving Away of Limbs, Swelling Of Limbs, Feeling Of Thickness, Swelling Of Inner Mouth etc. has been rampant here for about more than six months. You may take April 2006. Just after or about the time of culling of birds affected with bird flu.