shannonnelson@tds.net:
<< Well, I will stick to the point a bit more
-- you haven't answered myquestions:
How do you explain Hahnemann entering phos into "Averse company" and Schmidt
entering it into "Averse company, better alone"?
You have said you know Schmidt. Perhaps you know him well enough to ask for
his explanation, and ask whether he agrees that your description of phos
covers all possible situations and people that might need phos?
Why do you suppose so many other folks find remedies useful and needed in a
*variety* of presentations/situations, while you find them useful only in
one?
How do you explain Dr. Morrison's quote re the "depleted" picture of phos?
I would be interested to hear how have you learned homeopathy, and can you
tell us a bit about your practice?
Shannon
12.7.4.
Sorry for being late, but I had a busy week-end and today was hell too ...
Well, I really start liking You.
There is no depleted Ph - depleted Ph is Phosphoricum Acidum, which is
another remedy, very close to Ph but not Ph any more. It could be that THIS one is
"averse to company", it would fit, something I do not know now on the spot
certain enough to admit it straight away. Tired Ph, which must not be necessary
the same thing, always goes to sleep, takes a nap, which will be sufficient to
make him fit, even a short one. This is a typical Ph feature-getting very fast,
through sleep, very fit. He gets up after 20min and feels like he slept a
whole night over.
I remember a great pianist (I know well about pianists being one for myself,
I played this week-end, Saturday night the piano and Sunday the guitar ... but
this is another story), Dinu Lipatti, one of the greatest ever, who died
quite young of leukaemia, at the end of the forties in the 20-th century. He gave
a concert 2-3 hours and then went to sleep - he was finished, like a burned
out match. After sleep, he went on ... This is a classical Ph case. If THIS is
"depleted", than I agree, but I understand "depleted" in another way actually.
There is no Ph without psychical signs and symptoms like all polychrests, so
this guy Morrison whoever he is - I can not undersign what he is writing.
Hahnemann made mistakes or confusions too. Beside this, he had a different
view of the things, due to the radical different times he lived in. This we know
TODAY of course, while looking backward with todays knowledge interpreting
things from then, which is not correct, but they are all dead and life goes on
... Things developed.
Hahnemann was not even the first one to understand some of the things. Aurum
was used in depressions by the arabs long before, plus all the stuff from the
antique era. Hahnemann, however, was the one to synthetise the knowledge in
ONE bundle of theoremas, giving it the last but decisive kick.
Pierre Schmidt died 10-12 years ago, so ... Like many homeopaths and as many
gastroenterologists (who know what to eat), he got very old - he must have
been about 95 or so. An uncle of mine, a distinguished gastroenterologist and
nutritionologist himself, made it to 98 because he was never married (!) and
always cooked himself his food, so he did know what to do ... The Schmidt - Nagel
pharmacy in Geneva is considered one of the best in Europe. I do not purchase
there, but I know "good" people doing it and you can pay by credit card, which
makes it very easy.
The "variety of presentations" mentioned has borders, of course. This borders
are clear, so we have so many different remedies and at least 100 or so
polychrests alone. So there are at least 100 different ideas, clearly sketched.
Some of them I mentioned before. As I said with Sulphur - one must have skin
trouble in Sulphur or in Graphites, otherwise this is no Sulphur or Graphites
or Petroleum. In Ph the children must have nosebleeding, must drink a lot of
COLD milk, pick in the first place the cucumbers on the table, eat milk-ice,
must be afraid of darkness and have hallucinations that one is lurking behind a
tree to steal him the purse, foresee the future sometime, getting nervous when
a storm is approaching, they typically have long "antennas", etc., but Ph is
always company, light, friendship, openness, they are so open, that they take
really a lot inside. They do feel great at sea in the SOUTH and bad in the
mountains while Tuberculinum pure feels great in the mountains preferring them to
the sea, which he also likes, while the luesinics always like only the
mountains, the landscape of the mountains, the forests, etc. Some even say, it is
because they are so open, that they get so much cancer, in the first place blood
cancers of all sorts, because they do take bad things into them too, lacking
protection, filtering. Ph is always tall - no small Ph and no small
Tuberculinum, so no small Ca-ph. Etc. The difference to Tuberculinum is in character -
Ph is always good, Tuberculinum is always malignant, holding grudges forever,
something Ph can not do (like Belladonna and Sulphur too - they explode and
tomorrow "we are friends" again).
Now to the learning - looking back, I often feel I was lucky, while I
actually had a very difficult life. When starting with homeopathy and in many ways
similarly with chinese medicine, one must have the chance, to meet the "right"
people, for being directed in the "right" direction. These 2 medicines, being
how they are, positioned in the shadow of allopathy with its enormous progress
and knowlege and all this terrible gear (modern allopathy is very aggressive
and inhuman to the patient, something nobody seems to notice), allow people
with very different backgrounds to mix up with, so being young, naive and
uniformed, one can easy take the wrong path and than it is very difficult to get back
and find the right one, the sound one, the one making sense and tuning up
theory with practice adequately. There are so many books being written, whole
libraries, but you need only 5-6 of them which one has to know, understand and
learn solidly, and you are in.
This is the reason why I am not impressed with all the stuff coming out time
after time. The books I learned were so good and so clearly structured, that
to me they just made sense and seemed enough. However, I am not going to tell
which books they are. This is something each one has to find out for himself.
One of the mistakes usually made is getting first impressed and than lost in
details and in repertories, which can not be learned by heart and can not be
consulted always, even the computerized ones. There are so many common signs!
So the right succesion is learning in the first place one polychrest and its
satellites, than the second one and its satellites and so on, because only by
THIS way things start getting clear, making sense and can be remembered. The
full details can AFTER that be found in the repertories.
One example : while Aurum must have Bach in his story and Sepia (mostly)
classical dancing (balet), Graphites is loving classical organ music which he
listens to at home but when going to church he CRIES while this music is being
played. So if you get a quite fat person, with skin problems, free
entrepreneurial spirit, kinda slow in his life rhythm and having lipomas or this kind of
round benign tumors around including prostate adenoma in the midfifties and if he
tells you that he cries in church while hearing music, than ... More than
that, many Graphites adults where Ph in childhood but evolve to Graphites or
Carcinosynum by severe psychical traumas in the family, usually as teenies,
different things, like sexual assault, parents fighting bitter at home, been thrown
out and put in a children-house, things like these. I know a guy who is even
very musical - he kept this feature from Ph.
This is the reason why Ph should always be learned in combination with
Graphites, Carcinosynum, Aurum and Ipecacuanha. They just fit together.
And viceversa - if this person tells you in the first 15 min of the
interview, by chance, that he loves this music and always cries when in church being
played - how curious, isn' t, he never cries at home at the same music but only
in church? - than you can stop and give him the remedy. He will never come
back.
Kind regards, Dr.medic. Viorel V. Bucur.