State of disposition/Hussein Beheshti

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

Dear Piet

Hossaien Beheshti is a very able Homoeopath. I have had the honour of sitting in his Homoeopathic philosophy classes.

Hossein Beheshti trained in USA as an electronics engineer obtaining his MSc from University of Santa Barbara in California. He returned to Iran in the early 80s. He now runs his family owned publication house and manages poultry farms and other commercial activity. He is a management consultant but lives for Homoeopathy. He used all his resources to promote and establish the roots of Homoeopathy in Iran.
He took to Homoeopathy like duck to water. He apparantly read Kent's Philosophy three times in three days!

When he was new to Homoeopathy he was considering various techniques from different sources. I think based on Dr Sehgal's method he came up with the following which I had included in the notes on 'Case-Taking'.

During case taking each pt has three lots of symptoms:
1- Those that they were going to tell you about.
2- Those that they were NOT going to tell you about. (Towards the end of my interviews, I ask bluntly - Is there any thing that you had decided not to tell me?)
3- Those that they are not aware of. These are worth a million because these show the real character of the patient to you and if you are a sharp observer and know your repertory well you should be able to put these in their slots and solve the case with ease.
The following case (curtsey - Dr Shahrdar) would demonstrate 3 above:
Girl of seven, was complaining of pain in the right side of her chest. The pain was worse breathing. On suspecting a cold coming up and using the modality of worse movement, Bry 6c was prescribed by her father. When she woke up the next morning, she still complained of chest pains. Bry 6c was given and she was sent off to school. However, because she could not stand the pain, she was sent home from school.

As two days before she had knocked her side on to the edge of a swimming pool. It was thought that perhaps a shock/knock had been experienced, she was given Arnica 30c. Several doses were given until the night and the pain would amel only for a short period. The patient was even X-rayed to ensure that her ribs had not broken. X-rays did not show any breaks or cracks. More doses of Arnica were given but did not resolve the problem.

The girl was seeking attention and crying with her pain - she was given Puls 30c but this too was of no use.

(Father gives up and Dr Shahrdar now takes over).

At this stage, it was decided to pay more attention to her mental/emotional state and to prescribe on the totality of that picture. The observations of this young girl were as follows:

Whilst crying intensely, she was sitting next to her father and wanted to lean on him. At the same time she was saying "For God's sake do something for me. Can you not see how much pain I am in? Why won't you do any thing for me?" All the time she was crying.

Rubrics:
Begging
Clinging, persons or furniture, to
Delirium, crying for help
Weeping, pains with.

The only remedy covering the above symptoms is Stramonium. Stram 6c was prescribed. After about 3 minutes the patient's pain was much less and after a quarter of an hour her pain had ceased altogether and the patient was peaceful.
After about 4 hours, there was a slight experience of pain but much less than before. Stram 6c was repeated. Just before her bed time the same thing happened and the remedy was repeated and the in the morning the child was completely well.
Attention needs to be drawn to the fact that the reason the last prescription was successful was that the mental/emotional state of the patient was taken into consideration. Note that there was no need to ask her any questions but the observation of her situation and the way she described her pain was sufficient.

Although traditionally in most acute cases little attention is paid to mental and emotional state of the patient and in the main physical symptoms are considered, only diagnosis on the totality - including mental and emotional status can ensure that success is nearly 100 per cent.
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I have a case from Hussein which shows how powerful this method can be.

Parents bring in two children a boy of 4 and a girl of 18 months.

The girl takes a pen from the desk.

The father takes the pen from the girl and puts it back on the desk.

The girl screams and then cries.

At the homoeopath's suggestion the pen is given back to the girl who then quietens down.

The girl's older brother now grabs the pen,

She sets off crying again and the boy on seeing this gives the pen back to his sister.

This boy had also refused to answer questions, even his name.

Is there a paucity of symptoms?
Girl's case:

Obstinate

Contradiction, Intolerant of

Shrieks in anger

Weeping in anger

Perseverance

The only remedy is Nux-v
The boy's case:

Desires what the other one has/uses

Sympathy

Answer refuses to

The only remedy is Phos.

(Both did well on these remedies)

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However, I must warn that unless you cover the totality you are likely to make big mistakes. The remedy must be checked to see if it covers the main symptoms.

Peter Chappell also related the case where Dr Sankran was visiting him in London. A patient comes in and sits down and soon after Dr Sankran writes something on a small piece of paper, tears it, forms it into a ball and leaves it on the desk.

After the pt leaves, they discuss the case and finally agree on the remedy. Dr Sankran then asks Peter to open the ball of paper. It carried the name of the remedy!

So sharp observation and knowledge of the repertory can save you a lot of hassle.

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But let me tell you this, Hossein takes his hat off to Dr Shahrdar and recognises him for the marvellous and natural homoeopath that he is.

Good healing
Soroush
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[Piet Guijt]

Soroush,

Thanks for your information.
You're right to warn that unless you cover the totality you are likely to
make big mistakes.

regards,

Piet

[Phosphor]

> You're right to warn that unless you cover the totality you are likely to

its meaningless to talk of totality per se. Homeopathy does not treat all
symptoms, only those arising from a disturbance of the vital force. It does
not treat mental symptoms 'spun purely from the imagination,' for example,
or symtpoms arising from dietary or lifestyle indiscretions which can be
rectified by appropriate changes. These days many or most people in the west
suffer from various food intolerances , the plethoric symptoms of which
could be uselessly repertorised by the gullible homeopath who searches for
the idol of the totality.
Andrew

[isali ben-jacob]

If there are mental symptoms there is an affect on the VF and therefore worthy of a response, diagnostically and therapuetically

Phosphor wrote:

[Piet Guijt]

Andrew,

When in homeopathy we talk about the totality of symptoms, the symptoms are
meant which reflect the inner essence of the disease (aphorism 7). It is not
the sum of all existing symptoms, but a meaningfull picture.
When you're treating a layer you might see some symptoms of the underlaying
layer, they are not included in the totality of symtoms, because they don't
belong to the disease you're treating now. The state of disposition
(aphorism 210, 211, 213) is a part of this totality.

regards, Piet

[Ahmed N. Currim]

Sir John Weir (physician to the Royal family) used to say the totality was
the minimum number of symptoms of maximum value.
Ahmed N. Currim

[Feras Hakkak]

Dear Piet,
How do you differentiate between the symptoms of the existing layer and the previous ones?
Best,
Feras
Piet Guijt wrote: Andrew,

When in homeopathy we talk about the totality of symptoms, the symptoms are
meant which reflect the inner essence of the disease (aphorism 7). It is not
the sum of all existing symptoms, but a meaningfull picture.
When you're treating a layer you might see some symptoms of the underlaying
layer, they are not included in the totality of symtoms, because they don't
belong to the disease you're treating now. The state of disposition
(aphorism 210, 211, 213) is a part of this totality.

regards, Piet
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[Piet Guijt]

the previous ones?

are
not
underlaying
don't
Dear Feras,

After collecting all data: symptoms, characteristics, etc.
( see David Little's site at: http://www.simillimum.com )
We must indentify the simillimum for the patients current state.
We must do this by selecting the symptoms which are directly related to and
obtained from his complaints.
Present condition and totality will yield the expression of the dominant
miasm. The simillimum will have to cover and eliminate the symptoms or that
part of symptoms corresponding to that miasm.
After no further progress follows with your first remedy, the remaining
symptoms will be taken care of by selecting the next remedy in the same way.
etc.

Kind regards, Piet Guijt