General, amateur question

[Lisa F.]

Hi all,

I usually lurk here, because I am a newbie to Homeopathy. Anyway, I have a
general question. As a Homeopath can it take longer than a year to
determine a constitutional remedy for a 6 yr old child? My instinct says
no, but I just want an opinion from those that know. I know this is a very
general question, without knowing all the circumstances of the case.

Thank you for your time,
Lisa

[Miguel F]

Yes, a hom can take much longer than a year, maybe nover find the similium. It depends on 1) the information that he receives is correct; 2) that he knows the materia medica; 3) his ability to perceive the relationship among both things. Certainly the first prescipción is the easiest, but to continue the case correctly, many cannot carry it out.

Hi all,

I usually lurk here, because I am a newbie to Homeopathy. Anyway, I have a
general question. As a Homeopath can it take longer than a year to
determine a constitutional remedy for a 6 yr old child? My instinct says
no, but I just want an opinion from those that know. I know this is a very
general question, without knowing all the circumstances of the case.

Thank you for your time,
Lisa
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[Soroush Ebrahimi]

Dear Lisa

Getting the remedy right in some cases can be a difficult job.

It very much depends on the homeopath and his/her powers of observation and
interaction with the patient and in the case of a child his parent(s) or
guardian and the kind of CORRECT information they are able to provide.

I think we have all had cases where within a few minutes of meeting the
patient we know the remedy and our case analysis confirms the choice and the
selected remedy does beautifully.

On the other hand we have cases where an important clue is often either
missing or over looked and we struggle for months or even a year to find the
right remedy.

No one has said Homoeopathy was easy - if it was everybody would be doing it
and allopathy would not stand a chance.

Thank you for writing to Minutus,

Best wishes
Soroush

Message: 25
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 08:03:41 -0500
From: "Lisa F."
Subject: General, amateur question

Hi all,

I usually lurk here, because I am a newbie to Homeopathy. Anyway, I have a
general question. As a Homeopath can it take longer than a year to
determine a constitutional remedy for a 6 yr old child? My instinct says
no, but I just want an opinion from those that know. I know this is a very
general question, without knowing all the circumstances of the case.

Thank you for your time,
Lisa

[Liz Lalor]

No, why would it?

[Venkat]

--- Miguel F wrote:

Truly, yes !!!
Also, your desire to find the constitutional Rx- the
similimum- is easier said than done.
The first hurdle will be identifying what symptoms
belonged to the case of disease of the individual.
This usually separated into its parts- location,
sensation, modalitiy(ies), concomittant.
These disease symptoms are now treated first for
primary relief of the patient.

If we took the case properly, then we would have
gathered all the constitutional concomittants which
were there before the disease struck, and continue
after the onset. These are the keys to determine the
remedy that will provide real lasting cure.

Then the nosodes: Dr Ghatak, in his "Chronic diseases,
cause and cure" ( trans: P N Bannerjee, pub: Bjain)
says that it is impossible for him to treat chronic
disease without the intermediate administration of
Nosodes.

And, the potency: A beginner will be nervous about
potency. Most lasting cures have come after High and
highest potencies. High potencies are not the domain
of a beginner. Also, they should be in a position to
calm a storm if one arises after a wrong ( or right)
prescription.
Regards
venkat

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[Shannon Nelson]

Yes, it can.
Personal experience--my first child had severe problems from birth
(behavioral, anxiety, sleep, and acute illnesses), and was (Thank God!!!)
treated from birth by our family homeopath. Her constitutional treatment
was a huge, ongoing frustration, and she got remedy after remedy that either
did nothing, or produced only transitory improvement. But (what no doubt
kept us hanging on), he did brilliantly with her many and violent acutes,
and was unfailingly generous with education and information (homeopathic,
medical, parenting and other). He made me and my husband full partners in
the project of finding out what she needed, and treated us (with good
success!) along the way. But for my daughter, progress was sooo
sloooowww--I would say that her first dramatically successful remedy came at
age 2 (tho in retrospect I think that too was incorrect), and the next not
until age 4, when things had gone from "bad" to "frighteningly bad", and the
homeopath finally recognized ("learned", actually) the remedy she needed
(which was at that time not well known at all). That remedy was a
life-changer. Since then her progress has *continued* to be slow (she has
probably needed some other not-well-known remedy, and we are zig-zagging our
way toward an approximation of it), but by now (she's now 15) she is doing
okay, and the problems of age four have been left far, far, and blessedly
far behind.

So yes, it can take more than a year, but you'd *hope* that the homeopath is
being useful somehow along the way... My advice to anyone in that situation
would be, I guess you just have to follow your gut as to whether to keep
waiting and trying--I sympathize with that decision! Don't hesitate to try
a different homeopath BUT don't make too many switches (information and
continuity can be lost), and always be upfront about any switches you *do*
make. Any good homeopath *knows* that there will be patients who might get
better help from someone else--much as we would all *love* to be able to
come thru for everyone.

Shannon
on 11/5/04 7:03 AM, Lisa F. at malica98@pennswoods.net wrote: