Hot&Cold

[Akhilesh Raja]

We usally divide drugs as Hot &Cold .How much do it help !
Are Tub , Thuja hot remedy 's as writen in Kent's repertory .??
I some times have found it use less and often misleading to follow this.
I some Polysrest there is opinoin difference from author to author.
Can any body help!
Akhilesh
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[Soroush Ebrahimi]

I remember this topic coming up at my first day at Homoeopathic college!

The answer, VERY LOW priority and DO NOT exclude/eliminate on this basis.

Regards
Soroush

[Robyn]

I believe the thermal quality of a remedy to be very important in
constitutional prescribing. It forms part of the totality to be matched. Even
though there are some differences in rating by various authors, you can make up
your own mind by looking at the remedy modalities. Some remedies can be
ambithermal rather than chilly or hot. This somethimes leads to confusion if
following someone elses viewpoint. Read the modalities for the remedies and
decide for yourself what thermal rating you would give it.

Re rating of Tub and Thuja - I would call thuja a chilly remedy and tub ambi

Regards

Robyn

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[Wendy Howard]

> I believe the thermal quality of a remedy to be very important in
Even
make up
if
and

Having discussed this subject with homeopaths from hot climates, I've come
to feel it's something to be slightly careful about. The geographic location
of the original proving may have an important bearing on the supposed
thermal properties of a remedy. What we may be looking at in some remedies
is not so much a tendency towards becoming heated or chilled, but rather a
tendency for bodily temperature regulation to become disturbed, leaving the
patient more susceptible to the prevailing ambient temperature. In a hot
climate, this will manifest as a tendency to become heated; in a cold
climate, the reverse.

Most of the proving literature however, simply records whether provers were
hot or cold in absolute rather than relative terms. Many of the old provings
were done in fairly northern latitudes, and much of the supporting case
history comes from the same geographic regions, so without data to
contradict these "absolutes", they've perhaps become rather more exactingly
defined than they should be.

Have any other homeopaths in hot climates observed that the supposed "cold"
remedies can present as "hot" ones? Perhaps - with the benefit of the
internet and this forum - this is something that could be usefully pursued
in a more quantitative manner to clarify our understanding of the
temperature modalities of remedies?

Regards
Wendy