CLASSICAL HOMOEPATH?

[H. Balasubramanian]

Dear Members,
Soroush Ebrahimi wrote:
I would regard any one who has not read and understood the Organon as inexperienced.
I will not consider him a homoeopath.
In this process we must avoid suppression. Unfortunately it is so easy to suppress both allopathically and homoeopathically.
There is one more word. Palliation.
Homoeopathy as far as I am concerned is both a Science and an Art. So I am rather concerned it is difficult (at least for me) to see the logical sense of prescriptions such as you have forwarded e.g. prescriptions of Dr. S.P. Koppikar on pathology - TB of lungs. CALC- 30, morning, FERR-MET- 30 midday, arnica- 30 night for six months!
Dr. S.P.K. is a classical homoeopath aged 80+. Practicing for the last 60 years. In 1930s He got Bachelor’s Degree in Homoeopathy with gold medal. His teachers were second generation Hahnnemans. (Hns student’s students.) With certain exception, he suggests remedies for particular diseases, based on his experience. Here the prescription is suggested, where there are no guiding symptoms for constitutional remedy. Therefore, we may say it may palliate and not cure. Patients with long suffering require palliation before cure. These are the exceptions.
Above all we must stop homoeopathic remedies being used in an allopathic manner as this leads straight to suppression in most cases.
No doubt about it.
Piet wrote:
We treat the patient as a whole, that makes our description a ‘constitutional prescription’. (not local).
In chronic cases!
Every real curative presciption is based on this, whether you call it a constitutional, miasmatic, keynote, intercurrent, organopathic, specific prescription etc. or not. Its always a matter of Similia Similbus Currentur!
The theorem is: Simillimum only will cure a patient.
Corollary theorem is: The remedy that cures the patient is simillimum to the patient.
In Organon Dr. Hn. Instructs: The Symptoms of the patient must compare with symptoms in the materia medica. Here, I used to advise my students that it is not that all the sx. In materia medica must be present in that patient to call it totality of sx. The total sx. Of the patient must be present in the selected remedy. It is NOT ARITHMATICAL TOTAL. What is common to the disease is not important. Wheezing in Asthma < cold weather is common to that disease. With this symptom homoeopathic (classical) prescription can’t be made. Dr. Hn. Instructs to give importance to RUPS sx.
So in organon it is simply matching the symptoms of the patient with remedy sx.
After more than a decade of research he writes in Chronic diseases:
The homoeopath should investigate first the whole state of the patient.
The internal cause as far as it is remembered, and the cause of the continuance of the ailment.
Patient’s mode of life.
His quality as to mind, soul and body.
Together with all his symptoms (see direction in organon).
i. Then he should carefully find out in the materia medica a remedy covering in similarity, as far as possible, all the moments, or at least the most striking and peculiar ones, with its own peculiar symptoms.
ii. For this purpose he should not be satisfied with any of the existing repertories.
iii. For these books are only intended to give light hints as to one or another remedy that might be selected.
iv. Nevertheless, they can never dispense him from making the research at the first fountainheads (the materia medica).
v. He who does not take the trouble of treading this path in all critical and complicated diseases, and, indeed, with all patients and intelligence, but contents himself with the vague hints of the repertories in the choice of a remedy, and who thus quickly despatches one patient after the other, does not deserve the honourable title of a genuine homoeopath, but is rather to be called a bungler, who on that account has continually to change his remedies until the patient loses patience; and as his ailments have of course only been aggravator of diseases, whereby the art itself suffers discredit instead of the unworthy disciple of the art.
So here it is not the physical sx. alone. Internal cause for of the continuance of the ailment is to be considered. He introduces the Miasms (= infection, pollution, corruption). Among the remedies available, with him, he selects some as Miasmatic remedies. Suggest Nit. Ac. For Syphilitic and Thuja for Sycotic and Sulphur and others for Psora.
He also expresses the limitation of Repertories. So the inference is that the simple matching the sx.
(see direction in organon) is far acute diseases. But for Chronic diseases in addition to this other factors to be considered.
There he explains some of his treated cases.
Ø only to locally, stimulate the urinary organs. they yield either to a dose of one drop of fresh parsley-juice, (petroselinum), when this is indicated by a frequent urgency to urinate, or a small dose of cannabis, of cantharides, or of the copaiva balm, according to their different constitution and other ailments attending it. these should, however, be always used in the higher and the highest dynamizations (potencies).
In this case what you mean by totality?
Ø THE GONORRHOEA DEPENDENT ON THE FIGWART-MIASMA, AS WELL AS THE ABOVE-MENTIONED EXCRESCENCES (i.e., THE WHOLE SYCOSIS), ARE CURED MOST SURELY AND MOST THOROUGHLY THROUGH INTERNAL USE OF THUJA, ALTERNATING WITH JUST AS SMALL A DOSE OF NITRIC ACID.
Ø IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO USE ANY EXTERNAL APPLICATION, EXCEPT IN THE MOST INVETERATE AND DIFFICULT CASES, WHEN THE LARGER FIGWARTS MAY BE MOISTENED EVERYDAY WITH THE MILD, PURE JUICE PRESSED FROM THE GREEN LEAVES OF THUJA, MIXED WITH AN EQUAL QUANTITY OF ALCOHOL.
Here Dr. Hn. Suggests specific remedies, alteration and external application.
Simillimum is aim and objective of Homoeopathy. It is ideal. In many cases we may not find simillimum and then we have to select the Similar remedy, which partly covers the case. As it partly covers, more than one remedy is required to effect cure. Though the MM is now enlarged after Dr.Hn. we have not exhausted the substance available n the universe, which may have curative sx. when we exhaust that resource, we may have a remedy for every case that covers the totality. Until then we may require more than one remedy. Single remedy (Minimum medicine) is NOT ONLY ONE REMEDY FOR THAT PERSON. BUT ONE AT A TIME.
AS A RULE, THEREFORE, THE ANTIPSORIC MEDICINE IN CHRONIC DISEASES CONTINUE THEIR ACTION THE LONGER, THE MORE TEDIOUS THE DISEASES ARE. BUT VICE VERSA ALSO THOSE MEDICINES WHICH IN THE HEALTHY BODY SHOW A LONG PERIOD OF ACTION ACT ONLY A SHORT TIME AND QUICKLY IN ACUTE DISEASES WHICH SPEEDILY RUN THEIR COURSES (e.g. BELLADONNA, SULPHUR, ARSENIC, etc.) AND THEIR PERIODS OF ACTION ARE SHORTER, THE MORE ACUTE THE DISEASES. THE PHYSICIANS MUST, THEREFORE, IN CHRONIC DISEASES, ALLOW ALL ANTIPSORIC REMEDIES TO ACT THIRTY, FORTY OR EVEN FIFTY AND MORE DAYS BY THEMSELVES, SO LONG AS THEY CONTINUE IMPROVE THE DISEASED STATE PERCEPTIBLY TO THE ACUTE OBSERVER, EVEN THOUGH GRADUALLY; FOR SO LONG THE GOOD EFFECTS CONTINUE WITH THE INDICATED DOSES AND THESE MUST NOT BE DISTURBED AND CHECKED BY ANY NEW REMEDY. *
Here Dr. Hn. says that the duration of remedy varies between chronic and acute complaints. So in acute repetition is required. In chronic also only in anti-Miasmatic remedies we have to wait for a long time. In chronic disease when there is an acute exacerbation the selected remedy may require repetition.
To conclude: simillimum and similar, acute and chronic, single remedy at a time and only one remedy for a patient are to be properly understood. Instructions in Organon (Matching symptoms) and in chronic diseases (anti-Miasmatic specifics) must be thoroughly understood by everyone interested in learning homoeopathy. The limitations of repertory (Kent or others) must be always in our mind.
With best wishes,
H.B.
from India

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[Piet Guijt]

‘constitutional prescription’. (not >local).

H. Balasubramanian wrote:
constitutional, miasmatic, >keynote, intercurrent, organopathic, specific
Currentur!

Hello H. Balasubramanian,

Not only in chronic cases!
Constitutional prescribing refers to selecting one remedy which covers the
totality of the patient's symptoms (mental and physical).
In acutes we also treat the person constitutional.
The only exception I can think of are in not very serious first-aid
situations, just to speed up the cure.
Prescribing local, but in homeopathy there are no real local symptoms, just
localized symptoms.
would mean suppression.

Organon aph.213:
We shall, therefore, never be able to cure conformably to nature - that is
to say, homoeopathically - if we do not, in every case of disease, even in
such as are acute, observe, along with the other symptoms, those relating to
the changes in the state of the mind and disposition, and if we do not
select, for the patient's relief, from among the medicines a disease-force
which, in addition to the similarity of its other symptoms to those of the
disease, is also capable of producing a similar state of the disposition and
mind.1

1 Thus aconite will seldom or never effect a rapid or permanent cure in a
patient of a quiet, calm, equable disposition; and just as little will nux
vomica be serviceable where the disposition is mild and phlegmatic,
pulsatilla where it is happy, gay and obstinate, or ignatia where it is
imperturbable and disposed neither to be frightened nor vexed.

best regards, Piet