Simillimum was Rubric help

[Dr. Joe Rozencwajg, NMD]

And of course this confirms what I have been saying for years: there no such thing as ONE and ONLY simillimum.
Just think about it: we are finding remedies through similarity, not identity; but similarity implies also that some parts are different; and those different parts are....well, different .....
We arrive to the remedies, first of all, through different starting points: you might decide that the patient's obvious high blood pressure is life threatening and should be addressed first, whatever the method, or you might decide that you need to get to the, say emotional, cause of this BP immediately as in your experience other methods for BP reduction do not work, or whatever example you can come up with.
You might want to address first and foremost the main complaint of your patient or what YOU as a practitioner see as "what has to be cured first, now", and that might be completely different.
The background of the practitioner is important too, evidently, which shows through the many different methods of prescribing that all claim to be successful, and I have no doubt about them being all correct.
The story you refer to, Luise, of 9 out of 10 practitioners finding the same remedy, is genuine but dates from the first years of homeopathy where there were very few remedies (I think it is in David Little's writings) to choose from.
Nowadays, even acupuncturists will differ in their choices of points according to what they perceive as essential and which system they use (5 elements, mother-son,.....), not to speak about herbalists where each one of us has his favourite herbs and swears by them.
And I do not think we should see this as a negative situation, on the contrary, the more options we have, the more possibilities for cure (and error) we have.
What would be good, though, is to stop the pissing contest between proponents of this or that school, try to learn or at least understand how each one works, then build our own, personal method. We always brag about giving individualised treatment to the patient, we must realise and accept that we also provide individualised treatment FROM the practitioner.
Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".
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[Luise Kunkle]

Hi JROZ,

I back up fully what you wrote below - I couldn't agree more!

That's why I wrote in my mail to Ellen that it was a genuine quesion,
i. e. no contradiction implied.

Regards

Luise
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[Shannon Nelson]

Dr. Roz wrote:
Hear-hear!! And I like your description.

[thornbury]

Print out and apply!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- stop the contest between proponents of this or that school,
try to learn or at least understand how each one works, then build our
own, personal method. We always brag about giving individualised
treatment to the patient, we must realise and accept that we also
provide individualised treatment FROM the practitioner.-

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Quoting "Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD." :