antidotes

[Felipe Cárdenas Támara]

Dear members of the list:

Which way is the fastest and most efficient antidote procedure for the action of Staph 5m. I have been consulting some colleagues and they have different version about the use of camphor. Can we standarize a procedure?

Cordially,

Felipe Cárdenas di Hom
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[Soroush Ebrahimi]

You need to advise why you need to antidote first. What has happened?

Best is to prescribe on presenting symptoms!

Soroush

[Peter Quenter]

If there is one routine in Homoeopathy, it is that there is no routine -

What may seem appropriate in one case may not be appropriate in the next
case -
*Individualization* applies not only to remedy choice, but also to
potency and dosage choice, follow-up decisions, case-management decisions -
any consideration of
' what to do next ' -
be it a second remedy, another dose of the same, 'anti-doting',
complementing, wait-and-see, etc ... -
is to be made on assessment of that individual case -

So, sorry - no 'standardizing of any procedure' is possible -

What needs to be standard is the re-taking the case/re-assessment of the case,
the consulting again with Repertory and Materia Medica, and then deciding
what is to be done next -
based on sound understanding of what is going on in the case -
the basic principles as described in the Organon and Chronic Diseases -

... and certainly Camphor would not be a routine to use, either -

Homoeopathy as is -

hope this does not sound too strict ....

best
peter quenter

[Dave Hartley]

Hello Felipe,

Normally the best "antidote" is the simillimum- sometimes necessary to
re-take the case, including new & troublesome symptoms.

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Organon
§ 249

Every medicine prescribed for a case of disease which, in the course of its
action, produces new and troublesome symptoms not appertaining to the
disease to be cured, is not capable of effecting real improvement,1 and
cannot be considered as homoeopathically selected; it must, therefore,
either, if the aggravation be considerable, be first partially neutralized
as soon as possible by an antidote before giving the next remedy chosen more
accurately according to similarity of action; or if the troublesome symptoms
be not very violent, the next remedy must be given immediately, in order to
take the place of the improperly selected one.2

1 As all experience shows that the dose of the specially suited homoeopathic
medicine can scarcely be prepared too small to effect perceptible
amelioration in the disease for which it is appropriate (§§ 275-278), we
should act injudiciously and hurtfully were we when no improvement, or some,
though it be even slight, aggravation ensues, to repeat or even increase the
dose of the same medicine, as is done in the old system, under the delusion
that it was not efficacious on account of its small quantity (its too small
dose). Every aggravation by the production of new symptoms - when nothing
untoward has occurred in the mental or physical regimen - invariably proves
unsuitableness on the part of the medicine formerly given in the case of
disease before us, but never indicates that the dose has been too weak.

2 The well informed and conscientiously careful physician will never be in a
position to require an antidote in his practice if he will begin, as he
should, to give the selected medicine in the smallest possible dose. Like
minute doses of a better chosen remedy will re-establish order throughout.
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You will find a great deal of understanding of this part of case management
by reading
http://www.simillimum.com/Thelittlelibr ... s/HAM.html

and further readings in the Little online library, case management section:
http://www.simillimum.com/Thelittlelibrary.html

and J.T. Kent on "The Second Prescription"
http://www.simillimum.com/Thelittlelibr ... iption.htm
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con felicidades,

Dave Hartley
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