[H] constitution/ layers

[David Little]

At 08:38 PM 5/14/2002 +0200, you wrote:
Daer Peit and colleagues,

The above quite true. Sometimes, one can see a remedy that is far off
in the future, especially through the innate constitution and temperament.
This is where a good knowledge of the four homoeomeries and the innate
Hippocratic temperaments (choleric, phlegmatic, sanguine and melancholic)
and the Jungian functional types and archetypes are very useful. Sometimes,
one must work there way through various strata of symptoms before they get
down to the innate constitution while in other cases it presents itself
throughout the patient's life.
As I understand it when a case is truly layered the stronger disease
state "tends" to repress the symptoms of the weaker diseases state making
it go more dormant (Org. 38). When two or more chronic disease states from
a complex disease they all have active or latent symptoms (Org. 40). Here
there are active states that control those areas of the constitutional for
which they have the most affinities. This is a complex disease not diseases
in layers with one playing the active role and other playing a passive role
at the moment. This has also been confirmed by experience when a chronic
case demonstrates the full reversal of symptoms. We must differential
between layers and complex diseases as they represent two different
pathological states. In complex diseases two or more syndromes are active
at once. In a true layer cases the strongest dissimilar disease repress the
weaker dissimilar disease states.
This is also relatively true but not absolutely so! The minerals of the
periodic tables that are of the human organism's nature atomic weights are
deep acting antipsoric and constitutional remedies. These remedies are of
fundamental importance to many patients. Nevertheless, there are
individuals that have just a deep affinity with a deep acting plant remedy
like Lyco. or an animal remedies like Lach. This depends much on the soul,
intellect and emotional disposition of the patient and their constitutional
predispositions.
It is normally best to treat the patient in accordance with the nature
of the most active causes, signs, befallments and symptoms and put that in
perspective with the past. The layer on top is that which controls the
nature of the most dominate symptoms. This is why Hering said that the most
recently developing symptoms must be given careful attention in
relationship to the older symptoms. One does not normally give remedies for
dormant layers with no symptoms. This is in accordance with the natural
timeline of the disease state. You do not dig a well by starting at the
bottom. The natural strata of rock must be removed in order under this
condition.
This is also relatively true yet not absolute so. So people entire
lives are a unity of expression while others are much more complex. Some
people seem the same all their lives while others go through great changes
over the years. Best to keep a open flexible mind about all such matters. A
person express one remedy for all states is usually fairly healthy compared
to someone who has old unresolved disease states, suppressions, and complex
layers. This case is more fragmented and may need more than one remedy.
You have raise several interesting subjects!

1. Innate constitution.
2. complex diseases
3. layers of disease
4. relationships of remedies
5. Eizayaga model.
6 Masi's ideas.
7. what role do the miasms play in all this?

Sincerely, David Little
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