What is Cure? (was) that the same potency shouldn't be given twice in a row

[Kerry]

I would add that with animals we also have to look at their position
within a group and their natural tendencies: are they an alpha male or
female? Living with such a one can be a pain in the backside, because
it is their inherent nature to be dominant, and not a disease pattern.
There also might be the individual who would naturally be at the bottom
of the pecking order, and so submissiveness in itself wouldn't be a
disease trait. Packs/groups of animals have a natural order, and though
we might want all those in the pack to behave in the same way, that is
not what is best for their survival.

Kerry

[Joy Lucas]

§ 210 pertains to one sided disease specifically so Hahnemann is warning or helping us to pay special attention to one who presents with a one sided disease because it might appear that they are not emotionally or mentally deranged in their illness because it doesn't seem so - mildness can be the result of extremely subdued mental illness, an important sx to work with in one sided or mental illness.

Joy

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[Tanya Marquette]

i don't think it is as fixed as you present. i have seen animals change position in a group.
this especially seems to occur when there is a change in the group; ie, the alpha cat becomes
sick or transitions. then there may be a scrambling for the next top cat position. i have also
seen the submissive ones become more self-sufficient in the group once an intimidating
alpha cat is gone or changes for some reason. my current male cat who is very assertive
and aggressive was a totally submissive cat in the presence of my older female who was
absolutely not aggressive ever. it seemed that he just accepted her primacy position in the
house as first there. there were spots of the house that he just accepted were hers and he
never would go to them. it took almost a year after her passing before he would get on the
couch and only recently will he initiate getting on my lap. they are such interesting personalities!
tanya

[Kerry]

Hi Tanya

I hadn't meant to infer that it was set rigid for the life of the
animal, though the underlying superiority or insecurity often remains.
Anyone who has been around groups of animals will have witnessed the
changing positions within the hierarchy as animals' age progresses and
new ones come into the group. Take for instance my goats: I had a
family of goats: mum, son and daughter who for many years were the
leaders of the group. The mum was actually the dominant one and her two
youngsters ruled through association. Sadly the mum is now over
seventeen years old and has long since lost her place as the leader, but
her underlying nature is still one of dominance, though she is incapable
of acting out that dominance. As soon as she lost power so did her son
and daughter.

Another example is a dog that I gave a home to many years ago; she is no
longer with me, thankfully. She was a very dominant dog who I had to
ensure I asserted authority over all the time. On one occasion I was
very ill with flu, so ill that I could barely stand up. At the time my
husband was working away so I had to care for all the animals regardless
of how ill I felt. For the four days leading up to my husbands return
she slowly but surely realised that I didn't have the power over her
anymore, and when my husband arrived home she was standing over me on
the bed growling - I was too weak to do anything. The second my husband
walked in the door she stopped and went back to her place in the pack:
below me and my husband. She was the sort of dog that in the wrong
hands could easily have ended up savaging a child.

It is never as straight forward as all such be happy and get along fine
all of the time: dynamics change, ages change and sickness can come
along.

Kerry

[Tanya Marquette]

okay. glad you clarified. life changes all the time and our pets are no different than people in
this regard. it is just sometimes easier to make the observations with our non-human partners.
tanya

[Kerry]

It certainly can be, as human behaviour is moulded by the morality of
the society that they live in, and isn't necessarily how they would
behave if those constraints were removed.

Kerry

[Shannon Nelson]

Traits such as aggression or submissiveness, even when not extreme and not therefore "pathological", are still *characterizing* and can be useful for prescribing.