Good illustration!
John
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Can homeopathy detect health problem at it's early stage? (when
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Re: Can homeopathy detect health problem at it's early stage? (when
Paul,
Lois put it as an illustration of 'the idea that a homeopath can in fact "see" effects of BP without a cuff/monitor'. I think that more broadly it's useful as an illustration of the value and use of the totality of symptoms and particularly of the use of understanding their significance as departures from a state of (prior relative) health; in other words, as an illustration of the detectability of the derangement of health through the understanding that provings give those familiar with homoeopathy, a derangement that the same anecdote illustrates may mean nothing from an allopathic perspective.
I hope that that helps highlight the anecdote's significance in this context.
Cheers!
John
Lois put it as an illustration of 'the idea that a homeopath can in fact "see" effects of BP without a cuff/monitor'. I think that more broadly it's useful as an illustration of the value and use of the totality of symptoms and particularly of the use of understanding their significance as departures from a state of (prior relative) health; in other words, as an illustration of the detectability of the derangement of health through the understanding that provings give those familiar with homoeopathy, a derangement that the same anecdote illustrates may mean nothing from an allopathic perspective.
I hope that that helps highlight the anecdote's significance in this context.
Cheers!
John
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Re: Can homeopathy detect health problem at it's early stage? (when
Hi, Paul --
I think that this may be overlooking the bigger picture, Paul. Let's not mistake the symptom of low blood pressure, or that of high blood pressure, as a cause of disease. What Lois's anecdote illustrated very well was that focus on that single symptom may come at the cost of seeing the entirety of changes in the patient. It's not necessarily vital to connect all the symptoms to low or high blood pressure that arise from it. What is vital is to be aware of those symptoms, which taken all together indicate the patient's state of health. Taking blood pressure as the single measure of health evidently blinded at least two practitioners to the reality that the patient's medication had unacceptably further deranged her health. A broader appreciation of her symptoms could have led to a sensible change before low blood pressure felled her.
Agree completely.
Cheers!
John
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"Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."
-- H.L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major.
I think that this may be overlooking the bigger picture, Paul. Let's not mistake the symptom of low blood pressure, or that of high blood pressure, as a cause of disease. What Lois's anecdote illustrated very well was that focus on that single symptom may come at the cost of seeing the entirety of changes in the patient. It's not necessarily vital to connect all the symptoms to low or high blood pressure that arise from it. What is vital is to be aware of those symptoms, which taken all together indicate the patient's state of health. Taking blood pressure as the single measure of health evidently blinded at least two practitioners to the reality that the patient's medication had unacceptably further deranged her health. A broader appreciation of her symptoms could have led to a sensible change before low blood pressure felled her.
Agree completely.
Cheers!
John
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"Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."
-- H.L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major.