Re: Cold urticaria
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:58 pm
Hi, Joy --
From what you're saying here (though I don't know what you mean by "A/f"; evidently not "aggravated by"), I gather that you're taking "fever" to encompass "chill"; is that so? Careful checking confirmed for me that "fever" in the repertory and materia medica means only the heat stage(s) of any fever pattern (though that stage may be mixed with others, such that a patient can experience chilliness or perspiration during a hot stage), and that "chill" doesn't encompass mere chilliness or becoming cold but is related only to the chill in a fever pattern. For that reason, I'd be excluding the rubric referring to chill. But you found plenty else to go on with!
Shannon, the trouble with discussion of a single interesting symptom or two is that it can appear to represent an attempt to base a homoeopathic prescription entirely on that. Some contributors to this list do appear to do just that, often justifying the lack of proper case-taking by use of the claim of a "one-sided" illness; but I think it's safe to assume that Soroush will already have taken a complete case, and is simply rounding out his repertorisation as accurately as he might. The value of "SRP" symptoms is that they can quickly guide one's exploration -- never one's prescription.
Cheers --
John
From what you're saying here (though I don't know what you mean by "A/f"; evidently not "aggravated by"), I gather that you're taking "fever" to encompass "chill"; is that so? Careful checking confirmed for me that "fever" in the repertory and materia medica means only the heat stage(s) of any fever pattern (though that stage may be mixed with others, such that a patient can experience chilliness or perspiration during a hot stage), and that "chill" doesn't encompass mere chilliness or becoming cold but is related only to the chill in a fever pattern. For that reason, I'd be excluding the rubric referring to chill. But you found plenty else to go on with!
Shannon, the trouble with discussion of a single interesting symptom or two is that it can appear to represent an attempt to base a homoeopathic prescription entirely on that. Some contributors to this list do appear to do just that, often justifying the lack of proper case-taking by use of the claim of a "one-sided" illness; but I think it's safe to assume that Soroush will already have taken a complete case, and is simply rounding out his repertorisation as accurately as he might. The value of "SRP" symptoms is that they can quickly guide one's exploration -- never one's prescription.
Cheers --
John