If she drops the dairy and you see improvement you won't know whether the remedy helped or the removal of dairy helped. If she adds soy products at the same time, you've got a 3rd variable....
Would just like to add that I think Pulsatilla can be a bit obstinate too - more like the Silica obstinance than the Calc obstinance maybe - having said that am now pondering where the differentiation in obstinance is between them.
Gail
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:21:59 +0100
Subject: Fw: [Minutus] case of eczema in child
Dear Joy,
This is an interesting and valid point Joy. My instructions to her were that if the Graphites 30 - one dose worked like it did the first time and then it got worse again - then she should repeat. What actually happened was that the dose I gave him did not make the (not terrible!) eczema better - then it got slightly worse- so she repeated after a week.
Re potency - I wouldn't want to go up on it when I am not convinced that this is the correct remedy and as you know I don't do LM's. I felt the 30 was OK to give him.
OK saw her tonight in the gym and she reckoned the last two days it has not been too back when he returned from nursery. I got her to understand that since it is only 2 days since she gave him the repeat dose it would be best to let it ride at the moment and I suggested that just for a week - no dairy. She will buy soya milk and yoghurts - he doesn't eat cheese anyway.
Re the hernia - it was an umbilical hernia before the age of 1 and there was no treatment. All the rest of the questions she will answer from the questions I sent via email . We did discuss him not speaking to me and she agrees that he was being stubborn and obstinate (Calc again) not shyness. I will send her answers when I get them.
Rochelle
Registered Homeopath with The Society of Homeopaths
EFT (Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk