Minutus

First evaluate the "what is to be cured". Does rhus cover all of that?

Consider everything mental that you would *like* to see their remedy cover; and also whether there are significant physical symptoms that *ought* to be covered. Do they have any physical discomforts / susceptibilities? Evaluating a chronic case is quite a bit more complex than an acute one (short-term illness or injury), and the repertory records aren't (can't be) truly complete, so it can get tricky…

But you would need to begin by assessing exactly what aspects of the person you are trying to treat, then see what remedies might suit that constellation of symptoms.

Shannon

What is your background in homeopathy?
Sheri
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im not a homeopath obviously. I just read on my own and ask questions. Im under a homeopath if she can fix me I would like to study it in school , that's about it

Rhus-tox has so few characterizing mental proving symptoms relative to other polycrests. You want proving symptoms or clinical symptoms from an extrememly reputable practitioner.

Farokh Masters has an interview on the WHN about Rhus-tox. He presents a clinical pearl experience of Rhus-tox who is extremely offended by family. Not a proving symptom, but Farokh has tons of hospital experience and 10 homeopaths working under him.

I would have a hard time trusting the clinical experience of a modern homeopath doing individual clinical work. Old masters saw a lot more patients than our contemporaries do, but still they are not easy to trust.

Smit, in the little bit of reading that I have done may be getting very extreme reactions because he is not much into classical individualization and is pressing remedies on people at an overwhelming rate. Just an impression. He is reporting secondary reactions and not primary reactions. That is, his patients are reporting the affects of homeopathic poisoning, so to speak. They won't die, but the subtle reactions based on homeopathic individualization are not being described.

Ellen Madono

sounds great
just wasn't sure where you were coming from...............

With minor acutes and first aid, won't always have the mentals and many remedies for first aid, don't always have a lot of mentals to go on. But always good to have the mentals match if you have them to go on and there are shown in the remedy from the provings.

With chronic cases, the mentals should be matching. We will never have all the symptoms of the substance/remedy, but our predominant, 'most important' symptoms should be covered such as mentals and generals.

Many of us started out as you and were self-taught for many years. I studied from 1981 - 1995 or so, on my own and then attended a first year of homeopathic education in a school, and later further years in early 2000s

Sheri

At 05:29 PM 10/6/2014, you wrote:
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oh nice, I just wish it would work faster

It took a long time to get that sick:) It all has to be unraveled. The writings speak of onion-like layers of disease, complicated (a nice Latin word for "folded up on themselves") by drugs and other damaging and suppressive events and ministrations. It's no wonder it takes time, lots of study, a few not-spot-on remedies.... Single dose, or even single remedy, cures are not the norm:)

ginny

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that's true it did take a long time.
ok one more question about rhus tox--I know the main picture on the internet of it has to have stiffness in the body, but has anyone every given it with no stiffness in the body? only based on mentals and some other physicals but not stiffness??

One of my most successful uses of Rhus Tox was in a mother of 2 young children who was pathologically anxious about their health. She did a round of local hospital , GP and myself almost every day for a period . I gave an 1M. Later I learned she was on the verge of going into the bush with her children and terminating their lives and her own via exhaust fumes.
Jean

oh wow that's extreme