Homeopathy as a Process [Was: History of Homeopathy - more on Decline of Homeopathy in US]

[Irene de Villiers]

Dear Roger,
Some background to put my answer in perspective:
My interest in genetics started when I was a child and culminated in my book on Cat Genetics in 1994, containing very new concepts on how to make use of genetics in healthy breeding practices in animals, including maintaining show type while breeding increased vigor. (Vigor is dependent on the number of heterozygous genes - in other words the more varied the genes, the better the immune system.)

I noticed in my work with cats, that genes are not inherited in the claimed Mendelian way, with one random gene from each parental pair of genes, to be combined to make the kitten's gene pair.
It took a lot of cats to see what was happening. I have bred cats since I was a child, and have bred several types.I have also set up and managed multiple breed groups where breeders get together to study features of cats regularly. For example a typical meeting example would be showing how to feel the shape of ribcage, hips, legs, spine, boning etc to know lung volume, hip dysplasia potential etc, and so to choose breeding pairs that lower undesirable features and increase desirable ones for health. AT the meetings many cats would be brought and used to study examples.
A separate activity of mine was acting as a midwife to multiple breeders (in Cape Town) - so that I have delivers many thousands of kittens. I could not help noticing patterns that repeated themselves, in terms of oinherited traits, and with my genetics background I stated looking more closely.
It soon became apparent that genes are inheritedd in sets, and not in random combinatons from parents.

The details of the sets were fascinating and I began documenting them, and it soon was the case that when i saw a specific set of traits at birth I could predict what traits there would be at any later age.
I did not at first know enough homeopathy to realize that I was lookig at the implementatio of a specific remedy type.
I now call one specific inherited group of traits that ALWAYS occurs as a set, inherited together, an Innate Constitutional Type - or ICT.

(The details here need a book - so I shall try to describe one example)

To use Nyfiken as an example again, he belongs to as et of inherited traits that come together, which happens to also align with Lycopodium.
At birth, Lyc has very narrow hips, a very long torso, skinny legs and arms, is an average weight, but is much longer than average, so looks skinny except for tha fact they have a very sunstantial ribcage. The tail is also longer. A typical Lyc newborn behavior is to probably get a good meal first, and then go exploring. What do other teats taste like? Are there teats on the other side of the cat? They climb over and go tumbling down to see. They are sweet natured, and will wait for another kitten's teat to be available before trying it out. When satiated and exhausted from their curiosity exploits, they will sleep with that long backbone straight or twisted, ofen upside down with the head facing one way and the lower legs facing another way. Their long flexible torso plus very narrow hips make this an easy and comfortable position, and they are not in a hurry to go aywhere, so they relax well.

My point:
Each ICT is easily recognizable by their inherited traits, even at birth.
Those inherited traits determine everything about them throughout life, and apply to that ICT in any species.
Each ICT has age-related characteristics too.
For example some ICTs are born small, some big.
Sepia for example is born small and so is Platina.
But Sepia stays smallish, and Platina becomes extremely large, ver young. They are the runt kitten that beomes the biggest by 4 months old. Phos is the other way - they start very large, and become average but tall.
Growth rates also are specific to ICT. Sepia starts tiny but fiesty with a pot belly. By teenage (for the species) they are skinny and lanky. By adult to middle age they have their pot belly back.
Newborn sepia knows what teat is hers/his, and defends it fiercely against all comers of twice the size, with newborn fisticuffs that need to be seen to be believed. Nobody gets to taste HER teat. (Every teat adapts to a specific kitten and provides the ratios of nutrients needed by that kitten; all teats do not give the same character of milk by the way)
Other ICT things include when an individual does their main groth spurt. For exampe Plat does it very young, in umans by age ten or eleven. Ars alb does it later, at about age 15 or so, when they will go from having shortish limbs and seeming not that tall, (starting out chubby babies and late walkers) to possibly the tallest person around, as legs and arms shoot in growth much more than torso, and all in one year.
Phos people gain height more evenly during teenage years, and they start newborn very large babies, later havig w long legs, and they do not do the 13 inches in one year thing.

These are some small random examples of how inherited traits are involved and can tell you the ICT - or basically the remedy best matched to the individual, which if used will accord them very robust health. That remedy will iclude all the tings to which they are predisposed - that too is a part of the inherited characterists set. ANd THAT part is known from provings.

It's just a whole heck of a lot easier to know a remedy accurately if you can rule in or rule out certain ICT type characteriatics.
Identical twins for example are hardly ever the same ICT. One wl have longer legs or longer torso or tendenc to pot belly or flat bum or whatever characterists are part of THEIR ICT.
(Clearly there is more to what is inherited as ICT traits than ordinary DNA, otherwise twins would not have diferent ICTs, and different illness and personality dispositions/features).

I hope these minimal examples are a peephole for you, to what my inherited traits work and ICT Health approach is all about. To documnet it all needs to at least doublke the repertory features we have now which are the minority of features being only the illness predispositons and generally completely lacking in all the physical, kinetic, and healthy features, including healthy personality. The repertories have a scant subset with which we are forced to work in remedy selection as that is all you get from a proving.
Imagine how much better it would be if you also had the rest of the traits associated with a remedy name - how an ICT moves (phos trots, lyc swaggers, sul likes to blink, sil walks in fast short strides, etc) plus personaity issues at different ages, physical features at different ages, etc - all INHERITED ICT traits at all ages.

Finding the ICT remedy when yo know the inherited trait set, is not always easy as they are not all documented yet - not al connected yet with their knoen repertory features - to do that for all the remedies requires a huge body of work, but the traits for many of the more frequently encountered types are documented, and continue to be documneted better as my work proceeds. I hae been at this for a few decades. It takes a large number of exampes of a specific ICT type - and p referebly in multiple species - to KNOW that specific features are always part of a specific ICT.

Once you connect one up - it is VERY predictable that if yo see a grop of ICT featrures for one specific ICT have been inherited you can know the rest of the features.

It is a fun game. I use a questionnaire to determine ICT, asking for some body proportions, and behavior and movement features. IF it is an ICT I know well or can determine from those questions, I may be able to describe the rest of individal's appearance and behavior characterictics to the owner of an animal, withot ever having met or seen the animal.

In other words, just as a remedy aligns with an individual, so also does the set of their inherited traits align with that same remedy.

Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."