Dear Steve, to try and answer your question - of course we will come up with
a variety of remedies because we are looking at the cases from different
points of view. I don't submit cases in a competitive way (i.e. loads of
brownie points to those who get the rx correct), but more as a way of
illustrating a point, a method, a way of observing etc. I learnt from this
case as I too got somewhat carried away with adding elements that were not
justified.
However, having said that, I suppose we should all be coming up with the
same, or nearly the same rx, as in a true paper case, there is a lesson to
be learned - how to find the simillimum!
You also ask whether other rx would have been wrong. I can only say, yes, as
was my first choice of Nat Mur. Teucrium has a relationship with Cina, Ign
(so my Nat mur wasn't too far off
), Sang, Sil, Camph, Puls amongst
others - so these rx might have some kind of effect.
And if a rx is way off and the potency completely wrong other remedies might
have had an effect but in a disastrously suppressive or damaging manner.
Having just had a brief look at the remedies that were suggested I give a
brief reason why they would not have cured....
Lachesis - where is the jealousy, loquacity, sexuality?
Graphites - where are the skin sx?
Sulphur - might have woken something up as we all have sulphur in us!
Tuberculinum - where is the irritable behaviour, changing moods,
dissatisfaction?
Sepia - where is the stasis, the angry moods, the hormonal imbalance?
Calc phos - where is the peevishness, the deformity of bones, the
irritability, the grief?
Causticum - where is the paralysis, the grief, the anxieties and suspicion?
Kali nit - where is the weakness, the asthma, the fear of death, the
dropsical swellings?
Zinc phos - where is the depression, sexual excitement or the apprehension?
I realise these are rx in nutshells but you could nutshell my 'bland' case
to nasal polyps and strangely agitated hands and feet - then maybe we would
all have got the rx correct first time. There is only one simillimum at any
given time - satelite remedies will just fudge a case - completely wrong rx
might do nothing or worse, create havoc.
Other's viewpoints?
Kind regards, Joy
www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com
on 9/1/03 3:28 PM, Steve Scrutton at
stevescrutton@btinternet.com wrote:
Joy, thanks for the case, which I found interesting because I also have a
very 'bland' patient at present whose main problem is minor petite mal.
Reading through all the posts relating to this case it is interesting how so
many homeopaths have put together so much thought on the same case and come
up with quite different remedies, including well reasoned cases for Sepia
and Lachesis (if I remember correctly). I myself was going to look at
Graphites (when I think of blandness this remedy always comes to mind) to
check it out.
I would like to know your thoughts on this query as it is one that interests
me in this case, and more generally within homeopathic literature.
You have treated the case with Teucrium, and with success. Ao would everyone
else, therefore, have been wrong? Would all the other remedies have had no
effect? We tend to say "this is THE remedy" and implicit in this statement
is that itis the ONLY remedy. Do you think this is true? The problem is, of
course, that we can never know if Sepia or Lachesis might have worked - she
is better now and no cases are ever identical..
Steve Scrutton
Homeopath
"Homeopathy is a safe, gentle and effective medical therapy"
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