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Dear Dr. Blaen,

Thank you for your kind and considered response. Cotter's Axiom says that we tend to be ill when the sum of the forces tending toward illness outweighs the sum of the forces tending toward health. I am not familiar with the concept of "assemblage point " though I'm certainly willing to learn. I would say that the emotional centers are definitely (as clinically represented) in the liver/pancreas/gallbladder area. A combination of repressed anger/loss of sweetness in life/repressed rage. Pathologically, I see the liver disease a continuation of the congestive heart failure (or at least that illness as a major contributor). This is not alcohol induced cirrhosis.

I do occasionally use the energy of crystals in my practice and have some friends who use colors and various other influences so frequently and in such bizarre manners that it makes me feel as conservative as a Republican with my homeopathic practice. Not that many decades ago, I was considered at the fringe. I never resented that label, since I regard the "fringe" as the leading edge!

Like you, I appreciate complex cases. I also appreciate the wealth of talent represented in this list and as my sight and memory dims with age, I'm pleased to be able to avail myself of this wisdom. Are you, by chance Dutch? I treated a number of people in the Netherlands this past summer.

I will test him against the energy of emeralds in my next session on Tuesday. Will advise of my findings for the digestive organs and for the heart. I leave you with my

Best regards and wishes for a happy New Year,

Tom

Dear Tom,

Cirrhosis severely damages the liver. With such organic changes, as much organ support/drainage you can give in the form of phytotherapy, tinctures & corrective diet would be helpful.

Try a support tonic of one or more of: china + cheledonium + carduus + hydrastis mother tinctures or as 2x, 5-10 drops twice a day. (along side of the constitutional prescription.)

Diet supplementation - eg. wheatgrass juice, carrot juice, beet juice, lemon juice. & other non-toxic, detox diet. (eg no alcohol, smoking, etc)

And consider advising the patient for bio-oxydative therapy. The increase of oxygen to the liver & blood will assist it in regeneration (if at all possible) & thus enabling the patient to respond more readily to the homeopathic prescription.

Possibly magnetotherapy will also help.
Sincerely,
Didi Ananda Ruchira
Director, Abha Light
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tel: +254 20 787310 / cell: 0733-895466

Dear Andy,

I neglected to add in my response to your good post a note about your reference to Dr. George Guess. He was kind enough some 20 or so years ago to visit my mom in the hospital and treat her for an urgent need when my wife and I were stuck on the west coast and my mom was in the hospital in North Carolina. I think he is a wonderful man and a fabulous homeopath and I am embarrassed as a Tar Heel alumni to have seen the utterly unjust and cruel manner in which he was persecuted by the legal system by the NCMA aided and abetted by the Ashville Citizen Times. I hope tat he is well and happy. I haven't heard from him or about him in some years. Any news would be welcomed.

All the best,

Tom
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"H.T. Cotter" wrote:
Best,
Andy

(Vermuelen synoptic 2 Aurum arsenicosum

REGION
Mind. Head. Mucous membranes. Bones. Glands. Skin.

LEADING SYMPTOMS
M DEPRESSION & RESTLESSNESS; worse night.
M Censorious.
"Is critical of himself and is constantly critical of others. Hard on himself and hard on others. Comes to the conclusion that he is to blame. Blames himself for all kinds of things. Anger directed towards himself, a type of self-destruction." [Vithoulkas]
Full of self-condemnation but extremely critical of others.
M The main characteristic is suicidal depression with want of self-confidence, alternating with hysteria and a kind of hysterical excitement and anger. [Priestman]
M Restless and hurried mentally, but worse from hurrying physically.
M Great irritability, esp. by CONTRADICTION.
M Fanaticism.
"Stubbornly holds on to particular ideas or principles. Religious zealots, health freaks, political fanatics and types with exaggerated principles." [Vithoulkas]
M Insecurity.
"This remedy state seems created by unfortunate circumstances, very often in childhood, when a persons's need for love, attention and security is strongest. The child grew up in an environment that was perceived as insecure. Often this was created by an alcoholic father. Members of the family never knew when he would come home, what condition he would be in and what kind of trouble was waiting. This created the Arsenicum state of insecurity and anxiety. In these cases the Aurum state was probably caused by suppressed anger towards the father and shame and the guilty
feeling that this situation frequently causes." [Wulfsberg]
G Malignancies.
G Indurations.
G Desire for open air.
G "They hate windy weather and they are worse in cold, wet weather." [Priestman]
G Desire for alcoholic stimulants and coffee.
P Sensation of fullness and heat in head.
Worse Mental exertion.
P Obstinate nasal catarrh; purulent, offensive discharge; crusts and ulcers in nose.
P The Aurum ars. patients often complain of numbness, particularly at night, with gnawing, aching, stretching pains and tremendous restlessness of the limbs. [Priestman]

RUBRICS
MIND: Ailments from anger, with silent grief [1]; from contradiction [1]. Anger from contradiction [1]; easily [1]. Anxiety about salvation [1]. Delusion he has done wrong [1]. Despair with the pains [1]. Fanaticism [1]. Fear in a crowd [1]. Indifference to her children [1]; to domestic duties [1]. Industrious, mania for work [1]. Insanity of fanatics [1/1]; religious [1]. Irritability when spoken to [1]. Neglects her children [1/1]; the household [1]. Reproaches others for imaginary insults [1/1]. Sensitive to voices [1]. Suicidal disposition, throwing himself from windows
[1]. Violence # tranquillity [1/1].
HEAD: Congestion from mental exertion [1; Cact.]. Sensation of being headless [1]. Pain, headache from cold air [1]; better heat [1]; from windy weather [1]; burning pain at vertex [1].
EYE: Falling of hair from eyelashes [1]. Pain at night [1]; from light [1]; better warmth [1]. Styes in inner canthi [1].
VISION: Hemiopia [1]; upper half lost [1; Aur.].
EAR: Flapping in the ears [1]. Cracking noise [1].
FACE: Eruptions, acne, on forehead [1]; comedones [1].
MALE: Masturbation after sexual excesses [1].
FEMALE: Disposition to masturbation [1].
CHEST: Cancer of mammae [2]. Palpitation of heart during menses [1]; palpitation of heart on motion [1]; when walking [1; Aur-m.].
EXTREMITIES: Numbness during rest [1]. Sensation of paralysis, fingers [1].
GENERALITIES: Sensation of heat in bloodvessels [1]. Seasons, summer > [1]. Tuberculosis, lupus vulgaris [2].

FOOD
Aversion: Meat [1].
Desire: Alcohol [1]; bread [1]; coffee [1]; cold drinks [1]; milk [1].
Worse: Cold drinks [1].

Dear Andy,

You wrote: "Aur-ars an interesting thought, however, aur-ars might expect to see some hx of malignancy of some kind, as this rx tends that way *markedly*. Old vithoulkas rule for salts--characteristics of both components (we might have that?) plus a unique symptom of the salt itself (this bears investigation). If I might ask, what testing method will you be using as mentioned."

I have always regarded the various salts as early proof that our classical predecessors were also using combinations, just too many to prove if not naturally occurring.

I will test him with an I2I IQS system (version 2.06). It's made by a company whose president and chief scientist is the father of the modern EAV computerized systems. Dr. Roy Curtin is a genius in this technology and he's still alive in our life times. His discoveries are such quantum leaps that it's hard to believe such a man was born of woman at this time in the earth's progression. Though I was trained and practiced for years classically, I have been using many modern homeopathic protocols including the Interro and the CompuTron over the past nearly 20 years. This system is the most modern and the new generation.

Anyway, will report back and keep you informed. Thanks again for your interest and help,

tom
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Dr. Tom, regarding this note passed on to me:

"About a year ago, I had visited
him in his home and after our meeting he poured a glass of brandy for each
of us. His reaction to it was sudden and unpleasant. A great sense of
unease came over him and he looked pale and somewhat distressed though he
refused my offer to examine him at that time. I suspect he'd had a severe
insulin reaction or possible portal vein congestion. I believe both are
concomitants to his serious liver problems."

Brandy [sen] agg: acon., agar., ars.36, ars-met.8, arum-d.36, arum-i.36, bell., calc., carb-ac., carb-v.160, chel., chin., cocc., cur.36, ferr.36, fl-ac., glon., hep., hyos., 3Ign.11, lach.54, laur., led.54, med., merc.127, naja36, nicc.209, nicc-s.209, 2nux-v.31, 2op.8, plb.36, puls.5, ran-b.54, rhod., rhus-t.1, rhus-v.36, ruta5, sel.11, spig., stram., sul-ac.54, sulph.54, verat.5, zinc.8

heart/resp rx of interest in this group not already discussed---laurocerasus but only as symptoms indicate

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A repertorization:
MIND; FASTIDIOUS (52) : alum., anac., androc., arg-n., ars., asar., aur., aur-ar., bani-c., bar-ar., bufo, calc-p., calc-sil., cand-a., Carc., con., cupr., cupr-acet., falco-p., graph., haliae-lc., iod., kali-ar., kali-bi., kali-c., lac-ac., lac-c., lac-eq., lac-h., lepro., lob., med., morg-g., nat-ar., nat-c., nat-m., nat-p., nat-s., nux-v., oro-ac., oscilloc., phos., pip-m., plat., plb., Puls., sep., sil., sol, sulph., teucr., thuj.
Alcohol [sen] agg: acon.5, adam., aesc-g.102, aeth., agar.5, agav-t.149, aids, alco.10, aloe, alum.5, alumn., am-br.209, am-c.5, am-caust.209, am-f.209, am-m.5, amor-r., anac.5, ang., anis., ant.209, ant-c.5, ant-m.209, ant-t.209, apoc., apom., aran-ix.223, arg.209, arg-n.1102, arg-p.209, arn.5, 2ars.5, ars-met.209, asar., aur.137, aur-s.209, aven., bani-c., bar-c., bell.5, bell-p.231, benz-p., berb.11, bor.5, bov.5, brucel., bry.5, cadm.209, cadm-m.209, cadm-s.209, calc.5, calc-ar.2191, calc-f.119, calc-s., calc-sil.209, camph.36, cann-i.160, caps., carb-ac.117, carb-an.5, carb-v.5, carbn-s., carc.223, card-m., cath-a.264, caust.5, cham.137, chel.5, chin.5, chir-f.,
2chlol.11, chr-s.209, cimic.137, cinnb.209, cob.209, cob-m.209, cob-p.209, coca54, cocc.5, coff.5, colch., con.5, cortiso., crat., crot-h.54, cupr.8, dig.91, eup-per., ferr., ferr-i., ferr-n.209, ferr-s.209, fl-ac.5, gall.209, gall-s.209, gels.11, glon.54, goss.231, gran., grat., hell.5, hep.5, hippoz., hydr., hyos.5, 2ign.5, ignis194, ip.5, kali-ar.209, kali-bi.5, kali-br.54, kali-sil.209, lac-eq., lac-h.229, 3Lach.5, lar-ar., lat-m.161, laur.5, led.5, lith-c.209, lith-s.209, lob., lob-p., lsd, lup., lyc.5, mag-sil.209, mand.119, mang-p.209, mang-s.209, mang-sil.209, merc.5, mez.56, moly.209, naja5, nat-ar.127, nat-c.5, nat-caust.209, nat-m.5, nat-s., nat-sil.209,
nicc-s.209, nit-ac.5, 2nit-m-ac.223, nux-m.5, 3Nux-v.5, ol-suc.194, op.5, oxyg.209, ozone, par.5, paull., petr.5, ph-ac.5, phos.5, phyt., plb.46, posit., puls.5, querc., 2ran-b.5, rhod.5, rhus-t.5, ruta5, sabad.5, sabin.5, salx-a., sang., sec., 2sel.5, sep.5, sil.5, sil-met.209, sol-t-ae.36, spect., spig.5, stram.5, stront.209, stront-c.5, stront-m.209, stroph.137, stry., sul-ac.5, 2sulph.5, sulpha-c., sumb., syph.54, tab.36, tarax.5, ter., thea., thuj.156, titan-s.209, trinit.223, tung.209, verat.5, vesp., 2zinc.5, zinc-n.209

Elimination: alum., anac., arg-n., ars., asar., aur., bani-c., calc-sil., Carc., con., cupr., kali-ar., kali-bi., lac-eq., lac-h., lob., nat-ar., nat-c., nat-m., nat-s., Nux-v., phos., plb., Puls., sep., sil., sulph., thuj.

If we also subtract the following ascites with some heart involvement (these rx worthy of view also)---
Ascites [sen] heart or cardiac (20) : adon., aegle-f., apis, apoc., ars., Aur., cact., colch., coll., conv., crot-h., Dig., jab., kali-c., kali-n., lach., merc-s., seneg., stroph., uva.

Elimination: ars., Aur. are the only two results

AURUM
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Pierce regarding aurum in this light:
Aurum is a remedy that is especially suited to old people and particularly so when there is a tendency towards fatty degeneration and interstitial changes in the liver, kidneys and heart, and for those of a gouty diathesis.
In the kidneys it is of value in chronic interstitial nephritis, especially when due to cardiac or hepatic diseases, with more or less ascites and very profound melancholia.
In the heart, we have a feeling of great oppression about the heart and cardiac difficulty in breathing, in both of these conditions, with aggravation at night and weak pulse. In heart troubles requiring Aurum we usually find in addition, great depression of spirits. It is valuable for hypertrophy of the heart, with tendency to fatty degeneration, sometimes with palpitation and wandering pains, anguish or anxiety coming from the cardiac region, and a feeling as if the heart would cease beating. It is also to be thought of in rheumatic endocarditis. Along with all these heart conditions we find dropsy of the lower limbs, aggravation of the pains at night and great
depression of spirits.

Boericke--Ascites often in conjunction with heart affections.

Vermuelen concordant (abdomen)-AUR
Sensations: [11] Pressure in hypochondria, as from flatulence; worse after food or drink and motion. Tensive, as if laced together. Heaviness in abdomen with icy coldness of hands and feet.
Pains: [5] Flatulent colic at night. [7] Cutting pain and burning heat in right hypochondrium.
Observed: Incarcerated flatus; [5] in left ribs, with lancinating pain; [7] rumbling. Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands. [2] Hepatitis. Jaundice; of pregnancy. Liver with heart symptoms. Ascites, with heart affections. Inguinal hernia of children. [4] Cirrhosis of liver. Swelling of liver following cardiac disease. [11] Spasmodic contraction of abdomen with great anguish; inclined to suicide.
Best,
Andy

Dear Didi,

Many years ago, I thought it would be helpful for me to take an additional degree in naturopathy. I did, though I never use the title as it was a distance learning, six month course of study and it seemed presumptuous to compare my self to N.D.s who'd braved four years of naturopathy school.. Nonetheless, I did learn a lot about drainers and the use of near material and tincture dose remedies to effect organic chemical sinks. Many years ago I was also a qualified herbalist. I'm also a fairly frequent guest at Optimum Health Institute in San Diego and have come to hate wheat grass juice (I can just walk by the juicing room and throw up!) . The regimen there was to swallow it and also use it in enemas every day. I came to the conclusion that anyone who could be that devoted to wheatgrass juice deserved to get well.

It has been my experience that most cases involving liver disease tend to need either Lycopodium with possible Chelidoninum intermittently, or Carduus mar. Not both. He showed a much more balanced response to Card. m. than to Lycopodium. I expect it's the direction of the disease within the liver. If on the X axis, it's Lycopodium and Carduus on the Y axis.

Like a lot of people who've gotten such a desperate prognosis, he did a bit of doctor shopping. One was a chiropractor I'd introduced him to some years ago for a simple spinal adjustment. Instead he'd walked out of her office with a thousand dollars worth of supplements. Anyway, when he saw this chiropractor and she found out I was taking over the case management she recommended supplements from a firm that specializes in the essential sugars and has many products all needing multiple administrations of pill throughout the day. I told her that I had a couple of complete sets she'd sold me. She told me that I should have taken them. I said, "When I took all those pills it made me fart like a gorilla." Then when I thought about it, I added, "Of course I rather liked that part!"

I appreciate your thoughtfulness and kindness to share your skills and experience with me for the benefit of this patient. I will help him do some juicing, perchance to help his own flatulence development, but probably will decline to mix a number of low potency remedies at this time. I think the case is progressing fairly well and wouldn't want to risk tangling it. I leave you with my gratitude and

Best regards and wishes for a brilliant New Year,

Tom

At 12:49 AM -0800 1/3/05, H.T. Cotter wrote:
George Guess, MD, is alive, well, and has a full practice in
Charlottsville, VA. He is also the editor of the American Journal of
Homeopathic Medicine (formerly the Journal of the AIH). I was just in
touch with him and he is doing well.

JW

Dear Tom,

No I'm not Dutch, although we train a lot of Dutch practitioners in
assemblage point work and the use of electronic gem therapy (not to be
confused with crystal healing, which I'm not a fan of! - we use the
precious stones rather than semi-precious and target specific areas). I
live in the UK but, as you will see, we have a Dutch web site as so many
patients come from Holland.

If you apply emerald to the liver, I would not recommend applying it in
such a way that it affects the lungs. If the blood pressure is low then
it would be best to avoid the heart with it. Without seeing the patient
and taking all the readings, I can only make vague suggestions but I'm
guessing that the spleen needs energy (in our case, this would be from
diamond) as does the pancreas but I'm suspecting that the liver is
aggitated. Can you tell with your fingers if the spleen is cooler than
the liver? If so, I'm probably guessing correctly from the other cases
like this we have seen.

I look forward to hearing from you,

Best regards,

Angela

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Dear Angela,

Thanks again for your considered reply. Kindly tell me; what is the "assemblage point?" Perhaps you might point me to a website that is tutorial about this concept. Also, when I say crystals, I'm referring to gemstones as represented in the EAV armament. (Many years ago, I dealt in colored stones, and still own a diamond importing business). Would be interested in finding out more about your therapy. Is it a branch of homeopathy that has escaped my attention?

I have a friend who is one of the world's richest men. He is an intuitive healer and remotely tests peoples health using various colors as guides. He does it with amazing rapidity and then sings a little song that tends to restore the patient whether they're aware of his diagnosis or not.

I have another friend who converted from his surgical practice to homeopathy about 35 years ago and he is also a remote diagnostician and he uses a "coding system" to heal the patients. He has the patient write down a matrix of number codes (one or two digits) repeated four or five times, and then lower numbers of varying sequences that are usually one dimensional. The patient then attaches this list to him/herself or puts it over a photo of themselves or their patient. The results are very good and I don't have a clue, other than good intention, as to how it works. I suspect that these "unrelated" healing techniques will in time yield a greater understanding of how our energy medicines work at such severe dilutions. Regardless, it makes me feel that we're no longer pressing the edge of the envelope alone.

I have been the victim of so many derogatory attacks because of my practice and devotion to homeopathy, that I sympathize with anyone who seeks to heal people, who succeed, and then are lambasted for lack of "science" that I do not prejudge any system. Mostly however, I have limited myself to the application and study of homeopathy as a profession because I'm not smart enough to learn more than one system. I was trained in conventional medicine and occasionally see the wisdom in treating with allopathic measures, but that's very seldom.

To the extent that you're healing and educating people (teaching them to "fish") I applaud your efforts and offer you my humble blessings.

You have my kindest regards,

Tom