Re: BENNETH: The Covert Alliance between Homeopathy & Skepticism [w...
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 9:52 pm
Hi Joe,
This is one area I have a problem with. I think it is a good approach for immediate poisoning but not necessarily for the long-term problems for which it is currently in vogue. I think we have discussed this in the past?
If we think this way we once again start compartmentalising diseases and symptoms rather than looking at the person and their responses holistically.
One example is that of heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic (not a true metal, I know), lead, titanium etc. The body only accumulates these substances because of over-exposure, or more commonly today, because its elimination pathways have been disrupted or shut down as part of its ill-health.
In this instance the body will always store these metals in the least damaging areas. To indiscriminately force the body to "detox" by idem risks further harming the patient or having the metals released and redistributing to more sensitive and easily harmed parts of the body as they resettle again.
Poorly trained people just tell the patient experiencing aggravations from these events that it is a good sign and they are just "detoxing". Worse still, they continue to dose into the aggravation. I see many children in which this has happened - and as we are treating dependent and often poorly verbal children we need to be very careful in what we do.
I have always felt, and it is consistent with our philosophy, that it is better to prescribe the remedy the body is calling for at that time (and it may be one of those metals in potency) and it will eventually safely excrete those metals itself when its elimination pathways, and the body in general, are healthy enough to cope.
I only use idem as a last resort and find it sometimes helps partially, sometimes not.
This is one area I have a problem with. I think it is a good approach for immediate poisoning but not necessarily for the long-term problems for which it is currently in vogue. I think we have discussed this in the past?
If we think this way we once again start compartmentalising diseases and symptoms rather than looking at the person and their responses holistically.
One example is that of heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic (not a true metal, I know), lead, titanium etc. The body only accumulates these substances because of over-exposure, or more commonly today, because its elimination pathways have been disrupted or shut down as part of its ill-health.
In this instance the body will always store these metals in the least damaging areas. To indiscriminately force the body to "detox" by idem risks further harming the patient or having the metals released and redistributing to more sensitive and easily harmed parts of the body as they resettle again.
Poorly trained people just tell the patient experiencing aggravations from these events that it is a good sign and they are just "detoxing". Worse still, they continue to dose into the aggravation. I see many children in which this has happened - and as we are treating dependent and often poorly verbal children we need to be very careful in what we do.
I have always felt, and it is consistent with our philosophy, that it is better to prescribe the remedy the body is calling for at that time (and it may be one of those metals in potency) and it will eventually safely excrete those metals itself when its elimination pathways, and the body in general, are healthy enough to cope.
I only use idem as a last resort and find it sometimes helps partially, sometimes not.