Thanks Shannon - sounds ideal to add to what I do.
Does he associate a remedy with each face type then?
I do use faces to a small extent, esp if they are longer, narrower, straighter nose etc, as a small aspect of ICT determination if there are not enough other more obvious ones. Facial/eye expression can be useful too.
What I use is what sticks out as features of the individual. A feature that is just average, is not useful. So - just as in disease repping for simillimum, you seek unusual symptoms, not normal ones - so in ICT you seek unusual features, not normal ones.
For example, one ICT has a "look right through you" expression, while another has a "bright, must see it all" espression, and another is a "gentle look" and so on. The best one is the looks through you one, as it is the most unmistakeable.
So these are helpful when extreme for an ICT rather than "usual".
So one feature will be extreme for one ICT, and another feature willb e extreme for a second ICT - and it helps to look for ANY extremes and include them.
Also, for different species, different features are useful. I quite see how faces would be useful in humans - except that they may change due to illness or obesity.
For example, In cows, teat shape is a good area of usefulness, and it is consistent with other species' teat shape, but not as easy to determine in most species.....excuse me, what is yor teat/nipple shape?.... is not too likely to be appreciated in our own species. You can check it in cats adn mice but may need a magnifying glass.
In cats, tail features (fur length and type, tail length whether fur is longer at base or tip, whether fur is long t the tip or only just covers it, etc etc ) are very useful, and so are jumping styles and landing styles, but it is not so handy in humans, who are less prone to jumping about.
In humans torso to leg ratios and fingerprint patterns and finger length ratios are useful - but are not the best cat options.
SO for each species or breed, there are easier features to use to determine an ICT.
I like to use a wide variety of features - certainly enough to be totally sure of the ICT. When you get to that certain point there are always a dozen of more other characteristis that suddenly stick you in the eye as confiming ones.
The real need is for a repertory that lists all these feature for each ICT - listing them under the single associated Remedy, so it can be repertorized.
I also advocate adding them to the existing homeopathic repertories NOT separate ones, due the existing rubrics already in repertories that are relevant, and also becasue illness predipositions of an ICT type are already in the repertory under that remedy name.
It is all one subject - one being - one constitutional type.
The fact that we have another use of reperotries - simillimum against disease - is to me the "extra bonus" of a repertory. That is really a subsection of a remedy's true breadth of association with living beings. MOST of the features should be the normal ones at all ages - with their illness predispositions.
One could always allow selection of provings rubrics only for those who miss the wood for the trees:-)
Age at which the rubric occurs is also very relevant.
For example one ICT is born a tiny runt, but becomes a giant in adulthood - so you need relative size by development stage and it is useful to know how it varies.
Another is born with short limbs but as a teenager suddenly shoots up a foot or more in one year, all in the legs and arms. Looking for an ICT from such rubrics has to be done "for the current stage of life" or you can miss the ICT by looking for a big individual when they are too young to be big for their ICT.
Another ICT has a pot belly as an infant and in middle age but is a lanky teenager.
Another has giant ears and smallish ribcage as a teenager, but a huge ribcage and average ears as an adult.
One is shy at young stages and the opposite as adults.
Another is incapable of jumping well when young but does it fine when older. (There is always a physical connection to movement issues. The young one is too heavily built to jump easily but later fills out with powerful muscles to go with the heavy build.)
And so on - so the age at which a rubric applies is very important to record.
Also some illness predispositions only occur at specific ages...again the need for age/timing between newborn, infant, child, teen, young adult, older adult - described this way, not in human years as the stages vary by species in duration.
SO ICT is a truly huge subject to document well.
Namaste,
Irene
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