new remedies

[Wendy Howard]

Joy wrote:
all
homoeopathy -

Yes, I have some problems with that approach - Madeleine Evans uses it a
lot, and without the nitty gritty details of the provings to back it up you
either have to take her word for it or ignore the remedy. We all know from
college days how easy it is to see any remedy we're studying in a case
(especially our own)! I really wish she'd published fuller information as
the remedies look very interesting, but as it stands it's simply not
enough - her book is certainly not the best £35 I've ever spent. But it's by
no means the case for many of the new remedies - you'd be hard pressed to
fault Jeremy Sherr's provings, for instance.

I do think that these new provings are a wonderful addition to homeopathy
and I don't think there's any need to feel swamped by them. We can never
know every remedy in the materia medica intimately enough to recognise it in
an instant - we just need to know what we need do to go about finding it. If
you trust that the process will reveal the remedy to you, it usually does.
Just take what you're interested in and leave what you're not.

Our world is changing fast and the disease "syndromes" that are now being
defined in ever-increasing numbers don't always seem so amenable to the old
"traditional" remedies. A lot of zig-zagging seems called for - so perhaps
the new remedies will be able to short-cut that process.

There's also a perspective from many of the shamanic traditions that says
that the medicine you need is all around you in your immediate environment.
For those who's environment has become almost totally
artificial/techological, many of these new remedies will likely prove
extremely useful.

Regards
Wendy