Minutus

I have concern were this advice to be followed long term as it could deplete other minerals I believe (e.g. magnesium, unless given as mag.ascorbate)

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as well as high doses of vitamin C to bowel tolerance.
Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD, NMD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".

Irene I just want to say in the face of a lot of criticism, including
some from me, "well done" for what you have achieved in helping these
desperate cases. I dont understand or agree with all your methods but
if the end reult is less death and suffering then there can be no
criticism.

If sticking to Hahnemannian homeopathy and doing everything by the
book resulted in good outcomes all the time, or even 80% of the time,
it would be one thing. However we know that whoever crows what, that
is not the case. And if you and I or others with 20 years+ of
experience cant make it work all the time because we arent good enough
at it, well then its not much use to the world anyway. Sticking to
rules on the basis of some almost religious belief that they should
never be transgressed is absurd. There is a lot of sloppy homeopathy
and pseudo homeopathy around but you obviously think deeply about what
you are doing and care a lot about your patients so keep up the good
work.

Good points which I second.

There is question of practitioner expertise; many years ago I saw three different highly recommended and experienced classical homeopaths (Soh registered) over several years and they did very little for me. So something is wrong somewhere.

I think it is sensible and right that homeopaths should know or explore a range of useful adjuncts as there is no doubt that when well taught and well used they can improve success rates. That is not the same as saying try anything or give up on homeopathy.

Simon

DDear Dr. R,
We know youre an excellent prescriber...
I'd be curious to know if your experiences using organotherapy or whatever you have used to unblock the adrenal exhaustion has been similar to Irene's in helping the individuals to then respond to the indicated remedies. We've all had cases of individuals who just have not responded at all to a series of obviously well-indicated remedies. I want to learn as much as I can about how various homeopaths have succeeded in unblocking such cases so that they have finally gotten successful outcomes.
Thanks
Rosemary
That is just semantics.
Drugs have receptors affinities, that is why they act on other organs often in a undesirable way causing well known side effects.
Organ failure cured by the simillimum, yes but only when that failure was functional, not with physical destruction needing regeneration: I have a diabetic patient, on insulin for almost 30 years who is slowly able to taper her insulin to almost nothing after I managed to treat her deep emotional issues that blocked the pancreatic function in an attempt to "sweeten" her life; honestly I did not expect that and did not even bother starting her on organotherapy, as I assumed, wrongly, that after so many years her beta cells would be completely destroyed............OTOH, I have not yet managed to cure a cirrhosis, a chronic hepatitis, a chronic pancreatitis or a state of adrenal exhaustion with the simillimum alone..........well, probably I am a very poor prescriber.........
Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD, NMD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".

Hi Joy,
Joy, I have worked with homeopathy for 25 years. Even if I keep
stressing that my practical experience is not that voluminous, my
theory is - so actually what you write above is not exactly news to
me:-))
WHAT am I ???????
so be
You tell me what percentage of the symptoms listed in our materia
medicae are from provings and what percentage of them were never found
in provings but are "cured symptoms"!

No, I do not know the percentage either - it was never researched.
But it is high for the latter - as anyone who is interested in facts
instead of "empty theory" can easily find out for her/himself by e.g.
comparing the symptoms of their favorite MM with the proving symmptoms
e. g. in Allen's Encyclopedia.

Too bad that these facts are not taught in the Colleges (it seems) and
that the teachers themselves do not seem to be aware of them even.

And no matter how often I have pointed out this fact together with the
way to verify it (or prove me wrong) - no one seems to have been
interested enough to check.

No, I do not doubt homeopathy but homeopaths interest in facts:-)

Regards

Luise
--
One thought to all who, free of doubt,
So definitely know what's true:
2 and 2 is 22 -
and 2 times 2 is 2:-)
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I like the idea of putting remedies in two different saucers and letting the cat chose. I'll have to try that some time.
BTW, when I saw the cat with aggressive breast cancer I thought Phytolacca a good match. Interestingly, as soon as the owner open her travel cage, the cat came out -- very curious, climbed on everything, explored every nook. The owner was amazed: this was the liveliest the cat had been for weeks. When an animal is happy to be here (and doesn't react as if going to the vet's), I take it as a good sign!
Peace,
Dale

Hi Joy,
Hahnemann sent many of his patients to be mesmerized while being on
chronic homeopathic treatment.

Mesmerisation was never "proved" - Hahnemann just had a theory of what
it might do and seems to have found his theory confirmed by results.

Regards

Luise
--
One thought to all who, free of doubt,
So definitely know what's true:
2 and 2 is 22 -
and 2 times 2 is 2:-)
==========> ICQ yinyang 96391801 <==========

Absolutely.
I tend to attract very complicated and overmedicated cases, that has to be taken care of first. As I wrote earlier, I did, for a long time, try the simillimum and nothing but the simillimum with little if any results, in the way of a little boost in well-being for a short while, then back to the same. Simply no reactivity.
So I had to try to determine why. TCM examination, which focuses on energetics and not on physical organs has been of great help, and it does not take that long to bring back enough reactivity to have the patient react to homeopathic remedies, the same way you do not have to recharge your car battery fully before you can start your engine.
I have a few patients who have been depleted so deeply for so many years, including a few conceived by depleted parents, that after a few years, I have not yet been able to give them anything else but the occasional remedy for a transitional phase......
The good thing with this approach is that there is steady, even if minimal, improvement that can convince the patient to hang on.
All this being in preparation for homeopathic treatment, as there is no doubt in my mind that this is the only method allowing for a full cure.
Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD, NMD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".

On Apr 1, 2007, at 4:53 PM, Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD,NMD. wrote:
Do you mean that for a few years you are not able to give them anything
except adrenal rebuilders, or what did you mean?
Shannon

Yes, adrenal rebuilders, drainage and detox (and boy did they react strongly!!! Needed to go to drop doses), liver, kidney, colon repair, nutritional counseling, EMF shielding (and remedies like VDU and Mobile Phone in potency), no real simillimum (tried, no reaction), no constitutional (tried, no reaction, not sure I had the real constitutional....)..........yet they tell me there has been improvements, they look better and they have colour in their faces.........
Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD, NMD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".