I suppose it depends how you define palliation.
To me it simply means "to make it feel better without any view to healing." That applies whatever is done to achieve the result, and does not always require it be opposite.
It is often true that one can treat (homeopathically, not allopathically) the mental level but not the physical level.
In terminal cases, which I have a lot to do with, the life force of the victim is extremely weak.
They may need help to have a kinder passing, however that may be achieved. The very high potencies wil tend to assist the mental level while suppressing physical, and that is exactly what is wanted in many cases.
Whether part is homeopathic and what part allopathic is not important, the important part is being able to palliate.
I do not want to miss the wood for the trees by being pedantic about whether it is true homeopqty. If I had tp dp war dances in a bikini at my weight to achieve a result I needed, I would no hesitate, depite the visual pollution:-)
The Law of Similars will act wherever it can.
It might not be the best or only option in a case in process of death, just as most homepopaths will accept general anesthesia before major surgery, which also is not homepathic, but is the best known option for the occasion.
Not what I do; in a terminal case in process of dying, Ars is chosen over other appropriate remedies based on overall case similarity to say Ars versus Lach for this, but it is by no means chosen as a simillimum. I choose it for its special ability at high potency to separate mental from physical, and the case simlarity overall is enough to assure its effectiveness for this purpose.
I question that, in this usage.
I consider that remedies have many more uses than the formal single use described classically for anihilating illness via the Law of Similars.
The use of Ars, Lach and a few others in cases in process of dying, is passed down from many generations of homeopaths in my family, via 4th edition homeopahty though I do not know where/when it originates. The tomes in my cousin's library have the notes in the margin about it rather than in the text. It certainly is amazing to watch the palliation afforded in actual use.
I see no "warning" needed for this palliative use.
I hasten to add it is for use during actual dying - not for "terminal cases" - but for thos who are approaching death imminently and irrevocably, an who are suffering (needlessly).
There is no aggravation in this usage. Death is not speeded up, it is merely without suffering.
IF the remedy was mistakenly used in a recoverable case, (as has happened for at least one homeopath I know of) it causes improvement, not aggravation.
THis usage shows no signs of vital force depletion.
If it fif, it would speed the death process. But that does not happen.
There may not be one. Individuals die because they just weaken and die. It is not always a disease process, or not a reognizable one unless you call ageing a disease.
I understand your theory, it just is not how this works in practice. Aggravation is not there.
Homeopathy has more strings to its bow than perhaps is yet realized:-)
What warning?
Not what actually happens though in a dying case.
My experiecne with people, cats and multiple other species is all the same:-) It canot be "different".
It is important to know that cats and humans are NOT different, nor are any other species and even plants, in the matter of HOW homepathy works.
You can have a bee hitting a windscreen, a car driving over a plant in the driveway, a person with a bashed knee or a working elephant with an overworked trunk, and all need the same remedy - Arnica - for FEELING bashed.
The fact that their metabolsim and physiology is totally different is irrelevant where energy remedies are concerned.
Ars in the dying process produces no aggravations.
It may produce them in a terminal patient who is not currently dying, I do not know, as I would not consider the use of Ars 10M there nor any other high potency remedy. It would not be appropriate. In my book the life to be looked after need quality whatever stage it is at, and terminal cases who are not in process of deah need a quite different approach forlife quality, to an indivudal in process of dying.
References in my cousin's library of books are where this is so well documented, (she is in Joburg and was my first teacher for homeopathy) but that was 1984 when I read it, and sice then I have seen the wonderfl effect on a regular basis in practice. I have not thought to try and explain it in terms of VF etc - but the effect is there.
I have only been so thankful to be able to offer the peaceful end - especially in animals who are almost never given proper consideration when terminal, much less when dying.
True but at the end it often is not able to help enough, and/or the requisite potency is not to hand or easy to make fast.
Much depends on the situation at hand. But there are some very cruel ways to die. Many deaths wil proceed kindly without any help or with local remedy or ICT remedy (genetically matched to inherited traits - the "Innate Constitutional Type" system aka ICT that I have developed based on ALL inherited traits, not only genes - it is not yet published bar some examples).
The high Ars/Lach/etc is only used where other options are not better - so only where appropriate - never a "routine" or protocol approach. Always individualized.
I am sorry that Kent or woever wrote it, thinks high Ars a bad idea.
It does not aggravate even if that is the theory.
Why not?
With no real thought applied - I am not sure:-)
Namaste,
Irene
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