Luc de Schepper Lecture 5 for the Public: What information to give to your homeopath regarding your case or that of your child
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:38 pm
Lecture 5 for the Public: What information to give to your homeopath
regarding your case or that of your child
by Dr. Luc de Schepper, , MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac.
http://www.drluc.com
DR. LUC'S BLOG: http://www.homeopathysnc.org/blog.htm
What is Not important and What is in Acute Diseases
When you visit your allopathic regular doctor, and you want some relief
from an acute cough, cystitis, or any other acute illness, it usually does
not take him long to be able to prescribe, unless some cultures are taken
and the result is waited for. In fact, the modern world has evolved so far,
that many over the counter remedies are available for a whole array of
acute illnesses. Relief seem to be present in every pharmacy. While I just
mentioned acute diseases, asking your homeopath for instance, "Give me
something for my cough," will always be met with many more questions.
* When did it start and what time of day or night is it the worst?
* Is it a dry cough or a wet one?
* Is there expectoration of mucus or is it blocked and if so, where
exactly (bottom of lungs, sinuses, etc.)
* Is the cough from the lungs or from the throat?
* What is the color of the sputum?
* What is the consistency of the mucus?
* What are other symptoms going together with this cough? (Nausea,
vomiting, itching, sneezing, tickling in throat?
* What is the emotional reaction of the person to this cough? Wants
consolation? Wants to be left alone? Irritability? Clinging? Weeping?
* Is the patient thirsty or thirstless with this cough? Drinking big
gulps or small ones?
* What is sound of cough? Croupy? Labored? Loose? Whooping? Constrictive?
Deep sounding? Hacking? Hollow? Metallic? Racking? Scraping? Suffocative?
* Does the patient hold the chest while coughing?
* What are the situations that aggravate or ameliorate the cough? (lying
down, cold air, warm room, bending down, eating, drinking, laughing,
speaking, menses, sitting, sleep)
* Did it occur after a vaccination or was it a different situation like
exposure to cold air, wind, rain, or after heat and sweating?
* Is there fever and how high?
And there are possible more questions. Well you could say, give me that
over the counter stuff that seems to be easier. No doubt but is it better?
When we are talking about some sniffles and mild cough, even those
suppressive medications won't do much harm but a cough definitely can be
linked to more serious things and suppressing of symptoms most of the time
can lead to appearance of other symptoms. And sometimes a simple unresolved
cough can lead to many interventions and great costs. Let me give you an
example I encountered in Kenya when I was there for a month. Before I went
to a remote village to help the poor, I was invited to give two speeches
about homeopathy in the two major hospitals in Nairobi. More than 200
physicians attended in each hospital and after my speech I was asked by one
of the head doctors to consult his son of 8 years with a cough. He had this
already for three weeks, antibiotics repetitive were not helping, a chest
X-ray was taken, Valium (yes) was given, even a liver biopsy was done
(don't ask me why)&and yet this boy was not free of cough day and night to
the point that his father was weeping hopelessly at his bed. So everything
allopathically was done and nothing helped. The boy was very intelligent so
when I was asking the above questions, he could answer very clearly as he
was not biased like his father, the medical doctor. It was mainly a cough
that was accompanied by nausea (especially) and sometimes vomiting. His
tongue in spite of nausea was clear; it was a dry cough caused by tickling
in larynx, often spasmodic in nature and he covered his mouth with his
hand, in order not to inhale much air. The prescription was Ipecac and only
two doses of a 1000C (watery doses) cured the boy completely. And even then
the father wanted to know what the "diagnosis" was? A laryngitis? A
sinusitis? No it was an Ipecac cough!
I give the reader this example as to know what information he needs to give
his homeopath in case of acutes. Don't ask: Give me something for diarrhea,
constipation, ear pain, bladder infection, pneumonia&You will have to
observe and answer many of these questions I mentioned before and then
homeopathy works faster than anything else! And don't forget, the acute
illness that needs a remedy has to be moderate or severe and has a precise
causality. At that point (see Lesson One) the chronic disease will be
suspended (but not cured) till the acute disease is dealt with and then the
chronic illness resurfaces as by miracle.
What is Not important and What is in Chronic Diseases
While we ask so many questions for acute diseases, there is not even a
comparison with chronic illness. Here the homeopath, when he asked all the
pertinent questions, will know you or your child almost better than
yourself. Let's see what is important and what not.
* What is not important is that you give your homeopath all the symptoms
that are common to a disease name. For instance, diabetes with increased
urination and thirst. These are common symptoms. Don't say, "I have chronic
fatigue, I am depressed, I have muscle pain&" so give me something. Every
depressed person for instance will have a different reason that he started
to get depressed and every depressed person will react differently to his
depression. Some get drunk; others remove themselves from society and lock
themselves in their home; others will phone everyone to tell them how
miserable they are&
* In other words here are the important questions you must answer: What
happened in your life you got depressed (or sick)? How did you react to
this illness? What precisely are your symptoms, not those out of the
medical Merck Manual, which will give a general overview of all possible
symptoms but which ones are pertaining to you? And that is just the start.
* Make sure to make a time line of yourself or your loved one that comes
on consultation: from birth on you write down what illnesses you had, what
was done for them, what caused them, what mental emotional events took
place in your life (what situations of grief for instance happened and
again how did you react), vaccinations and reactions to them, etc. Try to
be precise in your dates/years as the homeopath tries to see if there is
more than one layer of illness or if there is a repetition of the same
trauma, creating a huge layer
* Give from both sides of parents the family history as far as you can go
back: age and diseases they suffered from and from what they died
eventually. The homeopath uses this knowledge to see what your inherent
weaknesses are and it will be important in the selection of your chronic
remedy
* The medical diagnosis (name of the disease) can be very important so
always bring your medical reports to the homeopath. The name of the disease
guides us in selecting a remedy according to its miasmatic trait so we can
apply a remedy that is much deeper working. It is also important to give us
an idea regarding the prognosis: is it curable? How long is it going to
take? A pure physical illness if not long-term suppressed will cure faster
than an emotional one (depression for instance) and a mental/emotional one
(ASD, ADHD, OCD, etc) will take more time
* VERY IMPORTANT: if your child suffers from an illness from birth on or
discovered soon after birth: the homeopath is very interested what happened
during the pregnancy and will ask you questions which no one has asked
before. Let's say your child suffers from ASD, ADHD, selective Mutism, etc,
here are some questions that are VERY important in order to help your child.
1. What was the mother's reaction when she heard for first time she was
pregnant? Joy? Grief? Shame? Or any other emotion.
2. What was the reaction of husband and close family?
3. Was the husband absent during the pregnancy, either because of
traveling, or there was a separation, or even death?
4. Were there a lot of fights between both parents?
5. Did anything acute emotionally happen during pregnancy? Fright?
Grief? Indignation? Jealousy? Deception? Was there a lot of feat about the
forthcoming delivery?
6. Did the family dynamic during the pregnancy change (mother or other
children moving in?)
7. Did you continue working? Was it physically and/or mental very hard?
8. How were previous pregnancies? Did you have any special cravings
and/or aversions for foods?
9. How old were you and your husband when you got pregnant? And how was
your physical and emotional state when you got pregnant? It tool allopathy
a long time to realize that even the age of the father was important when
the conception took place. The odds of fathering an autistic child are
about 6 in 1,000 for men under 20. When a man reaches 50 (way beyond what
TCM favors!), those odds shoot up to about 52 in 1,000. "The optimal time
for a man to father a healthy child is the same as for a woman25 or so,"
says Dolores Malaspina, a psychiatric professor at New York University and
coauthor of the study. This same physician also conducted a study showing a
connection between paternal age and schizophrenia. She found children born
to fathers over 50 carried about three times the risk of developing
schizophrenia as those born to fathers in their 20s. It is here that
allopathy can learn something of TCM or Traditional Chinese Medicine. For
the Chinese the ideal age of the woman was between 28 and 35 and for the
man to father a child, between 32 and 40. These are the ages when your
child receives the best possible essence or hereditary energy from the
parents!
I hope that this lesson might guide you in giving precise information to
your homeopath as it will increase the possibility to cure. And don't
forget that you can ask other people in your family. Who can remember
everything what one went through? Family members are a great help. And when
you have a great family physician, don't discard him. He is another
possible great ally!
In the next lesson I will discuss the alternative modalities that might or
might not work together with homeopathy.
Learn! Learn so you can be part of your healing process!
Warm regards,
Dr luc
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regarding your case or that of your child
by Dr. Luc de Schepper, , MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac.
http://www.drluc.com
DR. LUC'S BLOG: http://www.homeopathysnc.org/blog.htm
What is Not important and What is in Acute Diseases
When you visit your allopathic regular doctor, and you want some relief
from an acute cough, cystitis, or any other acute illness, it usually does
not take him long to be able to prescribe, unless some cultures are taken
and the result is waited for. In fact, the modern world has evolved so far,
that many over the counter remedies are available for a whole array of
acute illnesses. Relief seem to be present in every pharmacy. While I just
mentioned acute diseases, asking your homeopath for instance, "Give me
something for my cough," will always be met with many more questions.
* When did it start and what time of day or night is it the worst?
* Is it a dry cough or a wet one?
* Is there expectoration of mucus or is it blocked and if so, where
exactly (bottom of lungs, sinuses, etc.)
* Is the cough from the lungs or from the throat?
* What is the color of the sputum?
* What is the consistency of the mucus?
* What are other symptoms going together with this cough? (Nausea,
vomiting, itching, sneezing, tickling in throat?
* What is the emotional reaction of the person to this cough? Wants
consolation? Wants to be left alone? Irritability? Clinging? Weeping?
* Is the patient thirsty or thirstless with this cough? Drinking big
gulps or small ones?
* What is sound of cough? Croupy? Labored? Loose? Whooping? Constrictive?
Deep sounding? Hacking? Hollow? Metallic? Racking? Scraping? Suffocative?
* Does the patient hold the chest while coughing?
* What are the situations that aggravate or ameliorate the cough? (lying
down, cold air, warm room, bending down, eating, drinking, laughing,
speaking, menses, sitting, sleep)
* Did it occur after a vaccination or was it a different situation like
exposure to cold air, wind, rain, or after heat and sweating?
* Is there fever and how high?
And there are possible more questions. Well you could say, give me that
over the counter stuff that seems to be easier. No doubt but is it better?
When we are talking about some sniffles and mild cough, even those
suppressive medications won't do much harm but a cough definitely can be
linked to more serious things and suppressing of symptoms most of the time
can lead to appearance of other symptoms. And sometimes a simple unresolved
cough can lead to many interventions and great costs. Let me give you an
example I encountered in Kenya when I was there for a month. Before I went
to a remote village to help the poor, I was invited to give two speeches
about homeopathy in the two major hospitals in Nairobi. More than 200
physicians attended in each hospital and after my speech I was asked by one
of the head doctors to consult his son of 8 years with a cough. He had this
already for three weeks, antibiotics repetitive were not helping, a chest
X-ray was taken, Valium (yes) was given, even a liver biopsy was done
(don't ask me why)&and yet this boy was not free of cough day and night to
the point that his father was weeping hopelessly at his bed. So everything
allopathically was done and nothing helped. The boy was very intelligent so
when I was asking the above questions, he could answer very clearly as he
was not biased like his father, the medical doctor. It was mainly a cough
that was accompanied by nausea (especially) and sometimes vomiting. His
tongue in spite of nausea was clear; it was a dry cough caused by tickling
in larynx, often spasmodic in nature and he covered his mouth with his
hand, in order not to inhale much air. The prescription was Ipecac and only
two doses of a 1000C (watery doses) cured the boy completely. And even then
the father wanted to know what the "diagnosis" was? A laryngitis? A
sinusitis? No it was an Ipecac cough!
I give the reader this example as to know what information he needs to give
his homeopath in case of acutes. Don't ask: Give me something for diarrhea,
constipation, ear pain, bladder infection, pneumonia&You will have to
observe and answer many of these questions I mentioned before and then
homeopathy works faster than anything else! And don't forget, the acute
illness that needs a remedy has to be moderate or severe and has a precise
causality. At that point (see Lesson One) the chronic disease will be
suspended (but not cured) till the acute disease is dealt with and then the
chronic illness resurfaces as by miracle.
What is Not important and What is in Chronic Diseases
While we ask so many questions for acute diseases, there is not even a
comparison with chronic illness. Here the homeopath, when he asked all the
pertinent questions, will know you or your child almost better than
yourself. Let's see what is important and what not.
* What is not important is that you give your homeopath all the symptoms
that are common to a disease name. For instance, diabetes with increased
urination and thirst. These are common symptoms. Don't say, "I have chronic
fatigue, I am depressed, I have muscle pain&" so give me something. Every
depressed person for instance will have a different reason that he started
to get depressed and every depressed person will react differently to his
depression. Some get drunk; others remove themselves from society and lock
themselves in their home; others will phone everyone to tell them how
miserable they are&
* In other words here are the important questions you must answer: What
happened in your life you got depressed (or sick)? How did you react to
this illness? What precisely are your symptoms, not those out of the
medical Merck Manual, which will give a general overview of all possible
symptoms but which ones are pertaining to you? And that is just the start.
* Make sure to make a time line of yourself or your loved one that comes
on consultation: from birth on you write down what illnesses you had, what
was done for them, what caused them, what mental emotional events took
place in your life (what situations of grief for instance happened and
again how did you react), vaccinations and reactions to them, etc. Try to
be precise in your dates/years as the homeopath tries to see if there is
more than one layer of illness or if there is a repetition of the same
trauma, creating a huge layer
* Give from both sides of parents the family history as far as you can go
back: age and diseases they suffered from and from what they died
eventually. The homeopath uses this knowledge to see what your inherent
weaknesses are and it will be important in the selection of your chronic
remedy
* The medical diagnosis (name of the disease) can be very important so
always bring your medical reports to the homeopath. The name of the disease
guides us in selecting a remedy according to its miasmatic trait so we can
apply a remedy that is much deeper working. It is also important to give us
an idea regarding the prognosis: is it curable? How long is it going to
take? A pure physical illness if not long-term suppressed will cure faster
than an emotional one (depression for instance) and a mental/emotional one
(ASD, ADHD, OCD, etc) will take more time
* VERY IMPORTANT: if your child suffers from an illness from birth on or
discovered soon after birth: the homeopath is very interested what happened
during the pregnancy and will ask you questions which no one has asked
before. Let's say your child suffers from ASD, ADHD, selective Mutism, etc,
here are some questions that are VERY important in order to help your child.
1. What was the mother's reaction when she heard for first time she was
pregnant? Joy? Grief? Shame? Or any other emotion.
2. What was the reaction of husband and close family?
3. Was the husband absent during the pregnancy, either because of
traveling, or there was a separation, or even death?
4. Were there a lot of fights between both parents?
5. Did anything acute emotionally happen during pregnancy? Fright?
Grief? Indignation? Jealousy? Deception? Was there a lot of feat about the
forthcoming delivery?
6. Did the family dynamic during the pregnancy change (mother or other
children moving in?)
7. Did you continue working? Was it physically and/or mental very hard?
8. How were previous pregnancies? Did you have any special cravings
and/or aversions for foods?
9. How old were you and your husband when you got pregnant? And how was
your physical and emotional state when you got pregnant? It tool allopathy
a long time to realize that even the age of the father was important when
the conception took place. The odds of fathering an autistic child are
about 6 in 1,000 for men under 20. When a man reaches 50 (way beyond what
TCM favors!), those odds shoot up to about 52 in 1,000. "The optimal time
for a man to father a healthy child is the same as for a woman25 or so,"
says Dolores Malaspina, a psychiatric professor at New York University and
coauthor of the study. This same physician also conducted a study showing a
connection between paternal age and schizophrenia. She found children born
to fathers over 50 carried about three times the risk of developing
schizophrenia as those born to fathers in their 20s. It is here that
allopathy can learn something of TCM or Traditional Chinese Medicine. For
the Chinese the ideal age of the woman was between 28 and 35 and for the
man to father a child, between 32 and 40. These are the ages when your
child receives the best possible essence or hereditary energy from the
parents!
I hope that this lesson might guide you in giving precise information to
your homeopath as it will increase the possibility to cure. And don't
forget that you can ask other people in your family. Who can remember
everything what one went through? Family members are a great help. And when
you have a great family physician, don't discard him. He is another
possible great ally!
In the next lesson I will discuss the alternative modalities that might or
might not work together with homeopathy.
Learn! Learn so you can be part of your healing process!
Warm regards,
Dr luc
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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
Well Within & Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours (worldwide)
Vaccination Information & Choice Network
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm
homeopathycures@tesco.net
ONLINE Introduction to Homeopathy Classes - next ones March 2007
ONLINE Introduction to Vaccine Dangers Classes - next ones March 2007
ONLINE Intro to Diseases - Risk, Reality & Alternative Treatment next ones
March 2007
Voicemail US 530-740-0561 UK phone from US 011-44-1874-624-936