Minutus

Dear Dr.Shaddel-
in the second case - these "acute" symptoms of the patient's headache
- are these symptoms the same every time the patient has headache?
From my point of view, if they are the same every time then you might
as well include the caused by anger symptom. You are treating the
chronic here as well and might as well choose from anti-psorics.

If these acute symptoms are the same everytime there is a headache and
always caused by anger - then I do not see the difference from the
first case.

Also is there a reason why sour > was not considered for the first case?

Also the first case looks very one sided in working it out ...at least
the second one had concomitant rubric - nausea - the first one
probably needs that to complete it as a full symptom.

In fact in both the first and second we probably need more information
for a chronic prescription.

The third case I can understand you might want to treat as acute if
this is an one-off incident.

This is how I would approach this-

Thanks

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "F. Shaddel" wrote:
and Controversial part of article about choosing symptom. Thank you.
that help us in individualisation of patient or disease. In other way,
they all should be a charachteristic symptom of patient in the ailment
that you are going to treat by Homeopathy. So we should ask first from
ourselves which ailment we are going to treat with first prescription.
The current acute condition of patient (Headache) or Chronic
background? The answer in the second case (as the first step) is
Headache. So we need to consider the symptoms which are helpful in
individualisation of Headache not chronic background.
more characteristic for current headache or the chronic background. As
I said it is very Controversial and we should refer on clinical
experiences to find out the answer.
Chronic Background and not the headache. I have found out that
prescriptions on this basis is more accurate. Perhaps comparing second
case with a common cold is more clarifying. As you know the
pathogenesis of a common cold in a patient with affinity to catch cold
is similar to case 2. (An exacrebation of chronic background because
of an exciting cause). You can compare "Head pain anger" with symptom
of "General, Cold, Tendency to". The trigger in Common cold is Virus
and here is Emotional stress (Anger). As you know we usually do not
consider the symptom of "General, Cold, Tendency to" for finding the
similimum of current cold diseases. But it is a very good symptom for
finding chronic or constitutional remedy
acute conditions and the symptoms that you use.
second case?
each of below patients? - Article
same remedy to each of them? What would Hahneman prescribe? - Article
without any special trigger factor. The headache is one sided,
Pulsating, with nausea and gets better with sour drinks and a nap.
angry the headache starts. But if he remains cool there is no
headache. The headache is one sided, Pulsating, with nausea and gets
better with sour drinks and a nap.
problems. Now he is complaining from a headache. The headache is one
sided, Pulsating, with nausea and gets better with sour drinks and a nap.
same in each cases so naturally in classical (General) Homeopathy we
shall prescribe the same similimum. But in Hahnemannian view the
course of development of disorder, the exciting cause and background
of ailment are also very important (Aphorism 5). What would be the
point if considering the exciting causes and whole history of chronic
disease does not affect our similimum selection? So with a good
confidence, we can claim that Hahnemann would prescribe different
remedies to above patients. But the question is how?
for finding the similimum. The symptoms of headache in above cases are
the same. Of course we can not add some symptoms from ourselves to
picture of patient to find different similimums. So the only possible
way for receiving to different remedies in above cases is considering
a part of the symptoms in each case for finding the similimum. Then
the result could be different. But it looks very wrong. Firstly, do we
have permission to ignore some symptoms of a patient in choosing the
similimum? Secondly if the answer is yes, what is the guideline for
this picking up?
In treatment of epidemics upon recommendation of Hahnemann (Aphorism
100-104), we ignore some symptoms and pick up particular symptoms of
epidemic (Totality of disease instead of Totality of symptoms). Also
in Psoric treatment, Hahnemann has introduced about 3000 symptoms that
should be taken for finding the antipsoric remedy and recommend us to
ignore other symptoms of patient.
answered in first question. The correct way is to find out which one
is epidemic, which one is a chronic miasmatic and which one is a
normal acute case. Finding the chronic cases is simple by looking at
whole history of case. In above cases the first one is definitely a
chronic case and most probably a Psoric one (Lets make it as a quiz.
Do you know why the first case is Psoric? to find the answer read
aphorism 234).
acute exacerbation because of an exciting cause (anger). In such cases
we can use the totality of symptoms of current ailment (PS of Aphorism
82).
strong chronic background or affinity for headache in this case and
ailment has started because of a strong external stressor (It is not
an exciting cause any more). Such cases bring the epidemics picture to
our mind. (Cholera has also a strong external pathogen without chronic
background for diarrhea). In such cases we should choose particular
symptoms related to external stressor (here severe anger) and
prescribe a remedy which is specific for ailment because of anger like
Nux-V, STAPH or Cham. We can differentiate among them by seeking for
keypoints of each remedy in patient.
remedy between 48 Antipsoric remedies: