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Irene: I am curious since you have knowledge and experience with the blood
type diet, as well as many other modalities, and homepathy. Do you(or others)
ever consider using the worse from bread rubric for people who have gluten
problems? Good diet was emphasized by the early homeopaths...but did they
even have a concept of gluten intolerance? Since so many people have this
problem...does it need to be incorporated into a homeopathic prescription as a
main complaint or concomitant? While correct remedy should address healing of
gut....i wonder if it ever leads to a situation where one can eat wheat/gluten
and not have harmful effects....meaning that a change in how our blood reacts
with food. I've always had intermittant problems with ice cream. Sometimes in
the last 50 years i could eat it with no problems. Other times I would get
horrible cramps . I guessing that homeopathic care determined which response i
might have. That doesn't necessarily mean that no response to ice cream meant
that i had no internal/not seen.. bad reaction..but who knows. i know there is
a difference in how wheat used to affect me. I used to get distended,
digestive problem and gain weight. Last summer when i went on a wheat binge
after years of not eating it...i didn't get distended...but i definately was
in a bad mood..irritated and impatient..for a few days after...and still..the
weight gain. A good question is how many chronic symptoms that people have are
related to food...and should not (or should be?) treated by homeopathy but
should be addressed with a change in diet.

i have been following this discussion to some degree and what
is not mentioned is the quality of food that we generally eat
today. and then add to that the combination of harmful foods
and other environmental effects.
for example, many people who can't eat dairy, will tolerate it
well if it is raw and unpasteurized. i don't believe there are
large complaints in the literature of those times of dairy
intolerance in the early days of this country or others that
raised dairy animals.
it seems to be that context is critical in understanding some
of these digestive problems that seem so rampant today. i wonder
what evidence there is from other societies that eat dairy or wheat
regarding the kind of food allergies that we see today?
then there is the issue of food grown in depleted soil so that it
lacks the nutrition that it once had. i seem to recall a report a
number of years ago that said spinach grown commercially had only
about 10% of the iron that it had early in the 19c. and what about
the issue of chemical fertilizers and/or sprays that may impact the
very cells of the growing plant. factor in the impact of gm foods
such as corn and soy which are in so many foodstuffs and we have a
veritable biochemical nightmare in our bodies.
it makes knowing exactly what we are treating very difficult. i can
see that in some cases there will be success while in others not so.
tanya

Hi Carol, Not really, I do not tend to include this is repertorizing.
But I DO check the diet on every consult and recommend changes.
Exceptions: If gluten issues are the main complaint, - that is
*consequences* other than short term ones - then I might include it.
So I'd not use it for direct "toxicity", I'd change the diet;
but I'd use it for "consequential damages" if seen.

Most of my cases are cats and dogs and wheat is very irritant for all
of them.
I change the diet - and rep the symptoms I see.

I just consider diet recommendations a normal part of every consult -
at least for chronic cases.

Namaste,
Irene

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Hi Irene, Carol,
In order for that to be useful, one - again - would have to check the
provings to find out where (and/or when) they were done.

At the time of the old provings, bread in Germany would probably have
meant rye bread,

Regards

Luise
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