Minutus

Well said, Sheri, and well observed, Kerry; and if it's beyond you to understand that unwillingness, Kerry, let me suggest that the unwillingness arises from unwarranted -- I may say overweening -- confidence in speculative ideas, exactly what Hahnemann entirely disposed of even before conceiving of conducting the first proving; and from that laziness we recognise as routinism, which manifests in poor dispensing habits, poor case-taking and followup investigative habits, and poor thinking habits.

The result, homoeopaths fatally compromised by a useless case history, useless analysis, inaccurate simillimum selection, unknowing imposition of medicinal symptoms, incomprehension of the patient's changing state, and failure to learn anything from it, is what is killing off homoeopathy even faster than the idiots who think they're skeptics for holding fast to their unevidenced beliefs that nothing's going on that they can't see. Every advanced homoeopath will confirm that these failures are common and that they are due to inadequate study, inadequate investment of time into the patient, and thoughtlessness.

Those comments are not directed at anyone in particular, incidentally.

Cheers --

John
2009/12/4 Kerry

Hi, Shannon --

This is an example of use of the dry doses that is done in a thinking manner, and my experience generally accords with yours in careful use; I too used dry doses for a long time, and it seems to me that the speed of the cure in the early stages is largely related to the homoeopathicity of the substance used.

Cheers!

John
2009/12/4 Shannon & Bob Nelson >

Probably just another allopathic mindset approaching homoeopathy as an easy option. Using LMs or anything else, where do these people get the idea that there's some kind of magic that makes the remedy inoperative once the patient has had enough?!

John
2009/12/4 Shannon & Bob Nelson >

And these are all essential points, I agree. This is a topic analogous to that of combinations, really: yes, a combination may just happen to (apparently) help the patient, at least for a short time; or it may not. And what then? Even if combinations were curative, the case is necessarily lost. Of course, dry doses are as curative as wet, but the lack of control is, as you point out, a big limitation.



John
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