Can homeopathy detect health problem at it's early stage? (when it's without symptoms)
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:40 pm
Hi, Priscilla --
It's an easy trap to fall into, that trap of imagining that one has to treat high blood pressure in order to cure it.
Of course, the trick with homoeopathy is to keep the focus on the totality of symptoms: not with a view to addressing each individually but with a view to finding the substance that can most closely mimic the entire pattern as a totality. When you realise this, you realise that one or another incipient pathological symptom of a very general nature is of no particular value in arriving at the correct prescription.
But it's still easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the overlooked pathology will mean an untreated patient. Why? Because it's easy to fall into the trap of imagining that somebody with, say, incipient heart disease will have -- or might have -- no related symptoms.
An allopathic approach might find that justifiable. But homoeopathy treats all the symptoms arising from the one state as related together. And any state that is manifesting even subtle pathology manifests recognisable symptoms. In fact, even the so-called one-sided illnesses are extremely rare, an apparent paucity of symptoms almost always reflecting merely the practitioner's inability to learn them: the patient is extremely young or for other reasons inarticulate, or, very commonly, the practitioner simply has not invested sufficient time in which she might learn what there is in the patient's state to cure.
In a nutshell, the idea that a person walks around without symptoms while developing pathology is a purely speculative fiction; no practitioner of merit could entirely overlook the symptoms always present in an early pathological state; none has, to my knowledge, claimed their absence.
The symptoms are there; the practitioner merely needs to be ready and able to know them.
Cheers!
John
It's an easy trap to fall into, that trap of imagining that one has to treat high blood pressure in order to cure it.
Of course, the trick with homoeopathy is to keep the focus on the totality of symptoms: not with a view to addressing each individually but with a view to finding the substance that can most closely mimic the entire pattern as a totality. When you realise this, you realise that one or another incipient pathological symptom of a very general nature is of no particular value in arriving at the correct prescription.
But it's still easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the overlooked pathology will mean an untreated patient. Why? Because it's easy to fall into the trap of imagining that somebody with, say, incipient heart disease will have -- or might have -- no related symptoms.
An allopathic approach might find that justifiable. But homoeopathy treats all the symptoms arising from the one state as related together. And any state that is manifesting even subtle pathology manifests recognisable symptoms. In fact, even the so-called one-sided illnesses are extremely rare, an apparent paucity of symptoms almost always reflecting merely the practitioner's inability to learn them: the patient is extremely young or for other reasons inarticulate, or, very commonly, the practitioner simply has not invested sufficient time in which she might learn what there is in the patient's state to cure.
In a nutshell, the idea that a person walks around without symptoms while developing pathology is a purely speculative fiction; no practitioner of merit could entirely overlook the symptoms always present in an early pathological state; none has, to my knowledge, claimed their absence.
The symptoms are there; the practitioner merely needs to be ready and able to know them.
Cheers!
John
I just knew that the exceptions would arise here. Thanks, Shannon, for filling in the gaps I left wide open. Yes, the salty taste is one we come equipped to recognise and to crave; and I'm aware of its use by athletes -- and desert travellers too -- to replace salt lost in heavy sweating. I didn't know about this adrenal state; that's an interesting one.