Re: Local treatments
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:09 am
On this newslist I so frequently see local treatments for so many conditions, such as dental problems for example. As we all know Hahnemann warns over and over against local treatments because they cause suppression. He only recommends light palliation where necessary.
I recently realized what I think is good evidence of the problematic nature of local treatments. Over the last couple years I have taken several 10 day residential Vipassana meditation courses (www.dhamma.org) where I lived isolated from outside influences. On many of these courses I would get dental abscesses during or shortly thereafter. One of which caused me to eventually lose a tooth.
Until recently I didnt make the correlation. I have bleeding gums and with so few distractions I was brushing my teeth compulsively, 3 times per day and continued to do so after the course ended for a time. This would cause the bleeding in the gums to reduce or be eliminated. BUT since that was a local treatment the problem moved more to the interior and I developed abscesses, is my guess. After I stopped brushing so compulsively the bleeding would resume and the abscess would resolve.
Now this is nothing that I could prove but with Hahnemann warning so vociferously against local treatments, I think it is worth considering.
I wouldn't advocate not brushing frequently but one has to pursue interior (ie homeopathic) treatment, to really effect a cure and not just suppress the problem leading to long term more serious problems. And one has to consider what type of topical/local treatment one is using - how medicinal it is (e.g. essential oils, drugs, herbs, etc.) Even allopathic docs have even found correlation between dental inflammations and heart disease.
Lets spend more time discussing homeopathy on this list and less time discussing local treatments, what say you?
Roger
I recently realized what I think is good evidence of the problematic nature of local treatments. Over the last couple years I have taken several 10 day residential Vipassana meditation courses (www.dhamma.org) where I lived isolated from outside influences. On many of these courses I would get dental abscesses during or shortly thereafter. One of which caused me to eventually lose a tooth.
Until recently I didnt make the correlation. I have bleeding gums and with so few distractions I was brushing my teeth compulsively, 3 times per day and continued to do so after the course ended for a time. This would cause the bleeding in the gums to reduce or be eliminated. BUT since that was a local treatment the problem moved more to the interior and I developed abscesses, is my guess. After I stopped brushing so compulsively the bleeding would resume and the abscess would resolve.
Now this is nothing that I could prove but with Hahnemann warning so vociferously against local treatments, I think it is worth considering.
I wouldn't advocate not brushing frequently but one has to pursue interior (ie homeopathic) treatment, to really effect a cure and not just suppress the problem leading to long term more serious problems. And one has to consider what type of topical/local treatment one is using - how medicinal it is (e.g. essential oils, drugs, herbs, etc.) Even allopathic docs have even found correlation between dental inflammations and heart disease.
Lets spend more time discussing homeopathy on this list and less time discussing local treatments, what say you?
Roger
