[H.O.E Classroom] layers
Posted: Mon May 13, 2002 6:48 pm
At 03:26 PM 4/25/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Normally, the vital force tries to expresses the totality of the
symptoms as unity. This is called a "constitutional expression" because the
essential nature of the symptoms is a unified whole. When a new strong
dissimilar disease meets an old weaker dissimilar disease meet in the human
organ - the new strong disorder will repress the old while it is stronger.
This is what produces layers. The new disease state will be active while
the old disease state will be more latent or dormant.
1. A strong crisis, acute miasms, or acute disorder may repress the older
chronic symptoms pattern. When this happens one treats the acute layer by
the exciting cause of the acute crisis and the acute, active symptoms
pattern. Here one does not use the chronic remedy. This can cause
aggravations and complications because the layers are treated out of order.
2. When a new strong chronic disease state or miasm is acquired it my
repress an older chronic disease or miasms. When this happens the
prescription is based on the new, active layer. For example, if the patient
has inherited pseudopsora TB miasms and they catch gonorrheal sycosis, the
new sycosis will suspend the old weaker inherited TB miasm so its symptoms
become more latent or dormant. Here we treat the new acquired sycosis by
its fundamental cause and active symptom pattern. After the cure of the new
sycosis the old TB will return and can be treated.
As I said, when relatively health the vital force will express all the
symptoms in a grand unity. In this case on can use the chronic disease
Gestalt remedy by the essential nature of the totality of the symptoms.
This case is showing no layers. If the patient get a virulent acute
diseases these symptoms will be suspend while the crisis runs it course or
is cured by a homoeopathic remedy.
When a case is presented in layers it has a poorer prognosis than a
case that expresses it symptoms as a constitutional unity. A layered case
is a fragmented cases with different strata of disease states in active,
latent, and dormant states.
Yes. A unified picture.
The center of case are those characteristic symptoms that express the
essential nature of the totality of the symptoms. This is the true nature
of the disease-Gestalt.
When you take a chronic case you are supposed to review all the
symptoms from birth to the present in the order of their development. This
is called the *the timeline*. When one sees old disease states in the past
that we superceded by new disease states these are layers. Perhaps the
person used to have some general digestive problems but then they got a
heavy psoric skin infection that was suppressed by antibiotics and they
developed a host of psoric symptoms like flushes of heat, loss of weight
while eating well, and became extremely restless and preoccupied. The old
stomach symptoms are no more because they are repressed by the newer,
stronger psoric miasm. On longs for old causes and dormant syndromes that
have been replaced by something worse.
Yes, this is a problem in the beginning when we are not used to looking
at symptoms, but even later it can be a difficult task. You must remember
that all the active symptoms are an expression of the unity of the vital
force. Every disease has locations, sensations, modifications and logical
and non logical concomitants. As long as the symptoms are active they may
be consider the disease-Gestalt of the patient. This is how one sees the
unity in chaos.
All these symptoms are simply the symptoms of your patient. What you
need to do is separate those symptoms that are common to all diseases and
patients from those symptoms that are striking, exceptional, unusual and
oddly characteristic of the diseases state of the individual. You must pass
judgement on the characteristic value of symptoms! This is the most
important point. The last symptoms that develop must be included in your
remedy and then you must look backward through time at the active symptoms.
If there are old diseases in the past that are dormant due to
suppressions and where superceded by new stronger diseases these are
layers. They come second. One remedy may cover both the active and passive
states but the prescription must be first based on the active states and
then checked to see if it includes the dormant states. Such a single remedy
may removed several layers as one moves through the potencies. The
unresolved layers will come back as seen in Hering's laws and the reversal
of symptoms. If now one remedy covers all the states the chosen remedy MUST
cover the active states. Giving a remedy that only has the dormant states
and not the active states is very counter productive and can cause
unproductive prolonged aggravations by dsirupting the natural symptoms pattern.
This is advanced homoeopathic pathology and I hope everyone in the
class understands this methodology. If not PLEASE ask more questions. This
subject is intimately related to the study of non miasmatic and miasmatic
chronic diseases, complex layers, mixed miasms and organic pathology. This
is what we have been studying in class.
Sincerely, David Little
---------------
"It is the life-force which cures diseases because a dead man needs no more
medicines."
Samuel Hahnemann
Visit our website on Hahnemannian Homoeopathy and Cyberspace Homoeopathic
Academy at
http://www.simillimum.com
David Little © 2000
Normally, the vital force tries to expresses the totality of the
symptoms as unity. This is called a "constitutional expression" because the
essential nature of the symptoms is a unified whole. When a new strong
dissimilar disease meets an old weaker dissimilar disease meet in the human
organ - the new strong disorder will repress the old while it is stronger.
This is what produces layers. The new disease state will be active while
the old disease state will be more latent or dormant.
1. A strong crisis, acute miasms, or acute disorder may repress the older
chronic symptoms pattern. When this happens one treats the acute layer by
the exciting cause of the acute crisis and the acute, active symptoms
pattern. Here one does not use the chronic remedy. This can cause
aggravations and complications because the layers are treated out of order.
2. When a new strong chronic disease state or miasm is acquired it my
repress an older chronic disease or miasms. When this happens the
prescription is based on the new, active layer. For example, if the patient
has inherited pseudopsora TB miasms and they catch gonorrheal sycosis, the
new sycosis will suspend the old weaker inherited TB miasm so its symptoms
become more latent or dormant. Here we treat the new acquired sycosis by
its fundamental cause and active symptom pattern. After the cure of the new
sycosis the old TB will return and can be treated.
As I said, when relatively health the vital force will express all the
symptoms in a grand unity. In this case on can use the chronic disease
Gestalt remedy by the essential nature of the totality of the symptoms.
This case is showing no layers. If the patient get a virulent acute
diseases these symptoms will be suspend while the crisis runs it course or
is cured by a homoeopathic remedy.
When a case is presented in layers it has a poorer prognosis than a
case that expresses it symptoms as a constitutional unity. A layered case
is a fragmented cases with different strata of disease states in active,
latent, and dormant states.
Yes. A unified picture.
The center of case are those characteristic symptoms that express the
essential nature of the totality of the symptoms. This is the true nature
of the disease-Gestalt.
When you take a chronic case you are supposed to review all the
symptoms from birth to the present in the order of their development. This
is called the *the timeline*. When one sees old disease states in the past
that we superceded by new disease states these are layers. Perhaps the
person used to have some general digestive problems but then they got a
heavy psoric skin infection that was suppressed by antibiotics and they
developed a host of psoric symptoms like flushes of heat, loss of weight
while eating well, and became extremely restless and preoccupied. The old
stomach symptoms are no more because they are repressed by the newer,
stronger psoric miasm. On longs for old causes and dormant syndromes that
have been replaced by something worse.
Yes, this is a problem in the beginning when we are not used to looking
at symptoms, but even later it can be a difficult task. You must remember
that all the active symptoms are an expression of the unity of the vital
force. Every disease has locations, sensations, modifications and logical
and non logical concomitants. As long as the symptoms are active they may
be consider the disease-Gestalt of the patient. This is how one sees the
unity in chaos.
All these symptoms are simply the symptoms of your patient. What you
need to do is separate those symptoms that are common to all diseases and
patients from those symptoms that are striking, exceptional, unusual and
oddly characteristic of the diseases state of the individual. You must pass
judgement on the characteristic value of symptoms! This is the most
important point. The last symptoms that develop must be included in your
remedy and then you must look backward through time at the active symptoms.
If there are old diseases in the past that are dormant due to
suppressions and where superceded by new stronger diseases these are
layers. They come second. One remedy may cover both the active and passive
states but the prescription must be first based on the active states and
then checked to see if it includes the dormant states. Such a single remedy
may removed several layers as one moves through the potencies. The
unresolved layers will come back as seen in Hering's laws and the reversal
of symptoms. If now one remedy covers all the states the chosen remedy MUST
cover the active states. Giving a remedy that only has the dormant states
and not the active states is very counter productive and can cause
unproductive prolonged aggravations by dsirupting the natural symptoms pattern.
This is advanced homoeopathic pathology and I hope everyone in the
class understands this methodology. If not PLEASE ask more questions. This
subject is intimately related to the study of non miasmatic and miasmatic
chronic diseases, complex layers, mixed miasms and organic pathology. This
is what we have been studying in class.
Sincerely, David Little
---------------
"It is the life-force which cures diseases because a dead man needs no more
medicines."
Samuel Hahnemann
Visit our website on Hahnemannian Homoeopathy and Cyberspace Homoeopathic
Academy at
http://www.simillimum.com
David Little © 2000