Incompatibles / inimical remedies

[HomeoDidact]

Hi,
A patient took for the last week Mercurius 6x.
His constitutional rx is Silica, which is an *inimical* to it.
My question is:
How much time should go by until he can safely use silica (which will be in the 12c potency)?
Many thanks and best regards!
Rafy

[hi6]

Kent's Rep shows Merc duration 30-60 days
Susan

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

If the presenting symptoms indicate a particular remedy and THERE IS A NEED TO PRESCRIBE, then go ahead!

Soroush
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Subject: Re: [Minutus] Incompatibles / inimical remedies
Kent's Rep shows Merc duration 30-60 days
Susan

[Shannon Nelson]

I was told that if there is *no effect* from a remedy, then the question of incompatibilities doesn't arise; only if there has been an effect. Is that others' understanding or experience?

Shannon

[Shannon Nelson]

Hi Susan,

I puzzled over that chart so many times, for so long, because the figures seemed so… well, so arbitrary (what potency? in what patient, and under what circumstances?), and so totally unconnected to my own experiences. It turns out that I think no one any more takes those times as anything other than a way to *compare* different remedies' pacing and duration. E.g. silica tends to act slow and long -- but *how* slow and *how* long, would depend: what potency, what patient, what circumstances, etc.

But for that sort of comparison, it can be a useful reminder.

Shannon

[Irene de Villiers]

I agree.

I suspect they are recorded numbers from acute cases - (but do not know if they are).
It just seems that anyoe so meticulous as to record such numbers codld only do it from acute cases, as chronic ones are such a different kettle of fish sltogetrhe an MUST vary by how ill the individual is, how sensitive they are to remedy, and a host of other factors to do with chronic prescribing.

I have seldom experienced any antidoting effect or inimical effect but on the one or two occasioons that I did experience it, I was really taken by surprise.
I am not usually sensitive to remedy and can take a large dose without aggravation.
But there is one eception - Sulphur. I do not even want that in my house I am so easily able to have an aggravation from it. So handling it for a Sul cat has been necessary but I know if I get it on me, I am in for a rough ride - regardless what other remedy I may have been using if any.

The antidoting effect I have felt hardest, was the antioting of Asterias rubens by ginger. The effect was SO violent that it felt like I had hit a brick wall on just tasting ginger in some form (gingerbeer, candied ginger, etc). I could retake Aster and get it to help again, but that lasted till my next ginger encounter. And asking me to quit ginger is like asking me to quit latte - not gonna happen.
Aster is not my ICT but it was an essential remedy in my progress at the time, and did a great deal of good, so it was being used in the chronic case arena.
Here too I have an example to relate. But I would consider it acute more than chronic.
I had severe plantar fascitis, with bone spurs in the heel and serious disconnect between heel and plantar fascia. I was in extreme pain and hardly able to hobble a few inches, no matter what orthotics I tried or what any specialist suggested (useless bunch those). There was only one foot involved. It had been injured a few months before, then due to circumstabnces was not attended to for three months....this happened:
At the wonderful Minneapolis airport, I was changing planes and of course had to walk the full llength of the airport in minus minutes. They have/had these steepish slopes here and there: While going down one of these ramp things, an overloaded luggage cart with a guy running behind it, all behind me, got out of control and carreened down into me, knocking the flesh off my left heel and sending me flying to become the latest in luggage cart brakes.
Well ...plantar fasciitis was the result, and Sil was the remedy. It took six months to repair my heel completely, starting 6C, then 30C then 200C then 1M. (This was pre-F series).
I remember using daily doses to start. But it took patience as I did not feel any benefit till about a week after the first dose. From then there was steady improvement, and no need to dose often. So in this acute case - Sil was slow to act - almost a week - and once working, needed only a weekly or maybe twice weekly dose.

My cousin who first taught me homeopathy, had said Sil took about a week to get going, and that was the real reason I persisted with no apparent result in the first week.

These thoughts and anecdotes are why I suspect the tables of remedy duration, etc are for acutes only. Is there no documentation somewhere as to how the tables were actually derived?

Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
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[Irene de Villiers]

I used to pooh pooh incompatibility, and just go with whatever looks the best match for me - but then one day I did a remedy not supposed to be used after the one I had been using, and I felt quite ill for some days. I do not rememebr the specific remedy pair, just the surprise unpleasantness. I changed becasue the first did not seem to be doing the job...
So there must be something to it, at least in some cases.
Namaste,
irene

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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

[Sheri Nakken]

I have not found any of these things to be accurate
Sheri
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