Minutus

Andrew, it is quite ridiculous and misleading to read, appreciate and
understand (or not understand as in your case) aphorism 42 without doing the
same with 43, 44, 45 and 46 - pertaining as they do to similar and
dis-similar diseases.

Joy
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It is quite ridiculous and misleading to read, appreciate and

i would agree. 42 refers to dissimilar diseases. 43-46 refers to similar
diseases. in the case of the former, they can co-exist in the body
simultaneously, and separately, and therefore require different remedies. Or
they may form a new, unified complex disease requiring one remedy. if someoe
with a stomach complaint catches cold, there is no need to assume they
require the same remedies, unless on close inspection the modalities or
other peculiarities of the second turns out to match the first.
Unfortunately, many have understood 'totality of symptoms' to mean totality
of all the symptoms affecting the individual' rather than 'totality of the
prevailing individual disease energy.'

andrew

Andrew, so if the sx of both the stomach complaint and the cold weren't
covered by one remedy you, personally, would prescribe 2 remedies at the
same time (and this is assuming that both conditions were bad enough to need
treating immediately)?

Your example of 2 diseases isn't quite the best - if you choose to treat the
stomach complaint first the cold will have gone by the time you get round to
treating it.

What do you propose Hahnemann meant by dis-similar diseases - give some
examples of cases whereby the client expresses the need to be relieved and
cured of more than one disease state that requires more than one remedy.

Joy
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Dear Andrew
I agree with you on the subject but not on your example. There may be a patient who affected with only one disease (psora) but suffer from both of maladies (cold - stomach).
Best
Farbod

diseases whose symptoms are dissimilar, ie with some combination of
different aetiology, modalities or other peculiarities. an example would be
someone with a stomach ache [say chamomila] who gets a cold [camphor].
Farbood Rahnamai correctly points out that some apparently independent
afflictions may be linked by a miasm, so careful investigation is, as usual,
required. As we know from Rima Handley Hahnemann gave two remedies
simultaneously in his later pratice.

andrew

At 07:31 AM 6/7/2002 +1000, you wrote:
Dear Minimus,

Andrew wrote: "As we know from Rima Handley Hahnemann gave two
remedies simultaneously in his later practice.

The above statement is taken out of context and can only cause
confusion. Saying that Hahnemann gave two remedies "simultaneously" makes
it sound like he was administering two remedies together at the exact same
time. This would be a mixture. This is NOT true. I have examined 100s of
Hahnemann's prescriptions between 1837 and 1842. Hahnemann did NOT
administer two remedies to be taken simultaneously. Almost all his cases
were single prescriptions often interspersed or followed by placebos.

There were, however, rare exceptions where Hahnemann did alternate two
remedies at different times. For example, when a rather gentleman fell of a
horse and psora seem to be an obstacle to the cure of his trauma, Hahnemann
alternated Arnica and Sulphur until the traumatic symptoms ceased and then
he continued with Sulphur alone. As I said such alternations of two
remedies at different times were very rare in his last years. So rare, that
Dr., Croserio did not even notice them. For this reason, he said Hahnemann
"never" alternated two remedies. Well, it would have been more true if he
said "rarely alternated remedies", especially in his last days because he
had more proven remedies.

Sincerely, David Little
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