natrum ars
Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 3:17 pm
does anyone have a deep mental emotional profile of nat-ars...it seem harder to find online than the other natrums
Natrum arsenicosum was introduced as one of Kent’s “New Remedies” purely on speculative (= “made-up”) symptomatology, principally on speculations on what a “hybrid” of Natrum muriaticum and Arsenicum album (arsenic trioxide) might look like. You can find Kent's (unreliable, with no basis in “proving” [ptüfung] nor in clinical experience) description in his New Remedies http://homeoint.org/books3/kentmm/nat-ars.htm, and this is often incorporated into published versions of his Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica. Aspects of Kent’s “description” have been carried over into the works of other authors and into our repertories, sadly without attribution for us to use in identification of source. These “New Remedies” were initially published as a contacted series in the journal The Denver Critique. Note that Kent did not identify these writings as speculative; however they can readily be identified by the boilerplate style of description. Kent was brought to task on these by Henry Clay Allen, and in response ceased continuation of the series he had promised.
This approach to speculation on the properties of “hybrid” remedies has been reintroduced in current practice by Jan Scholten, and today is often accepted uncritically by many as acceptable practice; although this does stand in striking contrast to the evidence-based approach introduced by Hahnemann. I would emphasize that I bring Hahnemann into this discussion not as a source of dogma, but as the vanguard for evidence-based medicine, which I consider to be his greatest contribution to medical practice (the principle of Similars and the minimal dose derive directly from this).
There is also some “conventional” (ptüfung- & clinically-derived) description of this remedy in our literature, tho this is often admixed, without attribution to identify source, with Kent’s speculative material in our historical and contemporary literature.
Look for this more reliable information in TF Allen’s Encyclopedia of Pure Materia (including Gourbeyre’s 6th trituration ptüfung and ptüfungen of the Homeopathic Materia Medica Club of Allegheny county PA), in Hering’s Guiding Symptoms, & in Ernest Farrington’s Clinical Materia Medica, as trusted sources. Later descriptions invariably incorporate Kent’s speculations, without referencing the source.
I would generally advise away from the use of the interwebs as a source for description of remedies. Some of our valuable literature has been posted for online access, e.g. at http://homeoint.org but there is also a great deal of potentially misleading material to be found. A good collection of homeopathic materia medica can be had inexpensively. For extensive literature research, I rely on the Encyclopedia Homeopathica software package, which places an extensive library of our classical literature on my 11” Macbook Air (running on Windows virtualized in VMWare Fusion).
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