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Hi Dale,

Ack that’s probably what I’ll have to do… I know you’ve posted it before, but would you mind reviewing for me how you would run the potencies up?

Thanks!!!!!!


Victoria M-Sky
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It’s been more than a few years since I’ve had to do it, Shannon, so I’ll have to look at my notes.

For potencies up to 8C, Dr. Joe’s instructions call for 99 drops of alcohol and a pellet of remedy; then succuss 10 times. After 8C, you use a drop of solution in 99 drops of distilled water. He then follows the Korsakov method and empties the bottle of all but one drop (whatever liquid remains after one good shake), then adds 99 drops of distilled water, succusses 10 times, and so on.

With a graduated cylinder, you measure out 99 drops the first time and take precise note of where it falls on the cylinder’s markings. Not quite as precise as measuring out 99 drops each time, but a helluva lot faster. You’ll need the narrowest graduated cylinder you can find (mine is 10 ml).

Where it starts getting tedious is running up from 30C to 34C, 55C, 89C, and 144C. I haven’t yet run up anything over 200c.

I did this some years ago for a woman suffering from Lyme disease for many years. She’d come down with Lyme at the same time she developed a truly horrific case of poison ivy, which was massively suppressed with steroids because it threatened her vision. That also suppressed the Lyme symptoms, unfortunately. So years later she came to me barely able to walk… and the remedy she needed was ironically Rhus-tox.! How to treat the Lyme without reactivating the suppressed poison ivy? A Fibonacci series seemed the best option. And it worked great… until she realized that the remedy was causing her to lose interest in what had been the main obsession of her life, a cause that, while noble, was very hard on her health (and part of her remedy picture). That was when she decided to stop treatment.

Peace,
Dale


Victoria M-Sky
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Thanks much for the instructions—and wow, another interesting story.
That could be a rich and intriguing line of thought—when a chosen life purpose is at odds with the needs of healing.
I guess not really so uncommon -- but interesting!


Victoria M-Sky
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The patient did think of her cause as her "chosen life purpose”. To me, however, it was self-sabotage. But I’m surely not the first (or last) homeopath to encounter a patient whose goal was not necessarily to get well.

Peace,
Dale


Victoria M-Sky
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I have met "professional sick people". The value was too high to release.

Dr Carol

Certainly there are "professional sick people." I recall a class of Mangialavori's where he took the case of one such. After a slew of unrelated symptoms from the patient, he explained to us the difference between reality and this woman's world. In the intake she'd done everything possible to make herself seem more consequential than she was; frequent visits to a large stable of doctors was part of it. There was no coordination to her care (deliberately!), nor would she stick to any one doc very long.

I think my chronic Lyme patient was a little different. My impression was not so much that she gained (sympathy, attention, whatever) from staying ill but that she needed her "cause" as a way of fending off introspective moments. Her extreme busyness was a large part of her remedy picture.

Peace,
Dale
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