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Shannon
This morning I read Burnetts book - The Change of Life in Women - Within
these pages, he discusses other things than the title would suggest, one
item being that he has finally come to the conclusion, after years and
years of unsuccessfully treating infestations constitutionally or otherwise
homoeopathically, that "that which is from without is to be cured from
without; that which is from within must not be treated from without, but
from within".
In other words, kill the little 'things' then treat the constitution!
I was very pleased to read this, as I have experienced the same lack of
success with eg. tinea pedis, and now will feel okay about killing the
fungus, and treating the constitution once removed, to prevent
reinfestation. Some may say that if you strengthen the constitution, then
the fungus will not be able to stay viable - well you tell that to the
fungus. I trust Burnett's experience in this one.
If your interested in reading his views, it is on p.40 of the above title,
published by Indian Books and Periodicals.

Regards

Robyn

(I'm so interested to get a better sense of which
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In a message dated 8/27/2002 12:33:02 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
folco@tpg.com.au writes:
Hello Robyn,

I agree to some extent with this and especially with mite and lice problems.
I have seen tinea go from homeopathic treatment and I have also seen it go
and return years later but in many cases it does not go, so I too have come
to the conclusion to treat this from the outside when homeopathy fails. You
have to wonder when your client becomes well in every other respect but the
fungus remains.

I suspect that this occurs due to insufficient treament on a deep miasmic
level.

Has anyone used ringworm nosode and have anything to say about it?

Barbara
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Robyn,

I am not convinced of this adage. I have seen cases of Sarcoptic mange in
pets cured without external treatment and a homeopath in India with whom I
studied talked about great success in treating children with head lice.

be well

Russell Swift, DVM
Classical Homeopath
phone 561-391-5615
email drswift@therightremedy.com
www.therightremedy.com

"Allopaths have protocols, Homeopaths have principles."

Hi All,

I'm sure that the idea of treating fungus as solely an external affliction
is a very, very bad idea.

Every effort should be made to address supposed "external" conditions in a
holistic homeopathic manner.

The skin is the largest organ of the body, and we have substantial
indications from clinical experience of current and past colleagues that
suppression of "skin symptoms" contributes to an inversion in "Hering's
Law" -driving vital dis-ease deeper into the economy of the organism.

regards,
Dave Hartley
www.Mr-Notebook.com
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Santa Cruz, CA (831)423-4284

Thanks, Robyn!
This is interesting to hear. It does make sense -- and yet, so does the
other viewpoint, which I've also seen work out. E.g. I'm recalling a peach
tree that had *horrible* peach leaf curl (a fungal disease). We were
reluctant to do the toxic chemical thing, and decided to first try to help
strengthen the tree (which was obviously in need). After a single season of
heavy composting and regular watering, it still had some curl, but was doing
*much* better. After another single season of granite dust application (to
the roots/soil only), the peach leaf curl was *gone*. And I have several
times beaten flea infestations with nothing more than brewers yeast in the
animals' food. (Well, since I couldn't feed brewers yeast to my floors, I
had to vacuum them...) So I guess I could see it working either way.

Maybe the deciding points need to be e.g. How severe is the
infection/infestation, How strong is the patient and how quickly do you
expect that strength to increase? Personally I'm not above using e.g.
garlic or etc. on an infection, so I guess I can't argue a "purist"
viewpoint!

Dunno, just musing...
Thanks for the thoughts!
Shannon
on 8/27/02 1:36 AM, Robyn at folco@tpg.com.au wrote:

Hi Russell,

Do you recall what was the treatment for head lice?

Shannon
on 8/27/02 12:20 PM, Dr. R. Swift at drswift@therightremedy.com wrote:

>You have to wonder when your client becomes well in every other

Absolutely.

I've seen one case of severe ringworm in person with severe inherited TB,
which a senior homeopath was treating.. suppression of the ringworm in
this case could've had dire consequences (in any case, really)

Superficial treatment of ringworm by treating only a fraction (+/- 20%) of
the affected skin area topically, while continuing to address with
dynamic/homeopathic treatment was decided upon, and has produced good
results over time (a couple of years) .. treating one area until relatively
clear, then moving on to another fraction of the afflicted area.

Better to be safe than sorry...
Dave Hartley
www.Mr-Notebook.com
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Santa Cruz, CA (831)423-4284

Shannon,

I believe one remedy discussed was staphysagria, but I don't remember which
others.