Constitutional type was: Kill the infestation first! ???
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2002 3:46 pm
At 08:50 PM 9/3/2002 +0200, you wrote:
First of all, Hahnemann was the first to introduce a full constitution
portrait of a patient. This was his rendition of Pulsatilla as the
phlegmatic temperament found in the Materia Medica Pura. This rendition has
both the positive and negative aspects of such a person to fill out the
whole picture. So I am not saying a human being is all negative qualities,
symptoms, pathology. The soul is the driving power of evolution in nature
and life and at the root of what Stahl called the Anima Mundi, the vital
principle. A human being, however, is a syncretistic product of the
qualities of the individual soul incarnating, heredity and environmental
conditioning.
Dr. Eizayaga introduced the idea of a giving remedies to a "healthy
constitutions" to prevent disease. Since then this idea of the
constitutional remedy is used by some. I don't subscribe to this idea
because I have never seen a human being without any symptoms - NEVER in 30
years of practice! This is a clinical statement not theory. Only pure
spirit is without symptoms. If one has a body they seem to have
predispositions and at least some signs and symptoms. Therefore, they can
benefit from treatment. Therefore, although I disagree in the idea of
treating a perfectly healthy person, I agree clinically that its is
possible to treat a relatively healthy person's constitution to remove
predisposition, latent diseases, and act prophylactically. So in essence I
don't think we disagree. It is how we are expressing our ideas that is
slightly different.
Yes, I see persons with positive and negative qualities but I have
never seen a perfect person. Health is only a relative term because stress
and strain is innate to the human condition. All human beings suffer
limitations, disease, old age and death. I have never seen a person with a
perfect mind or body.
Constitution and temperament has positive and negative quantities
indeed and the remedy enhances their positive qualities and reduces the
negative ones. Nevertheless, I have never seen a person with only positive
qualities an no negative signs.
If I ever see a human being without symptoms I won't need to treat
them. I look at all qualities when taking a case as Hahnemann did in his
portrait of Pulsatilla but I have never seen a perfect human being. There
is always something. Show me a so-called perfectly healthy baby I will show
you many symptoms and tell you the types of things they will suffer in the
future. I am not kidding nor playing intellectual games. I mean this. It
comes back to the discussion of what on calls "cure".
Of course, a human being constitution and temperament has positive
qualities that may evolve or devolve.. No one has said everything is
pathological but I have never seen a perfectly healthy person. This is a
clinical fact. Show me a so-called healthy person and I will show you signs
and symptoms
Yes, one can discuss psoric or tuberculin type and they have positive
and negative qualities not just positive qualities. I have never seen
anyone with just perfect positive qualities of the mind and body with no
symptoms. I think positive and negative are two sides of the human
condition and found in all human beings. I think they are always present.
There is only relative states of health not absolutes. Everyone will die
from something sooner or later. The seeds of our demise are already
present. Homeopathy is about improving the quality of life not making
people perfect. That is expecting far too much.
Best, David
Samuel Hahnemann
Visit our website on Hahnemannian Homoeopathy and Cyberspace Homoeopathic
Academy at
http://www.simillimum.com
David Little © 2000
First of all, Hahnemann was the first to introduce a full constitution
portrait of a patient. This was his rendition of Pulsatilla as the
phlegmatic temperament found in the Materia Medica Pura. This rendition has
both the positive and negative aspects of such a person to fill out the
whole picture. So I am not saying a human being is all negative qualities,
symptoms, pathology. The soul is the driving power of evolution in nature
and life and at the root of what Stahl called the Anima Mundi, the vital
principle. A human being, however, is a syncretistic product of the
qualities of the individual soul incarnating, heredity and environmental
conditioning.
Dr. Eizayaga introduced the idea of a giving remedies to a "healthy
constitutions" to prevent disease. Since then this idea of the
constitutional remedy is used by some. I don't subscribe to this idea
because I have never seen a human being without any symptoms - NEVER in 30
years of practice! This is a clinical statement not theory. Only pure
spirit is without symptoms. If one has a body they seem to have
predispositions and at least some signs and symptoms. Therefore, they can
benefit from treatment. Therefore, although I disagree in the idea of
treating a perfectly healthy person, I agree clinically that its is
possible to treat a relatively healthy person's constitution to remove
predisposition, latent diseases, and act prophylactically. So in essence I
don't think we disagree. It is how we are expressing our ideas that is
slightly different.
Yes, I see persons with positive and negative qualities but I have
never seen a perfect person. Health is only a relative term because stress
and strain is innate to the human condition. All human beings suffer
limitations, disease, old age and death. I have never seen a person with a
perfect mind or body.
Constitution and temperament has positive and negative quantities
indeed and the remedy enhances their positive qualities and reduces the
negative ones. Nevertheless, I have never seen a person with only positive
qualities an no negative signs.
If I ever see a human being without symptoms I won't need to treat
them. I look at all qualities when taking a case as Hahnemann did in his
portrait of Pulsatilla but I have never seen a perfect human being. There
is always something. Show me a so-called perfectly healthy baby I will show
you many symptoms and tell you the types of things they will suffer in the
future. I am not kidding nor playing intellectual games. I mean this. It
comes back to the discussion of what on calls "cure".
Of course, a human being constitution and temperament has positive
qualities that may evolve or devolve.. No one has said everything is
pathological but I have never seen a perfectly healthy person. This is a
clinical fact. Show me a so-called healthy person and I will show you signs
and symptoms
Yes, one can discuss psoric or tuberculin type and they have positive
and negative qualities not just positive qualities. I have never seen
anyone with just perfect positive qualities of the mind and body with no
symptoms. I think positive and negative are two sides of the human
condition and found in all human beings. I think they are always present.
There is only relative states of health not absolutes. Everyone will die
from something sooner or later. The seeds of our demise are already
present. Homeopathy is about improving the quality of life not making
people perfect. That is expecting far too much.
Best, David
Samuel Hahnemann
Visit our website on Hahnemannian Homoeopathy and Cyberspace Homoeopathic
Academy at
http://www.simillimum.com
David Little © 2000