What's the Rubrics?

[Rhonda Bird]

I don't quite know how to repertorise this symptom:

Person makes mistakes in reading a sentence e.g. "The house is situated well
on the block". They read this to say: "The house is NOT situated well on
the block". This has been happening for the past 2 days, and never before.
Always occurs in a negative way i.e. the sentence will be making a statement
in the affirmative, and patient is reading always in a negative.

Apart from the rubric "Mistakes in reading", any suggestions?

Thanks, Rhonda

[isali]

Separate from the rubric is the question of ascertaining what occured two
years earlier?

[andyh]

Couple of ideas
MIND; MISTAKES, makes; reading (K66, SRI-746, G53): bar-c., calc., carc., cham., chin., conv., germ., hyos., lac-h., lach., lact., lyc., med., merc., parth., plb., sil., stann.

MIND; MISTAKES, makes; reading; interpolates improper words and sentences: germ., hyos.

Also this mistake is not really a spoonerism, but kind of like it analogically. China is known for that (pice of peep instead of pipe of peace is example).

Also, lycopodium makes dyslexic mistakes in writing, and has disposition to contradict
Lilienthal (LYc)

[APHASIA, AGRAPHIA] Uses the wrong word which does not express what he wanted to say; full of mistakes and cannot read what he wrote, mixes up letters and syllables, or omits parts of words in writing.

-A

Rhonda Bird wrote:

[Rhonda Bird]

Isali,

You do mean two days, not years I'm sure. Person took a dose of Arsenicum
about 2 weeks ago for hayfever symptoms, which relieved. This strange
symptom may be a result this??Otherwise doesn't appear to be proving
Arsenicum, if this was so.
Regards, rhonda
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From: "isali"
To:

[Dave Hartley]

etiology. referring to symptom mentioned as being only present for last two
years.
Dave Hartley
www.Mr-Notebook.com
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Seattle, WA 425.820.7443
Asheville, NC 828.285.0240

[isali]

My thread was prompted by your reference to the clinical presentation
occuring two years earlier for the first time and not historically earlier.
During an interrogatory with a patient I always find great value in
illuminating the conditions or event which surround a clinicial
manifestation when its apparent inception can be identified. Doing so seems
to identify an external causative factor(s), or an issue which resides in
the mental terrain. Therefore, diagnostically, I would think this
information from your patient would prove of value.

[Rhonda Bird]

Please... the occurrence of the symptom is two days, not years. Why are you
asking about 2 years ago? I've got a full case, but was just asking for
help with rephrasing of the rubric. Whatever the remedy is, I definitely
need some!!

Thanks, Rhonda

From: "isali"

earlier.
Rhonda wrote:
> You do mean two days, not years I'm sure. Person took a dose of
Arsenicum

Isali wrote:

<<<<< Separate from the rubric is the question of ascertaining what occured

[Rhonda Bird]

No Dave,

Time involved is 2 days, not 2 years. Haven't been able to establish
etiology for 2 days prior to symptom starting. If you do indeed mean 2
years, WHY not 4, or 5? See my frustration?

Thanks, Rhonda

Dave Wrote:

etiology. referring to symptom mentioned as being only present for
last two

[Dave Hartley]

It is always part of a standard homeopathic anamnesis.
There is a commonly used term "never been well since" which is commonly
abbreviated NBWS.
NBWS (grief, shock, other) are strong keynotes of certain remedies.

Organon, aph 153
In seeking for the specific homoeopathic remedy, i.e., in this
juxtaposition of the phenomena of the natural disease and the list of
symptoms of the medicines, in order to discover a morbid potency
corresponding in similitude to the evil to be cured, the more striking,
particular, unusual and peculiar (characteristic) signs and symptoms of the
case should especially and almost solely be kept in view; for there must
especially be some symptoms in the list of the medicine sought for
corresponding to this, if the remedy should be the one most suitable to
effect the cure. The more general and indefinite symptoms, such as lack of
appetite, headache, weariness, disturbed sleep, uncomfortableness, etc., in
their generalness and undefinedness deserve but little attention, unless
they are more especially pronounced, as something of such a general nature
is seen in almost every disease and in almost every medicine.
================

So with a NBWS symptom we are presented with a "striking, particular,
unusual, or peculiar" symptom, which may be of extremely high value in
remedy selection

Beyond these sorts of clear-cut & striking examples, the value of supposed
causation as part of etiologic constellation is addressed by Boenninghausen
in "A Contribution to the Judgement Concerning the Characteristic Value of
Symptoms"
http://www.homeoint.org/cazalet/boennin ... usympt.htm
Dave Hartley
www.Mr-Notebook.com
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Seattle, WA 425.820.7443
Asheville, NC 828.285.0240

[Dave Hartley]

Sorry, must have mixed-up with another post where 2yrs ago "something"
happened.
Dave Hartley
www.Mr-Notebook.com
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Seattle, WA 425.820.7443
Asheville, NC 828.285.0240