The way we practise .....

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

Dear Atiq,

Indeed I have heard of the ability (and marvelled) of some Eastern (Indian
and Pakistani) colleagues which surpasses the ability of most in the West.
There is greater knowledge of the MM and how to practise homoeopathy. But
that does not mean that every Eastern homoeopath has these powers. Yes
indeed the measurement of the pulse in different parts of the forearm can
tell a health story - you need to learn how to read it. Granted that your
family were Hakims of highest standing and that you have read and been
taught homoeopathy for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But unless the
principles of homoeopathy are applied correctly, then these references are
of little value. You also imply that you know the Organon better than I do
- fine - if I am not making Organon sense in what I have asked you in the
past to explain, then please tell me which aphorism I should be reading and
understanding.

There is a great notion in industry for things never to change. When I
inspect certain factories and installations - I sometimes see equipment
poorly / wrongly installed - This goes on for such a long time without
question that in that plant it becomes the norm and the standard - yet
nonetheless it is still an incorrect installation. When you ask why is the
situation the way it is, the answer is, "We have always done it that way".
So the fact some thing has been practised in a particular way does not make
it right.

You see, you may have a greater powers of healing than I have. Fine and good
for you. But what concerns me deeply and I say this purely for the love of
homoeopathy, is that this is a 'learning forum'. Yes we have masters here -
which if I can use athletics as an analogy can not only run, but can
pole-vault. Yet at the other end of scale there are guys like me who can
just about crawl and perhaps take short walks.

The way you have introduced the subject of the specifics (with out any
reservations and provisos) can have a great damaging effect. We already see
msgs asking you whether to use these remedies in combinations etc. with the
implication that this is the way forward. My god, so we cannot work out what
the patient needs lets us give them a few remedies - hopefully one of them
will do good.

We had a colleague write last year that he was prescribing one remedy in the
morning and another in the evening etc because each covered part of a case
which he had not fully cracked.

You have a tremendous amount of knowledge, but may I therefore put a request
forward to you as a teacher for the rest of us to be careful how you put
your ideas across. If you try and teach someone who can hardly walk to do a
pole-vault, the result is only broken heads and bones.

With kind regards and love of homoeopathy in heart

Soroush
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