Minutus

Dear Rochelle, you asked about the sucking noises/actions. There is a rubric
in Kent - Mouth, sucking gums = Am carb; Bov; Carbo veg; Kali bich; Nit ac;
Rat; Zinc. Haven't got time to look in other reps now, interesting that
Carbo veg is there - asphyxiation, lack of reaction etc, a lot of this
remedy fits. But keep it simple, don't lose sight of the case.

best, Joy

www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com

What would be your reaction to using the exact opposite rubric Gen
suckling agg? Is this not the antithisis?
merrilee

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, Joy Lucas wrote:
a rubric
Nit ac;
that
this

My initial reaction to this would be more along the lines of a sense of
wariness about the prevalence of using antitheses and polar opposites - it
seems to be a very acceptable practice these days. Fine, if it is part of
the general research into the case, the pondering part, but unless the
Materia Medica points out this characteristic in any given remedy then I
have to say I would discourage this (

Regarding this case we do not know if it >>, it is just there as a
fact, for now.

Best wishes, Joy

www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com
on 12/4/03 6:08 PM, merrileecoblenz at artax11@telus.net wrote:

What would be your reaction to using the exact opposite rubric Gen
suckling agg? Is this not the antithisis?
merrilee

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, Joy Lucas wrote:
a rubric
Nit ac;
that
this
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Just musing -- I would wonder whether the suckling motion is simply one
result of her brain damage, and not that significant for repping???
(An academic point if we haven't a rubric for it anyway...)
Shannon
on 12/4/03 12:27 PM, Joy Lucas at joy.lucas@ntlworld.com wrote:

this is a style of analysis that Sankaran has promoted--at least at a conference he conducted
about 2 years ago in NYC. his point was that all things (sx) operate on a continuum and that if
you cant find the exact rubric, use its opposite.

tanya

I am aware of this, and he does it brilliantly but it is a thought process
centred around sensations rather than rubric selection. That is a problem
when homeopaths try to clone themselves onto others - this method can lead
to really bad case analysis and a false picture if used badly (imo). In
Rochelle's case we cannot make any assumptions about the sucking state.

best, Joy

www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com
on 12/4/03 9:58 PM, tanya at tamarque@frontiernet.net wrote:

this is a style of analysis that Sankaran has promoted--at least at a
conference he conducted
about 2 years ago in NYC. his point was that all things (sx) operate on a
continuum and that if
you cant find the exact rubric, use its opposite.

tanya

At a recent Jeremy Sherr lecture he made very clear that we should only rep on something we can actually see or that we actually know i.e. what the patient has told us. I went to a seminar of 4 live cases and he was trying to get us to sum up the case in 6 words andthen go to a remedy that has this theme!! Easier said than done IMO.

Regards
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

I was at a Jeremy Sherr seminar and Feb. and he did that, I found it to be a brilliant tool to use.