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Hi all -

I'm trying to find the remedy for a client who says
'my life and my body are two separate entities'.

I asked her to clarify what 'life' meant. (I was
hoping she'd say mind, soul, or spirit, all of which
are in my Synthesis!)

But she said life = activity. Life is in external
things.

So I need to come up with a rubric. To hand I have
only Synthesis 8.1 (and 8.0 and 7.1) and Phatak's
Concise.

Thanks for any and all suggestions.

elizabeth

Elizabeth OShea
3rd year student,
Irish School of Homoeopathy

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Murphy, Delusions; MIND, and body separated, anac[1], sabad[1], thuj[1]

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Sorry there are more!!
Rochelle

; DELUSIONS, imaginations separated mind and body are, ant-t[1], arg-n[3], carb-v[1], cham[1], chin[2], cocc[3], colch[1], graph[1], ign[3], lyc[3], nat-c[1], nit-ac[2], nux-v[1], plb[1], puls[2], raph[3], sil[1], staph[3], tarent[1], verat[1]
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But is it okay to use mind as a substitute for life
when life=activity?

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Elizabeth wrote:

But is it okay to use mind as a substitute for life
when life=activity?

--- rochelle wrote:
Maybe it would be helpful to find out what is the end result in the person's life of having this sensation.
Eg., does it have anything to do with not having conrtrol of what the body does, or is it that they don't feel connected, or ...................

Finding out what effect this has on their life should lead you to rubrics.

Robyn
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How can you really separate body and activity? What did she mean by activity? If Life/activity = external then this comes from the mind maybe??
Rochelle
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Hi Shannon,
No new rubric to add to what has been already been
discussed.
When the patient has said that he sees the mind as
activity, it is nothing strange. Thought being at the
root of actions, and mind being nothing but the whole
cluster (rather flow) of thoughts, they mean one and
the same. This is an Anac condition of a deluded
vision of separate body and mind (which has been
possible for yogis after years of sadhana(practice)
and self denial). In ordinary men, at best a
schizoprenic indication.
Regards
Venkat

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Elizabeth,
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Thanks all who replied to my query. The spiritual
aspect of mind as activity is particularly
interesting, especially since this woman's favourite
reading materials are new age self help books.

I'll follow up that in the next follow up. For now, I
went with a mental symptom that _is_ very clear: feels
as if she doesn't get enough air into the chest. It's
in Robert's _Sensations As If_, and it has two
remedies: bromium and ginseng. Scholten says bromium
complements sulphur, and this woman has done very well
on sulphur - we're a it surprised at how well she did.
Many symptoms not related to the main complaint are
now gone, and it cleared her lungs (wheeze and cough
was the main complaint) for about two months.

However, sulphur never touched her feeling that she
often could get enough air, that there wasn't enough
air in the room. I expect the bromium to touch it, and
that the cure will be deeper than sulphur - if you
feel there's not enough air in the room, you're likely
to gasp and subsequently wheeze and cough as you
struggle to breath air that you feel isn't there.

Bromium does touch some of her other symptoms,
especially dust agg - only three remedies in Synthesis
8.1, which surprised me. And this woman had whooping
cough at 3 months old, and of course bromium is known
as a whooping cough remedy.
So we'll see how it goes for the next while, and I'll
definitely be further exploring 'life and body are
separate' in the next follow up.

Thanks again for the help everyone.

elizabeth

Elizabeth OShea
Third Year Student
Irish School of Homoeopathy

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