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Dear Members,

Male aged 34years, Excessive Flatulance, Constipation(Only partial expel),
Excessive Flatus before stool, Hair Falling, Premature Grey HairIntellutual,
Few Mouthful fills up throat, Like Hot Drinks, Regular Alcoholic
Consumption.
He has fistula-in-ano. Occasional Discharging.

I gave Lycopodium 200 One Dose and fixed next visit after One week. But he
returned back on 4th Day saying he was better only for 3-Days. Hence I
repeated Lyc 200 One more Dose.

Any problem in repeating Lycopodium, Since It is a deep acting remedy.

Regards,
Dr.V.Ankayarkkanni, BHMS.

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<< Dear Members,
Male aged 34years, Excessive Flatulance, Constipation(Only partial expel),
Excessive Flatus before stool, Hair Falling, Premature Grey HairIntellutual,
Few Mouthful fills up throat, Like Hot Drinks, Regular Alcoholic
Consumption.
He has fistula-in-ano. Occasional Discharging.
I gave Lycopodium 200 One Dose and fixed next visit after One week. But he
returned back on 4th Day saying he was better only for 3-Days. Hence I
repeated Lyc 200 One more Dose.
Any problem in repeating Lycopodium, Since It is a deep acting remedy.
Regards,
Dr.V.Ankayarkkanni, BHMS.
18.6.4.
In my opinion you called him back to soon. At least 3-4 weeks after
Lycopodium C200 should the next appointment have taken place.
It might be that you aimed and got just a "glimpse" of him, some 20-30% or
so, which would explain that he was better so soon so fast. However, very
superficial, while, as you correctly remarked, Lycopodium is much deeper and
especially very broad.
In the big frame, you probably did not hit because he should have gotten much
worst in the first place and then better in a few weeks term, if he is
authentic Lycopodium.
If I were you, I'd roll the case over anew in about 4 weeks from now and then
compare.
Analfistula is also not especially a Lycopodium disease, not to my knowledge
at least. All this suppurative stuff is a hint to other remedies, at least in
the first place - Sulphur or/and associated, Graphit, etc.
Gallstones, renal stones right sided together with dyspepsia and some colonic
cancers are usually Lycopodium associated. Lycopodium used to be called a
trimiasmatic remedy, this is the reason why it is that broad. It does cover a
hell of a lot.
The absolute central features for Lycopodium are: cowardness, physical
weakness but extreme cerebral strenght ("no sports"), likes to fight and compete
aggressively on a spiritual basis and "kind to superiors/mean to inferiors" - so
you see, there are a lot of psychical features and there are several ones
alike; in context and after a flu making amateurish mistakes in writing
(orthography) otherwise unthinkable for such a person. Also, losing weight from top to
bottom (in contrast to Abrotanum which is viceversa), so Lycopodium always has
thinn neck and arms and gets bigger step by step downwards. Also, they always
have a big nose- when looking to him, the first thing that strikes you is the
big nose dominating the whole face, like in Phosphorus where the first thing
that strikes is the beauty of the face, the harmonic features of the face, etc.
Many front-line politicians were and are Lycopodium as well as Thuja
occidentalis. How could it be else ... The ones in the "dark", special envoys or so,
are usually Phosphor.
Lycopodium also can evolve, develop, mostly from Ca-carbonicum children
becoming Lycopodium as adults.
Kind regards, Dr. medic. Viorel V. Bucur (www.dr-bucur.com).

Dear Viorel B Bucur,

Excellent stuff from you. Keep it up. I saw the
lycopodium in front of me ! You almost did a Kent !The
'no sports' angle is new to me. will you elaborate ?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Venkat

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Dear Angayarkanni,
My Boger's rep gives fistula in Anus (pg 611, anus &
rectum)
5 calc c, 2 caus, 2 petr, 2 pul, 4 sil, 4 sul

stool: pg 590: receding :2colch,2 hep, 3 mag m, 2 mur
ac, 2 op, 2 sanic,
5 sil, 2 thu

Silicea is also flatulent.
again: pg 594, conc. before stool: flatus, dicharge:
hep, lyc,op,thu
(elimination common to fistula sx)

The mentals you pointed are without the key -
"disposition"
also many physical generals and specific modalities
are not there.

Sure, if the generals are overwhelming, then the
particulars can be
sacrificed. But, in your case, the patient does have a
visible
physical symptom and he must be better or worse by
many things.
I believe the intellectual+ flatulence guided you to
lyc, but there
are many with this. If I were you, I will ignore this
intellectual
rubric and see what changed in his mind since he got
the fistula
and constipation and underline it. This will lead to a
different
remedy altogether.

Now, you just have to review your RX. I also saw
Viorel's beautiful
posting on Lyc. Plus the lyc man will be a hot man,
loves cold in gen
but hot food. Generally with ill humor in morning but
decided
aggravation in the evening from 4 pm.He may be thirsty
or thirsless.
Likes sweets.Knerr says in his Rep that he answers
imperially. Kent
rep says Love, power of. But also timid. Loathes
company yet
wants someone nearby. Your man need not be all the
above to be
lyc but decidedly should have some sx in intensity.

The lyc rx no doubt is palliating. The worse on
administration
is missing. Plus the well being immediately and the
quick rebound.
All are pointers to the partiality of prescription.
Down the line,
as Viorel recommended, you may have to retake the
case.

Regards
Venkat

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If you got a fast improvement then a fast deterioration, which is what this sounds like, you might have a remedy that's close but not the simillimum, and might need to retake the case to find a different remedy.

Rosemary

dosage is surely worked out on the basis of how much the patient has used up
the remedy, presrcribe on the basis of need and if you assess he needs
another dose repeat it?

But in order to assess whether the patient "needs" another dose, you have to
assess the meaning of the response to the first dose! I understand there
are some (few and seious) conditions that require high potency repeated
frequently; is anal fistula one of those?
Shannon
on 6/18/04 7:56 PM, liz lalor at lalor@ozonline.com.au wrote:

Dr.Ankayarkkanni-
Do not worry too much about repeating. It is always better to wait
after ANY response - repeating doses is mostly to get a response.
Apart from that do not worry about having given one more dose. There
are probably as many opinions about remedy repetition as there are
homepathic doctors. There are people who give 3 doses or repeated
doses or a single dose or daily doses or ascending doses... your
approach is nothing bad or good. The best guide is that individual
patient. I have seen that even remedy repetition is based on the way
the patient responds.

Homeopathy is a Systems Therapy. According to systems theory- we
only know that we have done something to the system. We can never
predict the response in the system. We are only helping nature to do
its job. We can never precisely control it. The system ( patient)
responds in its own idiosyncratic way. This is exactly the bane and
blessing of homeopathy. All the laws and rules ( including Hering's)
are based on general observations and there are always exceptions to
the rules. I have seen - both in my and others practice- that the
best worked out remedy- which covers all the mentals and generals
etc. - still fall flat on its face- and sometimes - wonder of wonders-
a remedy just prescribed on a chance lucky observation works
wonders. Do your best and wait for mother nature to execute. It is in
homeopathy we prove that- Man(woman) proposes and God(Nature)
disposes.
orminutus@yahoogroups.com, "Dr.V.Ankayarkkanni,B.H.M.S.,"
wrote:
expel),
HairIntellutual,
But he
Hence I
remedy.

Hi Christine,

"Suppression" by definition means that the treated ailment has been *traded
for something worse*, e.g. skin disease is gone but now patient has asthma,
or etc. A more likely possibility short of cure is simply "palliation" --
the remedy helps for a while, but when its effect wears off the patient is
back where they started; no actual cure has begun.

To evaluate the effect of a remedy you always have to (a) keep the patient's
*full* picture in view (be alert to signs of improvement and/or worsening in
*any* aspect of the patient, not merely the treated complaint) and (b) watch
the changes *over time* -- it may take some months to know whether a remedy
is acting well or not.
Hope that makes sense?
Shannon
on 6/19/04 3:20 AM, Dogs on Holiday-UK at christine@dogsonholiday-uk.com
wrote:

Lots of times you do not know if we are curing or "suppressing".Cure
is always just an ill defined word. Cure assumes that health and
disease are black and white. Oh we wish everything were so clear -
right. Regarding suppression or becoming better- from the way
symptoms change you can evaluate the progression or regression of the
condition and but herings law and other observations - as long as
they are present and operative- can guide us- but are not always
present. Just because a remedy has been prescribed on mentals and
generals does not mean it is the elusive similimum - prescribing in
this way improves your chances of hitting the right medicine. the
body is always in a dynamic state, the body and "vis medicatrix
naturae" is always trying to maintain a balance. It would use
anything that is available to it to improve its condition. It is not
just looking for homeopathy and the similimum to get cured. That is
the reason there are spontaneous remissions in conditions and there
are so many therapeutic modalities in the world. Hey even in
homeopathy there are so many different ways of prescribing. In Kent's
Lesser Writings there is an eczema case where he prescribes based on
just the characteristics of the eczema - all local symptoms - and he
uses this case to demonstrate how to prescribe!! Is that a
suppression. No - because what is important is giving something that
is close to the similimum and not how it was found.
What if the condition improves after an initial aggravation but 2
years later the patient ends up with a worse condition? Do we know if
we suppressed the original condition or "cured" it. Realistically
for me "cure" is improving the interaction of the person with what
life throws up - that's all - no body can be protected against
everything and we do not have control over alot of things including
environmental pollution which itself can drag people down.
Sorry for the soap box.
Thanks

to
wonders-
cured and