foot in mouth disease
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:47 am
hello list!
Just in for some tests and pain management. Today I'm feeling pretty good.
Writing from my computer in the Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington.
I am quite touched by the outpouring of support from the world-wide
homeopathic community. However, a little chastising is called for....
(oh God! here he goes again!)
When one becomes involved in homeopathy it is SOOOO easy to think you
can save everyone-- individuals through the entire world. The call of
the remedy is certainly a siren call-- but we often forget the rocks
on which the boats were dashed when sailors heeded the call of those
deadly women....
None of you know anything about my case, although some know a bit
more than others... You hear "severe constipation" and "opium,
plumbum, colocynthis, platina" roll out before you can blink. Do you
not think that I've tried them all?
The danger of these lists is that of offering remedial advice without
knowing anything of the case. It has been going on for years.
Yes. I know about metamucil. Yes. we DO have psyllium seeds here in
NZ. Yes. I know about bulking. But do you know that until they can do
a scan and (perhaps) a diagnosis that I am supposed to be
*non-bulking* and on a low residue diet?
Please! I appreciate your support in a general way. I do NOT need
homeopathic or herbal advice. I HAVE a homeopath who is doing very
well by me. Prayers and thoughts are fine. Specific remedy
suggestions are NOT needed and are, the very thing that scares me
about the list-- people knowing little of homeopathy accepting input
from folks who know little about the case at hand-- from people who
are willing to make a suggestion based upon a single symptom that
happens to be mentioned.
You should all know better than that.
Go back and read about case-taking in the Organon.
JW
(preaching to the converted who have had a lapse of memory)
Just in for some tests and pain management. Today I'm feeling pretty good.
Writing from my computer in the Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington.
I am quite touched by the outpouring of support from the world-wide
homeopathic community. However, a little chastising is called for....
(oh God! here he goes again!)
When one becomes involved in homeopathy it is SOOOO easy to think you
can save everyone-- individuals through the entire world. The call of
the remedy is certainly a siren call-- but we often forget the rocks
on which the boats were dashed when sailors heeded the call of those
deadly women....
None of you know anything about my case, although some know a bit
more than others... You hear "severe constipation" and "opium,
plumbum, colocynthis, platina" roll out before you can blink. Do you
not think that I've tried them all?
The danger of these lists is that of offering remedial advice without
knowing anything of the case. It has been going on for years.
Yes. I know about metamucil. Yes. we DO have psyllium seeds here in
NZ. Yes. I know about bulking. But do you know that until they can do
a scan and (perhaps) a diagnosis that I am supposed to be
*non-bulking* and on a low residue diet?
Please! I appreciate your support in a general way. I do NOT need
homeopathic or herbal advice. I HAVE a homeopath who is doing very
well by me. Prayers and thoughts are fine. Specific remedy
suggestions are NOT needed and are, the very thing that scares me
about the list-- people knowing little of homeopathy accepting input
from folks who know little about the case at hand-- from people who
are willing to make a suggestion based upon a single symptom that
happens to be mentioned.
You should all know better than that.
Go back and read about case-taking in the Organon.
JW
(preaching to the converted who have had a lapse of memory)