Robin, David and Prince John
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 4:31 am
Robin
The people who follow Hahnemann do not religiously follow so because
he was the founder or because his words are akin to the commandments.
We do so because there has been no clearer writing than his since.
Considering that that man was so scientifically rigorous and gave us
a method which still holds good when we practice and comparing it
with our scientific era where provings done in dreams and in
conference halls are considered to be guiding I would rather listen
to him than the drivel we get sometimes. I admit that there may be
other improvements but still his materia medica is as good as it gets
and what else do we have in homeopathy if not a specialized materia
medica? The rest of the stuff is there to support this radical way of
creating a materia medica. Remember – like cures like was known
before Hahnemann but not how to create a materia medica by proving.
If it had not been for Hahnemann that is one truth that would never
have been found out.
I have written before in this forum, how finding the remedy is much
more important than finding the potency. I still think that is so. I
have only used C potencies and decimals in my practice which had
worked for me. And I think LM is another such potency.
At the same time aggravations are not caused because the practitioner
is afraid of aggravations or because the patients are. Are we saying
we are doing faith cure?
They just happen at times. I have seen this in my patients and I
would not say always related to dosage. Most of the time aggravations
were followed by remarkable periods of good health. I would say
there are factors that we do not clearly understand or let us say
sometimes there are interactions amongst these factors that we have
not properly considered. For me aggravations should be avoided if
possible and if adjusting the dose is going to do that – good for it-
but at the same time there is nothing inherently threatening about
aggravations, And in true homeopathic aggravations patient feels
better in general or the condition has improved in some way so that
the patient though complaining still admits that there is some
improvement in other areas.
Having said this even I do experiment in different ways. The reason
why different methodologies work in Homeopathy is because – we are
only assisting Vital Force. We are NOT curing by ourselves. And
vital force can improve even if we help 70% or 80% or 90% and not
100% all the time. Once I think it was Rajan Sankaran who said that
he advised a patient who phoned him to take Ignatia and the patient
became alright – but had taken Echinacea having misheard Rajan.
Similimum in right potency gives the shortest route to cure – does
not mean other similars would not work at all – they are just not the
shortest routes.
Consider the homeopathic remedy as a key to open a problem lock. A
lock can be opened not necessarily by only one key. There are many
keys for a lock and sometimes even a hair pin would do…In allopathy
they blast away the lock and sometimes the door as well
The people who follow Hahnemann do not religiously follow so because
he was the founder or because his words are akin to the commandments.
We do so because there has been no clearer writing than his since.
Considering that that man was so scientifically rigorous and gave us
a method which still holds good when we practice and comparing it
with our scientific era where provings done in dreams and in
conference halls are considered to be guiding I would rather listen
to him than the drivel we get sometimes. I admit that there may be
other improvements but still his materia medica is as good as it gets
and what else do we have in homeopathy if not a specialized materia
medica? The rest of the stuff is there to support this radical way of
creating a materia medica. Remember – like cures like was known
before Hahnemann but not how to create a materia medica by proving.
If it had not been for Hahnemann that is one truth that would never
have been found out.
I have written before in this forum, how finding the remedy is much
more important than finding the potency. I still think that is so. I
have only used C potencies and decimals in my practice which had
worked for me. And I think LM is another such potency.
At the same time aggravations are not caused because the practitioner
is afraid of aggravations or because the patients are. Are we saying
we are doing faith cure?
They just happen at times. I have seen this in my patients and I
would not say always related to dosage. Most of the time aggravations
were followed by remarkable periods of good health. I would say
there are factors that we do not clearly understand or let us say
sometimes there are interactions amongst these factors that we have
not properly considered. For me aggravations should be avoided if
possible and if adjusting the dose is going to do that – good for it-
but at the same time there is nothing inherently threatening about
aggravations, And in true homeopathic aggravations patient feels
better in general or the condition has improved in some way so that
the patient though complaining still admits that there is some
improvement in other areas.
Having said this even I do experiment in different ways. The reason
why different methodologies work in Homeopathy is because – we are
only assisting Vital Force. We are NOT curing by ourselves. And
vital force can improve even if we help 70% or 80% or 90% and not
100% all the time. Once I think it was Rajan Sankaran who said that
he advised a patient who phoned him to take Ignatia and the patient
became alright – but had taken Echinacea having misheard Rajan.
Similimum in right potency gives the shortest route to cure – does
not mean other similars would not work at all – they are just not the
shortest routes.
Consider the homeopathic remedy as a key to open a problem lock. A
lock can be opened not necessarily by only one key. There are many
keys for a lock and sometimes even a hair pin would do…In allopathy
they blast away the lock and sometimes the door as well
