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| Hpathy Ezine - October, 2008 | ||||
| Your Questions - October, 2008 -- Answers by George Vithoulkas |
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| The answers that follow are not complete. It is not possible to write a whole thesis on each one as it requires everything that has been said before, but I will express the basic ideas. On the other hand these short answers can inspire serious students to ask more questions such as whether, in a chronic case, the appearance of an acute condition that may arise after the remedy, is a good or a bad sign, or when should such condition be treated and when not, or when will a case need a series of remedies in a particular order and when will such a practice confuse the case to such an extent that the patient has no hope of recovery. On another level the questions that may arise from intelligent students can continue the discussion to a deeper understanding of the problems that we are facing when we practice serious and not superficial homeopathy. George Vithoulkas
----------------------------------------------------------- I am a student of Homeopathy. I would be interested in reading your views on the X potency scale: in your experience, how does it compare with the C scale, and when do you think it fits better from a therapeutics perspective. I also would like to thank you for your time and effort in writing in the Hpathy journal - as well as thanking the whole editing team :-) Thierry, Cambridge I have written about the different potencies in chapter 11 of ‘The Science of Homeopathy’. Therapeutically I have not seen a difference between the action of X (D) or C potencies. George Vithoulkas How can we delay menses by homeopathy? Does Puls in low potency help for the same? Deepa The remedies that cure a too frequently occurring menstruation can be found in the rubric ‘FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - frequent; too’. The homeopath should only prescribe one of these remedies if its symptoms fit with the peculiar ones of the patient. Pulsatilla pratensis is only in the lowest degree in this rubric and on the contrary is in the highest degree in the rubric ‘FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - late, too’, which means that is more frequently confirmed for delayed menses. George Vithoulkas Dear George, I'm suffering from a severe headache that is mostly concentrated in the left face since more than 13 years. Many Doctors told me that it's caused by a chronic sinusitis (which is confirmed by a CT-scan). I took many courses of antibiotics but only felt the improvements during therapy. The pain comes back as soon as I stop the antibiotic and is often accompanied by a feeling of "mediocrity". I started seeing a homeopath who prescribed: Natrum Mur., Hydrastis but without improvements. He later prescribed 3 remedies : Nux Vomica, Ipeca and Gelsemium that I'm taking regularly since 2 months. They are working better but I'm not fully relieved. My left nose is always blocked, I hear better in the right ear. There is always postnasal drop, the nasal liquid is mostly colorless to white. Nux gives me a positive attitude and feelings whereas Ipeca ignites my memory and usually brings into surface the bad memories. I was raised mostly by my mother and suffered from the civil war that hit my native country (Lebanon) but overall did well in life and have a very good job. Thank You, Toufic Attieh The fact that your complaints come back as soon as you stop the antibiotics are stopped is a good sign, because your organism is not easily suppressed. It is not a good idea to take three homeopathic remedies regularly in two months. This can disturb the symptom pattern of the remedy you actually need. The symptoms you have should not be a problem for homeopathy to cure, but on the basis of only local symptoms I cannot give you an intelligent advise about what remedy you could take. George Vithoulkas What the homeopath can do for diabetic patient, if the homeopath cannot find any constitutional remedy for his diabetic patient? What is the role of mother tincture in homeopathy? Can we maintain the level of blood sugar up to normal with constitutional remedy? Can we ask the patient to stop taking allopathic hypoglycemic drugs? Manjit Singh The question you ask is difficult to answer as there are many possibilities depending on the vitality of the patient. I talk about these things in my video course that can be followed worldwide and the full answer takes a lecture of many hours. In general one can say that it is very difficult to treat diabetes when a constitutional remedy cannot be found. Mother tinctures or low potentised remedies can sometimes palliate such a case temporarily. The possibility of maintaining the blood sugar level depends again on many factors that design the vitality of the patient. One should never ask a patient to stop allopathic drugs just as such. George Vithoulkas Dear Prof. Vithoulkas, My question is about a technique some homeopaths say works well when a case gets "stuck" due to a vaccination: they give the potentised vaccine as an intermediate remedy. As I have never done this before, I have no idea if this is a good homeopathic practice and in case it is – how to administer such an intermediate – regarding potency and dose. Therefore I would like to have your opinion on those matters. The background history is: Chronic COPD (diagnosed as emphysema) – due to many years of heavy smoking – with frequent bouts of bronchitis and severe recurrent pneumonias almost every winter, for which he is sent urgently to the hospital due to "instability of general parameters" such as pulse, blood pressure etc. After one of those pneumonias he had to lie for some weeks in bed connected to an oxygen generator. This was the first time he tried homeopathy and was prescribed (not by me – by another homeopath) Causticum 6C x 3 daily. He recovered slowly to his usual chronic state, which is as follows: Very difficult respiration aggravated by any least effort (such as a little walking, ascending some stairs and even washing or brushing his teeth. For all those activities, as well as for every day’s going to work (sedentary work and traveling with his car from door to door) he is dependent on inhalations of "Symbicort" (active ingredients are: budesonide and formoterol) – about twice a day. Besides this he has also an inguinal hernia (in quite bad condition) from lifting heavy loads from time to time in his household (e.g.: he would rather move a full cabinet from place to place than emptying it first from its contents). Very impatient. Delicate digestive system. Likes beer when having fever. I have prescribed Nux-v 12C (one dose, to be evaluated according to outcome). He got an acute pneumonia with high fever but otherwise it was very different from the previous occurrences because this time he was not prostrated in spite of the high fever, but was in an outstandingly good humor and relatively good vitality. When he got back home from hospital and finished his antibiotics course he was surprised by a much better ability of respiration and easiness in his daily activities. But his GP persuaded him to get a "Pneumovax" injection to "protect" him from further pneumonias. After a few days from the injection he noted that he was back in his abovementioned state of difficult respiration. Since then, there is no help in any potency (high or low) or dosage of nux-v or other remedies I tried in vain (mainly those listed in the general rubric "vaccination after" and fit his other modalities). The only difference that remained since the first dose of nux-v is that he is in a quieter mode (or maybe now it is due to tiredness). Sorry for the long description – to summarize – I am asking for your opinion on overcoming the "blockage" due to the vaccination damage. Thank you very much, M. Suissa, RCHom As homeopathy is a scientific approach to treating diseases, there should always be a logic behind what the homeopath does. So do not let so-called new approaches or theories confuse you and stick to the basic principles. Although it does not often occur, in some cases it can be necessary to use the nosode of an allopathic drug and I have given examples of this in in chapter 9 of my book ‘The Science of Homeopathy’. However, the administration should be as any other homeopathic remedy. The case you describe is a very good example of how homeopathy raises a patients vitality and how allopathic treatment lowers it again. Unfortunately your patient belongs to the vitality level where the least wrong approach in the treatment has a big influence. The full explanation of the levels of health can be learned in my teachings which are on video and can be followed worldwide in different countries. In cases as the one you describe the only solution is often to wait until the organism has rebalanced enough to respond again to Nux vomica or give new symptoms of another homeopathic remedy. It can be possible that the organism had to change the symptom pattern in an almost undetectable slight manner to overcome the effect of the injections, so you must study every detail of the case very thoroughly. Sometimes the solution can be found by studying the complementary remedies of the last acting remedy [in this case Nux vomica]. George Vithoulkas Dear George Vithoulkas, I am writing this with great hope of help. My daughter is 20 yrs old. She had been having periods every 16 or 18 days since her puberty at the age of 10. Advised by allopathic Doctors we tried hormones to regulate her periods , in vain I must say because even after being on hormones for 6 months at a stretch, once she stops taking hormones just for 1 month period will come on 28th day but the cycle goes back to 16days once again the very next month. We tried different Doctors advise 4 times so far and had to finally give up hope of a cure. She is a soccer player, takes up lot of social activities apart from her Engg. Studies. She suffered from the side effects of hormonal treatment which make her obese, dull, leave her panting at mild exertion and totally forget soccer. To further explain you I never had hormonal imbalance but 2 yrs prior to conceiving my daughter, I was put on hormones as delayed D&C caused abnormal growth after a miscarriage and my periods stopped after D&C. I conceived my daughter while I was still on Hormones though I stopped as soon as I realized I was pregnant. I wish you advise us as to whether Homeopathy treatment can help her and how to cope with side effects in case they occur? Thank you! Laxmi jeyapaul Dear Laxmi jeyapaul, Homeopathy has proved in the past to be helpful in cases with symptoms as you describe about your daughter. If she is lucky the side effect of the hormones will go away under the use of the right constitutional remedy, but in some cases these symptoms create a new layer that needs to be treated first. George Vithoulkas Dear Dr.Vithoulkas, I have gone through chapter on evaluation of symptoms in your valued book 'Science of Hom.' and am eager to know whether you believe that the very first symptom/complaint told by the patient is the foremost and in the initial stage only this very symptom would suffice for the first remedy-selection. Later on when other symptoms as narrated by the patient earlier are connected, other selection could be made. Generally the cure takes place on this account. Do you agree? Another question is: Do you use biochemics with homoeopathic medicines? Thanks. Dr. Shiv Dua
Dear Dr. Shiv Dua, As you can read in the chapters 13 and 14 of my book ‘The Science of Homeopathy’ the selection of the first remedy is crucial to open up a case and should not be based upon shortcuts or novelties, but on a very thorough study of the totality of the symptoms the patient has at the start of the treatment. If the first consultation, however, concerns an acute disease then the first prescription can sometimes be made on a more narrow set of symptoms. I do not use biochemics together with homeopathic remedies because it is not possible to evaluate what the effect is of which prescription. George Vithoulkas
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