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H.C. Allen, The Chronic Miasms
is a characteristic difference in each individual case that gives it its individuality,
Individualization: Stuart Close, The Genius of Homeopathy
no two cases of the same disease are exactly alike.
Tx: for Vertigo: room spins, feels he is falling to right, accompanied by blurred vision. All lab work & CT Scan negative.
Conium 30c once per day
Tx: Meniere’s Disease: dizzinness w/nausea
Phosphorous 6c
- pain syndrome
– Attacks of pain, nausea, and vomiting at aproach of and during thunderstorms.
– Strong thirst for ice-cold water.
– Highly sympathetic.
– Strong desire for company and symptoms reieved in company.
phosphorus 6c 3x/per/day
In this quest for a homoeopathic specific remedy…the more striking, strange, unusual, peculiar (characteristic) signs and symptoms in the case are especially, almost exclusively, the ones to which close attention should be given,…
"characteristic symptoms" the more unique the symptom, the easier it is to find a specific remedy
Carrol Dunham, The Science of Therapeutics
characteristic symptoms needed to individualize treatment - nature is no accident that we are the way we are - our nature allows for individual treatment
Relationship to the Law of Similars - stuart close "the genius of homeopathy"
characteristic symptoms - like cures like
Tx for: feeling dirty in mirror + vaginal yeast infection
Thuja 1M
Tx: common symptoms - sore dry itchy eye / characteristic symptoms - lack of appetite
• Picric acid 200c
Aphorism 31:
Disease agents do not alone untune us.
Environmental stressors can untune vital force, if person is susceptible.
These disease agents do not make everybody sick each time.
rene dubos
Pathological changes due to biologic forces (not clearly understood).
Sometimes symptoms/signs do not show up when pathogens are present.
“Why do pathogens NOT cause disease after they are established in tissues?”
This is rarely addressed in experimental analysis
kent
Some have unusually “strong” immune systems and do not get sick.
…Or are they in another stage of disease (chronic) and do not get sick (acute)?
“How are you going to explain this?”
burnett
Cured one small nose tumor. Cured one small ovarian tumor in two years. Other patients did not want to wait that long. They died.
“Cutting off the apple does not cure an apple tree of growing apples.”
Andre Saine
Insane people, don’t get sick (and then they take over the village…)☺!
When treating the insane, they regain their old susceptibility.
What did Hahnemann mean by “disease agents”?
Environmental toxins
Anything that untunes the vital force
Infectious disease (syphilis & gonorrhea during his time)
Why don’t disease agents cause disease in ALL people?
Unique untunement of defensive mechanism
Susceptibility
what is autoimmune disease?
Attack an organ or a system
Person w/ 1 autoimmune disease more likely to get another autoimmune disease.
What are the 2 main factors that contribute to autoimmune diseases?
Genetics
Environment
Substrate deficiency, sunlight, infections, toxicities, diet, emotional, trauma
Disease = Nature + Nurture
= Susceptibility + Stressor
= Genetics + Environment