Symptoms
• Flushed cheeks and nose, possibly induced by drinking hot drinks or alcohol, eating spicy
foods, or entering a warm room.
• Possible permanent redness of the skin and small, pus-filled spots that are similar to mild acne.
Causes
The causes of rosacea are largely unknown,but oral contraceptive drugs and corticosteroid
ointments prescribed for other skin conditions, such as eczema, may precipitate it. Stress may
exacerbate the condition. In women rosacea often strikes during or after menopause, when
the condition is most probably linked to hormonal changes affecting the sebaceous glands in the skin.
Conventional care
The usual treatment for rosacea is a long course of tetracyclines. These are very effective in suppressing the small, pus-filled spots, but they do not tend to make much difference to the underlying red discoloration. Being antibiotics, they may harm the bacterial flora of the intestine, necessitating the subsequent use of acidophilic supplements.
Homeopathic medicine
A homeopathic practitioner will take a full medical history, paying particular attention to the onset and progression of rosacea and its possible triggers, followed by an examination of affected areas.
Many remedies are suitable for the constitutional treatment of symptoms of rosacea, but prescription will depend upon the individual. Among the remedies often chosen are Carbo veg., for when blood stagnates in capillaries, resulting in poor oxygen supply to facial tissue; and Lachesis for hemorrhaging that allows infection to set in. Psorinum is prescribed for problems of the sebaceous glands; and Rhus tox. is given for infection such as that forming boils. Homeopathic remedies prescribed for acute symptoms include Belladonna, for the early stages of rosacea,when the face is red, dry, and burning hot; and Arsen. alb., when the skin is flaky and scaly, there is restlessness, and the condition is better for warmth generally as well as for warm compresses applied to the affected areas. Viola tri. may be prescribed if rosacea is mainly concentrated on the chin, and the urine smells like cat urine; while Silica is given if the main problem is pustules that remain for long periods of time. Calc. phos. is prescribed for rosacea that is found mainly on the nose, and is accompanied by many pimples; and Kali. brom. is given when the forehead and cheeks in particular are flushed, and there are itchy pustules.Lifestyle Specifically, if rosacea is associated with vaginal discharge and general fatigue in women, a yeast- and sugar-free diet accompanied by acidophilic supplements is advisable. Naturopaths—those who promote health and natural healing by means of diet, exercise, and complementary care—believe that rosacea develops as a result of both stress and an inappropriate diet, especially one that is high in animal protein and fat, refined carbohydrates, and dairy products. Following a mainly fish and vegetarian diet for one month may be beneficial. Alcohol and coffee are best avoided. If stress is an aggravating factor, relaxation techniques, yoga, meditation, or tai chi may help on a daily basis. Any emotional problems should be solved, with the help of a counselor if necessary. Local applications of calendula solution or tea-tree oil may alleviate the condition (10 drops calendula mother tincture to 1.25 quarts [liters] cooled, boiled water, or 2 drops tea-tree oil).
CASE HISTORY
William was a 57-year-old retired blacksmith. He came to the consultation with a ten-year
history of rosacea. It had star ted with small spots above the eyebrows, but had progressed to boils and redness of the whole face. He had been prescribed an antibiotic, oxytetracycline, which upset his bowels, and then another form of tetracycline to be applied (as a solution) to the affected areas.
PERSONAL DETAILS
As well as a red face and several small boils on his nose, William had a coated tongue, a slightly swollen upper lip, and a strong body odor. He described himself as superstitious and a per fectionist. He became depressed easily, and worried constantly about his health.
FOOD PREFERENCES
William had a huge appetite, even needing to eat in the middle of the night, but he never put on any weight. He liked beer and acidic foods, but not meat. He had a great thirst, but his skin condition was exacerbated by drinking coffee.
GENERAL DETAILS
William felt the cold greatly, and wore a lot of clothes even in summer. He hated winter and loved hot, sunny weather. Despite this, he had a tendency to feel very hot in bed, and did not like becoming overheated from physical exer tion.
PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW-UP
William was prescribed Sulphur, which helped the rosacea initially. The condition deteriorated, however, if he stopped using tetracycline. He was then given Psorinum in increasing potencies over a period of about 18 months, and this produced a remarkable improvement in his condition.
He was able to stop applying tetracycline, and eventually to take Psorinum on the odd occasion only if he felt the rosacea might be about to flare up again. Interestingly, William had also suf fered from irritable bowel syndrome for about 40 years, and this condition also improved for taking Psorinum. When last heard of, William had been completely clear of symptoms
of rosacea for four years.
SKIN & BONES
The skin is the body’s outermost boundary and, in effect, its largest organ, accounting for
16 percent of total body weight. It is shed and renewed at a rate of 1 oz (25 g) a month. The
skin protects the body by waterproofing it, reacting to sunlight, regulating temperature,
and providing a barrier to invading organisms. It also supplies the brain with a range of sensory
information. Skin problems often result from regulatory imbalances (acne rosacea and psoriasis) or allergy (eczema).The skeleton is an extensive framework of bones, attached to which are skeletal muscles. Together they coordinate the body’s movements. Individual bones move against each other by means of joints. The skeleton also provides support and protection for some of the body’s most important organs, such as the brain, spinal cord, heart, and lungs. Diseases of the skeleton
often result from degeneration of joints (osteoarthritis) or autoimmune problems (rheumatoid arthritis).
16 percent of total body weight. It is shed and renewed at a rate of 1 oz (25 g) a month. The
skin protects the body by waterproofing it, reacting to sunlight, regulating temperature,
and providing a barrier to invading organisms. It also supplies the brain with a range of sensory
information. Skin problems often result from regulatory imbalances (acne rosacea and psoriasis) or allergy (eczema).The skeleton is an extensive framework of bones, attached to which are skeletal muscles. Together they coordinate the body’s movements. Individual bones move against each other by means of joints. The skeleton also provides support and protection for some of the body’s most important organs, such as the brain, spinal cord, heart, and lungs. Diseases of the skeleton
often result from degeneration of joints (osteoarthritis) or autoimmune problems (rheumatoid arthritis).
DIABETES
Symptoms
• Frequent and copious urination.
• Continuous thirst.
• Tiredness and apathy as a result of reduced energy production.
• Possible loss of weight.
• Possible cramps, blurred vision, faintness, breathlessness, erectile dysfunction, menstrual problems, and lowering of resistance to infection.
Causes
There is a genetic tendency to develop diabetes. In young people it is believed to result from a viral infection, although it may be due to auto-immune problems. It usually strikes between the ages of 10 and 15. In Type 2 diabetes, the main factor is obesity. The body becomes resistant to the effects of insulin.
Diabetes often comes to light during illnesses such as pancreatitis or after an infection, while taking drugs such as diuretics, or during pregnancy. Chromium deficiency may also be a factor. The cells of the pancreas are destroyed as diabetes progresses, so that insulin production stops almost completely. Without regular insulin injections, a diabetic will become hyperglycemic (excess glucose in the blood).
Conventional care
People with insulin-dependent diabetes require insulin injections and a balanced diet that regulates carbohydrate intake. Glucose levels in the blood or urine are monitored carefully; high levels indicate that glucose is not being absorbed. Type 2 diabetes may be controlled mainly by means of a balanced diet, although drugs may be necessary to stimulate the production of insulin. Insulin injections may also be required. It is important, especially for those taking drugs, to eat at regular intervals to prevent hypoglycemia (too little glucose in the blood).
Homeopathic medicine
Constitutional homeopathic treatment for diabetes is recommended in support of conventional measures, and is compatible with them. Prescription depends upon specific symptoms but certain remedies have an affinity with the metabolic system. Phosphoric ac. is effective when emotional stress has played a part in the onset of diabetes. Silica is prescribed for diabetes that has arisen from infection; while Tarentula is used for diabetes linked to anxiety or grief. Argentum nit., Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Plumbum met., Theridion, and Uranium nit. are other constitutional remedies often used in the treatment of diabetes.
Remedies for acute symptoms include Phosphoric ac., when diabetes is worse for nervous exhaustion; Uranium nit. for digestive upset, great weight loss, weakness, and incontinence; Argentum nit., when the usual symptoms of diabetes are accompanied by swollen ankles and there is apprehension; and Silica, when the person complains of cold, sweaty, smelly feet, and a lack of stamina.
Lifestyle
Carbohydrate intake should be carefully monitored, and the diet should include plenty of legumes as long as they do not upset the bowel. A nutritionist can advise about vitamin and mineral supplements. The loss of excess weight, stress-management techniques, and regular exercise will all help diabetes sufferers. Smoking is inadvisable.
CASE HISTORY
Sam was a 61-year-old, retired policeman, working part-time as a delivery driver. He had been diagnosed two years before his consultation with diabetes mellitus, revealed by a routine urine sample. He had responded fairly well to a diabetic diet, but still had high blood sugar levels. He complained of anxiety, poor memory and concentration, anger, confusion, a lack of purpose in his life, depression, and tiredness.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Sam came to the US in his thirties, having been born in India and lived in Africa. He was used to responsibility and pleased with his achievements, but felt burned out. He now wanted to put himself first, but he feared poverty. He felt his wife was not his equal intellectually, and they argued a lot. Sam was tidy but not fastidious.
FOOD PREFERENCES
Sam had a sweet tooth and liked spicy foods. He was often very thirsty since his blood sugar levels had been brought under control, and he passed large quantities of urine.
GENERAL DETAILS
As well as mental tension, Sam had tension in the back of his skull. He had lower back pain that was worse for stress, and he suffered sudden losses of energy. He preferred warm, damp weather.
PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW-UP
Sam was advised to eat unrefined carbohydrate snacks little and often, and to avoid caffeine and alcohol. He felt better for this, but still had sugar in his urine. He was prescribed Nux vomica, which aggravated him initially, then made him feel better. He soon became irritable and depressed, however. The remedy was repeated twice, after which he had more energy and felt less irritable. China was tried because of Sam’s history of malaria while in Africa, but to little effect. Sulphuric ac. seemed to help him most, especially with the restlessness and irritation that he experienced on exposure to pollution while driving. When last seen, Sam had detected no sugar in his urine for several months.
• Frequent and copious urination.
• Continuous thirst.
• Tiredness and apathy as a result of reduced energy production.
• Possible loss of weight.
• Possible cramps, blurred vision, faintness, breathlessness, erectile dysfunction, menstrual problems, and lowering of resistance to infection.
Causes
There is a genetic tendency to develop diabetes. In young people it is believed to result from a viral infection, although it may be due to auto-immune problems. It usually strikes between the ages of 10 and 15. In Type 2 diabetes, the main factor is obesity. The body becomes resistant to the effects of insulin.
Diabetes often comes to light during illnesses such as pancreatitis or after an infection, while taking drugs such as diuretics, or during pregnancy. Chromium deficiency may also be a factor. The cells of the pancreas are destroyed as diabetes progresses, so that insulin production stops almost completely. Without regular insulin injections, a diabetic will become hyperglycemic (excess glucose in the blood).
Conventional care
People with insulin-dependent diabetes require insulin injections and a balanced diet that regulates carbohydrate intake. Glucose levels in the blood or urine are monitored carefully; high levels indicate that glucose is not being absorbed. Type 2 diabetes may be controlled mainly by means of a balanced diet, although drugs may be necessary to stimulate the production of insulin. Insulin injections may also be required. It is important, especially for those taking drugs, to eat at regular intervals to prevent hypoglycemia (too little glucose in the blood).
Homeopathic medicine
Constitutional homeopathic treatment for diabetes is recommended in support of conventional measures, and is compatible with them. Prescription depends upon specific symptoms but certain remedies have an affinity with the metabolic system. Phosphoric ac. is effective when emotional stress has played a part in the onset of diabetes. Silica is prescribed for diabetes that has arisen from infection; while Tarentula is used for diabetes linked to anxiety or grief. Argentum nit., Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Plumbum met., Theridion, and Uranium nit. are other constitutional remedies often used in the treatment of diabetes.
Remedies for acute symptoms include Phosphoric ac., when diabetes is worse for nervous exhaustion; Uranium nit. for digestive upset, great weight loss, weakness, and incontinence; Argentum nit., when the usual symptoms of diabetes are accompanied by swollen ankles and there is apprehension; and Silica, when the person complains of cold, sweaty, smelly feet, and a lack of stamina.
Lifestyle
Carbohydrate intake should be carefully monitored, and the diet should include plenty of legumes as long as they do not upset the bowel. A nutritionist can advise about vitamin and mineral supplements. The loss of excess weight, stress-management techniques, and regular exercise will all help diabetes sufferers. Smoking is inadvisable.
CASE HISTORY
Sam was a 61-year-old, retired policeman, working part-time as a delivery driver. He had been diagnosed two years before his consultation with diabetes mellitus, revealed by a routine urine sample. He had responded fairly well to a diabetic diet, but still had high blood sugar levels. He complained of anxiety, poor memory and concentration, anger, confusion, a lack of purpose in his life, depression, and tiredness.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Sam came to the US in his thirties, having been born in India and lived in Africa. He was used to responsibility and pleased with his achievements, but felt burned out. He now wanted to put himself first, but he feared poverty. He felt his wife was not his equal intellectually, and they argued a lot. Sam was tidy but not fastidious.
FOOD PREFERENCES
Sam had a sweet tooth and liked spicy foods. He was often very thirsty since his blood sugar levels had been brought under control, and he passed large quantities of urine.
GENERAL DETAILS
As well as mental tension, Sam had tension in the back of his skull. He had lower back pain that was worse for stress, and he suffered sudden losses of energy. He preferred warm, damp weather.
PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW-UP
Sam was advised to eat unrefined carbohydrate snacks little and often, and to avoid caffeine and alcohol. He felt better for this, but still had sugar in his urine. He was prescribed Nux vomica, which aggravated him initially, then made him feel better. He soon became irritable and depressed, however. The remedy was repeated twice, after which he had more energy and felt less irritable. China was tried because of Sam’s history of malaria while in Africa, but to little effect. Sulphuric ac. seemed to help him most, especially with the restlessness and irritation that he experienced on exposure to pollution while driving. When last seen, Sam had detected no sugar in his urine for several months.
IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME (IBS)
Symptoms
• Alternating constipation and diarrhea.
• Cramping pains in the lower abdomen and sometimes the feeling of not having emptied the bowel on passing stools.
• Production of copious amounts of flatulence, the passing of which usually brings relief.
Causes
There may be several causes of IBS. The basic one is a disturbance in the action of the large intestinal muscle. This may be the result of stress at work or due to emotional upset, for example, or of fear, such as that of serious illness. It may be the result of a low-fiber diet or an intolerance of wheat, corn, dairy products, fruits, tea, coffee, or vegetables. IBS may also be due to an overgrowth of organisms such as Candida albicans in the digestive tract, to the excessive use of laxatives, or to spinal maladjustment that affects nerves serving the digestive system.
Conventional care
IBS is treated with antispasmodic drugs and other painkillers, antidiarrheal drugs, and a high-fiber diet. Counseling may be recommended for those suffering from stress. Diagnosis is made after ruling out the possibility of other ailments with similar symptoms, such as ulcerative colitis or cancer. A physical examination may include the passing of an instrument into the anus and colon—a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy—or a barium enema, which outlines the inside of the intestine.
Homeopathic medicine
A homeopathic practitioner will take a full medical history, paying particular attention to food preferences and IBS triggers. Constitutional remedies will be determined largely by an individual’s symptoms , but certain remedies have an affinity with the colon. Argentum nit. is indicated for irritation of the mucous membranes of the intestine and problems with the control of the gut by the autonomic nervous system. Cantharis is associated with inflammation of the whole gastrointestinal tract, especially the lower bowel. Colocynthis is also used to treat irritation of the gastrointestinal tract. Other constitutional remedies often used are Arsen. alb., Carbo veg., Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, and China.
Remedies for acute symptoms include Argentum nit., for excessive flatulence, constipation alternating with diarrhea, pain in the left, upper abdomen, mucus in the stools, fluttering in the stomach, and great apprehension. Colocynthis is prescribed for griping pains that are relieved by bending double or applying pressure to the abdomen, and that are associated with anger. Cantharis is particularly suitable for treating women who have burning abdominal pains, cystitis, great thirst, nausea, and vomiting.
Lifestyle
Relaxation techniques will help stress-related problems. Fluid intake should be increased, but alcohol consumption reduced. Regular meals and exercise are both essential. If a particular food is believed to aggravate the condition, it should be eliminated from the diet for at least four days, and then reintroduced and symptoms observed. A nutritionist can advise about this and dietary changes that might be beneficial. An osteopath or physiotherapist may be able to help if there is spinal maladjustment.
CASE HISTORY
Alf was a 42-year-old construction worker who experienced periods of loose bowel movements and lower abdominal spasms lasting for a couple of months. This had begun two years before—after the breakup of a relationship. He was taking antispasmodic and antidiarrheal drugs.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Alf was convinced that his symptoms were stress-induced. He would get diarrhea, for example, if he was lonely. He often woke terrified in the middle of the night.
FOOD PREFERENCES
Alf had very few likes and dislikes, and no foods seemed to aggravate his condition. He had a great thirst, mainly for acidic drinks. Lemon juice relieved his symptoms.
FEARS
Alf feared darkness, looking into deep water, and being alone, and worried that dogs might attack him. He hated cemeteries and anything connected with death.
GENERAL DETAILS
Alf slept badly and snored loudly. He complained of thrush, ear infections, bad breath, dry skin, and fatigue. He was better in company, and for light and warmth. He was incontinent when frightened.
PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW-UP
Since Alf’s condition was related to emotional stress, he was given Stramonium. A month later he was much better but still complained of abdominal spasms and colicky pains in the intestines. He was prescribed Cuprum. At his next appointment, he revealed that a preference for masturbation had contributed to the failure of his relationship. He was given Bufo for this masturbatory tendency. A month later, his bowels were much better as a result of the Cuprum. He felt that he had come to terms with his sexuality, and he had a new relationship. He rarely suffered pain or diarrhea, but was still not happy on his own. Stramonium was repeated. Alf was not seen for eight months, when IBS recurred due to stress. Stramonium was again given, since when Alf has been fine.
• Alternating constipation and diarrhea.
• Cramping pains in the lower abdomen and sometimes the feeling of not having emptied the bowel on passing stools.
• Production of copious amounts of flatulence, the passing of which usually brings relief.
Causes
There may be several causes of IBS. The basic one is a disturbance in the action of the large intestinal muscle. This may be the result of stress at work or due to emotional upset, for example, or of fear, such as that of serious illness. It may be the result of a low-fiber diet or an intolerance of wheat, corn, dairy products, fruits, tea, coffee, or vegetables. IBS may also be due to an overgrowth of organisms such as Candida albicans in the digestive tract, to the excessive use of laxatives, or to spinal maladjustment that affects nerves serving the digestive system.
Conventional care
IBS is treated with antispasmodic drugs and other painkillers, antidiarrheal drugs, and a high-fiber diet. Counseling may be recommended for those suffering from stress. Diagnosis is made after ruling out the possibility of other ailments with similar symptoms, such as ulcerative colitis or cancer. A physical examination may include the passing of an instrument into the anus and colon—a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy—or a barium enema, which outlines the inside of the intestine.
Homeopathic medicine
A homeopathic practitioner will take a full medical history, paying particular attention to food preferences and IBS triggers. Constitutional remedies will be determined largely by an individual’s symptoms , but certain remedies have an affinity with the colon. Argentum nit. is indicated for irritation of the mucous membranes of the intestine and problems with the control of the gut by the autonomic nervous system. Cantharis is associated with inflammation of the whole gastrointestinal tract, especially the lower bowel. Colocynthis is also used to treat irritation of the gastrointestinal tract. Other constitutional remedies often used are Arsen. alb., Carbo veg., Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, and China.
Remedies for acute symptoms include Argentum nit., for excessive flatulence, constipation alternating with diarrhea, pain in the left, upper abdomen, mucus in the stools, fluttering in the stomach, and great apprehension. Colocynthis is prescribed for griping pains that are relieved by bending double or applying pressure to the abdomen, and that are associated with anger. Cantharis is particularly suitable for treating women who have burning abdominal pains, cystitis, great thirst, nausea, and vomiting.
Lifestyle
Relaxation techniques will help stress-related problems. Fluid intake should be increased, but alcohol consumption reduced. Regular meals and exercise are both essential. If a particular food is believed to aggravate the condition, it should be eliminated from the diet for at least four days, and then reintroduced and symptoms observed. A nutritionist can advise about this and dietary changes that might be beneficial. An osteopath or physiotherapist may be able to help if there is spinal maladjustment.
CASE HISTORY
Alf was a 42-year-old construction worker who experienced periods of loose bowel movements and lower abdominal spasms lasting for a couple of months. This had begun two years before—after the breakup of a relationship. He was taking antispasmodic and antidiarrheal drugs.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Alf was convinced that his symptoms were stress-induced. He would get diarrhea, for example, if he was lonely. He often woke terrified in the middle of the night.
FOOD PREFERENCES
Alf had very few likes and dislikes, and no foods seemed to aggravate his condition. He had a great thirst, mainly for acidic drinks. Lemon juice relieved his symptoms.
FEARS
Alf feared darkness, looking into deep water, and being alone, and worried that dogs might attack him. He hated cemeteries and anything connected with death.
GENERAL DETAILS
Alf slept badly and snored loudly. He complained of thrush, ear infections, bad breath, dry skin, and fatigue. He was better in company, and for light and warmth. He was incontinent when frightened.
PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW-UP
Since Alf’s condition was related to emotional stress, he was given Stramonium. A month later he was much better but still complained of abdominal spasms and colicky pains in the intestines. He was prescribed Cuprum. At his next appointment, he revealed that a preference for masturbation had contributed to the failure of his relationship. He was given Bufo for this masturbatory tendency. A month later, his bowels were much better as a result of the Cuprum. He felt that he had come to terms with his sexuality, and he had a new relationship. He rarely suffered pain or diarrhea, but was still not happy on his own. Stramonium was repeated. Alf was not seen for eight months, when IBS recurred due to stress. Stramonium was again given, since when Alf has been fine.
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
The human body needs energy to function. That energy comes from food, but only after it has been processed into substances that can be assimilated by various parts of the body. Some nutrients, such as minerals, can be absorbed directly along the way down the digestive tract, but substances such as proteins have to be broken down into smaller molecules.
Digestion starts in the mouth, where saliva containing a digestive enzyme called amylase lubricates food as it is chewed. In the stomach proteins and fats are broken down in an acidic environment, and salt, water, and alcohol are absorbed. Beyond the stomach (in the duodenum), acidity is neutralized before food is treated by secretions from associated digestive organs—the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas. Bile from the liver and gallbladder emulsifies fats, and pancreatic enzymes break down proteins, starch, and fats.
The liver is, in effect, the chemical factory of the body. Among many important metabolic functions, it stores glucose, vitamins, and minerals produced by food processing but not immediately usable by the body, and facilitates the breakdown of fats, which is vital for the conversion of food into energy. As well as digestive enzymes, the pancreas produces insulin (a hormone), and glycogen (a starch), both of which regulate sugar levels. Diabetes is the result of diminished insulin action. In the small intestine, the breakdown of food is completed. Nutrients are absorbed into the blood, carried to cells, and used in the release of energy. Undigested food is expelled from the anus.
Digestive ailments such as irritable bowel syndrome or ulcerative colitis are believed to result from, among other factors, an unsuitable diet or chemical imbalances in the metabolic process.
Digestion starts in the mouth, where saliva containing a digestive enzyme called amylase lubricates food as it is chewed. In the stomach proteins and fats are broken down in an acidic environment, and salt, water, and alcohol are absorbed. Beyond the stomach (in the duodenum), acidity is neutralized before food is treated by secretions from associated digestive organs—the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas. Bile from the liver and gallbladder emulsifies fats, and pancreatic enzymes break down proteins, starch, and fats.
The liver is, in effect, the chemical factory of the body. Among many important metabolic functions, it stores glucose, vitamins, and minerals produced by food processing but not immediately usable by the body, and facilitates the breakdown of fats, which is vital for the conversion of food into energy. As well as digestive enzymes, the pancreas produces insulin (a hormone), and glycogen (a starch), both of which regulate sugar levels. Diabetes is the result of diminished insulin action. In the small intestine, the breakdown of food is completed. Nutrients are absorbed into the blood, carried to cells, and used in the release of energy. Undigested food is expelled from the anus.
Digestive ailments such as irritable bowel syndrome or ulcerative colitis are believed to result from, among other factors, an unsuitable diet or chemical imbalances in the metabolic process.
TREATMENTS FOR THE MIND
• Breathing and relaxation techniques: for managing stress and treating mental conditions including phobias, insomnia, and depression.
• Meditation: focusing on feelings of inner peace and fulfillment rather than on thought processes for relief of stress and promotion of well-being.
• Psychotherapy and counseling: talking to a skilled listener as a treatment for mental and emotional disorders.
• Hypnotherapy: use of a trancelike state of consciousness to influence physical and mental conditions—for example, desensitizing pain.
• Creative therapies: use of sounds, music, or art to treat mental and emotional disorders.
• Meditation: focusing on feelings of inner peace and fulfillment rather than on thought processes for relief of stress and promotion of well-being.
• Psychotherapy and counseling: talking to a skilled listener as a treatment for mental and emotional disorders.
• Hypnotherapy: use of a trancelike state of consciousness to influence physical and mental conditions—for example, desensitizing pain.
• Creative therapies: use of sounds, music, or art to treat mental and emotional disorders.
TREATMENTS FOR THE BODY
• Breathing and relaxation techniques: for relief of pain and stress-related symptoms.
• Touch therapies: pressure or massage for relaxation, relief of ailments, and promotion of health (for example, aromatherapy, reflexology).
• Manipulation: for disorders of the spine, joints, and muscles, and for body alignment (for example, physiotherapy, osteopathy).
• Physical reeducation: for tension release, body alignment, and improved posture and flexibility (for example, Hellerwork, Alexander technique).
• Movement therapies: for increased vitality and promotion of self-healing (for example, tai chi, yoga, dance movement therapy).
• Touch therapies: pressure or massage for relaxation, relief of ailments, and promotion of health (for example, aromatherapy, reflexology).
• Manipulation: for disorders of the spine, joints, and muscles, and for body alignment (for example, physiotherapy, osteopathy).
• Physical reeducation: for tension release, body alignment, and improved posture and flexibility (for example, Hellerwork, Alexander technique).
• Movement therapies: for increased vitality and promotion of self-healing (for example, tai chi, yoga, dance movement therapy).
STAYING IN SHAPE
• Learn breathing techniques to maximize the benefits of exercise.
• Include exercise in a daily routine—for example, climb stairs rather than take an elevator.
• Plan a weekly exercise program.
• Aim to improve energy levels, brain power, and mood.
• Choose activities for specific purposes such as muscle coordination, strength, and endurance, cardiovascular endurance, or flexibility.
• Always warm up before exercising and stretch out afterward.
• Use exercise as a means of getting time to yourself, or meeting people, or as a challenge.
• Include exercise in a daily routine—for example, climb stairs rather than take an elevator.
• Plan a weekly exercise program.
• Aim to improve energy levels, brain power, and mood.
• Choose activities for specific purposes such as muscle coordination, strength, and endurance, cardiovascular endurance, or flexibility.
• Always warm up before exercising and stretch out afterward.
• Use exercise as a means of getting time to yourself, or meeting people, or as a challenge.
MANAGING STRESS
• Take periods of rest during the day and get enough sleep at night.
• Include periods of relaxation and exercise in a daily routine.
• Prioritize and organize tasks.
• Delegate, and learn to say "no" to extra work.
• Eat properly and regularly and get plenty of fresh air.
• Make time for leisure activities and socializing with family and friends.
• Take a vacation.
• Cultivate a positive attitude to all things.
• Face up to problems rather than putting them off.
• Include periods of relaxation and exercise in a daily routine.
• Prioritize and organize tasks.
• Delegate, and learn to say "no" to extra work.
• Eat properly and regularly and get plenty of fresh air.
• Make time for leisure activities and socializing with family and friends.
• Take a vacation.
• Cultivate a positive attitude to all things.
• Face up to problems rather than putting them off.
IMPROVING SURROUNDINGS
• Prohibit smoking at home and at work.
• Reduce the risk of allergies by keeping the home dust-free.
• Use environmentally friendly household products rather than strong, chemical-based substances that are potentially irritating.
• Avoid using heavily perfumed toiletries and skin-care products.
• Avoid polluted or noisy environments.
• Humidify or dehumidify rooms as necessary.
• Make rooms draft-free but with adequate ventilation.
• Wear natural fibers.
• Create an area that is conducive to relaxation.
• Reduce the risk of allergies by keeping the home dust-free.
• Use environmentally friendly household products rather than strong, chemical-based substances that are potentially irritating.
• Avoid using heavily perfumed toiletries and skin-care products.
• Avoid polluted or noisy environments.
• Humidify or dehumidify rooms as necessary.
• Make rooms draft-free but with adequate ventilation.
• Wear natural fibers.
• Create an area that is conducive to relaxation.
EATING FOR HEALTH
• Obtain protein from vegetarian sources rather than meat and dairy products.
• Eat foods that are rich in vitamins and minerals or take supplements.
• Cut down on refined carbohydrates, salt, animal fats, sugar, yeast, and processed foods.
• Drink plenty of fluids.
• Reduce consumption of caffeine and alcohol.
• Eat regular meals.
• Lose weight if necessary.
• Consult a dietician about specific needs.
• Include plenty of fiber in the diet.
• Use healthy cooking methods—for example, broiling rather than frying.
• Eat foods that are rich in vitamins and minerals or take supplements.
• Cut down on refined carbohydrates, salt, animal fats, sugar, yeast, and processed foods.
• Drink plenty of fluids.
• Reduce consumption of caffeine and alcohol.
• Eat regular meals.
• Lose weight if necessary.
• Consult a dietician about specific needs.
• Include plenty of fiber in the diet.
• Use healthy cooking methods—for example, broiling rather than frying.
STROKE
Symptoms
• Possible sudden loss of speech or the ability to move.
• Sudden heaviness or numbness of the limbs. Blurred vision.
• Confusion, dizziness, and loss of consciousness.
Causes
A stroke may result from a thrombosis, an embolism, or a hemorrhage. Cerebral thrombosis may be due to atherosclerosis, when blood vessels are narrowed by fatty deposits. In an embolism, a small blood clot breaks off an artery wall somewhere in the body and lodges in an artery supplying the brain. A hemorrhage occurs when blood leaks out of a weak-walled artery in the brain. Other causes of stroke include atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat), damaged heart valves, or a heart attack. All three may lead to the formation of clots in the heart. These may travel to the brain, causing an embolism. Strokes are more common in those with diabetes, smokers, women on oral contraceptives, and people with high cholesterol levels.
Conventional care
One in two first strokes is fatal. Recovery depends upon the severity of the stroke and rehabilitation. Scanning methods can establish the cause of a stroke and the extent of the damage. Thrombolytic drugs may be used to dissolve blood clots, and aspirin and anticoagulants to prevent further clots. Surgery may be needed to remove arterial obstructions. About half of those who survive a stroke recover to a greater or lesser degree. Those with disabilities may require physiotherapy, speech therapy, or occupational therapy.
Homeopathic medicine
Constitutional treatment from an experienced homeopathic practitioner can play an important complementary role in recuperation after a stroke. The choice of constitutional remedy will be mainly influenced by the stroke victim’s specific symptoms, but remedies that have an affinity with the blood vessels include Arnica, which is indicated for shock and a hemorrhagic stroke; Hyoscyamus, which is effective for a paralytic stroke that is associated with confused and inappropriate behavior; and Opium, for a major stroke with total muscular relaxation and unconsciousness. Nux vomica and Rhus tox. may also be prescribed constitutionally.
Specific remedies to be taken during a stroke and to aid recovery include Aconite, if a patient is panicky and afraid of dying; and Opium, if they become unconscious, with a bluish, florid face and heavy, labored breathing. Arnica is good immediately after a stroke and Aurum met. if there is great depression. Baryta carb. is suitable for the very elderly and the physically and mentally weak.
Lifestyle
Diet and the management of stress levels are important in stroke prevention and for those who have already suffered a stroke. The diet should be modified in order to reduce the amount of animal fats and proteins consumed—including dairy products—and to increase fiber intake. It is advisable to eat plenty of fruits and fresh vegetables every day, and to lose excess weight and exercise regularly. If the stroke is thrombotic, the herb ginkgo biloba may improve blood flow. Smoking is inadvisable. Relaxation and meditation are beneficial, especially for those with high blood pressure or who are under stress. Women who have had a stroke or thrombosis, focal migraine or who have a family history of heart disease, should avoid taking oral contraceptives.
CASE HISTORY
Thomas was a 79-year-old former engineer. Nine months before his consultation, he had fallen in the bathtub. Three months later, he fell twice more. He had since been complaining of unsteadiness, difficulty in writing, frequent urination, general muzziness, and poor short-term memory. His doctor had diagnosed a minor stroke. Thomas’s blood pressure was high, and he showed all the signs of a right-sided stroke.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Thomas’s character had changed since the stroke. He was by nature a leader, and was used to being in control of his life. He was thorough to the point of fastidiousness. He now felt frustrated because he could no longer drive and had had to slow down generally. His wife claimed that he was more attentive to her, but that at times he appeared to look through her. Thomas slept fitfully.
FOOD PREFERENCES
Thomas liked sweets, and salty and acidic foods, but hated pork, milk, and pudding. He claimed that pork and alcohol upset his stomach.
GENERAL DETAILS
Thomas tended to get hot at night and to feel as though there was a lump in his throat preventing him from swallowing. His stomach was tender and sensitive to touch.
PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW-UP
Thomas was originally prescribed Anacardium or. because of his feeling of being detached from reality. This remedy improved his memory, and he felt more himself. His blood pressure came down, and he felt steadier on his feet. He was then given Baryta mur. and sent for physiotherapy. This improved his unsteady gait. His blood pressure was normal by now. He looked much better and was taking exercise, although he was still forgetful. Thomas then had a fall, after which he was prescribed Arnica followed by another dose of Baryta mur. He continued to pick up and even his memory started to improve. He is still making a slow and steady recovery, and to date has exhibited no further stroke symptoms.
• Possible sudden loss of speech or the ability to move.
• Sudden heaviness or numbness of the limbs. Blurred vision.
• Confusion, dizziness, and loss of consciousness.
Causes
A stroke may result from a thrombosis, an embolism, or a hemorrhage. Cerebral thrombosis may be due to atherosclerosis, when blood vessels are narrowed by fatty deposits. In an embolism, a small blood clot breaks off an artery wall somewhere in the body and lodges in an artery supplying the brain. A hemorrhage occurs when blood leaks out of a weak-walled artery in the brain. Other causes of stroke include atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat), damaged heart valves, or a heart attack. All three may lead to the formation of clots in the heart. These may travel to the brain, causing an embolism. Strokes are more common in those with diabetes, smokers, women on oral contraceptives, and people with high cholesterol levels.
Conventional care
One in two first strokes is fatal. Recovery depends upon the severity of the stroke and rehabilitation. Scanning methods can establish the cause of a stroke and the extent of the damage. Thrombolytic drugs may be used to dissolve blood clots, and aspirin and anticoagulants to prevent further clots. Surgery may be needed to remove arterial obstructions. About half of those who survive a stroke recover to a greater or lesser degree. Those with disabilities may require physiotherapy, speech therapy, or occupational therapy.
Homeopathic medicine
Constitutional treatment from an experienced homeopathic practitioner can play an important complementary role in recuperation after a stroke. The choice of constitutional remedy will be mainly influenced by the stroke victim’s specific symptoms, but remedies that have an affinity with the blood vessels include Arnica, which is indicated for shock and a hemorrhagic stroke; Hyoscyamus, which is effective for a paralytic stroke that is associated with confused and inappropriate behavior; and Opium, for a major stroke with total muscular relaxation and unconsciousness. Nux vomica and Rhus tox. may also be prescribed constitutionally.
Specific remedies to be taken during a stroke and to aid recovery include Aconite, if a patient is panicky and afraid of dying; and Opium, if they become unconscious, with a bluish, florid face and heavy, labored breathing. Arnica is good immediately after a stroke and Aurum met. if there is great depression. Baryta carb. is suitable for the very elderly and the physically and mentally weak.
Lifestyle
Diet and the management of stress levels are important in stroke prevention and for those who have already suffered a stroke. The diet should be modified in order to reduce the amount of animal fats and proteins consumed—including dairy products—and to increase fiber intake. It is advisable to eat plenty of fruits and fresh vegetables every day, and to lose excess weight and exercise regularly. If the stroke is thrombotic, the herb ginkgo biloba may improve blood flow. Smoking is inadvisable. Relaxation and meditation are beneficial, especially for those with high blood pressure or who are under stress. Women who have had a stroke or thrombosis, focal migraine or who have a family history of heart disease, should avoid taking oral contraceptives.
CASE HISTORY
Thomas was a 79-year-old former engineer. Nine months before his consultation, he had fallen in the bathtub. Three months later, he fell twice more. He had since been complaining of unsteadiness, difficulty in writing, frequent urination, general muzziness, and poor short-term memory. His doctor had diagnosed a minor stroke. Thomas’s blood pressure was high, and he showed all the signs of a right-sided stroke.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Thomas’s character had changed since the stroke. He was by nature a leader, and was used to being in control of his life. He was thorough to the point of fastidiousness. He now felt frustrated because he could no longer drive and had had to slow down generally. His wife claimed that he was more attentive to her, but that at times he appeared to look through her. Thomas slept fitfully.
FOOD PREFERENCES
Thomas liked sweets, and salty and acidic foods, but hated pork, milk, and pudding. He claimed that pork and alcohol upset his stomach.
GENERAL DETAILS
Thomas tended to get hot at night and to feel as though there was a lump in his throat preventing him from swallowing. His stomach was tender and sensitive to touch.
PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW-UP
Thomas was originally prescribed Anacardium or. because of his feeling of being detached from reality. This remedy improved his memory, and he felt more himself. His blood pressure came down, and he felt steadier on his feet. He was then given Baryta mur. and sent for physiotherapy. This improved his unsteady gait. His blood pressure was normal by now. He looked much better and was taking exercise, although he was still forgetful. Thomas then had a fall, after which he was prescribed Arnica followed by another dose of Baryta mur. He continued to pick up and even his memory started to improve. He is still making a slow and steady recovery, and to date has exhibited no further stroke symptoms.
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
What is Circulatory System
The human body’s complex network of blood vessels is powered by a central pump—the heart . Blood is pumped out through the aorta into all the major arteries. These subdivide into arterioles and capillaries, through the walls of which nutrients pass into tissues or organs. Contractions of the heart muscle pump blood along the arteries. Blood flow along veins is assisted by the contraction of muscles in the limbs. Valves prevent it from flowing backward. Many of the diseases of the cardiovascular system arise either from the constriction (angina) or blockage (stroke) of blood vessels, from malfunctioning valves, or from problems with the pumping action of the heart (palpitations).Capillaries collect the waste products of metabolism, such as carbon dioxide, and drain into venules and veins, which carry blood back to the heart and lungs. The portal system connects the small intestine to the liver. Nutrient-rich blood is carried by the portal vein from the digestive organs to the liver, where nutrients are absorbed for processing or stored until they are needed.
ANGINA
PALPITATIONS
STROKE
ANGINA
Symptoms
• Pain resembling a tight band around the chest that can spread up into the neck and jaw and down into an arm, usually the left arm.
• Symptoms associated with exercise, especially after eating, stress, and during very hot or cold weather.
• Possible dizziness, palpitations, nausea, cold sweats, breathlessness, and cold extremities.
• Symptoms wear off after rest.
Causes
The direct cause of angina is not enough oxygen reaching the heart. This may be because arteries supplying the heart have been damaged by a disease such as atherosclerosis (arteries narrowed by fatty deposits), or because of high blood pressure, malfunctioning heart valves, anemia, or disturbed heart rhythms. Angina may also be caused by spasms in blood vessels. A less common cause is overproduction of hormones (by the thyroid gland) that makes the heart race.
Conventional care
Angina may be diagnosed by measuring electrical activity in the heart while the patient is on a treadmill, or by X-raying altered blood vessels injected with a highlighting substance (a practice known as coronary angiography). Conventional treatment is with drugs that improve circulation, such as glyceryl trinitrate, beta blockers, or calcium channel blockers. Surgery may be necessary. Angioplasty is the insertion and inflation of a balloon in a blocked vessel to widen it. Coronary artery bypass entails placing a section of vein—from a leg, for example—in the heart to bypass a blocked vein.
Homeopathic medicine
A full case history is studied along with the results of explorative tests. Particular attention is paid to triggers of angina and location of the pain. There are two aspects of homeopathic treatment: constitutional treatment aims to relieve pressure in the heart long-term, while acute remedies are prescribed for attacks. Although specific symptoms ultimately determine the choice of constitutional remedy , those that have an affinity with the circulatory system include Apis, effective for fluid retention; Argent. nit., associated with improved nerve conduction to coronary arteries; Arnica, if there is damaged heart muscle—after a heart attack for example; Arsen. alb., for problems in the left side of the heart; and Aurum, for atherosclerosis, other arterial diseases, and valve problems.
Acute remedies include Cactus grand., if the chest feels as though there is an iron band around it, and if there are breathing difficulties, cold sweats, pain in the left arm, and falling blood pressure; and Lilium, when the chest feels as though it is in a vise, and there are palpitations and pain in the right arm. Latrodectus mac. is used for serious chest pains, rapid pulse, and numb fingers; and Spigelia is given for palpitations with a thirst for hot water and breathing difficulties relieved by lying on the right.
Lifestyle
Angina sufferers are advised to lose weight and work out a diet for life, with plenty of oily fish, garlic, and brewer’s yeast, but little animal fat, refined carbohydrates, salt, caffeine, and alcohol. Antioxidant and fish-oil supplements may help; as may the use of fresh ginger in cooking. Smoking is not advisable. Relaxation techniques or meditation and regular exercise are advisable. Any conventional drugs should be reviewed with a doctor.
CASE HISTORY
Ella, a 35-year-old lawyer and mother of two children, had experienced high blood pressure and severe angina since she was 14. (Her mother had died of a stroke at 46.) Ella’s drugs included a glyceryl trinitrate spray for the pain and a diuretic to lower her blood pressure. She had had a mild heart attack the year before her consultation and a stroke three years before that. She suffered severe angina about three times a year, preceded by extreme fatigue. She often had less serious attacks, brought on by tiredness and stress.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Ella was a vivacious woman but confessed to being depressed at times about her condition, fearing that it would kill her. She was tearful and easily frightened, sometimes waking up with a great feeling of foreboding and anxiety.
FOOD PREFERENCES
Frequent nausea and a throbbing feeling in the stomach often resulted in a loss of appetite. At such times Ella would lose her taste for meat, which she usually liked. She often experienced a bitter-tasting fluid rising into her mouth, making all food taste acrid.
GENERAL DETAILS
Ella was worse when lying on her left side and on her back. She experienced low times at 11 a.m. and 11 p.m., and she had difficulty sleeping because of throbbing in various parts of her body and disturbing dreams. She liked to be out in the open air.
PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW-UP
No attempt was made to change Ella’s conventional drugs in view of her medical history. A satisfactory constitutional remedy was never found, but the chest pains were able to be controlled and eventually eliminated by regular and as required use of Cactus grand. This also resulted in a much reduced use of her spray. Ella eventually stopped having severe attacks altogether. Two years after commencing homeopathic treatment, she felt able to undertake a third pregnancy, and eventually gave birth to a healthy boy. She remains well unless she becomes very overtired.
• Pain resembling a tight band around the chest that can spread up into the neck and jaw and down into an arm, usually the left arm.
• Symptoms associated with exercise, especially after eating, stress, and during very hot or cold weather.
• Possible dizziness, palpitations, nausea, cold sweats, breathlessness, and cold extremities.
• Symptoms wear off after rest.
Causes
The direct cause of angina is not enough oxygen reaching the heart. This may be because arteries supplying the heart have been damaged by a disease such as atherosclerosis (arteries narrowed by fatty deposits), or because of high blood pressure, malfunctioning heart valves, anemia, or disturbed heart rhythms. Angina may also be caused by spasms in blood vessels. A less common cause is overproduction of hormones (by the thyroid gland) that makes the heart race.
Conventional care
Angina may be diagnosed by measuring electrical activity in the heart while the patient is on a treadmill, or by X-raying altered blood vessels injected with a highlighting substance (a practice known as coronary angiography). Conventional treatment is with drugs that improve circulation, such as glyceryl trinitrate, beta blockers, or calcium channel blockers. Surgery may be necessary. Angioplasty is the insertion and inflation of a balloon in a blocked vessel to widen it. Coronary artery bypass entails placing a section of vein—from a leg, for example—in the heart to bypass a blocked vein.
Homeopathic medicine
A full case history is studied along with the results of explorative tests. Particular attention is paid to triggers of angina and location of the pain. There are two aspects of homeopathic treatment: constitutional treatment aims to relieve pressure in the heart long-term, while acute remedies are prescribed for attacks. Although specific symptoms ultimately determine the choice of constitutional remedy , those that have an affinity with the circulatory system include Apis, effective for fluid retention; Argent. nit., associated with improved nerve conduction to coronary arteries; Arnica, if there is damaged heart muscle—after a heart attack for example; Arsen. alb., for problems in the left side of the heart; and Aurum, for atherosclerosis, other arterial diseases, and valve problems.
Acute remedies include Cactus grand., if the chest feels as though there is an iron band around it, and if there are breathing difficulties, cold sweats, pain in the left arm, and falling blood pressure; and Lilium, when the chest feels as though it is in a vise, and there are palpitations and pain in the right arm. Latrodectus mac. is used for serious chest pains, rapid pulse, and numb fingers; and Spigelia is given for palpitations with a thirst for hot water and breathing difficulties relieved by lying on the right.
Lifestyle
Angina sufferers are advised to lose weight and work out a diet for life, with plenty of oily fish, garlic, and brewer’s yeast, but little animal fat, refined carbohydrates, salt, caffeine, and alcohol. Antioxidant and fish-oil supplements may help; as may the use of fresh ginger in cooking. Smoking is not advisable. Relaxation techniques or meditation and regular exercise are advisable. Any conventional drugs should be reviewed with a doctor.
CASE HISTORY
Ella, a 35-year-old lawyer and mother of two children, had experienced high blood pressure and severe angina since she was 14. (Her mother had died of a stroke at 46.) Ella’s drugs included a glyceryl trinitrate spray for the pain and a diuretic to lower her blood pressure. She had had a mild heart attack the year before her consultation and a stroke three years before that. She suffered severe angina about three times a year, preceded by extreme fatigue. She often had less serious attacks, brought on by tiredness and stress.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Ella was a vivacious woman but confessed to being depressed at times about her condition, fearing that it would kill her. She was tearful and easily frightened, sometimes waking up with a great feeling of foreboding and anxiety.
FOOD PREFERENCES
Frequent nausea and a throbbing feeling in the stomach often resulted in a loss of appetite. At such times Ella would lose her taste for meat, which she usually liked. She often experienced a bitter-tasting fluid rising into her mouth, making all food taste acrid.
GENERAL DETAILS
Ella was worse when lying on her left side and on her back. She experienced low times at 11 a.m. and 11 p.m., and she had difficulty sleeping because of throbbing in various parts of her body and disturbing dreams. She liked to be out in the open air.
PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW-UP
No attempt was made to change Ella’s conventional drugs in view of her medical history. A satisfactory constitutional remedy was never found, but the chest pains were able to be controlled and eventually eliminated by regular and as required use of Cactus grand. This also resulted in a much reduced use of her spray. Ella eventually stopped having severe attacks altogether. Two years after commencing homeopathic treatment, she felt able to undertake a third pregnancy, and eventually gave birth to a healthy boy. She remains well unless she becomes very overtired.
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
What is RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
The breathing process is controlled by the respiratory center of the brain. The purpose of respiration is to obtain oxygen, which is then transported around the body in the blood. It ends up in body cells, where it combines with glucose to produce energy. Carbon dioxide is a by-product of this process, and is expelled on breathing out. Breathing is an automatic process: it cannot be stopped voluntarily, although its rate and depth can be controlled. An adult human takes between 13 and 80 breaths a minute, depending on the degree of exertion.
Air flows in and out of the lungs because the pressure of air in the chest is constantly changing in relation to the pressure of air outside the body. During inhalation, the diaphragm contracts and descends while the rib cage rises and expands. The decrease in pressure in the lungs draws air in. The opposite occurs during exhalation as the diaphragm rises and the ribs fall. This increases the pressure in the lungs and air flows out.
ASTHMA
Symptoms
• Breathlessness that is accompanied by a characteristic wheezing.
• Tight feeling in the chest.
• In severe attacks, possible increased pulse rate and clammy sweats.
• Dry cough.
• Possible anxiety and fear.
Causes
The increase in childhood asthma in the industrialized world during the last two decades of the 20th century is attributed by many to increased levels of pollution. There is a genetic tendency, however. Asthma is believed to be an allergic reaction to house dust, dust mites, pollen, fur, feathers, or tobacco smoke. It can also be induced by drugs, caffeine withdrawal, stress, or exercise. Foods such as dairy products, wheat, nuts, oranges, chocolate, and refined carbohydrates are known triggers. Asthma is also linked to high pollen counts, atmospheric changes, domestic heating systems, and some soft-furnishing materials.
Conventional care
Asthma sufferers receive treatment plans from doctors or specially trained asthma nurses. These include daily checks on the amount of air flowing in and out of the lungs using a peak-flow meter. In acute attacks, bronchodilating drugs are needed to widen the airways. Corticosteroids reduce inflammation. These drugs are usually taken by means of an inhaler. In serious attacks, hospitalization may be required for oxygen or the use of a powered ventilator to ease breathing. Inhalers used preventatively can reduce the impact of irritants.
Homeopathic medicine
Peak-flow monitoring is necessary, whatever the treatment. Homeopathic treatment of asthma is primarily constitutional. A practitioner will be particularly interested in an individual’s food preferences, their emotional makeup, and any significant environmental factors. The choice of remedy will largely be determined by symptoms , but certain remedies have an affinity with the respiratory tract. Arsen. alb. is indicated for bronchial constriction and Antimonium tart. for bronchial congestion. Bryonia is effective for the pain caused by irritation of the pleurae; and Calc. carb. for ailments arising out of restrictions in the movement of the rib cage. Phosphorus is used for respiratory problems linked with anxiety.
For acute asthma, or to boost the immune system, the tubercular, psoric, or sycotic nosodes may be given. Other remedies include Arsen. alb., for attacks in the early hours, with chilliness, restlessness, and a desire for sips of water; Ipecac., when there is persistent nausea; or Kali. carb., for asthma between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. causing exhaustion. If the trigger is allergy, the effects of allergens can be reduced by isopathic remedies —for example, by taking a remedy made from cat fur to treat sensitivity to cats.
Lifestyle
A pharmacist can advise about eradicating dust mites. Placing a child’s soft toys in a freezer for a few hours every week will kill dust mites. Bedrooms in particular should be kept as dust-free as possible, and carpets and soft furnishings shampooed regularly. All known sources of irritation should be avoided, and smoking forbidden in the home. Asthma sufferers are advised to exercise, but must learn to control their breathing, especially during an asthma attack.
CASE HISTORY
John Carpenter, age three, had a year-long history of recurrent chest infections. Asthma had been diagnosed two months previously. His attacks developed from chesty coughs. He had taken antibiotics, bronchodilators, and corticosteroids, but had not responded to treatment or to the removal of house dust and pollens.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Described by his mother as an easy child but one that liked messes, John had been a poor sleeper as a baby, and had walked early. He tended to cry when disciplined, and was highly sensitive. He was very protective of his sister, and was a talkative little boy.
FOOD PREFERENCES
John had a very sweet tooth and a slight desire for salt. He enjoyed fatty foods and loved smoked meats.
GENERAL DETAILS
John lived with his parents and sister, and attended nursery school five mornings a week. He was part of a happy family, and there appeared to be no major stresses within it.
PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW-UP
John was prescribed high-potency Tuberculinum. Two weeks later, he developed a wheezing cough after a cold. He was given Tuberculinum again, which made him better initially, but then he deteriorated. He was then given sodium cromoglycate, a conventional asthma drug, four times daily. He still complained of a dry, tickly cough, and was given Coccus cacti and encouraged to use salbutamol, a bronchodilator. None of a series of constitutional remedies helped. John was given corticosteroids, the long-term prospect of which concerned his mother. He was then prescribed Bacillinum as a preventative measure against colds and influenza, and advised to eliminate refined carbohydrates from his diet and to eat little and often. He developed an acute infection soon after, but responded to Phosphorus and then Sulphur, which had a very marked effect. He now takes an occasional dose of Sulphur, but is largely free of asthma and takes no conventional medication.
• Breathlessness that is accompanied by a characteristic wheezing.
• Tight feeling in the chest.
• In severe attacks, possible increased pulse rate and clammy sweats.
• Dry cough.
• Possible anxiety and fear.
Causes
The increase in childhood asthma in the industrialized world during the last two decades of the 20th century is attributed by many to increased levels of pollution. There is a genetic tendency, however. Asthma is believed to be an allergic reaction to house dust, dust mites, pollen, fur, feathers, or tobacco smoke. It can also be induced by drugs, caffeine withdrawal, stress, or exercise. Foods such as dairy products, wheat, nuts, oranges, chocolate, and refined carbohydrates are known triggers. Asthma is also linked to high pollen counts, atmospheric changes, domestic heating systems, and some soft-furnishing materials.
Conventional care
Asthma sufferers receive treatment plans from doctors or specially trained asthma nurses. These include daily checks on the amount of air flowing in and out of the lungs using a peak-flow meter. In acute attacks, bronchodilating drugs are needed to widen the airways. Corticosteroids reduce inflammation. These drugs are usually taken by means of an inhaler. In serious attacks, hospitalization may be required for oxygen or the use of a powered ventilator to ease breathing. Inhalers used preventatively can reduce the impact of irritants.
Homeopathic medicine
Peak-flow monitoring is necessary, whatever the treatment. Homeopathic treatment of asthma is primarily constitutional. A practitioner will be particularly interested in an individual’s food preferences, their emotional makeup, and any significant environmental factors. The choice of remedy will largely be determined by symptoms , but certain remedies have an affinity with the respiratory tract. Arsen. alb. is indicated for bronchial constriction and Antimonium tart. for bronchial congestion. Bryonia is effective for the pain caused by irritation of the pleurae; and Calc. carb. for ailments arising out of restrictions in the movement of the rib cage. Phosphorus is used for respiratory problems linked with anxiety.
For acute asthma, or to boost the immune system, the tubercular, psoric, or sycotic nosodes may be given. Other remedies include Arsen. alb., for attacks in the early hours, with chilliness, restlessness, and a desire for sips of water; Ipecac., when there is persistent nausea; or Kali. carb., for asthma between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. causing exhaustion. If the trigger is allergy, the effects of allergens can be reduced by isopathic remedies —for example, by taking a remedy made from cat fur to treat sensitivity to cats.
Lifestyle
A pharmacist can advise about eradicating dust mites. Placing a child’s soft toys in a freezer for a few hours every week will kill dust mites. Bedrooms in particular should be kept as dust-free as possible, and carpets and soft furnishings shampooed regularly. All known sources of irritation should be avoided, and smoking forbidden in the home. Asthma sufferers are advised to exercise, but must learn to control their breathing, especially during an asthma attack.
CASE HISTORY
John Carpenter, age three, had a year-long history of recurrent chest infections. Asthma had been diagnosed two months previously. His attacks developed from chesty coughs. He had taken antibiotics, bronchodilators, and corticosteroids, but had not responded to treatment or to the removal of house dust and pollens.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Described by his mother as an easy child but one that liked messes, John had been a poor sleeper as a baby, and had walked early. He tended to cry when disciplined, and was highly sensitive. He was very protective of his sister, and was a talkative little boy.
FOOD PREFERENCES
John had a very sweet tooth and a slight desire for salt. He enjoyed fatty foods and loved smoked meats.
GENERAL DETAILS
John lived with his parents and sister, and attended nursery school five mornings a week. He was part of a happy family, and there appeared to be no major stresses within it.
PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW-UP
John was prescribed high-potency Tuberculinum. Two weeks later, he developed a wheezing cough after a cold. He was given Tuberculinum again, which made him better initially, but then he deteriorated. He was then given sodium cromoglycate, a conventional asthma drug, four times daily. He still complained of a dry, tickly cough, and was given Coccus cacti and encouraged to use salbutamol, a bronchodilator. None of a series of constitutional remedies helped. John was given corticosteroids, the long-term prospect of which concerned his mother. He was then prescribed Bacillinum as a preventative measure against colds and influenza, and advised to eliminate refined carbohydrates from his diet and to eat little and often. He developed an acute infection soon after, but responded to Phosphorus and then Sulphur, which had a very marked effect. He now takes an occasional dose of Sulphur, but is largely free of asthma and takes no conventional medication.
NERVOUS SYSTEM
What is Nervous System?
The central nervous system—the brain and spinal cord—receives information from all over the body. This information takes the form of electrical impulses that are transmitted along a nerve network—the peripheral nervous system-which branches off the central nervous system. The brain then sends out instructions to internal organs, muscles, glands, and tissues throughout the body via the peripheral nervous system. In terms of function, the parts of the nervous system consisting of nerves that control the muscles involved in voluntary actions are known as the somatic nervous system. Nerves concerned with the unconscious control of bodily functions such as digestion, gland secretions, and temperature regulation are part of the autonomic nervous system.
A nerve is made up of strings of nerve cells, or neurons, which are the basic units of the nervous system. Some nerves carry instructions from the brain or spinal cord to muscles, glands, or other tissues throughout the body. Others carry information to the brain from sensory receptors, sensory organs such as the eyes and ears, and internal organs. Each nerve cell has parts that receive electrical messages from other nerve cells, and parts that transmit messages to nerve cells or other tissues. The cell bodies of neurons make up the gray matter of the brain and spinal cord, while the long nerve fibers, or axons, make up the white matter of the central nervous system.
All but the smallest nerve fibers are insulated and protected by a fatty substance called myelin, which also helps to conduct nerve impulses quickly along the fibers. Multiple sclerosis is believed to occur because the myelin becomes damaged in some way. The brain and spinal column are protected by delicate membranes called meninges.
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
This condition occurs if the myelin sheaths surrounding nerve fibers are damaged. In temperate regions of the world, multiple sclerosis affects one in a thousand people, and more women than men. There may be just a single attack, or repeated attacks that lead to increasing disability. Only in a minority of cases, however, is the condition crippling.
Symptoms
Possible tingling, numbness, or weakness affecting a hand, foot, or a whole side of the body.
Double vision or the misting or blurring of vision.
Possible heaviness, weakness, or constricted feeling in the hands and feet.
Possible strong muscle spasms, constipation, ulceration of the skin, and mood swings.
In more serious cases, possible paralysis and incontinence, which may be associated with fatigue, vertigo, giddiness, clumsiness, muscle weakness, slurred speech, and difficulty in walking.
Causes
The causes of multiple sclerosis are unknown. There may be a genetic tendency, but the fact that the disease is five times more common in temperate zones than in the tropics suggests a viral cause. It may be an autoimmune disease, whereby the body’s immune system attacks the myelin, gradually leading to damage of the underlying nerve fibers. Sensitivity to toxic metals or to vaccines has also been postulated as a cause.
Conventional care
Diagnosis is aided by evoked response tests on the eyes (measuring the speed of optic nerve impulses), and magnetic resonance imagery (MRI), which can reveal damage to the white matter of the nervous system. Conventional treatment of multiple sclerosis includes sunflower or evening-primrose oil, interferon (protein produced by the body to fight infection and cultured from human cells or synthesized in the laboratory), and potent drugs such as corticosteroids. An amino acid, phenylalanine, is believed to be beneficial, as well as vitamin B, and low doses of antidepressant drugs. Controversy surrounds the use of marijuana to relieve muscle spasms. Physiotherapy may help those affected by multiple sclerosis.
Homeopathic medicine
Homeopathic treatment is largely constitutional after study of the patient’s history. This includes emotional factors and, especially in multiple sclerosis, any long-suppressed problems from childhood. Homeopathy attributes this condition to an inherent weakness of the nervous system that is aggravated by trauma, infection, or the effects of toxic metals.
Constitutional prescription will mainly depend upon the individual’s symptoms , but some remedies have an affinity with the nervous system. Argentum nit. has a direct, qualitative effect upon nerves controlling conscious movement; while Causticum is indicated for the progressive debilitation of the nervous system. Nat.mur. is prescribed for problems in the brain and spinal cord that produce tingling, weakness, and eventual numbness in the fingers, hands, and arms. Other constitutional remedies include Lachesis, Phosphorus and Plumbum met.
Remedies for the relief of specific symptoms include Phosphorus, if there is frequent fainting; Tarentula, for jerky movements of the hands, feet, and tongue; and Agaricus, for weak, shaky movements accompanied by shooting pains.
Lifestyle
A diet that is low in animal fats, gluten-free, and high in gamma-linoleic acid (found in sunflower seeds and oil) may be beneficial, while caffeine is best avoided. Regular exercise and rest are important. A daily routine might include three rest periods of 10–20 minutes each and fairly vigorous exercise such as weight-lifting, which should be built up very gradually.
CASE HISTORY
Christine was a 39-year-old homemaker. Eight years before her homeopathic consultation, she had noticed that her right foot dragged because of weakness in the leg. Multiple sclerosis was diagnosed six years later, when she began to suffer blurred vision and a frequent urge to urinate. She was taking phenylalanine and vitamin and mineral supplements.
PERSONAL DETAILS
A pleasant, mild-mannered woman on the surface, Christine admitted to anger and a deep sense of injustice. She had a tendency to feel resentful and lose her temper. She lacked confidence, was depressed about her illness deteriorating, and feared the future. Her mother had died when Christine was eight.
FOOD PREFERENCES
Christine had a great desire for coffee and a strong dislike of whiskey. She liked most foods, especially sweet foods, salt, vinegar, and spices, but she disliked fats.
GENERAL DETAILS
Christine felt worse in cold and wet weather, in great heat, and in the late afternoon, but she felt better for warmth. Her symptoms worsened if she was overtired or thought too much about her illness. She woke unrefreshed from sleep.
PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW-UP
Christine was given a low potency of Nat. mur., and advised to write to her dead mother to unburden her suppressed grief. The remedy was repeated twice in a higher potency, along with advice about rest, exercise, and additional mineral and vitamin supplements, but her condition deteriorated. Lathyrus failed to help. Allergy tests proved negative, but her mercury levels were low. A digestive problem was suspected. Herbal and homeopathic remedies improved her bowel function, but the multiple sclerosis worsened. Phosphorus failed to help, and Christine was desperate. She was then prescribed Causticum on the basis of her oversensitivity to people. Her condition improved immediately. High-potency Causticum, with physiotherapy for her abnormal gait, has sustained the improvement.
Symptoms
Possible tingling, numbness, or weakness affecting a hand, foot, or a whole side of the body.
Double vision or the misting or blurring of vision.
Possible heaviness, weakness, or constricted feeling in the hands and feet.
Possible strong muscle spasms, constipation, ulceration of the skin, and mood swings.
In more serious cases, possible paralysis and incontinence, which may be associated with fatigue, vertigo, giddiness, clumsiness, muscle weakness, slurred speech, and difficulty in walking.
Causes
The causes of multiple sclerosis are unknown. There may be a genetic tendency, but the fact that the disease is five times more common in temperate zones than in the tropics suggests a viral cause. It may be an autoimmune disease, whereby the body’s immune system attacks the myelin, gradually leading to damage of the underlying nerve fibers. Sensitivity to toxic metals or to vaccines has also been postulated as a cause.
Conventional care
Diagnosis is aided by evoked response tests on the eyes (measuring the speed of optic nerve impulses), and magnetic resonance imagery (MRI), which can reveal damage to the white matter of the nervous system. Conventional treatment of multiple sclerosis includes sunflower or evening-primrose oil, interferon (protein produced by the body to fight infection and cultured from human cells or synthesized in the laboratory), and potent drugs such as corticosteroids. An amino acid, phenylalanine, is believed to be beneficial, as well as vitamin B, and low doses of antidepressant drugs. Controversy surrounds the use of marijuana to relieve muscle spasms. Physiotherapy may help those affected by multiple sclerosis.
Homeopathic medicine
Homeopathic treatment is largely constitutional after study of the patient’s history. This includes emotional factors and, especially in multiple sclerosis, any long-suppressed problems from childhood. Homeopathy attributes this condition to an inherent weakness of the nervous system that is aggravated by trauma, infection, or the effects of toxic metals.
Constitutional prescription will mainly depend upon the individual’s symptoms , but some remedies have an affinity with the nervous system. Argentum nit. has a direct, qualitative effect upon nerves controlling conscious movement; while Causticum is indicated for the progressive debilitation of the nervous system. Nat.mur. is prescribed for problems in the brain and spinal cord that produce tingling, weakness, and eventual numbness in the fingers, hands, and arms. Other constitutional remedies include Lachesis, Phosphorus and Plumbum met.
Remedies for the relief of specific symptoms include Phosphorus, if there is frequent fainting; Tarentula, for jerky movements of the hands, feet, and tongue; and Agaricus, for weak, shaky movements accompanied by shooting pains.
Lifestyle
A diet that is low in animal fats, gluten-free, and high in gamma-linoleic acid (found in sunflower seeds and oil) may be beneficial, while caffeine is best avoided. Regular exercise and rest are important. A daily routine might include three rest periods of 10–20 minutes each and fairly vigorous exercise such as weight-lifting, which should be built up very gradually.
CASE HISTORY
Christine was a 39-year-old homemaker. Eight years before her homeopathic consultation, she had noticed that her right foot dragged because of weakness in the leg. Multiple sclerosis was diagnosed six years later, when she began to suffer blurred vision and a frequent urge to urinate. She was taking phenylalanine and vitamin and mineral supplements.
PERSONAL DETAILS
A pleasant, mild-mannered woman on the surface, Christine admitted to anger and a deep sense of injustice. She had a tendency to feel resentful and lose her temper. She lacked confidence, was depressed about her illness deteriorating, and feared the future. Her mother had died when Christine was eight.
FOOD PREFERENCES
Christine had a great desire for coffee and a strong dislike of whiskey. She liked most foods, especially sweet foods, salt, vinegar, and spices, but she disliked fats.
GENERAL DETAILS
Christine felt worse in cold and wet weather, in great heat, and in the late afternoon, but she felt better for warmth. Her symptoms worsened if she was overtired or thought too much about her illness. She woke unrefreshed from sleep.
PRESCRIPTION & FOLLOW-UP
Christine was given a low potency of Nat. mur., and advised to write to her dead mother to unburden her suppressed grief. The remedy was repeated twice in a higher potency, along with advice about rest, exercise, and additional mineral and vitamin supplements, but her condition deteriorated. Lathyrus failed to help. Allergy tests proved negative, but her mercury levels were low. A digestive problem was suspected. Herbal and homeopathic remedies improved her bowel function, but the multiple sclerosis worsened. Phosphorus failed to help, and Christine was desperate. She was then prescribed Causticum on the basis of her oversensitivity to people. Her condition improved immediately. High-potency Causticum, with physiotherapy for her abnormal gait, has sustained the improvement.
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Homeopathy, Herbs And HypnosisCommon Practices In Complementary And Alternative MedicineAnne Bozzuto, R.N., BSN, MA and Thomas M. Bozzuto, D.O., D.I. Hom.
Overview :
HomeopathyOf all the popular alternative therapies, probably none generates the disbelief or hostility of the conventional medical
practitioner as does homeopathy. Homeopathy is a unique approach to healing that uses extremely dilute medicines to trigger a
person’s innate capacity to heal. It was developed by Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), who was a German physician, chemist, and
author of a wellknown textbook on the preparation and use of contemporary medicines.
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Homeopathy, Herbs And HypnosisCommon Practices In Complementary And Alternative MedicineAnne Bozzuto, R.N., BSN, MA and Thomas M. Bozzuto, D.O., D.I. Hom.
Overview :
HomeopathyOf all the popular alternative therapies, probably none generates the disbelief or hostility of the conventional medical
practitioner as does homeopathy. Homeopathy is a unique approach to healing that uses extremely dilute medicines to trigger a
person’s innate capacity to heal. It was developed by Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), who was a German physician, chemist, and
author of a wellknown textbook on the preparation and use of contemporary medicines.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/71392227/Homeopathy_-_Herbs_And_Hypnosis.pdf
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QUIZ # 9
1>Which of the following symptoms listed below are characteristic for the snake family of remedies but NOT the spider family of remedies?
a.) Sexual, feminine, and strive for a deep understanding of reality.
b.) Forsaken, masculine, and strive for a deep understanding of reality.
c.) Sexual, masculine, and strive for a deep understanding of reality.
d.) Forsaken, feminine, and strive for a deep understanding of reality.
2>Which of the following remedies listed below is considered the most hypochondriacal of all the snake remedies?
a.) Cenchris
b.) Crotalus cascavella
c.) Crotalus horridus
d.) Lachesis mutus
3>Which of the following snake remedies listed below is most frequently indicated for skin problems and has a duality between up and down?
a.) Hydrophis cyanocinctus
b.) Lachesis mutus
c.) Python regius
d.) Viper berus
4>Lachesis mutus and Bothrops lanciolatus share many similar symptoms. Which of the following symptoms listed below is more characteristic of Lachesis mutus than Bothrops lanciolatus?
a.) Intellectually competitive.
b.) Physically competitive.
c.) Destructive aggressiveness.
d.) Superficial seduction.
5>Which of the following remedies listed below is indicated in people who feel trapped and emotionally suffocated by a relationship?
a.) Hydrophis cyanocinctus
b.) Lachesis mutus
c.) Python regius
d.) Viper berus
6>Which of the following crotalidae family remedies listed below is known for problems with slurred speech, tends to have symptoms on the right side of the body and has an affinity for the brain and circulatory system?
a.) Cenchris
b.) Crotalus cascavella
c.) Crotalus horridus
d.) Lachesis mutus
7>Which of the following remedies listed below is indicated in people who experience a duality between duty and work versus staying home and relaxing?
a.) Crotalus cascavella
b.) Laches mutus
c.) Naja tripudians
d.) Viper berus
8>Which of the following snake remedies is best indicated for people whose symptoms occur primarily on the left side of the body and who are loquacious, changing quickly from one subject to another?
a.) Crotalus cascavella
b.) Laches mutus
c.) Naja tripudians
d.) Viper berus
9>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 157 which of the following statements listed below is the MOST correct with regards to homeopathic aggravations?
a.) Homeopathic aggravations are a result of the original disease getting worse regardless of how long they last.
b.) Homeopathic aggravations are a result the medicinal disease regardless of how long they last.
c.) Homeopathic aggravations are a result the medicinal disease and they are small and short lasting.
d.) Homeopathic aggravations are a result the original disease getting worse and they are small and short lasting.
10>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 163, which of the following explanations listed below correctly defines “accessory symptoms”?
a.) They occur when the imperfect homeopathic remedy is used.
b.) They occur when the perfect homeopathic remedy is used.
c.) They occur when the enantiopathic remedy is used.
d.) They occur when the antipathic remedy is used.
QUIZ # 8
1>Which of the following remedies listed below is the least evolved of the sea animals?
a.) Asterias rubens
b.) Badiaga
c.) Corallium rubrum
d.) Spongia toasta
2>Which of the following symptoms listed below are characteristic of people who require Aqua marina?
a.) Impotent character and feel undeserving of attention.
b.) Strong character and feel undeserving of attention.
c.) Lacks confidence but able to ask for what they want.
d.) Like to hide but have a good sense of who they are.
3>Which of the following activities listed below would ameliorate a Sepia officinalis headache?
a.) Yoga in open air.
b.) Eating a sandwich.
c.) Reading a good book.
d.) Watching a comedy.
4>Which of the following symptoms listed below does Sepia officinalis share with the snake family of remedies?
a.) Red blotchy discoloration on neck < blushing.
b.) Aversion to wearing a turtleneck.
c.) All symptoms aggravate into the night.
d.) Carves farinaceous foods.
5>Which of the following organ systems listed below is considered a main target organ for Sepia officinalis?
a.) Circulation
b.) Skin and hair
c.) Musculoskeletal
d.) Urogenital
6>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are concerned with immortality and tend to undergo metamorphosis?
a.) Ambra grisea
b.) Aqua marina
c.) Medusa
d.) Spongia toasta
7>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are shy like the Baryta’s, have a poor self image like Lac caninum and have trouble relating to their environment?
a.) Ambra grisea
b.) Aqua marina
c.) Medusa
d.) Spongia toasta
8>Which of the following reasons listed below explains why Sepia officinalis has an aversion to meeting her/his friends?
a.) Poor self-esteem.
b.) Low energy.
c.) Prefers constant solitude.
d.) Does not trust people.
9>Both Sepia and Medusa are creative and rhythmic. Which of the following statements listed below helps us differentiate between them?
a.) Sepia develops indifference to everyone and Medusa is indifferent to loved ones.
b.) Sepia develops indifference to loved ones and Medusa is indifferent to everyone.
c.) Medusa symptoms are <> while eating.
d.) Sepia symptoms are > vigorous exercise and < while eating.
10>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 153, which of the following types of symptoms listed below are most important in the search for a homeopathic remedy?
a.) The clinical and pathological signs and symptoms.
b.) The pathognomonic signs and symptoms.
c.) The iatrogenic signs and symptoms.
d.) The striking, rare and unusual signs and symptoms.
a.) Asterias rubens
b.) Badiaga
c.) Corallium rubrum
d.) Spongia toasta
2>Which of the following symptoms listed below are characteristic of people who require Aqua marina?
a.) Impotent character and feel undeserving of attention.
b.) Strong character and feel undeserving of attention.
c.) Lacks confidence but able to ask for what they want.
d.) Like to hide but have a good sense of who they are.
3>Which of the following activities listed below would ameliorate a Sepia officinalis headache?
a.) Yoga in open air.
b.) Eating a sandwich.
c.) Reading a good book.
d.) Watching a comedy.
4>Which of the following symptoms listed below does Sepia officinalis share with the snake family of remedies?
a.) Red blotchy discoloration on neck < blushing.
b.) Aversion to wearing a turtleneck.
c.) All symptoms aggravate into the night.
d.) Carves farinaceous foods.
5>Which of the following organ systems listed below is considered a main target organ for Sepia officinalis?
a.) Circulation
b.) Skin and hair
c.) Musculoskeletal
d.) Urogenital
6>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are concerned with immortality and tend to undergo metamorphosis?
a.) Ambra grisea
b.) Aqua marina
c.) Medusa
d.) Spongia toasta
7>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are shy like the Baryta’s, have a poor self image like Lac caninum and have trouble relating to their environment?
a.) Ambra grisea
b.) Aqua marina
c.) Medusa
d.) Spongia toasta
8>Which of the following reasons listed below explains why Sepia officinalis has an aversion to meeting her/his friends?
a.) Poor self-esteem.
b.) Low energy.
c.) Prefers constant solitude.
d.) Does not trust people.
9>Both Sepia and Medusa are creative and rhythmic. Which of the following statements listed below helps us differentiate between them?
a.) Sepia develops indifference to everyone and Medusa is indifferent to loved ones.
b.) Sepia develops indifference to loved ones and Medusa is indifferent to everyone.
c.) Medusa symptoms are <> while eating.
d.) Sepia symptoms are > vigorous exercise and < while eating.
10>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 153, which of the following types of symptoms listed below are most important in the search for a homeopathic remedy?
a.) The clinical and pathological signs and symptoms.
b.) The pathognomonic signs and symptoms.
c.) The iatrogenic signs and symptoms.
d.) The striking, rare and unusual signs and symptoms.
QUIZ # 7
1>Which of the following remedies listed below would be considered most appropriate for people who feel are offensive in nature yet have to project elegance and nobility and often complain of offensive perspiration?
a.) Tungsten
b.) Mercurius
c.) Osmium
d.) Platina
2>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who feel they are losing control and compensate by trying to maintain control, which may result in pathology that involves paralysis of the limbs?
a.) Osmium
b.) Cesium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
3>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who feel like the ragged emperor? They have nothing but they walk around as if they are king?
a.) Bisthmuth
b.) Polonium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
4>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who attempt to achieve power but get stuck doing it. They dream of spinning their tires.
a.) Lanthanum
b.) Hafnium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
5>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who have been likened to the “Godfather”. They do not need power and are complete within themselves.
a.) Aurum
b.) Platinum
c.) Thallium
d.) Radon
6>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are like the powerless diplomat. They are unable to move with the times and feel that they losing: popularity, decision-making ability and power?
a.) Mercurius
b.) Plumbum
c.) Tungsten
d.) Thallium
7>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who need to trust other people and work with a team of others in order to reach a position of power?
a.) Osmium
b.) Rhenium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
8>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who indirectly make decisions which they are not acknowledge for and who are very good at bridging communication between people of power?
a.) Iridium
b.) Osmium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
9>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 148, which of the following statements is correct with regards the practice of homeopathic medicine?
a.) It is laborious and painstaking work.
b.) It is easy and straightforward providing you have proper training.
c.) There are praise worthy books that make it unnecessary to study provings.
d.) It cannot be used alone to produce the best possible result for cure of disease.
10>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 149, which of the following statements is correct with regards to complicated chronic disease?
a.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments may be incurable.
b.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments are always incurable.
c.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments are curable.
d.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments take less time to cure than those not complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments.
a.) Tungsten
b.) Mercurius
c.) Osmium
d.) Platina
2>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who feel they are losing control and compensate by trying to maintain control, which may result in pathology that involves paralysis of the limbs?
a.) Osmium
b.) Cesium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
3>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who feel like the ragged emperor? They have nothing but they walk around as if they are king?
a.) Bisthmuth
b.) Polonium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
4>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who attempt to achieve power but get stuck doing it. They dream of spinning their tires.
a.) Lanthanum
b.) Hafnium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
5>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who have been likened to the “Godfather”. They do not need power and are complete within themselves.
a.) Aurum
b.) Platinum
c.) Thallium
d.) Radon
6>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are like the powerless diplomat. They are unable to move with the times and feel that they losing: popularity, decision-making ability and power?
a.) Mercurius
b.) Plumbum
c.) Tungsten
d.) Thallium
7>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who need to trust other people and work with a team of others in order to reach a position of power?
a.) Osmium
b.) Rhenium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
8>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who indirectly make decisions which they are not acknowledge for and who are very good at bridging communication between people of power?
a.) Iridium
b.) Osmium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
9>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 148, which of the following statements is correct with regards the practice of homeopathic medicine?
a.) It is laborious and painstaking work.
b.) It is easy and straightforward providing you have proper training.
c.) There are praise worthy books that make it unnecessary to study provings.
d.) It cannot be used alone to produce the best possible result for cure of disease.
10>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 149, which of the following statements is correct with regards to complicated chronic disease?
a.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments may be incurable.
b.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments are always incurable.
c.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments are curable.
d.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments take less time to cure than those not complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments.
QUIZ # 6
1>Which of the following remedies listed below would be considered most appropriate for people who feel betrayed, totally alone and unguarded in a new situation, and dream of intense danger, famine and war?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Rubidium
d.) Strontium
2>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people lack their own structure, are anxious and have an inability to perform anything new?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Rubidium
d.) Stannum
3>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who feel powerless, as if nobody listens to them, have an empty sensation in the chest and experience weakness < talking?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Rubidium
d.) Stannum
4>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who have a fear that others will think they are enjoying themselves too much, feel anxious in crowds, need open space, always sit near exit of the door, and fear blood.
a.) Argentum nitricum
b.) Calcarea nitricum
c.) Strontium
d.) Stannum
5>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are indecisive, insecure like a child and need back up in all crisis situations?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Palladium
d.) Strontium
6>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who have a lot of mental power, experience many aggravation from using their voice and feel that their survival is based on performance and defense?
a.) Argentum
b.) Argentum nitricum
c.) Calcarea nitricum
d.) Strontium
7>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who act impulsively and make great crisis managers?
a.) Argentum
b.) Argentum nitricum
c.) Calcarea nitricum
d.) Palladium
8>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are very social, have a lot of self worth, are haughty, and fear losing their reputation?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Palladium
d.) Stannum
9>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 78, which of the following statements is correct with regards true natural chronic disease?
a.) Natural chronic disease arise from chronic miasm.
b.) Unnatural chronic disease arise from chronic miasm.
c.) Unnatural chronic disease arise from acute miasm.
d.) Natural chronic disease arise from acute miasm
10> According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 81, which of the following statements is correct with regards to Psora?
a.) Psora developed into a wide variety of forms because it incubated through millions of human organisms over the course of hundreds of generations.
b.) Psora developed into a wide variety of forms because it is the progeny of many miasms joining to form one.
c.) Psora developed into a wide variety of forms because it is not a true infectious miasm but a conglomerate of many disease types.
d.) Psora manifested in a wide variety of forms from its inception and it is just a matter of time before it is divided into more than one miasm.
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Rubidium
d.) Strontium
2>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people lack their own structure, are anxious and have an inability to perform anything new?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Rubidium
d.) Stannum
3>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who feel powerless, as if nobody listens to them, have an empty sensation in the chest and experience weakness < talking?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Rubidium
d.) Stannum
4>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who have a fear that others will think they are enjoying themselves too much, feel anxious in crowds, need open space, always sit near exit of the door, and fear blood.
a.) Argentum nitricum
b.) Calcarea nitricum
c.) Strontium
d.) Stannum
5>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are indecisive, insecure like a child and need back up in all crisis situations?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Palladium
d.) Strontium
6>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who have a lot of mental power, experience many aggravation from using their voice and feel that their survival is based on performance and defense?
a.) Argentum
b.) Argentum nitricum
c.) Calcarea nitricum
d.) Strontium
7>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who act impulsively and make great crisis managers?
a.) Argentum
b.) Argentum nitricum
c.) Calcarea nitricum
d.) Palladium
8>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are very social, have a lot of self worth, are haughty, and fear losing their reputation?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Palladium
d.) Stannum
9>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 78, which of the following statements is correct with regards true natural chronic disease?
a.) Natural chronic disease arise from chronic miasm.
b.) Unnatural chronic disease arise from chronic miasm.
c.) Unnatural chronic disease arise from acute miasm.
d.) Natural chronic disease arise from acute miasm
10> According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 81, which of the following statements is correct with regards to Psora?
a.) Psora developed into a wide variety of forms because it incubated through millions of human organisms over the course of hundreds of generations.
b.) Psora developed into a wide variety of forms because it is the progeny of many miasms joining to form one.
c.) Psora developed into a wide variety of forms because it is not a true infectious miasm but a conglomerate of many disease types.
d.) Psora manifested in a wide variety of forms from its inception and it is just a matter of time before it is divided into more than one miasm.
QUIZ # 5
1>Which of the following headache symptoms listed below is characteristic of most of the milk family of remedies?
a.) Headache involving the area around the right eye.
b.) Headache involving the area around the left eye.
c.) Headache <> from vigorous movement.
2>Which of the following themes listed below is an important theme that is reflected in all the milk remedies?
a.) To develop a common strategy for survival.
b.) To arrive at a deep understanding of reality.
c.) The struggle between individuality versus conforming to the group’s needs.
d.) Establish a solid structure that they can depend on for support and protection.
3>Which of the following delusions listed below is considered a major delusion of the milk remedies?
a.) Unwanted and neglected.
b.) Persecuted and singled out.
c.) Sees phantoms and is about to die.
d.) Under superhuman control.
4>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who are disobedient, obstinate and tend to challenge authority?
a.) Lac caninum
b.) Lac cameli dromedari
c.) Lac defloratum
d.) Lac delphinum
5>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who tend to remain loyal to the person who abuses them, have low self worth and experience symptoms that frequently alternate sides?
a.) Lac caninum
b.) Lac caprinum
c.) Lac defloratum
d.) Lac lupinum
6>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who tend to display shameless behavior, are attracted to the color green and need to protect their neck?
a.) Lac cameli dromedari
b.) Lac caninum
c.) Lac caprinum
d.) Lac delphinum
7>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who experience difficult and frustrating situations, feel trapped, are loquacious and dream of body parts?
a.) Lac cameli dromedari
b.) Lac caprinum
c.) Lac equinum
d.) Lac loxodonta africana
8>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who empathize with, and like to volunteer to feed the homeless?
a.) Lac cameli dromedari
b.) Lac felinum
c.) Lac leoninum
d.) Lac loxodonta africana
9>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who are preoccupied with mortality and immortality, dream of losing their wallet and have an affinity for the color red?
a.) Lac caninum
b.) Lac felinum
c.) Lac leoninum
d.) Lac lupinum
10>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who fear being rejected by the community and feel they have to bear a lot of suffering?
a.) Lac caninum
b.) Lac felinum
c.) Lac defloratum
d.) Lac humanum
a.) Headache involving the area around the right eye.
b.) Headache involving the area around the left eye.
c.) Headache <> from vigorous movement.
2>Which of the following themes listed below is an important theme that is reflected in all the milk remedies?
a.) To develop a common strategy for survival.
b.) To arrive at a deep understanding of reality.
c.) The struggle between individuality versus conforming to the group’s needs.
d.) Establish a solid structure that they can depend on for support and protection.
3>Which of the following delusions listed below is considered a major delusion of the milk remedies?
a.) Unwanted and neglected.
b.) Persecuted and singled out.
c.) Sees phantoms and is about to die.
d.) Under superhuman control.
4>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who are disobedient, obstinate and tend to challenge authority?
a.) Lac caninum
b.) Lac cameli dromedari
c.) Lac defloratum
d.) Lac delphinum
5>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who tend to remain loyal to the person who abuses them, have low self worth and experience symptoms that frequently alternate sides?
a.) Lac caninum
b.) Lac caprinum
c.) Lac defloratum
d.) Lac lupinum
6>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who tend to display shameless behavior, are attracted to the color green and need to protect their neck?
a.) Lac cameli dromedari
b.) Lac caninum
c.) Lac caprinum
d.) Lac delphinum
7>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who experience difficult and frustrating situations, feel trapped, are loquacious and dream of body parts?
a.) Lac cameli dromedari
b.) Lac caprinum
c.) Lac equinum
d.) Lac loxodonta africana
8>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who empathize with, and like to volunteer to feed the homeless?
a.) Lac cameli dromedari
b.) Lac felinum
c.) Lac leoninum
d.) Lac loxodonta africana
9>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who are preoccupied with mortality and immortality, dream of losing their wallet and have an affinity for the color red?
a.) Lac caninum
b.) Lac felinum
c.) Lac leoninum
d.) Lac lupinum
10>Which of the following milk remedies listed below is best indicated in people who fear being rejected by the community and feel they have to bear a lot of suffering?
a.) Lac caninum
b.) Lac felinum
c.) Lac defloratum
d.) Lac humanum
QUIZ # 4
1>Which of the following symptoms listed below are characteristic for the snake family of remedies but NOT the spider family of remedies?
a.) Sexual, feminine, and strive for a deep understanding of reality.
b.) Forsaken, masculine, and strive for a deep understanding of reality.
c.) Sexual, masculine, and strive for a deep understanding of reality.
d.) Forsaken, feminine, and strive for a deep understanding of reality.
2>Which of the following remedies listed below is considered the most hypochondriacal of all the snake remedies?
a.) Cenchris
b.) Crotalus cascavella
c.) Crotalus horridus
d.) Lachesis mutus
3>Which of the following snake remedies listed below is most frequently indicated for skin problems and has a duality between up and down?
a.) Hydrophis cyanocinctus
b.) Lachesis mutus
c.) Python regius
d.) Viper berus
4>Lachesis mutus and Bothrops lanciolatus share many similar symptoms. Which of the following symptoms listed below is more characteristic of Lachesis mutus than Bothrops lanciolatus?
a.) Intellectually competitive.
b.) Physically competitive.
c.) Destructive aggressiveness.
d.) Superficial seduction.
5>Which of the following remedies listed below is indicated in people who feel trapped and emotionally suffocated by a relationship?
a.) Hydrophis cyanocinctus
b.) Lachesis mutus
c.) Python regius
d.) Viper berus
6>Which of the following crotalidae family remedies listed below is known for problems with slurred speech, tends to have symptoms on the right side of the body and has an affinity for the brain and circulatory system?
a.) Cenchris
b.) Crotalus cascavella
c.) Crotalus horridus
d.) Lachesis mutus
7>Which of the following remedies listed below is indicated in people who experience a duality between duty and work versus staying home and relaxing?
a.) Crotalus cascavella
b.) Laches mutus
c.) Naja tripudians
d.) Viper berus
8>Which of the following snake remedies is best indicated for people whose symptoms occur primarily on the left side of the body and who are loquacious, changing quickly from one subject to another?
a.) Crotalus cascavella
b.) Laches mutus
c.) Naja tripudians
d.) Viper berus
9>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 157 which of the following statements listed below is the MOST correct with regards to homeopathic aggravations?
a.) Homeopathic aggravations are a result of the original disease getting worse regardless of how long they last.
b.) Homeopathic aggravations are a result the medicinal disease regardless of how long they last.
c.) Homeopathic aggravations are a result the medicinal disease and they are small and short lasting.
d.) Homeopathic aggravations are a result the original disease getting worse and they are small and short lasting.
10>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 163, which of the following explanations listed below correctly defines “accessory symptoms”?
a.) They occur when the imperfect homeopathic remedy is used.
b.) They occur when the perfect homeopathic remedy is used.
c.) They occur when the enantiopathic remedy is used.
d.) They occur when the antipathic remedy is used.
a.) Sexual, feminine, and strive for a deep understanding of reality.
b.) Forsaken, masculine, and strive for a deep understanding of reality.
c.) Sexual, masculine, and strive for a deep understanding of reality.
d.) Forsaken, feminine, and strive for a deep understanding of reality.
2>Which of the following remedies listed below is considered the most hypochondriacal of all the snake remedies?
a.) Cenchris
b.) Crotalus cascavella
c.) Crotalus horridus
d.) Lachesis mutus
3>Which of the following snake remedies listed below is most frequently indicated for skin problems and has a duality between up and down?
a.) Hydrophis cyanocinctus
b.) Lachesis mutus
c.) Python regius
d.) Viper berus
4>Lachesis mutus and Bothrops lanciolatus share many similar symptoms. Which of the following symptoms listed below is more characteristic of Lachesis mutus than Bothrops lanciolatus?
a.) Intellectually competitive.
b.) Physically competitive.
c.) Destructive aggressiveness.
d.) Superficial seduction.
5>Which of the following remedies listed below is indicated in people who feel trapped and emotionally suffocated by a relationship?
a.) Hydrophis cyanocinctus
b.) Lachesis mutus
c.) Python regius
d.) Viper berus
6>Which of the following crotalidae family remedies listed below is known for problems with slurred speech, tends to have symptoms on the right side of the body and has an affinity for the brain and circulatory system?
a.) Cenchris
b.) Crotalus cascavella
c.) Crotalus horridus
d.) Lachesis mutus
7>Which of the following remedies listed below is indicated in people who experience a duality between duty and work versus staying home and relaxing?
a.) Crotalus cascavella
b.) Laches mutus
c.) Naja tripudians
d.) Viper berus
8>Which of the following snake remedies is best indicated for people whose symptoms occur primarily on the left side of the body and who are loquacious, changing quickly from one subject to another?
a.) Crotalus cascavella
b.) Laches mutus
c.) Naja tripudians
d.) Viper berus
9>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 157 which of the following statements listed below is the MOST correct with regards to homeopathic aggravations?
a.) Homeopathic aggravations are a result of the original disease getting worse regardless of how long they last.
b.) Homeopathic aggravations are a result the medicinal disease regardless of how long they last.
c.) Homeopathic aggravations are a result the medicinal disease and they are small and short lasting.
d.) Homeopathic aggravations are a result the original disease getting worse and they are small and short lasting.
10>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 163, which of the following explanations listed below correctly defines “accessory symptoms”?
a.) They occur when the imperfect homeopathic remedy is used.
b.) They occur when the perfect homeopathic remedy is used.
c.) They occur when the enantiopathic remedy is used.
d.) They occur when the antipathic remedy is used.
QUIZ # 3
1> Which of the following remedies listed below is the least evolved of the sea animals?
a.) Asterias rubens
b.) Badiaga
c.) Corallium rubrum
d.) Spongia toasta
2>Which of the following symptoms listed below are characteristic of people who require Aqua marina?
a.) Impotent character and feel undeserving of attention.
b.) Strong character and feel undeserving of attention.
c.) Lacks confidence but able to ask for what they want.
d.) Like to hide but have a good sense of who they are.
3> Which of the following activities listed below would ameliorate a Sepia officinalis headache?
a.) Yoga in open air.
b.) Eating a sandwich.
c.) Reading a good book.
d.) Watching a comedy.
4> Which of the following symptoms listed below does Sepia officinalis share with the snake family of remedies?
a.) Red blotchy discoloration on neck < blushing.
b.) Aversion to wearing a turtleneck.
c.) All symptoms aggravate into the night.
d.) Carves farinaceous foods.
5> Which of the following organ systems listed below is considered a main target organ for Sepia officinalis?
a.) Circulation
b.) Skin and hair
c.) Musculoskeletal
d.) Urogenital
6> Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are concerned with immortality and tend to undergo metamorphosis?
a.) Ambra grisea
b.) Aqua marina
c.) Medusa
d.) Spongia toasta
7> Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are shy like the Baryta’s, have a poor self image like Lac caninum and have trouble relating to their environment?
a.) Ambra grisea
b.) Aqua marina
c.) Medusa
d.) Spongia toasta
8> Which of the following reasons listed below explains why Sepia officinalis has an aversion to meeting her/his friends?
a.) Poor self-esteem.
b.) Low energy.
c.) Prefers constant solitude.
d.) Does not trust people.
9> Both Sepia and Medusa are creative and rhythmic. Which of the following statements listed below helps us differentiate between them?
a.) Sepia develops indifference to everyone and Medusa is indifferent to loved ones.
b.) Sepia develops indifference to loved ones and Medusa is indifferent to everyone.
c.) Medusa symptoms are <> while eating.
d.) Sepia symptoms are > vigorous exercise and < while eating.
10> According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 153, which of the following types of symptoms listed below are most important in the search for a homeopathic remedy?
a.) The clinical and pathological signs and symptoms.
b.) The pathognomonic signs and symptoms.
c.) The iatrogenic signs and symptoms.
d.) The striking, rare and unusual signs and symptoms.
a.) Asterias rubens
b.) Badiaga
c.) Corallium rubrum
d.) Spongia toasta
2>Which of the following symptoms listed below are characteristic of people who require Aqua marina?
a.) Impotent character and feel undeserving of attention.
b.) Strong character and feel undeserving of attention.
c.) Lacks confidence but able to ask for what they want.
d.) Like to hide but have a good sense of who they are.
3> Which of the following activities listed below would ameliorate a Sepia officinalis headache?
a.) Yoga in open air.
b.) Eating a sandwich.
c.) Reading a good book.
d.) Watching a comedy.
4> Which of the following symptoms listed below does Sepia officinalis share with the snake family of remedies?
a.) Red blotchy discoloration on neck < blushing.
b.) Aversion to wearing a turtleneck.
c.) All symptoms aggravate into the night.
d.) Carves farinaceous foods.
5> Which of the following organ systems listed below is considered a main target organ for Sepia officinalis?
a.) Circulation
b.) Skin and hair
c.) Musculoskeletal
d.) Urogenital
6> Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are concerned with immortality and tend to undergo metamorphosis?
a.) Ambra grisea
b.) Aqua marina
c.) Medusa
d.) Spongia toasta
7> Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are shy like the Baryta’s, have a poor self image like Lac caninum and have trouble relating to their environment?
a.) Ambra grisea
b.) Aqua marina
c.) Medusa
d.) Spongia toasta
8> Which of the following reasons listed below explains why Sepia officinalis has an aversion to meeting her/his friends?
a.) Poor self-esteem.
b.) Low energy.
c.) Prefers constant solitude.
d.) Does not trust people.
9> Both Sepia and Medusa are creative and rhythmic. Which of the following statements listed below helps us differentiate between them?
a.) Sepia develops indifference to everyone and Medusa is indifferent to loved ones.
b.) Sepia develops indifference to loved ones and Medusa is indifferent to everyone.
c.) Medusa symptoms are <> while eating.
d.) Sepia symptoms are > vigorous exercise and < while eating.
10> According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 153, which of the following types of symptoms listed below are most important in the search for a homeopathic remedy?
a.) The clinical and pathological signs and symptoms.
b.) The pathognomonic signs and symptoms.
c.) The iatrogenic signs and symptoms.
d.) The striking, rare and unusual signs and symptoms.
QUIZ # 2
1>Which of the following remedies listed below would be considered most appropriate for people who feel are offensive in nature yet have to project elegance and nobility and often complain of offensive perspiration?
a.) Tungsten
b.) Mercurius
c.) Osmium
d.) Platina
2>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who feel they are losing control and compensate by trying to maintain control, which may result in pathology that involves paralysis of the limbs?
a.) Osmium
b.) Cesium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
3>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who feel like the ragged emperor? They have nothing but they walk around as if they are king?
a.) Bisthmuth
b.) Polonium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
4>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who attempt to achieve power but get stuck doing it. They dream of spinning their tires.
a.) Lanthanum
b.) Hafnium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
5>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who have been likened to the “Godfather”. They do not need power and are complete within themselves.
a.) Aurum
b.) Platinum
c.) Thallium
d.) Radon
6>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are like the powerless diplomat. They are unable to move with the times and feel that they losing: popularity, decision-making ability and power?
a.) Mercurius
b.) Plumbum
c.) Tungsten
d.) Thallium
7>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who need to trust other people and work with a team of others in order to reach a position of power?
a.) Osmium
b.) Rhenium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
8>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who indirectly make decisions which they are not acknowledge for and who are very good at bridging communication between people of power?
a.) Iridium
b.) Osmium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
9>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 148, which of the following statements is correct with regards the practice of homeopathic medicine?
a.) It is laborious and painstaking work.
b.) It is easy and straightforward providing you have proper training.
c.) There are praise worthy books that make it unnecessary to study provings.
d.) It cannot be used alone to produce the best possible result for cure of disease.
10>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 149, which of the following statements is correct with regards to complicated chronic disease?
a.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments may be incurable.
b.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments are always incurable.
c.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments are curable.
d.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments take less time to cure than those not complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments.
a.) Tungsten
b.) Mercurius
c.) Osmium
d.) Platina
2>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who feel they are losing control and compensate by trying to maintain control, which may result in pathology that involves paralysis of the limbs?
a.) Osmium
b.) Cesium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
3>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who feel like the ragged emperor? They have nothing but they walk around as if they are king?
a.) Bisthmuth
b.) Polonium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
4>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who attempt to achieve power but get stuck doing it. They dream of spinning their tires.
a.) Lanthanum
b.) Hafnium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
5>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who have been likened to the “Godfather”. They do not need power and are complete within themselves.
a.) Aurum
b.) Platinum
c.) Thallium
d.) Radon
6>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are like the powerless diplomat. They are unable to move with the times and feel that they losing: popularity, decision-making ability and power?
a.) Mercurius
b.) Plumbum
c.) Tungsten
d.) Thallium
7>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who need to trust other people and work with a team of others in order to reach a position of power?
a.) Osmium
b.) Rhenium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
8>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who indirectly make decisions which they are not acknowledge for and who are very good at bridging communication between people of power?
a.) Iridium
b.) Osmium
c.) Thallium
d.) Tungsten
9>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 148, which of the following statements is correct with regards the practice of homeopathic medicine?
a.) It is laborious and painstaking work.
b.) It is easy and straightforward providing you have proper training.
c.) There are praise worthy books that make it unnecessary to study provings.
d.) It cannot be used alone to produce the best possible result for cure of disease.
10>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 149, which of the following statements is correct with regards to complicated chronic disease?
a.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments may be incurable.
b.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments are always incurable.
c.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments are curable.
d.) Those diseases complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments take less time to cure than those not complicated by prolonged and violent allopathic treatments.
QUIZ # 1
1>Which of the following remedies listed below would be considered most appropriate for people who feel betrayed, totally alone and unguarded in a new situation, and dream of intense danger, famine and war?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Rubidium
d.) Strontium
2>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people lack their own structure, are anxious and have an inability to perform anything new?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Rubidium
d.) Stannum
3>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who feel powerless, as if nobody listens to them, have an empty sensation in the chest and experience weakness < talking?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Rubidium
d.) Stannum
4>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who have a fear that others will think they are enjoying themselves too much, feel anxious in crowds, need open space, always sit near exit of the door, and fear blood.
a.) Argentum nitricum
b.) Calcarea nitricum
c.) Strontium
d.) Stannum
5>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are indecisive, insecure like a child and need back up in all crisis situations?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Palladium
d.) Strontium
6>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who have a lot of mental power, experience many aggravation from using their voice and feel that their survival is based on performance and defense?
a.) Argentum
b.) Argentum nitricum
c.) Calcarea nitricum
d.) Strontium
7>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who act impulsively and make great crisis managers?
a.) Argentum
b.) Argentum nitricum
c.) Calcarea nitricum
d.) Palladium
8>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are very social, have a lot of self worth, are haughty, and fear losing their reputation?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Palladium
d.) Stannum
9>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 78, which of the following statements is correct with regards true natural chronic disease?
a.) Natural chronic disease arise from chronic miasm.
b.) Unnatural chronic disease arise from chronic miasm.
c.) Unnatural chronic disease arise from acute miasm.
d.) Natural chronic disease arise from acute miasm
10> According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 81, which of the following statements is correct with regards to Psora?
a.) Psora developed into a wide variety of forms because it incubated through millions of human organisms over the course of hundreds of generations.
b.) Psora developed into a wide variety of forms because it is the progeny of many miasms joining to form one.
c.) Psora developed into a wide variety of forms because it is not a true infectious miasm but a conglomerate of many disease types.d.) Psora manifested in a wide variety of forms from its inception and it is just a matter of time before it is divided into more than one miasm.
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Rubidium
d.) Strontium
2>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people lack their own structure, are anxious and have an inability to perform anything new?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Rubidium
d.) Stannum
3>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who feel powerless, as if nobody listens to them, have an empty sensation in the chest and experience weakness < talking?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Rubidium
d.) Stannum
4>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who have a fear that others will think they are enjoying themselves too much, feel anxious in crowds, need open space, always sit near exit of the door, and fear blood.
a.) Argentum nitricum
b.) Calcarea nitricum
c.) Strontium
d.) Stannum
5>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are indecisive, insecure like a child and need back up in all crisis situations?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Palladium
d.) Strontium
6>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who have a lot of mental power, experience many aggravation from using their voice and feel that their survival is based on performance and defense?
a.) Argentum
b.) Argentum nitricum
c.) Calcarea nitricum
d.) Strontium
7>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who act impulsively and make great crisis managers?
a.) Argentum
b.) Argentum nitricum
c.) Calcarea nitricum
d.) Palladium
8>Which of the following remedies listed below would be suitable for people who are very social, have a lot of self worth, are haughty, and fear losing their reputation?
a.) Argentum
b.) Iodatum
c.) Palladium
d.) Stannum
9>According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 78, which of the following statements is correct with regards true natural chronic disease?
a.) Natural chronic disease arise from chronic miasm.
b.) Unnatural chronic disease arise from chronic miasm.
c.) Unnatural chronic disease arise from acute miasm.
d.) Natural chronic disease arise from acute miasm
10> According to Dr. Hahnemann in aphorism 81, which of the following statements is correct with regards to Psora?
a.) Psora developed into a wide variety of forms because it incubated through millions of human organisms over the course of hundreds of generations.
b.) Psora developed into a wide variety of forms because it is the progeny of many miasms joining to form one.
c.) Psora developed into a wide variety of forms because it is not a true infectious miasm but a conglomerate of many disease types.d.) Psora manifested in a wide variety of forms from its inception and it is just a matter of time before it is divided into more than one miasm.
Homeopathy Aphorisms EXAM
Aphorism 1-8: Principles of Cure, Causes of Diseas and Definition of Disease and Cure
1. What is the physician’s highest and only calling?
To make sick healthy, to cure
2. What is the highest ideal of cure?
Rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health… The lifting and annihilation of the disease in it’s entire extent in the shortest, most reliable and least disadvantageous way according to realizable principles
3. To be a genuine practitioner of the medical art, a physician must;
- Clearly realize what is to be cured in disease (discernment of disease, indicator)
- Clearly realize what is curative in medicines (knowledge of medicinal power)
- Be aware of how to adapt what is curative in medicines to what he has discerned to be
diseased
4. Adapting what is curative in medicines to what is diseased in px requires that the physician be able to;
- Adapt the most appropriate medicine, according to its mode of action, to the case
before him (selection of the remedy, that which is indicated)
- prepare the medicine exactly as required
- give the medicine the exact amount required (the right dose)
- properly time the repetition of doses
- the physician must know the obstacles to recovery in each case and be aware of how
to clear them away
5. “If the physician has the insight, discernment, knowledge and awareness, then he understands how to act expediently and thoroughly, and he is a _______________”
Genuine practitioner of the medical art
6. “He is likewise a sustainer of health if he knows the things that disturb health, that engender and maintain disease, and is aware of ________________________?
How to remove them from healthy ppl
7. What will help the physician to bring about cure?
a) finding out the data of the most probable occasion of an acute disease
b) finding out the most significant factors in the entire hx of a wasting sickness (enabling him to find out the fundamental cause)
8. What does the fundamental cause of a protracted wasting sickness mostly rests upon?
A chronic miasm
9. In these investigations, what should the physician take into account?
a) the patient’s discernible body constitution (esp in case of protracted disease)
b) the px’s mental and emotional character (geist and gemut)
c) the px’s occupations
d) the px’s lifestyle and habits
e) the px’s civic and domestic relationships
f) the px’s age
g) the px’s sexual fx
10. What represents the disease in its entirety?
- All the perceptible signs, befallments and symptoms (alterations of the body and soul)
- Only the deviations from the former healthy state
11. How can these changes be observed (3)?
They can be felt by the px, observed by those around him or observed by the physician
12. What do all these perceptible signs represent?
The disease in its entire extent
13. T or F – It is ridiculous for physicians to seek causes of disease in the hidden?
True
14. What is causa occasionalis?
Cases of disease where there is no obvious occasioning or maintaining cause
15. What is the only thing we can perceive in that case?
Nothing but the disease signs
16. What determines the most appropriate remedy in cases of diseases where there is no obvious cause to be removed?
The totality of symptoms
17. “It is ridiculous for physicians to seek causes of disease in the hidden interior of the body while ingoring __________________”
clearly perceptible symptoms
18. What is the totality of symptoms?
The outwardly reflected image of the inner wesen of the disease, that is, of the suffering of the life force
19. T or F – The totality of sx must be the principal or the only thing whereby the disease can make discernible what remedy is required? True
20. T or F – when all the sx of disease have been lifted, the disease is also cured in the interior?
True
Aphorism 9-18: The life force in Health and Disease
1. “In the healthy human state, the spirit like ________________ (__________) that enlivens the material organism as ________, governs w/out ______ and keeps all parts of the organism in _________ vital operation as regards to both feelings and functions
Life force, autocracy, dynamis, restriction, harmony
2. What is the material organism w/out life force not capable of?
Sensitibility, activity and self-preservation
3. From what does the material organism derive all its sensibility and function? wesen
4. What is wesen? Life principle, life force
5. What happens to the organism w/out life force? Dies
6. “In disease, the life force is first dynamically _______ and then manifests its mistunements through _____” mistuned, symptoms
7. What is the only way for the life force to make its mistunements discernible? By disease
8. What brings forth disease? The disease-tuned life force alone
9. What indicates restored life force? Complete disappearance of disease manifestations
10. Is disease what allopaths believe to be? No
11. How come? Disease isn’t to be considered as something separate from the living whole
12. How does everything curably diseased make itself known to the physician? Signs and Sx
13. “The life force and the material organism form an _____ ______, as do the mistunement of the life force and the perceptible symptoms” indivisible whole
14. Disease only occurs and can only be cured through what?
Dynamic impingement upon the life force
15. What is the only way the medical art practitioner can remove mistunements?
By spirit like tenement-alternating energies acting upon the life force
16. How are these energies perceived?
Through the ubiquitous feeling-sense of the nerves of the organism
17. What is the only thing the physician has to do to remove the entire disease?
Remove the entire symptoms complex
18. What does this do to the altered life force?
It lifts out all the mistunements and it comes back to normal (health is restored)
19. “The _______ __ ________ and circumstances in each individual case of disease must be the sole indicator for choosing a remedy”
Totality of Symptoms
Aphorism 19-21: The Power of Medicines To Cure
21. Diseases are nothing other than what? Alterations of condition in healthy ppl
22. How is cure only possible? Through an alteration of the px’s condition into the healthy state
23. “Medicines would in no way be able to cure if they did not possess what? The power to differently tune the human condition that resides in feelings and functions
24. The curative power of medicines rest solely on what? Their power to alter the human condition
25. Is the hidden spirit like power in the inner wesen of medicines discernible with mere intellectual exertion? NO
26. What is the only way to distinctly perceive the hidden spirit like power in the inner wesen? Only through its manifestations while it is impinging on the human condition (so only by experience)
27. Is the curative wesen in medicines, in itself, discernible? NO
28. “In Pure experiments conducted with medicines (in provings) the most sharp-witted observer can perceive nothing about medicines that can constitute them as medicines, or curative means, except their ___________________________________________” Their power to bring forth distinct alterations in the condition of the human body especially their power to differently tune the healthy person.
29. T or F, the disease-engendering pwr is at the same time the disease-curing pwr? T
Aphorism 22-26: Similar, dissimilar and opposite symptoms produced by medicines and disease
30. How does medicine cure? By engendering a disease state that removes the one to be cured
31. What is the only thing exhibited in disease that must be taken away in order to transform then into health? Signs and symptoms
32. How does a medicine become a remedy? Only by arousing certain befallments and symptoms
33. T or F – Medicine must be sought by its greater tendency to engender either similar or opposite symptoms? T
34. T or F – In allopathic tx: medicines are given that produce sx which are neither similar nor opposite to those of the disease? T
35. T or F – Persistent disease sx are made worse by the opposite medicinal sx of antipathic medicines? T
36. T or F – Therefore the only good medicine is the one that is similar to the disease state? T
37. “In the living organism, a weaker dynamic affection is permanently extinguished by a stronger one, if the stronger one is ______________________” Very similar to the weaker one in its manifestations
Aphorism 27-34
38. On what does the curative capacity of medicine rest?
On their symptoms being similar to the disease but with power that outweighs it
39. By what is each single case of disease most surely, thoroughly, rapidly and permanently annihilated and lifted?
Only by a medicine that can engender, in the human condition, a totality of symptoms that is the most complete and most similar to the case of disease but that, at the same time, exceeds the disease strength
40. Is this natural law a fact? Yes
41. Do scientific explanations for how it takes place matter? Not very much
42. “Any disease (which is not strictly a surgical case) consists solely of a specific dynamic disease ____________ of our life force (life principle) in our __________ and ________” mistunement, feelings and functions
43. Why is the previous view the most probable? Because it’s based on empirical premises
44. What does coffee do to the effects of excessive joy? Extinguishes them
45. “ The life principle, which has been dynamically mistuned by the natural disease is seized during homeopathic cure by the similar yet somewhat stronger which results from the ___________________________ application of the medicinal potence, selected exactly according to symptom of similarity” artificial disease-affection
46. The feeling of natural (weaker) dynamic disease-affection is extinguished and disappears for the life principle and, from then on, no longer exists for the life principle which is occupied solely by the stronger artificial disease-affection (CAN MAKE QUESTION ‘CAUSE DON’T HAVE A F***** CLUE WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT, SO JUST READ.) The artificial disease-affection soon plays itself out, leaving the patient free and recuperated. The dynamis, thus feed, can now continue life again, in health.
47. On what does #9 rest on?
a) The human body seems to allow itself to be more effectively altered with its tuning by medicines than by natural disease irritants
b) The inimical potencies in life on earth don’t have an absolute power to morbidly mistune the human condition
c) It is entirely different with the artificial disease potencies which we call medicines.
48. T or F – Medicines cure diseases by acting more effectively on the human body? T
49. T or F – This is due to our ability to regulate the doses? T
50. T or F – The power of natural disease to make us sick doesn’t depen on our susceptibility and exposure to them? F
51. T or F, the power of medicines to affect the health of every human being is absolute and unconditional? T
52. T or F, A medicine’s effects will be perceptible if the dose is large enough? T
53. T or F, Every medicine works at all times, under all circumstances, on every living being? T
54. What is the difference b/w medicinal energies and natural disease energies?
Medicinal energies affect health unconditionally while natural disease energies only affect health under certain conditions
55. Is the greater strength of the medicinal energies the only requirement for it to cure? No
56. What else must it do?
It must be capable of producing an artificial disease as similar as possible to the disease to be cured
Aphorism 35-39: Dissimilar diseases
57. T or F – Not even nature can lift a dissimilar disease that is already present through a stronger, unhomeopathic disease? T
58. T or F – The unhomeopathic employement of ever-so-strong medicines is just as capable of curing anyd disease? F
59. What happens if 2 dissimilar diseases meet together in the human being and they are either of equal strength or the older one happens to be stronger?
Then the older disease will keep the new one away from the body
60. Is this also true for chronic diseases? Yes
61. Can the Levantine plague breakout where scurvy reigns? No
62. Can ppl suffering from eczema get infected with the Levantine plague? No
63. What prevents smallpox vaccination from taking effect? Richitis
64. Do ppl with TB get infected with epidemic fevers? No
65. Do moderate allopathic treatments alter or cure stronger chronic diseases? No
66. What if the treatment goes on for years? No
67. What happens if the newer dissimilar disease is stronger? It will suspend the older disease but never cure it. And sx of the uncure older disease will come back once the new one is cured
68. Give an examples of this? Children with epilepsy were injected with ringworm and their epileptic seizures went away. The seizures came back after being cured from ringworm
69. What suspends itch diathesis? Scurvy
70. What suspends typhus? Pulmonary TB
71. What suspends TB? Mania
72. T or F – Violent allopathic means produce other maladies? T
73. What suspends measles? Smallpox
74. T or F – measles suspended the formation of pox pustules following small pox vaccination? T
75. What suspends cowpox? Scarlet fever
76. What suspends scarlet fever? Cowpox
77. What are the effects of allopathic medicine on chronic diseases? They merely suppress and suspend a chronic disease for as long as tx is kept up, after which the disease always comes to light again, as bad as before or worse
Aphorism 40-49
1. What is a complicated disease? When a new disease joins an old one that is dissimilar to it
2. Do the diseases take up the same regions of the body? No, they take up different organs
3. Can the two diseases cure one another? No, but the sx of one disease might b/m hidden
4. Give an example of complicated disease? Itch diathesis and syphilis
5. Give another example? Smallpox and measles
6. What often causes a doubly diseased case? The use of allopathic medicine to cure one
7. T or F, complicated diseases b/m harder to cure after allopathic tx? True
8. What happens when 2 similar diseases appear? The stronger new disease cures the older
9. Can 2 similar diseases suspend each other? No, one will cure the other
10. Can 2 similar diseases exist together? No
11. Give examples of this phenomenon? Smallpox vaccine have cured eye inflammation and blindiness, deafness, dyspnea, testicular swelling, dysentery, cowpox (other examples p.92-93)
12. Can a dissimilar disease cure another disease? No, it must be similar and stronger
Aphorism 82-104: Taking the Case
1. T or F, Careful investigation of the case is needed for individualized tx? True
2. T or F, The discovery of syphilis has permitted the medical art closer to the nature of the majority of disease to be cured? False, it’s the discovery of psora
3. Is there a difference b/w taking the case of an acute disease compared to a chronic one? Yes
4. What’s the difference? In acute, much shorter time is needed to take the case
5. What are keynotes in case taking? Let the px talk, Obtain info from the px’s relations, Observe the patient, Write the case accurately, Don’t interrupt
6. T or F, you should start a fresh line for each sx or circumstance mentioned? True
7. What do you do once the px is done talking? Go through the list of sx and ask for precision
8. Why shouldn’t you interrupt the patient? b/c it disturbs the px’s train of thought
9. T or F, you should only ask open ended questions? True
10. T or F, you should avoid leading questions? True
11. When do you ask more precise questions? Only after the patient has freely given his account
12. What is more reliable, your observations or the px’s own account? The px’s own account
13. What do you do if a px is already on medication? Make sure to ask him of his sx before the medications since this will give you the real disease image
14. Can you ask a px to get off the meds for a couple of days? According to the organon, yes (but probably not for us)
15. If worse comes to worse and the px can’t remember all his sx before the meds and you can’t ask him to get off them what do you do? Just use the present sx, it’s still good enough
16. What should you note about the px’s recovery? The possible obstacles to recovery
17. What should you pay attention to or consider in chronic diseases of women? Pay special attention to whether they are pregnant or infertile, vaginal discharges…
18. T or F, you must pay attention to the smallest details in cases of chronic diseases? True, they might hold the answer
19. T or F, in acute cases you won’t need to ask as many questions? True
20. In cases of epidemics, how do you get a disease image? You must interview more than one patient
21. “Chronic miasmatic diseases are collective diseases with an extremely large ______________ ___ _____________”? Totality of symptoms
22. “The wesen of the many different forms of psoric disease is the ______”? Same
23. T or F, Different cases of disease in the same epidemic area are in essence the same? True
Aphorism 105-145: Provings
78. What is the second item of business for the medical art practitioner?
The investigation of the implements appointed for the cure of natural disease
79. What must be done before one can appoint a medicine?
All the disease sx and condition-alternating properties that the medicine is able to engender in healthy ppl
80. Why can’t a medicine’s actions be distinctly perceived in a sick person?
Because the medicinal alterations are confounded with the sx of the disease
81. What is the only true method of curing dynamic diseases? Homeopathy
82. “Sx from ______ agree with those from provings” Poisonings
83. What are 3 things that the allopathic observers of poisoning did not suspect?
These sx contained reference to the power of the drugs to cure similar ailments in natural disease
That these disease arousals were indications of their homeopathic curative actions
The only possible investigation of their medicinal powers rests upon the observation of the condition-alterations brought forth by the medicines in healthy organisms
84. Through what are the pure, peculiar powers of medicines for curative purposes not to be discerned with?
a) specious a priori sophistry
b) the smell, taste or appearance of the medicine
c) chemical processing of the medicines
d) the use in diseases of one or several medicines in a mixture
85. T or F – Each medicinal substance engenders a certain unique set of sx? T
86. T or F – Medicinal substances do not act according to definite and eternal natural laws? F
87. T or F – While the counter action of the life principle is perceptible in poisonings, it is rarely perceptible in provings or in the treatment of diseases? T
88. What do you call the sx that oppose the initial action upon the life force? Counter actions/After actions
89. T or F – In provings with moderate doses upon healthy bodies, the after action is seldom or never felt? T
90. T or F – With small doses nothing at all is to be sensed? T
91. T or F – Narcotics may not have a perceptible counter-action even in moderate doses? F
92. What are the “initial actions” of medicine?
Sx whereby the medicine alters the tuning of the px condition and generates a disease state In and on the person’s condition
93. “ some medicines have an initial action with ________ ________.” Reciprocal States
94. What are idiosyncracies?
Cases in which a given individual bodily constitution, although otherwise healthy, has a tendency to be displaced into a more or less diseased state by certain things which seem to make absolutely no impression or alteration in many other ppl
95. What are 2 things needed to bring forth condition alterations?
a) the indwelling pwr of the impinging substance
b) the ability of the spirit-like dynamis that enlivens the organism to be aroused by this impinging substance
96. “Each medicine acts in a ______ way” Unique
97. “No two medicines are ________” Equivalent
98. Why must medicine be thoroughly tested on healthy ppl?
To ascertain each medicine’s pwrs and true actions and to differentiate b/w medicines
99. One must one bear in mind concerning medicinal provings (3)?
a) even in small doses the strong substances tend to arouse condition-alterations even in the robust
b) Substances of milder pwr must be administered in more considerable doses
c) for the action of the weakest medicine to be perceived, they can only be tested upon pp who are free of disease and who are delicate, excitable and sensitive
100. “In provings with unpotentized medicines, substances of diff strength should be proven in different _________” Quantities
101. Why must the substances used in provings be perfectly well-known?
Because the certainty of the entire medial art and the welfare of all future human generations depends on these experiments
102. During provings, each of these medicines must be taken in what form? Simple and unadulterated
103. How should medicines made from indigenous (local) plants be taken?
As freshly expressed juice mixed with some alcohol to prevent spoilage
104. How should exotic (non-local) plants be taken?
Should be made into a powder or extracted fresh and made into a tincture prepared with alcohol. They should be mixed with several parts of water when administered.
105. How should salts and gums be taken?
Should be dissolved in water immediately before being taken
106. What should you do if the plant is only to be had in its dry form and if its powers are naturally weak?
An infusion should be made from it by pouring boiling water over the crushed herb. It should be drunk immediately after being prepared, while still warm.
107. Why must you drink it so quick?
Because the lack of alcohol causes the rapid spoiling of the plant and loss of medicinal power
108. T or F? Provers are aloud to take other medicinal substances during a proving since it won’t affect the results. F
109. How must diet be arranged during a proving?
a) must be simple, nutritious and w/out spices if possible
b) green vegetables, roots, salad an soups should be avoided since they have med pwrs
c) beverage should be those usually taken and as little stimulating as possible
110. What are 5 things a prover must do/be?
a) guard against mental and bodily exertion
b) guard against all excess and disturbing passions
c) have no urgent business
d) be bodily healthy
e) posses the necessary intellect to be able to name and describe one’s sensibilities
34. T or F? Provers must be only male. F
111. “Medicinal substances should be proven in __________ form in order to reveal their full hidden powers" potentized
112. How are substances deemed weak best investigated?
The prover should take, daily on an empty stomach, 4 to 6 of the finest globules of the 30C potency of such a substance, moistened with a little water or dissolved in a larger or smaller amount of water and well succussed, for several days.
113. “Provers should start with a ______ dose and then ______ it if necessary” small, increase
114. What do provings made only with one dose provide?
Information about the order in which sx appear and duration of the med’s action (by repetition of one dose)
115. T or F? The action of medicine is less clear when a prover must take increasing doses on successive days. T
116. What type of dose is preferred if someone wants to investigate only the sx themselves?
Heightened
117. What must one also do to determine the exact character of each sx of a medicine?
Place oneself in different situations to see if the sx lessens or increases in diff situations.
118. T or F? Diff sx of a medicine appear in diff provers and in diff tests with the same prover. T
119. T or F? Even the sx that are only rarely brought forth in the proving of a medicine can be cured by that medicine when sx appear in sick person. T
120. T or F? Moderate proving doses yield better info and are safer than larger doses. T
121. The prover should keep journals of his/her experiences which should include what?
a) Each sensibilities observed
b) Time elapsed b/w taken med and experiencing something
c) Duration of sx
122. T or F? The provers should be interviewed daily by the supervising physician? T
123. Which are the best provings?
Those that the physician employs upon himself
124. Why should a physician test on himself?
a) get a better understanding of how the medicine cures
b) they teach the physician about themselves
c) he will dev into a good observer
d) the info is more reliable
e) encourages him to do more provings
f) it improves his own health
125. The investigation of medicines by studying their actions in sick ppl should be left only to who? Masters of observation
126. What is a true material medica?
A collection of the genuine, pure, unmistakable modes of action of simple medicinal substances. It is a codex of nature
127. T or F? By paying a prover you lose validity. T
Aphorism 204-209: The chronic miasms
128. T or F – the entire organism is pervaded by the miasm before its primary sx appear? T
129. What do the primary sx serve to do? Serve to prevent the outbreak of internal disease
130. What are the 3 chronic internal miasms? Syphilis, Sycosis, Psora
131. Which is of greater importance? Psora
132. How does the miasm express itself itself when its representative local symptom is removed?
Through the development of characteristic chronic diseases
133. T or F – the homeopathic physician never uses local means to treat these primary symptoms of chronic miasms? T
134. So how do they treat the underlying miasms? With internal homeopathic remedies
135. Why does the homeopathic physician generally have to deal with the secondary symptoms?
B/c the primary sx have already been outwardly annihilated by the old school physician who previously treated the case
136. What must be done b/f beginning the treatment of a chronic malady?
The most careful inquiry is required in order to determine whether or not the patient has had a venereal infection, either syphilis or the rare figwart disease (gonorrhea)
137. What do you do if the only sx present are those of syphilis or gonorrhea?
The tx must be directed against this alone (such cases are very rare)
138. What do you do in any case of psora with a history of venereal infection?
The veneral infx must be taken into consideration as it will have complicated the psora
139. When is this the case?
When the sx are not those of pure psora
140. Why is it that if the physician imagines that he has a case of old venereal disease before him/her, he in fact has a case that is principally associated with psora?
b/c the internal itch diathesis (psora) is by far the most frequent fundamental cause of chronic disease
141. Is it possible for the physician to have to combat both the psora and syphilis miasm as well as the sycosis miasm? Yes
142. What is the most common case? Psora alone or complicated with allopathic medicine
143. What must the physician do wants he/she knows what miasm is involved? Find out what type of allopathic therapy the patient has had
144. What should the patient take into consideration in order to discover what things in the px’s life might tend to increase his malady?
- age
- lifestyle
- diet
- occupations
- domestic situations
- civic relations
145. Why must his/her mode of thought and emotions be considered? To determine whether it hinders treatment, and to determine whether it should be psychologically guided, fostered or modified
146. Once the physician has all that information, what can he start doing? Can start to seek in several interviews, the sketch of the disease image as completely as possible.
147. Based on the symptoms, what type of remedy will the physician start? The medication that has the utmost possible similarity of signs to those of the disease (most antimiasmatic medicine)
1. What is the physician’s highest and only calling?
To make sick healthy, to cure
2. What is the highest ideal of cure?
Rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health… The lifting and annihilation of the disease in it’s entire extent in the shortest, most reliable and least disadvantageous way according to realizable principles
3. To be a genuine practitioner of the medical art, a physician must;
- Clearly realize what is to be cured in disease (discernment of disease, indicator)
- Clearly realize what is curative in medicines (knowledge of medicinal power)
- Be aware of how to adapt what is curative in medicines to what he has discerned to be
diseased
4. Adapting what is curative in medicines to what is diseased in px requires that the physician be able to;
- Adapt the most appropriate medicine, according to its mode of action, to the case
before him (selection of the remedy, that which is indicated)
- prepare the medicine exactly as required
- give the medicine the exact amount required (the right dose)
- properly time the repetition of doses
- the physician must know the obstacles to recovery in each case and be aware of how
to clear them away
5. “If the physician has the insight, discernment, knowledge and awareness, then he understands how to act expediently and thoroughly, and he is a _______________”
Genuine practitioner of the medical art
6. “He is likewise a sustainer of health if he knows the things that disturb health, that engender and maintain disease, and is aware of ________________________?
How to remove them from healthy ppl
7. What will help the physician to bring about cure?
a) finding out the data of the most probable occasion of an acute disease
b) finding out the most significant factors in the entire hx of a wasting sickness (enabling him to find out the fundamental cause)
8. What does the fundamental cause of a protracted wasting sickness mostly rests upon?
A chronic miasm
9. In these investigations, what should the physician take into account?
a) the patient’s discernible body constitution (esp in case of protracted disease)
b) the px’s mental and emotional character (geist and gemut)
c) the px’s occupations
d) the px’s lifestyle and habits
e) the px’s civic and domestic relationships
f) the px’s age
g) the px’s sexual fx
10. What represents the disease in its entirety?
- All the perceptible signs, befallments and symptoms (alterations of the body and soul)
- Only the deviations from the former healthy state
11. How can these changes be observed (3)?
They can be felt by the px, observed by those around him or observed by the physician
12. What do all these perceptible signs represent?
The disease in its entire extent
13. T or F – It is ridiculous for physicians to seek causes of disease in the hidden?
True
14. What is causa occasionalis?
Cases of disease where there is no obvious occasioning or maintaining cause
15. What is the only thing we can perceive in that case?
Nothing but the disease signs
16. What determines the most appropriate remedy in cases of diseases where there is no obvious cause to be removed?
The totality of symptoms
17. “It is ridiculous for physicians to seek causes of disease in the hidden interior of the body while ingoring __________________”
clearly perceptible symptoms
18. What is the totality of symptoms?
The outwardly reflected image of the inner wesen of the disease, that is, of the suffering of the life force
19. T or F – The totality of sx must be the principal or the only thing whereby the disease can make discernible what remedy is required? True
20. T or F – when all the sx of disease have been lifted, the disease is also cured in the interior?
True
Aphorism 9-18: The life force in Health and Disease
1. “In the healthy human state, the spirit like ________________ (__________) that enlivens the material organism as ________, governs w/out ______ and keeps all parts of the organism in _________ vital operation as regards to both feelings and functions
Life force, autocracy, dynamis, restriction, harmony
2. What is the material organism w/out life force not capable of?
Sensitibility, activity and self-preservation
3. From what does the material organism derive all its sensibility and function? wesen
4. What is wesen? Life principle, life force
5. What happens to the organism w/out life force? Dies
6. “In disease, the life force is first dynamically _______ and then manifests its mistunements through _____” mistuned, symptoms
7. What is the only way for the life force to make its mistunements discernible? By disease
8. What brings forth disease? The disease-tuned life force alone
9. What indicates restored life force? Complete disappearance of disease manifestations
10. Is disease what allopaths believe to be? No
11. How come? Disease isn’t to be considered as something separate from the living whole
12. How does everything curably diseased make itself known to the physician? Signs and Sx
13. “The life force and the material organism form an _____ ______, as do the mistunement of the life force and the perceptible symptoms” indivisible whole
14. Disease only occurs and can only be cured through what?
Dynamic impingement upon the life force
15. What is the only way the medical art practitioner can remove mistunements?
By spirit like tenement-alternating energies acting upon the life force
16. How are these energies perceived?
Through the ubiquitous feeling-sense of the nerves of the organism
17. What is the only thing the physician has to do to remove the entire disease?
Remove the entire symptoms complex
18. What does this do to the altered life force?
It lifts out all the mistunements and it comes back to normal (health is restored)
19. “The _______ __ ________ and circumstances in each individual case of disease must be the sole indicator for choosing a remedy”
Totality of Symptoms
Aphorism 19-21: The Power of Medicines To Cure
21. Diseases are nothing other than what? Alterations of condition in healthy ppl
22. How is cure only possible? Through an alteration of the px’s condition into the healthy state
23. “Medicines would in no way be able to cure if they did not possess what? The power to differently tune the human condition that resides in feelings and functions
24. The curative power of medicines rest solely on what? Their power to alter the human condition
25. Is the hidden spirit like power in the inner wesen of medicines discernible with mere intellectual exertion? NO
26. What is the only way to distinctly perceive the hidden spirit like power in the inner wesen? Only through its manifestations while it is impinging on the human condition (so only by experience)
27. Is the curative wesen in medicines, in itself, discernible? NO
28. “In Pure experiments conducted with medicines (in provings) the most sharp-witted observer can perceive nothing about medicines that can constitute them as medicines, or curative means, except their ___________________________________________” Their power to bring forth distinct alterations in the condition of the human body especially their power to differently tune the healthy person.
29. T or F, the disease-engendering pwr is at the same time the disease-curing pwr? T
Aphorism 22-26: Similar, dissimilar and opposite symptoms produced by medicines and disease
30. How does medicine cure? By engendering a disease state that removes the one to be cured
31. What is the only thing exhibited in disease that must be taken away in order to transform then into health? Signs and symptoms
32. How does a medicine become a remedy? Only by arousing certain befallments and symptoms
33. T or F – Medicine must be sought by its greater tendency to engender either similar or opposite symptoms? T
34. T or F – In allopathic tx: medicines are given that produce sx which are neither similar nor opposite to those of the disease? T
35. T or F – Persistent disease sx are made worse by the opposite medicinal sx of antipathic medicines? T
36. T or F – Therefore the only good medicine is the one that is similar to the disease state? T
37. “In the living organism, a weaker dynamic affection is permanently extinguished by a stronger one, if the stronger one is ______________________” Very similar to the weaker one in its manifestations
Aphorism 27-34
38. On what does the curative capacity of medicine rest?
On their symptoms being similar to the disease but with power that outweighs it
39. By what is each single case of disease most surely, thoroughly, rapidly and permanently annihilated and lifted?
Only by a medicine that can engender, in the human condition, a totality of symptoms that is the most complete and most similar to the case of disease but that, at the same time, exceeds the disease strength
40. Is this natural law a fact? Yes
41. Do scientific explanations for how it takes place matter? Not very much
42. “Any disease (which is not strictly a surgical case) consists solely of a specific dynamic disease ____________ of our life force (life principle) in our __________ and ________” mistunement, feelings and functions
43. Why is the previous view the most probable? Because it’s based on empirical premises
44. What does coffee do to the effects of excessive joy? Extinguishes them
45. “ The life principle, which has been dynamically mistuned by the natural disease is seized during homeopathic cure by the similar yet somewhat stronger which results from the ___________________________ application of the medicinal potence, selected exactly according to symptom of similarity” artificial disease-affection
46. The feeling of natural (weaker) dynamic disease-affection is extinguished and disappears for the life principle and, from then on, no longer exists for the life principle which is occupied solely by the stronger artificial disease-affection (CAN MAKE QUESTION ‘CAUSE DON’T HAVE A F***** CLUE WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT, SO JUST READ.) The artificial disease-affection soon plays itself out, leaving the patient free and recuperated. The dynamis, thus feed, can now continue life again, in health.
47. On what does #9 rest on?
a) The human body seems to allow itself to be more effectively altered with its tuning by medicines than by natural disease irritants
b) The inimical potencies in life on earth don’t have an absolute power to morbidly mistune the human condition
c) It is entirely different with the artificial disease potencies which we call medicines.
48. T or F – Medicines cure diseases by acting more effectively on the human body? T
49. T or F – This is due to our ability to regulate the doses? T
50. T or F – The power of natural disease to make us sick doesn’t depen on our susceptibility and exposure to them? F
51. T or F, the power of medicines to affect the health of every human being is absolute and unconditional? T
52. T or F, A medicine’s effects will be perceptible if the dose is large enough? T
53. T or F, Every medicine works at all times, under all circumstances, on every living being? T
54. What is the difference b/w medicinal energies and natural disease energies?
Medicinal energies affect health unconditionally while natural disease energies only affect health under certain conditions
55. Is the greater strength of the medicinal energies the only requirement for it to cure? No
56. What else must it do?
It must be capable of producing an artificial disease as similar as possible to the disease to be cured
Aphorism 35-39: Dissimilar diseases
57. T or F – Not even nature can lift a dissimilar disease that is already present through a stronger, unhomeopathic disease? T
58. T or F – The unhomeopathic employement of ever-so-strong medicines is just as capable of curing anyd disease? F
59. What happens if 2 dissimilar diseases meet together in the human being and they are either of equal strength or the older one happens to be stronger?
Then the older disease will keep the new one away from the body
60. Is this also true for chronic diseases? Yes
61. Can the Levantine plague breakout where scurvy reigns? No
62. Can ppl suffering from eczema get infected with the Levantine plague? No
63. What prevents smallpox vaccination from taking effect? Richitis
64. Do ppl with TB get infected with epidemic fevers? No
65. Do moderate allopathic treatments alter or cure stronger chronic diseases? No
66. What if the treatment goes on for years? No
67. What happens if the newer dissimilar disease is stronger? It will suspend the older disease but never cure it. And sx of the uncure older disease will come back once the new one is cured
68. Give an examples of this? Children with epilepsy were injected with ringworm and their epileptic seizures went away. The seizures came back after being cured from ringworm
69. What suspends itch diathesis? Scurvy
70. What suspends typhus? Pulmonary TB
71. What suspends TB? Mania
72. T or F – Violent allopathic means produce other maladies? T
73. What suspends measles? Smallpox
74. T or F – measles suspended the formation of pox pustules following small pox vaccination? T
75. What suspends cowpox? Scarlet fever
76. What suspends scarlet fever? Cowpox
77. What are the effects of allopathic medicine on chronic diseases? They merely suppress and suspend a chronic disease for as long as tx is kept up, after which the disease always comes to light again, as bad as before or worse
Aphorism 40-49
1. What is a complicated disease? When a new disease joins an old one that is dissimilar to it
2. Do the diseases take up the same regions of the body? No, they take up different organs
3. Can the two diseases cure one another? No, but the sx of one disease might b/m hidden
4. Give an example of complicated disease? Itch diathesis and syphilis
5. Give another example? Smallpox and measles
6. What often causes a doubly diseased case? The use of allopathic medicine to cure one
7. T or F, complicated diseases b/m harder to cure after allopathic tx? True
8. What happens when 2 similar diseases appear? The stronger new disease cures the older
9. Can 2 similar diseases suspend each other? No, one will cure the other
10. Can 2 similar diseases exist together? No
11. Give examples of this phenomenon? Smallpox vaccine have cured eye inflammation and blindiness, deafness, dyspnea, testicular swelling, dysentery, cowpox (other examples p.92-93)
12. Can a dissimilar disease cure another disease? No, it must be similar and stronger
Aphorism 82-104: Taking the Case
1. T or F, Careful investigation of the case is needed for individualized tx? True
2. T or F, The discovery of syphilis has permitted the medical art closer to the nature of the majority of disease to be cured? False, it’s the discovery of psora
3. Is there a difference b/w taking the case of an acute disease compared to a chronic one? Yes
4. What’s the difference? In acute, much shorter time is needed to take the case
5. What are keynotes in case taking? Let the px talk, Obtain info from the px’s relations, Observe the patient, Write the case accurately, Don’t interrupt
6. T or F, you should start a fresh line for each sx or circumstance mentioned? True
7. What do you do once the px is done talking? Go through the list of sx and ask for precision
8. Why shouldn’t you interrupt the patient? b/c it disturbs the px’s train of thought
9. T or F, you should only ask open ended questions? True
10. T or F, you should avoid leading questions? True
11. When do you ask more precise questions? Only after the patient has freely given his account
12. What is more reliable, your observations or the px’s own account? The px’s own account
13. What do you do if a px is already on medication? Make sure to ask him of his sx before the medications since this will give you the real disease image
14. Can you ask a px to get off the meds for a couple of days? According to the organon, yes (but probably not for us)
15. If worse comes to worse and the px can’t remember all his sx before the meds and you can’t ask him to get off them what do you do? Just use the present sx, it’s still good enough
16. What should you note about the px’s recovery? The possible obstacles to recovery
17. What should you pay attention to or consider in chronic diseases of women? Pay special attention to whether they are pregnant or infertile, vaginal discharges…
18. T or F, you must pay attention to the smallest details in cases of chronic diseases? True, they might hold the answer
19. T or F, in acute cases you won’t need to ask as many questions? True
20. In cases of epidemics, how do you get a disease image? You must interview more than one patient
21. “Chronic miasmatic diseases are collective diseases with an extremely large ______________ ___ _____________”? Totality of symptoms
22. “The wesen of the many different forms of psoric disease is the ______”? Same
23. T or F, Different cases of disease in the same epidemic area are in essence the same? True
Aphorism 105-145: Provings
78. What is the second item of business for the medical art practitioner?
The investigation of the implements appointed for the cure of natural disease
79. What must be done before one can appoint a medicine?
All the disease sx and condition-alternating properties that the medicine is able to engender in healthy ppl
80. Why can’t a medicine’s actions be distinctly perceived in a sick person?
Because the medicinal alterations are confounded with the sx of the disease
81. What is the only true method of curing dynamic diseases? Homeopathy
82. “Sx from ______ agree with those from provings” Poisonings
83. What are 3 things that the allopathic observers of poisoning did not suspect?
These sx contained reference to the power of the drugs to cure similar ailments in natural disease
That these disease arousals were indications of their homeopathic curative actions
The only possible investigation of their medicinal powers rests upon the observation of the condition-alterations brought forth by the medicines in healthy organisms
84. Through what are the pure, peculiar powers of medicines for curative purposes not to be discerned with?
a) specious a priori sophistry
b) the smell, taste or appearance of the medicine
c) chemical processing of the medicines
d) the use in diseases of one or several medicines in a mixture
85. T or F – Each medicinal substance engenders a certain unique set of sx? T
86. T or F – Medicinal substances do not act according to definite and eternal natural laws? F
87. T or F – While the counter action of the life principle is perceptible in poisonings, it is rarely perceptible in provings or in the treatment of diseases? T
88. What do you call the sx that oppose the initial action upon the life force? Counter actions/After actions
89. T or F – In provings with moderate doses upon healthy bodies, the after action is seldom or never felt? T
90. T or F – With small doses nothing at all is to be sensed? T
91. T or F – Narcotics may not have a perceptible counter-action even in moderate doses? F
92. What are the “initial actions” of medicine?
Sx whereby the medicine alters the tuning of the px condition and generates a disease state In and on the person’s condition
93. “ some medicines have an initial action with ________ ________.” Reciprocal States
94. What are idiosyncracies?
Cases in which a given individual bodily constitution, although otherwise healthy, has a tendency to be displaced into a more or less diseased state by certain things which seem to make absolutely no impression or alteration in many other ppl
95. What are 2 things needed to bring forth condition alterations?
a) the indwelling pwr of the impinging substance
b) the ability of the spirit-like dynamis that enlivens the organism to be aroused by this impinging substance
96. “Each medicine acts in a ______ way” Unique
97. “No two medicines are ________” Equivalent
98. Why must medicine be thoroughly tested on healthy ppl?
To ascertain each medicine’s pwrs and true actions and to differentiate b/w medicines
99. One must one bear in mind concerning medicinal provings (3)?
a) even in small doses the strong substances tend to arouse condition-alterations even in the robust
b) Substances of milder pwr must be administered in more considerable doses
c) for the action of the weakest medicine to be perceived, they can only be tested upon pp who are free of disease and who are delicate, excitable and sensitive
100. “In provings with unpotentized medicines, substances of diff strength should be proven in different _________” Quantities
101. Why must the substances used in provings be perfectly well-known?
Because the certainty of the entire medial art and the welfare of all future human generations depends on these experiments
102. During provings, each of these medicines must be taken in what form? Simple and unadulterated
103. How should medicines made from indigenous (local) plants be taken?
As freshly expressed juice mixed with some alcohol to prevent spoilage
104. How should exotic (non-local) plants be taken?
Should be made into a powder or extracted fresh and made into a tincture prepared with alcohol. They should be mixed with several parts of water when administered.
105. How should salts and gums be taken?
Should be dissolved in water immediately before being taken
106. What should you do if the plant is only to be had in its dry form and if its powers are naturally weak?
An infusion should be made from it by pouring boiling water over the crushed herb. It should be drunk immediately after being prepared, while still warm.
107. Why must you drink it so quick?
Because the lack of alcohol causes the rapid spoiling of the plant and loss of medicinal power
108. T or F? Provers are aloud to take other medicinal substances during a proving since it won’t affect the results. F
109. How must diet be arranged during a proving?
a) must be simple, nutritious and w/out spices if possible
b) green vegetables, roots, salad an soups should be avoided since they have med pwrs
c) beverage should be those usually taken and as little stimulating as possible
110. What are 5 things a prover must do/be?
a) guard against mental and bodily exertion
b) guard against all excess and disturbing passions
c) have no urgent business
d) be bodily healthy
e) posses the necessary intellect to be able to name and describe one’s sensibilities
34. T or F? Provers must be only male. F
111. “Medicinal substances should be proven in __________ form in order to reveal their full hidden powers" potentized
112. How are substances deemed weak best investigated?
The prover should take, daily on an empty stomach, 4 to 6 of the finest globules of the 30C potency of such a substance, moistened with a little water or dissolved in a larger or smaller amount of water and well succussed, for several days.
113. “Provers should start with a ______ dose and then ______ it if necessary” small, increase
114. What do provings made only with one dose provide?
Information about the order in which sx appear and duration of the med’s action (by repetition of one dose)
115. T or F? The action of medicine is less clear when a prover must take increasing doses on successive days. T
116. What type of dose is preferred if someone wants to investigate only the sx themselves?
Heightened
117. What must one also do to determine the exact character of each sx of a medicine?
Place oneself in different situations to see if the sx lessens or increases in diff situations.
118. T or F? Diff sx of a medicine appear in diff provers and in diff tests with the same prover. T
119. T or F? Even the sx that are only rarely brought forth in the proving of a medicine can be cured by that medicine when sx appear in sick person. T
120. T or F? Moderate proving doses yield better info and are safer than larger doses. T
121. The prover should keep journals of his/her experiences which should include what?
a) Each sensibilities observed
b) Time elapsed b/w taken med and experiencing something
c) Duration of sx
122. T or F? The provers should be interviewed daily by the supervising physician? T
123. Which are the best provings?
Those that the physician employs upon himself
124. Why should a physician test on himself?
a) get a better understanding of how the medicine cures
b) they teach the physician about themselves
c) he will dev into a good observer
d) the info is more reliable
e) encourages him to do more provings
f) it improves his own health
125. The investigation of medicines by studying their actions in sick ppl should be left only to who? Masters of observation
126. What is a true material medica?
A collection of the genuine, pure, unmistakable modes of action of simple medicinal substances. It is a codex of nature
127. T or F? By paying a prover you lose validity. T
Aphorism 204-209: The chronic miasms
128. T or F – the entire organism is pervaded by the miasm before its primary sx appear? T
129. What do the primary sx serve to do? Serve to prevent the outbreak of internal disease
130. What are the 3 chronic internal miasms? Syphilis, Sycosis, Psora
131. Which is of greater importance? Psora
132. How does the miasm express itself itself when its representative local symptom is removed?
Through the development of characteristic chronic diseases
133. T or F – the homeopathic physician never uses local means to treat these primary symptoms of chronic miasms? T
134. So how do they treat the underlying miasms? With internal homeopathic remedies
135. Why does the homeopathic physician generally have to deal with the secondary symptoms?
B/c the primary sx have already been outwardly annihilated by the old school physician who previously treated the case
136. What must be done b/f beginning the treatment of a chronic malady?
The most careful inquiry is required in order to determine whether or not the patient has had a venereal infection, either syphilis or the rare figwart disease (gonorrhea)
137. What do you do if the only sx present are those of syphilis or gonorrhea?
The tx must be directed against this alone (such cases are very rare)
138. What do you do in any case of psora with a history of venereal infection?
The veneral infx must be taken into consideration as it will have complicated the psora
139. When is this the case?
When the sx are not those of pure psora
140. Why is it that if the physician imagines that he has a case of old venereal disease before him/her, he in fact has a case that is principally associated with psora?
b/c the internal itch diathesis (psora) is by far the most frequent fundamental cause of chronic disease
141. Is it possible for the physician to have to combat both the psora and syphilis miasm as well as the sycosis miasm? Yes
142. What is the most common case? Psora alone or complicated with allopathic medicine
143. What must the physician do wants he/she knows what miasm is involved? Find out what type of allopathic therapy the patient has had
144. What should the patient take into consideration in order to discover what things in the px’s life might tend to increase his malady?
- age
- lifestyle
- diet
- occupations
- domestic situations
- civic relations
145. Why must his/her mode of thought and emotions be considered? To determine whether it hinders treatment, and to determine whether it should be psychologically guided, fostered or modified
146. Once the physician has all that information, what can he start doing? Can start to seek in several interviews, the sketch of the disease image as completely as possible.
147. Based on the symptoms, what type of remedy will the physician start? The medication that has the utmost possible similarity of signs to those of the disease (most antimiasmatic medicine)
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