Hom II General Questions Flashcards
4 days after being given a remedy, a patient has intense abdominal pain. What do you do?
Have patient come back to see if this is a healing crisis/aggravation or send to ER if extreme
Do high potency remedies create larger or smaller aggravations?
larger aggravations
You treat a patient with severe anger issues. The remedy made the anger better, but lowered the patients confidence. Was it the right remedy?
Yes, it’s a good sign that the remed is working
You treat a suicidal patient. Their depression gets better, but now they’re angry! Was it the right remedy?
Yup
What can cause symptoms after giving a remedy?
Vital force, random events, placebo effect
Can a wrong remedy cause symptoms?
yup
You give a remedy to pt. At a 6wk follow-up, the patient is emotionally better but the chief physical complaint isn’t any better. Do you:
A: Give a different remedy, the first one wasn’t correct
B: Redose the same remedy, it was the correct one
C: Wait
Wait- it was likely the correct remedy
What is Herrings Law of Cure?
healing occurs from the: more important--> less important organs inside--> out top--> down in reverse order of symptom appearance
What do we call the reverse order of Herrings Law?
suppression (eg: if symptoms are progressing in the opposite direction than Herrings law dictates, we assume suppression is occuring)
What are 3 parameters to determine if a patient has gone into a new layer?
a change in physical general symptoms
a change in mental/emotional symptoms
strong new symptom emerges (weak new symptoms may not indicate a new layer)
What miasm is this:
exces, growths, affects GU, extremes, high fevers,
>evening/nights, excitements, >company
psycotic
What miasm is this:
affects bone, destroys tissue, ulcers, tumors, bleeding, deep cracks, fissures,
syphilitic
What miasm is this:
weakness, poor memory/concentration, poor assimilation, malnutrition, malabsorption, low confidence, functional symptoms, itching, fear of poverty
psora
What miasm encompasses the psycotic, syphilitic and psoric together?
Tubercular
What miasm encompasses the psychotic, syphilitic, psoric and tubercular miasms together?
cancerous
A patient present with a personal and family history of both cancer and tuberculosis. The remedy you choose will likely have what miasm?
cancerous
How might you differentiate the violence that is seen in both syphilitic and psychotic miasms?
syphilitic violence will be premeditated
psychotic violence will be due to their impulsive behaviors
If the remedy on a follow-up interview is still unclear, do you:
A: Give a different remedy, the first one wasn’t correct
B: Redose the same remedy, it was the correct one
C: Wait
Wait for more symptoms to appear so you can choose the right remedy
Aggravations are usually (rapid/slow) onset, appearing within (hours/days/months/years).
Aggravations are usually rapid onset, appearing within hours and lasting a few days
If a person has a strong vital force, does that mean the they will have a larger or smaller aggravation?
larger/stronger aggravation
What is a partial proving?
When the remedy is correct, but the patient takes on new symptoms of that remedy
What potency is beyond avogadros #?
24X or 12C
What kinds of things are likely to antidote a remedy?
Camphor, Thimol, Coffee, other remedies, Menthol…
What are 3 things to look at on a follow-up visit after a remedy?
Is the CC better?
Are there any changes to mental/emotional symptom?
How is their energy?
What kinds of miasms are in Arsenicum?
syphilitic with a little psora
What kinds of miasms are in Aurum?
syphilitic with a little psychosis
Which remedies are psycotic?
Med., Sepia, Puls., Staph
Which remedies are syphilitic?
Merc., Aurum, Arsenicum
