Hom II General Questions

Question 1

4 days after being given a remedy, a patient has intense abdominal pain. What do you do?

Answer 1

Have patient come back to see if this is a healing crisis/aggravation or send to ER if extreme

Question 2

Do high potency remedies create larger or smaller aggravations?

Answer 2

larger aggravations

Question 3

You treat a patient with severe anger issues. The remedy made the anger better, but lowered the patients confidence. Was it the right remedy?

Answer 3

Yes, it’s a good sign that the remed is working

Question 4

You treat a suicidal patient. Their depression gets better, but now they’re angry! Was it the right remedy?

Answer 4

Yup

Question 5

What can cause symptoms after giving a remedy?

Answer 5

Vital force, random events, placebo effect

Question 6

Can a wrong remedy cause symptoms?

Answer 6

yup

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Wait- it was likely the correct remedy

Question 8

What is Herrings Law of Cure?

Answer 8

healing occurs from the:
more important--> less important organs
inside--> out
top--> down
in reverse order of symptom appearance

Question 9

What do we call the reverse order of Herrings Law?

Answer 9

suppression (eg: if symptoms are progressing in the opposite direction than Herrings law dictates, we assume suppression is occuring)

Question 10

What are 3 parameters to determine if a patient has gone into a new layer?

Answer 10

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)

Question 11

What miasm is this:
exces, growths, affects GU, extremes, high fevers,
>evening/nights, excitements, >company

Answer 11

psycotic

Question 12

What miasm is this:

affects bone, destroys tissue, ulcers, tumors, bleeding, deep cracks, fissures,

Answer 12

syphilitic

Question 13

What miasm is this:
weakness, poor memory/concentration, poor assimilation, malnutrition, malabsorption, low confidence, functional symptoms, itching, fear of poverty

Answer 13

psora

Question 14

What miasm encompasses the psycotic, syphilitic and psoric together?

Answer 14

Tubercular

Question 15

What miasm encompasses the psychotic, syphilitic, psoric and tubercular miasms together?

Answer 15

cancerous

Question 16

A patient present with a personal and family history of both cancer and tuberculosis. The remedy you choose will likely have what miasm?

Answer 16

cancerous

Question 17

How might you differentiate the violence that is seen in both syphilitic and psychotic miasms?

Answer 17

syphilitic violence will be premeditated

psychotic violence will be due to their impulsive behaviors

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Wait for more symptoms to appear so you can choose the right remedy

Question 19

Aggravations are usually (rapid/slow) onset, appearing within (hours/days/months/years).

Answer 19

Aggravations are usually rapid onset, appearing within hours and lasting a few days

Question 20

If a person has a strong vital force, does that mean the they will have a larger or smaller aggravation?

Answer 20

larger/stronger aggravation

Question 21

What is a partial proving?

Answer 21

When the remedy is correct, but the patient takes on new symptoms of that remedy

Question 22

What potency is beyond avogadros #?

Answer 22

24X or 12C

Question 23

What kinds of things are likely to antidote a remedy?

Answer 23

Camphor, Thimol, Coffee, other remedies, Menthol…

Question 24

What are 3 things to look at on a follow-up visit after a remedy?

Answer 24

Is the CC better?
Are there any changes to mental/emotional symptom?
How is their energy?

Question 25

What kinds of miasms are in Arsenicum?

Answer 25

syphilitic with a little psora

Question 26

What kinds of miasms are in Aurum?

Answer 26

syphilitic with a little psychosis

Question 27

Which remedies are psycotic?

Answer 27

Med., Sepia, Puls., Staph

Question 28

Which remedies are syphilitic?

Answer 28

Merc., Aurum, Arsenicum