Homeopathy Flashcards
Theoretical systems of medicine were essentialy
Theorietical webs, un-ntaural and not in harmony with nature
The Old school of medicine relied on ___________________________ of prescription
The old school of medicine relied on mechanical routine of prescription based on books
The old school aimed to find
Tolle Causum (but could not, because disease is dynamic) - FIND the cause, but you can’t
THen, the old school found the cause from
1) Diseased VS healthy cadavers
2) and change of function in disease
Prima causi morbi acting as both
Disease itself and the proximate cause of the disease
Priori
An inner invisble cause of disease
Why is homeopathic forbidden?
Because most substances found to be dangerous in large doses
Old school effort to remove disease matter:
blood letting, expurgation E.g. Fatal number of leaches, DRAINAGE
Are side effects the disease itself?
NO
Homeopathy diseases are dynamic or material?
Dynamic
Old school imitated the __________________ of life force
Diseased operations
Doctors copied nature but nature cannot do things like
Stiches and realign bones
Often these allopathic treatments of immitation led to decrease in
Vitality and body fluids
Destroy the terrain but
Enemy remained
WHY did they drain and stuff
because nature makes u bleed and shit when u are sick
ANTIPATHIC stimulating and strengthening TX
Wine and other stimulants did nothing long term
What preparations for debilitation
Wine, cinchona and iron
Wine cinchona and iron were perceived as
Stimulating and strengthening
THe more wine the px drinks the worse they get why?
Because life force opposes what is superficial
Old school medicnes used mercury which overall
Completely ruins health
Cinchona would suppress a fever but then make it
EVEN WORSE
DOCTORS OF OLD SCHOOL WERE ALWAYS LOOKING TO
suppress symptoms (letting px THINK they were cured)
What was the problem with the old school’s approach to curing dx
there was nothing valid in the books they were basing everything on
Compound prescriptions were unknown in
Their true action
Theory of compound prescription
That each one was specifically for each organ
What was REALLY happening in compound prescruption
They were all wiping eahc other out
From allopathy to homeopathy
Let similars be cured by similars
Objective of cure in homeopathy
Gentle, RAPID, Certain, permanent
Because there is a history of homeopathy…. It must be ________________
Eternal Eternal
Folklore homeopathy
Hold hand by Fire
Is the organism pervaded by miasm before or after first symptom?
Before
Primary symptom job
prevent outbreak of full disease
Three big CHRONIC miasms
Syphyllis, psyocis, and PSORA
When local symptom removed, miasm expresses itself thru development of
Characteristic chronic disease
Homeopathic physiicans treat
Underlying cause
When primary or secondary sx appear, treat…
Great miasm at the base
Treat _____________ not SX
Cause
If the miasm is pure (RARE)
Treat those alone
Psora can complicate with
Old veneral disease
Psora can complicate with
Syphyllis and psychosis
Psora alone yet complicated by
Allopathic medicine
Take into account px age, lifestyle, diet, occupation, domestic situation ANDDDD
Civil relations
Should you pick a remedy right away?
NO over several interviews
Start treatment with the most _______________________________ medicine
Anti-miasmatic
START WITH A TREATMENT WITH UTMOST SIMILIARITIES TO DISEASE
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Cure can only be found thru ______________________ of its effects on human health
EXPERIENCE *only thru experience can we perceive the cure
Is the curative wesen discernable?
NO
MEDECINES CURE BY engendering a disease state that
Removes the one to be cured
Only thing that shows disease from health is
Symptoms
Artificial dx state lifts…
The one we want to cure
Medicine sought must be similar to
DX
Is antipathic effective?
No, it is opposite dx symptom - will only be temporary
How many sx does homeopathy look to?
The totalitiy of symptoms
What do we want to engender in homeopathy
An articifial disease state
Match Dx to Sx =
Permanent removal
When two similar dynamic affections meet in a living organism, the stronger….
Extinguishes the weaker
Who is the only person who can observe mega changes from the formerly healthy self
The unpredjudiced observer
Who else can comment on changes:
The px, the physician and the pbserver ]]
The totality of symptoms is a reflection of
Inner vesen
Totality of symtpoms must be
Discerened and cleared away
When is the cure?
When the DX symptoms have lifed
In health, life force keeps a person
In harmony
All sensibility comes from
Life force
Disease and medicine are both
DYNAMIC
What comes first, mistuned life force of sumptoms?
Mistuned life force
morbid mistunement makes itself known in
SX
Dissapearnce of symptoms will
reinvigorate and restore the life pinciple
Must impinge on disease in a ___________________ way
Dynamic way (because disease occurs dynamicalle)
What is the only thing to consider in the remedy
TOTALIY OF SYMPTOMS
Who cannot be in a prooving
Sick people
Medicinal actions must be studied by observing
What alterations of condition are brought forth in HEALTHY people
Certain cure can only be ascertained by
Previous writings
SX of poisoning usually
match up with provings
Each medicine acts in accordaance with
DEFINITE EXTERNAL LAWS
Counteraction percieved in poisoning (AKA)
AKA too much reaction
What is something that will have a perceptible counter action even in a small dose
Narcotics
With the exception of narcotics, one will only perceive the _______________ acti0on
initial
Some medicines have __________ states which go OPPOSITE to other sx that have appeared
Recipricol states
Some sx appear in many healthy bodies, some in
Few
In provings with unpotentized medicines, substances of different strengths should be proven
IN DIFF QUANTITIES
Indigenous plants expressed as
Juice
Exotic plants expressed as
powder
NON STIMULATING and should avoid
Spice, green veggies with med PPOWER and beverages
The prover must be
Credible and conscioencous guarding against body exertion, excesses, passions, no urgent business to deter and posses the proper intellect
Provers must what gender
Male and Female
Medicinal substances should be at this potency
30C
Provers should start with what type of dose
Small
Properly strong medicineal dose admiinistered will show the exact
Sequence of SX and the times when they appear
The duration of a med action can only be ascertained by
Several exp. with one dose
the action of amedicine is less clear when a prover must take
Increasing doses on successive days *DOING OE CAN TAKE AWAY ANOTHER SX
IF you dont care SEQUENCE or DURATION…
then you can do heightened dose every day for several days
determine CHARACTER of sx to figure out
what is peculiar
Different SX can appear in
different provers
To fully proove a substance you need
MULTIPLE TEST with ppl of both genders and various constitutions
RARE symptoms showing up in a prooving
Even the rare ones can be cured
large doses create
violnet actions…. moderate = better
Alll alterations seen in a proving must stem from
The medicines
Provers should…
Keep journals and be intervied by supervising physician
The most excellent provings remain those that
The healthy unpredjudiced conscientous and fine feeling physican employs on himself
Constructive interference/harmonic resonance
The combined power of overlapping energy waves of the same frequency E.g. opera singing that breaks the glass
What is good in treating kidney stones
Constructive interference
Destructive interference
Energy waves of similar frequency but out of sync will cancel each other out - cancel an atom’s vibration and stop it from spinning
Every surgical case
Is a homeopathic case because it increases the organisms capactiy to heal
Jeremy Sherr - A proving is anything that gives you
A new experience E.g. a movie can be a proving if it produces something new
Forgetting =
Forgetting is a simillimum
Can you have coffee before a proving?
No. Must stop two weeks before because weakens the yong and then the yin - hard to repenish yin
Cigarettes in proving?
NO
Proving = learning to listen to
The whispers *most people don’t hear wshipers
Are you allowed to do constituional treatments and or acupuncture in a proving?
NO
BEST PROVING COMES FROM
A single dose *2 and 3 can distort the CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS
ALthough you cannot add doses it is okay to
repeat the dose in a few hours
Purpose of a proving
To record the totality of DX symptoms by a substance on a healthy person to then create a curative set of indications for the sick
Primary effect
Occurs IMMEDIATELY within a few hours E.g. increased or decreased energy, increased irritability, crying, rush or buzz, headache
Secondary effect
Follows the primary effect. It is the organism’s reaction in order to re-establish equilibrium. E.g. return of symptoms or decrease of symptpms
3 criteria to determine if it has really been proven
1) Symptoms must be reported from provings on healthy individuals using toxic, hypotoxic, and slightly potentized doses
2) Symptoms recorded must be drawn from all three levels - mental, emotional, physical
3) Symptoms must be included which have been CURED in the process if treatment of the whole organism after admin to sick
Ideal prover is what age
18-50
Time required for a proving
1 to 4 weeks at time, write down sx on all three levels
Location for a proving
Ideally 1500 ft altitude, clean air and water, quiet to raise health before doing it
Director
Decides on substance to be proven and is only one who knows remedy
Experimenters
Monitor the responses thru daily contact with prover and KEEP their own ournal
Provers
Record baseline SX beginning 1 to 4 weeks before the
Can provers talk?
No
Provers must write in journal three times a day
and contact their experimenters minimum once a day, especially first 7 days of proving
