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Jun 7, 2013

Practical Hints on Homoeopathic Technique




Originally Published in “The Torch of Homeopathy”, January  1963, Vol V, No. 1.




Some practical hints from the experience of the leaders
Homoeopathic Technique

By
T. K. Moore, M.D.

Observations of those familiar with drugs effects on humans. Out of these part-truths will eventually come truth itself.

1.    It is impossible to learn homoeopathy except from a master. (G.Miller)
2.    Drugs are sick making and sick curing and the sickness is the same.
3.    The drug that can affect certain life processes adversely can be used to stimulate the selfsame life processes curatively. That is homoeopathy.
4.    Matter processed to finer and finer particles develops finally into energy and vice versa, the physical is but concentrated energy.
5.    The highly potentized remedy like processed pitchblende (radium) continues to radiate energy – year after year without perceptible loss. Homoeopathic remedies unused for 20 or 30 years cure as readily as those freshly potentized.
6.    Homoeopathy is absolutely inconceivable without the most precise individualization.
7.    The outstanding is the key to follow, no matter how remote this symptom may be from the pathology.
8.    Symptoms indicating the curative remedy often lie outside those that make up the pathology of the case.
9.    Hahnemann’s central idea is fundamental that the further an outstanding symptom seems removed from the ordinary course of disease the greater is that symptom’s value in determining the remedy. ( Boger)
10.  My inclination is to believe that there is real healing in crude drugs and that their action is homoeopathic, but as ordinarily used in continued application they have done more harm than their occasional good.
11.   The principle of homoeopathy is applicable to any range of potency. (Boger)
12.     After a remedy has acted, repeating the remedy too soon is one of the greatest mistakes that can be made.         (Boger)
13.     After a prescription giving relief, do not give a remedy for any new symptom appearing in a less vital part. (Lippe)
14.      In chronic cases do not repeat or change a remedy too soon. This statement needs to be repeated a thousand times. (Sloan)
15.      Minutes or hours in acute; days, weeks or months in chronic. Never repeat while amelioration holds. (Tyler)
16.      Ultimates do not indicate the remedy. In cancer the sharp pains, ulceration and anemia are ultimates. Preceding symptoms must be found and on these the remedy selected.
17.        Moving downwards does not indicate progression but diminution of a disease. (Lippe)
18.         Do not dip into the chronic state when dealing with an acute condition and vice versa. (Roberts)
19.          Do not commence treatment of any chronic disease during an acute exacerbation. Prescribe for the acute symptoms.
20.           In treating a chronic case, if an acute condition appears, unless it becomes dangerous or thrown upon the screen some individualistic indication it should not be interfered with.
21.          If an acute disease appears on top of a chronic, you must let the remedy work its way out. (Boger)
22.            I always use a lower potency for acute conditions, the 2 c. if I have been using the 1 M or 9 M. (Roberts)
23.           Why prescribe for a part of a patient when you have the whole patient with you? The patient was sick before the glands were. (Hayes)
24.         There is no better evidence of the good action of a remedy than mental improvement. ( Kent)
25.          The constitutional remedy is found by a series of symptoms absolutely new to that patient. (Boger)
26.          Prescribe for the last symptom to open the case, follow with related remedy, if any.
27.          In any complicated chronic case, the recent symptoms are the deciding ones. Cure your case in layers, the last layer first. (Woodburry)
28.        If the general state be ameliorated, whatever the state of local symptoms await the action of the remedy. ( Jahr)
29.         In acute cases one must have a remedy of the highest rating in the outstanding symptom or symptoms. (Dixon)
30.         In acute conditions it is often advisable to yield to the food cravings but in chronics they must not be indulged. (G. Miller)
31.         Vegetable diet will increase susceptibility to our remedies. (Boger)
32.           When a remedy is indicated in a different type from its characteristic type, i.e., the type of its best prover and those most easily relieved or cured by it often it is a double indication. Sepia in a man, Pulsatilla in a NUX type(its opposite). (Roberts)
33.           Keep on a symptom. Don’t follow a remedy. ( Roberts)
34.           It is my experience that Puls. symptoms occur and are relieved by Puls. as often indicated in Puls. type as in Nux. (Freeman)
35.         The best provers of Nux are dark wiry men; of Puls stout fair young women with pale skin and blue eyes. (Roberts)
36.          We all know that proving in a remedy is evidence that it is not the simillimum. (Boger) Apparent exception : Diphtheria epidemic. Those giving Bell in the morning had at 4 P.M. a violent fever, headache and drowsiness ending by 6 or 7 in sweat. All went on to recovery save when Acon. was given for these symptoms.
37.      Let us apply the triangular test. If we find three important characteristic symptoms pointing to one remedy, let us assure you that we can apply it with almost unerring certainty. I have tested its application in hundreds of cases.
38.        In a cure, the original discharge may not come back at the original place but from some other mucous membrane. (G. Miller)
39.         If chronic cutaneous eruptions disappear at last of themselves, dropsy or hectic fever is to be apprehended.
40.         Evil consequence of artificial suppression of chronic cutaneous eruptions are proportionate to the extent, intensity and duration of those eruptions, to the rapidity of their suppression and to the state of internal health.
41.       It is dangerous to stop the diarrhoea of advanced phthisis, even by the indicated remedy. ( G. Miller)
42.        The bond between two miasms can be broken only by a prescription that will meet the totality of the more active one. (J.H.Allen)
43.          All infectious diseases which form local affection of the skin  are internal diseases, the last disease of which is the local cutaneous manifestation.
44.          All maladies which show skin eruptions are always present internally before showing local symptoms externally. (Hahnemann’s Chronic Disease)
45.            Local diseases do not exist. What have been called so are localized morbid affections. (P. Schmidt)
46.          A new remedy should sustain a complementary relation to a former one, i.e., CAUST. and PHOS. do not like to work after each other; CALC. is the natural chronic of the BELL; NATRUM MUR. of IGN.; APIS will not do well after RHUS.
47.        The complementary remedy is always determined by the symptoms that arise. (Kent)
48.           Don’t leave your intercurrent too soon. It may be the curative remedy. (Gladwin)
49.           To prescribe for an aggravation is to fix the chronic condition on the patient. (Roberts)
50.            The initial aggravation may occur in chronics during the first eight or ten days.
51.         Look for a clear picture of the chronic following recovery from an acute condition. (Roberts)
52.         Ultimately the constitutional peculiarity is bound to reveal itself in form pointing to its remedial counterpart. Nature calls for relief in her own language which it behooves us to learn. Probably it is contained in the symptom picture but many times we are forced to look for it elsewhere. (Boger) 
53.           If a remedy (Sil) has the acute toxic symptoms and not the constitutional ones, it will subdue the acute symptoms without doing any damage. But if the patient had weekly headaches coming up the back of head, offensive foot sweats, sensitive to cold, etc., even before the acute trouble, it would be a most dangerous remedy. (G. Miller)
54.         No other symptom is so pathognomic of psora as pruritis. ( J.H.Allen)
55.          Many things can interfere with the action of homeopathic drugs. First of all these must be sought out and removed before even thinking of applying remedies.
56.        A clear field is necessary. All continuing causes must first be removed.
57.       If the symptoms for which a remedy is given are removed and a new symptom appears withhold the hand if you wish the case to go on recovery. (Lippe)
58.        It is doubtful if there be any antidote to a high potency except the specific dynamic drug antidote.
59.         The prodromal symptoms have the key to the homoeopathic remedy. (Boger)
60.          We have no long action drugs. The action is immediate. Continued favourable condition depends on the quality of the vital force and its harmonious action. (Roberts)
61.           Pregnancy will often bring out a latent malaria. It may not come until after delivery. (Roberts)
62.           Regular medicine is remiss in not following through effects of medicines on diseases continuing after suppressive or other disruption of harmonious action of vital energy.
63.        To hypersensitive patients use low, medium potencies, at first anyhow. (Close)
64.         In bad hearts, high potency may give bad reaction. It may be necessary to use the tincture. (Grimmer)
65.          I have better results from the millionth potency than I have from any other. (Boger)
66.         Crude drug effects are antidoted by the same drug in potency.
67.         Crude substances that act as irritants are best antidoted by the same or similar substances at higher vibratory rate i.e., high potency, as in radium burns, Rhus Tox or primrose poisioning.
68.           The potency must be changed if a given remedy is to be repeated. (Lippe)
69.            Boenninghausen usually repeated the 200th daily for two weeks.
70.             In acute cases Dr. Erastus Case usually gave four doses of the 2c. and waited. (Sloan)
71.             A rare remedy in a rubric is often the one.
72.             When a nosode comes out in repertorizing, use it with care. It invariably proves to be the simillimum. (Hubbard)
73.            In luetic invalids, where remedies act but a few days and must be changed it always calls for a nosode.
74.           A well person making a dose for proving, with the exception of a few sudden acting substances (Glon., Camph. etc.) will not feel any disturbance before the third day (Roberts). (How like the inoculation period of contagious disease or the application of radium to a surface lesion).
75.           In proving with the potencies the latest symptoms have the greatest value in prescribing. (Boger)
76.           Repeat the dose until an effect is produced, better or worse, then stop. (Case)
77.         Always it is the positive symptoms at the moment that demand a certain remedy. Negative symptoms must not be allowed to call us off. (Tyler)
78.         It is the positive symptoms that decide the remedy. Negative symptoms are no use. (Clarke)
79.         Absence of any group of symptoms may or may not contraindicate a remedy, depending on the degree. (Roberts)
80.        Make no mistake in homoeopathy – one is dealing with energy, real and powerful. As radium emanations hold power for good or harm, so with potentized remedies. Unless used with the technique of homoeopathic procedure, with law, good results are not to be expected.
81.         The simillimum (Curative remedy) realizes reactive power strong enough to re-establish harmony, which in turn is capable of sweeping away almost any morbid condition. (Roberts)
82.          I believe that in homoeopathy we are on the edge of something great belonging not to this generation of mankind but to future ages. (Patrick)

  

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