Incidents During Homeopathic Treatment

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INCIDENTS

during

HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT

-Second Prescription

-Evaluation of the Course of Treatment

-Therapeuti c Aggravation

-Pharmaceuti cal Provings

-Paral lel Al lopathic and H omeopathic Treatment

-Potency Selection

Athos Othonos

Homeopathic Medical Doctor


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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1

EVALUATION OF THE COURSE OF TREATMENT

SECOND PRESCRIPTION / FOLLOW UP

1.1 What do we ask at Second Prescription?

1.2 When the patient is better grade 3

1.3 What do we investigate when our patient is better 1 ?

1.4 What must be checked if our patient initially improved and thensuddenly has a relapse

1.5 We always prescribe the each time simillimum

1.6 What to search for when our patient gets worse

1.7 Homeopathy isnt harmful but still requires a well trained doctor

CHAPTER 2

THERAPEUTIC AGGRAVATION

2.1 What s Therapeutic Aggravation?

2.2 Whats not a Therapeutic Aggravation?

2.3 When and why Therapeutic Aggravation takes place?

2.4 Misinterpretations of Therapeutic Aggravation


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CHAPTER 3

PHARMACEUTICAL PROVING

3.1 Whats a Pharmaceutical Proving?

3.2 How can a Pharmaceutical Proving be caused?

CHAPTER 4

PARALLEL ALLOPATHIC AND HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT 4.1 Can Homeopathy be combined with other treatments?

4.2 Why a homeopath must definitely be a medical doctor?

CHAPTER 5

SELECTION OF SIMILAR POTENCY

5.1 How do we select the similar potency?

5.2 How do we reach idiosyncratic diagnosis in babies?


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PREFACE

As Hippocrates said, Medicine is at the same time Science and Art. AnArt that needs on the part of the doctor several years to thrive whi le Lifeis short, Art is long. Nevertheless, wisdom, as all true virtues, dependsnot on quantity but on quality. Its based not on the quantity ofexperiences but on the right processing of these events.

Only a processing according to Universal Laws and according to Holistic

Thinking can transform experiences to wisdom. If not, what prevail aresubjective opinions, arbitrary theories and all kinds of experts andgurus. Thats the reason why Hahnemann - founder of Homeopathyand the first one to introduce the modern scientific method of DoubleBlind Trial which he called Proving - named Allopathic Medicine ofhis times as Empirical Medicine contrary to Scientific Medicine.

Unfortunately, this is also true for Modern Allopathic Medicine despiteits international academic and clinical prevalence. Its true because itsnot founded on any diagnostic or therapeutic law with general validityoriginating from the general Universal Laws, as any true Science should.Thats the reason why every day chemical drugs and therapeutictechniques are triumphally introduced to modern diagnosis and treatmentas being very effective and harmless, only to be silently withdrawn after awhile, as ineffective and harmful, not to say lethal.

Thats the reason why both Scientific Methodology (Universal Laws) andArt (experience) are valuable to any true Science, Medical Science notexcluded of course. Nevertheless, in Homeopathic Medicine one morecrucial factor is of absolute need in order to transform a doctor into aneffective healer: The healing of the healer!


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Since homeopathic case taking aims at the diagnosis of the patientsidiosyncrasy body and mind it is indispensable that the doctor beobjective, unbiased and balan ced since he is the very measurementdevice of his patients idiosyncrasy. He definitely has to overcome, at acertain degree, his own idiosyncratic illusive tendencies and moreoverhave the right moral attitude towards his patient. Only then, will he

become an effective healer worthy of his name and position.

This book is a contribution in the area of art/experience regardingapplied homeopathic treatment. It refers to the incidents that usuallyappear during any homeopathic treatment from the first prescription untilthe end of the curative effort. This book is the outcome of 25 years ofclinical application of Homeopathy according to Universal andHomeopathic Laws. I believe that I analyze some very controversialtherapeutic subjects like:

-Second Prescription/Follow up

-Evaluation of the Course of Treatment

-Therapeutic Aggravation

-Pharmaceutical Provings

-Parallel Allopathic and Homeopathic Treatment

-Potency Selection

There are many well trained homeopathic doctors as case taking isconcerned, that fail to heal their patients because they lack the correctknowledge and technique regarding follow up of the patient until thecompletion of the treatment, until achievement of cure. They fail toevaluate correctly the course of their patients state of health andimpatiently prescribe this and that remedy in this and that potency andrepetition until they have spoiled the case.


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In order to have a successful cure you have to follow not only diagnosticlaws but as well as therapeutic laws. And that is the purpose of this bookwhich is a product of my lectures to doctors about HomeopathicTherapeutics. You can judge what I say only if you apply it in clinical

practice. I did that for 25 years and I am now confident enough that itworks and thats the reason why I propose it to you. Enjoy the theory andmoreover the clinical practice!

If, on the other hand you are a patient, by reading this book you will become a well informed patient, able to follow the course of yourtreatment and able to judge the therapeutic actions of your doctor. A veryvaluable thing nowadays, if you come to think of how many doctorsarent worthy of their title.


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CHAPTER 1

EVALUATION OF THE COURSE OFTREATMENT

SECOND PRESCRIPTION / FOLLOW UP







1.7 Homeopathy isnt harmful but still requires a well trained doctor

Good Evening! Tonight we will discuss certain incidents that happenduring homeopathic treatment like for example Therapeutic Aggravationand Pharmaceutical Treatment. But first we will discuss about theEvaluation of Course of any Homeopathic Treatment and about SecondPrescription or Follow Up.

This is usually done one month after the first consultation of our patient.The goal of first prescription is to find the simillimum while the aim ofsecond prescription is to evaluate the course of our patient as a whole anddecide if our first prescription was right or wrong.


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What do we ask at Second Prescription? The first thing to do is to runthrough, one by one, all his symptoms and diseases and ask if anything

changed. The proper way to ask for every symptom and disease so as toget an unbiased answer is Are you worse, better or the same?

We must be specific each time because often syphilitic individuals willtry to downgrade or understate their improvement or even lie about it.This is usually done so as not to feel obliged to the doctor. But it mayalso be done for another reason: they dont want you to lower your eff ort

to help them and give them weaker medicines!

Syphilitic individuals and especially Lachesis may also act the other wayround and start praising you loudly and in front of other patients saying:Bravo doctor! You are God! You do wonders! I will have your picture inmy praying room! Dont you think that they say these out of meregratitude! They flatter you so as to force you to keep up the good work.

They do know the meaning of the saying many people hated money butnobody hated glory!

Then we go on asking if there is any change in his general mood or anychange as to his anxiety state, irritability, joy or sorrow. We also ask ifthe psychological special traits of the idiosyncrasy that affects him at themoment, have changed; not if they vanished but if they became less

intense and more normal. For example, be it a Nux Vomica, we will askabout fastidiousness or irritability; be it a Thuja we will ask about lack ofself-confidence; be it an Argentum Nitricum we will ask about fixedideas and compulsive behavior, etc.

We also ask about the patients general physical condition. We ask if hissleep became normal or if it improved, that is, if it s easier for him to go

to bed, if he sleeps more deeply and without interruptions and if he is


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more refreshed in the morning. We also ask if his physical strength hasimproved and if he has more stamina. In a woman we ask about hermenses. Does she have less pain? Is her menstrual cycle more balanced?Have her intense premenstrual symptoms become better? What about thequantity of blood and the duration of her menses?

If our patient was a greedy one, we ask if this has improved; if he didnthave any appetite we ask whether this has changed to normal. What abouthis sexual desire? If it was low did it improved to normal? Does he enjoysex more than before the treatment? How about his early ejaculation orlack of erection? Is he less anxious about his sexual potency?

All the above reveal if he got better and at what degree, because all theabove can be changed to normal by the action of the homeopathicmedicine! And that is a common thing for any skilled homeopathicdoctor! That doesnt mean that all the above will improve or that theywill improve from the first month of the treatment, but eventually ageneral improvement will be the outcome. This improvement has to dowith his symptoms, his diseases, his general physical state, his

psychological state and the imbalances of his idiosyncraticcharacteristics.

You may also find out that your patient does nt catch colds so easily because his immune system has become more effective. His psychological endurance to stress and misfortunes will increase; behaviors that caused imbalance to him in the past will affect him lessthan before. If he is a student he will realize that he can be more efficientregarding his studying and have less anxiety during his tests. A workingman will be more relaxed and still more efficient at his job. Most mentalfunctions and even memory will become more enhanced.

What on earth? Is this a magic pill? Yes! In some cases this is indeed thecase! The patient feels that and expresses it: Oh doctor! What on earth


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have you given to me! My whole life changed! Its as if I am a different person! Its as if I found my good old self!

Unfortunately, this is not so common nowadays. Our modern way of lifehas driven most human organisms to exhaustion so its not a commonthing to find better grade 3 cases after administering the simillimum.But still its not a rare thing to happen. As a rule the patient eventually

becomes better grade 2 or 3 but not magically in just one month.


Now, lets examine one by one , all possible cases during SecondPrescription. Lets begin with the better 3 case. Wha t does better 3stands for? The patient is definitely improved psychologically. He tellsyou: I feel so much better and even my close ones have noticed thischange. Or he says So many bad things happened during this month butstill I managed to deal with it satisfactorily, I was calmer, cooler,composed and self-possessed! What a weird thing! Have I become

insensitive or thick-skinned?

He is also physically improved. He may tell you: My headaches havealmost gone; my colitis is a lot bette r; I eat things that I wouldnt dare totouch in the past! Most of his physical symptoms have improved at agreat and profound degree and some even vanished. This is definitely abetter 3 case confirming to the doctor that he definitely prescribed the

simillimum.

Another sign confirming that weve hit the bulls eye, that weve prescribed the simillimum, is Therapeutic Aggravation; of course, mostof the times the patient is improved without the occurrence of therapeuticaggravation. From my experience, this phenomenon happens at a

percentage 15% only although the patient is improved. When therapeutic

aggravation happens and if its a therapeutic aggravation this is a


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strong sign that we ve prescribed the simillimum. I deliberately say andif its a therapeutic aggravation because as I will show you later manyhomeopathic doctors name all kinds of irrelevant things as therapeuticaggravation!

When we have to do with a better 3 case, then we never, ever, prescribeanything else for the moment. We may only change the tissue salts to begiven. We wait and wait and wait! We may wait for months. As long asour patient remains better 3 or even better 2 we dont give any otheridiosyncratic medicine. We keep giving tissue salts and wait.


If our patient is better grade 1 then we start asking ourselves: Is it amatter of time? Is my prescription correct but my patient, being a psoric

person, improves only gradually? Or is it that my prescription is notcorrect but I try hard to convince myself and my patient that he hasimproved although he didnt?

Nevertheless, he may be better 1 during the first month of the treatmentonly because he suffers from a severe and chronic disease. What did youexpect, for God sake? To do wonders in only one month for a personsuffering for years or decades of years! In such a case, the expectedcourse is gradual improvement from better 1 to better 2 and maybebetter 3 eventually.

During the first month in chronic diseases, only some symptoms and thegeneral state of the patient are slightly improved. Then, gradually mostsymptoms tend to improve. Some symptoms may not change at all andthis is the case when non-reversible tissue destruction has taken place.


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Often, in chronic diseases, during the first month of treatment there may be a clear psychological improvement but no improvement regarding his physical symptoms. You may even find that he has a general physicalimprovement but the symptoms of his physical disease have not changed.We never change our prescription in such cases. Psyche is hierarchicallysuperior to the body and improvement travels from above downwards.That s the Law of Hierarchy and we should have it in mind.

Many times physical changes and tissue changes need time while thegeneral psychological state of the patient is easily improved beingdirectly affected by the energy-etheric action of the energy-homeopathicremedy. Nevertheless, if physical change does not manifest itself we mustre-examine our case.

If my patient is better 3 or even better 2 I never re -examine anything.I wait and see. If on the course of treatment my patient does not improveany more or if his state declines then I will re-examine the case. In thecase of better 1 or even more, in the case of zero change we definitely reconsider our prescription.

First I have to check me, myself, the doctor! Did I give the simillimum ordid I prescribe a relative, a similar remedy but not the one and onlysimilar remedy, i.e. the simillimum? A relative medicine may havecaused a slight improvement, a palliation of the patients condition butwill not go any further.

For example I may have in front of me a patient whose basic idiosyncrasyis Sulphur but at the moment, temporarily, he is affected mostly fromArgentum Nitricum. The right thing to do is to give him Argentum

Nitricum and when time comes, that is, when his improvement startsdeclining and if he still has Sulphur as basic idiosyncrasy, to prescribeSulphur.


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But if I prescribe Sulphur from the beginning then I may have a palliation but not an effective cure. My patient will keep calling for Argentum

Nitricum. You see, you have to unfold such a multi-layer case from top to bottom. You must prescribe each time according to the top layer becausethat is the simillimum each time!

So, whenever we have a better 1 case we first check the doctor if he has prescribed the simillimum, then the pharmacist if he has preparedcorrectly the prescribed medicine and finally the patient if he has

followed our orders and if he hasnt been drinking coffee. Moreover, itsimportant to check if my patient has undergone any intense physical or

psychological stressful conditions. Did any relative or close friend died orgot severely ill? Has he faced a separation or a love disappointment?Were there any extreme financial problems or job problems?

If any of the above happened it is expected that my patient instead of

becoming better 3 to become better 1 although Ive prescribed thesimillimum. He may also improve physically but still not

psychologically.

We also have to take in consideration irritating external factors regardinghis disease. For example I may give the simillimum, he may improve

psychologically but his gastritis may not improve because he was

working away from home and eating junk food all the time. Or hisarthritis may not improve due to extreme weather conditions or physicalexertion. Nevertheless, most of the times, even if the external conditionsare adverse if he gets the simillimum he may overcome them and have a

physical improvement too.

As Ive told you before, in all cases where there is a clear psychological

improvement with no physical improvement we never change our


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prescription. We wait and we try to get rid of any factor that may hinderthe patients physical improvement such as food, alcohol, side effectsfrom chemical drugs, weather conditions, stress, physical exertion, etc.

If we have a slight psychological improvement without any physical one,we must also check if this is not caused from our treatment but if its dueto pleasant occurrences in our patients life such as a new promisingcompanion, love fever, vacations, won the lottery, his bitch mother in lawdied, etc! (laughing)

We must also take in consideration that many patients tend to attributetheir improvement to external conditions and not to the treatment so asnot to feel obliged towards the doctor. It may also happen that hisimprovement may be a combination of the homeopathic drug s action andof pleasant external factors.

However, as homeopathic doctors we have many criteria to use in orderto differentiate between all these factors. Don t forget that most externalfactors usually act locally and temporarily while the therapeutic action ofthe homeopathic remedy is holistic and permanent. For example ahealthier diet may improve our patients gastritis but it w ill not driveaway his depression in one months time. Or a pleasant occurrence mayimprove his psychology but it will not improve his arthritis or vaginitis.


Whenever our patient initially improved at grade 2 or 3 and then suddenlyhas a relapse at grade 1, 2 or 3 then we have to check a lot of things. First,we have to check if the energy action of the homeopathic medicine givenhas been de-activated by the use of coffee or substances that havecaffeine. Sometimes, even one coffee or one cola refreshment is enough

to cause deactivation of our treatment especially if it acted at first stages.


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But, be careful. There are cases where the patient has been drinking a lotof coffee but still his treatment hasnt been affected.

Then we must check if adverse external conditions and misfortunes havehindered his improvement although the medicine administered wasindeed the simillimum. In the latter case or in the case of deactivation ofthe treatment due to coffee I will have to repeat the simillimum in thesame potency or at times at a higher one, but only if he is still beingaffected by the same idiosyncrasy .

You see, a certain misfortune may change his idiosyncratic state. He maynow be affected by a different idiosyncrasy and I have to prescribeaccordingly. He may have been Medorhinum and now after a job

problem, he may develop Phosphor. Or she may have been NatrumMuriaticum and now due to love disappointment she develops Ignatia oreven Sepia.

If he was initially better 1 and now this slight improvement hasvanished I must strongly check if what I gave him was not thesimillimum but a relative to the simillimum remedy that caused atemporary palliation. So, I must consider all relative remedies to the onethat I have prescribed.

We also have to check if the chemist did give him what we have prescribed and at the correct potency.


Rule Number One, an inviolable rule: We always prescribe the each time simillimum; that which is similar to the present state, to the current state of the patient. If I gave him a certain remedy one year ago or even one


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month ago and he did great, that doesnt mean that today the sameremedy will do the job.

We are not machines! We are not cars to be dispatched from the factoryas Toyota Corolla and remain Toyota Corolla when withdrawn from use!We keep changing all the time because we are living creatures. Its true,of course, that during a lifetime we tend to be affected by certain relativeidiosyncrasies but, nevertheless, we do change. If we keep giving thesame good old remedy we simply violate the Law of the Simillimum. Ifthe lock changes you must also change the key that unlocks it!

Very often the patient says: Please doctor, just give me the samemedicine that you gave me last time because I did great then! But we arenot allopathic doctors; we dont prescribe for the disease that remains thesame; we prescribe for the pat ients idiosyncrasy that keeps changingalthough disease stays the same. We must always ask ourselves twoquestions. First question: How did my treatment go? Second question:Is he still affected by the same idiosyncrasy?

Now lets examine one more case: the patient is the same, both physicallyand psychologically; zero change! Again we must check the doctor ifhe has prescribed the simillimum, the chemist if he prepared themedicines correctly and the patient if he followed our orders.

One more thing; we have to check the patients state of health. Even invery severe or incurable diseases a slight physical and psychologicalimprovement is to be expected during the first or second month of thetreatment. Sometimes there is no improvement to the symptoms of thedisease the first month but still there is at least a slight improvement tohis general physical state and to his mood.


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If you have an incurable case like for example a cancer at terminal stagethen you may see a general temporary physical improvement and a

psychological improvement at first. As illness takes its course, first the physical improvement will go away and gradually the psychological also because the patient is affected by his physical symptoms and thedeterioration of his state. Any hope is gradually lost.

Nobody can avoid his destiny; no matter what he does and no matter whathis doctor does; even if you give him the best thoroughly selectedhomeopathic or other drugs. Its not up to the doctor. Nature and Godcalls! We, doctors are but go-betweens, simple tools of Mother Natureand God. We may be good or bad go-betweens, good or bad tools and weare going to be judged as so and not according to the outcome oftreatment. Got it! Merely go-betweens! But be careful, go-betweens of

Nature and God and not go-betweens of our egoism or of Medical andPharmaceutical Companies! (laughing)


There is one more case on the course of any treatment: deterioration! The patient not only didnt improve but it got worse both physically and psychologically. Something definitely went wrong and we must urgentlytake a very close look at our case! Again we must investigate if the

patient used caffeine or if the chemist did not prepare the medicinecorrectly or gave a wrong drug or if we, the doctors prescribed a totallyirrelevant medicine.

A medicine not properly prepared, a patient deactivating the energyaction of the proper medicine and the prescription of an irrelevant drugcan all have the same result if the patient already declines from a severeactive disease: the continuation of deterioration! Nothing stopped thedeclining course of th e patients health and things got worse!


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The homeopathic drug doesnt have any side effects of any kind at the physical level because it acts on the energy level. If it suits the energystate of the patient then it will act and mobilize all his psychological and

physical therapeutic mechanisms towards cure. If its not the simillimum but still similar to the patients energy state , then it will do a positiveaction but not so strong and permanent as if a simillimum would do. Ifits irrelevan t to the energy state of the patient then it will do nothing atall.

You see we have to do with energy phenomena and not with materialaction and there are distinct differences in action. For example if you tryto charge your mobile telephone with the wrong charger nothing willhappen. It needs to be charged at a certain voltage, at a certain frequencyand at a certain amber range.

Nevertheless, if you keep trying to charge your mobile telephone with thewrong charger again and again and especially at voltage and frequencythat differ very much from the proper ones, then after a while you maycause certain malfunction to the device. In the same way there is a slight

possibility that you may cause trouble to a patient if you insist givingagain and again, very frequently the same irrelevant homeopathicmedicine for months and months at very high potencies. Then you maycause a Pharmaceutical Proving by the homeopathic medicine.

Its not a rare thing to prescribe an irrelevant to the simillimumhomeopat hic medicine, in fact its human, but, nevertheless, its very rareto cause a proving because you have to prescribe wrongly again and againin high potencies and very frequently. If you follow the above rulesregarding the evaluation of the course of treatment you must be blind notto see that the specific medicine you have prescribed does not have any

positive effect so why give it again and again and in high potencies.


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Even if you have a patient with a very sensitive organism who develops aPharmaceutical Proving from the very first administration of an irrelevanthomeopathic medicine something extremely rare - you definitely haveall the signs in front of you that tell you that you ve caused a proving! Soyou can overcome such a situation immediately deactivating what youhave given either by giving coffee to your patient or by simply giving thesimillimum. Even in this rare case no permanent physical symptoms ordiseases are caused; only temporary mild functional physical symptomsand temporary mild psychological symptoms.

Any therapeutic action must be done with great care no matter whattherapeutic system we employ. We are dealing with human beings andthat is the reason why any healer should be a medical doctor and on topof that a well trained doctor. Moreover any doctor should be honest andsincere not only to others but mostly towards his conscience. He mustfeel free to say to himself: Damn you! Why were you so careless!Youve definitely done something wrong and you must fix your wrongactio n immediately!

Moreover, in such cases we have to have our patient under close medicalobservation until things are clear. Not only in such rare extremely rarecases but also in any case that things did not go as well as expected wemust keep a close eye to our patients. Whenever things are not clear orstable I tell my patient: Youll call me once a week just to keep me

posted on your state. From my experience most patients appreciate thisconcern and say to themselves: He is not playing God! He really trieshard to do his job !

Follow up/Second Prescription is more difficult than First Prescription because you have to overcome yourself and your standard procedures inorder to identify possible mistakes. Re-considering is tougher thanconsidering! Moreover, if the patient calls me in two weeks time after hisfirst consultation and says that nothing has changed or that he is worse,I have to re-consider in a few minutes time.


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If I just cant do it in such limited time I find it more honest on my part totell him to come again for consultation instead of waiting another two

weeks. But, due to years of experience, that is a rare thing to happen. Doyou want to ask anything?

1.7 Homeopathy isnt harmful but still requires a wel l trained doctor

-Lets say that a patient comes to us for the first time with asthma. He isin a state of exacerbation of his disease, started taking cortisone but stillhis symptoms are intense and he tells you: My symptoms are at theirhighest. Can we start homeopathic treatment or should we wait a coupleof months until things calm down? I mean I am afraid I might have atherapeutic aggravation as I was told and expose myself to danger. Whatdo you say to him and what do you do?

-Youll apply homeopathic treatment right away! You must know that thehuman organism is wiser than all the doctors of the world! When anyorganism is in an emergency it rarely proceeds to a therapeutic

aggravation. Even if it does, usually in lighter cases, this is never adangerous or harmful thing for the patient.

Therapeutic Aggravation is an intense reaction of the organism but still afully controlled action. For example therapeutic aggravation neverinvolves psychological symptoms and never physical symptoms thatcould be harmful or dangerous for the patient.

You may have a temporary rise of the fever, an exacerbation of thecough, a headache or an exacerbation of the eczema of the patient. Allthese are controlled and temporary and are purposeful; they are in thedirection of overcoming the present febrile state of the patient and on thedirection of somatization(release to the body) existing anxiety. Thats thereason why after the initial crisis the patient is very relieved both

physically and psychologically and his state of health is improved.


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Our organism is very wise because his creator is the source of anywisdom, the Wisdom itself. Its not programmed to harm itself. Only the

human egoism can do such things. Nature never behaves in an unnaturalway! Only humans do!

It so happens that every now and then a patient comes to me and says:Doctor I suffer from depression and suicidal tendency. If I have atherapeutic aggravation as they told me, what will happen to me? And Isay to him: My dear, your organism isnt as stupid as those who told you

this! Never, ever, has any therapeutic aggravation involved psychologicalsymptoms! Only physical symptoms and never dangerous ones! So dont

be afraid of anything! In fact most of the times a therapeutic aggravationinvolves decompression of psychological anxiety by somatization, sodont be afraid!

If you are a homeopathic doctor and you apply during your clinical

practice, all those homeopathic laws that I have taught you, then you havenothing to fear about. That doesn t mean that you won t make anymistakes! It s bound to make mistakes since you are human but if youfollow homeopathic laws it will be minor and not severe ones.

You are excused to make minor mistakes as doctors because after all youare humans. But you were trained to identify them and correct them.

Thats what makes you real scientists. Apart from that you must have themoral background to practice Medicine in good intentions and to the bestof your abilities.

If that is true and acceptable about any allopathic doctor who employsharmful drugs and dangerous operations in his clinical practice why not

be true and acceptable about a homeopathic doctor who employs natural

healing means in his practice? A homeopathic doctor has the advantage


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even when he is mistaken in prescribing not to harm. He may not do good but at least, he wont do anything bad. Benefit; dont harm! accordingto Hippocrates!

Homeopathy is never a dangerous therapy. It s a natural healing tool atour disposal. It wont do harm but still it needs a skillful and moral

personality on the part of the doctor so as to benefit. And that s yourobligation as doctors. And that s what this training is all about!


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CHAPTER 2

THERAPEUTIC AGGRAVATION






There are so many misconceptions and false ideas when it comes to the phenomenon of Therapeutic Aggravation! A complete chaos! Not only onthe part of patients but also on the part of doctors! We, doctors, are themain cause of misconceptions that exist in the minds of patients asmedical concepts are concerned.

What is Therapeutic Aggravation? As its name reveals, TherapeuticAggravation is an aggravation/crisis/exacerbation of symptoms, yet oftherapeutic nature. It happens only to physical symptoms that the patientalready had for example headaches and certain skin problems. It doesnthappen so often as most people and doctors think; from my experience ithappens at a percentage of 15% among patients examined for the firsttime. I t doesnt happen in the course of treatment. From that time on,

patients are gradually improved without any exacerbation of any kind.


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This exacerbation of physical symptoms is only temporary; the onset of aheadache may happen the first hours or days after taking the simillimumand may last from some hours even seldom to some days. When it comesto eczema or psoriasis this exacerbation may last for days or more rarelyfor a few weeks. The intensity of the symptoms varies from light tointense.

But, whats of great importan ce for any doctor or patient are the criteriathat can define that a certain crisis, a certain exacerbation of symptoms isindeed a Therapeutic Aggravation and nothing else. Let me tell you thesefirm criteria.

First of all it involves only physical symptoms and only what already the patient has suffered from. It never involves new symptoms, that is,symptoms that the patient didnt have in the past. Secondly, it s ofunusual intensity and thirdly, immediately or gradually after theexacerbation there is always a clear and definite improvement of thesecertain symptoms.

Fourthly, this improvement involves the whole, i.e. other physicalsymptoms and diseases, the general physical state of the patient and his

psychological state. The last one is the most important criterion. Therecant be any Therapeutic Aggravation without psychologicalimprovement to follow it. No psychological improvement, no TherapeuticAggravation! It s as simple as that!


There are of course times when certain idiosyncrasies that are verynervous and restless, like for example Lachesis or Valeriana or Platina,will tell you: Oh, doctor, what did you give me? The first hours/days ofthe treatment I felt befuddled/stupefied/dazed and wanted to sleep all the

time! This wasnt an exacerbation of any existing symptom. What really


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happened was that her organism in order to gain strength and reduceanxiety was tuned at a lower rate of function.

Its lik e a car that was working at 6000 revolutions per minute going onthe edge of burning its engine and then the mechanic tuned its function ata normal frequency. Nevertheless, when a person is used to function atvery high revolutions then when brought back to normal feels as if he isstupefied. Its of course a fact that at times before the finaladjustment/setting is achieved that the revolutions tend to rock backand forward from very high to very low ones for some time.

Nevertheless, this isnt dete rioration; this is an adjustment done by theorganism with the help of the energy he got from the homeopathicmedicine; in fact, its a beneficial and purposeful adjustment! It will lastfor some hours or days and then things will not be back to the previousunbalanced state but back to normal.

For example a restless and overactive Platina will feel at first as ifstupefied; if she wasnt told by the doctor about this possibility this willmake her worry whether the doctor gave her something equivalent tosedatives. B ut this isnt suppression of brains function; this isntsuppression of mental activities. She can drive efficiently and workmentally efficiently but more relaxed and in a slower pace.

Then after some hours or days she will be again active and restless because this is her idiosyncratic characteristics but it will be in a morerelaxed and balanced way. H omeopathic remedy doesnt change anyonesidiosyncratic characteristics; it smoothes/grinds the edges of any extremecharacteristic thus making it closer to normal, closer to balance.

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Its something you have to know as doctors in order to know whatsgoing on with your treatment and in order to explain it to your worried

patient.

The chemical sedative suppresses all the functions of the patient, psychological as well as physical. His physical strength and stamina aredecreased, his movements become slower, his sexual desire is decreasedand he may also have many other physical side effects, for example skinsymptoms or peptic symptoms. He wants to sleep all the time but evenafter much sleep he doesnt feel refreshed; his thinking is slow, hismemory weakened, his concentration low. And thats the reason why a

person on sedatives is advised to avoid driving. He is also advised toavoid alcohol because one kind of suppression is already enough!

On the contrary, when a person starts homeopathic treatment he feelsmore relaxed and due to this he has a slight aversion to spoil this relaxedstate and enter any stressful job, like the ones we usually do in ourmodern professions. Nevertheless, if he decides to do so, he will manageto do the job quite efficiently because all his mental and physicalfunctions are working properly and are not suppressed. The above statecan be compared to the relaxed state that one has just after a refreshingsleep when he refuses to spoil this positive feeling and enter a cruel

program of work.

A similar adjustment can be done to another function: sleep. The patientmay feel sleepy for some days especially when it comes to people thathavent been sleeping enough for a long period and definitely need rest. It has nothing to do with suppression of the brain s function and thats thereason why on waking the patient feels very refreshed and calmer than

before. It s simply a therapeutic action done by the wise organism inorder to calm the soul and refresh the brain and body. Patients that have alack of energy and a lack of body weight may experience an increase oftheir appetite for some days or weeks until they gain what they need.


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-Does this sleepiness have anything to do with the stop of drinkingcoffee?

-That s a very good questio n! Many people, even if they dont drink more

than one or two coffees per day, develop a caffeine addiction. So whenthey stop drinking coffee at the onset of treatment may experiencesleepiness for some days. But this sleepiness is accompanied bynervousness, bad mood, weakness and lack of energy. This is not a

positive adjustment done by the organism; these are but withdrawalsymptoms. Most of the times the beneficial action of the homeopathictreatment helps the patient overcome this situation very quickly and withless burden.

During any therapeutic aggravation no exacerbation of psychologicalsymptoms can happen; only some already existing physical symptomsmay increase for a little while. You see, during therapeutic aggravationwe have a beneficial somatization (release to the body) of anxiety done

by the organism in its effort for quick cure. Its a beneficial release ofanxiety done at the right curative course from the center to the

circumference and from higher levels to lower ones according to thehomeopathic Law of Hierarchy.

You may also see a Thuja or a Staphisagria patient telling you: Duringthe first days/weeks of the treatment I was more irritable than before . Insuch cases I always ask: Did you really were more irritable o r is it justthat you felt freer to express your anger whenever you got angry?

Then you see that sparkle at the face of the patient that shows that he hasrealized something very profound and he usually says: Oh God ! You areso right! That s what really happened! Its not that I get angry more than

before; its that I express my anger more easy; Ive started claiming myrights!


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Now its time to answer to a very crucial question: When and whyTherapeutic Aggravation takes place? There are two cases. The first one

is when we have given the simillimum and the mobilization of theorganism was intense. Accordingly the somatization of existing greatanxiety was intens e. There are cases where its not a matter of intens eanxiety; it may be that the mobilization of the patients physicaltherapeutic mechanisms was great.

In both versions there is a sudden effort of the patients whole to drive the

Illness to more external levels and free him from the burden ofimbalance. I feel free to use an analogy: If you start your car and you arein a hurry first you engage the first gear and then you violently step onthe gas pedal and suddenly release the clutch. The wheels spin noisily andthe car is shaken violently. But as you shift to the second or third gear thecar accelerates in a less violent way.

Thats the reason why therapeutic aggravation takes place only the firstdays of the first month of treatment. Even if you repeat the sameidiosyncratic medicine next month you wont have a therapeuticaggravation. Yet, if a patient has followed a successful treatment, didwell, stopped and after some time comes back for a new start, he mayagain have a therapeutic aggravation. But, nevertheless, this is a rarething to happen and if it happens it will be less intense.

The second reason for which a therapeutic aggravation happens is thefollowing: The medicine we have prescribed for the patient was indeedthe simillimum but the potency used wasnt similar to the patientsstate. That is, we went too high regarding his state. We either gave a veryhigh potency or a normal one but the patient was very sensitive. In simplewords we pushed somebody to the right direction but yet, suddenly andtoo hard compared to his needs. And if you push someone too hard you

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Its a normal and common thing to have therapeutic aggravation. As I vealready told you it happens at a percentage 15% during the first month of

the treatment. But its not a desirable thing to have a very intensetherapeutic aggravation; not desirable for the patient and not desirable forthe doctor. If the doctor is experienced and well trained he can, most ofthe times, foresee such a possibility and prevent it from happening bygiving the simillimum at a lower potency, for example 200CH instead of1M.

Now that I am more experienced I try to prevent an intense or prolongedtherapeutic aggravation from happening. I remember the first time that Iexperienced such an event on my first year of clinical practice! It was acase of a small Sulphur child with eczema. Instead of starting thetreatment with a low potency like 200CH or even 30CH I prescribedSulphur 1M! Oh God! The eczema spread all over his body just hoursafter the onset of treatment and insisted for weeks. He had terrible itchingand much serofluid was flowing from his patches. The boy was

complaining and the parents were in despair and worried.

Thats when you are tested as doctor! First you have to have theknowledge to identify whats going on. You must diagnose correctly ifthis is indeed a therapeutic aggravation or something else. If it s atherapeutic aggravation you know that you gave the simillimum and thatyou are on the right tract but still you have to convince the patient and his

relatives to be patient.

If you live in Greece and you have to do with Greek parents worryingabout their offspring then things ar ent so easy! Greek parents are veryworried about their children! And not only parents are involved to theirkids but also the grandparents and the uncles and even the friends of thecouple and the next door neighbors! Moreover, all Greek people consider

themselves as doctors and act accordingly giving free medical advice toall others around them!


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Its been many years since I had the last such case of extreme therapeuticaggravation. Experience taught me to be more careful. I take in

consideration the age of the patient; the younger the child the lower the potency. I also take in consideration the disease of the patient and hisidiosyncrasy; skin problems like eczema or psoriasis tend to beaggravated intensely and for long especially in Sulphur individuals.

The young and inexperienced doctor or the ambitious doctor wants toachieve spectacular and quick therapeutic results and may prescribe high

potencies and this may cause intense therapeutic aggravations. We mustnever judge according to us but according to the needs and state of our

patient. That is the rule! The only rule!

So if you go higher than needed regarding potency you may trouble the patient with an intense therapeutic aggravation. On the other hand if yougo lower than needed you may have no result or very poor and temporary

results. You are on the right direction but you have nt push ed enough. Ifthe patient is slightly improved and then relapses and only if we aredefinitely sure that weve prescribed the simillimum then we may givethe simillimum at a higher potency.

I say may because we may have prescribed a similar remedy but not thesimillimum. Or it may happen that the patient suffers from a chronic

disease and he is exhausted and its easy to relapse, or or

You have to be very careful when repeating the same remedy at higher potencies because if you insist repeating the same remedy at high potencies and if its not the simillimum but its irrelevant to the patientsidiosyncrasy you may cause pharmaceutical proving in sensitive patients.


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Let me discuss with you a relatively common incident. A doctor prescribes a remedy that is irrelevant to his patients idiosyncrasy. The

most common outcome is that the remedy doesnt act a t all and the patient stays the same. If before treatment he was at a declining state ofhealth then during the treatment this declining course will continue. Then,this ignorant homeopathic doctor sees this declining state, misinterprets itand says to th e patient: So, you say that you got worse! Bravo! This is avery good sign; this is Therapeutic Aggravation! You will be troubled forsome months and then youll be cured! This is a very severe mistake, notto say a stupid mistake.

There are crystal clear criteria, as mentioned above, that define atherapeutic aggravation so there is no excuse for any homeopathic doctorregarding misinterpretation of therapeutic aggravation!

When it comes to wrong prescription nobody could accuse any

homeopathic doctor for not giving the simillimum because not all casesare clear. You are excused not to be able to read the mind and see the soulof your patient. After all, any homeopathic doctor isnt superhuman, isntGod. Accordingly an allopathic doctor may find it difficult to diagnosethe disease of his patient. But, if the doctor is well trained and cares forwhat he does, he will try again and do his best and most of the timesmanage to help his patient.

But no scientist is excused to misinterpret a declining health state for atherapeutic aggravation! There are definite rules and the only thing theydemand is common sense.


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CHAPTER 3

PHARMACEUTICAL PROVING


3.2 How can a Pharmaceutical Proving be caused?


There can rarely be a case where the patient may get worse due tohomeopathic treatment; its the case of Pharmaceutical Proving. In orderfor someone to understand the latter we have to say a few basic things.

What is the usual procedure of Proving? I administer a crude substance ofmineral or plant origin, in repeated doses, to a healthy human being untilthe minute he starts developing symptoms. These symptoms manifestthemselves when the poisoning action contacted at t he experimentovercomes the defense threshold of the organism and his physical and

psychological defense mechanisms are mobilized in order to produce

these useful symptoms.

The sum of these symptoms is but the pharmaceutical action of this crudesubstance to the human organism. Several substances were used tohealthy human beings and the several pictures of symptoms producedwere included in the Homeopathic Pharmacology or commonly knownHomeopathic Materia Medica.


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If you give a similar remedy but not the simillimum then you have a palliation of the patients symptoms. If you gi ve an irrelevant to hisidiosyncrasy homeopathic medicine then most of the times nothing willhappen; no action at all. But if you keep repeating it in high potencies andthe patient is sensitive to energy actions then you may causePharmaceutical Proving.

A question pops up: How can a homeopathic doctor end up doing such atotally false thing? Ok, I can understand that if he is not well trained hemay prescribe an irrelevant to the simillimum medicine but then whydoesnt he see that and why does he keep repeating this false medicine inhigh potencies?

This is done due to the misconception of a correct and useful techniqueadopted by James Tyler Kent, a great teacher of Homeopathy. Kent saidthat If you administer the simillimum in low potency and the patient aftergetting better for some time, starts becoming worse again, then, if he isstill influenced by the same idiosyncrasy and only then, you can gohigher. That is, you can repeat the same homeopathic medicine at ahigher potency and the patient will get a lot better and you may evenfinish the case.

Its as if you have given a push in the right direction but not strongenough to finish the case and then you have to push harder. So you repeatthe same medicine at a higher potency and maybe again the samemedicine at a much higher potency. For example you may give Sepia200CH, then Sepia 1M and then Sepia 10M. But this is done only if the

patient is indeed Sepia, only if you started low and the patient improvedfor a while and then relapsed and only if he is still Sepia. Moreover yougo higher only after he has relapsed. Usually you dont have to repeat themedicine more than once or twice higher.


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This technique of Kent has nothing to do with the false procedure used bythose ignorant homeopathic doctors that cause Pharmaceutical Proving.Being wrongly trained they often administer irrelevant to the simillimumhomeopathic medicines. Then being ignorant, if in chronic cases their

patient not only improves but keeps declining they misinterpret this asTherapeutic Aggravation and say to themselves: I gave the simillimumand my patient has a Therapeutic Aggravation. But then the patient stillkeeps declini ng. So they say to themselves: I must have given a low

potency, so according to Kents law I must go higher.

They go higher and the patient keeps declining. So they go again higheror repeat the irrelevant homeopathic medicine thus causingPharmaceutical Proving! Again, being not well trained they dont identifythat they have caused Pharmaceutical Proving and the patient enters avicious circle.

From my experience Pharmaceutical Provings are often done by the useof Sepia and Arsenicum. These idiosyncrasies are not so often nowadaysas ignorant homeopathic doctors think. Furthermore, ignorant doctors arenot well acquainted with the true idiosyncratic pictures of theseidiosyncrasies. So they keep prescribing them again and again thinkingthat they are on the right tract misapplying the technique of Kent ofgoing higher.

Whenever I come across to a patient that has Pharmaceutical Provingdone by a previous doctor I do case taking and prescribe the simillimumand the whole mess comes to an end. The false idiosyncratic picture

produced by the Pharmaceutical Proving goes away and the realidiosyncratic picture of the patient is treated and the patient gradually

becomes balanced.

-But how can you distinguish between these two existing pictures anddecide what is his natural idiosyncratic picture and what is his

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-Its very easy. The patient himself tells you: I didnt have thesesymptoms before my taking Sepia. Furthermore you know theidiosyncratic picture of Sepia and you identify its characteristicsymptoms. Apart from that you can ask your patient about his courseduring the treatment with the previous homeopathic doctor and identifythat not only he didnt go well but on top of that he suffered fromPharmaceutical Proving.

Your patient tells you that he had some symptoms. Then he was givenSepia and his symptoms did not improve. Then he was given Sepia againand new symptoms developed on top of the previous ones. What else doyou need to know in order to understand what happened? When you haveconfusion in your mind like the previous doctors you see withoutseeing and you act without knowing what you do!

If you are theoretically well trained and you have substantial correctclinical practice, then you have order in your mind. If you have order inyour mind then you can automatically be tuned with the order that existsin natural phenomena or the lack of order that exists in many human

brains, be it the brain of a patient or a doctor! You can see truth only ifyou are f ull of it inside you! Theres no other way!


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CHAPTER 4

PARALLEL ALLOPATHIC ANDHOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT

4.1 Can Homeopathy be combined with other treatments?


4.1 Can Homeopathy be combined with other treatments?

Some patients, especially the syphilitic and mistrustful ones, may say tome: Doctor, before starting your treatment I will stop chemical drugs soas if I get well to know what did the job! or They told me to do alsoAcupuncture together with Homeopathy but then how will I know whathelped me?

Excuse me ! I tell them. What s our main concern? Your improvementor whos going to get the credits? If we can help a patient in more thanone ways why shouldnt we? As a homeopathic doctor I have in my mindall the criteria that will allow me to know if the homeopathic drug that Ihave prescribed has acted curatively or not and at what degree.

There are some homeopathic doctors that deliberately refuse any othertreatment to their patient so as not to lose him on the process of paralleltreatment. They say to themselves : If he gets better he may think that itwas Acupuncture that helped him and not Homeopathy and then he will

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part of the doctor. Its my duty to do my best and its the patients right tochoose whatever he likes even if he chooses wrong. I havent got the rightto deprive him of the possibility to get well following any other allopathicor alternative treatment.

There are also some homeopathic doctors that believe that anyone onhomeopathic treatment shouldnt take any other medicines of any kind.They say that chemical drugs counteract or neutralize or deactivatehomeopathic drugs. This is, of course, wrong because homeopathicmedicines act on the energy level while allopathic drugs act on thematerial level. It s true, nevertheless, that allopathic drugs have sideeffects or suppress symptoms and diseases and that troubles the patients organism but most of the times this isnt a serious obstacle to the progressof homeopathic treatment.

I certainly would prefer to start my homeopathic treatment having a patient free from allopathic drugs but this is not possible most of thetimes. In fact, many times its medically wrong to stop abruptly anyallopathic medication and proceed to homeopathic treatment right away.First you have to help your patient in order to be able to stand on his ownfeet and not need allopathic medication and then proceed to the gradualstop of his allopathic drugs.

If you have a patient with a broken leg first you have to fix his leg andthen get rid of the crutches. Crutches aren t curative means but still theysupport your patient until he gets well. Accordingly, most of the times,allopathic medicines aren t curative but instead they are palliating orsuppressing symptoms, but still they often support the patient; so youmustnt throw it to the dustbin before you have already helped , up to a

point, your patient by homeopathic treatment.

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you dont harm him, you may cause trouble to him because you havetaken away the palliative action of his allopathic symptomatic treatment.Thus you may also force him to stop homeopathic treatment because hesuffers again from the symptoms of the disease since the allopathic drugsthat relieved him were thrown away. You see, there is a period of timeduring which homeopathic treatment hasnt yet progressed to the point ofrelieving the patient and during this period he needs allopathic medicines.

For example if you have a patient taking systematically antihypertensivedrugs for 10 years or more its definitely wrong to stop his drugs as soonas he starts homeopathic treatment. First you have to do a parallelallopathic and homeopathic treatment and only after he has improved ingeneral youll start systematic measurement of his blood pressure in orderto see whats going on. You will measure his blood pressure a wholeweek, twice a day, with and then without antihypertensive drugs andcompare the two set of measurements. If without allopathic medicines his

blood pressure is normal then and only then you are allowed to cut themoff.

Even if you are sure that he has a nervous high blood pressure and not a pathological one and that he doesnt need the antihypertensive drugs, stillyou have to act as described before for reasons of your patientsinsecurity.

Nevertheless, there are allopathic medicines that should not be cut off notonly during homeopathic treatment but even after its successfulcompletion. For example if you have a patient with a certain degree ofheart or respiratory failure you will never cut off allopathic medicinesthat support his heart and lung s function. In any case of irreversibledamages where allopathic drugs are definitely indispensable its wrong todiscontinue allopathic medication.



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See why any homeopath must definitely be a medical doctor andmoreover a good one? How can he treat his patient as a whole if he isnt amedical doctor? How can he deal with the already existing allopathictreatment of his patient if he isnt a medical doctor? How can he deal withany diagnostic test if he isnt a medical doctor? Most of the patients thatconsult a homeopathic doctor for the first time are already on allopathicmedication that failed to help them but still they are in need of it. Howcan you deal with them if you arent a medical doctor? Its out of thequestion!

If we allow the practice of Homeopathy to non medical doctors then wecondemn Homeopathy to become a mere Herbal Medicine practicedonly complementary. The patient will be treated by the allopathic doctorand as an extra action, in the same way that he may also take somevitamins he will also take some homeopathic medicines.

Seriously, is that what we want? Seriously, is that what Homeopathydeserves? Homeopathy is not a complementary or alternative medicine.Its Medicine; in fact, its true Medicine! Its Scientific Medicine! Itsnatural and effective Medicine. At least thats what it is for me! Andthats what it is in reality.

You have to deal with your patient first as a doctor and then as ahomeopathic doctor. I believe that if you arent a medical do ctor youwont be able to reach a correct homeopathic diagnosis and you wont beable to effect a successful treatment. Furthermore, if you arent a doctoryou can harm your patient. Hahnemann was a medical doctor. Hisstudents were medical doctors. Hahnemann taught Homeopathy only tomedical doctors. How can any medical doctor teach non doctors how to

practice Medicine! It s absurd! It s wrong!

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to build an apartment building for you? Or would you trust a non licensedmechanic fix your precious car? How, on earth, can you trust a nonlicensed medical doctor deal with your body and mind? I just cant get it!


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CHAPTER 5

SELECTION OF SIMILAR POTENCY




Now, lets talk about another subject. Lets talk about the selection of themost suitable potency; most suitable to the patients state of health. In thesame way that we call a homeopathic medicine similar to the patientsidiosyncrasy we could call a certain kind of potency as similar to the

patie nts state of health. So, how do we select the similar potency?

From my experience in most chronic cases I start with the thousandth potency, i.e. 1M, i.e. 1X100 to the thousandth power. In chronic cases Irarely start with low 200CH potency or very high 10M potency. In smallchildren and especially when suffering from eczema do to the possibilityof an intense and prolonged therapeutic aggravation I go low at first,either with 30CH or 200CH and then only if needed I proceed graduallyto 1M.

There are some homeopathic idiosyncrasies that are suitable to intense

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the beginning at 10M potency. In all other cases it s advised to start with1M unless its a very clear and intense state and we are very sure that our

patients idiosyncrasy is indeed what we have diagnosed. I have rarelyused 50M potency and only in certain idiosyncrasies like Lycopodium,Lachesis and Hyoscyamus because there was no need for it.

You can proceed from 1M to 10M only according to the technique ofKent of going higher but only, I repeat only under the presuppositionsthat I have already told you. Only if the first prescription was thesimillimum and did a very good job but then the patient relapsed and onlyif he is still the same idiosyncrasy as before. Most of the times I don t gohigher; I just repeat 1M and the job is done quite well.

You have to be very careful not only with homeopathic medicines butalso with potencies. If you go too low there will be no action or slightaction. If you go too high there will be no action or you may even cause a

pharmaceutical proving if your patient isnt what you have diagnosed andif he has a sensitive energy structure.

In acute conditions I usually apply the 30CH potency or more rarely the200CH; only rarely when I have a very intense and characteristic picturewith not only characteristic physical symptoms but also withcharacteristic psychological symptoms I may use 1M.

I consider 12CH not suitable for idiosyncratic homeopathic prescribing. Iuse it only for tissue salts that accompany the idiosyncratic homeopathicmedicine. I give the first day the idiosyncratic homeopathic medicineusually at the 1M potency and from the next day on I prescribe one tissuesalt at the 12CH potency each day as a supportive of the organismtreatment that doesnt interfere with the main action of the idiosyncraticmedicine. Tissue salts are salts of Potassium, Sodium, Calcium,Magnesium and Ferrum and mostly carbonic, phosphoric, sulfuric andnitric ones.


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-How can you reach to an idiosyncratic diagnosis when you have to dowith babies that arent able to talk and cant be questioned?

-We receive valuable information from non-verbal elements as I havetaught you; and of course, we get information from their parents andclose ones. Something that helps a lot in these cases is that babies andsmall children tend to be affected by a short list of idiosyncrasies. Thesame thing is also true for animals. Dont forget that babies and animalsare more primitive in the mental level and thus arent yet very diversified.

The most frequent idiosyncrasies in babies and small children are fromtop to bottom, Medorhinum, Phosphor, Sulphur, Pulsatilla, Cina andLachesis. Only rarely you will prescribe Lycopodium, Nux Vomica orLilium Tigrinum to small children because these idiosyncrasies tend tohave a more complicated mental sphere not easily found in smallchildren. So you have a lack of some information in childrens case

taking but then you have a shorter list of idiosyncrasies to check.

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