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How are Combination remedies made?

Hi,

I have been to many homeopaths who use the combination remedies. My question is..

1) Are combination medicines selected on the basis of the complementary feature in materia medica? For e:g- Rhus & Belladona are complementary to Bryonia Alba, so can they be mixed together to create one medicine? or can other remedies apart from complimentary which do not feature on inimical or antidote feature can be mixed, does that mean that they are safe since they are not listed in inimical and antidote?


2) my second question is are same potencies mixed together or can different potencies be mixed for a combination remedy.

3) What is better Combination or Classic homeopathy.. Coz in classic homeopathy there are not all the features that can match 100% but that can be achieved through combination method.

Please clear this step wise if possible.
 
  samur420 on 2010-11-04
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
I don't think there is a rule to how they select the medicines in combinations. Very often they are a mix of medicines that are traditionally used for the complaint, so you will get a real hodge podge of medicines with no real connection to each other.

They often mix potencies together. Since the rule for single remedy is already being broken, they have no real regard for any rules regarding potency. Since every patient has their own potency as well as remedy, this also creates problems for the patient (you might get the right remedy in the mix but the wrong potency so still won't be helped).

Both remedy and potency must be selected individually. Homoeopathy is based around this idea. Combination remedies are not homoeopathy - they are not chosen on the basis of being similar to the patient's disease. It is a form of Allopathy, the very thing that Hahnemann created homoeopathy to oppose.

Just because a practitioner uses potentized medicine does not mean they are practicing homoeopathy. There are schools of thought in homoepathy around using more than one remedy (for instance the cancer protocols). Even Hahnemann experimented with using two remedies at once. But when they are used they are still chosen specifically on the basis of how the patient presents.

This is not what is done when using combinations, where a disease name is tacked on the label and the indvidividuality of the patient is lost completely.

The strength of homoeopathy lies in its focus on the peculiar state of one individual patient. Combination prescribing is very much like Antipathic/Allopathic medicien - an attempt to find 'one size fits all'. This goes completely against the spirit of homoeopathy.

There are situations where the individuality of a person counts for less in making prescriptions - mainly in first aid or emergency prescribing, or in treating end stage pathological states. In such cases the common features of our human bodies tend to have more sway.

Once a disease becomes chronic, then you must understand the unique state of the person's vital force to get get real cure (which usually means understanding miasm as well).

In terms of matching a state 100% with combinations - this is not strictuly speaking true. In traditional homoeopathy you are trying to match the peculiar state of the person at the deepest level you can perceive. The combinations often only match on a superficial level. If a person needs China, and you have instead given a combination of Lycopodium, Nat-mur and Aurum, you have not matched 100%, you have in fact missed what is peculiar to China, since no other remedy can have that. Each remedy is unique.

It seems to me that the use of combinations is simple laziness or lack of understanding about homoeopathy. Why bother finding the right match, when you can just throw a whole bunch of remedies at the patient. One might be right, you will never know which one, you will never learn anything from it, the patient will never learn anything from it. You can never move to complementaries, use intercurrents, use nosodes to address the miasm - never manage the case in any intelligent manner.
 
brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Wonderful explanation by Brisbane Homeopath.
 
Dr.Saravanan last decade
We look forward to Murthy now. He should enter the discussion now and burst Diwali crackers.
 
kadwa last decade
Hi Kadwa

My views are well known to the regulars here.

I don't want to vex them with repetetions again and again. :-)

Murthy
 
gavinimurthy last decade
Hi DAVID,


Thanks a tonnnnnnn for explaining it in such detail and taking time to do so. I have doctors in my area who are MD Homeopaths and combine medicines together and I never got any benefit out of it, probably his treatment plan was wrong or the combinations didn't work or both, the true homeopathy rule is to stick to one remedy in the traditional form,right.
 
samur420 last decade
Productive comments by Murthy and Brisbanehomeopath are contributing to this forum and to homeopathy. Their tremendous effort is greatly appreciated. At the same time we must move forward and ignore vague and naive comments by anyone.

Regards
Nawaz
 
nawazkhan last decade
Murthy & David have always been kind with their knowledge and solved a lot of queries.
 
samur420 last decade

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