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You can't be both Gelsemium and Pulsatilla. There is only one state, one disease, one simillimum. There may always be a number of partial similars (partially correct). Every remedy can suit the chronic state of a patient, what some people call the constitution (although this term has meanings that can vary widely from homoeopath to homoeopath).

Every student who learns materia medica will say that they see themselves in many different remedies. There is a reason for this. You can only perceive the outer world through your inner (diseased) state, which means that it colours everything you see, including remedy descriptions. Everything looks like you, because you are only ever seeing yourself (when you are unhealthy). It is all we ever see until we are cured, at which point we are free of the delusion that is our disease and we can perceive reality on the outside (as objectively as health permits us to).

Reading through symptoms in our materia medicas or repertories, ticking them off, and then presenting those to a homoeopath as your symptoms, is the worst possible thing you could do. This so distorts and perverts your own natural expression that it is impossible to trust what you are giving. The only truly valuable symptoms are those given spontaneously, without any influence from the homoeopath or his extensive literature on symptoms.

The more you study the remedies, the less likely anyone will be able to choose a remedy for you, until you forget about them and simply express yourself naturally and without any attempt to 'help' the practitioner find your remedy.
[message edited by brisbanehomoeopath on Sat, 07 May 2011 12:15:30 BST]

Finding the totatlity in the case is not simply adding up every symptom and problem and matching it mathematically to a medicine. It is far more complex and difficult than that. You must ascertain which symptoms are important, which symptoms are connected (and therefore part of a larger unifying symptom), which symptoms are explainable by the situation (and therefore useless), which symptoms are peculiar and strange, which symptoms are common. You must also determine the miasmatic background of the disease and which symptoms relate to that. Unfortunately for everyone, most people cannot just read through the books and find their remedy.

Whenever analyzing a case, one first must determine the basic problem, and then what problems arise from that. By aiming a remedy at that basic problem the chances for complete cure is very high. Aiming remdies at the satellite problems may or may not help the patient, but whatever happens the basic problem goes on unabated, and will generate further problems while it remains uncured (so you never truly gain ground against it).
[message edited by brisbanehomoeopath on Sat, 07 May 2011 12:26:30 BST]

You were fine by the time I saw these posts it seems.

It is hard to tell yet. It sounds like you have gone into an opposite state. You are still in the aggravation period so no way to know how things will land yet.

Idra, I don't feel comfortable giving my opinion about your appearance. That isn't really something I think I should get involved in. I certainly wonder if Pulsatilla is really indicated for this, but I suppose any changes that are happening might still be ongoing. It doesn't sound like Pulsatilla to me.

However it continues to add more facets to the understanding of your problem - I think I will be ready with a better prescription when the time comes.

You can email me if you prefer not to have this done so publically. Let me copy all these posts though so I have the information.

More information is always better, keeping it short would be an obstacle to me helping you.