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shaz04 on 2011-10-06
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Antidotes must be chosen on the basis of the symptoms that have come up since taking the remedy, not chosen mechanically from a list.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
I would like to know more about how antidotes work.Any information would be great!I have had great results with most of my reamedy's giving but a few I have had problems with.I'm getting ready to take this one and Lachesis. Not at the same time.One remedy only.I have finished with a course of natrum mur with great results.Lachesis is the main one this one was added for my iron problems I believe...I am allergic to iron but I don't want to have to take any more medications then I need to.My body is more then been though too much before starting to take homeopathy(wich I love and wished I have found sooner).I probley would not have been concerned but I almost died 2 times last year thanks to allpath Dr.'s infusing iron into me after missing that I was bleeding inside for some time.Then to go through what I did to get iron back was more then enough.I am not telling anyone not to listen to allpaths but I know they did not listen to me or my body screaming out for help.Anything that I can read or find out would be appreciated greatly. I do think my homepathy Dr is fab. but saddly she is not close by and quite busy. I have had a few massive aggervations to some remedy's so that is the main reason for my being careful.Nor are remedy's eay to get quickly where I live.Does anyone know much about Lachesis?I am curious because it talks of salt being one of the antdoites but I'm not sure how to avoid that one completely :) How do you consult Dr.David Kempson?I do want to thank both of you for taking the time to help me.How does one know where to begin when syptoms started?I can remember back to almost 2 and I am getting close to 40 now.Plus since the car wreak and hit to my head things are fuzy in the order they happened.I would like to make a list up.I know my homeopathy Dr. took some down I offered her anything she wants or needed.It is quite large.Be well all of you ;)
shaz04 last decade
The only reason you would move from one remedy to another is if the first remedy has been explored fully, using dosage and potency. If there are still symptoms remaining, then a new case would be taken, fleshing out the problems and symptoms that have not been resolved.
If you are getting strong aggravations, there are a variety of reasons for that.
The main one is because the method of dosage is not being done correctly. I am going to post my general instructions for Split Dosing, which is the accepted traditional method for adminstering homoeopathic remedies.
INSTRUCTONS FOR SPLIT DOSING
Firstly, you need to create a separate dosing bottle. Get a bottle with a dropper, 15-30mls in size, and fill it with a mixture of water and alcohol (5 parts to 1 part). Dissolve 2-4 granules or 2-4 drops of the medicine you bought from the pharmacy into this mixture. Your doses will be made from this bottle.
Hit the bottle firmly against the palm of your hand, or another elastic surface like a book. It should be a firm hit not a tap. 2 hits is enough to begin with, and should not be increased unless it is clear that it is needed. The water in this bottle will 'remember' the number of times you have hit it, so that subsequent doses will be stronger (necessary to overcoming the resistance of your disease).
Place 1 drop into an amount of water - I may start with anything from 1/4-1 full cup (62ml-250ml) depending on the sensitivity of the patient. Stir thoroughly and take 1 teaspoon into the mouth. Throw the rest of the cup away.
This is one dose. Repeat doses would be started from the 2 hits on the bottle.
Each step of this process can be adjusted to reduced aggravation or to increase the effect of the medicine. In order to be able to do this, it is important to measure each step (count the hits, the drops, measure the water etc).
So rather than looking for 'antidotes', just make sure that your dose is correct, so that you don't aggravate.
David Kempson
Professional Classical Homoeopath
Dip.Hom.Med 1994
If you are getting strong aggravations, there are a variety of reasons for that.
The main one is because the method of dosage is not being done correctly. I am going to post my general instructions for Split Dosing, which is the accepted traditional method for adminstering homoeopathic remedies.
INSTRUCTONS FOR SPLIT DOSING
Firstly, you need to create a separate dosing bottle. Get a bottle with a dropper, 15-30mls in size, and fill it with a mixture of water and alcohol (5 parts to 1 part). Dissolve 2-4 granules or 2-4 drops of the medicine you bought from the pharmacy into this mixture. Your doses will be made from this bottle.
Hit the bottle firmly against the palm of your hand, or another elastic surface like a book. It should be a firm hit not a tap. 2 hits is enough to begin with, and should not be increased unless it is clear that it is needed. The water in this bottle will 'remember' the number of times you have hit it, so that subsequent doses will be stronger (necessary to overcoming the resistance of your disease).
Place 1 drop into an amount of water - I may start with anything from 1/4-1 full cup (62ml-250ml) depending on the sensitivity of the patient. Stir thoroughly and take 1 teaspoon into the mouth. Throw the rest of the cup away.
This is one dose. Repeat doses would be started from the 2 hits on the bottle.
Each step of this process can be adjusted to reduced aggravation or to increase the effect of the medicine. In order to be able to do this, it is important to measure each step (count the hits, the drops, measure the water etc).
So rather than looking for 'antidotes', just make sure that your dose is correct, so that you don't aggravate.
David Kempson
Professional Classical Homoeopath
Dip.Hom.Med 1994
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
Thank you very much for the information on doses.I will save this to use!!I was being treated before with 1 ml over 6 month period although I kept getting sick towards the end acute.I do think some of it was my doses.The other problem was with pus. I have used it 3 times with very bad mental agg. each time, no one seems to know why.The only thing I do know is it has brought up some of my childhood not the good parts the last time.I am willing to stick things out but from what I have read 30c(should be physical is that right?) in water should not cause that many problems and the right one should help you mentally(please do let me know if that is wrong, I am still learning very much).I do have one more dumb ? when you are not in the best state of mind as has been in the past I have taken ignatia with some amazing results!Would love someone to bounce off info. about results.I did not count well the hits this is not my usal practice,what do I do when that happens(hopefully will not happen agian)I have 200c made up almost gone and 30 c of it.It is prn. I do not mind putting more details but does it need to be where everyone can read this?I look forward to trying my next lachesis to hopefully help much more!I have lachisis in a liquid 6c to take.I hope I out enough alchol in it.My husband wants me to wait till tomorrow to take it.The ferrum phos. is not in liquid she said it would be fine to take it dry 2 pellets 6x under tongue because it is a cell salt.I am to alternate for a while due to my blood problems.Sorry if I am not relaying this very good. My typing is very bad! as my spelling is also probley a sign too...
shaz04 last decade
It sounds like you are being overdosed, that is why you are getting those bad reactions.
No dose should be repeated without an assessment of what has happened. Daily doses usually create problems for people, and it is better to give single doses and wait to see what happens before repeating.
Potency relates to the way in which the disease shows itself in the patient, and the way that patient expresses their problems. It also relates to the intensity of the disease, and the degree of denial or suppression in the case.
30c is a medium strength potency, and is useful when the disease has a number of peculiar symptoms unique to the remedy, when there are some low level mental or emotional symptoms, and when the intensity is not very high. The 30c patient will tend to relate their symptoms as a string of facts, only dipping occasionally into their emotions. They do not tend to deny or suppress their feelings, and will speak in a fairly matter-of-fact way about the problems in their life. There are often a lot of general symptoms in the case (symptoms that affect the whole person rather than a single part). Their dreams will be about fairly ordinary, day-to-day things, possibly even just a rehash of their waking life.
No dose should be repeated without an assessment of what has happened. Daily doses usually create problems for people, and it is better to give single doses and wait to see what happens before repeating.
Potency relates to the way in which the disease shows itself in the patient, and the way that patient expresses their problems. It also relates to the intensity of the disease, and the degree of denial or suppression in the case.
30c is a medium strength potency, and is useful when the disease has a number of peculiar symptoms unique to the remedy, when there are some low level mental or emotional symptoms, and when the intensity is not very high. The 30c patient will tend to relate their symptoms as a string of facts, only dipping occasionally into their emotions. They do not tend to deny or suppress their feelings, and will speak in a fairly matter-of-fact way about the problems in their life. There are often a lot of general symptoms in the case (symptoms that affect the whole person rather than a single part). Their dreams will be about fairly ordinary, day-to-day things, possibly even just a rehash of their waking life.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
I guess i will continue to sound dumb but what do you mean by being overdosed?I want very much to get better.I don't want to lose hope(not in homeopathy just my case or health)should I seek out a 2nd Dr.?If so how?I have been getting all my syptoms together.I was told by my homeopathy Dr. that she cound not believe I was alive when she heard what I have had happen plus the drug suppression throughout my life.She showed me a cirle and said i filled all of it.She said my constition must be a strong one to endure what I have.She was very sad that no one had helped me sooner.I very much want to get better.I did not metion before that I was on quite a bit of drugs from allopath Dr.'s. I have gotten off almost all of them but 3(but I think that is good because before I had a gallon ziplock bag full of them!I have 4 autoimmune disorders 2 rare blood disorders and the supression from the medical Dr.s has been extensive.This is all how medical looks at it not how I look at things. I see that things have poped up that they do not see.The allopath Dr is amazed that my hoshimostis thyroiist is almost cured but they are missing something..I can write out the unsal symptoms very good.There are a good bit of them.The suppression has caused me to really start to feel my vf(i am concerned for it) be in great distress so much that the mental has really started to show up.common is it for friends and fammily to say that it is not like me at all.What do you think I should do?I am at a loss. I have gotten a few books and am picking up what I read pretty good but the mental fatigue is making it harder then I normally learn.My dreams have always remembered and have been very vivid till lately..now I cannot remember much.I took the online software today and the number one remedy was lachesis.I don't know if that was a fluke..any advice or direction you can give me I would love to hear.I am reading as many books as I can on homeopathy that I find to be educated and do things right.I have not taken a remedy in almost 2 weeks at that time it was mr.viv Ihad gotten sick.3 doses 2 hours apart no more.It was about 2 weeks ago.nothing since then.trying not to suppress as much as I can.trying not to use any products that could interfer(that is hard!.What do you think?
shaz04 last decade
Overdosed means given too much. If you take daily doses until you feel sick (aggravate) then you have been given too many doses. However, homoeopathic overdosing is not dangerous unless it is done over and over, until new symptoms are grafted on to the person's system. How long this takes to happen is individual, so really it is better to stop the moment you get any kind of reaction to a remedy.
A remedy reaction can take place days after the dose is taken. This means that daily dosing can make such a reaction much worse, as you have taken several more on top of the one that caused the reaction.
It is hard to know what has happened to you with the homoeopathic treatment. Can you clearly list exactly what remedies you have taken, how long you took them for, and how you administered them to yourself.
A remedy reaction can take place days after the dose is taken. This means that daily dosing can make such a reaction much worse, as you have taken several more on top of the one that caused the reaction.
It is hard to know what has happened to you with the homoeopathic treatment. Can you clearly list exactly what remedies you have taken, how long you took them for, and how you administered them to yourself.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
sorry for more then one ? do you want mental and physical symtoms too before and after remedy's?.How detailed would you like me to be?Thank you.
shaz04 last decade
oh I forgot to put in past 2 month my tongue keeps swelling up and feeling a bit numb/tingly.I have teeth marks on it and it is in the way all of a sudden..It goes all the way down my throat like that and I have a sore throat constantly.very aggervating.Sometimes it gets worse poss garlic does it have been avoiding it.I do not remember having anything like this before.
shaz04 last decade
hello,
i was just checking if you got my email and if there was enough info there for you. :) thank you have a good day or night.
i was just checking if you got my email and if there was enough info there for you. :) thank you have a good day or night.
shaz04 last decade
hello Dr. Kempson,
I have been waiting to hear what you think of my case.I am sure you are very busy.I do not want to be overdosed as you have said may have happened.How do you know if this has happened?can I search the site to know?I have taken the remedy's as I was instructed to do annd they seem to be helping some but it is hard to say it has been 5 days.I am concerned due to problems with my blood disorders.I do not want to take more meds from the allapath Dr.'s I feel they have made me very sick.
I have been waiting to hear what you think of my case.I am sure you are very busy.I do not want to be overdosed as you have said may have happened.How do you know if this has happened?can I search the site to know?I have taken the remedy's as I was instructed to do annd they seem to be helping some but it is hard to say it has been 5 days.I am concerned due to problems with my blood disorders.I do not want to take more meds from the allapath Dr.'s I feel they have made me very sick.
shaz04 last decade
I haven't taken your case. I was merely trying to ascertain what had happened on the remedies, but the information is not clear enough to sort that out.
Did you want me to make a prescription?
Did you want me to make a prescription?
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
If you think you can help me I would very much like to get help.I am sorry that the information was not clear enough.I did the best i could.What do I need to do to get a perscription?
shaz04 last decade
It was not your fault, I think that the use of the remedies has been poorly organized so I could not really tell what remedy was doing what.
GUIDELINES FOR GIVING HOMOEOPATHIC CASE INFORMATION
It is important to describe all your problems in as much detail as you are able. One word answers and short sentences are not particularly helpful. Discuss each problem one at a time, providing (as a minimum level of detail) the following information.
Please do not answer each of the following questions by placing all your problems in each one. Each of these questions needs to be answered for each problem eg. For you headaches answer 1-7, then for your reflux answer 1-7 and so on.
1. What exactly happens?
2. Describe all sensations and pains. Each pain or sensation should be described in such a way that allows us to imagine having the same pain.
3. What causes the problem to get worse after it has started occurring?
4. What creates some relief for the problem?
5. What triggers the problem into occurring?
6. What time of the day or night does the problem occur?
7. When did the problem start? What was happening in your life at that time? Did some specific event or treatment take place just before the problem started?
Move from one problem to the next, doing the same thing. IT IS VITAL THAT YOU GIVE A COMPLETE PICTURE OF YOUR HEALTH BY PROVIDING ALL PROBLEMS YOU HAVE, EVEN IF NOT CONNECTED TO THE MAIN ONE, AND EVEN IF YOU CONSIDER IT OF LESS IMPORTANCE. You should address each problem separately using the above 7 questions as a guide.
As well as this, please describe any traumatic incidents that have taken place in your life. Discuss anything that has had a lasting impact on you mentally, emotionally or physically.
Discuss the way that you manage or deal with your problems, or any problems that occur in your life.
Discuss any patterns you have noticed in your behavior especially concerning your disease.
Discuss any part of your life where you feel stuck or unable to change and grow, especially where this occurred around the beginning of your disease, or as the disease evolved.
Describe your childhood and the kind of environment you grew up in, with reference to your relationships with your family, your school experiences, and any serious childhood diseases. Your parents may need to help you answer these questions.
If your earlier discussions have not mentioned these already, please describe:
1. The specific foods that you crave (not just like) or hate
2. The specific drinks that you crave or hate
3. What your sleep is like
4. How the weather and the temperature affects you
5. What kinds of things in the environment you are particularly sensitive to
6. What your general level of energy is like
7. What your level of sexual energy or desire is like
8. Describe your menstrual cycle
I will probably have more questions for you after that.
I also need to know what homoeopathic remedies you have taken in the past, and what the results were.
GUIDELINES FOR GIVING HOMOEOPATHIC CASE INFORMATION
It is important to describe all your problems in as much detail as you are able. One word answers and short sentences are not particularly helpful. Discuss each problem one at a time, providing (as a minimum level of detail) the following information.
Please do not answer each of the following questions by placing all your problems in each one. Each of these questions needs to be answered for each problem eg. For you headaches answer 1-7, then for your reflux answer 1-7 and so on.
1. What exactly happens?
2. Describe all sensations and pains. Each pain or sensation should be described in such a way that allows us to imagine having the same pain.
3. What causes the problem to get worse after it has started occurring?
4. What creates some relief for the problem?
5. What triggers the problem into occurring?
6. What time of the day or night does the problem occur?
7. When did the problem start? What was happening in your life at that time? Did some specific event or treatment take place just before the problem started?
Move from one problem to the next, doing the same thing. IT IS VITAL THAT YOU GIVE A COMPLETE PICTURE OF YOUR HEALTH BY PROVIDING ALL PROBLEMS YOU HAVE, EVEN IF NOT CONNECTED TO THE MAIN ONE, AND EVEN IF YOU CONSIDER IT OF LESS IMPORTANCE. You should address each problem separately using the above 7 questions as a guide.
As well as this, please describe any traumatic incidents that have taken place in your life. Discuss anything that has had a lasting impact on you mentally, emotionally or physically.
Discuss the way that you manage or deal with your problems, or any problems that occur in your life.
Discuss any patterns you have noticed in your behavior especially concerning your disease.
Discuss any part of your life where you feel stuck or unable to change and grow, especially where this occurred around the beginning of your disease, or as the disease evolved.
Describe your childhood and the kind of environment you grew up in, with reference to your relationships with your family, your school experiences, and any serious childhood diseases. Your parents may need to help you answer these questions.
If your earlier discussions have not mentioned these already, please describe:
1. The specific foods that you crave (not just like) or hate
2. The specific drinks that you crave or hate
3. What your sleep is like
4. How the weather and the temperature affects you
5. What kinds of things in the environment you are particularly sensitive to
6. What your general level of energy is like
7. What your level of sexual energy or desire is like
8. Describe your menstrual cycle
I will probably have more questions for you after that.
I also need to know what homoeopathic remedies you have taken in the past, and what the results were.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
I will start working on all of this.I think it may take me some time..There have been so many losses where do you begin?At the beginning and try to move forward?Also i am not trying to be difficult but there were 2 times in 2008 that my head was hurt and I have been having problems with my time patterens since then.One was in July days before my grandmother passed away another was after a bad car wreak in nov of the same year.Is it ok if my pattern times are not right?I have asked my fammily but no one will help me much.I have been trying since they found the blood disorders in 2009 but everyone seem to have forgotten or will not talk much about my childhood.I am not trying to be difficult i am just very frustated I could remember everything really good like a movie but now it is all scambbled.And areas are missing.Please tell me the order you would like information in and if you need all the allpath meds they put me on(that may be a problem as there were so many).Lots of suppression!I am doing everything I can not to right now.Also when i first went over this wtih a homeopathy Dr I went mute after the 1st talk do you know why or have you heard of this before?No remedy at that time.It had not came in.Thank you in advance.
shaz04 last decade
Start with the thing that causes the most suffering in your life. Then move from each problem you have, again in order of how much pain it causes you, how much it limits your life. Everything should reflect the same problem, so everything is a window in to the internal state (remedy).
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
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