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Is that tantrum normal for him - the way he did it I mean? Not wanting to be looked at or touched?

I looked at these rubrics:

Capricious, rejecting what is longed for when offered
Looked at, cannot bear to be
Inconsolable
Touched, aversion to being

I also looked at a few of the smaller rubrics:

Capriciousness, rejecting things offered, in children - ant-t, bry, cham, cina, ip, kreos, rheum, staph

Weeping when looked at - ant-c, brom, kiss, Nat-m, puls, Tarent

Shrieking when looked at - brom

Shrieking when touched - ant-t, cina, mag-c

Shrieking < consolation - ant-c, bell, cham

There are only 2 remedies that come up in all those main 4 rubrics - Chamomilla and China.

Obviously we have tried Chamomilla with little success.

China is an interesting idea - not a remedy I had considered at all for him. The appetite issue (eating small amounts frequently which seem to fill him up) and the sleep problems are very typical for China.

But I don't feel confident in that choice (although we can consider it later).

Instead, when I look at smaller rubrics and the overall state, I would actually consider one of the Antimonium salts. Ant-t and Ant-c feature very prominently. I think I would go with Ant-c first. Because of his sensitivity my preference would actually be to use the LM potencies (so 0/1 and then 0/2) but if necessary you can start with 30c.

The symptoms right now do not point to Arsenicum, and considering his reaction to the 200c I would be very hesitant about trying it again.

It's not a proving. Those symptoms are not found in Calc-phos. This is his state, or an extension of his state. The only way to 'antidote' is to give the remedy that matches the symptoms.

It may not even be a direct response to the medicine, but simply an evolution for him since he is growing quite fast. Having said that, it is possible for a medicine to simply cause the normal state to intensify as a defence, just as it would for any perceived outside threat like an injury, a fright etc.

That isn't why Nat-mur might help him. That might explain why the chlorinated pool aggravates him if he is in a Nat-mur state.

Nat-mur didn't come up for the symptoms when I analysed the case. It isn't a remedy I would have consider based on the symptoms you gave.

Be careful getting into self prescribing - you can make a mess of your case that way. I thought you were doing well on Sepia - why did you want to take another remedy on top of that?

There is no such thing as a 'healthy' remedy state. A remedy only matches a disease, never health. This is an unfortunate but common misconception about homoeopathy. If you are still Sepia after taking a remedy, then the remedy was the wrong one and you were never Sepia.

You might need Nat-mur as well of course, in fact it is a complementary medicine to Sepia. Few people only ever need one remedy.

Superficially Nat-mur and Sepia can look alike, which might be why you think the picture resembles you.

We have only gone to Sepia 200, and have not repeated it that often. We still may need to go to 1M or even 10M before it is finished. It is really important that you don't try and take over the treatment - you don't have the experience or training or objectivity to do that. I am happy to discuss any lack of progress you might feel you are having, but I need to be the one making the prescriptions. Any symptom you feel is not budging should be examined more closely. There are over 10,000 medicines - you won't be able to find your way to most of them.

You aren't reading Phillip Bailey's book are you?

Unfortunately Dr Bailey's book isn't very good. Especially his lecture on Nat-mur, where he makes the completely outrageous statement that a large majority of people need Nat-mur (I think he said something like 75% or something like that). You cannot trust someone who makes statements like this. He has clearly mixed up a number of remedy pictures and presented them all as Nat-mur. Perhaps he was Nat-mur and saw everyone through his own remedy (as people do when they are still sick).

Also, many of his pictures are based on one or maybe two cases. Nobody should be writing a book based on such tiny amounts of information.

I do seem to remember him making reference to 'healthy' remedy states - this is a mistaken understanding of how homoeopathy works. He isn't alone in this - the idea that a person can remain in a remedy state after being given to a patient is touted by people who cannot cure their patients. Maybe he came to this conclusion by trying to give most of his patients Nat-mur? One mistake can beget another.

I am busy here, and in my own practice - but for the most part you are all doing well except for Kody, and you are waiting for a remedy I have prescribed for him. His case is hard, no doubt, complicated by allopathic drugging as it has been. And this situation is not ideal, not being able to see him in person. I have to work purely by intellect and knowledge rather than with instinct and intuition, which rounds out my prescribing technique normally.

I understand your disappointment - I feel that too when a case doesn't react the way I hope it will. However, rather than just taking the remedy, you could ask me about it see what I think - perhaps Nat-mur would be something I would consider if you drew my attention to it. Nat-mur hates consolation and affection - perhaps that is the point where it has similarity to his case. Who knows - maybe you jumped in the right direction. We will see how this goes.

In terms of your concern about aggravation, you hadn't made that clear to me before. There are many ways to adjust the dose so that doesn't happen. Diluting into more water is the best way to do that but you can try all these steps:

1. Hit the bottle less times (minimum once)

2. Use fewer drops (minimum one)

3. Use more water (maximum 250mls)

4. Take less out of the water (minimum 1 drop out)

5. Instead of putting the teaspoon of mixture into your mouth, put it into another amount of water (1/4 cup, 1/2 cup, 3/4 cup, full cup), stir and take the teaspoons out of that into your mouth. By diluting into a second cup aggravation can be reduced dramatically. You can even do this several times. I have never had to go beyond the fifth cup with any patient.

This is why measuring is important, so that you can adjust the steps when necessary.
[message edited by Evocationer on Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:31:18 BST]

It's ok I may have missed the post too. There is a bit of a problem with all 4 posts being followed too, I might answer a question in the wrong one and lose track so it's not necessarily your fault :)

You will need to wait at least a week now, because there should be an aggravation of some kind if the remedy is going to help you rather than palliate the symptoms - this is true for both of you.

3 doses of 200c? That is a lot - I am not sure what that may have done. It certainly is too much. He might be aggravating, but if it is only palliating or suppressing you could have caused a new problem. Let's hope that hasn't happened.

Whichever it is, we need to wait it out. Let me know when the Ant-C arrives as this is the next step to take for him.

No antidoting isn't necessary. Waiting is the correct response. We don't know what is happening yet. He may not even be reacting to the remedy. This is still his normal state. Without knowing what has happened, nothing we do can be safe, so it is better to do nothing.

So Nat-mur was a palliative remedy then. It palliated initially (improvement) without any aggravation, and then the aggravation came after as the vital force reacted to the palliation. Finally he returns to his normal state.