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Homeopathic Doctors Don't Agree With One Another
Hi,I consulted with 3 homeopathic doctors for my son's condition and got three different remedies:
'Tuberculinum' from one,
'Tarentula Hispanica' from the second,
'Moschus' from the third.
Online forums also suggest either 'Hyoscymus' or 'Lachesis'
I am confused and concerned, why are the Homeopathic doctors not agreeing on the same medication for the same symptoms? When I read up the remedies, all of the above seem to share some of my son's symptoms. What's going on here? What am I missing!?
spkcaccounts on 2011-05-17
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Since I am new to Homeopathy, can someone knowledgeable in this please comment if this common. If so why?
spkcaccounts last decade
If you studied homoeopathy you would see how incredibly difficult it can be to differentiate between the remedies. Real life patients do not give us straight forward descriptions out of our books. One has to screen out common symptoms, unimportant symptoms, expected symptoms to find the rare, strange and peculiars that lead us to the correct medicine.
Patients often read up on the medicines themselves, and give a distorted description of their case using the medicines as guide, which they think is helpful but actually makes it harder to find the real remedy.
Many of the remedies have strong similarities - for instance Tuberculinum and Tarentula look very similar in many ways. Moschus looks like Tarentuala in may ways too. What the homoeopath needs to do is work out exactly what needs to be cured, and choose a medicine that best suits that - it is possible that several remedies may have a beneficial effect.
There is the concept of the Simillimum - the perfect remedy that will cure all the current complaints at once. Then there is the Similar remedy (or Close Similar) which may cure many complaints, but require another remedy to continue the process of cure. Some practitioners will 'zig-zag' through a case using several close similar remedies to get to cure, while others will search for one simillimum to pierce right to the heart of the problem. Another practitioner might use nosodes and isopathic medicines to remove blockages, and yet another might use tissue salts to address imbalances in the nutrition.
There are several schools of thought on how to take a case, and how to analyze the data, how to apply the medicines. This can mean there will be a variety of prescriptions as well - as to how sucessful they are - only experience with that homoeopath will really tell you.
Oddly enough, amongst my colleagues here, who all prescribe in a very similar manner to myself, we usually see the same remedies (we share cases or sit in with each other's patients). When I have attended seminars by homoeopaths whose prescribing style I utilize, I will prescribe the same remedy they did about 70% of the time.
The difference in prescriptions usually relates to the different styles and philosophies. Often their expectations of what will happen differ as well. I expect to find one medicine that will cause the disease to just fall apart, but others expect to peel the case apart layer by layer. Our expectations often mould the way we use the medicines to achieve that goal.
Patients often read up on the medicines themselves, and give a distorted description of their case using the medicines as guide, which they think is helpful but actually makes it harder to find the real remedy.
Many of the remedies have strong similarities - for instance Tuberculinum and Tarentula look very similar in many ways. Moschus looks like Tarentuala in may ways too. What the homoeopath needs to do is work out exactly what needs to be cured, and choose a medicine that best suits that - it is possible that several remedies may have a beneficial effect.
There is the concept of the Simillimum - the perfect remedy that will cure all the current complaints at once. Then there is the Similar remedy (or Close Similar) which may cure many complaints, but require another remedy to continue the process of cure. Some practitioners will 'zig-zag' through a case using several close similar remedies to get to cure, while others will search for one simillimum to pierce right to the heart of the problem. Another practitioner might use nosodes and isopathic medicines to remove blockages, and yet another might use tissue salts to address imbalances in the nutrition.
There are several schools of thought on how to take a case, and how to analyze the data, how to apply the medicines. This can mean there will be a variety of prescriptions as well - as to how sucessful they are - only experience with that homoeopath will really tell you.
Oddly enough, amongst my colleagues here, who all prescribe in a very similar manner to myself, we usually see the same remedies (we share cases or sit in with each other's patients). When I have attended seminars by homoeopaths whose prescribing style I utilize, I will prescribe the same remedy they did about 70% of the time.
The difference in prescriptions usually relates to the different styles and philosophies. Often their expectations of what will happen differ as well. I expect to find one medicine that will cause the disease to just fall apart, but others expect to peel the case apart layer by layer. Our expectations often mould the way we use the medicines to achieve that goal.
♡ brisbanehomoeopath last decade
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