Mistake that we all commit in homoeopathy

It is a blunder, that both Hahnemann and Kent (amongst others) warns against. The 'favorite' remedy has less to do with the patient and more to do with us the practitioner. It is a breakdown in our role as the unprejudiced observer.

It is not surprising that as students we do this - the amount of Materia Medica is overwhelming. It takes so many years to squeeze even a couple of hundred remedies in. When I was teaching, you would see the students do that constantly - they saw Lycopodium or Calc-carb everywhere. I used to force way too many people into Arsenicum and Nat-mur I think.

I often wonder if that favorite remedy is not somehow related to the state of the practitioner - perhaps even their own remedy. I wonder if taking it, would cure their desire to give it to everyone.

My own experience in clinic is I rarely even prescribe the same remedy in any week, sometimes not even in a whole month, unless there is an epidemic going on.
[message edited by brisbanehomoeopath on Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:52:03 BST]

Yeah that issue is common...

Before prescribing i spend an amount of time in case taking but also some amount of time in prescribing, rarely gave same two kinda patients a same remedy in a week. In beginning i also think people of Nat-mur,lachesis or phos. but right now it seems was a huge mistake rather a cruelty with patients. Since 5 years i gain experience and found other remedies specially rare one more useful and since then i am having wonderful results :)

This issue seems very very common even among my almost all other fellows.
[message edited by Paki1 on Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:30:09 BST]
[message edited by Paki1 on Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:58:36 BST]

I would say that many of us can make the opposite (but ultimately the same) mistake of AVOIDING remedies for reasons that have nothing to do with the patient too. I was told as a student that Sulphur is overprescribed by inexperienced practitioners, so for many years I avoiding giving it. I have seen practitioners avoid certain potencies, sequences of remedies, remedies made from certain substances - usually based on a bad experience from the past or because of something they read or heard (rumour) and again this is not rational.

Paki I also discovered the value of the small, rare and new remedies. I have had some of my best results from them - mainly because when I give them I am very sure of them.

Rumors also plays big role in these kinda certain situations specially in Pakistan. If a doctor say to someone he gave a patient a remedy and he got severe aggravations, the other one listening make his mind without any research and start avoiding it. My one of best fellow a Professor, didn't ever gave argentums and didn't even gave nat. sulph because he says his teacher said that these remedies make person to do suicide and even when a person certainly needed arg. he wouldn't gave it and refer to me. LOL. but also :( , they don't even change their method of prescribing a remedy i.e dry dose because Kent did ??. Some professor yeah i meant it professor gave ars album 200 thrice daily for months along with other remedies i.e if ars alb 200 twice a day at morning and night then at noon lycopodim 200 for months again :( . Why didn't they take these kinda prescription by themselves ??? why?? Believe me it made me tears, i cry when a patient told me such old homeopaths even professor are doing this. Anyway sorry from me for jumping on another subject. As in Pakistan i can point out number of these kinda issues. The biggest ever mistake here is they don't give organon a value and even can't remember anything from there, but i found that every time organon makes my knowledge more bright whenever i read it again and again. I remember one time a Homeopathic professor visited my clinic and saw i gave patient watery dose and a less one i.e 30 was given three time only and advised to wait for somedays and revisit if anything happens, he became angry where you read this method its not homeopathy

I am sure that if people understand the philosophy, the reasoning that underpins our methods, they would not make those kinds of mistakes so often (or they could at least be able to judge their results more analytically). That is why the Organon should be read and reread and discussed over and over. Reading it once is not good enough - it has to be examined closely, from different angles AND then put into practice.

One of the things I found most rewarding personally from teaching was being obliged to reread the Organon, and then being forced to explain and even defend it. What was a surprise to me when I started, was that I didn't know as much as I thought, from the few times I had read it.