David please... _{Page 2 of 12}

Lol it is worse when you are actually with me - I am questioning your movements, the way you speak - it is quite exposing for people I know. My homoeopath does it to me as well.

So your problem is not a lack of freedom, but a lack of stability, lack of confidence, lack of ... automony?

Could you define stability for me then?

This is good, because you are leading me away from the assumptions I made originally, which means we are getting closer to the truth.

Good homoeopathic case-taking is almost exactly like good counselling. It is an exploration of the real experience of the person, and should help the patient to attain more awareness of themselves, even without a remedy.

Oh this is about me understanding you, not you explaining to me. I will persist until I understand your basic problem or conflict. Until I am sure I will keep asking. That is not a reflection on your ability to explain, it is a reflection on my ability to understand. Every patient says what you just said, but that is not the issue. I must find a way to come close to your personal experience of your life, of your problem. This is the difficulty for me, not for you.
[message edited by brisbanehomoeopath on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:05:46 BST]

What does it feel like is missing? What would you need to be complete or to function better?

I think we are getting to the crux of your problem. This is very good.

So now we don't have a lack of something, but a feeling that you are too sensitive, too affected by things.

It is interesting, you have expressed your problem as first an animal one, then a mineral one, and now a plant one.

I will need to consider this a little more.

Have you given your son the Cuprum?

You are not too complicated, you just need someone with the experience and knowledge to sort it out. Let's hope that is me hey :)

That is good news about your son. Don't give him any more for the moment, let's just see how he does on that one dose.

If I look over the whole case, I think the issue is much more a mineral one at its core - something is missing, lacking or broken in me, and all problems stem from that.

What is lacking appears to be stability, independence, the ability to stand on your own two feet with confidence.

The ability to stand on your own two feet, is a feature of Row 2 on the periodic table, the Carbon group. It is very specifically a theme of the element of Carbon itself (called Graphites in our literature).

However there is a little more here than that.

Can you talk a bit more about 'responsibility'.

Also a bit more about being 'incapable'.

Give me examples of where resonsibility is a burden. It doesn't have to be from your life. If a person has a responsibility that is a burden, what kind of responsibiity is that? How does that burden affect them? What does responsibility mean exactly?

You are doing really well please don't feel that you are not. This level of interogation is quite normal in homoeopathy.

The problem with those kinds of profiles you linked to, is that they do not give the individual's unique differences, that allow us to choose a remedy. Putting people together because of some similarities is anti-homoeopathy really. They also tend to outline positive traits which are not useful to us at all. I am only interested in the problems, the 'disease' in a person's life.

Just looking at the list of weaknesses they give for this personality type, there are hundreds of remedies that could cover them. It is too psychological, and broad, to be useful for the level of precision we need in homoeopathy.

I just want to make the best choice for you.

Alright I am going to work with what you have given me and make a suggestion later on today.

The remedy I would like you to get is Nat-carb 1M.

Use the same method for preparing the remedy I have got you to do with your son.

Take one dose only.

Ah we posted at the same time :) I have made your prescription.

Potency has nothing to do with your degree of aggravation. The size and frequency of the dose decides that. We will use Split Dose to ensure that your aggravation is manageable.

The reason I chose Nat-carb is the profound sense of loneliness that comes through in your description of your life. The great struggle of Nat-carb people is to be alone or not to be alone, to be independent from everyone, or to be dependent on those around them. Nat-carb rarely feels a connection to others, feels like there is a barrier between them and society, feels isolated.

All the Natrum remedies feel a strong sense of being forsaken, but Nat-carb specifically feels forsaken by their Father. Not only that, but there is often a history of being abused and/or neglected by their father (and often a feeling this happens in the broader community as well). This creates in them a sense of not having established a strong sense of self, or a set of values they can rely on, since it is often our Father that helps us to learn what is right and wrong in the world.

Interestingly, Nat-carb is one of the remedies we consider for Autism too - a sense of identity that is isolated and alone. Not your son, but your own feelings around his austism, which reflect your own inner struggles.

Well try not to get too excited yet. The proof is in the pudding, as they say.