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The potency doesn't affect the degree of aggravation as long as the patient does not have low vitality (which you don't show), the size of the dose does. I will make sure we adjust the size appropriately to minimize aggravation.

Potency has to do with how the patient expresses their symptoms, as well as the intensity with which they express them. While we can start lower if you like, I feel we would need to come this high to really get to the core of your case.

Admittedly, it is harder for me to judge potency when I do not see the person. I have to let their words guide me instead.

To discuss why I thought of this remedy for you would mean I would have to reveal your feelings on the forum here. I use a lot of new remedies in practice - there are many thousands of medicines now, and it is important to try and keep up to date with them (as much as that is ever possible). The remedy has a strong focus on the weight issue, but what decided me were the mental and emotional symptoms you expressed.

I looked at the kingdom themes, group themes, and the specific proving symptoms related to the remedy as well. What put me on to the remedy was your phobia though, and the connection between that fear and the remedy is fascinating.
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So as well as the phobias it will also treat the bloating and the inability to lose weight.

I have for the first time in about 15 years made a trip north to my previous home a journey I've not done on my own in all that time. Albeit I didn't use motorways but I did it on my own. I did come back motorway but I had a passenger.

If there was an option to start lower I would prefer that then work my way to a higher level. Please let me know before I order.

Alright we can do that. 12c though is as low as I would want to start. Starting too low can mean no reaction to a remedy, or too small a reaction to measure, so we need to keep that in mind.

Ok will order 12c in liquid potency.

Can I ask is this for the driving phobia or the feather phobia and this remedy will help the bloating and weight issues also.

Sorts these problems out I will be very impressed it is a magical cure.

I have tried to look at the totality of the case, with specific emphasis on your mental and emotional issues. The sensitivity to suffering of others is a core element of this remedy.

I know you are probably wanting some assurance that this remedy covers your symptoms. What I can say is that if it covers the core, the centre of your state, then it will also make a significant change to your other symptoms too.

As there is a general policy on this forum to keep contact away from email and in posts on the forum instead as much as possible, would it concern you to discuss those features of the remedy that lead me to prescribe it for you here?

I think it would be good to put your thyroid test results on here and
other test results so all facts are included.

I don't really require those test results for the kind of prescribing I am doing.

Homoeopathic remedies work holistically to cure complaints, which means the whole person is taken into account when prescribing. When there is some kind of disturbance in the mental and emotional spheres (like phobias) this forms an important part of the bigger picture for treatment. Sometimes these are the only symptoms or expressions that need to be looked at, and the more common physical problems will resolve quite naturally afterwards.

The general group to which Colum-p belongs have themes of:

Need to protect or help
Empathy
Very sensitive
Caring, loving, mother-like
Desire for control and order
Gas/Distention is a physical theme
Disturbances in appetite is a general physical theme


The specific remedy Colum-p shows the following characteristics which suit your case:

Main theme is the suffering of abuse
World appears harsh and cruel to them, and they are extremely sensitive to the presence of cruelty in the world
Very oversensitive to hearing of cruelties
General physical theme of being overweight

And interestingly, while your phobia does not appear in the repertory, the fear is directly connected to the remedy.

12c is more dilute, but acts deeper. Emotional issues are rarely solved with 6c especially when they are well detailed and specific as yours are. 6c is technically stronger, as it has more of the original substance in it.

Homoeopathy always does the same thing essentially (when the remedy is well chose) - it aggravates the symptoms already there, it temporarily brings up old symptoms, and then it creates both relief in the symptoms and relief in the person themselves. The potency affects how far that change will go.

I don't want to copy everything you told me since you sent me the information off the forum to keep it private, but you spoke at length about the effect that abuse, rape, and other cruel acts has upon you. One of your fears is murder, which is an act of cruelty and abuse as well.

Think we are all upset over rape, murder, abuse etc. but I don't think it effects me as much as you make out. I don't dwell on it - yes it's nasty but it's not a massive fear. Maybe like you said I don't express myself writing these questionnaires down as opposed to face to face. It doesn't engulf my everyday life - feel a bit confused now that maybe there is a misunderstanding - these aren't my main issues I want sorting out - my main ones are probably guilty complex with regards to the situation I am in with mam and cousin and my stomach and weight.

I take cases every day, I have spent over 20 years listening to people tell me about themselves, what matters to them, what they are sensitive to. Only a few mention cruelty and say they are sensitive to it. When a person talks about something, it is because it is important to them on some level, and this in turn leads us towards the remedy that has a similar sensitivity.

Something does not have to engulf your everyday life to be important. I am not making out anything about the intensity of the sensitivity - it simply exists, as you have clearly told me. Something that is pivotal to understanding the patient and the remedy may only have occurred several times in their life, or only in certain situations. It is the totality that matters, and the issue around cruelty is only one part of it. We look for themes and threads and connections.

You must understand homoeopathy - we look at the whole person, with particular emphasis on the mental and emotional aspects. Cure only comes when the whole person is treated.

With my background as a counsellor, I also have to say that when a person spends energy denying something, it also suggests the sensitivity is important.

I cannot say this remedy will work as yet until we try it, I can only say that my experience, knowledge and some intuition has lead me to it, and I would be interested to see where it leads you.

Try to trust my case-taking. It is what I am trained to do, and what I do every day. People do not randomly give information, the information bubbles up from within. It is usually the spontaneous statements that provide the most reliable information. In fact in clinic I will attempt to get people to make statements off the top of their head without thinking about it, and I find that these statements form part of the internal (hidden) state.

So for me it is valuable. Whether it leads us to cure remains to be seen, but it is not something I would be comfortable ignoring since it was offered freely and without any leading from me.

What form did you order the remedy in?

Ok great, that is the easiest way for a patient to use a remedy. While we wait for it to arrive, can you give me an idea of the kinds of reactions you have had to remedies, based on how they were given (frequency, potency etc).

Puls was two tablets three hours apart - that was it- i aggravated for nearly 3 weeks with the most horrendous cramp, ache pains as though my veins were being pulled out of my body (given for Raynards Disease and constitutional) was long time ago - just felt dreadful - then turning point came after the three weeks and day by day got better. Top up after 6 weeks

Nux vom - I've had that on and off - initially again really bad aches and pains but now I don't aggravate on this when I take it - had it mostly 6c wet dose - every 2/3 days.

Sepia 1LM daily - can't remember this one but I find once my body has had a remedy it recognises it when I've had to take it again if it's a new one then I aggravate.

Lac - ill for three days - felt spaced out, shaky, not with it. Panicky, scared - 3LM only ever took it once and never again.

Lycopodium 1LM, 2LM, 3LM, 4LM, 5LM - can't remember first time but OK with it now.

Apis Mel 6c - again initially bad reaction - felt I was one stepped removed

Sometimes I get a tight chest with remedies, bloating becomes worse, face can become puffy but the worst is when I feel like I'm not quite here, I feel shaky, not 'me' get a scared, panicky feeling and then I feel I am not in control of my body - and I don't like to not have control over it. Heart can race oro slow down. Hate feeling like I am not my usual self and spaced out. Then I feel I want the remedy out of my body - don't want to have it in me and will antidote as much as I can.
I smelt rhus tox 12c once and was ill the next day it took till 5 pm for the feeling to wear off.

I have a feeling that with this remedy I will do the same - take it then not want it in my body and will do all I can to antidote. Sorry but that's me - hope this helps. Sometimes I think maybe I just leave all this homeopathy alone but then I just want the bloating to stop and the weight to drop. I just want to feel like 'me' and when I take remedies I think I go on a bit of a detox. Yesterday I took some detox drops and I've been ill for about 12 hours - again spaced out, shaky, hot then cold, then felt like my heart was either racing or slowed down. Then felt panicky again and not quite with it. Let me know if you want any further information because I know you will pick up on some of this.

What are these detox drops?

Has anyone used the cup-dilution method, that is where the drops are diluted in water, then a teaspoon is taken out and put into another cup of water, then done again and again until a safe level is reached for you?