1)Pulsatilla2)Calcarea Carb- Respected David, please suggest

I have reconsidered how to help you here. I am going to repost my answer later (deleted original post).
[message edited by Evocationer on Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:29:17 GMT]

Dear Honey-

As I remember you have taken Pulsatilla quite a lot and
in different potencies ( have seen your posts on other
forums)

You should let David know the history of what you have
taken, potency and so on over the last few years.

Yes that is very important. I would be surprised if you have tried Pulsatilla in various potencies and still needed it.

The potencies, dosage, and reactions would be important too, and possibly a timeline as much as you can do that.

Without knowing if Pulsatilla is actually suitable to your disease, I would suggest using Puls 0/1 (LM1), and taking daily doses until a reaction (aggravation) occurs when you would then stop and reassess the case.

Honey- awhile ago you wrote you were
not having any real symptoms of
anything.

So what are your symptoms now that
you feel you need a remedy?

What is left that needs cure-

Please state that.

The problem I have, is that without proper exploration, analysis and management of the case, I don't know how to make any suggestion to cure you. What symptoms did you prescribe on? What weight did you attach to which symptoms? What specific reactions occurred on each potency, and at the different times those potencies were used? What symptoms are showing that require cure? What was the 'core' and how has it changed since using the remedy? What direction are the changes moving in?

I feel like you are wanting me to walk in to this case blindfolded, and then throw a dart into the centre of the board.

If a patient comes to my clinic either wanting me to take over their case, OR they are coming back to me after years in the middle of some other treatment (as you are doing), I would still need to go through my normal case-taking process or I will just be guessing.

If I don't agree with the prescription I won't be happy to suggest any dosage or potency of Pulsatilla - I could not ethically do that. What do we do then?

I don't want to give you a hard time over it - I just feel like the roles we have taken here are very ambiguous to me. Who is treating?

At the very least, I need to know the following. This is what I may do with a student or new homoeopath looking for my guidance around one of their patients:

What specific symptoms lead you to Pulsatialla?

What rubrics did you use to represent those symptoms?

What symptoms have been cured by the remedy?

What symptoms have not been cured?

What symptoms have improved?

What symptoms have worsened?

Have any new symptoms appeared?

When was each dose/potency given, and what was the result for each dose?

These are the questions I ask myself when I look at making a subsequent prescription.

Unfortunately I cannot use that information. What symptoms did you use? What were the rubrics? How did each one change after the remedy?

If you were in perfect health after Pulsatilla, just go back and repeat whatever dose or potency did that. This seems to me to be the logical step.

Otherwise, there is little here for me to use for making an assessment.

Btw, Nat-mur is an extremely emotional remedy - in a different way to Pulsatilla, but no less so. In fact one could argue the emotions run much deeper in Nat-mur.

The core cannot remain the same. Remedies cure. If there is no change to the central state, then there is no cure. As the central state changes, so does the remedy needed, if any remedy is then needed at all. Nobody should stay in the same state if the remedy is the right one, although the time for this change to take place fully will be variable.

I haven't seen someone need both remedies - this doesn't mean it isn't possible. Any person could potentially express any remedy state.

The whole state of Nat-mur and Puls is different, both highly emotional, but they express them differently, perceive things differently, have different motivations. One has to dig deep enough to pull the important, central issues out and see if they match those of the remedy. On the surface, any person can look like any remedy, even many remedies.

It really depends on what kind of reaction and progress you are getting. A well chosen, deep acting simillimum (perfectly similar remedy) may instigate a cascade effect that causes multiple phases of change. While movement is forward moving and upward towards health, you may do nothing, even if the apparent state of the patient has changed.

The better the selection of the remedy, the less of it the person needs. When I have seen a perfect simillimum prescribed, the patient may not need another dose or remedy for many years. The longest I have seen (in a patient who returned to me) was 10 years.

I believe the potency was 200c for that patient.

Do not mix potencies. That is as bad as mixing remedies. Each one like a separate remedy.

Potency is not as simple as that. Low potencies work quite well on mentals, as high work quite well on physicals. You are matching the potency to the patient, to their vital force, not to their individual symptoms. Where those symptoms are manifesting is not the guide for potency selection.

No map, just as reaction to a remedy determines how suitable the remedy is, reaction to a potency determines how suitable the potency is.

Potency is very difficult to learn as a rote thing - experience teaches us how to select potency. Starting low and moving upwards is the safest thing for novice prescribers.

All prescribing, whether it is remedy, potency, or dosage, is done on the basis of observation and analysis. Nobody reacts the same way, so each person needs to be watched to see how they respond.