Eating Issues - Second Opinion _{Page 3 of 4}

I am very sorry for being out of touch. I was visiting relatives in the bush and their internet went down just before I arrived. I had assumed I would be able to check the forum while away.

I am analysing this new set of answers now.

Thanks. The outback of Australia can be pretty remote - I am such a city-person I forget that at times.

Alright I have spent time mulling over what you have written. These are the basic themes:

Issues with eating
Loneliness
Isolation
Breaking or loss of relationships
Uncertainty
Lack of direction or purpose in life
Issues with finding of a partner or of being alone for life
Loss of confidence
Self-criticism
Lots of issues around people - bullying, domination, attachment to or detachment from
Issues with smiling/laughing

This definitely makes me consider Lac humanum as a remedy, with Natrum carbonicum as its mineral analogy.

It doesn't seem you are overreacting to the medicines, so I would actually suggest 200c Lac humanum first, with Nat-carb 200c as a potential next step.

Take them in exactly the same way as before, but one dose only to begin with. Do not take Nat-carb until we properly assess how the Lac-h has affected you.

Did you try Hahnemann labs in
northern California?

They probably do not have this
on their normal list, but I
would think they would have it.

Otherwise- you need to order
from Helios Homeopathic in the
UK- they have it and it takes
2 weeks.

You mentioned one of the events in your childhood that stood out in your mind was when you were bullied and fought back, and how the rage in you was very intense and you needed your father to calm you down. Also you mentioned that you have an issue with people who are aggressive and wish to harm you in some way (bullies amongst other kinds of people).

Lac humanum is a sarcode - made from healthy human tissue, and some countries may restrict it because of supposed (and false) health reasons. I don't know what the USA has done about restricting it, but it is freely available in most countries. Lac maternum is another remedy that is basically the same.

Hahnemann Labs has it on their remedy list http://www.dataroad.net/cgi-bin/start/hahnemannlabs.com/hsto...

Lac humanum is an interesting remedy. It is one of the Universal remedies - affects a kind of frequently seen layer or issue many people display as a problem. It relates to the issue of love, nurturing, eating, nourishment, connection. Sometimes I use it when I can see that all the issues a patient is describing seem to be ones relating to existing as a human being - human issues. Sometimes it is hard to put exactly why you want to use it, but the case has a kind of 'human dysfunction' feel to it.

A new bottle is better, but not necessary. The old bottle must be cleaned thoroughly, using hot water. I actually boil my bottles for 30secs or so to make sure they are free from the influence of the previous remedy.

I always prescribe liquid doses except in emergencies where there is no time to prepare them.

Be careful of just palliating or even suppressing the symptoms. Without trying to cure the core of the case (the underlying cause of your symptoms) you can end up making yourself more difficult to cure. Self-prescribing almost always makes things harder in the end unfortunately.

You can complain about lack of progress anytime. I will always take that seriously. I am not so attached to my prescriptions that I will insist you continue with a treatment that is not working :)

However, it is important not to chop and change too quickly. Remedies can be slow to work, and moving too fast past the right remedy might lose it completely from sight.

Repeat the Lac-h first. Hit the bottle 10 times instead of 5. Take two more doses, one now and one tomorrow.

In homoeopathy, it never works in any significant way to focus on the name of the complaint. All remedies can cure reflux and acidity, if they suit the whole person with that problem. Homoeopathic prescriptions only really cure when they address the peculiar parts of the case, which may be the mentals or something else, but is never just the name of the condition.

There are 549 remedies known for heartburn. There 258 remedies for regurgitation. There are 225 remedies for waterbrash. These numbers will be extremely conservative too.

I suppose the first approach I tend to take is to look at the highest level of suffering, and start there. Normally improvement there will tend to flow down to the lower levels (so spiritual-mental-emotional-general-physical-pathological) and done this way you see less relapse later on.

On the other hand, it is also important to make sure that the remedy is being aimed at wherever the most energy is being used to display/maintain symptoms.

So I don't want to dismiss your ideas. I tell you what - can you outline exactly what leads you to Nux-vomica or Nat-phos and I will see what I agree with. How does that sound?
[message edited by Evocationer on Wed, 11 Mar 2015 03:17:43 GMT]

As homoeopaths, what we try to do is understand where the physical symptoms are coming from. This doesn't mean we ignore them of course, but we try our best to cure the source rather than just address the local issues (local being a problem found in one location).

When this is done, the physical problems not only become less troublesome (or even disappear) but they are less likely to return, and the patient is less likely to complain of new (possibly more serious) complaints.

The majority of patients will experience their internal disease (source of your problems) across all levels. What we are looking for is a way to clearly identify that internal disturbance, and we look at whatever parts of the person will show that in the most individual way. Mental and emotional will often do that most easily, as will the general state of the patient (those symptoms that are 'I feel' symptoms rather than 'My *insert body part' feels' ).

Even when you use specific physical locations, you are still looking for peculiar things, unusual things. You are looking for the 'personality' of the remedy in the symptoms.

We also need to look at the history of the person when we are dealing with a chronic problem. The way in which the person's life has developed alongside the physical symptoms may reflect the picture of the remedy too.

So from your answers we would consider the remedy/disease picture to be reflected in:

Suppression of emotions
Fear of losing self control
Embarrassed by tears
Eating more when depressed
Don't feel hunger as much
Negative thinking
Serious
Drawn to negative music, hard music, dark music
Frustrated by not pursuing music
Lot of anxiety, stress and depression around purpose and career
Worry about losing job
Making wrong decisions
Letting people down
Loss of friendships
Sense of betrayal
Desire for an artist's lifestyle and aversion to a 9-5 schedule

These things reflect a more unique and individual picture of your imbalance, and amongst all this are threads relating to a remedy. The real job is discovering it.

Sorry yes I put more when I meant less.

"Mistakes I made in the past or wrong decisions that I regret like quitting
a job. Letting people around me down like my family because of this
inconsistency in work."

"Suppression of emotions - I guess anger. A lot of times I
have to hold it in because I might get out of control "

There is actually more to your case, I was just giving examples of mental and emotional reflections of the internal imbalance, looking over the experiences in your life, rather than implying that they were the central (or only) issues.

You will need to wait a week now, to allow for any reaction to the Nux-v to develop. Then we can assess again to see what has happened and if anything has changed.