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My Story with Homoeopathy |
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Some Suggestions |
Please listen rather than write.
Most of this is found in
my books.
Most of the slides I
shall put on my websites in the next 3 weeks for you.
Please refer your
repertories for the rubrics in the cases I speak about.
Feel free to stop me and
ask questions, though I may not have the answers! |
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I take up Homoeopathy |
My father was a very famous homoeopath
I was in awe of him and
loved him
Though I had other
interests, like wanting to be a lawyer and social reformer, I took up
Homeopathy.
My basic education was in
the college, but mainly I learnt from teachers |
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I had many teachers |
Father Dr.P.Sankaran
His teacher Dr.
S.R.Phatak
Dr.J.N.Kanjilal
Dr.Sarabhai
Dr.B.N.Chakravarty
Dr.S.P.Koppikar |
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I start practice in 1981 |
Too much confusion in the profession
Too much uncertainty
Single remedy or multiple
Mind or body
Miasms or not
Pathology
Potency and repetition
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"The third letter is a !" |
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I started with repertory |
My grandmother's case
My first case sugarcane
My second case renal
failure
Fright and pulled
eyeballs
Fever from loud
television
Sits in hands behind the
head |
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The repertory broadens your vision |
Thirst less with dry mouth
Lycopodium is as left
sided as right
Pulsatilla in
mortification and irritability
Calcarea in sweat absent
Nux vomica in jealousy
Cough when looks up o
Itchy toes |
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More examples |
Can't get straight after sittting
Urine drop
Eruptions in the steward
Voice lost from anger
A case of aethusa
Knobby nose |
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A dramatic case |
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A cold feeling in the centre of the chest descends when I am drinking cold
buttermilk (which I like very much) , and it feels very cold in the
stomach and this soothes my pain and burning. I feel better lying on my
abdomen |
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The exactness of the
symptom is what makes it peculiar. |
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Perspiration where |
Forearm
Nose
Upper lip
Part lain on
On whole body exept face
On face only
One sided |
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Perspiration how |
Salty
Stains yellow
Stains not washable
Acrid, tears the clothes |
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Perspiration when |
When eating
From anxiety
Sweat occiput when lying
on the back
Sweat soles in winter |
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Perspiration absent |
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Skin dry, inability to sweat, despite exertion |
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Appetite |
Soon after eating
2 hours
3 hours
Vanishes on attempt to
eat
Increases after first
mouthfuls
Weak from hunger
Excitement from hunger
Stomach; Appetite;
ravenous, canine, excessive; eating; after; two hours: calc-hp., tax.
Abdomen,Rumbling;
Fasting, While. Music
Fast
Religious
Singing with
Hearing the same and cant
sleep
Piano
Violin
Dreams of |
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I get to work |
Made a study line with
Dr. Jayesh Shah
Prescribing with
repertory
Studying successes and
failures |
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An observation |
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Those cases where we prescribed on mentals and generals and peculiars had
greater chances of success than one where the remedy merely covered the
local symptom |
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Examples |
Lyssinum
Agnus castus
Kali iodatum |
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Homoeopathy v/s modern medicine |
Holistic
Individualistic
"You must be happy that
the stone is out." |
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Boeninghausen and Boger |
Analogy
Concomitants
Grand generalisation
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Generalisation and concomitants |
Case of Conium
Case of Petroleum
Nitric acid case
Theridion case
Abdomen with stretching
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Dr. Kunzli wrote |
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There is no room for routine, laziness and fixed ideas. Needed are fine
observation, sharp thinking and a good knowledge of the repertories.
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Acute lessons in Individualisation |
The boy who flew kites
He saw cupboards fall on
him |
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Hahnemann said |
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This holds good to such an extent, that the state of the disposition of
the patient often chiefly determines the selection of the homeopathic
remedy, as being a decidedly characteristic symptom which can least of all
remain concealed from the accurately observing physician. |
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Mental state v/s Mental symptoms |
Tarentula hispanica
Aurum metallicum
Natrum muriaticum
Manganum
Crocus
Thuja |
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Studying Typical Behaviour |
"And I gave them the wrong paper!"
He only wanted green! |
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Expressions v/s basic feelings |
Fear of dark in cantharis
Fear about husband and
child in elaps
Fastidiousness in
calcarea carb |
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Delusion |
Feelings which are fixed,intense and often described as a picture.
Delusion and other
sections in the repertory |
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Examples |
"She always says, my money, your money"
"I know why you won't
take off the t-shirt"
"The Ghost had big eyes"
"When character is lost ,
everything is lost"
"Whenever I dream of
shit, my child convulses"
"It started after death
of a neighbor" |
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Understanding Remedies From Delusions |
Made of glass
Rabbit
Peacock
Soda water bottle
Vegetable existence
Bed occupied
Despised |
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Basic delusion |
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That which explains almost the whole of the patients feelings and
expressions |
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Ask WHAT not WHY |
The totality of the phenomenon in the moment is the truth.
All reasons are only
theories.
Go deeper and deeper,
finer and finer into the "what" of phenomenon.
Refuses to be videoed
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An observation |
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If the mother had an intense state during pregnancy, the child almost
always has the same state |
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Who are you ? |
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Dr. Anand asked |
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Situational Materia medica |
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An imaginary situation which would justify the entire expression in a
given remedy |
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Dreams |
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These are closest to the delusions. |
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Interests and hobbies |
They are virtual dreams.
They are the ways we try
to live our delusion. |
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Words used |
The similies and metaphors and choice of words of the patient during the
case taking or casual conversation of the patient point to the delusion.
Dr. Sehgals contribution
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Examples |
Unfortunate feels / delusion unfortunate
Delusion neglected his
duty, he has
Delusion robbers in the
house
Desires light o Startles
when called
This cough troubles me so
much
Rest cannot |
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Metaphors |
Images that represent the inner feeling
I am so tied down with
work.
It was a huge jump for
me.
The relationship was so
brittle.
The heat was killing. |
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The Value of Silence |
The contribution of Vithoulkas
Let the patient be
A good Homeopath is
Stupid and Lazy |
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Case Taking: Four levels |
An ideal case is a series of four steps.
The steps can be compared
with four spheres each within the other. |
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Interchangeable use of rubrics |
Dreams
Delusions
Fears
Delirium |
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Probing the peculiar |
The case of the 2 ear rings
It started when my
neighbour died
The boy who wore green
The suicidal man
Jayesh and the stone
thrower
The boy who shrieked
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Spontaneous association |
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The elaps case. |
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Classification of states |
Miasm
Kingdom
Stages |
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Miasms |
Traditional
Miasm as a classification
of states
The acute , hopeful
,fixed and hopeless
Miasms and the age |
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Miasms and Infection |
Acute infection and acute miasm
Psora and scabies
Gonorrhoea and Sycosis
Syphilis and the
Syphilitic miasm |
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Looking for in-between miasms |
Panic and hope …… ........................Typhoid
Hope and
fixed…….......................…Ringworm
Fixed with attacks of
Panic….......... Malaria
Limited and unreal
expectations..... Cancer
Limited and dead
end…...................Tuberculosis
Dead-end and
pursued…................. Leprosy |
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Nosode : Centrepoint of miasm |
Non specificity
Showing the features of
the miasm
Human issues |
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Kingdoms |
Mineral
Plant
Animal
Nosode |
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Features of mineral |
Structure
Role
Relationship
Performance
Attack and defence |
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Features of plant |
Sensitivity
Reactivity
Emotional / sentimental
Disorganized |
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Animal features |
Competition
High and low
Split
Attractive
Sexual |
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Subkingdoms |
Periodic table and salts
Animal subclasses
Plant families |
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Animal subclasses |
Snakes
Spiders
Mammals
Insects
Sea animals
Birds
Amphibians |
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Plant families |
A recent breakthrough
Not the mental state ,
but the general .
Mind as an expression of
vital disturbance . |
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Examples |
Nux-vomica, Gelsemium and Ignatia
China and Coffea |
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The Miasms differentiate |
Shock. must recover soon.. Nux v.. Typhoid
Shock. Must avoid… Gels..
Sycotic
Shock. Must control.
Ignatia.. Cancer |
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The Rubiaceae |
Stimulated..but hindered and attacked..malaria miasm.. China
Stimulated.. Needs
creative,innovative ideas very fast..Tubercular Miasm..Coffea |
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Applying this idea |
The case of abrotanum.
A periodic table of
plants ??? |
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Stages |
The basic delusion
Success
Failure
Aurum met
Staphysagria… Gandhi and
Harilal |
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Provings |
Allowing the experience
Group provings
Contribution of Jurgen
Becker
Group consciousness
experiments |
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The remedy and the source connection |
"Why do snake patients have often dreams of snakes?"
States are borrowed from
universal consciousness
The application of this
idea
The criticism of this
idea |
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Examples |
She liked the smell of jasmine
"Once I write your name,
I can't write poetry any more." |
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Music |
Each melody produces a state; it can help in healing a similar state.
Music provings |
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Homeo psychotherapy |
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Guiding the patrient into his own awareness |
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Homoeopathy and humor |
Humor arises from tragedy and tragedy from delusion.
Proving a joke
Dad n dave and the guy on
the well |
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Oh Shit! |
The proving of shit
Human is probably the
only creature disgusted by his shit
Animal shit v/s human
shit
Baby shit v/s adult shit |
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Understanding Human Being |
The proving of Lac Humanum
The two sides
Who am I? |
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The Three Laws |
Law#1
Sensation and
action are equal and opposite.
Law #2
The opposite
is equally true of whatever is said.
Law # 3
There is no
one or nothing out there other than myself |
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Two corollaries |
Corollary # 1
You do to
yourself what you see others do to you , and do to others or to things is
what you like to do to yourself.
Corollary #2
The victim
and the aggressor are two sides of the same state . The victim has the
seed of the aggressor and vice versa. |
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Using this idea |
Case of woman with daughter in law who abandoned her
Interchanging
sensation and function, delusion and action rubrics.
Case of woman with
abusive husband
Interchanging
observer and observed |
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Homeopathy and spirituality |
None other than yourself
The world as a projection
of your delusion.
Know thyself, the center
of all wisdom |
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Disease is delusion,
Awareness is healing. |
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Better tools |
The computer arrives
Reference works
Mac repertory o Radar
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More provings and ideas |
Jeremy Sherr
Nancy Herrick
Divya Chhabra
Jan Scholten
Massimo Mangialavori |
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Books and articles |
A study of Hahnemann's health
The Boger Approach
The Power of the Placebos
Homeopathy, The Science
of Healing
The Mind
A Portrait of Natrum
Muriaticum |
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Books |
The Spirit of Homeopathy
The Substance of
Homeopathy
The Soul of Remedies
Provings
The System of Homeopathy
The Elements of
Homeopathy by Dr.P.Sankaran edited by me |
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The path ahead |
Plant families
Music provings and
materia medica
Work on minerals
Work on animals
Work on sarcodes |
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The result of all this progress |
My success rate has become 4 times what it used to be.
Previously it was 1% now
it has shot up to 4% |
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The judge and the prisoner |
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Do the best you can ! |
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THE EVOLUTION
OF HOMOEOPATHY |
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