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* The basics and even some of the remedies against West Nile Virus will prove applicable also to the treatment and cure of Avian Flu. Though the symptoms, pathology, and origins are different, they are both viral infections.
West Nile Asymptomatic (no symptoms; about 80% of infection cases)
West Nile Fever (about 20% of infection cases; No known permanent damage.)
Primary symptom: Fear? Hysteria? Apathy? Depression? (Never neglect the mental symptoms; for these will always be the greatest obstacle to any treatment of the physical plane). High fever with severe headache may be the primary symptoms, but, in some cases, FEAR will dwarf all other symptoms and complicate matters until it is destroyed alongside other symptoms.
Modified Conventional Approaches (under physician watch): Where there is fear and severe mental/ emotional strain of any kind, this will rapidly tax the adrenal glands, thyroid, liver, spleen, and pancreas -- leading to an unstable Vitality; An unstable patient overall who is highly sensitive to any remedy applications; More sensitive than to even Conventional drug application. This will also be found in cases of the previously chronically ill, the elderly, and the frail. The use of non-homeopathic agents in support of such conditions will prove critical -- 1000 m.g. Vitamin C/ 500 m.g. Pantothenic acid at times; A little miso soup; Rest; Multivitamins (all applied gradually). Higher dose Vitamin C in megadose quantities (see www.OrthoMed.com; Dr. Robert Cathcart) will also be helpful in rebuilding the tissues, but should not be introduced rapidly and must be spaced out over time.
Attention should be paid to resting blood pressure versus standing -- in examination of any Systolic drops (Adrenal Fatigue) between a horizontally laid out or vertically standing patient. A level Systolic reading to a 10 mm drop in Systolic (rather than rise) from 5 minutes resting (no talking) to standing is a sure sign of adrenal fatigue -- especially where the BP refuses to rise to normal levels while standing; Where there is also the symptom of lightheadedness or a dizziness alongside pulse. In more severe adrenal failure cases, observation of the fingernails, will display a lack of "half moons" (above the cuticles) from thumb to ring fingers along with also degrees of ridges to nail contour. The patient will report ice cold feet and hands.
Varying degrees of indigestion and metabolic disorder will be present and may be alleviated by an increase in digestive enzyme use along with careful selection of meals. The adrenally sapped patient will lean toward the Hypoglycemic side -- fasting a.m. glucose in the 60's to 70's; glucose swings into the 110's or 120's, but difficulty holding above 90 mg/dL constantly unless feeding is kept up. Continual snacks are important -- nuts, more veggie fiber, cucumber, soups, light (not heavy) protein consumption but ample daily protein. Make sure total daily calorie count is met and raised, but allow the patient to eat as they please with just hourly reminders. Feeding should transition to every 1 to 2 hours and be mushy. Slight potato in soup, but not much. Ban all hospital food mashed potatoes, apple sauce, orange juice, or breads. No canned chicken soup or other broth. No coffee or sugar. Have the kitchen prepare foods directly from animal and raw vegetable sources.
Carbohydrate tolerance will relate to the degree of Cortisol/DHEA in the bloodstream and digestive enzymes. Transition to ample protein and vegetable content per meals (chicken bits with veggies in soup). After sufficient protein supply is calculated and supplied with ample veggie fiber daily, adjust carbohydrate supply and patient Hypoglycemia back into normal ranges by the addition of nuts in between meals (if the patient bears no allergy) -- almonds, sunflower, walnuts. Try to avoid peanuts, cashews, macadamia, or pistachios; Avoid all salted nuts, but they are okay if all that is available. In the early phases of acute Influenza, a leaning upon liquid foods will be important but, over time, the bowels need to be continually packed with more solid foods (meat) and veggie fiber in order to restore the blood sugar floor and patient strength. Liquids and medicines will be absorbed by the small intestine within minutes to an hour; Soups and tofu-like protein over that same period (and easily wearing off so they must be upkept constantly). You want to avoid heavy meals, but keep sneaking in more heavy and slower to digest proteins -- chicken, turkey, fish (avoid red meat), oils/fat/protein in nuts. Throw in some Extra Virgin Olive oil or olives. As you keep the glucose/insulin spiking smoothened out while gently packing in more difficult to digest meals into the bowels....this will slow down the glucose/insulin instability and give the adrenals and total system a rest. They will transition from unstable glucose/insulin and symptom swings all over the map to a gentle sine wave with a blood sugar floor hovering in the normal region.
Though deviant from Homeopathic doctrine, a little Adrenal Complex -- 200% DV Vitamin A, 833% DV Vitamin C, 600% Pantothenic Acid, 100% DV Zinc, 360 m.g. freez dried bovine adrenal, 150 m.g. Licorice Root, 100 m.g. Eleuthero Ginseng Root Extract (introduced gradually -- 1/day Day 1, 2/day Day 2, 3 doses/day Day 3) will support the ACUTE phases and adrenal stress. Blood sugar balancing vitamins of 1333% DV Vitamin E, 3333% B1, 1470% Riboflavin (B2), 750% Niacin, 1500% B6, 200% Folic Acid, 833% B12, 1000% Biotin, 1000% Pantothenic acid, 20% Calcium, 100% Magnesium, 200% Zinc, 214% Selenium, 100% Copper, 1000% Manganese, 833% Chromium, 3% Potassium....per dose; 3 times/ day will help. Consider the use of up to 50 m.g. Pregnenolone in 10 m.g. intervals daily for no more than a week. In more severe adrenal fatigue cases surrounding any viral infection, the brief use (a dose or so) of Hydrocortisone might be considered in order to take the patient stable. Support of the adrenal condition alone and the use of vitamins will often repel any viral condition. Then, back off in favor of Homeopathic remedies over time, continual adjustment and downscale of vitamins. Remove all glandulars and herbs in the long-term management of the chronic case under Classical Homeopathy.
Oriental Medicine tactic: Continual warming of the hands and feet by hot water soak to the point of breaking a light sweat applied between any homeopathic remedies, conventional drugs, or vitamin digestion 3 times or more daily. Break a high fever by the application of heat quickly applied andremoved, not cold or ice bathing! Just frequent hot water soaks of the hands & feet; Periodic hot wash cloth overlay upon the head briefly (1 minute) and then removed. Do not force the patient to break a sweat, but just tickle them into it.
Nursing: Pay attention to continual fluid replenishment with the addition of Salt, Calcium, and Magnesium. Frequent, yellow-colored urination should be induced through the continual consumption of nutritious liquids. Avoid heavy meals, sugars, or anything which would tend to drive the glucose/insulin curve toward a spiking action. Use liquid proteins (soy milk) and chicken soups to preserve the blood sugar floor away from Hypoglycemia. Monitor blood sugar and blood pressure continually per patient, and keep those vitals stable. Transition to an Elimination Diet immediately. Develop an hourly pulse and blood pressure profile per patient. Here, you want to gently introduce foods in smaller portions several times daily (not 3 big meals). Among small test quantities of known foods, observe for any rise in resting pulse (say from 60 b.p.m. to 90 b.p.m. alongside resting BP elevation and later slight crash). This is a food allergy which creates significant weakening of the adrenal glands and is not visible when the patient is strong, but is much more pronounced when they are frail. Eliminate the allergens in the diet and you will unlock Vitality while freeing up immunology to further push the disease outward. Generally, these will be found among the population in dairy products, yeasts, packaged foods, and gluten products. Patient tolerance will vary. Only the pulse before, during, and after suspect meals will guide you. Ample onions and cucumber in the diet will help. Garlic should be added to meals and soups where the patient is not encountering a Low Blood Pressure problem and adrenal fatigue.
Fever, headache, tiredness, and body aches, occasionally with a skin rash (on the trunk of the body) and swollen lymph glands. Duration: days to several weeks. Incubation period: 2 to 15 days (infection to symptom display).
Conventional Medicine response: Usually passes on its own; Medications given. No specific medicines. About here, is where the earlier West Nile Fever is driven inward by the use of Conventional drugs and tactics resulting in West Nile Disease. The same will be present in Bird Flu and other Influenza cases.
West Nile Disease (neuroinvasive; Less than 1% of infection cases)
Headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, and paralysis.
Conventional Medicine response: Hospitalization, IV fluids, respiratory support, prevention of secondary infections.
West Nile Encephalitis - inflammation of the brain
West Nile Meningoencephalitis - inflammation of the brain and the membrane surrounding it
West Nile Meningitis - inflammation of the membrane around the brain and the spinal cord
West Nile Poliomyelitis - inflammation of the spinal cord
TREATMENT
Though there are tactics available to counter Asymptomatic West Nile infection, those will not be addressed here since the overall condition is mostly irrelevant to Homeopathy and should pass on its own.
All homeopathic treatment is going to revolve around a Genus Epidemicus approach -- a family of known homeopathic remedies which, as a whole, apply to the full disease picture. While the classical homeopath often tends to apply the most nearly matched remedy and then stop, watch, wait, and observe before striking again, this site will discuss Advanced Classical methods involving the use of nosodes, sarcodes, intercurrent remedy sweeps, and especially remedy transition to aqueous solution along the full scale of remedy application. In this manner, the full Genus Epidemicus may be used (not must be used!)-- in classical homeopathic fashion -- while the time to cure and patient suffering is lessened
This chart is a tentative Genus Epidemicus for West Nile Virus:
NOTE: The typical M.D. thinks in terms of a couple fever types. There are actually hundreds and thousands of possible combinations to fever quality and severity which the homeopathic Materia Medicas cover. Most cases will bear a common denominator while the individual case will have many variations which only a field-adjusted, Genus Epidemicus approach can serve.
Headache
...from Influenza: Camph, Lob.purp.
...from Malaria (mosquito relation as if WNV is a mutated form of Malaria):ARS, Caps, Ced, CHIN.S., Cinch, Cupr.ac. EUP.PERF, Gels, NAT.M.
NOTE: Malaria and other diseases emerge from mosquitoes. West Nile emerges from the same source. It is likely that there is something more than just the viral issue within the mosquito's bite which modern science does not fully understand, and so the possible Malarial relationship -- at least as far as symptomatology goes -- should not be neglected. Solo effectus!! Cessat effectus cessat cuasa!
....(See Materia Medica: Headache location, character of pain, and concomitants per patient.)
Headache Concomitants:
...with fever:Acon, Ars, BELL, Ferr.p.
...with muscular soreness:Gels, Rhus.t.
...with trembling all over: ARG.N. Bor, GELS.
NOTE: Since fever, fatigue, and aches will be fairly stable symptoms, attention to headache location, character of pain, concomitants, aggravations, and amelioration rubrics in the Materia Medica will give a greater depth of reach into the overall disease pattern per patient and allow a better selection of remedy. Is the patient suffering high fever and a throbbing headache in the temple region or all around the head? Is it relieved by lying down or with pressure? Though there is a somewhat "constitutional" picture to West Nile Fever and Disease, any attention to reduction of the pathology with even poorly matched remedies will brush away at the symptom set and, thus, clean up the disease picture's magnitude and specific signatures so that subsequent remedy applications, adjustments, and rotations may be used over time. Give alleviation and a trend to cure first; Clean up your tinkering mess over time! Just get in there and do something while always starting out and wedging inward with a feather's touch and increasing the medicinal strength from there.
Herpes Zoster (Zones, Shingles, Hives & Angioedema; The eruption of acute, inflammatory, herpes-like blisters on the trunk of the body along a peripheral nerve. Same virus found in Chicken Pox; A proneness to Shingles if one had Chicken Pox as a child; Hives are the same type of itching blister but caused by an allergic reaction to a chemical, medication, food, or other. Can be very painful.) Solo effectus! Cessat effectus cessat causa! -- Apis, Arg.n, ARS, Aster, CANTH, Carbon.ox, CAUST, Ced, CISTUS, Commocl, Crot.t, DOLICH, Dulc, Graph, Grind, Hyper, Iris, Kali ars, Kali m, Kal, Merc.s, MEZ, Morph, Pip.m., PRUN.SP, RAN.B, Ran.sc., RHUS.T, Sal.ac. Semperv.t, Staph, Strych.ars, Sul, Thuya, Variol, Zinc.p, Zinc.v.
Impetigo-like (patchy, itching skin infection-like, dry, scaly, cracked, bleeding and tender, with bacterial odor. Or, moist, weepy skin patches that do not dry out such as in ringworm, foot and nail fungus, a non-healing cut, mouth or nail infections; Allergic reaction-like; Diaper rash-like; Persistent headache relation) -- Alnus, ANT.C, ANT.T, ARS, Arum, Calc.mur, CIC, Clem, DULC, Euphorb, Graph, Hep, Iris, Jugl.c, KALI.BICH, Kali n, Lyc, MEZ, RHUS T, Rhus v, Sep, Sil, Sul, Thuya, VIOLA TR.
Stupor(great dulling or suspension of sense of feeling; a torpid state often following stress or shock; having lost power or force of exertion; lacking vigor; dull)--
Coma -- Bell, Cur, HYOS, Mur.ac, Op, Phos, Pilocarp, Nat.m, Stram (coma & chill), Ars (coma, chill), Ledum 1M every 30 mins.
Severe Coma (no pulse, no breath, cold, rigormortis, clinical death, slight warmth still in torso) -- Arsenicum Album 50M, LM 0/4 to 0/30 rubbed into gums; 1 TBS Cayenne Pepper under tongue; Various essential oils -- Rose & Oregano, Continue CPR, Vigorously rub all limbs for 15 minutes before giving up. After such medicine is applied, do not cold store, embalm, or bury the body immediately because sometimes they do wake up much later. They are not dead until warm and rotting. Coldness, stiffness, no breath, no pulse, the look of death all about, and zero vital functions for hours and days...these are still extreme symptom sets. The vitality doesn't suddenly vanish. It slowly fades away and is still possible to recover in the previously healthy, young, and strong seemingly lost to trauma and acute woes.
West Nile Encephalitis - inflammation of the brain
Minimum Stockpile for Home Kits: 6X, 6C, 12C, 30C...each remedy. Plus ample supply of spring water, brandy, and 50 mL to 300 mL jars with caps for preparation as medicinal solution and LM remedies.
"Fine. Then what?" Next, we form our treatment strategy as follows:
The Grid Remedy Chart
Flowchart of Complimentary Intercurrent Remedies
Intercurrent Nosodes (PENDING)
.... *Can be used alone and prepared in the field as a last resort where medicine is not available.
..This forms the multi-pronged, strategic medicinal approach which we may (not must) apply to the disease picture depending upon the individual case.
APPLICATION & METHODOLOGY
OVERVIEW:
With this selection of tools in hand, the question now becomes the most appropriate use per patient.
West Nile Fever will exist in the realm of the Acute Diseases -- meaning the X, C, and M potencies (of properly adjusted succussion per dilution ratios only available when moving away from the dry dose) will be more appropriate. Repetitive dry dosing can be convenient in some cases, but only weakens the remedy action over time if repeated too often. Repetitive dry dose will be suitable at times where there is a time gap between remedies as a function of remedy traits and duration of action, but it is a cave man's style.
West Nile Disease -- a deeper entrenchment of the disease picture -- is a transition away from acute disorder to the chronic, and so requires an approach more suitable to the treatment and cure of deeply entrenched, long-term conditions where the Vitality of the patient has greatly weakened. Again, this is the optimum realm of the single dose or repetitive dosing, aqueous solution, and not the repetitive dry dose. Transition away from the dry dose to medicinal solution allows the homeopath a great many more adjustment options along the curative course which will result in lesser trauma to the patient -- especially where weak.
Because every patient will be different, we can only present an overall treatment strategy herein which must be adjusted by the physician in the field. There will be no Remedy Epidemicus for West Nile Virus or any other viral conditions in an individual or among the masses. There is no such thing as a Remedy Epidemicus, but only the proper application of the Genus Epidemicus per patient.
When Hahnemann's first attempts at a Remedy Epidemicus well crushed plagues in Europe, this was essentially the use of a monkey wrench from his tool box. Today, we have that same crescent wrench, but also a variety of box end wrenches, sockets, screwdrivers, and the occassional hammer. How does one restore a wrecked classic automobile? With a single monkey wrench? No, it requires the use of a great many tools, at the right time, and with a craftsmanship quality in approach. If all one has is a hammer, some duct tape, some baling wire, and a monkey wrench, a good mechanic (the average classical homeopath) can make a great many repairs but such is Mickey Mouse style -- improvised, emergency methodology but nothing you use when there is time, money, and supply to burn.
* LM 1,2,3,4,5 are remedy application and modification steps, not the LM 0/1 to 0/5 potencies.
* The use of "rotated, adjusted, intercurrent remedies" is not meant to encourage a robotic, repetitive dosing or remedies in tandem but rather the use of the similium in LM potency adjusted over time as needed and sometimes with intercurrent remedies or nosodes rotated in. The robotic repetition of an LM potency is the same "mediocre" treatment pattern as that of the C scale graph.
Now, in the charts above, the designations of LM 1/2/3/4/5 do not always refer to the LM scale as we know it from LM 0/1 to 0/30. As used herein, the "LM" abbreviation refers to "Liquid Medicine" (not the dry dose). These LM potencies will not always fit the Homeopathic LM 0/1 to 0/30 scale and may even be held closer to the X, C, or M scale depending upon how prepared in the field.
The first, largest area of green under the "Rotated, Adjusted Intercurrent Remedies" might often be handy as a singular dry dose X or C remedy as a case opener, but then we transition to the sugar pellet disolved in water, distilled water, spring water, brandy water, or whatever is available in the field.
LM1 may be defined as an aqueous remedy specially prepared in the fieldwhich bears more vertical amplitude in medicinal action (from succussion) than horizontal action over time (a dilution trait). LM1 is a remedy with less dilution per succussion and more total energy imparted along the succussion axis. It is a stronger acting medication of quick duration.
By comparison, LM5 will be a weaker remedy -- again, specially prepared by the physician in the field -- which has more dilution per succussion. This is a weaker medicine of longer action.
Generally, LM 1,2,3,4,5 will be the same similium!! The designation of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 does not refer to potency but rather succussion and dilution alterations in subsequent dosings when dealing with the chronic aspect of disease -- again, not made under robotic, repetitive doses. In the acute conditions (such as with WNV), it is possible that a second dose may not even be applied if the proper similium is given and the right LM potency curve is used from the start. In the curative treatment of a chronic disorder (such as entrenched WNV disease pattern via previous suppressive treatment) and complicated by the presence of other chronic ailments, treatment will become more of a complex use of remedy selections and intercurrent adjustments.
Physics: Medicinal energy is always conserved!!! Here, the intensity of the remedy is dropped and adjusted outward in favor of longer duration more appropriate to the patient's remission trend. M.D.'s!! This is why you were required to take Differential and Integral Calculus along with Classical Mechanics (basic Physics) as an undergraduate student. You are supposed to understand total energy under the curve and its ability to transition from amplitude forms to the horizontal spread of medicinal action mentioned herein. Understanding drug action over time is why you were forced to take such dreary mathematics courses. The homeopathic remedies act along the same mathematical lines as your conventional drugs, but of totally different foundation and action upon the body. The homeopathic remedy exists closer to LSD and chemical weapons in the ability of a minute dose to cause significant impact upon the nervous system and body. It's drug action at the other, more obscure, and long forgotten end of the pharmacology curve.
The areas of green, again, will be intercurrent remedy sweeps -- nosodes, sarcodes, specific remedies useful within the Genus Epidemicus -- bearing a greater action amplitude (less dilution per succussion) in order to more fully tug upon the remnant disease energy and fill in the medicinal gaps.
The fastest road to homeopathic cure of the chronic is sometimes the application of medicine in minimal quantitiesalong a complex and well adjusted series of best matched remedies appropriate to the disease picture. However,this is steering the horse, not the act of the horse pulling the cart.
As the steering motion is set, the horse must be fueled and supported well by nutritional methods -- yes, classical homeopaths, the use of vitamins and other tactics sufficent to keeping the horse strong. Then, the sickly horse actually pulls the cart well and at optimum speed. You don't push the sickly horse to pull his carriage too fast or too long -- just gentle. As vitality returns, the horse must be exercised lightly ever day with more periods of rest. Gradually, the horse exercises more than he rests, and nature takes over the rest. Homeopathic medicine is then stopped until seriously needed again. The ideal horse exists with just good food and a little vitamin supplement to compensate for modern dietary losses. If the horse can heal without the use of homeopathy, do not use homeopathy at all. That is the most minimum of minimum dose doctrine.
So, how do we go about applying the Genus Epidemicus remedies?
Before jumping into a discussion of potency selection along with when, when not, and how to apply second doses to optimum effect....one should first properly diagnose and develop the illness picture per patient.
First, the use of a Remedy Epidemicus or the use of a Genus Epidemicus is essentially a time-tested notion (empirical evidence) that a homeopathic remedy or family of them most applicable to the epidemic will apply to a majority of patients. This is what made Dr. Hahnemann most famous in his squashing of Europe's plagues. Is a Remedy Epidemicus truly "homeopathic"? No, because it is often not the similium (most perfectly matched remedy) for the patient. It is rather an INTERCURRENT REMEDY (a properly applied temporary remedy used around the constitutional core) applied to whatever acute conditions are present.
If one takes care to map out all the symptoms of disease in a patient, it will be found that there is never a perfect Similium. There are only various degrees of match, and so we create a Genus (family) of remedies -- whether that be for the use against acute or chronic ailments -- once the Disease Picture is better understood. There can be a perfect Similium where there are few rubrics. Where there are many rubrics, the materia medicas often do not contain the most perfectly matched Similium. All we can do is approximate a similium and this is nothing more than an imaginary similium compared to the unknown perfect remedy. Because we must approximate a match, there may be times in the treatment of acute disease gone chronic that we need to rotate within the best assembled Genus Epidemicus.
Below is an example of disease picture mapping, Genus compilation into a grid remedy chart, analysis of reported symptom severity into a radar chart, and finally the mapping of complimentary Genus remedy relationships into a Remedy Strategy prior to any application (Having a strategic plan does not mean you always apply it!)
In the below radar chart, following a clockwise pattern since childhood, this is the true disease picture (as best we can note from symptoms) for the patient and his evolution to later adult-onset Diabetes. Diabetes is the recent pathology possibly requiring INTERCURRENT REMEDY strikes at that issue, but, more so than Diabetes, the patient's mental state displays itself as the primary catalyst (when also taking into account the Oriental Medicine perspective of Five Element Theory). And, where did the mental states arise? From suppressed psora and miasms of childhood which may point closer to a Sulphur constitution that we cannot determine without first peeling off the onion layers of recent pathology.
"Mediocre" Classical Homeopathy would view the patient as best served by Arsenicum Album in repetitive dry doses -- 12C, 30C, etc. Or, it would make a variety of constitutional studies -- and sometimes voodoo -- further exploring the patient's mental state, dreams, psychological archetypes, etc; All in quest of a constitutional remedy which is not appropriate to the patient at this time.
What is the primary pathology of most severity? The mental symptoms and pancreatic weakness. As Dr. Kent noted, it is not appropriate to apply the constitutional remedy they needed decades ago. Therefore, Arsenicum Album -- only an INTERCURRENT REMEDY to the likely Sulphur constitional core -- becomes the presently favored remedy of the Genus. All other remedies in the genus, move to intercurrent remedy possibilities as part of the opening case treatment strategy.
Do we use those remedies all at once in combination?
Hell no!!! Can we? Sure, but we do not know the possible outcome all that well. Better to experiment on that in fish or mice than men! What we do know is that the single, minimum dose works best along with the stop, watch, wait, and reapply tactics of Hahnemann and classical homeopathy. Where one must reach deeper, over a longer term, and with greater stability delivered to the patient, then, for second doses, we move from the first dry or wet dose to aqueous forms and "plussing" -- always slightly changing the subsequent doses with each application; Always adjusting the remedy curve through dilution and succussion changes; Always conservative in the application of subsequent doses or any alternation of remedies; Always stop, watch, wait, and observe.
"Fine. What do we do from there?"
Ah, now here is where homeopaths enter into controversy:
Should we go in with Arsenicum Album first, wait, watch, think, and reapply second doses of Arsenicum in increasing potency?
NOTE: Arsenicum Album has been reported to have caused Arsenic poisoning symptoms in patients who used the X class of remedies too long (as Hahnemann noted about X potencies early on). This is because, in potencies less than 12C, we are still dealing with a trace amount of the original substance. After that, the average homeopath often thinks that you can repeat Arsenicum Album nearly forever with no detrimental results or symptoms of Arsenic poisoning. Totally untrue! Maintenance of the remedy too long -- as even an aqueous, plussed solution of higher potency -- will eventually lead to a "proving" condition by nature of constructive interference among the remedy/ symptom wave form relation. Therefore, the minimum use of remedies in aqueous plussed form is always best. Hahnemann's development of a new method in the 5th and 6th Organon is not a license to repeat remedies forever!
Should we apply 30C Arnica Montana and teaspoon doses of Cinnamon to immediately reduce this patient's Diabetes because a great many diabetes cases are reported to be well managed by such treatment?
If we do not have Arsenicum Album immediately on hand, can we open the case with other remedies such as Nux Vomica and Phosphorous while later moving to Arsenicum Album?
While using Arsenicum Album as a temporary "constitutional remedy" (the present case Similium), should we deviate into other INTERCURRENT REMEDIES complimentary within the genus? Nosodes? Sarcodes? When?
Wouldn't the patient be best served by the use of a single, high potency remedy (say an M potency) applied just once, then stopped, observing, and applying another high potency remedy months later? Is not that the most minimal use of medicine compliant with Hahnemann's law?
NOTE:Yes, this view of "mediocre" and also Advanced classical homeopathy is entirely correct. However, is it the fastest road to cure? Not always. Does it provide that road to cure with the least trauma to the patient? Sometimes, but not with the weak, unstable, or sensitive patient. Does it apply in every case and every disease picture? Hell no!!!! Does it even comply with Hahnemann's critique of his own previous methods among the 5th and 6th Organon? Nope.
Here, I would add slight deviance from Hahnemann's doctrine by asking this question: "Is the fastest road to symptom removal always the most appropriate course for the patient?" Hang onto your tempers here, ye high potency prescribing homeopaths, when I say, "Absolutely not!!!!!"
Holy cow!! How can I say such a heretical thing?!!! Well, I say that because, in animals, I have defended them against severe chemical attack to presently 5 fold increase in survivability. When applying those remedies just a wee bit too long and not in sufficient potency (too much remedy exposure at weak depth of reach), I have killed those very same animals in faster time than if no homeopathy were applied at all. So, there, one might favor singular, high potencies and that would be appropriate.
Likewise, in the healing of animal wounds, I have pushed healing to about a 5 to 7 fold increase in time through aggravation, but was it appropriate to make my doggy suffer so much or near kill him just to heal a wound which would have healed on its own within about a week? There, I used a first dose that was too strong, and so applied a second, slightly different dilution to dampen the first reaction and strike also at the aggravation and primary condition; Two total doses. Lower potencies in aqueous form, more frequently repeated, and slightly altered each time would have been more gentle on the dog.
NOTE: Rocky the Rottweiler again presented himself with a less severe paw injury (slight sprain) on 5/4/06. No thorns or wounds found. Assumed sprained since he runs plenty and perhaps stumbled or jammed the toes. No problem in Wrist and Metacarpals. Tender to touch in the toes and region. Unable to bear weight. Limping on the afternoon of 5/4/06; Sad/ hurting. Left as-is to observe further. At 07:30 on 5/5/06, I decided to dissolve 1 pellet of Arnica Montana 12C (by Boiron) in 7 Tablespoons spring water. From there, I administered a palm full of the medicinal solution (about 1 tablespoon) to be licked from my hand. Results? Near instant correction of his suffering. Record: 08:30 to 14:14 No more limping, use of all paws, running freely as normal, spirits lifted. Observed, waited, watched. Decided upon no repeat dose. Fast cure of an acute condition. Zero aggravation. Compared to his previous reaction to Arnica Montana 30C diluted in his water bowl many months ago, the aqueous application of 12C proved more gentle and more rapidly curative. Again, proof that higher potency is not always best or the fastest road to cure!
The earlier 30C Arnica treatment given to Rocky for a bleeding paw wound was a case where no homeopathy would have been better and most gentle compared to botched homeopathy. Or, where low-potency, aqueous prescribing in support of the condition would have been most appropriate (as was done in the 5/5/06 injury). His bleeding wound would have healed in several days with him naturally limping and avoiding any stress on the injury as the body determines appropriate. There was no need for me to force him to FEEL healed in my earlier botched trial. Oh, maybe the wound healed a little faster than normal and he felt no pain. In my first treatment of his wounds, he bore weight on all legs again the next day and was running around crazy with puppy vitality and no visible signs the injury ever existed. Cured he was, but did I need to cause him tremendous nervousness, restlessness, inflammation, soreness, pain, and suffering the night prior to his cure? Yes, a second dose did correct all that, but did it need to be done so quickly and with such aggression to medicine? Just because he felt better does not mean the wound was fully healed. In the case months before 5/5/06, I kept him restrained and off that wound another day just to allow the wound time to heal beyond the homeopathic action because, in feeling better, one can overdo things. The wound could have opened up again from just puppy vitality and rough play. In relapse, the patient is then no different from when first touched and possibly worse than before -- dragging out healing, having caused suffering all that time, and these rough tactics of higher, more singular potency certainly would have been dangerous medicine to apply in an old, weak dog suffering from chronic ailments.
Therefore, the time to rendering symptom alleviation and cure depends upon the patient and the circumstances of the case. There is no governing, single law. It is at the homeopath's discretion and patient tolerance. By 5/5/06, I am more in-tune with the dog's sensitivity to remedies, and so opted for the 12C dose spread over a greater dilution action curve resulting in single dose, near-instantaneous relief / essentially cured.
Some of the world's greatest homeopaths often open up cancer cases with 200C remedies and continue this archaic idea of the 1st to 4th Organon that high potencies of minimal dose are the best way. Then, they wonder why or overlook why some of their weaker cases do very well for a time, see much function, and then just die off suddenly of arterial rupture or some other catastrophic system failure. These are cases where healing has been pushed too hard and too fast by high potency remedies applied in far too much the sporadic fashion contrary to Hahnemann's views of the 5th and 6th edition Organon.
Point to ponder: If my rough and tough Rottweiler suffered significant aggravation under 30C aqueous treatment with a slightly wrong remedy, yet saw outstanding healing of a lesser injury under the 12C aqueous dose of 5/5/06....what does that say about the frail, the weak, and the elderly who are not as tough and of such puppy vitality?! There are times -- especially with the adrenally weak suffering from acute Influenza where the 200C dry or wet dose will kill them; Where 30C dry or wet dosing will kill them and only a carefully adjusted X, 6C, or 12C dose in medicinal solution will perform the curative action with the least aggravation. If a Rottweiler can be so sensitive to remedies, imagine a sickly old lady or the adrenally weak and already chronically ill exposed to acute Influenza! You must learn to come in with a feather's touch first, grasp onto the full disease, sense it, probe it over time among test doses, and then apply the precise dosing in series, in rotation, backed up by allopathy and supplements; Whatever works well is not the wrong path.
If such a patient develops West Nile Virus, Bird Flu, or some other acute condition, then how do we go about blending the Genus Epidemicus with his CONSTITUTIONAL GENUS to the optimum benefit of the patient resulting in the most gentle curative action in the least time?
ON PREPARATION OF THE LM 0/1 TO 0/30 POTENCIES, SINGLE DOSE LM CURES, PLACEBO UTILITY, REMEDY ROTATION, REMEDY ALTERATION IN SOLUTION, AND THE OLFACTION OF INTERCURRENT REMEDIES
