Homeopathy Flashcards
(123 cards)
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Theoretical systems of medicine were essentialy
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Theorietical webs, un-ntaural and not in harmony with nature
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The Old school of medicine relied on ___________________________ of prescription
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The old school of medicine relied on mechanical routine of prescription based on books
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The old school aimed to find
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Tolle Causum (but could not, because disease is dynamic) - FIND the cause, but you can’t
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THen, the old school found the cause from
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1) Diseased VS healthy cadavers
2) and change of function in disease
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Prima causi morbi acting as both
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Disease itself and the proximate cause of the disease
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Priori
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An inner invisble cause of disease
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Why is homeopathic forbidden?
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Because most substances found to be dangerous in large doses
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Old school effort to remove disease matter:
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blood letting, expurgation E.g. Fatal number of leaches, DRAINAGE
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Are side effects the disease itself?
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NO
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Homeopathy diseases are dynamic or material?
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Dynamic
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Old school imitated the __________________ of life force
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Diseased operations
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Doctors copied nature but nature cannot do things like
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Stiches and realign bones
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Often these allopathic treatments of immitation led to decrease in
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Vitality and body fluids
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Destroy the terrain but
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Enemy remained
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WHY did they drain and stuff
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because nature makes u bleed and shit when u are sick
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ANTIPATHIC stimulating and strengthening TX
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Wine and other stimulants did nothing long term
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What preparations for debilitation
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Wine, cinchona and iron
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Wine cinchona and iron were perceived as
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Stimulating and strengthening
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THe more wine the px drinks the worse they get why?
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Because life force opposes what is superficial
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Old school medicnes used mercury which overall
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Completely ruins health
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Cinchona would suppress a fever but then make it
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EVEN WORSE
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DOCTORS OF OLD SCHOOL WERE ALWAYS LOOKING TO
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suppress symptoms (letting px THINK they were cured)
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What was the problem with the old school’s approach to curing dx
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there was nothing valid in the books they were basing everything on
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Compound prescriptions were unknown in
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Their true action
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Theory of compound prescription
That each one was specifically for each organ
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What was REALLY happening in compound prescruption
They were all wiping eahc other out
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From allopathy to homeopathy
Let similars be cured by similars
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Objective of cure in homeopathy
Gentle, RAPID, Certain, permanent
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Because there is a history of homeopathy.... It must be ________________
Eternal Eternal
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Folklore homeopathy
Hold hand by Fire
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Is the organism pervaded by miasm before or after first symptom?
Before
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Primary symptom job
prevent outbreak of full disease
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Three big CHRONIC miasms
Syphyllis, psyocis, and PSORA
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When local symptom removed, miasm expresses itself thru development of
Characteristic chronic disease
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Homeopathic physiicans treat
Underlying cause
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When primary or secondary sx appear, treat...
Great miasm at the base
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Treat _____________ not SX
Cause
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If the miasm is pure (RARE)
Treat those alone
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Psora can complicate with
Old veneral disease
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Psora can complicate with
Syphyllis and psychosis
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Psora alone yet complicated by
Allopathic medicine
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Take into account px age, lifestyle, diet, occupation, domestic situation ANDDDD
Civil relations
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Should you pick a remedy right away?
NO over several interviews
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Start treatment with the most _______________________________ medicine
Anti-miasmatic
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START WITH A TREATMENT WITH UTMOST SIMILIARITIES TO DISEASE
kjkj
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Cure can only be found thru ______________________ of its effects on human health
EXPERIENCE *only thru experience can we perceive the cure
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Is the curative wesen discernable?
NO
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MEDECINES CURE BY engendering a disease state that
Removes the one to be cured
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Only thing that shows disease from health is
Symptoms
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Artificial dx state lifts...
The one we want to cure
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Medicine sought must be similar to
DX
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Is antipathic effective?
No, it is opposite dx symptom - will only be temporary
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How many sx does homeopathy look to?
The totalitiy of symptoms
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What do we want to engender in homeopathy
An articifial disease state
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Match Dx to Sx =
Permanent removal
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When two similar dynamic affections meet in a living organism, the stronger....
Extinguishes the weaker
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Who is the only person who can observe mega changes from the formerly healthy self
The unpredjudiced observer
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Who else can comment on changes:
The px, the physician and the pbserver ]]
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The totality of symptoms is a reflection of
Inner vesen
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Totality of symtpoms must be
Discerened and cleared away
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When is the cure?
When the DX symptoms have lifed
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In health, life force keeps a person
In harmony
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All sensibility comes from
Life force
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Disease and medicine are both
DYNAMIC
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What comes first, mistuned life force of sumptoms?
Mistuned life force
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morbid mistunement makes itself known in
SX
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Dissapearnce of symptoms will
reinvigorate and restore the life pinciple
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Must impinge on disease in a ___________________ way
Dynamic way (because disease occurs dynamicalle)
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What is the only thing to consider in the remedy
TOTALIY OF SYMPTOMS
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Who cannot be in a prooving
Sick people
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Medicinal actions must be studied by observing
What alterations of condition are brought forth in HEALTHY people
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Certain cure can only be ascertained by
Previous writings
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SX of poisoning usually
match up with provings
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Each medicine acts in accordaance with
DEFINITE EXTERNAL LAWS
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Counteraction percieved in poisoning (AKA)
AKA too much reaction
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What is something that will have a perceptible counter action even in a small dose
Narcotics
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With the exception of narcotics, one will only perceive the _______________ acti0on
initial
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Some medicines have __________ states which go OPPOSITE to other sx that have appeared
Recipricol states
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Some sx appear in many healthy bodies, some in
Few
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In provings with unpotentized medicines, substances of different strengths should be proven
IN DIFF QUANTITIES
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Indigenous plants expressed as
Juice
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Exotic plants expressed as
powder
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NON STIMULATING and should avoid
Spice, green veggies with med PPOWER and beverages
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The prover must be
Credible and conscioencous guarding against body exertion, excesses, passions, no urgent business to deter and posses the proper intellect
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Provers must what gender
Male and Female
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Medicinal substances should be at this potency
30C
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Provers should start with what type of dose
Small
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Properly strong medicineal dose admiinistered will show the exact
Sequence of SX and the times when they appear
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The duration of a med action can only be ascertained by
Several exp. with one dose
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the action of amedicine is less clear when a prover must take
Increasing doses on successive days *DOING OE CAN TAKE AWAY ANOTHER SX
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IF you dont care SEQUENCE or DURATION...
then you can do heightened dose every day for several days
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determine CHARACTER of sx to figure out
what is peculiar
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Different SX can appear in
different provers
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To fully proove a substance you need
MULTIPLE TEST with ppl of both genders and various constitutions
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RARE symptoms showing up in a prooving
Even the rare ones can be cured
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large doses create
violnet actions.... moderate = better
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Alll alterations seen in a proving must stem from
The medicines
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Provers should...
Keep journals and be intervied by supervising physician
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The most excellent provings remain those that
The healthy unpredjudiced conscientous and fine feeling physican employs on himself
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Constructive interference/harmonic resonance
The combined power of overlapping energy waves of the same frequency E.g. opera singing that breaks the glass
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What is good in treating kidney stones
Constructive interference
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Destructive interference
Energy waves of similar frequency but out of sync will cancel each other out - cancel an atom's vibration and stop it from spinning
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Every surgical case
Is a homeopathic case because it increases the organisms capactiy to heal
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Jeremy Sherr - A proving is anything that gives you
A new experience E.g. a movie can be a proving if it produces something new
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Forgetting =
Forgetting is a simillimum
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Can you have coffee before a proving?
No. Must stop two weeks before because weakens the yong and then the yin - hard to repenish yin
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Cigarettes in proving?
NO
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Proving = learning to listen to
The whispers *most people don't hear wshipers
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Are you allowed to do constituional treatments and or acupuncture in a proving?
NO
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BEST PROVING COMES FROM
A single dose *2 and 3 can distort the CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS
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ALthough you cannot add doses it is okay to
repeat the dose in a few hours
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Purpose of a proving
To record the totality of DX symptoms by a substance on a healthy person to then create a curative set of indications for the sick
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Primary effect
Occurs IMMEDIATELY within a few hours E.g. increased or decreased energy, increased irritability, crying, rush or buzz, headache
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Secondary effect
Follows the primary effect. It is the organism's reaction in order to re-establish equilibrium. E.g. return of symptoms or decrease of symptpms
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3 criteria to determine if it has really been proven
1) Symptoms must be reported from provings on healthy individuals using toxic, hypotoxic, and slightly potentized doses
2) Symptoms recorded must be drawn from all three levels - mental, emotional, physical
3) Symptoms must be included which have been CURED in the process if treatment of the whole organism after admin to sick
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Ideal prover is what age
18-50
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Time required for a proving
1 to 4 weeks at time, write down sx on all three levels
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Location for a proving
Ideally 1500 ft altitude, clean air and water, quiet to raise health before doing it
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Director
Decides on substance to be proven and is only one who knows remedy
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Experimenters
Monitor the responses thru daily contact with prover and KEEP their own ournal
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Provers
Record baseline SX beginning 1 to 4 weeks before the
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Can provers talk?
No
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Provers must write in journal three times a day
and contact their experimenters minimum once a day, especially first 7 days of proving
