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Sunday 12.7.08 class notes

Sunday PAH Karen Allen

Class questions:
q: How do you avoid giving a patient a bad aggravation for a month?

a: It's not possible to know how a patient's body will react, so impossible to avoid, but you can be available to them during their discomfort.
    You can also offer them relief to their discomfort that does not disrupt the remedy action. You can also warn them that there will be a reaction (if you know ahead of time), tell them up front. For ex, a person who has abused nasal spray for years and is now going off of it - you can tell ahead of time that they will have a physiological reaction to prepare them.
     Another option is to offer them a low potency of the same remedy they just received, like a 6x- it often softens any extreme reactions. Some schools of homeopathy are against this method, thinking that this takes away from the body's working on the original remedy.
     Also: learn from your mistakes. There will always be people who are sensitive and who will react. If they are already on a low potency, you can't get much lower than that.

A single dry dose of a higher potency is the most likely to give a big reaction.
Lower than that is a liquid dose.
Lastly there is the option to take a dose via olfaction.
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The FDA has approved remedies in the Pharmacopeia, there are many provings that will never get the remedies into the Pharmacopeia.
- these remedies are still sold, and yet should not be over the counter
- many pharmacies will consider these a prescription only process
- ex: opium, coca, electricopia (?), metorinum
- anything made from a controlled substance will be off the list
- all of the nosods, all of the sarcods- anything that was made from a disease, anything that had prions that could possibly be in it (even if it's past Avogadro's number)

Class ?'s
nosod def: remedy made from a disease product
common nosods:
tuberculinum - made from sputum from a cow, bird, or lung
psorinum - made from discharge from a scabies vesicle
syphylinum - syphilitic tissue
meterinum- Gonorrheal discharge

auto-nosod def- Remedy made from patient's body, giving them a dose of what they've already got. Can be made from urine or any other bodily discharge. Can be very effective. Can be made in an emergency situation (story of lady hiking in 3rd world).

Duncan therapy: Pioneered by a Dr. Duncan, make an X remedy, somewhere lower than 6X, higher than 6X WILL create nasty aggravations, start with water, add saliva, urine, pus, nasal discharge- whatever you've got, 1X is a 1-10 dilution. Karen has used this with menstrual discharge has helped a woman starting to miscarry. Can use alcohol if you have it, or clean water.
Make it in water, DO NOT KEEP IT more than 48 hrs, things grow in there. If you need more, you make more. The vital source will have changed at that point, so the nature of the remedy will have changed.
Saliva is the easiest one. Suggest doing it to yourself- you will learn something important about yourself, will improve your health.
This is perfect in an emergency situation when you have no other options. Can make it from scrapings of skin eruptions, horrible diarrhea/stool. It makes more sense to make it from the appropriate part that relates to the disease, but in theory your entire body will be effected and so any part can be used.

Sarcodes: remedies made from healthy body tissue. Hypothalmus, thyroid- these are remedies. Thymus glad. My question is: how can healthy body tissue help a person in the like-cures-like principle. A: this is a great Year2 question, it's a long conversation.

Class ?'s
q: When you have patients who are currently on a lot of meds what are your coping actions?
- can tell them to quit, it probably won't be effective- too idealistic
- adjust your dosage, low potency daily dose
- for recreational drugging, as they get healthier their impetus to drug dissipates
- high blood pressure drugs start to over-act as the person gets healthier (ex) so you have to warn the patient that their need for that medicine will be reduced
- many patients won't know or recall what medicines they are on- esp. older patients who you may only see once a year. Many don't know or forget, so you can ASK what they are taking, but that doesn't always work
- you can ask what symptoms the patient had that led them to go to the Dr that caused them to get the prescription
- as a Homeopath you will need to research current medications and their known side effects- like coughs, etc.

LMs
H saw patients who got better and then later relapsed. Or who were given a remedy for a specific event, it worked fabulously, later the same event happened but the remedy didn't work quite as well. His final concl was that the vital force makes the best use of a remedy the very first time it is taken. He also concluded that putting it in water, and shake it to change the potency just a little bit makes the body receptive to the remedy over and over- since each time it is altered just a fraction.

Patient can't sleep:
1) gemmo therapy - phyto embriology, use of immature plant tissue- shooting buds/stems/leaflets
two you put together, non-addictive, supportive sleep therapy
linden (tilia tomentosa) + fig
Comes in 2oz bottles (lime in Boiron for linden) gemmo tinctures, 1 dose comes from a couple of T of lukewarm water  (less than 1/4c) 30 drops of lime, 30 drops of fig
put in mouth, close eyes, breath 3 slow deep breaths
avg dropperful = 15-18 drops
take every night before bed
triggers body's sleep response

2) 6x tala araneae  - made from spiderweb

Seasonal affective disorder, menopause & hot flashes:
6X of Sol

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tinctures
50/50 substance and water/alcohol for making tinctures
measurements vary for substance
HP US will have data

6C ferum phos- good anti-inflammatory, tinctures are good for initial exposure to cold germs

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Review of pharmacy principles

- Think of a remedy as electricity, it goes wherever it is to wherever it's connected to, connects via liquid, or touch. EX: if you fill a remedy bottle from filter water your FILTER is now ferum phos. Anything where you POUR liquid, the remedy travels.
- You must be VERY careful, esp since you cannot SEE them change.
- Another consideration are INIMICALs- remedies which when given in order to a patient generate really negative aggravations.
- If you have two open bottles of remedies in alcohol they are both screwed up/contaminated
 It is your job to ENSURE that the remedy you give a patient is valid and not contaminated- as in a new, unopened bottle.
- Not in direct sunlight, not in fridge (mechanical)
- PAY ATTENTION to your remedies, they are ACTIVE substances, and they interact with their environment.
- A way out is to pour alcohol into a little cup, and then pour from the cup to the bottle- this is good. Then THROW away the cup, never re-use it.
- Your WATER FILTER can be contaminated, put in SUNLIGHT to anti-dote, or replace
- If you put a pellet in a cup, and fill the cup from the water faucet it's been contaminated

Grafting
- Taking a remedy and grafting it into other things
- Put a pellet into a cup or bottle of water, have client shake it and take a sip every 15min for an Acute illness
- Pattern of transferring from substance to substance- occurs even if you are not conscious of it

***Suggest getting these in high potency:
ACONITE - 1M, 10M - if there's an earthquake give it to everyone, even for a child
ARNICA 30C/200C/1M/10M
IGNATIA AMARA - for extreme states of emotional upheaval/trauma, grief, sick from incredible joy

What are your criteria for your own personal kit?
- should include remedies for trauma, injury
- flu, colds, cough, common illnesses
- you might want to have a spare for those things (like Arnica) that are used a lot

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Homework Discussion

Jo's video: non-union of fracture
tedious
detail oriented
psychic during full moon

argument analysis:

•  is it true? is it real? is she making it up?
• it's our job to assess & perceive, not to judge
• valid or invalid doesn't matter
• each client is the authority- good to assess how 'realistic' their fears are (like case with $ worries, even though they have savings)
• BELIEVE that what the clients says is TRUE FOR THEM

Will people who are gifted (psychic, art, etc.) lose their gift? Only as much as their gift was associated with their pathology. Question is whether or not it's worth losing to the patient- their choice. People have lost things like that as their health improves- and are not grateful> eventually though they usually find it was worth it.

If you as a homeopath FEEL a judgment the patient will know and will shut down. It is your job to be open to whatever they have to say. It's not about you! You can accept your reactions and let them go, don't let it waste time or interrupt the interview.

Rubric: Mind, Clairvoyance is correct , regardless of whether or not she's really psychic, because she believes it is true.

If they are a pathological liar: how do you take the case? look for PATTERNS in the lying: are the stories enlarged? do they lie when they are afraid? are the lies all tied to a particular theme? make a note in your case that you question the truth and sort it out later.

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RUBRIC SETS
- a boiled down version of the case, a set of rubrics that represent the case
- these represent the 'boulders and rocks' not the 'sand and silt' of the case
- a good rule of thumb is not to have more than 8 rubrics, or less- everything impt, no more or less
- better to pick rubrics that cast a wider net, instead of picking rubrics that have a really small set of remedies
- also base choice on what is most limiting to their life

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Afternoon session
case taking- allergies, headaches, diff swallowing

Building Rubric sets
A rubrics set should
 - cover the boulders in the case
 - include the generals and particulars
 - be a great summary in 8 or less short phrases

When looking at a rubric set, ask 3 questions.
For each rubric in the set:
1) Is it accurate (did the client say that? Would it pass rubric court?)

2) Is it helpful/ important/ boulder-ish or limiting?

3) Is there anything else that would strengthen the rubric set?

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video
Skip:Influenza

w/in an hr I felt worse and worse
upset stomach
achy
went immed to bed
vomit a few times
in bed for a day, ahven't gotten up
joint ache
beat with a baseball bat
upset stomach

pass out, nauseous
achy bones
joints/bones sensitive, a real ache, sore
hurts to move

drinking water here and there, > ice water, could only drink little bit at a time

was really cold, blanket covered,  6-8 hrs
then I got warm -> hot, covers off
thirsty when hot or cold

bones/joints/disgestive
sudden onset
nausea, vomit

eupatorium - intense pain of aching character involving bones, develops quickly, joint pain, desire for ice-cold drinks.

baptisia- constant desire for water, small amounts, intense aching pains, acute joint pain, sudden onset

Saturday 12.6.08 class notes

Clinic starts in Feb - Fridays 9:30-5:30

Provings: all day class with Richard Pitt

- explore how we get info from a substance to understand it's homeopathic usage
- how do we access/structure the info after we find it? how is it added to the existing lexicon of homeopathic data?

- tabaccum rusticum proving, became a book on it's history and influence. It's the original form of tabacco that Native American's used, the common form is much less harsh (rusticum is harsher and has 4x more nicotine in it). was first cash crop for settlers. Book explores why people use tobacco, and history of it- why choose to smoke it? what does it say about us, and about tobacco? purpose is also to open up context of provings, to show public how they function.

- book 'The California homeopath' journal produced 1882-92 (?), wm boreke author, morphed into Pacific coast homeopathy (1892-1935)
goal is to de-mystify homeopathy, to take away "cult" reputation, goal also to broaden definition of homeopathy, to make it more holistic and also more palatable to the public

AIH - American Institute of Homeopathy (since 1844)

Aph 105-142
Hahnemann's concepts of provings
- this is an unique contribution to the medical annals
- provings test how medicines impact healthy people, which is crucial to understand how they actually impact people

- H claims to similar diseases cannot co-exist within the body, by taking a remedy the artificial disease will trump the natural disease and conquer it.

H you need to prove each remedy as a single medicine, mixing medicines are anathema, even if it's a complex compound. Because the effect of the remedy will mingle with the disease symptoms until they are indistinguishable.

In modern times, who is healthy? not on any medicines incl homeopathic remedies
what other variables effect a person and potentially a remedy? it varies for each proving, and who sets the controls
daily supplements can be allowed if they are part of a daily regime - per Richard

supervisors take a baseline intake for each prover, their role is to be an objective eye to help determine what has changed due to the medicine or not
it's very difficult for provers to self-determine the changes by their nature

Aph108
dose does not relate to potency- talking about physiological doses, often done with crude amounts or only minimally potentized
also get data from accidental poisonings or attempted murder/suicide

look for the 'pure peculiar nature' of each remedy
- against a priori sophistry- theoretical discussion of potential nature of any medicine without proof
- conventional medicines are often based on specious theories
- smell taste appearance of medicine should not give an idea of why/how it may be used
- shape form fxn structure of something may give a hint, but should not give a doctrine of signatures

during provings it's not always easy to determine the validity of the data
there have been some questions of the data from Hahnemann's provers, one guy was in 42 of H's provings and had same symptoms every time
done by Langhammer?  Franz dissects this idea
also questions whether or not doctrine of signatures should be dismissed summarily- why not look at all data to see what unique information it provides?
wrote 'Prisma'

Doctrine of signatures need not be a drastic simplification, but may provide very interesting peculiarities of the nature of the item

Aph111
eternal natural laws
observational phenomena
this information becomes reliable

concept: everything in nature is unique, from a biochemical or other point of view
there is often a huge overlap btw substances, in their nature also in their effect on the body- and yet all are unique
often a synergistic symbiosis in substances (like manganese and iron levels in the body- you need both to have both, eating manganese will lead to having more normal iron levels - for lady who was iron deficient, as opposed to taking more iron in that case)

Aph112
after actions
primary vs secondary actions

prime reaction is stimulative, influence of remedy on the body
sec is the response/reaction, reactive response of the body to the remedy, the counter-action to the primary reaction
sec is the curative action
you do not see the prime reaction often, only the secondary reaction from the body

provings show the primary reaction of the remedy/energy onto a person

what are sec reactions in context of provings? people's body reactions to the remedy always comes through their unique body/history, hard to determine the "pure" effect as the results are filtered in provings through indiv bodies
provings go on for a long time, more data is put in and integrated, the more time goes on the more the data becomes about the secondary reactions rather than the primary ones- essentially it dilutes it

many provings have speculative or dubious data
it is very diff and challenging to filter out good data in provings, or to present it in a way w/o extraneous data, author must take out relevant data or even interpret it, which is also risky- but putting in too much data is also incorrect as it may be misleading

in proving most people won't react iwth only ONE dose, must give repeat doses to get a reaction due to diff levels of susceptibility
then you have reactions which were created by expectation of a reaction by the people doing the proving- another critique of provings
another critique: gestalt in proving group, even if you are a placebo prover you can still ahve symptom of proving from being part of the gp
placebo provers have been questioned- the only need for them is to validate results for generic medical community, they don't provide much for the proving

there is a lot of debate of the original language from the Organon- what is 'frequent' what is 'dose' what is 'moderate' vs. 'minimal'? it is hard to determine

you can superimpose aspects of the remedy onto a person if you give them too high a dose, even with a correct remedy
too high can be for people who have a high susceptibility to the remedy in the first place, or too high a potency or too frequent of a repetition
this can generate symptoms in the patient that are new to them, and not relative to the disease
this is actually a confirmation that the remedy is working, that it's the correct one, although the dose needs to be corrected, you know it's good as long as there is an overall amelioration of the complaint even if there are new symptoms (side effects)
this adds another dimension to the idea of giving a single dose

in poisonings the body is being toxified
narcotics are the exception to many remedies in that the initial reaction is very diff from following reactions (diminishing positive results, growing neg effects)
sm dose stimulates lg dose sedates
like tobacco or opium

botanical classifications often provide synchronous data for homeopathy
tobacco is one of the deadly nightshades

proving coordinator must be discriminating in the proving data or the results will be incomprehensible
it is essential to distinguish the wheat from the chaff, and to group ideas/themes correctly (black mice, black cats- all under 'black' not animals, for tobacco)

Dream provings
- take remedy or put it under the pillow, then relate dreams
- highly debated
- esp at a confrerence all share gp energy and intention
- very easy to tap into the general white noise of the environment, instead of the essence of the remedy
- physicals give a strong idea of an affinity of the remedy, dreams less so

idea of synchronicity
- if homeopathy is based on susceptibility and similars, you introduce that energy into your life
- when you initiate a proving, you initiate a cosmic intention
- info is only good if you can use it and corroborate it- not all things relate, not nothing relates :)

there is an official protocol for provings
if you follow you can add to homeopathic pharmacopeia - but it must conform to clearly defined protocol

most provings do not follow the protocol perfectly and are therefore not included

jeremy shear 'methodologies of homeopathic provings' book
- his provings are so voluminous that it can be diff to discern the salient data, he believes the onus is on the reader to determine the relevant data (unlike others who believe the onus is on the master prover)

homeopathy requires a level of subjectivity which is not ALLOWED in other sciences!!

Meditation provings- tapping into general consciousness

doctrine of signatures is very limited, but that doesn't make it less true

provings are the first step into exploring the true nature of a remedy- it is the foundation and maybe the frame of a new house- without the details and without the personality
the rest of the details are supplied via clinical experience, toxicology, and via the form/function/knowledge of the substance (doctrine of signatures)

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afternoon session

Taxis Bravifolia (sp?)
Pacific Yew tree

- "taxal" cancer drug came from this, has unique anti-cancer properties
- destroying trees after farming the bark, then they synthesized the manufacture of the taxal called 'yew tips'
- R.P. did a homeopathic proving of the Yew Tips, a blind proving, many people had dreams of having cancer, of seeing doctors, of being experimented on
   - interesting ideas of doctors, treatment, illness, trust, relationships
   - homeopathic response from a manufactured pill

Coffee - "kaffea"?
is often given to ANTIDOTE a remedy
if a prover has a horrible time with a remedy, they need an antidote
usually a dose of their constitutional will work, or something with similar symptoms to what they are suffering from, OR kaffea (which is good for people suffering from overstimulation)

Acute cases will crave things that will relieve their discomfort, in a Chronic state you tend to crave things that maintain your pathology

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Petroleum
dreams of hostility, aggression, violence, murder
stabbing sharp stitching pains
control power aggressiveness
burning heat, rage
rapid fast sudden
cracked skin, eruptions (from hydrocarbons)
relationship with alcohol- can be considered as a remedy for a person who drinks a lot and often gets angry when drunk
capacious desire for food, drink, alcohol, money/greed
theme of duality, body is split (cracking skin, mental confusion), disconnection, sense of fragmentation, no separation btw mind and emotion

ibogaine or iboga- from West Africa
used for treating heroin addiction
shows people the inner damage they are doing with drug use- great success so far

** There are some homeopathic teachers who believe that the purpose of homeopathy is to help the spiritual evolution of the human race, although Karen and Richard are not part of that (email for references)

Class topics per weekend:
1: what is a symptom
2: what is a state- recognition of them
3: what is a remedy
4: what are provings

Non-Union of fracture - video

Jo: non-union of fracture

broken leg not healing
broke last Sept
not strong person, weak person
strong spiritual & psychic sense, not in body
psychic impressions of close family
   - know what's going on with them

woke up sore throat, found out mom had strep throat
pain shoulder, sister hurt shoulder

leg hurt at first, itchy after cast, drove crazy
nightmare, had to learn how to set up everything perfectly

driving
had to think through how to balance and hold on getting in to car

exhausted getting through a day
get up, get dress, dry hair, brkfst, tidy up, get in car, drive off to work, answer phones, type comp, can't find time to eat lunch, eat while working at computer, finish work, errands, go to bank before closes, dry cleaning, grocery store, after home make dinner, do the dishes

by 7:30/8 wiped
always sick, always have a cold - from any exposure
water eyes, sneezing, sinus blocked, in ears, can't hear
get a cold every other wk

hard time with decisions, any
- even what to make for dinner
I get tied up in knots
mom bday gift, went to store for 2.5 hrs figuring out what to buy her
not perfect because didnt' have music box, cost $35 , didn't want to spend that much
watch less expensive, couldn't decide

afraid of being ctr of attention in a negative way
ex: spill bag on bus and everyone is looking
afraid of anything sharp, pins needles
   - felt dizzy almost fainted from idea of being poked

nightmare being poked with pins/needles

short
grow slowly
finger nails grow slow, ridges, white spots
hair grows slowly - agonizing, cuts before grows to what she really wants

psychic ability
full moon: feel emotions that are not mine
thought I was going crazy, wave of anger for no reason, or feel sad
able to find out I was feeling emotions belonging to family members
no "floods of emotions" after full moon passes

angry feelings, weren't mine, days she felt anger were same as days cousin got fired

strong opinions, don't like to tell ppl what they are
found out sis was getting married, announced engagement, almost choked on food, had to keep face even because I didn't want anyone to know I had such a  strong reaction
don't want to get into arguments
it was creepy
I sure didn't want to let people know how I felt

general
weak person
gets colds every other week
floods of emotions every full moon
slow growth: body, nails, hair
indecisive
exhausted from day's activities
needs to hide strong opinions from others
fears negative public attention

particular
broken leg has not healed (broke last Sept)
nightmares of pins,needles, being poked
nails have ridges, white spots

limitations
often sick
broken leg hasn't healed
easily exhausted

pathology

rubrics
mind, delusions/thoughts, family, emotions feels
mind, fear, pins of
mind, indecisive
mind, weary, evening
** mind, clairvoyance