Mittelfindung nach Filip Degroote
10 Simple Rules to Find the Appropriate Homeopathic Remedy
How to Save and Preserve Classical Homeopathy in the Future
The reason for writing these ‘rules’ is the crisis in the homeopathic
world due to the lack of new homeopathic physicians. Homeopathy is chosen for
study by fewer students than some decades ago. I believe the following reasons
account for this:
First, there is the threat from outside, namely the pharmaceutical and
the so-called scientific world which wants to eradicate homeopathy worldwide.
Secondly, there is the threat from inside our homeopathic community, where
there is still a silent competition going on between the different approaches
and schools in classical homeopathy which creates a split, sometimes between
homeopaths living in the same region. This disunity in classical homeopathy
also created confusion in the minds of patients and therapists who showed some
interest in homeopathy, not to mention the still always existing supplementary
confusion created by the ‘false’ complex homeopathy. Consequently, especially for beginning
therapists, this disunity without cohesion comes over as chaotic, which makes
the matter too complex and inaccessible.
But, like any complex matter it can be mostly described in simple terms.
During my 40-years practice I distilled the following ten simple rules.
Ten simple rules to make a good homeopathic prescription:
1.Throw aside all theories of belief and opinion, and dwell in simple
fact! (James Tyler Kent, Lesser Writings)
Nowadays we are confronted with different homeopathic schools. Those
schools are competing with each other and have a dividing effect on the
homeopathic community. Although their theories are interesting to get
acquainted with, some of them radiate a dogmatic approach which is in contrast
with their real lack of efficiency in practice.
It has to be noticed that the different points of view are often very
contradictory at first sight. Moreover, some of those approaches are quite
difficult and nearly inaccessible
to understand, so that if you look for similarities between them, you
will not find them. This creates confusion and is, in my opinion, the main
reason for the current crisis in
homeopathy.
An example:
Different schools have competed for decades to be the exclusive one
possessing the ‘true homeopathy’. There can only be ‘one’ simillimum.
At a unifying homeopathy congress in September 2017 in Bruges, a case was
proposed to be solved by the different schools and it led to finding a
different remedy by each school. This proves that
these various approaches fail and that a general starting point has to
be sought again.
So theories may not become dogmatic!
2.In homeopathy we need to use an ‘as complete as possible’ repertory!
Homeopathy has become strong through the repertory. That’s why all
valuable data, whether coming from the provings or
from the clinic, have to be included in the existing repertories. The time is
passed that symptoms originating from daily practice were labelled as
unreliable. Nowadays this clinical information is widely accepted and used by
leading homeopaths and gives us the opportunity to understand our remedies
better.
3.When the second and following prescriptions have to be prescribed,
look for new symptoms! NOTE: It is a misconception that a remedy can only be
considered as the simillimum if that remedy has shown
its curative action during one or two years.
4.Use only strange, peculiar and unusual symptoms § 153 – Organon Hahnemann. What is a peculiar symptom?
The leading symptoms of the case to be prescribed upon are those that
are “strange, rare, or peculiar,” but what exactly is meant by that? In Barthel’s
Characteristics of Homeopathic Materia Medica we find a brief summary of the twelve ways in which
the “strange, rare, and peculiar” symptom may be understood. All these examples are from the remedy
Phosphorus.
The symptom is peculiar in
itself: “long narrow stool.”
The symptom is peculiar
through the modality: “mania for work before menses.”
The symptom is peculiar
through its localization: “cold knees at night.”
The symptom is peculiar
through sensations: “anus feels open.”
The symptom is peculiar
through extension: “pain coccyx extending through spine to vertex, drawing head
backward during stool.” (dgt)
The symptom is peculiar
through beginning, progression, and end: “pain increases and decreases with the
sun.”
The symptom is peculiar
through contrary symptoms: “lack of vital heat, but heat aggravates.”
The symptom is peculiar
through its periodicity: “headaches every 7th day.”
The symptom is peculiar
through alternating symptoms: “delirium alternating with consciousness.” (dgt)
The symptom is peculiar
through sequences: “bloody vomiting following suppressed menses.”
The symptom is peculiar
through vicarious symptoms: “vicarious epistaxis.”
The symptom is peculiar through
the absence of expected symptom: “increased sexual desire without erections.”
5. Mental and general1 symptoms are the most indicative symptoms to be
taken into account to find the most appropriate remedy for the patient (Organon- § 211; Kent Lecture XXXIII) This includes also
mind-symptoms originating from the unconscious, as dreams2 and delusions.
6.So avoid as much as possible ‘objective clinical symptoms’ which
represent the false ‘clinical homeopathy’! Keeping in mind that Hahnemann was
the first to evaluate subjective symptoms as the most important ones! The
combination of ‘new, peculiar and subjective’ symptoms can easily be found in
dreams. That’s why my Dream
Repertory is of such a great value. This repertory contains nearly two
times more supplementary MIND information than the existing Synthesis ‘Mind +
Dreams’ chapters together. Dreams, which are not specifically related to the
daily reality and consequently have their origin in the creative unconscious of
the patient, are normally very useful, even when dreamed only once!
See: Radar Opus: Dream Repertory – Degroote;
Dreams from homeopathic perspective – Degroote.
7.Which mental features can be selected as valuable symptom?
All the so-called personal mental features, related to education,
culture and habits, have to be avoided (even during the first intake
consultation). Only when some features
are so exaggerated from the common point of view that they are clearly
noticed, can they be retained! A mistake homeopaths frequently make is that
they re-use some of
those so-called personal treats again and again when searching for a new
prescription. This happens especially when the first remedy appears of having
failed to act but also when the previous remedy was successful. Homeopathic patients in our complex Western
civilization need a more deep-acting mentally fitting homeopathic remedy than
for example in India where clinical homeopathy in many cases gives splendid
results.
8.The adagio, that the totality of the symptoms has to predominate when
prescribing, must often be put aside, when we have the disposition of striking,
singular, uncommon and peculiar symptoms. Prescribing on those symptoms cannot
be always considered as key-note prescribing.
Argument:
– We know much too little about our small remedies to make a complete
image of them, frequently because the provings were
done on a very small number of participants or were not done in such a complete
way as in the old days.
– Sometimes we see a confirmation in the presence of an allied remedy in
an important retained symptom which doesn’t contain the simillimum.
(see below)
9.Knowledge of the remedies which are similar to each other through the
different kingdoms can give you a hint to find the ‘simillimum’.
See: Allied and Satellite remedies, Notes on Miasms
and Remedy interactions, first edition – 1994 (dgt) –
below a more enlarged version by the author (2019):
ALLIED AND SATELITTE REMEDIES:
Some remedies have a very close relationship, because:
– they have some components which are identical.
– they are a sort of combination of two existing remedies; this is
especially found in some mineral-complex remedies.
– they are known in the clinic as being very similar.
So, we can identify some groups of remedies: e.g. :
Ammonium group (NH4+): (all ammoniums), (chitin (C8H13O5N)n which is
present in the exoskeleton of crustaceae, spiders and
insects, and in the mollusca),
Caust Ichth Merc-sol.
Antimonium group: Aethi-a
Ant-ac Ant-ar Ant-c Ant-f, Ant-i
Ant-m Ant-met Ant-n Ant-n-l Ant-o Ant-s-aur Ant-s-r
Ant-t Calc-st-s.
Argentum-like remedies: Cit-v.
Arsenicum group: Achy.(warm-blooded), Ail
(Ant-ar.), Ars Ars-h Ars-i Ars-met
Aster-xyz (Calc-ar.), (Lob.), Luid-ci
(Nat-a.), …
Calcarea carbonica
group: (all calcareas), (Alum.), Bell Blatta-o. (Cist.) (resembles calc. only physically),
(Con.), Cor-r (Graph.), Hep Hyos
Lap-a (Rhus-t.), (Rumx.),
(Sep.), Stront-c Tarax
Urt-u.
Calcarea phosphorica
group: Calc-hp Calc-p Carb-an Chin Puls Rumx.
Cuprum group:(asteraceae), Choc (ferrums), Lev (loganiaceae), (mollusca: e.g. limx.), (solanaceae), (snake remedies especially those made of the
snake poison), (zincums)
Ferrum group: (all ferrums),
(fabaceae), Alf All-c All-s (Alum.), Anth Arn Bit-ga
Cham (Chin.), (Chinin-s.), (Choc.), Chr-met.stj, Crot-c Cupr.stj, Cyna Graph (Ham.),
Hecla, Kali-bi.stj. Lact.
Lev. Lycpr. Mang.stj, Mill.
Nicc-met. Orig-v Puls. Rat. Ratt-norv-s. Rumx Slag, Tarax Thlas Urt-u. , Vanad.stj, Viol-t Zinc.stj
Ferrum phosphoricum
group: Bar-c. Carb-an. Chin. Ferr-gp.
Ferr-p-h. Ferr-py. Mag-m. Phos. Plb-met.
Puls. Rumx. Sec. Zinc-met.
Fluor group: Am-f Apat Bar-f Blatta-o Bothri-sg Calc-f Ceras-ce Crot-d-t Dendr-ang Ensis-d Fl-ac Hecla,
Kali-f Lap-a Lamp-sl Lycps-v
Mag-f Mag-sil-f Micru-ln (Mosch.), Nat-f Nat-sil-f (Sabad.), Sep Slag, Topa-au …
Iodum group: (all iodides), (brown algae, a.o. Lamin-d.), Adel Aq-mar Fuc Hed
Iodof (Meny.), Spong Spong-n-t Teucr Thyr.
Kalium group: (all kali’s
and their components), (fungi: contain kali-p.), (all snake remedies:
especially Crot-c.), (trees), Alum Anthraco (Aran-xyz.), (Buteo-j.),
Carb-v Caust Elat. (which contains potassium), Haliae-lc
Lam Lyc Puls. (which
flowers contain potassium sulphate), Sabin.(remedy is made from the young
shoots which contain much potassium), Spig.
(responsible people who look like Nat-m.vml), Stram. (which contains potassium), Tarax
Tul.
Lycopodium group: (Abrot.),
Chel Lyc (Senn.)
Magnesium group: (all magnesias and their
components), Choc (Gink-b.), Hecla, Phase-vg Slag°, Urt-d
Urt-u (Viol-o.), (Viol-t.)
Magnesium phosphoricum group: Bell Coloc Gels.
Manganese group: (ericaceae), (fabaceae), Slag
Mercury group: Aethi-a Aethi-m
Cinnb (all mercuries), Merl Phyt Podo.
Natrum muriaticum
group: (all lac remedies), Am-m (Apis),
Aq-mar Borx (Bry.), Cisplat Crot-ax Crot-d-t. (extravert and
social), Hall, Kiss Lac-d.c1 (and all lac remedies),
MAG-M (Medus.), Methyl.vjp
(= love of money, breaks off with family), (all natriums),
(Sarr.), Sil-mar Spig.vml
Nitricum (NO3-) / Nitrogen group: (all
nitrogen remedies, including: ammoniums), Aml-s
Beta-co Calc-pic Cisplat (Crot-ad.), Esin Glon Gunp Merc-sol
Nicot Pic-ac
Prot. Pulm-hist Scat Trinit.
…), (asteraceae), (chenopodiaceae:
Beta, Beta-co.), (cruciferae), (fabaceae),
(insecta)
Nux vomica group: (Carb-v.), Cupr Grat Nux-v (Sep.), Stry.
Oxalic acid group: (araceae), (caryophyllales with especially chenopodiae
and polygonaceae: a.o.
Beta, Chen-al Chen-g Fago Portu-o
Rheum Rumx Spin-o.), Narc-ps
(oxalidaceae), Petros Pip-n
Thea
Phosphor group: (fungi), (labiatae), Abies-n (Acro-xyz.), Adeps-s All-c All-s Blatta-o Bol-e (Calc-p.), Caras-au Crot-d-t Crot-h (Cycl.), (Dendr-vir.), (Echinodermata),
(Gels.), Lac-del. Lec. (Medus.),
(Nat-p.), Ph-ac Phos Phos-ti
(Rumx.), Sabad Scir (Sphen-m.), Ther-n Trach Urt-d
Urt-u (Viol-t.)
Platina group: Cisplat.
Pall-met Plat-met.
Pulsatilla group: Arist-cl.
(aristocratic puls.dorcsi), Calc-m Calc-p Cycl Ferr (Graph.), Kali-i Kali-s. (= an intense puls.) ,
(Naja), Puls Sil (Sulph.)
Rhus toxicodendron group:
Form. (looks like apis but the modalities are of rhus-t.), (Calc.), Com. Med. Euph.
(cancer with rhus-t. symptoms), Ran-b. Ran-s. Rhod.
Rhus-r Rhus-t Rhus-v.
Sepia group: (some carbons), Asper Fl-ac (Medus.), (Nat-m.), Nux-v Sep
Sep-cal-bil Sep-os Sulph.
Silica group: Alf Alum-sil Amethyst, Bamb-a Bamb-vg Calc-sil Castor-eq Equis-h.
Flint, Get. Hecla, Lysim Nat-sil-f
Puls (Rumx.), Sanic Sil Sil-mar
Sphing Urt-d Urt-u.
Snake remedies, remedies allied
to the: Abel Cimic. (= cold lachesis),
Cupr Lac-c Rauw Zinc.
Sulphur group: (iridaceae), (liliaceae), Acon Aethi-a Aethi-m All-c Ant-c Arn Atro-s Bov.Teste
(recognition), Cadm-s Calc-s Carbn-s
Chinin-s Cinnb Choc Hep
Iris, Iris-foe Mag-s Merc-s
Mytil Nat-s Psor Rumx Sel-met. Sep. (sep. contains
40% sulph.), Sul-ac Sul-i Sulph Tegen-do
Tell Tet Vanil Vip. (materialism), Vip-l-f.
Zincum group: (all zincums),
(snake-remedies made of the snake poison), (Cuprum), (ferrums), Pin-pi Tus-fa (Viol-o.), (Viol-t.)
10.Aggravations after a ‘real’ simillimum are
extremely rare and usually due to past events in the life of the patient
(referring to bacteria and viruses) or in the life of the ancestors (referring
to the miasmatic state of the patient).
These aggravations can be resolved almost immediately by administrating
the unblocking homeopathic isopathic (bacterial or
viral) agent or the appropriate classical or bowel nosode,
followed in general again by the administration of the already known simillimum.
REMARKS:
OPTIONAL:
– A simillimum generally acts deeper and
faster if followed by the ancestral adjudgement. When
the simillimum can be complemented by a classical
remedy (usually Psorinum) or a bowel nosode, the effect of the given simillimum
deepens.
– Precise confirmation of the appropriate remedy can be obtained by
applying the Energetic Examination (dgt)
See: Energetic Examination – Radar Opus: Physical Examination and
Observation in Homeopathy (update-2014); Muscles, Nerves and Vertebrae
Repertory; Degroote energetic remedy picture; and:
Energetic examination: a course about the method.
FOOTNOTES:
1.Kent, J.T.; Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy, Lecture XXXII &
XXXIII: General means: all the things that are predicated of the patient
(p.207) ; anything that the individual predicates of himself (p. 209).
2.: Kent, J.T.; Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy, Lecture XXXII:
‘Dreams are so closely allied to the mental state that he (the patient) may
well say, “I dreamed last night” that is a general state (p.208).
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