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“Every patient is a blank canvas”
also suffering with a difficult to control hypothyroidism.
The end result of the homeopathic follow-up was that the cancer grew back in a non-aggressive way and the cocker lived for 3 years and had been livelier during this time than the 5 years before the beginning of the homeopathic treatment – A very satisfying case.
I used a series of remedies which all helped following the one after the other: Pulsatilla (+Carcinosin), Thuya, Ammonium muriaticum, Aloe, Sulfur and Psorinum after which the patient died peacefully while asleep in her bed after having been out in the garden to go to the toilet.
In the second part of this presentation I asked what could be learned from this case? There was not one similimum; all the remedies appear to have played their role more or less equally. Does the case teach us about technique? Maybe apart from: just use the picture/dynamic in front of you, I do not think the case teaches anything about sequences of remedies or any other nice sounding prescription technique. Maybe the case tells us something about the remedies? This may be so in the sense that the case may have showed aspects of remedy pictures/ dynamics, which can complete the knowledge or understanding, we have of the remedies used.
I could also see a danger of presenting this case. Most of the remedies used were polycrests; the remedies we are quite used to reading about and possibly are using frequently. Is there a danger in presenting such a case causing colleagues to become more confident in using these already quite popular remedies? Have I made the
polycrests more popular by presenting this case? Are the polycrests polycrests, because they can more often help than other remedies?
So, was it a good idea for me to present this case? Was its only benefit that I could pat myself on the back and make the audience more confident about homeopathy? I am not going to offer the answer: asking the question is what is important.
I tend to send articles to the MAG and present cases, where less common remedies were used. This is because this is what ‘happens’ in my practice... Every patient is a blank canvas, where the strange bizarre and curious needs to appear to make a prescription. When this does not happen, a polycrest (or other medical technique) may help me a little forward and make some difference. This tends to allow the client to remain confident in the process... and the patient to benefit. The other reason is that I hope this helps all of you widen your horizon. Paying attention to cases of unusual remedies in magazines and during congresses has helped me getting to where I am now.
I am very aware that this article may well come over as being quite critical. It was my intention of pushing the buttons a bit, because we owe it to the patients and to homeopathy. The future of homeopathy will be bright. Society is slowly changing. Homeopathy will attain the reputation it deserves. But to be sure about this, we have to create a legacy of a homeopathy of very high quality and that can be perfectly integrated in medical practice; a homeopathy that can be effective however difficult the situation presented; a homeopathy that questions itself and not other medical techniques to make progress.
You can all play your part by publishing cases, learn from all other techniques out there, always wanting to improve AND participating in the Veterinary Homeopathic Materia Medica of the IAVH. n