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way it has, but the actual patient is unique to each clinician, and cannot be broken down into a series of transmissible facts without losing some of the essence of the whole case (right brain). This is why seeing the patient, being with the patient, feeling and experiencing the energy of the patient, interaction with the patient, is absolutely necessary for any complete understanding of what is going on. This may not always be possible, but, as holistic practitioners looking at the whole picture, we need to engage the right brain as much as possible in every case; Hahnemann was well aware of this.
So what of dear old George Vithoulkas then? Was he right when he implied that there is only one correct prescription at any one time, and the wrong prescription can ruin a case forever? Based on what I have shared above, and the understanding that I now have after many years of musing on the subject, I can answer without hesitation..........yes and no! From HIS world, HIS perceptions, the filters through which HE – subconsciously – looks at a case, then yes, he is right. This is how he sees the patient, and this is how he sees the world. Clear cut; no ifs, ands or buts; no arguments. Right or wrong, black or white, but never maybe or grey. This is neither right nor wrong, it just is in his unique world. Does his unique and worthy way of analysing the patient apply to everyone else – no. It might do, if you are very similar to him in your filtering system through which your senses make sense of the world. But if, like me, you are different, and things are less clear cut, often unable to be properly limited by language or explanation; if you are happy to accept that, sometimes, it is okay to say that it just is, words cannot explain, the non-specific acceptance of the new whole (right brain) cannot be squeezed into the stranglehold of over- analysis (left brain), then this may not be the way it works for you.
Finally, to the prescription and it’s nature. I would like to propose the idea that the correct prescription might vary depending on the clinician. We have long had the dilemma
that some clinicians report great success using certain remedies in certain conditions, yet others have not found them useful. Some suggest that patients who need the remedy are energetically attracted to the appropriate clinician, and there may well be some grounding in truth in this. But perhaps the answer is even simpler. Every homeopath will inevitably have a different interaction with every patient he/she sees, compared to any other homeopath. The patient we see will be influenced by our interaction with them; the picture we present to our senses will be the result of the filtering carried out by our subconscious, as discussed above. Is there a fixed imbalance, recognisable, repeatable, and quantifiable (left brain) in every patient, or is this imbalance one observed uniquely by the clinician doing the observing, and therefore potentially different for different prescribers, requiring different prescriptions depending on the person prescribing? Perhaps the “right” remedy if George Vithoulkas prescribed for a patient following a consultation would be the “wrong” remedy had I prescribed it.
Never forget the space between the words.
“The whole world is your own reflection” Sathya Sai Baba (from teachings, Suffolk, UK.
April 2016 - personal notes).
References
Organon of the Medical Art:- Dr Samuel Hahnemann (Ed. Wenda Brewster O’Reilly PhD)
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe:-
Bob Lanza MD with Bob Berman
Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within:– Amy Lansky
The Master and His Emissary –
The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World:- Ian McGilchrist.
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