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overweight, which was resolved with a strict diet. Sam had fits beginning at 4 years of age after a booster vaccination, when he was revaccinated at 5 yo, 3 wks later the fits worsened and phenobarb was prescribed. Sam is a needy, friendly, Lab who loves water, and is indifferent to being dirty. Calc-carb was prescribed for his need of security, and the seizure frequency decreased, Sulphur was prescribed 2 months later, to be given monthly to complete healing of the miasmatic disease.
heiner frei is an ADHD researcher who sees 40 children a day. He discussed how Polarity Analysis in Acute Disease helps him provide quality homeopathic care for these acute presentations. The method is based on Boenninghausen’s Pocketbook, and allows precise and reproducible remedy determination. It calculates the probability of healing and increases the success rate. The key elements are modalities and polar symptoms, contradictions (as defined by Boenninghausen) and the polarity difference. For good results, one must have precise observations by the patient, correct symptoms, and use only highly reliable symptoms and most polar symptoms. The method gives good results with both acute and chronic cases, though they find it best
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to have students start with acute cases. More information, checklists, and questionnaires are available at heinerfrei.ch, and good software is available through Radar and polarity- analysis.com. This was a fascinating talk, and Heiner made polarity analysis look so easy!
gary smyth closed the Congress, and we adjourned for lunch and the BAHVS AGM. Stuart will have brilliant minutes on the AGM, to be sure!
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