HOMOEOPATHIC
TECHNIQUE
Doctor Thomas
K. MOORE, M. D.
Presented by Dr Robert SérorFrom the Homoeopathic Recorder,
December 1939, N° 12, pages 19 to 21
Observations of those familiar with drug effects on humans.
Out of these part truths will eventually come truth itself.
1.
It is impossible to learn homoeopathy except from a master. (Robert
Gibson Miller.)2. Drugs are sick making and sick curing and the sickness is the
same.3. The drug that can affect certain life processes adversely can be
used to stimulate the selfsame life processes curatively. That is
homoeopathy.4. Matter processed to finer and finer particles develops finally
into energy and vice versa, the physical is but concentrated energy.5. The highly potentized remedy like processed pitchblende (
radium)
continues to radiate energy year after year without perceptible loss.Homoeopathic remedies unused for 20 or 30 years cure as readily as
those freshly potentized.6. Homoeopathy is absolutely inconceivable without the most precise
individualization.7. The outstanding symptom is the key to follow, no matter how remote
this symptom may be from the pathology.8. Symptoms indicating the curative remedy often lie outside those
that make up the pathology of the case.
9.
Hahnemann’s
central idea is fundamental that the farther an outstanding symptom
seems removed from the ordinary course of disease the greater is that
symptom’s value in determining the remedy. (Cyrus
Maxwell Boger.)10. My inclination is to believe that there is real healing in crude
drugs and that their action is homoeopathic, but as ordinarily used in
continued application they have done more harm than their occasional
good.11. The principle of homoeopathy is applicable to any range of
potency. (Cyrus
Maxwell Boger.)12. After a remedy has acted, repeating the remedy too soon is one of
the greatest mistakes that can be made. (Boger.
)13. After a prescription giving relief, do not give a remedy for any
new symptom appearing in a less vital part. (Adolph
Lippe.)14. In chronic cases do not repeat or change a remedy too soon.
This statement needs to be repeated a thousand times. (
Sloan.)
15.
Minutes or hours in acute, days, weeks or months in chronic.Never repeat while amelioration holds. (
Tyler.)
16. Ultimates do not indicate the remedy. In cancer the sharp pains,
ulceration and anæmia are ultimates.Preceding symptoms must be found and on these the remedy selected.
17. Moving downward does not indicate progression but diminution of a
disease. (Lippe.)
18. Do not dip into the chronic state when dealing with an acute
condition and vice versa. (Roberts.)
19. Do not commence treatment of any chronic disease during an acute
exacerbation.Prescribe for the acute symptoms.
20. In treating a chronic case, if an acute condition appear, unless
it becomes dangerous or throws upon the screen some individualistic
indication, it should generally not be interfered with.21. If an acute disease appears on top of a chronic, you must let the
remedy work its way out. (Boger.)
22. I always use a lower potency for acute conditions, the 2c. if I
have been using the 1M. or 9M. (Roberts.)
23. Why prescribe for a part of a patient when you have the whole
patient with you ?The patient was sick before the glands were. (
Hayes.)
24. There is no better evidence of the good action of a remedy than
mental improvement. (Kent.)
25. The constitutional remedy is found by a series of symptoms
absolutely new to that patient. (Boger.
)26. Prescribe for the last symptom to open the case.
Follow with related remedy if any.
27. In any complicated chronic case, the recent symptoms are the
deciding ones.Cure your case in layers, the last layer first. (
Woodbury.
)28. If the general state be ameliorated, whatever the state of local
symptoms, await the action of the remedy. (Jahr.
)
29.
In acute cases one must have a remedy of the highest rating in the
outstanding symptom or symptoms. (Dixon.)30. In acute conditions it is often advisable to yield to the food
cravings but in chronics they must not be indulged. (G.Miller.)
31. Vegetable diet will increase susceptibility to our remedies. (
Boger.)
32. When a remedy is indicated in a different type from its
characteristic type, i.e., the type of its best prover and those most
easily relieved or cured by it, often it is a double indication.Sepia
in a man, Pulsatilla
in a Nux
type (its opposite). (Roberts.)33. Keep on a symptom. Don’t follow a remedy. (
Roberts.)
34. It is my experience that
Pulsatilla
symptoms occur and are relieved by Pulsatilla
as, of ten in the Nux
vomica type of
patient as in any other.Also that
Nux
vomica is almost as
often indicated in Pulsatilla
type as in Nux
vomica. (Freeman.)35. The best provers of
Nux
vomica are dark wiry
men ; of Pulsatilla
stout fair young women with pale skin and blue eyes. (Roberts.)36. We all know that proving in a remedy is evidence that it is not
the simillimum. (Boger.)
Apparent exception. Diphtheria epidemic.
Those given
Belladonna
in the morning had at 4 p. m. a violent fever, headache and drowsiness
ending by 6 or 7 in a sweat.All went on to recovery save when
Aconit
was given for these
symptoms.
37.
Let us apply the triangular test.If we find three important characteristic symptoms pointing to one
remedy, let me assure you that we can apply it with almost unerring
certainty.I have tested its application in hundreds of cases.
38. In a cure, the original discharge may not come back at the
original place but from some other mucous membrane. (G.
Miller.)39. If chronic cutaneous eruptions disappear at last of themselves,
dropsy or hectic fever is to be apprehended.40. Evil consequences of artificial suppression of chronic cutaneous
eruptions are proportionate to the extent, intensity and duration of
those eruptions, to the rapidity of their suppression and to the state
of internal health.41. It is dangerous to stop the diarrhoea of advanced phthisis, even
by the indicated remedy. (G.
Miller.)42. The bond between two miasms can be broken only by a prescription
that will meet the totality of the more active one. (J.
H. Allen.)43. All infectious diseases which form local affections on the skin
are internal diseases, the last result of which is the local cutaneous
manifestation.44. All maladies which show skin eruptions are always present
internally before showing local symptoms externally. (Hahnemann’s
Chronic Diseases.)
45.
Local diseases do not exist.What have been called so are localized morbid affections. (
P.
Schmidt.)46. A new remedy should sustain a complementary relation to a former
one, i.e.,Causticum and
Phosphorus
do not like to work after each other.Calcarea
is the
natural chronic to Belladonna
and Rhus
toxicodendron ; Natrum
muriaticum of Ignatia
and Apis
and Silicea
of Pulsatilla.Apis
will not do
well after Rhus
toxicodendron.47. The complementary remedy is always determined by the symptoms
that arise. (Kent.)
48. Don’t leave your intercurrent too soon. It may be the curative
remedy. (Gladwin.
)49. To prescribe for an aggravation is to fix the chronic condition
on the patient. (Roberts.)
50. The initial aggravation may occur in chronics during the first
eight or ten days.51. Look for a clear picture of the chronic following recovery from
an acute condition. (Roberts.)
52. Ultimately the constitutional peculiarity is bound to reveal
itself in a form pointing to its remedial counterpart.Nature calls for relief in her own language which it behooves us to
learn.Probably it is contained in the symptom picture but many times we are
forced to look for it elsewhere. (Boger.)
53. If a remedy (
Silicea)
has the acute toxic symptoms and not the constitutional ones, it will
subdue the acute symptoms without doing any damage.But if the patient had weekly headaches coming up the back of the
head, offensive foot sweats, sensitive to cold, etc., even before the
acute trouble, it would be a most dangerous remedy. (G.
Miller.)
54.
No other symptom is so pathognomonic of psora as pruritis. (J.
H. Allen.)55. Many things can interfere with the action of homoeopathic drugs.
First of all these must be sought out and removed before even
thinking of applying remedies.56. A clear field is necessary. All continuing causes must first be
removed.57. If the symptoms for which a remedy is given are removed and a new
symptom appear, withhold the hand if you wish the case to go on to
recovery. (Lippe.)
58. It is doubtful if there be any antidote to a high potency except
the specific dynamic drug antidote.59. The prodromal symptoms have the key to the homoeopathic remedy. (
Boger.)
60. We have no long acting drugs.
The action is immediate.
Continued favorable condition depends on the quality of the vital
force and its harmonious action. (Roberts.)
61. Pregnancy will often bring out an old latent malaria. It may not
come until after delivery. (Roberts.)
62. Regular medicine is remiss in not following through effects of
medicines or of diseases continuing after suppressive or other
disruption of harmonious action of vital energy.63. To hypersensitive patients use low or medium potencies, at first
anyhow. (Close.)
64.
In bad hearts, high potency may give a bad reaction.It may be necessary to use the tincture. (
Grimmer.)
65. I have better results from the millionth potency than I have from
any other. (Boger.)
66. Crude drug effects are antidoted by the same drug potentized.
67. Crude substances that act as irritants are best antidoted by the
same or similar substances at higher vibratory rate, i.e., high potency,
as inradium
burns, rhus
toxicodendron or
primrose poisoning.68. The potency must be changed if a given remedy is to be repeated.
(Lippe.)
69.
Boenninghausen
usually repeated the 200th daily for two weeks.70. In acute case
Dr.
Erastus Case usually
gave four doses of the 2c. and waited. (Sloan.)71. A rare remedy in a rubric is often the one.
72. When a nosode comes out in repertorizing, use it with care.
It invariably proves to be the simillimum. (
Hubbard.
)73. In luetic invalids, where remedies act but a few days and must be
changed, it always calls for a nosode.
74.
A well person taking a dose for proving, with the exception of a few
sudden acting substances (Glonoïnum,
Camphora,
etc.) will not feel any disturbance before the third day. (Roberts.)(How like the inoculation period of contagious disease or the
application of radium to a surface lesion !)75. In proving with potencies the latest symptoms have the greatest
value in prescribing. (Boger.
)76. Repeat the dose until an effect is produced, better or worse,
then stop. (Case.)
77. Always it is the positive symptoms at the moment that demand a
certain remedy.Negative symptoms must not be allowed to call us off. (
Tyler.)
78.
It is the positive symptoms that decide the remedy. Negative symptoms
are no use. (Clarke.
)79. Absence of any group of symptoms may or may not contraindicate a
remedy, depending on the degree. (Roberts.)
80. Make no mistake, in homoeopathy one is dealing with energy, real
and powerful.As
radium
emanations hold power for good or harm, so with potentized remedies.Unless used with the technique of homoeopathic procedure, with law,
good results are not to be expected.81. The simillimum (curative remedy) releases reactive power strong
enough to reestablish harmony, which in turn is capable of sweeping away
almost any morbid condition. (Boger.)
82. I believe that in homoeopathy we are on the edge of something
great belonging not to this generation of mankind but to future ages. (Patrick.)
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