Janet Clark jbfcw01@ix.netcom.com

Hello Homeopathic Friends, I am having extreme difficulty finding the rubrics for the nosode Chlamydia Trachomatis. If anyone has this information or knows which materia medica I can obtain it from, can you please write to me in the homeopathic mailing list. Thank you very much for you consideration!!

Dr Edouard Broussalian Edouard.Broussalian@wanadoo.fr

I read the letter of Robert Frase and would like to give you my feeling about complex remedies. I'm studying homoeopathy since the age of 16 and practising it for a bit less than 20 years. First of all we have to wonder where lies the difference between the old system and homoeopathy. Both give drugs, but only the homoeopath undersatnds that he's curing sick people and not sicknesses. I mean that from the old analytical point of view, you'll prescribe as many drugs that you find symptoms to "cure". This approach could be logical if the body was made of independant parts just the way my car is built. BUT this is not true as you've been certainely teached (or I hope as you observed yourself): the body reacts as a whole and the symptoms we notice on the different organs are only the expression of a general internal disorder. Then, giving more than one drug at a time only shows that the practitionner is an allopath giving allopathically homoeopathic drugs (one for the kidney, this other for the fever, etc). In this case, it's better not to pretend being homoeopath and to stay with the good old system: it will work better. The main drawback of the homoeopathy is that you have then to find out the indicated remedy that fits the way the special organism you have before you reacts (ie, you have to refect, sometimes long...). This is not a commercial approach: to go back to the dawn people say "my hemorroids hurt me, give me something for". And since the eternity, other people try to make drugs for a disease which are pure invention (because those peculiar symptoms are only one reflect of the whole disordered). But it's profitable to find an ointement that will give some relief. Other advantage: it's useless to think, the patient only has to pay for the drug . Complex remedies are made with the same old good approach: useless to think, just give the good number X for the disease name. You see now how much this is not homoeopathic. Let's go further, why do we stop to 3 or 5 remedies at a time ?? Let's put ALL of them in a single bottle and we've got at last the universal remedy !!!!!! Nobody can tell how the body reacts to a mixture made of several remedies, I recall you that they were experimented one at a time. I add that it's an insult to the memory of the people who accepted to suffer the pains of a proving to make mixtures according the special idea of some. At least, one mixture should be experimented homoeopathically, not given using the data collected by prescribing simplexes. In fact the only way to make some progress in homoeopathy is to give one drug at a time. Of course, you'll miss a lot of cases at first, but if a baby is afraid of falling, it'll never learn to walk. The mistakes learn us little by little. Then when you'll give one day the indicated remedy, the patient will show pathogenetic symptoms. Look carefully: among 10 or more known symptoms, you'll find maybe one absent from the provings of the drug. This will add to our knowledge of the materia medica and it's the only way to learn more and more. I hope those few explanations will be understood despite of my poor English !!! Friendly Ed.

Editor's Response:
Dear Edouard,

Thank you for your clarifying letter, it certainly sums up many of the main concerns which surround the prescription of complex remedies.

--C.K. (editor)

Kaelene Tolleen@ozemail.com.au

Hi, I recently came across a pracitioner using what I thought was a very strange method of preparing a remedy. The practitioner did not have the actual remedy on hand at the clinic, so instead he put a bottle of water (with a few drops of brandy added) onto a type of electronic unit. He wrote out the name of the remedy and its dosage on a piece of paper and placed it on the electronic unit as well. He then explained that it would take about 5 minutes for the vibration from the written note to be transferred into the bottle. This was later given to the patient for their complaint. I was a bit alarmed by this and wondered what real basis (if any) there is for this practice. Hope to hear from you soon as I'm quite baffled! Thanks. Kaelene.

Editor's Response:
Dear Kaelene,

What you are describing is called "radionics". This method of preparation is used by some homeopaths and is based on the idea that the healing information contained in the remedy is somehow transferred to a "blank" from a "master". This is not the classical way to prerare a remedy. Although this technique is certainly not uncontested, there are homeopaths who claim to see no difference between radionically prepared remedies and those prepared by following the standard method based on things such as plant extracts, or similar preparations.

As with everything else, let your own experience be the ultimate judge.

-C.K.

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