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86.30.207.87 Having recently watched the video by Vithoulkas about Dr. Benveniste's experiment, I wondered what justification there was for including remedies such as Iodium in the Repertory. What would anyone want to 'antidote' Iodine? Perhaps some homoeopaths in pas
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-  - How many times should an anti-psoric remedy of the same potency be ideally repeated? Is there some advisable restrictions on the number of times that the repetition should be done? 
   - Do you use LM potencies for longer term treatment of chronic diseases where daily doses are necessary? For example, controlling bipolar behavior (rapid cycling, irritability) where the remedy replaces a psychiatric drug.   - Do you use LM potencies for longer term treatment of chronic diseases where daily doses are necessary? For example, controlling bipolar behavior (rapid cycling, irritability) where the remedy replaces a psychiatric drug.
-  - Could you describe your homeopathic protocol for surgery i.e. what remedies to take before / after surgery to prevent complications,​ facilitate healing etc.? 
   - In repertories we find a single remedy for some rubrics, and in case the said remedy does not respond as expected, then what is the next suggested course of action? For example, the characteristic symptom -- No sneezing when lying down either day or night but starts when up and about -- there is only one remedy for  this rubric -- Merc. But when this single remedy does not respond as expected what should be done? Kent in  his Lectures ​ on  Materia Medica under Merc. has  mentioned “not to  give many doses of Merc. in psoric cases; but to look for a deeper medicine”. ​ What is a deeper antipsoric medicine than Merc for such? How  to resolve such cases?   - In repertories we find a single remedy for some rubrics, and in case the said remedy does not respond as expected, then what is the next suggested course of action? For example, the characteristic symptom -- No sneezing when lying down either day or night but starts when up and about -- there is only one remedy for  this rubric -- Merc. But when this single remedy does not respond as expected what should be done? Kent in  his Lectures ​ on  Materia Medica under Merc. has  mentioned “not to  give many doses of Merc. in psoric cases; but to look for a deeper medicine”. ​ What is a deeper antipsoric medicine than Merc for such? How  to resolve such cases?
  
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 +**Q:** **How many times should an anti-psoric remedy of the same potency be ideally repeated? Is there some advisable restrictions on the number of times that the repetition should be done?**
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 +**A:** In order to obtain a rapid, gentle and certain recovery of health, posology, which entails potency, repetition and way of administering the remedy, must be optimal. Therefore, at all times, posology must be closely individualized as every patient’s circumstances and response to the remedy will be unique. In order to achieve this goal, the homeopathic practitioner must be alert and assiduously adjust the posology at every visit.
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 +The maximum number of repetitions of the same potency of a remedy before the patient’s reaction diminishes will depend of many factors, which include the ascendency and stubbornness of the disease, the degree of similarity of the remedy, interfering factors and the sensitivity of the patient to remedies.
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 +I will soon present at a conference two well-diagnosed cases of Parkinson’s disease that have showed all the signs of steady recovery, one during a 8-year and the other during 3-year period of treatment. In the second case, the number of doses of each potency from the 10 M to the MM Fincke was on average between 20 and 45. Such a great frequency of repetitions of the higher potencies is commonly required in cases with relentlessly progressive diseases.
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 +When I recently presented one of these cases in a webinar some physicians were suggesting to give a single dose of the 30 C potency and wait up to three months to observe the patient’s reaction to this single dose. This is pure non-sense, and a sure recipe for failure. Unfortunately,​ it is the patient and not the physician who pays the price of poor homeopathic care.
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 +Cases with chronic relentlessly progressive diseases have to be approached like the ones with acute ascending diseases. In cases of less aggressive chronic diseases, a change of potency becomes often necessary after only 5 to 6 doses of the higher potencies taken over a period of many months, which corresponds to when the strength of the patient’s response to the last one or two doses of the remedy was diminishing.
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 +As we can see, this question of posology is often not properly understood by the profession and is certainly one of the reasons why no one has so far been able to present long-term, steady success with patients with Parkinson’s disease.
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 +Strict individualization is the bottom line for obtaining optimal success in homeopathy, which means constant individualization of the remedy and its potency, repetition and way of administration.
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 +**Q:** **Could you describe your homeopathic protocol for surgery i.e. what remedies to take before / after surgery to prevent complications,​ facilitate healing etc.?**
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 +**A:** With patients who are about to have surgery, I use a basic protocol that I learned from the American homeopathic surgeons of the 19th century. However, I adapt this basic protocol to each individual patient, greatly depending on the sensitivity and circumstances of the patient, his or her acute or chronic remedy picture and the type of surgery.
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 +This basic protocol consists of administering Arnica, usually in the 200 C potency, about one hour before and immediately following surgery. When possible and particularly during long surgery, Arnica (in water) can also be given during surgery. As soon as the anesthesia wears off and the patient begins to experience pain, another dose of Arnica is given. If after five minutes the pain is better, Arnica can then be repeated every 20 minutes for 5 more doses or until most of the pain is gone.
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 +However in the great majority of cases, the post-surgical pain is unaffected by Arnica and therefore after that five minute wait Hypericum 200 C in water is almost routinely prescribed. A dose of Hypericum is then given every 20 minutes (it can also be given as often as every 10 minutes or even every 5 minutes in rarer circumstances) for 6 doses. When the pain begins to return, usually hours later, Hypericum is repeated at the same frequency until the pain is greatly mitigated (which tends to be 2-3 doses) and this is continued in this way until the pain doesn’t return at all.
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 +Dr. James Gilchrist, one of these 19th century homeopathic American surgeons, had reported that in practically all operations he had used Hypericum orally (as well as locally in a soaked gauze over the incision) and it was very rare for a patient to complain of any pain. In fact, he once said that in 27 years of surgical practice once only he had used morphine to assuage pain.
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 +I have used this basic protocol for close to 30 years with similar success as the one reported by Gilchrist, regardless of the type of operation, e.g., in open heart, brain or joint replacement surgery, or the patient.
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 +Many other remedies will be indicated after surgery, depending on the type of surgery or organ affected and the patient’s state or reaction to the different surgical procedures. For instance, almost as a routine remedy, at the first sign of fever or great inflammation after surgery, Aconite can be prescribed with great expectation.
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