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Other authors suggesting clinical additions, such as Gallavardin, are questionably credible.

We can easily place our trust in such classical authors as Hahnemann, Jahr, Hering, and Nash and contemporary and near-contemporary authors including George Vithoulkas, Pierre Schmidt, Künzli and Phatak. … Staphysagria or Colocynthis, when anger and indignation go together …' 5ĭespite the absence of this symptom in the provings, we have come to accept Indignation as a valid symptom of these remedies on recommendation from the clinical experience of these highly respected clinicians and authors. 'As regards moral emotions, we have a good many remedies by means of which their unpleasant effects may be safely and gently prevented or removed. '… ill consequences and troubles springing from indignation and embitterment, or internal, gnawing mortification over the unworthy treatment of himself or of other persons who excited his pity.' 4Īnd that to Staphysagria derives from Hahnemann's protégé, Jahr: 'It has proved itself especially efficacious in the following ailments: The original clinical reference to the indignation of Colocynthis actually derives from Hahnemann himself: Return for a moment to the example above, of Indignation for Staphysagria and Colocynthis. One category of clinically obtained symptoms consists of those that rest entirely on the word of one or more esteemed clinicians. Croserio introduced Symphytum to our practice in the mid 1800's, based purely on empirical evidence in the herbal tradition. Other pairings stand purely on clinical grounds. 'I may say that I have been in the habit, from the first, of curing whooping-cough with single doses of Drosera 30 or 200 and I saw a good deal of whooping-cough during the war when in charge of the Children's Department of the Hospital … I can only remember one failure.' 3Īccordingly, repertorization of the common or genus symptoms of Pertussis will bring Drosera up strongly in the lead. Several of the remedy/disease pairings in this group make sense when the pure proving symptoms are compared with the common/genus symptoms of the disease.

It is the relative uniformity of presentation of these diseases that makes clinical empiricism useful, satisfying Hahnemann's concern regarding ' a want of a constant character'. This first category, described above, is of empirically determined near-specifics for a disease genus. I find it useful to classify clinically obtained symptoms into several categories. Part 2: Qualitative knowledge of remedies proving vs. © Will Taylor, MD 2001 (bio) On our Knowledge of the Materia Medica:

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Index of All Installments Installment 9 of a series on case analysis