IncidentsHomeopathic Treatment

Incidents during

Homeopathic Treatment

By Dr. Athos Stavrou Othonos Homeopathic Medical Doctor

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INCIDENTS

during

HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT

-Second Prescription

-Evaluation of the Course of Treatment

-Therapeutic Aggravation

-Pharmaceutical Provings

-Parallel Allopathic and Homeopathic Treatment

-Potency Selection

Athos Othonos

Homeopathic Medical Doctor

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1

EVALUATION OF THE COURSE OF TREATMENT

SECOND PRESCRIPTION / FOLLOW UP

1.1 What do we ask at Second Prescription?

1.2 When the patient is better grade 3

1.3 What do we investigate when our patient is better 1?

1.4 What must be checked if our patient initially improved and then

suddenly has a relapse

1.5 We always prescribe the each time simillimum

1.6 What to search for when our patient gets worse

1.7 Homeopathy isnt harmful but still requires a well trained doctor

CHAPTER 2

THERAPEUTIC AGGRAVATION

2.1 Whats Therapeutic Aggravation?

2.2 Whats not a Therapeutic Aggravation?

2.3 When and why Therapeutic Aggravation takes place?

2.4 Misinterpretations of Therapeutic Aggravation

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CHAPTER 3

PHARMACEUTICAL PROVING

3.1 Whats a Pharmaceutical Proving?

3.2 How can a Pharmaceutical Proving be caused?

CHAPTER 4

PARALLEL ALLOPATHIC AND HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT

4.1 Can Homeopathy be combined with other treatments?

4.2 Why a homeopath must definitely be a medical doctor?

CHAPTER 5

SELECTION OF SIMILAR POTENCY

5.1 How do we select the similar potency?

5.2 How do we reach idiosyncratic diagnosis in babies?

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PREFACE

As Hippocrates said, Medicine is at the same time Science and Art. An

Art that needs on the part of the doctor several years to thrive while Life

is short, Art is long. Nevertheless, wisdom, as all true virtues, depends

not on quantity but on quality. Its based not on the quantity of

experiences but on the right processing of these events.

Only a processing according to Universal Laws and according to Holistic

Thinking can transform experiences to wisdom. If not, what prevail are

subjective opinions, arbitrary theories and all kinds of experts and

gurus. Thats the reason why Hahnemann - founder of Homeopathy

and the first one to introduce the modern scientific method of Double

Blind Trial which he called Proving - named Allopathic Medicine of

his times as Empirical Medicine contrary to Scientific Medicine.

Unfortunately, this is also true for Modern Allopathic Medicine despite

its international academic and clinical prevalence. Its true because its

not founded on any diagnostic or therapeutic law with general validity

originating from the general Universal Laws, as any true Science should.

Thats the reason why every day chemical drugs and therapeutic

techniques are triumphally introduced to modern diagnosis and treatment

as being very effective and harmless, only to be silently withdrawn after a

while, as ineffective and harmful, not to say lethal.

Thats the reason why both Scientific Methodology (Universal Laws) and

Art (experience) are valuable to any true Science, Medical Science not

excluded of course. Nevertheless, in Homeopathic Medicine one more

crucial factor is of absolute need in order to transform a doctor into an

effective healer: The healing of the healer!

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Since homeopathic case taking aims at the diagnosis of the patients

idiosyncrasy body and mind it is indispensable that the doctor be

objective, unbiased and balanced since he is the very measurement

device of his patients idiosyncrasy. He definitely has to overcome, at a

certain degree, his own idiosyncratic illusive tendencies and moreover

have the right moral attitude towards his patient. Only then, will he

become an effective healer worthy of his name and position.

This book is a contribution in the area of art/experience regarding

applied homeopathic treatment. It refers to the incidents that usually

appear during any homeopathic treatment from the first prescription until

the end of the curative effort. This book is the outcome of 25 years of

clinical application of Homeopathy according to Universal and

Homeopathic Laws. I believe that I analyze some very controversial

therapeutic subjects like:

-Second Prescription/Follow up

-Evaluation of the Course of Treatment

-Therapeutic Aggravation

-Pharmaceutical Provings

-Parallel Allopathic and Homeopathic Treatment

-Potency Selection

There are many well trained homeopathic doctors as case taking is

concerned, that fail to heal their patients because they lack the correct

knowledge and technique regarding follow up of the patient until the

completion of the treatment, until achievement of cure. They fail to

evaluate correctly the course of their patients state of health and

impatiently prescribe this and that remedy in this and that potency and

repetition until they have spoiled the case.

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In order to have a successful cure you have to follow not only diagnostic

laws but as well as therapeutic laws. And that is the purpose of this book

which is a product of my lectures to doctors about Homeopathic

Therapeutics. You can judge what I say only if you apply it in clinical

practice. I did that for 25 years and I am now confident enough that it

works and thats the reason why I propose it to you. Enjoy the theory and

moreover the clinical practice!

If, on the other hand you are a patient, by reading this book you will

become a well informed patient, able to follow the course of your

treatment and able to judge the therapeutic actions of your doctor. A very

valuable thing nowadays, if you come to think of how many doctors

arent worthy of their title.

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CHAPTER 1

EVALUATION OF THE COURSE OF

TREATMENT

SECOND PRESCRIPTION / FOLLOW UP









Good Evening! Tonight we will discuss certain incidents that happen

during homeopathic treatment like for example Therapeutic Aggravation

and Pharmaceutical Treatment. But first we will discuss about the

Evaluation of Course of any Homeopathic Treatment and about Second

Prescription or Follow Up.

This is usually done one month after the first consultation of our patient.

The goal of first prescription is to find the simillimum while the aim of

second prescription is to evaluate the course of our patient as a whole and

decide if our first prescription was right or wrong.

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What do we ask at Second Prescription? The first thing to do is to run

through, one by one, all his symptoms and diseases and ask if anything

changed. The proper way to ask for every symptom and disease so as to

get an unbiased answer is Are you worse, better or the same?

We must be specific each time because often syphilitic individuals will

try to downgrade or understate their improvement or even lie about it.

This is usually done so as not to feel obliged to the doctor. But it may

also be done for another reason: they dont want you to lower your effort

to help them and give them weaker medicines!

Syphilitic individuals and especially Lachesis may also act the other way

round and start praising you loudly and in front of other patients saying:

Bravo doctor! You are God! You do wonders! I will have your picture in

my praying room! Dont you think that they say these out of mere

gratitude! They flatter you so as to force you to keep up the good work.

They do know the meaning of the saying many people hated money but

nobody hated glory!

Then we go on asking if there is any change in his general mood or any

change as to his anxiety state, irritability, joy or sorrow. We also ask if

the psychological special traits of the idiosyncrasy that affects him at the

moment, have changed; not if they vanished but if they became less

intense and more normal. For example, be it a Nux Vomica, we will ask

about fastidiousness or irritability; be it a Thuja we will ask about lack of

self-confidence; be it an Argentum Nitricum we will ask about fixed

ideas and compulsive behavior, etc.

We also ask about the patients general physical condition. We ask if his

sleep became normal or if it improved, that is, if its easier for him to go

to bed, if he sleeps more deeply and without interruptions and if he is

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more refreshed in the morning. We also ask if his physical strength has

improved and if he has more stamina. In a woman we ask about her

menses. Does she have less pain? Is her menstrual cycle more balanced?

Have her intense premenstrual symptoms become better? What about the

quantity of blood and the duration of her menses?

If our patient was a greedy one, we ask if this has improved; if he didnt

have any appetite we ask whether this has changed to normal. What about

his sexual desire? If it was low did it improved to normal? Does he enjoy

sex more than before the treatment? How about his early ejaculation or

lack of erection? Is he less anxious about his sexual potency?

All the above reveal if he got better and at what degree, because all the

above can be changed to normal by the action of the homeopathic

medicine! And that is a common thing for any skilled homeopathic

doctor! That doesnt mean that all the above will improve or that they

will improve from the first month of the treatment, but eventually a

general improvement will be the outcome. This improvement has to do

with his symptoms, his diseases, his general physical state, his

psychological state and the imbalances of his idiosyncratic

characteristics.

You may also find out that your patient doesnt catch colds so easily

because his immune system has become more effective. His

psychological endurance to stress and misfortunes will increase;

behaviors that caused imbalance to him in the past will affect him less

than before. If he is a student he will realize that he can be more efficient

regarding his studying and have less anxiety during his tests. A working

man will be more relaxed and still more efficient at his job. Most mental

functions and even memory will become more enhanced.

What on earth? Is this a magic pill? Yes! In some cases this is indeed the

case! The patient feels that and expresses it: Oh doctor! What on earth

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have you given to me! My whole life changed! Its as if I am a different

person! Its as if I found my good old self!

Unfortunately, this is not so common nowadays. Our modern way of life

has driven most human organisms to exhaustion so its not a common

thing to find better grade 3 cases after administering the simillimum.

But still its not a rare thing to happen. As a rule the patient eventually

becomes better grade 2 or 3 but not magically in just one month.


Now, lets examine one by one, all possible cases during Second

Prescription. Lets begin with the better 3 case. What does better 3

stands for? The patient is definitely improved psychologically. He tells

you: I feel so much better and even my close ones have noticed this

change. Or he says So many bad things happened during this month but

still I managed to deal with it satisfactorily, I was calmer, cooler,

composed and self-possessed! What a weird thing! Have I become

insensitive or thick-skinned?

He is also physically improved. He may tell you: My headaches have

almost gone; my colitis is a lot better; I eat things that I wouldnt dare to

touch in the past! Most of his physical symptoms have improved at a

great and profound degree and some even vanished. This is definitely a

better 3 case confirming to the doctor that he definitely prescribed the

simillimum.

Another sign confirming that weve hit the bulls eye, that weve

prescribed the simillimum, is Therapeutic Aggravation; of course, most

of the times the patient is improved without the occurrence of therapeutic

aggravation. From my experience, this phenomenon happens at a

percentage 15% only although the patient is improved. When therapeutic

aggravation happens and if its a therapeutic aggravation this is a

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strong sign that weve prescribed the simillimum. I deliberately say and

if its a therapeutic aggravation because as I will show you later many

homeopathic doctors name all kinds of irrelevant things as therapeutic

aggravation!

When we have to do with a better 3 case, then we never, ever, prescribe

anything else for the moment. We may only change the tissue salts to be

given. We wait and wait and wait! We may wait for months. As long as

our patient remains better 3 or even better 2 we dont give any other

idiosyncratic medicine. We keep giving tissue salts and wait.


If our patient is better grade 1 then we start asking ourselves: Is it a

matter of time? Is my prescription correct but my patient, being a psoric

person, improves only gradually? Or is it that my prescription is not

correct but I try hard to convince myself and my patient that he has

improved although he didnt?

Nevertheless, he may be better 1 during the first month of the treatment

only because he suffers from a severe and chronic disease. What did you

expect, for God sake? To do wonders in only one month for a person

suffering for years or decades of years! In such a case, the expected

course is gradual improvement from better 1 to better 2 and maybe

better 3 eventually.

During the first month in chronic diseases, only some symptoms and the

general state of the patient are slightly improved. Then, gradually most

symptoms tend to improve. Some symptoms may not change at all and

this is the case when non-reversible tissue destruction has taken place.

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Often, in chronic diseases, during the first month of treatment there may

be a clear psychological improvement but no improvement regarding his

physical symptoms. You may even find that he has a general physical

improvement but the symptoms of his physical disease have not changed.

We never change our prescription in such cases. Psyche is hierarchically

superior to the body and improvement travels from above downwards.

Thats the Law of Hierarchy and we should have it in mind.

Many times physical changes and tissue changes need time while the

general psychological state of the patient is easily improved being

directly affected by the energy-etheric action of the energy-homeopathic

remedy. Nevertheless, if physical change does not manifest itself we must

re-examine our case.

If my patient is better 3 or even better 2 I never re-examine anything.

I wait and see. If on the course of treatment my patient does not improve

any more or if his state declines then I will re-examine the case. In the

case of better 1 or even more, in the case of zero change we definitely

reconsider our prescription.

First I have to check me, myself, the doctor! Did I give the simillimum or

did I prescribe a relative, a similar remedy but not the one and only

similar remedy, i.e. the simillimum? A relative medicine may have

caused a slight improvement, a palliation of the patients condition but

will not go any further.

For example I may have in front of me a patient whose basic idiosyncrasy

is Sulphur but at the moment, temporarily, he is affected mostly from

Argentum Nitricum. The right thing to do is to give him Argentum

Nitricum and when time comes, that is, when his improvement starts

declining and if he still has Sulphur as basic idiosyncrasy, to prescribe

Sulphur.

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But if I prescribe Sulphur from the beginning then I may have a palliation

but not an effective cure. My patient will keep calling for Argentum

Nitricum. You see, you have to unfold such a multi-layer case from top to

bottom. You must prescribe each time according to the top layer because

that is the simillimum each time!

So, whenever we have a better 1 case we first check the doctor if he has

prescribed the simillimum, then the pharmacist if he has prepared

correctly the prescribed medicine and finally the patient if he has

followed our orders and if he hasnt been drinking coffee. Moreover, its

important to check if my patient has undergone any intense physical or

psychological stressful conditions. Did any relative or close friend died or

got severely ill? Has he faced a separation or a love disappointment?

Were there any extreme financial problems or job problems?

If any of the above happened it is expected that my patient instead of

becoming better 3 to become better 1 although Ive prescribed the

simillimum. He may also improve physically but still not

psychologically.

We also have to take in consideration irritating external factors regarding

his disease. For example I may give the simillimum, he may improve

psychologically but his gastritis may not improve because he was

working away from home and eating junk food all the time. Or his

arthritis may not improve due to extreme weather conditions or physical

exertion. Nevertheless, most of the times, even if the external conditions

are adverse if he gets the simillimum he may overcome them and have a

physical improvement too.

As Ive told you before, in all cases where there is a clear psychological

improvement with no physical improvement we never change our

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prescription. We wait and we try to get rid of any factor that may hinder

the patients physical improvement such as food, alcohol, side effects

from chemical drugs, weather conditions, stress, physical exertion, etc.

If we have a slight psychological improvement without any physical one,

we must also check if this is not caused from our treatment but if its due

to pleasant occurrences in our patients life such as a new promising

companion, love fever, vacations, won the lottery, his bitch mother in law

died, etc! (laughing)

We must also take in consideration that many patients tend to attribute

their improvement to external conditions and not to the treatment so as

not to feel obliged towards the doctor. It may also happen that his

improvement may be a combination of the homeopathic drugs action and

of pleasant external factors.

However, as homeopathic doctors we have many criteria to use in order

to differentiate between all these factors. Dont forget that most external

factors usually act locally and temporarily while the therapeutic action of

the homeopathic remedy is holistic and permanent. For example a

healthier diet may improve our patients gastritis but it will not drive

away his depression in one months time. Or a pleasant occurrence may

improve his psychology but it will not improve his arthritis or vaginitis.



Whenever our patient initially improved at grade 2 or 3 and then suddenly

has a relapse at grade 1, 2 or 3 then we have to check a lot of things. First,

we have to check if the energy action of the homeopathic medicine given

has been de-activated by the use of coffee or substances that have

caffeine. Sometimes, even one coffee or one cola refreshment is enough

to cause deactivation of our treatment especially if it acted at first stages.

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But, be careful. There are cases where the patient has been drinking a lot

of coffee but still his treatment hasnt been affected.

Then we must check if adverse external conditions and misfortunes have

hindered his improvement although the medicine administered was

indeed the simillimum. In the latter case or in the case of deactivation of

the treatment due to coffee I will have to repeat the simillimum in the

same potency or at times at a higher one, but only if he is still being

affected by the same idiosyncrasy.

You see, a certain misfortune may change his idiosyncratic state. He may

now be affected by a different idiosyncrasy and I have to prescribe

accordingly. He may have been Medorhinum and now after a job

problem, he may develop Phosphor. Or she may have been Natrum

Muriaticum and now due to love disappointment she develops Ignatia or

even Sepia.

If he was initially better 1 and now this slight improvement has

vanished I must strongly check if what I gave him was not the

simillimum but a relative to the simillimum remedy that caused a

temporary palliation. So, I must consider all relative remedies to the one

that I have prescribed.

We also have to check if the chemist did give him what we have

prescribed and at the correct potency.


Rule Number One, an inviolable rule: We always prescribe the each time

simillimum; that which is similar to the present state, to the current state

of the patient. If I gave him a certain remedy one year ago or even one

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month ago and he did great, that doesnt mean that today the same

remedy will do the job.

We are not machines! We are not cars to be dispatched from the factory

as Toyota Corolla and remain Toyota Corolla when withdrawn from use!

We keep changing all the time because we are living creatures. Its true,

of course, that during a lifetime we tend to be affected by certain relative

idiosyncrasies but, nevertheless, we do change. If we keep giving the

same good old remedy we simply violate the Law of the Simillimum. If

the lock changes you must also change the key that unlocks it!

Very often the patient says: Please doctor, just give me the same

medicine that you gave me last time because I did great then! But we are

not allopathic doctors; we dont prescribe for the disease that remains the

same; we prescribe for the patients idiosyncrasy that keeps changing

although disease stays the same. We must always ask ourselves two

questions. First question: How did my treatment go? Second question:

Is he still affected by the same idiosyncrasy?

Now lets examine one more case: the patient is the same, both physically

and psychologically; zero change! Again we must check the doctor if

he has prescribed the simillimum, the chemist if he prepared the

medicines correctly and the patient if he followed our orders.

One more thing; we have to check the patients state of health. Even in

very severe or incurable diseases a slight physical and psychological

improvement is to be expected during the first or second month of the

treatment. Sometimes there is no improvement to the symptoms of the

disease the first month but still there is at least a slight improvement to

his general physical state and to his mood.

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If you have an incurable case like for example a cancer at terminal stage

then you may see a general temporary physical improvement and a

psychological improvement at first. As illness takes its course, first the

physical improvement will go away and gradually the psychological also

because the patient is affected by his physical symptoms and the

deterioration of his state. Any hope is gradually lost.

Nobody can avoid his destiny; no matter what he does and no matter what

his doctor does; even if you give him the best thoroughly selected

homeopathic or other drugs. Its not up to the doctor. Nature and God

calls! We, doctors are but go-betweens, simple tools of Mother Nature

and God. We may be good or bad go-betweens, good or bad tools and we

are going to be judged as so and not according to the outcome of

treatment. Got it! Merely go-betweens! But be careful, go-betweens of

Nature and God and not go-betweens of our egoism or of Medical and

Pharmaceutical Companies! (laughing)


There is one more case on the course of any treatment: deterioration! The

patient not only didnt improve but it got worse both physically and

psychologically. Something definitely went wrong and we must urgently

take a very close look at our case! Again we must investigate if the

patient used caffeine or if the chemist did not prepare the medicine

correctly or gave a wrong drug or if we, the doctors prescribed a totally

irrelevant medicine.

A medicine not properly prepared, a patient deactivating the energy

action of the proper medicine and the prescription of an irrelevant drug

can all have the same result if the patient already declines from a severe

active disease: the continuation of deterioration! Nothing stopped the

declining course of the patients health and things got worse!

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The homeopathic drug doesnt have any side effects of any kind at the

physical level because it acts on the energy level. If it suits the energy

state of the patient then it will act and mobilize all his psychological and

physical therapeutic mechanisms towards cure. If its not the simillimum

but still similar to the patients energy state, then it will do a positive

action but not so strong and permanent as if a simillimum would do. If

its irrelevant to the energy state of the patient then it will do nothing at

all.

You see we have to do with energy phenomena and not with material

action and there are distinct differences in action. For example if you try

to charge your mobile telephone with the wrong charger nothing will

happen. It needs to be charged at a certain voltage, at a certain frequency

and at a certain amber range.

Nevertheless, if you keep trying to charge your mobile telephone with the

wrong charger again and again and especially at voltage and frequency

that differ very much from the proper ones, then after a while you may

cause certain malfunction to the device. In the same way there is a slight

possibility that you may cause trouble to a patient if you insist giving

again and again, very frequently the same irrelevant homeopathic

medicine for months and months at very high potencies. Then you may

cause a Pharmaceutical Proving by the homeopathic medicine.

Its not a rare thing to prescribe an irrelevant to the simillimum

homeopathic medicine, in fact its human, but, nevertheless, its very rare

to cause a proving because you have to prescribe wrongly again and again

in high potencies and very frequently. If you follow the above rules

regarding the evaluation of the course of treatment you must be blind not

to see that the specific medicine you have prescribed does not have any

positive effect so why give it again and again and in high potencies.

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Even if you have a patient with a very sensitive organism who develops a

Pharmaceutical Proving from the very first administration of an irrelevant

homeopathic medicine something extremely rare - you definitely have

all the signs in front of you that tell you that youve caused a proving! So

you can overcome such a situation immediately deactivating what you

have given either by giving coffee to your patient or by simply giving the

simillimum. Even in this rare case no permanent physical symptoms or

diseases are caused; only temporary mild functional physical symptoms

and temporary mild psychological symptoms.

Any therapeutic action must be done with great care no matter what

therapeutic system we employ. We are dealing with human beings and

that is the reason why any healer should be a medical doctor and on top

of that a well trained doctor. Moreover any doctor should be honest and

sincere not only to others but mostly towards his conscience. He must

feel free to say to himself: Damn you! Why were you so careless!

Youve definitely done something wrong and you must fix your wrong

action immediately!

Moreover, in such cases we have to have our patient under close medical

observation until things are clear. Not only in such rare extremely rare

cases but also in any case that things did not go as well as expected we

must keep a close eye to our patients. Whenever things are not clear or

stable I tell my patient: Youll call me once a week just to keep me

posted on your state. From my experience most patients appreciate this

concern and say to themselves: He is not playing God! He really tries

hard to do his job!

Follow up/Second Prescription is more difficult than First Prescription

because you have to overcome yourself and your standard procedures in

order to identify possible mistakes. Re-considering is tougher than

considering! Moreover, if the patient calls me in two weeks time after his

first consultation and says that nothing has changed or that he is worse,

I have to re-consider in a few minutes time.

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If I just cant do it in such limited time I find it more honest on my part to

tell him to come again for consultation instead of waiting another two

weeks. But, due to years of experience, that is a rare thing to happen. Do

you want to ask anything?


-Lets say that a patient comes to us for the first time with asthma. He is

in a state of exacerbation of his disease, started taking cortisone but still

his symptoms are intense and he tells you: My symptoms are at their

highest. Can we start homeopathic treatment or should we wait a couple

of months until things calm down? I mean I am afraid I might have a

therapeutic aggravation as I was told and expose myself to danger. What

do you say to him and what do you do?

-Youll apply homeopathic treatment right away! You must know that the

human organism is wiser than all the doctors of the world! When any

organism is in an emergency it rarely proceeds to a therapeutic

aggravation. Even if it does, usually in lighter cases, this is never a

dangerous or harmful thing for the patient.

Therapeutic Aggravation is an intense reaction of the organism but still a

fully controlled action. For example therapeutic aggravation never

involves psychological symptoms and never physical symptoms that

could be harmful or dangerous for the patient.

You may have a temporary rise of the fever, an exacerbation of the

cough, a headache or an exacerbation of the eczema of the patient. All

these are controlled and temporary and are purposeful; they are in the

direction of overcoming the present febrile state of the patient and on the

direction of somatization(release to the body) existing anxiety. Thats the

reason why after the initial crisis the patient is very relieved both

physically and psychologically and his state of health is improved.

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Our organism is very wise because his creator is the source of any

wisdom, the Wisdom itself. Its not programmed to harm itself. Only the

human egoism can do such things. Nature never behaves in an unnatural

way! Only humans do!

It so happens that every now and then a patient comes to me and says:

Doctor I suffer from depression and suicidal tendency. If I have a

therapeutic aggravation as they told me, what will happen to me? And I

say to him: My dear, your organism isnt as stupid as those who told you

this! Never, ever, has any therapeutic aggravation involved psychological

symptoms! Only physical symptoms and never dangerous ones! So dont

be afraid of anything! In fact most of the times a therapeutic aggravation

involves decompression of psychological anxiety by somatization, so

dont be afraid!

If you are a homeopathic doctor and you apply during your clinical

practice, all those homeopathic laws that I have taught you, then you have

nothing to fear about. That doesnt mean that you wont make any

mistakes! Its bound to make mistakes since you are human but if you

follow homeopathic laws it will be minor and not severe ones.

You are excused to make minor mistakes as doctors because after all you

are humans. But you were trained to identify them and correct them.

Thats what makes you real scientists. Apart from that you must have the

moral background to practice Medicine in good intentions and to the best

of your abilities.

If that is true and acceptable about any allopathic doctor who employs

harmful drugs and dangerous operations in his clinical practice why not

be true and acceptable about a homeopathic doctor who employs natural

healing means in his practice? A homeopathic doctor has the advantage

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even when he is mistaken in prescribing not to harm. He may not do good

but at least, he wont do anything bad. Benefit; dont harm! according

to Hippocrates!

Homeopathy is never a dangerous therapy. Its a natural healing tool at

our disposal. It wont do harm but still it needs a skillful and moral

personality on the part of the doctor so as to benefit. And thats your

obligation as doctors. And thats what this training is all about!

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CHAPTER 2

THERAPEUTIC AGGRAVATION






There are so many misconceptions and false ideas when it comes to the

phenomenon of Therapeutic Aggravation! A complete chaos! Not only on

the part of patients but also on the part of doctors! We, doctors, are the

main cause of misconceptions that exist in the minds of patients as

medical concepts are concerned.

What is Therapeutic Aggravation? As its name reveals, Therapeutic

Aggravation is an aggravation/crisis/exacerbation of symptoms, yet of

therapeutic nature. It happens only to physical symptoms that the patient

already had for example headaches and certain skin problems. It doesnt

happen so often as most people and doctors think; from my experience it

happens at a percentage of 15% among patients examined for the first

time. It doesnt happen in the course of treatment. From that time on,

patients are gradually improved without any exacerbation of any kind.

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This exacerbation of physical symptoms is only temporary; the onset of a

headache may happen the first hours or days after taking the simillimum

and may last from some hours even seldom to some days. When it comes

to eczema or psoriasis this exacerbation may last for days or more rarely

for a few weeks. The intensity of the symptoms varies from light to

intense.

But, whats of great importance for any doctor or patient are the criteria

that can define that a certain crisis, a certain exacerbation of symptoms is

indeed a Therapeutic Aggravation and nothing else. Let me tell you these

firm criteria.

First of all it involves only physical symptoms and only what already the

patient has suffered from. It never involves new symptoms, that is,

symptoms that the patient didnt have in the past. Secondly, its of

unusual intensity and thirdly, immediately or gradually after the

exacerbation there is always a clear and definite improvement of these

certain symptoms.

Fourthly, this improvement involves the whole, i.e. other physical

symptoms and diseases, the general physical state of the patient and his

psychological state. The last one is the most important criterion. There

cant be any Therapeutic Aggravation without psychological

improvement to follow it. No psychological improvement, no Therapeutic

Aggravation! Its as simple as that!


There are of course times when certain idiosyncrasies that are very

nervous and restless, like for example Lachesis or Valeriana or Platina,

will tell you: Oh, doctor, what did you give me? The first hours/days of

the treatment I felt befuddled/stupefied/dazed and wanted to sleep all the

time! This wasnt an exacerbation of any existing symptom. What really

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happened was that her organism in order to gain strength and reduce

anxiety was tuned at a lower rate of function.

Its like a car that was working at 6000 revolutions per minute going on

the edge of burning its engine and then the mechanic tuned its function at

a normal frequency. Nevertheless, when a person is used to function at

very high revolutions then when brought back to normal feels as if he is

stupefied. Its of course a fact that at times before the final

adjustment/setting is achieved that the revolutions tend to rock back

and forward from very high to very low ones for some time.

Nevertheless, this isnt deterioration; this is an adjustment done by the

organism with the help of the energy he got from the homeopathic

medicine; in fact, its a beneficial and purposeful adjustment! It will last

for some hours or days and then things will not be back to the previous

unbalanced state but back to normal.

For example a restless and overactive Platina will feel at first as if

stupefied; if she wasnt told by the doctor about this possibility this will

make her worry whether the doctor gave her something equivalent to

sedatives. But this isnt suppression of brains function; this isnt

suppression of mental activities. She can drive efficiently and work

mentally efficiently but more relaxed and in a slower pace.

Then after some hours or days she will be again active and restless

because this is her idiosyncratic characteristics but it will be in a more

relaxed and balanced way. Homeopathic remedy doesnt change anyones

idiosyncratic characteristics; it smoothes/grinds the edges of any extreme

characteristic thus making it closer to normal, closer to balance.

How can one distinguish between the relaxing healing action of

homeopathic medicine and the suppressive action of a chemical sedative?

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Its something you have to know as doctors in order to know whats

going on with your treatment and in order to explain it to your worried

patient.

The chemical sedative suppresses all the functions of the patient,

psychological as well as physical. His physical strength and stamina are

decreased, his movements become slower, his sexual desire is decreased

and he may also have many other physical side effects, for example skin

symptoms or peptic symptoms. He wants to sleep all the time but even

after much sleep he doesnt feel refreshed; his thinking is slow, his

memory weakened, his concentration low. And thats the reason why a

person on sedatives is advised to avoid driving. He is also advised to

avoid alcohol because one kind of suppression is already enough!

On the contrary, when a person starts homeopathic treatment he feels

more relaxed and due to this he has a slight aversion to spoil this relaxed

state and enter any stressful job, like the ones we usually do in our

modern professions. Nevertheless, if he decides to do so, he will manage

to do the job quite efficiently because all his mental and physical

functions are working properly and are not suppressed. The above state

can be compared to the relaxed state that one has just after a refreshing

sleep when he refuses to spoil this positive feeling and enter a cruel

program of work.

A similar adjustment can be done to another function: sleep. The patient

may feel sleepy for some days especially when it comes to people that

havent been sleeping enough for a long period and definitely need rest. It

has nothing to do with suppression of the brains function and thats the

reason why on waking the patient feels very refreshed and calmer than

before. Its simply a therapeutic action done by the wise organism in

order to calm the soul and refresh the brain and body. Patients that have a

lack of energy and a lack of body weight may experience an increase of

their appetite for some days or weeks until they gain what they need.

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-Does this sleepiness have anything to do with the stop of drinking

coffee?

-Thats a very good question! Many people, even if they dont drink more

than one or two coffees per day, develop a caffeine addiction. So when

they stop drinking coffee at the onset of treatment may experience

sleepiness for some days. But this sleepiness is accompanied by

nervousness, bad mood, weakness and lack of energy. This is not a

positive adjustment done by the organism; these are but withdrawal

symptoms. Most of the times the beneficial action of the homeopathic

treatment helps the patient overcome this situation very quickly and with

less burden.

During any therapeutic aggravation no exacerbation of psychological

symptoms can happen; only some already existing physical symptoms

may increase for a little while. You see, during therapeutic aggravation

we have a beneficial somatization (release to the body) of anxiety done

by the organism in its effort for quick cure. Its a beneficial release of

anxiety done at the right curative course from the center to the

circumference and from higher levels to lower ones according to the

homeopathic Law of Hierarchy.

You may also see a Thuja or a Staphisagria patient telling you: During

the first days/weeks of the treatment I was more irritable than before. In

such cases I always ask: Did you really were more irritable or is it just

that you felt freer to express your anger whenever you got angry?

Then you see that sparkle at the face of the patient that shows that he has

realized something very profound and he usually says: Oh God! You are

so right! Thats what really happened! Its not that I get angry more than

before; its that I express my anger more easy; Ive started claiming my

rights!

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Now its time to answer to a very crucial question: When and why

Therapeutic Aggravation takes place? There are two cases. The first one

is when we have given the simillimum and the mobilization of the

organism was intense. Accordingly the somatization of existing great

anxiety was intense. There are cases where its not a matter of intense

anxiety; it may be that the mobilization of the patients physical

therapeutic mechanisms was great.

In both versions there is a sudden effort of the patients whole to drive the

Illness to more external levels and free him from the burden of

imbalance. I feel free to use an analogy: If you start your car and you are

in a hurry first you engage the first gear and then you violently step on

the gas pedal and suddenly release the clutch. The wheels spin noisily and

the car is shaken violently. But as you shift to the second or third gear the

car accelerates in a less violent way.

Thats the reason why therapeutic aggravation takes place only the first

days of the first month of treatment. Even if you repeat the same

idiosyncratic medicine next month you wont have a therapeutic

aggravation. Yet, if a patient has followed a successful treatment, did

well, stopped and after some time comes back for a new start, he may

again have a therapeutic aggravation. But, nevertheless, this is a rare

thing to happen and if it happens it will be less intense.

The second reason for which a therapeutic aggravation happens is the

following: The medicine we have prescribed for the patient was indeed

the simillimum but the potency used wasnt similar to the patients

state. That is, we went too high regarding his state. We either gave a very

high potency or a normal one but the patient was very sensitive. In simple

words we pushed somebody to the right direction but yet, suddenly and

too hard compared to his needs. And if you push someone too hard you

shake him! You trouble him but only on the physical plane and not on the

psychological one.

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Its a normal and common thing to have therapeutic aggravation. As Ive

already told you it happens at a percentage 15% during the first month of

the treatment. But its not a desirable thing to have a very intense

therapeutic aggravation; not desirable for the patient and not desirable for

the doctor. If the doctor is experienced and well trained he can, most of

the times, foresee such a possibility and prevent it from happening by

giving the simillimum at a lower potency, for example 200CH instead of

1M.

Now that I am more experienced I try to prevent an intense or prolonged

therapeutic aggravation from happening. I remember the first time that I

experienced such an event on my first year of clinical practice! It was a

case of a small Sulphur child with eczema. Instead of starting the

treatment with a low potency like 200CH or even 30CH I prescribed

Sulphur 1M! Oh God! The eczema spread all over his body just hours

after the onset of treatment and insisted for weeks. He had terrible itching

and much serofluid was flowing from his patches. The boy was

complaining and the parents were in despair and worried.

Thats when you are tested as doctor! First you have to have the

knowledge to identify whats going on. You must diagnose correctly if

this is indeed a therapeutic aggravation or something else. If its a

therapeutic aggravation you know that you gave the simillimum and that

you are on the right tract but still you have to convince the patient and his

relatives to be patient.

If you live in Greece and you have to do with Greek parents worrying

about their offspring then things arent so easy! Greek parents are very

worried about their children! And not only parents are involved to their

kids but also the grandparents and the uncles and even the friends of the

couple and the next door neighbors! Moreover, all Greek people consider

themselves as doctors and act accordingly giving free medical advice to

all others around them!

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Its been many years since I had the last such case of extreme therapeutic

aggravation. Experience taught me to be more careful. I take in

consideration the age of the patient; the younger the child the lower the

potency. I also take in consideration the disease of the patient and his

idiosyncrasy; skin problems like eczema or psoriasis tend to be

aggravated intensely and for long especially in Sulphur individuals.

The young and inexperienced doctor or the ambitious doctor wants to

achieve spectacular and quick therapeutic results and may prescribe high

potencies and this may cause intense therapeutic aggravations. We must

never judge according to us but according to the needs and state of our

patient. That is the rule! The only rule!

So if you go higher than needed regarding potency you may trouble the

patient with an intense therapeutic aggravation. On the other hand if you

go lower than needed you may have no result or very poor and temporary

results. You are on the right direction but you havent pushed enough. If

the patient is slightly improved and then relapses and only if we are

definitely sure that weve prescribed the simillimum then we may give

the simillimum at a higher potency.

I say may because we may have prescribed a similar remedy but not the

simillimum. Or it may happen that the patient suffers from a chronic

disease and he is exhausted and its easy to relapse, or or

You have to be very careful when repeating the same remedy at higher

potencies because if you insist repeating the same remedy at high

potencies and if its not the simillimum but its irrelevant to the patients

idiosyncrasy you may cause pharmaceutical proving in sensitive patients.

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Let me discuss with you a relatively common incident. A doctor

prescribes a remedy that is irrelevant to his patients idiosyncrasy. The

most common outcome is that the remedy doesnt act at all and the

patient stays the same. If before treatment he was at a declining state of

health then during the treatment this declining course will continue. Then,

this ignorant homeopathic doctor sees this declining state, misinterprets it

and says to the patient: So, you say that you got worse! Bravo! This is a

very good sign; this is Therapeutic Aggravation! You will be troubled for

some months and then youll be cured! This is a very severe mistake, not

to say a stupid mistake.

There are crystal clear criteria, as mentioned above, that define a

therapeutic aggravation so there is no excuse for any homeopathic doctor

regarding misinterpretation of therapeutic aggravation!

When it comes to wrong prescription nobody could accuse any

homeopathic doctor for not giving the simillimum because not all cases

are clear. You are excused not to be able to read the mind and see the soul

of your patient. After all, any homeopathic doctor isnt superhuman, isnt

God. Accordingly an allopathic doctor may find it difficult to diagnose

the disease of his patient. But, if the doctor is well trained and cares for

what he does, he will try again and do his best and most of the times

manage to help his patient.

But no scientist is excused to misinterpret a declining health state for a

therapeutic aggravation! There are definite rules and the only thing they

demand is common sense.

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CHAPTER 3

PHARMACEUTICAL PROVING




There can rarely be a case where the patient may get worse due to

homeopathic treatment; its the case of Pharmaceutical Proving. In order

for someone to understand the latter we have to say a few basic things.

What is the usual procedure of Proving? I administer a crude substance of

mineral or plant origin, in repeated doses, to a healthy human being until

the minute he starts developing symptoms. These symptoms manifest

themselves when the poisoning action contacted at the experiment

overcomes the defense threshold of the organism and his physical and

psychological defense mechanisms are mobilized in order to produce

these useful symptoms.

The sum of these symptoms is but the pharmaceutical action of this crude

substance to the human organism. Several substances were used to

healthy human beings and the several pictures of symptoms produced

were included in the Homeopathic Pharmacology or commonly known

Homeopathic Materia Medica.

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If the crude substance to be proved is a strong poison then in order to

eliminate the possibility of severe symptoms and avoid harming the

healthy individuals we not only use dilution but also percussion of the

crude substance, i.e. potentization. In simple words we use homeopathic

medicines in repeated doses. After some time this procedure overcomes

the defense threshold of the healthy person and causes symptoms. The

sum of the persons symptoms is the Proving of this substance done in a

more safe way.

Now lets move on to what can happen during homeopathic treatment. If

I prescribe the homeopathic medicine Sepia to a patient whose

idiosyncrasy is indeed Sepia then I will cure him because I gave him the

simillimum. He will definitely have no side effects.

But if his idiosyncrasy is an irrelevant one compared to Sepia and

provided that I keep repeating it at high potencies and the patient has a

sensitive organism, then I may cause a Pharmaceutical Proving. Apart

from his naturally existing idiosyncrasy and on top of that, he will

artificially and pharmaceutically develop another idiosyncrasy irrelevant

to the already existing, a Sepia idiosyncrasy. The symptoms of Sepia will

make him feel bad both physically and psychologically.

We could say that this is a case of energy side effects. This has nothing to

do with Therapeutic Aggravation. Its a Pharmaceutical Proving caused

by our false and repeated homeopathic prescribing. It may not be

dangerous but still it causes a burden to the already suffering patient. I

must say that this is a rare incident happening only to sensitive organisms

but still its something that must and can be avoided.


How can this Pharmaceutical Proving be caused? As I have told you

before if you give the simillimum then you have cure and no side effects.

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If you give a similar remedy but not the simillimum then you have a

palliation of the patients symptoms. If you give an irrelevant to his

idiosyncrasy homeopathic medicine then most of the times nothing will

happen; no action at all. But if you keep repeating it in high potencies and

the patient is sensitive to energy actions then you may cause

Pharmaceutical Proving.

A question pops up: How can a homeopathic doctor end up doing such a

totally false thing? Ok, I can understand that if he is not well trained he

may prescribe an irrelevant to the simillimum medicine but then why

doesnt he see that and why does he keep repeating this false medicine in

high potencies?

This is done due to the misconception of a correct and useful technique

adopted by James Tyler Kent, a great teacher of Homeopathy. Kent said

that If you administer the simillimum in low potency and the patient after

getting better for some time, starts becoming worse again, then, if he is

still influenced by the same idiosyncrasy and only then, you can go

higher. That is, you can repeat the same homeopathic medicine at a

higher potency and the patient will get a lot better and you may even

finish the case.

Its as if you have given a push in the right direction but not strong

enough to finish the case and then you have to push harder. So you repeat

the same medicine at a higher potency and maybe again the same

medicine at a much higher potency. For example you may give Sepia

200CH, then Sepia 1M and then Sepia 10M. But this is done only if the

patient is indeed Sepia, only if you started low and the patient improved

for a while and then relapsed and only if he is still Sepia. Moreover you

go higher only after he has relapsed. Usually you dont have to repeat the

medicine more than once or twice higher.

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This technique of Kent has nothing to do with the false procedure used by

those ignorant homeopathic doctors that cause Pharmaceutical Proving.

Being wrongly trained they often administer irrelevant to the simillimum

homeopathic medicines. Then being ignorant, if in chronic cases their

patient not only improves but keeps declining they misinterpret this as

Therapeutic Aggravation and say to themselves: I gave the simillimum

and my patient has a Therapeutic Aggravation. But then the patient still

keeps declining. So they say to themselves: I must have given a low

potency, so according to Kents law I must go higher.

They go higher and the patient keeps declining. So they go again higher

or repeat the irrelevant homeopathic medicine thus causing

Pharmaceutical Proving! Again, being not well trained they dont identify

that they have caused Pharmaceutical Proving and the patient enters a

vicious circle.

From my experience Pharmaceutical Provings are often done by the use

of Sepia and Arsenicum. These idiosyncrasies are not so often nowadays

as ignorant homeopathic doctors think. Furthermore, ignorant doctors are

not well acquainted with the true idiosyncratic pictures of these

idiosyncrasies. So they keep prescribing them again and again thinking

that they are on the right tract misapplying the technique of Kent of

going higher.

Whenever I come across to a patient that has Pharmaceutical Proving

done by a previous doctor I do case taking and prescribe the simillimum

and the whole mess comes to an end. The false idiosyncratic picture

produced by the Pharmaceutical Proving goes away and the real

idiosyncratic picture of the patient is treated and the patient gradually

becomes balanced.

-But how can you distinguish between these two existing pictures and

decide what is his natural idiosyncratic picture and what is his

pharmaceutical picture?

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-Its very easy. The patient himself tells you: I didnt have these

symptoms before my taking Sepia. Furthermore you know the

idiosyncratic picture of Sepia and you identify its characteristic

symptoms. Apart from that you can ask your patient about his course

during the treatment with the previous homeopathic doctor and identify

that not only he didnt go well but on top of that he suffered from

Pharmaceutical Proving.

Your patient tells you that he had some symptoms. Then he was given

Sepia and his symptoms did not improve. Then he was given Sepia again

and new symptoms developed on top of the previous ones. What else do

you need to know in order to understand what happened? When you have

confusion in your mind like the previous doctors you see without

seeing and you act without knowing what you do!

If you are theoretically well trained and you have substantial correct

clinical practice, then you have order in your mind. If you have order in

your mind then you can automatically be tuned with the order that exists

in natural phenomena or the lack of order that exists in many human

brains, be it the brain of a patient or a doctor! You can see truth only if

you are full of it inside you! Theres no other way!

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CHAPTER 4

PARALLEL ALLOPATHIC AND

HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT




Some patients, especially the syphilitic and mistrustful ones, may say to

me: Doctor, before starting your treatment I will stop chemical drugs so

as if I get well to know what did the job! or They told me to do also

Acupuncture together with Homeopathy but then how will I know what

helped me?

Excuse me! I tell them. Whats our main concern? Your improvement

or whos going to get the credits? If we can help a patient in more than

one ways why shouldnt we? As a homeopathic doctor I have in my mind

all the criteria that will allow me to know if the homeopathic drug that I

have prescribed has acted curatively or not and at what degree.

There are some homeopathic doctors that deliberately refuse any other

treatment to their patient so as not to lose him on the process of parallel

treatment. They say to themselves: If he gets better he may think that it

was Acupuncture that helped him and not Homeopathy and then he will

prefer the other doctor! This is not only wrong; its also immoral on the

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part of the doctor. Its my duty to do my best and its the patients right to

choose whatever he likes even if he chooses wrong. I havent got the right

to deprive him of the possibility to get well following any other allopathic

or alternative treatment.

There are also some homeopathic doctors that believe that anyone on

homeopathic treatment shouldnt take any other medicines of any kind.

They say that chemical drugs counteract or neutralize or deactivate

homeopathic drugs. This is, of course, wrong because homeopathic

medicines act on the energy level while allopathic drugs act on the

material level. Its true, nevertheless, that allopathic drugs have side

effects or suppress symptoms and diseases and that troubles the patients

organism but most of the times this isnt a serious obstacle to the progress

of homeopathic treatment.

I certainly would prefer to start my homeopathic treatment having a

patient free from allopathic drugs but this is not possible most of the

times. In fact, many times its medically wrong to stop abruptly any

allopathic medication and proceed to homeopathic treatment right away.

First you have to help your patient in order to be able to stand on his own

feet and not need allopathic medication and then proceed to the gradual

stop of his allopathic drugs.

If you have a patient with a broken leg first you have to fix his leg and

then get rid of the crutches. Crutches arent curative means but still they

support your patient until he gets well. Accordingly, most of the times,

allopathic medicines arent curative but instead they are palliating or

suppressing symptoms, but still they often support the patient; so you

mustnt throw it to the dustbin before you have already helped, up to a

point, your patient by homeopathic treatment.

If you throw away his crutches before he is ready to stand on his own

then he will fall down and you will be responsible for this action. Even if

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you dont harm him, you may cause trouble to him because you have

taken away the palliative action of his allopathic symptomatic treatment.

Thus you may also force him to stop homeopathic treatment because he

suffers again from the symptoms of the disease since the allopathic drugs

that relieved him were thrown away. You see, there is a period of time

during which homeopathic treatment hasnt yet progressed to the point of

relieving the patient and during this period he needs allopathic medicines.

For example if you have a patient taking systematically antihypertensive

drugs for 10 years or more its definitely wrong to stop his drugs as soon

as he starts homeopathic treatment. First you have to do a parallel

allopathic and homeopathic treatment and only after he has improved in

general youll start systematic measurement of his blood pressure in order

to see whats going on. You will measure his blood pressure a whole

week, twice a day, with and then without antihypertensive drugs and

compare the two set of measurements. If without allopathic medicines his

blood pressure is normal then and only then you are allowed to cut them

off.

Even if you are sure that he has a nervous high blood pressure and not a

pathological one and that he doesnt need the antihypertensive drugs, still

you have to act as described before for reasons of your patients

insecurity.

Nevertheless, there are allopathic medicines that should not be cut off not

only during homeopathic treatment but even after its successful

completion. For example if you have a patient with a certain degree of

heart or respiratory failure you will never cut off allopathic medicines

that support his heart and lungs function. In any case of irreversible

damages where allopathic drugs are definitely indispensable its wrong to

discontinue allopathic medication.


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See why any homeopath must definitely be a medical doctor and

moreover a good one? How can he treat his patient as a whole if he isnt a

medical doctor? How can he deal with the already existing allopathic

treatment of his patient if he isnt a medical doctor? How can he deal with

any diagnostic test if he isnt a medical doctor? Most of the patients that

consult a homeopathic doctor for the first time are already on allopathic

medication that failed to help them but still they are in need of it. How

can you deal with them if you arent a medical doctor? Its out of the

question!

If we allow the practice of Homeopathy to non medical doctors then we

condemn Homeopathy to become a mere Herbal Medicine practiced

only complementary. The patient will be treated by the allopathic doctor

and as an extra action, in the same way that he may also take some

vitamins he will also take some homeopathic medicines.

Seriously, is that what we want? Seriously, is that what Homeopathy

deserves? Homeopathy is not a complementary or alternative medicine.

Its Medicine; in fact, its true Medicine! Its Scientific Medicine! Its

natural and effective Medicine. At least thats what it is for me! And

thats what it is in reality.

You have to deal with your patient first as a doctor and then as a

homeopathic doctor. I believe that if you arent a medical doctor you

wont be able to reach a correct homeopathic diagnosis and you wont be

able to effect a successful treatment. Furthermore, if you arent a doctor

you can harm your patient. Hahnemann was a medical doctor. His

students were medical doctors. Hahnemann taught Homeopathy only to

medical doctors. How can any medical doctor teach non doctors how to

practice Medicine! Its absurd! Its wrong!

Its true that there are homeopathic medical doctors that dont deserve to

be called so, but would you trust any alternative non licensed engineer

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to build an apartment building for you? Or would you trust a non licensed

mechanic fix your precious car? How, on earth, can you trust a non

licensed medical doctor deal with your body and mind? I just cant get it!

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CHAPTER 5

SELECTION OF SIMILAR POTENCY




Now, lets talk about another subject. Lets talk about the selection of the

most suitable potency; most suitable to the patients state of health. In the

same way that we call a homeopathic medicine similar to the patients

idiosyncrasy we could call a certain kind of potency as similar to the

patients state of health. So, how do we select the similar potency?

From my experience in most chronic cases I start with the thousandth

potency, i.e. 1M, i.e. 1X100 to the thousandth power. In chronic cases I

rarely start with low 200CH potency or very high 10M potency. In small

children and especially when suffering from eczema do to the possibility

of an intense and prolonged therapeutic aggravation I go low at first,

either with 30CH or 200CH and then only if needed I proceed gradually

to 1M.

There are some homeopathic idiosyncrasies that are suitable to intense

psychological states like for example Ignatia or Staphisagria and from my

experience the corresponding homeopathic medicine can be given from

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the beginning at 10M potency. In all other cases its advised to start with

1M unless its a very clear and intense state and we are very sure that our

patients idiosyncrasy is indeed what we have diagnosed. I have rarely

used 50M potency and only in certain idiosyncrasies like Lycopodium,

Lachesis and Hyoscyamus because there was no need for it.

You can proceed from 1M to 10M only according to the technique of

Kent of going higher but only, I repeat only under the presuppositions

that I have already told you. Only if the first prescription was the

simillimum and did a very good job but then the patient relapsed and only

if he is still the same idiosyncrasy as before. Most of the times I dont go

higher; I just repeat 1M and the job is done quite well.

You have to be very careful not only with homeopathic medicines but

also with potencies. If you go too low there will be no action or slight

action. If you go too high there will be no action or you may even cause a

pharmaceutical proving if your patient isnt what you have diagnosed and

if he has a sensitive energy structure.

In acute conditions I usually apply the 30CH potency or more rarely the

200CH; only rarely when I have a very intense and characteristic picture

with not only characteristic physical symptoms but also with

characteristic psychological symptoms I may use 1M.

I consider 12CH not suitable for idiosyncratic homeopathic prescribing. I

use it only for tissue salts that accompany the idiosyncratic homeopathic

medicine. I give the first day the idiosyncratic homeopathic medicine

usually at the 1M potency and from the next day on I prescribe one tissue

salt at the 12CH potency each day as a supportive of the organism

treatment that doesnt interfere with the main action of the idiosyncratic

medicine. Tissue salts are salts of Potassium, Sodium, Calcium,

Magnesium and Ferrum and mostly carbonic, phosphoric, sulfuric and

nitric ones.

Dr. Athos Stavrou Othonos

I practice Homeopathic Medicine as a private doctor in Athens the last 28 years, being a member of the Athens Medical Association and a member of the Greek Association of Homeopathic Medicine.

I've always enjoyed reading and writing books! Up to now I have written 21 books on Holistic Philosophy, 16 Homeopathic Medical books and 8 Litterature books. In my Homeopathic Medical Books one can find a complete course on Homeopathic Medicine and the description of the Method of Miasmatic Idiosyncratic Diagnosis developed by me the last 15 years.

My books either philosophical, novels or medical are the outcome of this theoretical search and also the outcome of many years of medical and personal experience. Their common ground is Holistic Thinking and Holistic Philosophy. My choice to offer all my books for free in my web site homeomed.gr and in other sites for free e-books is in accordance with my holistic beliefs.

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-How can you reach to an idiosyncratic diagnosis when you have to do

with babies that arent able to talk and cant be questioned?

-We receive valuable information from non-verbal elements as I have

taught you; and of course, we get information from their parents and

close ones. Something that helps a lot in these cases is that babies and

small children tend to be affected by a short list of idiosyncrasies. The

same thing is also true for animals. Dont forget that babies and animals

are more primitive in the mental level and thus arent yet very diversified.

The most frequent idiosyncrasies in babies and small children are from

top to bottom, Medorhinum, Phosphor, Sulphur, Pulsatilla, Cina and

Lachesis. Only rarely you will prescribe Lycopodium, Nux Vomica or

Lilium Tigrinum to small children because these idiosyncrasies tend to

have a more complicated mental sphere not easily found in small

children. So you have a lack of some information in childrens case

taking but then you have a shorter list of idiosyncrasies to check.

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