Totality of Symptoms
Homeopathy seeks to support the vital force which is present at every level throughout the entire organism. The vital force is always working to manifest the highest state of health possible. This means that it works very elegantly to respond to imbalance by protecting and preserving the functions and organs of the body that are most important and allowing imbalance to express itself at those levels that are more superficial.
When I take your case, my goal is to get a clear picture of how your vital force communicates it’s state through symptoms on all levels of your being. This is why homeopathic consultations include gathering information about your mental state, your patterns of thought, the emotions you experience most often and most strongly, your physical symptoms and your general symptoms. General symptoms are those that apply to your entire being, not just one part of you. General symptoms include your energy level, appetite and thirst. They also include your experience of hot and cold, how you perspire, your response to different types of weather and your sleep patterns.
In order to effectively employ the principle of , LIKE CURES LIKE a certified homeopath will seek to gather the totality of your symptoms on all of these levels. With a clear picture of how the vital force is expressing itself through this totality of symptoms, a well trained homeopath will be able to identify a substance that has the capacity to create that unique constellation of symptoms and administer that substance in a potentized, homeopathic form. The principle of like cures like cannot work unless the similimum (or similar substance) covers the totality of the person’s symptoms. If you take a group of people who have the flu and list each person’s symptoms you will find that most of them will share a number of common symptoms. In fact, western medicine goes about diagnosing diseases by comparing the person’s condition to a pre-set list of diagnostic criteria or symptoms.
In homeopathy, we recognize that each person is unique. If we study the expression of the vital force closely, we will see that the way in which one person experiences a headache will often be completely different from the way the next person experiences a headache. In fact, when a certified homeopath analyses your case, he/she will not pay too much attention to the common symptoms of a condition you have been diagnosed with because these symptoms tell us little about your unique vital force. Rather, we look for the distinguishing aspects of how you, and perhaps only you, experience the condition.
There are literally dozens, perhaps hundreds of homeopathic remedies that address the symptom of headache but to employ the principle of like cures like we need to clearly understand the uniqueness of your experience of headache so that we can select the remedy that most closely matches your totality of symptoms, especially the distinguishing symptoms. In homeopathic prescribing, the principles of LIKE CURES LIKE and totality of symptom go hand in hand. Indeed, when we work in the realm of verifiable natural laws, we see that they are always intricately interconnected.
When I take your case, my goal is to get a clear picture of how your vital force communicates it’s state through symptoms on all levels of your being. This is why homeopathic consultations include gathering information about your mental state, your patterns of thought, the emotions you experience most often and most strongly, your physical symptoms and your general symptoms. General symptoms are those that apply to your entire being, not just one part of you. General symptoms include your energy level, appetite and thirst. They also include your experience of hot and cold, how you perspire, your response to different types of weather and your sleep patterns.
In order to effectively employ the principle of , LIKE CURES LIKE a certified homeopath will seek to gather the totality of your symptoms on all of these levels. With a clear picture of how the vital force is expressing itself through this totality of symptoms, a well trained homeopath will be able to identify a substance that has the capacity to create that unique constellation of symptoms and administer that substance in a potentized, homeopathic form. The principle of like cures like cannot work unless the similimum (or similar substance) covers the totality of the person’s symptoms. If you take a group of people who have the flu and list each person’s symptoms you will find that most of them will share a number of common symptoms. In fact, western medicine goes about diagnosing diseases by comparing the person’s condition to a pre-set list of diagnostic criteria or symptoms.
In homeopathy, we recognize that each person is unique. If we study the expression of the vital force closely, we will see that the way in which one person experiences a headache will often be completely different from the way the next person experiences a headache. In fact, when a certified homeopath analyses your case, he/she will not pay too much attention to the common symptoms of a condition you have been diagnosed with because these symptoms tell us little about your unique vital force. Rather, we look for the distinguishing aspects of how you, and perhaps only you, experience the condition.
There are literally dozens, perhaps hundreds of homeopathic remedies that address the symptom of headache but to employ the principle of like cures like we need to clearly understand the uniqueness of your experience of headache so that we can select the remedy that most closely matches your totality of symptoms, especially the distinguishing symptoms. In homeopathic prescribing, the principles of LIKE CURES LIKE and totality of symptom go hand in hand. Indeed, when we work in the realm of verifiable natural laws, we see that they are always intricately interconnected.