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Dr. Luc De Schepper is considered one of the foremost contemporary Homeopaths and renowned international lecturers in classical Homeopathy. Dr. Luc has evolved with homeopathy, and has treated people exclusively with homeopathy using Hahnemann's advanced methods, according to the 5th and 6th edition of the Organon with great success. He is known to his students worldwide as a brilliant and inspiring lecturer, and to thousands of his patients as a gentle and compassionate healer. Dr. Luc was one of the first “integrated” Physicians as a Western medical doctor, acupuncturist and homeopath, integrating Western medicine and complementary medicine, and Acupuncture into Homeopathic practice. Dr. Luc is fluent in four languages. He is the founder of the Renaissance Institute of Classical Homeopathy (RICH) and author of 16 books on homeopathy, acupuncture, and holistic health care. He has seen over 200,000 patients in 30 years of private practice.

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Friday, February 13, 2009

Constitutional and other Q

Question: Dear Dr. Luc, 1) What is a constitutional remedy? If it is a remedy
that matches the constitution or type of the person, then why it is being
said that a consitution remedy changes the constituion so that the correct
remedy could be determined? (Or am I missing something?) 2) How is the
simillimum determined for an ASD child - I mean, does the treatment of ASD
child always begin with a constitutional remedy such as calc-carb? Does doing
this move us close to finding the simillimum. 3) If the child is already on a
diet (gluten-free, casein free) before beginning homeopathy, is there any
hope that the child can go back to the unrestricted diet, after homeopathy
treatment. Is it wise to experiment with the diet, once the simillimum has
been found? 4) Based on your rich experience, if homeopathy treatment is
followed sincerely and respectfully, how long does it take to get cured (age
5.5 years)? Dr. Luc, thanks for answering all our questions in this forum.
Thanks to Kari for running this forum at the first place.This is extremely
helpful and informative for us.

Dear friend

You have great questions. The constututional remedy: the old masters (and me
too) use this term to determine the true constutution of the person
(temperament, miasmatic make up, etc.) The more modern homeopaths use this
term for every simillimum they apply. They use it for what I would call
the "layer" remedy belonging to the layer to be treated first. This way there
are several constutional remedies possible. As long as we know what it is
meant, there is really no problem. And I am not sure, like you ask yourself
too, that a constitutional remedy can change the constitution. This is indeed
very confusing. I think what they mean, which is correct, that by removing
the layers, the true constitution, which was "mistuned" as Hahnemann would
say, will appear.
The simillimum is determined like for any other case. There is no difference.
And no, such true constitutional remedy is only applied at the end of the
treatment when layers are removed. However like in the case you mention, Calc-
c can be the true constitution and the layer remedy.
There is no doubt that when the simillimum has been applied that the child
can return to the regular diet. And often during the treatment one can
already experiment with the diet as long as we already know that the remedy
is working so we can see changes when foods are reintroduced. Too many
children are on such GFCF diet unnecesary.
No one can predict how long it will take to cure a child as each case is
individual. It is like asking me, if I could predict the future of your
child. Life is not an uneventyful experience. The child can have a strong
acute (like the flu this year) and then the chronic remedy has to be
suspended. Other traumas (acute and emotional) can be happening of course for
which again an acute remedy needs to be given and the chronic is suspended.
In so many cases these children react to supplements and drugs with
reactions: die off, allergic reactions, suppressing and creating new
symptoms, all of which slow the cure...That's why the homeopath's task is
difficult as it is the individual approach (the only one that can lead to
cure) and the less the child takes and the more the parent studies what to
expect from homeopathy, the greater the chance on a good outcome!

Warmest regards
Dr luc

Posted by Dr. Luc De Schepper at Friday, February 13, 2009