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Announcement: Dr. Luc Seminar July 17 - 20, 2008 in Albuquerque, NM

2008-05-14T09:38:00.001-07:00

Dr. Luc Seminar July 17 - 20, 2008 in Albuquerque, NM

Four-Day Seminar: “Forgetful Personality Part I”: Linking the concepts and top remedies to the causalities and different remedy pictures with their corresponding CD, and with the appearance of disease in allopathy.

Mystery cases, Difficult cases and Management of Clinical cases throughout the 4 days

Class times:

Thursday registration:
8 am - 9 am

Thurs - Sat:
9 am to 5:30 to 6 pm

Sunday
8:30 am to 3:30 pm

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Full refund or credit given towards a future RICH seminar by 3/17/08
$50 cancellation fee 6/13/07 and in addition:
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6901 Arvada NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110
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Taxi: $30 OW

About 15 min from airport

Right management!

2008-05-11T14:37:00.001-07:00

Question: Dear Dr Luc, We have been struggling for nearly a year with finding the correct dosage for a remedy that produced remarkable results in my son early on. The first two doses (of a liquid LM1) caused an aggravation of his symptoms followed by incredible positive changes. The third dose (more dilute than the 2nd, which was more diluted than the 1st) resulted in all the positives and no aggravation! Hooray! But when we repeated this dosage we didn't get the same results, and we've been unable to replicate them after trying different dosages and forms (liquid 6C, dry 30C, dry 200C). Our doctor has suggested we try a very strong (10M) or very weak (tincture) dosage to help us determine whether the remedy is truly correct. I trust this doctor, but am scared to do the wrong thing and make things worse for my child. I wonder if you have any suggestions on how to proceed. Many thanks!

Answer: here again we see the difficulties of good management! When you say, we repeated this (third) dose no results: did you add succussions to this fourth dose? You don't mention it and if you did not, there is the mistake that was committed! Each next dose has to be stronger than the previous one or accessory symptoms can occur! Not a good idea after his to dry dosing of 6C, 30C and 200c...the Vital Force is utterly confused and so is your homeopath and it is NOT a good idea to go with a 10M or tincture (definitely NOT!!) as nothing but instability will come from it...By looking at the case again (remedy is correct) he needs to find the right dosing/potency and repetition...or all the good work will be lost.

Warm regards

Dr luc

2008-05-11T08:39:00.001-07:00

Question: Dr Luc I seem to recall reading that if a higher potency doesn't work and you know you have the right simmilimum and that it should work, if you use the same remedy in 6c potency that it will get things moving again. Is my understanding of this correct?
Answer: First of all the right simillimum is right potency, right remedy, right dose and right interval of repeating. It is all depending when you have used that high potency. In my new book (the professional Guide) I already explain in which such instances would be the case: advanced pathology, suppressed skin diseases and hypersensitive people! Otherwise I would rather think of a miasmatic block rather than thinking that a lower potency would work in such cases.

Dr luc

Black Type Remedy

2008-05-10T18:18:00.001-07:00

Question: Dear Dr. Luc - Could you please advise what is meant by 'black type' remedies and approximately how many there are?

Answer: this refers to our Repertory where we have bold (black type), italic and normal, corresponding to the importance of that remedy in the proving symptoms (bold being found in most provers).

Drluc

Sac Lac

2008-05-05T08:22:00.001-07:00

Question: Question: Dear Dr. Luc - My question is on recent question - 'In HR, Chapter 9 (pg 169), you mention that if a remedy is not clear at the end of the initial consult, the patient should receive Sac Lac. or nothing. Could you please advise why Sac Lac would be prescribed? ' Even I have not given sac.lac so far, but say if it happens to do then do we need to tell client/patient that it is Sac.Lac? Usually to all my clients, I give the details of the remedy and the indications on what basis it is selected. So if it happens to Sac. Lac what should I tell them, if they come to know it is placebo then they do not like to take it as there is no medicine in it. So there will not be a situation when I can prescribe placebo. Please advise - how much we need to educate client with respect to what remedy they are taking. Sorry to ask this silly question - what does HR denote? Thank you so much. Regards, Kavitha

Dear Kavitha!

Sac lac might be just as good as telling the patient, "I need some morte time to study your case." In our modsern times this should be moe appreciated than literally giving Sac Lac except for those who are very hypochondriacal in which case you could do this..But patiewnts appreciate the extra work and attention you put into their case so I would advise always to be honest and informative with your patient as you seem to be

War regards

dr luc

Seizures and Lac Delphinum

2008-05-04T18:14:00.001-07:00

Question: Dear Dr Luc, could you tell me if the remedy Lac Delphinum has any symptoms of epilepsy /convulsions in children. If so, what are the characteristics of the seizures?
Answer: It is one of those poorly proven modern remedies...I would not put much attention to such remedy When it comes to children (autistic) and seizures Bufo, Calc-c and Hyoscyamus rank very high and always must be considered. But good management is very important

wish you well

Drluc

Sac lac

2008-05-03T14:53:00.001-07:00

Question: Dear Dr. Luc - In HR, Chapter 9 (pg 169), you mention that if a remedy is not clear at the end of the initial consult, the patient should receive Sac Lac. or nothing. Could you please advise why Sac Lac would be prescribed? Is this a remedy that would help to bring out more symptoms for the homeopath to prescribe on? Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you for your contributions to snc.

Answer: This is only done when the prescriber needs more time to analyze the case...Personally I never do this. Practitioners do this more with adult anxious patients who want a remedy for any little ailment they have...a hypochondriacal patient in other words...but again, I can only recall one instance where I used Sac Lac

Warm regards

dr luc

Worms

2008-05-03T14:50:00.001-07:00

Question: Dear Dr. Luc's, Recently I have found that my 10 year old autistic son has parasites throught the NAET fractioned , he has never found parasites from the stool tests. Do you think the classical homeopathy can address this issue ? Thank you very much for your insight into this. Bee

Answer: Parasite stool tests are notoriously very unreliable although some are better in giving some positive result. We always treat the person with worms, in other words, we don't need to address the worms separately...we have many remedies for all kinds of worms, and specific homeopathic symptoms are related to remedies like Cina for instance...the mental/emotional and physical picture needs to be fitting to the patient.

Dr luc

200C to 1M

2008-05-03T14:46:00.001-07:00

Question: Dear Dr Luc, if a Special Needs Child was given a remedy in 200c a month ago with some subtle improvements in general health and behavior, but no aggravations, would you still believe that it was a similinum. After what time could that be ascertained and should 1M be tried next?

Answer: It looks the way you present it here that this dose of 200C was given as a one time dry dose?? If it was then the application of the 5th edition watery doses with 200C could have made already more changes during this month and no 1 M would be necessary. Even if 200c was given as a dry dose, in these circumstances, the homeopath would apply a second dose of 200c

Warm regards

dr Luc

My wish

2008-05-01T13:06:00.001-07:00

Question: Dear Dr. Luc, Happy Birthday to You!!! Our question today is this:
If you could make just one wish come true for the future of homeopathy in
the world, what would it be? We send many blessings and our wishes for good
health to YOU, as you continue your important work teaching, healing and
inspiring so many families in the world with your gifts of compassion,
knowledge and wisdom. With love and respect, from the Parents of Special
Needs

Dear friend! I am touched by your wishes and nothing would give me more
pleasure than many recovered children. My biggest wish would be that
homeopathy, which has the ability to bring people together, to make us
understand each other better and to truly relieve the miasmatic poison,
would become a primary modality in this world. My wish on my B-day, is also
that people can forgive me for my shortcomings and in those cases where I
failed...in spite of all my efforts.

Dr luc

LM

2008-05-01T09:43:00.000-07:00

Question: Dr. Luc, my question is regarding LM potencies. Does one always
need to start with an LM 1? Is it possible to start at an LM 3 if one has
already had a 200C dose of the remedy in use--with a terrible aggravation,
but also some positive behaviors seen? Thank you, Kate Honerman

Answer: Dear Kate. Excellent question. If 200C gives an aggravation in spite
of improved behaviors then it is better to adjust the dose and succussions
(if it was done in 5th edition method) rather than going tothe LM scale. For
sure LM3 would be too much in this case as it would certainly cause similar
aggravation...LM1 would be in this case more appropriate..This is different
if more 200c was given before but I always would proceed with caution
andrather do test dose with LM1

Warmest regards
dr luc

Speech delay

2008-04-30T16:20:00.001-07:00

Question: Hello. I am wondering if there is a homeopathic medicine/treatment
which improves speech delay problems?

Answer: We have several remedies as usual for speech delay. We call it in
our Repertory, Talking, slow learning to. But this aspect has to be looked
at in the whole picture, including a possible intra uterine trauma.
Homeopathy never treats a symptom, but a patient with such challenge.
Therefore, any remedy we have could be indicated. We also have so many
remedies for speech dysfunction: garbled speech, unintelligable, hasty, etc.

Warm regards

Dr Luc

LM

2008-04-30T09:31:00.001-07:00

Question: Dr Luc, I have a question regarding LM dosing. When an individual
starts requiring more frequent dosing of a remedy..does this mean that the
next potency should be considered or is this just a natural progression in
the healing process? To be more specific we used to be able to go 2-3 weeks
before needing to redose, now it seems to be every couple of days. Also I
have noticed more aggravation with successing the bottle only one time prior
to taking the remedy as opposed to 5-10 times...... Also, after reading your
article on Hyos. Niger I was wondering if you had any information pertaining
to Lac Caninum? Thank You,
Answer: Indeed first thing to think of when you need to repeat more often is
indeed to increase the potency (succussions). If you have less aggravation
after succussing 5 times than one time? It means you most likely need to
goup in potency like LM2. In 3 years of now I have a special Materia Medica
about 100 remedies, lac caninum included. At this point it os not available
Warm regards
dr luc

Equisetum

2008-04-29T10:22:00.001-07:00

Question: Dear Dr. Luc - On page 155 of Human Condition Critical,
under 'Urinary Problems' you suggest Equisetum or horsetail tincture as a
kidney regulator for the elderly as well as young children suffering from
bedwetting. Is the recommendation of using the tincture along with the
individual's constitutional remedy or once the constitutional remedy has
been administered to the patient the tincture should no longer be
used/needed. Any input would be appreciated. Thank you for contributions to
SNC.

Answer: Indeed every organ has an "organotropic" remedy, supporting the
regeneration and strengthening of the organ in question. Such remedy can be
given in conjunction with the indicated simillimum. They both work hand in
hand. In the US, these tinctures are only available through a Medical
Doctor's prescription.

Equisetum

2008-04-29T10:21:00.001-07:00

Carcinosin

2008-04-26T14:21:00.001-07:00

Question: Dear Dr. Luc, I know that many parents on the journey to recover their autistic child have read the inspiring book about homeopathy called "Impossible Cure" by Amy Lansky. In this book, Amy Lanksy explains the basics of homeopathy in a parent-friendly way and also recounts the recovery of her autistic son, Max, using homeopathy, specifically the Carsinosin remedy. I have heard about parents who in desperation for recovery have tried to dose their own child with the nosode Carsinosin, without the expert help of a professional classical homeopath who is experienced in treating autism cases.

Can you please help parents on this Blog List understand the serious dangers of dosing a chronic autism case without the professional guidance of an experienced homeopath, especially using such a deep working nosode such as Carsinosin - and what the consequences may be?

Thank you for your guidance, wisdom and generosity to so many!
Kari J. Kindem, Director of HSNC.

Answer:
Dear Kari!

Indeed this is very dangerous and unfortunately I already had to deal with such patients. In this book, Carcinosin is just one remedy among the thousands we have to treat a SNC! And this is a nosode, which inappropriately used, is bringing the case on another track. This is not allopathy, and using Carcinosin in this way is pseudo homeopathy or allopathic homeopathy! Always consult a practitioner, do not undertake such task by yourself. You would not give allopathic meds neither without consulting your doctor. I will write this summer an in-depth book about Autism and Homeopathy.

Warm regards

Drluc

Article: Materia Medica of Hyoscyamus Niger

2008-04-21T22:11:00.000-07:00

Copyright by Luc De Schepper, MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac
Excerpts from Dr. Luc's upcoming book "Beyond Jung: Delusions, Dreams, Neuroses and Homeopathy"
Copyright 2007 All rights reserved.
Reprinted by permission.

The very peculiar delusions of Hyoscyamus will tell us what will go on in the mind of the child, what drives him to do and think what he does and think.

His core delusion is, he is going to be sold! In the mind of this child, or adult, it means that he has served his purpose and is no longer needed neither wanted. Mom has only eyes for the newcomer and therefore he "will be given away." This core delusion was nourished by another delusion: he is going to be married, and del, of a wedding, which shows how close he is to a very intimate relationship; in fact it is his ultimate wish, as Hyosc (compare Lith-c) according to the Periodic Table is just as needy for a relationship, even more than the spontaneous, intuitive Natrum who is just plain naïve in her first stage (Laughs immoderately; laughs and sings all day long, Nat-m). And just when happiness is going to happen, someone else takes his place. In case of a child, it is especially the next sibling, born after him but also possible another relative who comes and lives in his family. In fact, Hyosc has an immature ego which does not allow for anyone taking the attention away from the subject of his love (mother, father). I case of an adult, it is the immature, co-dependent person who lives and breaths through the other person (lover, best friend, even you the homeopath).

Once these two delusions are present, it seems to be the impetus for other fixed ideas. What is in store for him? He imagines the ways he will be disposed of: Del, he is about to be poisoned (complaints of having been poisoned; believes himself poisoned); del, he will be murdered; del, he will be bitten; del, he is about to receive an injury, and he is pursued by the police. No wonder we see in provings

Symptoms from the provings from Hering’s Guiding symptoms are in italics throughout the text statements like, received her physician, conversed intelligently, but would not wear a single garment of any kind; refused medicine and cunningly evaded all strategies to give it.

Of course in his mind, there must be good reasons for that people want to dispose of him. Hyoscyamus’ fertile mind has no lack of more delusions: Del, thinks he is demoniacal; del, he is a criminal; del, he has neglected his duty; del, he has offended people and del, he has done wrong.

The depth of his grief about being left and about a perceived break is great: fears to be left alone to del, he is forsaken and del, he has lost the affection of his friends; he is convinced that he injured by his surroundings and that he has suffered wrong and that he is persecuted

There is of course another reason for being so clingy and dependent: this is an element in Group One, Level Two, so a very dependent and naïve, insecure individual for which the worlds (as with any carbon person) remains a great danger. We see this in his delusions: Del, of animals; of crabs; will be bitten; sees devils; devoured by animals! Who would not want to hang on to a dependable source of nourishment, the mother!

How to compensate for all that? How to be able to hang on to the unfaithful lover (Del, wife is faithless)? How to turn possible the tables in his favor again? As Jung told us, most of the troubles of "marriage" (which is also the union of the child to the parental figure), consist in a cunning invention of irritating topics, which have absolutely no foundation. Hyoscyamus will go to extreme compensation and as we expect to rather primitive, crude behavior, behavior as old as humankind: sexual expressions! Few characters in the MM are as cunning as Hyoscyamus (except maybe for Tarentula who also uses his sexual powers to attach his victim to him), but extreme thoughts and behavior are routine for Hyoscyamus to catch the attention of the "unfaithful lover," (mother, lover, friend).

It is interesting that from the moment is aware of his sexuality, that this becomes his main weapon. When can we see this sexual awakening? C. Jung divided libido into three periods: "a pre-sexual phase which ends at about the age of three; a stage at which boys normally develop the Oedipus complex and girls develop the Elektra complex. In the third phase, the adolescent should direct his libido away from the family. If it leaks incestuously backwards, regression and neurosis ensue (A Life of Jung, Ronald Hayman, 1999, Norton & Company, p157)." This is what happens to the Hyoscyamus person: there is no turning away libido wise from the mother or father figure. More than any other remedy, overt sexual behavior is evident in what for Hyoscyamus should be a positive compensation. "I give myself fully to you," is the message. I want to be on the most intimate base with you, and no one should come between us." Her ways of sending not so subtle messages to her lover are manifold: Lies naked in bed and prattles; loves smutty talk; sings amorous and obscene songs; erotic mania accompanied by jealousy; onanism since childhood; has always been attracted to the opposite sex and prematurely busied himself with thoughts of marriage (del of a wedding); lascivious mania, uncovers body, especially sexual parts; goes about nearly naked, will not be covered; constantly throwing off bedcovers or clothes; entire loss of modesty; he lies in bed nude and walks in a fur during summer heat; desires to be naked and especially inclined to unseemingly and immodest acts, gestures and expressions; amativeness, nymphomania and erotomania.

What about if this compensation does not work? Are there any other "positive" compensations available to Hyoscyamus? Certainly, attention is demanded by talking constantly to the source of affection; if it is not about sex he is talking, it is more like constant unintelligible chattering and talks about imaginary wrongs and makes abrupt, short answers to imaginary questions; also sings constantly and talks hastily, but indistinctly. Of course it looks like foolish behavior, another compensation in which the Hyoscyamus patient excels to draw attention: Foolish laugher; does foolish things, behaves like one mad; comical alienation of the mind and ludicrous actions like monkeys; makes ridiculous gestures like a dancing clown, like one intoxicated.

One can imagine that this sexual and foolish behavior turns old and starts annoying people and parents alike, especially when this is done very much in the open, seemingly without any shame and inhibition. I had Hyoscyamus boys who would try to force themselves in the shower with their mother; talk continuously about sex and wanting to marry their mother in presence of others or would drop a towel in front of their mother coming out of the shower. Some threatened to kill their father and little sister so the way was free to marry their mother. When having therapy from the psychotherapist, through the help of videos, the psychotherapist finally found out that the video he was always requesting was stimulating him sexually. Other foolish behavior of such children is walking naked in front of their mother to aggravate her. The Hyoscyamus child will do anything to shock (sycosis!): will ask family members if they sleep with other women; sticks his tongue out, tells his mother she does not love him, that she hates him and calls her a liar if she says the opposite. They don’t like it if their friends play with someone new and if they are sick, they are clingy but refuse often to take the medicine, wake up in the middle of the night, go to the room of their parents and Hyoscyamus kisses his mother and goes back to bed. Putting them on time out does not help: they are actually worse from it and I heard once through the phone the Hyoscyamus boy screaming and banging on the garage door in which he was locked up.

The desperate parent cannot handle such child at such time and punishing does not help, neither does the mother (it is usually that parent) has enough patience and stamina to continuously deal with this suffocating behavior. Seeing that his sticky and shocking behavior does not work, the Hyoscyamus child now follows the negative destruction way with the opposite of that extreme amorous behavior. He wants to kill somebody or himself; ungovernable rage with exhibition of unusual strength; is violent and beats people; bites, scratches and nips everyone interfering with them; tries to injure those around him; convulsions after trying to swallow; strikes at keepers and can scarcely be restrained; looking very wild, use of straight jacket necessary. These fits of passion are often followed by melancholia, lack of appetite, restless nights, timorous, hides himself, being speechless and exhibiting a loss of strength. We see clearly in these stages the syphilitic miasm at work.

At this point, can you imagine anything more that the exasperated parents would love to sell this child, which leads to a completion of the compensation ways to a return to the core delusion, del, is going to be sold!

Causality (NWS):

●serious illness from jealousy and grief about a faithless lover (3): a gentle, lovable woman became extremely jealous (S) of her husband and although fully realizing that she did him injustice, she was so filled with grief that she found no rest day or night, and could neither drink or eat (L).

●disappointed love (3)

●fright (2): also in D.T: "trembling allover, looking very wild and constantly pointing to serpents which she saw creeping up towards her and fancied they were in bed approaching her.

DD with Puls especially and Tarent, which are discussed further!

Compatible remedies: Phos often cures lasciviousness when Hyoscyamus fails and Bell, Puls, Stram and Verat-a follow well when indicated!

Example Hyoscyamus (rubrics are in parenthesis, black type)

A boy was five years-old when his sibling was born. On the top of it they took his little blanket away because he was now a "big boy (Del, he is going to be sold; del, he lost the affection of his friends; del, he has suffered wrong)." He had many ear infections for two years, all treated with antibiotics. Jealousy and mild anger were present since age 2, but this anger increased after using a nebulizer for recurrent cough. He shows incredible anger and rage towards his family, especially the younger sibling. He swears, he hits, throws, kicks, and screams when angered but sometimes causeless, but especially when he perceives that the younger sibling has interrupted his time with his mother (cursing; desire to break things; bite, desire to; rage, fury, tries to kill people; mania with rage). He cannot stand the attention taken away from him; he loves the attention for anything (jealousy with rage). He will laugh when someone else is being reprimanded (laughing at serious things). He talks inappropriately for his age (7). He asked if his uncle slept with his girlfriend and in conversations makes sexual comments (smutty talk; lewd talk). He walks around naked especially in front of his mom to aggravate her (shameless, exposes the person; lascivious, uncovers sexual parts). He tells his mother constantly that she does not love him, that she hates him. The mother reassures him that she loves him, but he tells her she is a liar (del, lost the affection of friends). When he plays with his little brother, he tells him he is going to kill him. When I was talking to his mom, he quietly came in to give her a kiss and whispered in her ear that she was stupid and stuck his tongue out at her (foolish behavior). He is jealous over his friends and does not like it when they play with someone else (jealousy). When he is sick, he is clingy and wants his mom to sleep with him (desire for company, fears to be alone). The one thing that sticks out that he always refuses to take any medicine, even when he is sick he puts up a battle (refuses to take the medicine). He is very sensitive when he is one on one, he weeps when he hears soft music and worries about his family. He prays every night with his mom, especially if he knows she is mad at him, he will do it for her (religious affections). He is extremely restless and impatient and cannot concentrate at school and has a horrible time waiting for his turn! He has been sad lately (sadness, despondency, from disappointed love).

Article: Materia Medica of Nat-Carb (Natrum Carbonicum)

2008-04-14T17:23:00.000-07:00

Excerpts from Dr. Luc's upcoming book "Beyond Jung: Delusions, Dreams, Neuroses and Homeopathy"
Copyright by Luc De Schepper, MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac
All rights reserved.

With the Nat-c child we have to look at the Periodic Table to understand what this child is all about. We can easily understand the difficult life of this child when we see the elements Natrum and Carbonica. Natrum belonging to the first group, is all about wanting to connect to others very impulsive, spontaneous, even naive, but it is the second part, that carbon, which mistunes her in her mission to connect. Carbon is stubborn, a primitive and archaic ego, very little differentiated and the child is stuck with no differentiation yet in her dominant function The attention is still mainly aimed at the self (but not 100% like the pure carbon), and together with the stubbornness, leaves little place for others to impose their will or opinion (we see this easily in intolerant to contradiction). The child usually expresses this sentiment as, "I want to do this! Don’t help me!" It looks like this is a very independent child. The reality is very different. Independence in the case of Natrum is easily confused with and translated as loneliness. It is easy to see too why these children would be catalogued under the ASD as they have difficulties connecting to others, even if they are intimate friends or family: aversion to family members and to society and estranged from family and friends. And it has, company, aversion to, of intimate friends (2). There seem to be a contradiction to the Natrum element that is so desirous to connect to others, and the aversion to even family: this leads to the core delusion,

Del, there is a division between himself and others, which is also expressed by del, is forsaken and deserted (1) and fear of being alone, yet averse to company (3!). I remember such child that would go so far to invite her friends at her home, but when they arrived went off playing by herself. How can that be in such young child that has hardly lived? It must go back intra utero and these same feelings must be found in the pregnant mother! But for what reason can this behavior be present? It can only because the mother must have felt isolated and estranged from friends and family. What trauma can create such situation when happiness should be at a peak? Let’s have a close look at the ailments from. Ailments from anger with fright (1), and from anger with silent grief (1).

Such NWS recalls the cases of the young excited woman who might be pregnant for the first time, but her joy is tempered because of neglect, indifference, even anger from a husband who is not ready to have a family or fears that this baby will get all the attention. Maybe she felt, rightfully or not, forsaken by her family because "they did not get enthusiastic enough about her being pregnant." Or maybe the pregnant mother was hoping that this child might be the peacemaker between her and her parents from which she is estranged and then it did not happen! Maybe the husband has to travel for his work a lot and family lives far away. It certainly would explain her anger and grief and her isolation from family. Sometimes, as is evidenced in the example below, the secret story is even more unbelievable, but then again, society is often quick to judge others without knowing the facts. Maybe both parents were not married yet and in a conservative family this can lead to all kinds of rejection: maybe an abortion is advocated strongly against her wishes, leading to estrangement from "well-meaning" friends and family who exclaim: "You are both too young. You are immature. You cannot afford this." Or there can be a secret story of rape or incest. Is there any more horrible reason for being subdued about being pregnant? How can the pregnant mother express her joy to the world? And it does not have to be rape. There are enough Lycopodiums and Medorrhinums out there who abandon the pregnant mother right away yet the mother is committed to the unborn child. Besides leading to ailments from anger with fright ("What am I going to do now with no help, who is going to help raising me this child?") to anger with silent grief (they are too embarrassed to tell anyone they have been dumped), it all leads to ailments from anticipation anxiety (2) and emotional excitement (1-stress), two other NWS for Nat-c.

This combination of loneliness, stubbornness and immature ego coupled to shyness does not seem to be a good combination to overcome her sense of isolation. And indeed life is a struggle for this child. What positive tools, if any indeed, does she have to overcome all this?

As we have seen in the core delusion for Nat-c, the difficulty is entering the world, even the limited world of the child and connecting to others. What can we do to survive if we are not able to connect to anyone in this world? Creating our own fantasy world! This will be the primary compensation and all other ones are just in function of this first one as we will see. Indeed many fixed ideas are expressing this illusion created world: del, of fancy illusions (1). These are children that create stories by themselves in which they are the heroine, the controlling force over what happens in their own little world. These are children that seemingly are totally engrossed in their actions, playing with little cars or trains, while having earphones on listening to music. Other delusions allude to this fantasy world: Del, he is on a journey (as they are totally seemed to be disconnected from their environment). Del, of a wedding again shows the desire of connecting to a pleasant world and a sense of belonging somewhere, which in real life they seem incapable of achieving. Because these children are still young, they create a world of smallness in order to fit in that world, in order to be part of it: del, things appear small. Creating such small world (like carrying small toys everywhere around with them) is comforting to them: they are small but large in comparison with the little toys/stuffed animals they play with. See in the next example how this girl wants to "disappear in small crevices, in a lamp, etc.

This lack of intimacy results also into a desire to be magnetized and mesmerizing ameliorates. In other words, there is a desire to be supported, to be "carried" by someone. This mesmerized is more by their created fantasy visions, not by realities in life as there is a tendency to anthropophobia, misanthropy and especially fear for men. There is a continuous effort to try to make contact, but at the same time, they flee before any serious contact is made. When I mentioned music, we can’t expect that she will listen to fast rock and roll music like Tarentula: this does not fit at all her mood and even piano music creates anxiety. The best music for such child is classical music from Walt Disney films (i.e., the "Beauty and the Beast,)" another dream world in which she can escape. The Natrum element certainly refers to the seriousness of the child (serious, earnest), also reflected in the kind of music she listens to. So this music is a positive tool, as it reinforces and resonates in her special world. But we should remember that the reaction to a serious child is seriousness; to a happy outgoing child, it will be laughter and play. From in the beginning, this child unconsciously blocks avenue of reaching out to the rest of the world.

Another positive tool to connect to "a world," (not the world) is her strong conscientiousness about trifles (3). However this easily leads to monomania and OCD, again mentioned in the spectrum of ASD: children play for hours lining up their little cars and get mad when someone interferes or they get attached to one or more objects, like always carrying around with them a certain little toy. Or the conversation is at nauseam about the same topic: one of the favorite things is observing and talking about small animals like insects such as lady bugs or little gold fish for which they show great concern (sympathy, compassion, 2). Therefore this remedy should be in the rubric, talking, one subject; of nothing but, where we find remedies like Arg-n, Lyc, Med and Stram. Of course, the talking of one subject is very different in these remedies. Med and Lyc don’t talk about lady bugs but about the ladies (their sexual conquests); Arg-n talks about all the calamities that "can" happen when she leaves the home; there is always one more "what if this or that happens;" and Stramonium only talks about the dangers she possible faces in this world. Nat-carb’s interest for detail is indeed a positive tool for the child as she uses it to a detail filled fantasy world but definitely can be a positive indicator for an ASD child.

We can see that all the positive tools of Nat-c, are really means to reinforce a permanent world in which she is able to live. If we see loquacity in Nat-c (a 2, the most loquacious of the Natrums and Nat-p is not even in this rubric as it means, "lack of communication), it is not to connect to others but more to connect to the figures in her created fantasy world to which she talks all the time (occupation ameliorates, 2). This lining up of toys and talking to the figurines and little soldiers must make you think of Calc-c, but the difference is that Calc-c is not at the stage yet where they are ready to go into the world (sometimes they never are even as an adult) and must connect to others than the immediate parent or family. Calc-c only just discovered himself and feels content in safe environment of the home where he has no difficulties engaging with others. In fact he easily, through stubbornness and temper tantrums, can get all the attention he wants so much. Nat-c somewhere got lost and family does not represent that safe haven anymore as it is for Calc-c. Natrum wants to connect outside of the family with friends and others, but "something (NWS)" stops her from achieving this!

Once the Nat-c child knows how to read and write her loquacity takes on another form and her fantasy world expands with another positive tool: writing! She talks of verses and writes stories. You see the refinement of the Natrum again, as this is a way of communication with the outside world for Nat-c, a world that seems too difficult to reach. However this is only a "positive" compensation for the child as it will cut her more and more off from the real world who finds such person too serious and eccentric.

This limited arsenal of positive tools, which has only one purpose, creating a safe haven (a fantasy world) for the child, shows how difficult life in general will be for this child, even growing up. The isolation, if not sufficiently compensated by fantasy, will become more and more outspoken when the child grows up and comes in a structured environment like school where other mandatory and less desirable tasks are imposed. Mental work is not a positive tool: occupation ameliorates and attention to detail are not connected to school work as we have seen, rather to the creation of that fantasy world. Where Nat-m and even Nat-p in their initial phase have desire for mental work, Nat-c has mental work is impossible or fatigues (3!). This child needs time outs after spending barely 30’ on homework or lecture, something impossible in structured settings but better dealt with and certainly quicker found out in home schooling. There is quick confusion of the mind from mental exertion (3) and concentration difficult while studying and reading (2). No wonder these children, absorbed and buried in thought (in their fantasy world), have received every name in the manual of psychiatry: from OCD to ASD to ADHD!

We can see easily the furthering of isolation in this child confronted with these increasing difficulties in life. They even have the del, that the body has become heavy and thick, showing how difficult it is again to respond to exterior stimuli. How does one react negatively to isolation? It will be depending in what miasmatic phase of the remedy they are.

In their psoric phase it will be mainly with despair, fears and anxieties. There is much anticipation anxiety about anything that threatens their fragile little world: this is the child that watches the weather forecast and gets excited (not in the sense of wanting to watch it like Carcinosin and Sepia but fearing it) about the appearance of a storm, before, during and after! Thunderstorm aggravates: only Nat-c 3! Approach of thunderstorm a 2! Aggravates after thunderstorm: a1. They are easily frightened (3) and suffer from prostration of the mind and brain fag (3).

It goes to sycotic behavior like foolish behavior (Hyos, Tarent) and suspicious behavior: del, sees thieves and criminals.

If the child does not get out of his isolation, he is doomed to live a life of loneliness, with continuing fears and slipping into syphilitic traits: indifference and apathy (3), with ennui; indolence to work; estrangement from friends and family, showing the dept of isolation; loathing of life waking up in the morning; malicious and spiteful; quarrelsome; gloom and sadness (3); striking from anger (2) and stupefaction on awaking. Couple this to timidity and bashful (3) and you see how we are returning to the core delusion of feeling an abyss between the self and others. The real danger if such child grows up and is still creating a fantasy world, that an emotional event can push the adult from this neurosis and delusions into a real psychosis (like schizophrenia).

A Nat-c Case

C., a 5 Year old girl: CC: Very moody, changeable. It was a forceps delivery, after 2 days labor, the physician was in a hurry at this point. From in the beginning she had acid reflux (Ph 1) and constipation. She was a very irritable baby, not breastfed. The regurgitation was helped with Propulsid (suppression) but the constipation remained. Only last couple of years more normal where before suppo’s were necessary. She is very tidy and fastidious: she lines up her toys to perfection and is fascinated with listening to classical music on her walk man while she is watching her train zooming around. But she often says, "People are talking about me, they are laughing at me." She loves wind, will go and stand in it. She is afraid of storms. She will watch the weather channel, and then becomes excited when one is coming! She cannot stand her nails to be cut neither her hair being brushed: she says, "It hurts!" She is independent, wants to do everything herself! Lately, especially the last 4 months, she has been saying to her older sister who is adopted: "But I came out of mommy’s tummy!" She loves "small things." She has a little elephant that she carries around with her everywhere, also loves insects. She also says when she sees a lamp, a jar or a crevice, a little space, "I want to go in there." She only likes classical music, not fast or country music, "That is boy’s music!" She tends to be a loner, she is insecure. She asks mom to invite friends and then when they show up, she does not do anything with them, tends to take off on her own (mom calls it "stand-offish"). She appears often sad. She likes wearing the same cloths and hates everything around her neck. She is into kissing, we call her "kissy" as she is always kissing her younger brother (7 months). She is very responsible and serious. She wants a puppy and when she feeds the fish, she is concerned about the small fish whether they get enough food. She is home-schooled and she does have only an attention span of 30’. After that she needs to do something else. She likes computers and video games. She does like routine, does not like new situations.

What is the pregnancy story: The parents were in the process of adopting after mom had gone through a lot of fertility drugs. They had already signed the papers when she found out she was pregnant! (For first time) Now she had intense fear that she would lose the other child (the adopted child) and fear of her present child, going something wrong with all that stress. In fact the natural mother found out and sued them for "fraud." This lasted the whole pregnancy. As a result, when she found out that she was pregnant, she could not tell anyone out of fear that she would be labeled a "fraud" and that the other child would be taken away. Only her parents knew. She said, "I wanted to protect my nest and my reputation."

Allopathy diagnosed this child as ASD and OCD.

Analysis

We can see that this child was irritable and "difficult" from in the beginning. This certainly was also expressed in all the GI symptoms: so our remedy should be one that has an affinity for the GI system! The constipation remained a big problem, so somehow that should be included in the remedy. Being very tidy is expressed as being organized in her toys (Carbon-Calc c) and listening to classical music is also a peculiar sx for children. She is adamant about that kind of music, does not like other kinds. Then there is a degree of paranoia, and being laughed at (suspicious). It reflects her insecurity and isolation. She is afraid of the approach of storm and during storm (she is "excited" in the sense of anticipation anxiety, not excited in the sense, "I want to watch it! In fact she is very afraid of it! This shows a carbon element again. Nails/hair issue: she is sensitive externally (generalities), sensitive to pain! Head, sensitiveness, from brushing the hair. When she says, but I came out of mummy’s tummy" it reflects some maliciousness in her (comes from mom’s side with a grandfather with Parkinson) and it might well be to boost her standing in her eyes: I belong somewhere! Where in fact this is her trouble: she does not know where she belongs, she has a difficult time connecting and therefore prefers to create a world of illusions! But she is independent: this excludes Bar-c! She loves small things: it reflects how she creates a world full of illusions (headphones on, watching little train, not paying attention to anything) and how she considers herself: small and vulnerable wanting to hide in a small cozy world (like mummy’s tummy). This really reflects how mom has felt in pregnancy: she wanted to hide, could not tell anyone she was pregnant. Had to hides it, wanted to escape and be left alone out of fear one would find out she was pregnant. We see here the connection in utero! But she is affectionate, amorous, especially towards her younger brother. With other children, we see a desire to connect, but then she cannot (when the friends are there). This represents the core delusion: "Del, division between herself and others." This again reflects what happened intra utero: mom wants to connect with others (to tell them she is pregnant) but she could not! C. is serious and responsible (NATRUM) seen in how she feeds the fish. But hard time with attention: she needs to refuel after a half an hour (Confusion from mental work)-Concentration difficult!

This is a beautiful case of Nat-c. We start with 6C 8 oz. bottle, 2 succ prn. (The 5th edition Organon Split Method - see my book, "Achieving and Maintaining the Simillimum"). Two months later: after adjusting the dose to 1 succussion of the RSB, 3 drops from the RSB in a 4 oz. cup, and 3 drops from the first cup every third day, the child does not exhibit any of the above symptoms. The child’s case is still in progress.

Learning Disabilities

2008-04-09T20:49:00.001-07:00

Question: Dr. Luc what are the remedies used for kids with learning disabilities? Is this curable? Have you had success in these kids? Thank you much.

Answer: we are treating children with learning disabilities, in other words it can be any of our thousands of remedies that will fit such child. All ASD or SNC have learning disabilities and the whole story needs to be investigated. No specific remedies or protocols are applicable. The search is difficult but very rewarding if the simillimum is found!

Warm regards

Dr luc

Watery Doses

2008-04-09T20:46:00.001-07:00

Question: Dr Luc, It seems to me how to dose is rather vague. Hahnemann's advanced methods are using the MS and I have found that very flexible but I still seem to get better results with dry dosage from 12C up to the M's for chronic. When I use split doses my patients do not make any progress so it tells me the dose isn't strong enough. Some Homeopaths use drops. How can I better understand this so as to use his advanced methods? do you feel it's ok to use a dry pellet of 100c or 1M whatever the case or do you always use water in bottles and split the dose? Warm Wishes

Answer: I have now been teaching for last ten years the watery doses worldwide as it was not very well known. The feedback has been fantastic but of course I already knew it worked from my own practice and many of my loyal students. It does not mean you cannot get results with dry doses but that a case would not progress with watery doses goes against everything we see in practice. Read 5th and 6th edition of Organon where Hahnemann tells us why he did this. I also explained this in my book Achieving the simillimum and now in my new upcoming book, "The Complete Guide to the Professional Practice."

The main thing is that you cure people. Homeopathy is difficult to practice and one needs to be ready to do the best methods possible. Certainly watery methods require much closer management, but results are much faster. If you are not making progress with watery methods I advise you to start with 30C in most cases. Much more coming in my new book. I wish you all the best in the practice.

Dr luc

Aggravation

2008-04-07T20:25:00.000-07:00

Question: Dear Dr. Luc, Is it ever appropriate to give doses dry when a
person has severe aggravations even with the smallest doses. 6c 1 drop
through four cups no succussions? If not, is there any way around this
problem? Thank you for all you do.

Answer: If you have aggravation on 4 cups with one drop then you will also
aggravate with the dry dose of 6C. Olfaction can be done but can also be
strong. Rather the skin method (apply remedy to healthy skin) or believe it
or not, one has to go higher in cups. Of course we are talking here of a
hypersensitive patient!

Dr luc

Dreams

2008-04-07T20:20:00.001-07:00

Question: Dear Dr. Luc, On the subject of dreams and homeopathic
prescribing, how much weight should an experienced 5th/6th edition Organon
homeopath give to a patient's dream life? If there are certain dreams that
occur within a close time frame from dosing the targeted simillimum, should
those be considered more closely than others? In general, how does one
connect a dream to the prescribed remedy or the mental/emotional state of
the patient and if dreams are connected, how should dreams be tracked in
good case management? Thank you for your generous time, expertise and
important contributions to so many lives through this blog!

Answer: Dear friend, at this point dreams are absolutely neglected or should
I say unknown by homeopaths. Rather than new provings, it would be great to
teach this in homeopathic schools. So many things can be deducted from
dreams. Often a dream is the first sign, before the conscious knows, that
the remedy is right on...and a series of dreams (very important) allows the
homeopath to see if the previous dose/and remedy name were correct, as the
dream must go forward and the homeopath can see the dream theme
change. There are so many more applications of dreams and I already have a
new book coming up later to introduce the unconscious (half of our life!) to
the conscious so that we may appreciate the messenger of the unconscious,
the dream!

Dr luc

Potency for New Borns

2008-04-07T20:10:00.001-07:00

Question: Dear Dr. Luc - I have a follow-up question to your article dated
1/12/08 'Homeopathy for Infants & Babies', specifically regarding potency in
treating acutes. Are there general guidelines that exist for treating new
borns and/or infants with respect to potency? Since a new born and/or infant
have a much stronger VF than an older child or adult, should a 30C vs. a
200C potency initially be given when treating acutes? What would be the
recommended dosage for new borns and/or infants i.e. 1/2 tsp or 1 tsp? If a
30C is given and not much, if any, progress is observed with the acute,
would one automatically go to a higher potency i.e. 200C before deciding
that it is possibly the wrong remedy? Any insight you can provide would be

Answer: The VF of newborns/babies is indeed very strong and I would never
use less than 200c and teaspoons from the bottle every two hours IF needed!
And indeed I would always go up first in potency before I would change
remedy.

Dr luc

Potency

2008-04-07T20:00:00.001-07:00

Question: Dear Dr. Luc - I was advised that for a well chosen chronic rx if
the current potency (i.e. 6c) results in no changes -- the current picture
remains the same and no new sxs or aggravations -- you would look to
increase the potency (i.e. 30c) before looking to switch to another remedy.
Does the same thought process apply for acutes? If you try a well chosen
remedy for an acute and you do not see the acute symptoms improve after
several doses @ 2 hours apart would you (1) look for another remedy or (2)
increase the potency (i.e. from 200C to 1M)? Thank you.

Answer: You understand this very well. Indeed an increase in potency in
this case can make all the difference even if you had used the 5th edition
split method. Usually 200C does the job but there are instances, like this
years' flu where a 1M potency was more than welcome!

Dr luc

Dosage

2008-04-03T19:24:00.001-07:00

Question: Dear Dr. Luc Is it ever appropriate to give doses dry when a person has severe aggravations even with the smallest doses. 6c 1 drop through four cups no succussions? If not, is there any way around this problem? Thank you for all you do.

Answer: You still would be better with a watery dose as a dry dose of the same potency always will aggravate more. So indeed at least with watery doses one can go up to more cups and start from a larger Remedy Solution Bottle.You cannot adjust with those dry doses.

Warm regards

Dr luc