Learning a new remedy
When you have a new remedy that you want to learn :
• First , take a piece of A4-size paper .
• Next , make four columns and name them Stage 1 , Stage 2 , Stage 3 and Stage 4 .
• Then , in each of the columns , fill in the information you see in the following sections .
Materia medica understanding : Stage 1
What is stage 1 information ? Stage 1 is all about the diagnostic symptoms , or the physio-pathological symptoms , that you find in a remedy . So , there are a few components that you ’ ll have to look into .
First , find the major sphere of action or the major locations where the remedy has a strong action . You are looking for the key locations that the remedy targets .
Next , look at the diagnostic symptoms . Ask these questions :
Merc Sol : Merc Sol produces paralysis and secondary syphilis-like symptoms .
Where do you find Stage 1 information ? You can find some diagnostic symptoms in the drug provings which are functional . Later on , you will find the information confirmed by clinical symptoms , clinical patterns or diagnoses that the remedy can resolve when used by practitioners who work at this stage .
In certain cases you can find Stage 1 information in the toxicological rubrics from forensic information about that remedy , if it has that effect in crude form . The old masters like James Compton Burnett , C . M . Boger , J . H . Clarke , William Boericke , E . A . Farrington , A . L . Blackwood , W . H . Burt , W . A . Dewey and Wilhelm Schuessler were Stage 1 practitioners and materia medica authors who actually used remedies in that form .
Stage 1 books and materia medica I will start by showing you how you find this information with some Stage
1 books . We will use the same remedy examples .
China Let ’ s look at China from Clarke ’ s Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica , 1 which is one of the best Stage 1 books there is . See Image 1 .
You will notice that , from the start , the author has included all the different types of clinical conditions that China has been used for , listed alphabetically from abscess to vertigo . This gives you a clinical dictionary of various clinical pathologies where China has been useful , and has reversed symptoms , in clinical patients . See Image 2 .
Now we will look at exactly what kind of anaemia this remedy covers . ‘ China is placed by Teste in the Ferrum group ’ with different remedies like ‘ Plumb , Phos , Carb Animalis , Puls and Zinc ’. It has ‘ the property of remaking the altered blood or increasing , for the time being , in a healthy person , the relative amount of haematin , globulin , fibrin ...’,
• Does the remedy create a specific group of symptoms that point to a certain disease diagnosis or a certain syndrome ?
• Does it create any specific destructive effects on certain organs ?
All of this information is important because what matters is the action which the remedy innately has within it , irrespective of whether you prove it in a potency or in crude form .
Stage 1 remedy examples China : China produces intermittent fever-like symptoms ; or it produces anaemia with a tendency to destroy red blood corpuscles .
Image 1 .
Lachesis : Lachesis produces septicaemia and poisoning-like symptoms .
Image 2 .
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