Materia medica understanding : Stage 2
What is stage 2 information ? Stage 2 is the information where you build upon the diagnostic symptoms . You ’ re looking at the peculiar concomitants that accompany your pathology or diagnostic symptoms without any apparent logical reason .
Stage 2 remedy examples China We know China has the tendency to create intermittent fever-like symptoms . Then you realise that there are chills that begin from the leg below the knee . This is important because this is giving you some special information about the intermittent fever-like symptoms that China creates in that person .
Lachesis Lachesis causes septicaemia-like symptoms . But then at Stage 2 , you realise that Lachesis also has the ability to create constriction and tightness , where there is inability to bear any type of tight clothing on the body . If you find these together , it ’ s Lachesis at Stage 2 .
Where do you find stage 2 information ? You find them in all the drug provings . Most of our remedies are proved in potencies to provide information at Stage 2
However , there are certain practitioners who have documented concise Stage 2 information in their books . All these practitioners define just one step beyond the clinical diagnosis , which is Stage 2 information . These include all Stage 1 authors along with specialised Stage 2 authors such as C . M . F von Boenninghausen , H . C . Allen , T . F . Allen , E . B Nash , G . H . Clarke , A . C . Cowperthwaite , and H . N . Guernsey who delve deeply into regional therapeutics .
Stage 2 books and materia medica Let me show you my favourite way of finding the concomitants for any remedy by using technology , since we have a huge database in homoeopathy . I am using the remedy analysis function of HomeoQuest software , but you can do this analysis in any good homoeopathic software of your choice .
Let ’ s look at China from von Boenninghausen ’ s Repertory . 4 In particular , look for the concomitants of the fever . See Image 7 .
You can see all the different aspects of China fever and what comes along with that . We have mental states of ‘ anxiety ’, ‘ chaotic feeling in the head ’, ‘ delirium ’ or ‘ depression ’ and ‘ indifference ’. See Image 8 .
Further along we find ‘ painful headache with congestion ’ or ‘ vision , green before eyes ’. See Image 9 .
Merc Sol Merc Sol produces secondary syphilislike symptoms , but then there is intense sweating without relief . Image 7 .