Hom 202 Sept 18

September 18, 2006 HOM 202 Advanced Fundamentals Lecture 3 Questions at the start of class: Pivotal point: point in life when you have the freedom to make a choice. Your responsibility as a ND is to allow the patient to reach that point in their life to make a decision. Your responsibility stops here. With regards to quizzes: References: what we will be quizzed on this week Homework: for the following week Imbegriffe: what is the cause, the creation, and the underlying motivational force. What is creating and maintaining the state of health/disease. It can be generalized to anything, it is not necessarily disease. I.e. what is the imbegriffe of lightening? Aphorism 3: Point 1: pathology, ddx, clinical observation – need the basic sciences to determine what is curable in disease Point 2: pharmacology, knowledge of materia medica Point 3: adapting the remedy to the patient. There are ways to individualize the posology = adapting the remedy to the patient. Some people require remedy every day for three days. Some people need their remedy in water, or extra succession – this would be done for extra sensitive people. Obstacles to recovery: for example – a person is taking a medication that is covering up the symptom. All symptoms, physical, mental, and emotional, are all interconnected so what is the imbegriffe (chicken in the egg)? Hahnemann: the external stimulus versus the internal susceptibility. I.e. physical illness manifests from a negative perception or disillusion. Person has a predisposition to view their stress in a bad way, and this causes the ulcer. And so, treat the underlying cause. If a person does not have the negative predisposition, and their mentalemotional is healthy, then how do we treat the same physical manifestation? A remedy can empower a person to change their own behavior, because before they thought they didn’t have a choice. So someone with the similar disease (i.e. ulcer) need to find out if it the imbegriffe is from a mental-emotional picture or from a behavior, like bad eating habits etc. So we need to determine how much is internal susceptibility or purely external stimulus? External stimulus is more difficult to cure because we have to remove the obstacle. I.e. shift work people. Hard to get them to change their jobs. So we either treat the internal susceptibility (mental-emotional) or try to use a remedy to empower the individual to change. So if someone drinks coffee, try to get them to stop. If they say, I’m addicted, then you treat the addiction. Introduction to the Organon: NOTE: He = Hahnemann •Totality: connection of all organs and mental-emotional state.

•Signs and symptoms always manifest from an imbalance. I.e. you cannot have hormonal imbalance without signs and symptoms (or it has not been observed yet in clinic by Dr Bakir after 17 years). •He does not disagree with looking inside to understand the patient’s condition. What he is saying is that by looking inside, we are not finding the cause of disease. MD’s fail to recognize totality and the energy – life force of disease. If you believe cause of disease is “inside the body”, you are failing. We cannot “see” the cause of disease because it is energetic. •Side note: physicists in Europe identified magnetic fields around tissue – can see the difference between diseased versus healthy tissue. They were actually able to measure the difference in frequency. This is significant because we talk a lot about vital force in naturopathic medicine. Quantum physicists say that there is no such thing as matter. All matter is a bundle of energy that creates a field and this field is perceived as matter. It is in our perception. How does this impact medicine? This is the level at which homeopathy works. Read more on quantum physics! Quiz next week: Organon – introduction, aphorism 9-18, 105-145 & class stuff.