Why Are Some Homeopathic Cases Super Easy and Some Super Difficult?
Flowers in My Garden
What makes a case difficult or easy may not be what you expect. For example I treated a man last month who had been on ten different allopathic medications for decades, and had many different disease diagnoses. One would think that this would be a difficult case, but surprisingly he was one of the simplest cases I ever treated. The reason for this is that the indications for the remedy were very obvious. The allopathic drugs he had taken had not affected the remedy picture, which was quite beautifully still intact. I spoke to him one week after doing a room dose of the remedy, and I was blown away by the improvement in his mental and emotional state, which was really the center of his illness. In summary what made his case easy is that there was a clear picture that matched a constitutional remedy perfectly.
What makes a case difficult is not an easy question to answer. The first reason is how educated your homeopath is. There are thousands of remedies in the homeopathic materia medica. There are 1500 remedies in Robin Murphy’s Materia Medica and MetaRepertory.
This means that your homeopath needs to have a good knowledge of homeopathic materia medica. The greater the knowledge the more likely it is that your homeopath can find a remedy that fits the totality of your symptoms, or that covers the most important characteristic symptoms. Your homeopath has to have a love of studying materia medica in order to build up this knowledge.
Some cases are inherently difficult, because they are complex. There can be multiple diseases existing in the body at the same time, occupying different areas of the body, mind or emotions. The ideal is that there is a connecting thread that links all the symptoms in the body. The goal of the homeopath is to find such a thread, but sometimes that thread isn’t there, because there are different diseases existing simultaneously in one person.
Another issue is that the patient has difficult inheritance. In other words they may have been born with the Tubercular, Syphilitic, Cancer, or Sycotic miasms or others. One or other miasm may be active at a time. The good news is that most of the polychrest remedies (remedies of many uses) are tri-miasmatic. In other words they cover the three primary miasms, so if we can find a good constitutional remedy, because the basic picture is excellent, we can make short work of this potentially difficult situation. Sometimes we are unable to make that short work, and we have to peel off layers, like the oft used analogy of the onion.
Allopathic medical misuse can often turn a very simple case into a very difficult case depending on the sensitivity of the individual and the amount of medical interference in the case. Vaccine injury, and allopathic drug side effects are often the biggest culprits in making an easy case difficult.
Every person is unique, and whether the case is “easy” or “difficult,” I believe that life is a healing journey. Essentially I am a Renaissance Woman. I believe in the infinite perfectibility of each and everyone of us.
My goal for myself is to constantly improve my health and myself as a human being. There is always work to be done. We can always be better. I am happy to share what I have learned to help people who have the same goal of improving their health with the experience and lknowledge I have gained over the years, and which I will never stop adding to as long as I am blessed to live.
Wishing you health and happiness,
Deborah Olenev CCH RSHom (NA)
