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Triads
Bacilinum - Psorinum - Calcarea
Belladonna - Puls - Nat mur
Bell - Tub - Nat mur
Calc - Nat mur - Aurum
Calc - puls- rhus tox
calc - rhus tox - thuja
caust - kali carb - nat mur/lyc
lach - lyc - ars
mag phos - bell - calc
med - calc - phos
med - thuga - ars
med - thuga - nat sulph
phos - sulphur - tub
puls - graph - sil
puls - sulph - tub/thuga
sepia - lach - lyc
sep - nat mur - lach
sep - nat mur - phos
sil - puls - fluoric acid
staph - caust - coloc
staph - ignatia - plat
sulphur - calc lyc
tub - med - calc/nat mur
tub - med - thuga
calc - puls - thuga
coloc - mag phos - stannum
nat mur - aurum - carc
plat - ip - staph
plat - lil tig - nux vom
staph - sil - sepia
syph - aurum - nit ac
thuga - sabina - pulsliz lalor" <lalor@ozonline.com.au>
Subject: Re: Triads
ANSWERS BELOW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob&Shannon" <shannonnelson@tds.net>
To: <minutus@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Triads> This is probably a stupid question, but could someone explain the "theory"
> behind triads for me? Are these simply remedies that have been noted to
> *often* tend to follow one another (in the order given), or is there more
to
> it than that? YES IT CAN BE THAT ONE REMEDY IN THE TRIAD CAN ACTUALLY
UNBLOCK THE CASE. EG. SIL. WILL OFTEN MOVE INTO A PULS. STATE (PHYSICALLY
AND EMOTIONALLY AND MENTALLY)WHEN SICK OR INTO FLUORIC AC. OR IT CAN BE THAT
SIL. WILL JUST NEED THEM FOR A SHORT ACUTE PHYSICAL STATE. OR IT CAN BE THAT
I WILL OFTEN GIVE A SIL. A SMALL DOSE OF PULS. FOR EXAMPLE WHEN A SIL.
PRESENTS WITH BAD PIMPLES AND THE PULS. WILL ACT AS A COMPATIBLE DRAINAGE
REMEDY SO THAT THE SIL. PATIENT DOESN'T TEMPORARILY AGGRAVATE AND A GET
WORSE OUTBREAK OF PIMPLES.
EG. IT IS POSSIBLE TO CONSULT A SULPH. AND THEY WILL PRESENT WITH A CALC OR
LYC. STATE. OR THEY WILL STILL BE IN A SULPH. STATE WITH A LAYER OF CALC.
ACUTES.
OR SULPH. CAN ALTERNATIVELY MOVE INTO LYC. OR CALC. AND GET STUCK
EMOTIONALLY AND MENTALLY IN THAT REMEDY.
Dear Shannon, triads are only really representative of remedy relationships
- families and groups that either naturally go together or have been found
to follow and complement. But it is only theory and one should still
prescribe only on the symptoms.
The rx can be supportive, complementary, organ supports, acute
manifestations, acutes during chronics etc.
Wasn't it Sankaran's father who first compiled rx in this way in that little
book "Remedy Relationships"
There are also remedy relationships that come through in cases that you have
on and off for a long time - lines of development and there is probably
literature on that as well.
Add to this the relationship between acute remedies that are often needed
and their complementary chronic rx that is required to finish the case -
e.g. belladonna = calc carb.
hahnemannian2002" <hahnemannian2002@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Triads
From what I have understood these are remedies that have frequently
been noted to follow each other - not necessarily in the same order.
Sometimes one is the chronic of the other and depending upon how the
patient presents to you - you might start with the acute or the
chronic. These deserve a close look for the second prescription -
that is all.
Still the symptoms will guide. I have seen many cases where the
remedy that is supposed to follow well, antidoting the effects of
the previous.
I had one case of Paranoid schizophrenia respondng well to
Staphysagria and settling down brought back by Causticum given as a
follow up. I had to go back to Staph to control it once again

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Triads
Bacilinum - Psorinum - Calcarea
Belladonna - Puls - Nat mur
Bell - Tub - Nat mur
Calc - Nat mur - Aurum
Calc - puls- rhus tox
calc - rhus tox - thuja
caust - kali carb - nat mur/lyc
lach - lyc - ars
mag phos - bell - calc
med - calc - phos
med - thuga - ars
med - thuga - nat sulph
phos - sulphur - tub
puls - graph - sil
puls - sulph - tub/thuga
sepia - lach - lyc
sep - nat mur - lach
sep - nat mur - phos
sil - puls - fluoric acid
staph - caust - coloc
staph - ignatia - plat
sulphur - calc lyc
tub - med - calc/nat mur
tub - med - thuga
calc - puls - thuga
coloc - mag phos - stannum
nat mur - aurum - carc
plat - ip - staph
plat - lil tig - nux vom
staph - sil - sepia
syph - aurum - nit ac
thuga - sabina – puls
 
Rochelle Asked:
Has anyone please got a list of triads of Rx like Sulphur/Calc/Lyco. I thought I had one saved but can't find it.
Regards
Rochelle www.rochellemarsden.co.uk"Tamara Der-Ohanian" Wrote:Here are some triads:Puls – Sil – Fl-Ac
Ign – Nat – Sep
Sulph – Sars – Sep
Coloc – Caust – Staph
Ars – Thuja – Tarent
All-c – Phos – Sulph
Carb-v – Ars – Mur-ac (the corpse revivers)
Sulph – Calc – Lyc (Anti-psoric trio)
Lyc – Carb-v – Chin (flatulent trio)
Acon – Ars - Rhus-t (restless trio)
Bell – Hyos – Stram (mania trio)
Thuj – Staph – Nit-ac (warty trio)
Nit-ac – Benz-ac – Sep (foul odor of urine trio)
Camph – Cupr – Verat-a (cholera trio)
Sep – Caust – Gels (drooping of eyelids trio)
Caust – Rhus – Sulph (rheumatic and paralysis trio)
Carb-an – Con – Brom (glandular affections trio)
Acon – Spong – Hep (croup trio)
==================================================================================================Joy Wrote:Bacilinum - Psorinum - Calcarea
Belladonna - Puls - Nat mur
Bell - Tub - Nat mur
Calc - Nat mur - Aurum
Calc - puls- rhus tox
calc - rhus tox - thuja
caust - kali carb - nat mur/lyc
lach - lyc - ars
mag phos - bell - calc
med - calc - phos
med - thuga - ars
med - thuga - nat sulph
phos - sulphur - tub
puls - graph - sil
puls - sulph - tub/thuga
sepia - lach - lyc
sep - nat mur - lach
sep - nat mur - phos
sil - puls - fluoric acid
staph - caust - coloc
staph - ignatia - plat
sulphur - calc lyc
tub - med - calc/nat mur
tub - med - thuga
calc - puls - thuga
coloc - mag phos - stannum
nat mur - aurum - carc
plat - ip - staph
plat - lil tig - nux vom
staph - sil - sepia
syph - aurum - nit ac
thuga - sabina - pulsbest joy www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com
==================================================================================================Shannon" shannonnelson@tds.net asked:Saturday, September 11, 2004 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Triads>
This is probably a stupid question, but could someone explain the "theory"behind triads for me? Are these simply remedies that have been noted to *often* tend to follow one another (in the order given), or is there more to it than that?
Liz Lalor Replied:
YES IT CAN BE THAT ONE REMEDY IN THE TRIAD CAN ACTUALLY UNBLOCK THE CASE. EG. SIL. WILL OFTEN MOVE INTO A PULS. STATE (PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY AND MENTALLY)WHEN SICK OR INTO FLUORIC AC. OR IT CAN BE THAT SIL. WILL JUST NEED THEM FOR A SHORT ACUTE PHYSICAL STATE. OR IT CAN BE THAT
I WILL OFTEN GIVE A SIL. A SMALL DOSE OF PULS. FOR EXAMPLE WHEN A SIL. PRESENTS WITH BAD PIMPLES AND THE PULS. WILL ACT AS A COMPATIBLE DRAINAGE REMEDY SO THAT THE SIL. PATIENT DOESN'T TEMPORARILY AGGRAVATE AND A GET WORSE OUTBREAK OF PIMPLES. EG. IT IS POSSIBLE TO CONSULT A SULPH. AND THEY WILL PRESENT WITH A CALC OR LYC. STATE. OR THEY WILL STILL BE IN A SULPH. STATE WITH A LAYER OF CALC.
ACUTES. OR SULPH. CAN ALTERNATIVELY MOVE INTO LYC. OR CALC. AND GET STUCK EMOTIONALLY AND MENTALLY IN THAT REMEDY.
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Dear Shannon,
Triads are only really representative of remedy relationships - families and groups that either naturally go together or have been found to follow and complement. But it is only theory and one should still prescribe only on the symptoms.
The rx can be supportive, complementary, organ supports, acute manifestations, acutes during chronics etc.
Wasn't it Sankaran's father who first compiled rx in this way in that little book "Remedy Relationships"
There are also remedy relationships that come through in cases that you have on and off for a long time - lines of development and there is probably literature on that as well.
Add to this the relationship between acute remedies that are often needed and their complementary chronic rx that is required to finish the case - e.g. belladonna = calc carb.
==================================================================================================
hahnemannian2002" <hahnemannian2002@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Triads
From what I have understood these are remedies that have frequently been noted to follow each other - not necessarily in the same order.
Sometimes one is the chronic of the other and depending upon how the patient presents to you - you might start with the acute or the
chronic. These deserve a close look for the second prescription -that is all.
Still the symptoms will guide. I have seen many cases where the remedy that is supposed to follow well, antidoting the effects of
the previous.
I had one case of Paranoid schizophrenia responding well to Staphysagria and settling down brought back by Causticum given as a
follow up. I had to go back to Staph to control it once again
================================================================================================
Joy Wrote:
Dear Shannon, triads are only really representative of remedy relationships - families and groups that either naturally go together or have been found to follow and complement. But it is only theory and one should still prescribe only on the symptoms.
The rx can be supportive, complementary, organ supports, acute manifestations, acutes during chronics etc.
Wasn't it Sankaran's father who first compiled rx in this way in that little book "Remedy Relationships"
There are also remedy relationships that come through in cases that you have on and off for a long time - lines of development and there is probably literature on that as well.
Add to this the relationship between acute remedies that are often needed and their complementary chronic rx that is required to finish the case - e.g. belladonna = calc carb.
Hope useful, Joy www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com
=================================================================================================
Dear Joy,
These triads look also like Nash's leaders (he always had 3). Complementary remedies would not necessarily be expected to move from one to another, would they? I thought that Nash was just naming the remedies that are strongest for each symptom (such as restlessness). Was I missing something?
What's the difference between remedies that are supportive and those that are complementary?
Blessings,
Ellen MadonoJoy Responded:
I understand the leaders to be like red line sx - those that are indisputably recognised for any remedy picture. Remedy relationships are
something else all together - that relationship can come from anything natural, physical or from clinical experience which would include antidotes, inimicals, related by acute and chronic etc.
By 'supportive' I was really referring to organ supports.
Best, Joy www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com
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"Lynn Cremona" <freelynn@optonline.net> Wrote:Here is information I have collected based of previous discussions on this subject:
Kent's Triads
Sulphur, Calc Carb, Lycopodium, Skin (Anti-psoric).
Sulphur, Merc Sol, Thuja, Anti-Miasmatic.
Carbo Veg, China, Lycopodium, Flatulence.
Arsenicum alb, Phos, Sulphur, Burning Sensation.
Aconite, Ars Alb, Rhus tox, Restlessness.
Aconite, Chamomilla, Coffea, Pain Sensitivity.
Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Stramonium, Delirium.
Lachesis, Naja, Crotalus, Snake Remedy Trio.
Kali iod, Sanguinaria, Stannum. Cough after pneumonia.
Aconite, Ignatia, Opium, Fear.
Ant tart, Opium, Nux Mosch, Drowsiness.
Ipecac, Cuprum Met. Veratrum Alb, Collapse in cholera.
Ignatia, Nat Mur, Acid Phos, Grief.
Causticum, Rhus tox, Sulphur, Rheumatism.
Belladonna, Calc Carb, Nat Mur, Upper Lips.
Glonine, Belladonna, Mellilotus, Headaches.
Gelsemium, Causticum, Sepia, Droopy Eyelids.
And from Boenninghausen, one not in Nash's List :
Aconite, Spongia, Hepar sulph, The Croup Powders.
Remember these in order: ASH. That is how they will be needed!
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from Will Taylor discussion:
Kent speaks of viewing the series of remedies sometimes necessary in bringing about cure as a process of gradual unfolding, without
hypothesizing a hierarchical relationship between the successive prescriptions. From his lecture on the Second Prescription," What is more
beautiful to look upon than the bud during its hourly changes to the rose in its bloom. This evolution has so often come to my mind when patiently awaiting the return of symptoms after the first prescription has exhausted its curative power. The return symptom image unfolds the knowledge by which we know whether the first prescription was the specific or the palliative, i.e., we may know whether the remedy was deep enough to cure all the deranged vital wrong or simply a superficially acting remedy, capable of only a temporary effect. The many things learned by the action of the first remedy determine the kind of demand made upon the physician for the second prescription."
Boenninghausen, in his Concordances, brings to this question his incredible wealth of clinical experience and knowledge of the materia medica. These are the most exhaustive listings of relationships between remedies that have been produced. Rather than producing a theoretical scheme for division of the economy of the organism into "layers", Boenninghausen has provided us with an essentially pragmatic list of "what is likely to follow what". We find scattered in our literature references to remedy relationships, e.g., the often cited "Calc Lyc Sulph" series, references to complementary pairs of remedies such as Bell/Calc c, Rhus t/Calc p, Puls/Sil, Acon/Sulph, Ign/Nat m, Apis/Nat m, etc.; and Gibson Miller has given us the list of remedy relations found in the back of current editions of Kent's Repertory; but we find nowhere as extensive a listing of these relationships of remedies as Boenninghausen has offered us.
http://www.boger-boenninghausen.com/
there's a good article on this website entitled
http://www.boger-boenninghausen.com/remedyrelationships.html
Boenninghausen Remedy Relationships - The missing linkBoenninghausen's Remedy Relationships - The missing linkAuthor: Hans Weitbrecht
Date: 31/5/2002
The remedy relationships are an integral part of homeopathic prescribing . Most Materia Medicas and Repertories make reference to them, yet it is largely unknown to the homeopathic community what their use and value is in day-to-day practice.
C. M. v. Boenninghausen in the publication:
Versuch über die Verwandtschaften der homöopathischen Arzneien nebst einer abgekürzten Übersicht ihrer Eigentümlichkeiten und Hauptwirkungen, Münster, Coppenrath. 1836 ( Relative Kinship of homeopathic remedies) gives for the first time a comprehensive introduction to the usefulness of the concordances.
The ,,Characteristics'' forming the first part of this work were translated and augmented by C.M. Boger and now form part of his work: Characteristics and Repertory, (first ed. 1905, second 1937.)
The ,,Relationships'' being the second part, and particularly the all-important introduction to the subject was not translated or published in English. I therefore took it upon me to translate this article, hoping, that it will inspire the homeopath in the use of the remedy relationships.Relationships of Remedies (Boenninghausen, 1836)
Versuch über die Verwandtschaften der Arzneien
Translated: Hans Weitbrecht
If one remedy has the ability to annihilate according to its own action by cure (ie. In the reaction) the symptoms caused by another remedy, I then term the apposition , as it exists between these two remedies as Relationship.(1)From this definition emerges, that I make a major difference between related and the only antidotaric appositions of the remedies to each other, whereas in the latter also the first action can be taken into consideration, if it is similar in fast acting remedies, and if in the case of poisoning a weakening ( indifferentiation, neutralisation) of the poisonous substance is achieved by it.
By the use of an antidote against morbid symptoms, caused by another medical substance, which (in case of the timely application) by its first action are removed, only those very symptoms are eradicated, but other disease conditions, present in the patient, are by no means improved.
It is a different outcome, if in this situation an antidote is applied, which brings about the cure by its second action. If the remedy for the suffering person is selected, matching the presented symptom-group the closest in a homeopathic way (Therefore is related to the former), one will find that not only the later medical symptoms are removed, but also the former complaints curatively, if they were within the sphere of action of this remedy. This experience stands as an explanation for another experience: - which undoubting was made by every attentive homeopath, and in my own estimate the continued observation is of greatest importance for to bring about cure-, that: numerous remedies act more profoundly curative, if another remedy (related) is applied before. (2)We credit the first hint of this finding (like everything really reliable in homeopathy) to the attentive and skilful founder of the new school in the par.: 172ff. Organon (fifth ed.) concerning the cure of one-sided diseases.
As examples stand, thanks to his later observations, the excellent effectiveness
of Calc after Sulph,
of Caust after Sep,
of Lyc after Sep,
of Nit-ac after Calc and Kali-c,
of Phos after Kali-c ,
of Sulph after Ars and Merc, and
of Sep after Sil, Nit-ac, and Sulph.
And which homeopath didn't have the opportunity to rectify this observation, provided, he kept in view the basic principle of homeopathy (Similia similibus).G.H.G. Jahr collected these experiences (of which the importance was also noticed by others such as Rummel in the allgem. Homöopathische Zeitung 4. S. 25.) alongside some other experiences in his handbook (P.:44) under the heading: Notable Order for the application of the remedies.
The number listed there is yet too small, and would easily lead to a routine application, and on the other hand, there are but few occasions to make use of them under homeopathic principles. Furthermore the listing as it stands gives rise to the opinion (already uttered), that following it, it would make a difference in which order the remedies follow each other. There are even opinions that remedy A can follow B but not the other way around in order to be beneficial.
Yet, indeed, this is not the case, and if one considers those experiences carefully with all the accessory circumstances, one will find, that here or there a contraindication was left unconsidered, and that overall the homeopathic principle was not followed strict enough. This was particularly alleged of Calc and Lyc, whereby I can assure that I have seen excellent results of Calc after Lyc, if the symptom-complex was of that nature, that at the beginning Lyc had preference and after its action Calc suited the rest of the disease, which is not always the case.(3)
The importance of the knowledge of the remedy relationships (which I realized in an early stage) urged me during the last two years to make comparisons in that direction, and to have a steady eye on the subject while prescribing. A great opportunity arose, when I started to arrange the repertories and furthermore the arrangement of the main areas of actions of the remedies, being combined and simultaneously worked at. By this cumbersome process, I gained certain insights, which then had to be tested in practise. The results of these findings and comparisons I herewith present to the science for further proof and completion. I feel that something had to be done in a more serious way, than done before, to shed light in this for the practice of homeopathy so extraordinary influential subject, and if, as I believe, the not unimportant results of my findings will inspire ready homeopaths to publish their findings, then, the aim is not missed, and I don't need to be afraid of having presented a premature work to the knowledgeable world.
The understanding and the use of the following chard of remedy relationships (more elaborate and augmented in the back of the Therapeutische Taschenbuch 1846 under the heading: Concordances, and in their generalized form in the: sides of the body and relationships 1854) is already outlined above. Yet, it should be helpful for the beginner to familiarize with the following additional points.
1 The related remedies are antidotes to each other (4), and can (by means of similitude of their symptoms) be used preferably with success for that aim. The related remedies do this more definitely than other remedies only partially similar, because they take away curatively (and not palliative or by mere first action) the symptoms brought out by another remedy. The reason for this probably lies in the observation, that every remedy brings out besides the noticed, strongly apparent symptoms a number of other, weaker, less noticed symptoms, which often don't belong to the non-related remedy, and by which the total symptom-picture of the latter is incapable of curing. It should not be overlooked, that not every related remedy is capable to remove all disease-symptoms, caused by the previous, but that every remedy can only cure within its sphere of action.
2 Related remedies, given one after another act by far more curative, than non-related remedies. That the principal of similarity is given preference in the selection of the remedy goes without saying. But usually one will find the situation, that of the group of competing remedies, (particularly in chronic cases) the one or the other is found under the related ones (to the previous applied remedy). It is advisable then to give preference to this related remedy, if there are no contraindications found. It frequently happened to me, that a further more detailed inquiry brought out such symptoms, (previously unattended), which would have given definite preference to this remedy, and the result then always was delightful.
3 The one-sided diseases give an excellent opportunity for the use of the remedy relationships. The cure of the one-sided diseases often renders difficult by the lack of characteristic symptoms. Here a incomplete fitting remedy (5) brings on quite often a change in the symptom picture and simultaneously of characteristic symptoms, so that it is easy now to alleviate the complete main malady in combination with the new side complaints (brought on by the remedy), by a remedy related to the first and homeopathic to the now existing symptom picture. This might have formed the basis of the opinion, that intermittent fevers are cured by Nux-v after Ipec., or Cina after Caps, over the last few years, where the disease often appeared in the way, that these latter remedies were pretty similar, yet the ground was prepared by the former, which increased the curativeness of the latter tremendously. Even in other (chronic and acute) situations I often found similar evidence.
4 The advantage of the exact knowledge is even more prominent in the treatment of chronic disease, (than in one-sided disease).Chronic diseases demand for their cure almost always different remedies given in succession. Here, I experienced always the advantage, if I could apply after the previous remedy has finished acting beneficial a follow-up remedy, which was in close relation to the previous. The beneficial result of such a remedy, if it is selected homoeopathically often exceeds all expectations. Therefore I found it of advantage in those chronic diseases, which have only few characteristic symptoms, and are therefore difficult to cure, to determine the successive order of remedies (to be applied) in which (-provided it does not need to be changed later on by other symptoms), every time only related remedies follow each other, ideally such remedies, of which the one corresponds more to the main malady and the other more to secondary complaints. In my latest experience the result is by far better and quicker, than by the straight repetition of the remedy. I therefore rarely repeated a remedy lately and only did so in cases where there was only a quantitive lessening of the disease without any qualitative change of the total picture of the disease.(6)
5 More than once it occurred, that two related remedies were so close in a disease, that the selection was difficult, and each of them covered some side- symptoms (concomitants), which were missing in the other. Here I saw the best result by alternating the two remedies, in not too long of a time span, so that always the next was given before the previous had acted out completely. The first action decreased and weekend then gradually, the steps in improvement increased and often there was no other remedy necessary to finish the cure. Lately I found it of advantage, (following Hahnemann's advice) to use different, the best: descending potencies in this case of repetition.(likewise in all the other incidents)
6 It happens sometimes, that after a apparently suitable remedy the symptoms increase in height, like in a first action, but no improvement follows.(7) The reason is not always the previous abuse of the remedy, and sometimes a reason cannot be found at all. Here the application of a related and homeopathic (to the symptoms) remedy is beneficial. In these cases I don't wait for the reaction to come, but give the following perfectly homeopathic remedy quickly, and I was blessed most of the time with the delightful experience, that I had induced not only an amelioration of the aggravated symptoms, but also a sizeable improvement of the original state of disease.
7 To the advantages of a fairly comprehensive chard of the remedy-relationships has finally to be added, that one gets a full picture of the sphere of action of the remedies multitude of curative powers. Surely this cannot be achieved by an incomplete effort like this alone. If by collaboration and by the sharing of experiences on the subject a list of higher grade completeness will be achieved, then: it will add to the knowledge of the true genius of the remedies, if in the comparing study of their pure actions on the human body one keeps in view the relationship to others at the same time.
I want to conclude this treatise with the wish, that all attentive homeopaths would please forward any definite and non-doubtful experience on this subject.( private or in the periodicals) The importance of this already emerges from the above.
Equally importance for the practise is the knowledge of the inimicals. Those have been in the same way a subject of my previous study. The results are very scarce so far, so that I decided to withhold this information for the moment. Again on this subject I would like to ask the fellow homeopaths to submit their findings.Footnotes:
1 Dr. Hering, our genius, has used this expression first publicly (Archiv 9.3. s.1130) and simultaneously pointed out the usefulness of a comprehensive knowledge of these relationships for the practise.
2 We find a noteworthy hint of the powers of related remedies affecting the human body in Dr, Schmidt's article (Archiv 8.2.86) about the treatment of chronic diseases where he says: that the cure of those is most tedious and prolonged, even impossible in those cases, where for a long period medicines (in a allopathic way ) were used, which stand to each other as antidotes. My own experience supports these findings completely.
3 There are different reports in the journals( Archiv) where Calc after Lyc worked particularly well and other cases where Lyc after Calc did not well.
4 compare what I said in the introduction to the first edition to the repertory of the antipsoric remedies. (page: 18 in the second edition).
5 Those cases of one-sided diseases, where the body shows little receptivity to the remedies and where side-symptoms are desired, were the only cases in the recent past, where I had to resort to slightly stronger doses. In all the other cases I achieved with the smallest drop of the 30th dilution, even only by olfaction, all what I wanted. I guess therefore, that some sort of a external disturbance is to be blamed for, if the apt remedy does only work in strong doses.
6 Even under the last mentioned circumstances I have seen in the recent past (where I paid special attention to the repetition), only seldom from any dose sufficient improvement, quite often setbacks, particularly, where the highest attenuations were used.
1 Only once a second dose of the remedy seemed to have brought improvement under those circumstances, but even this improvement did not last.Commentary:Boenninghausen differentiates the first action and the reaction of medicines, and admits only first action symptoms to the repertories. The first action is solely contributed to the medicine. The second action, also called: reaction is attributed to the liveforce's efforts to balance the situation out. Individual tendencies are mixed up there with medicinal symptoms. Sometimes also opposing symptoms to the first action are experienced.
Throughout his live, Boenninghausen never changed his plan of gathering this information. 1846 he writes in the introduction to the Therapeutic Pocketbook:
The seventh and last section, under the rubric: Concordances, presents the results of the comparative action of the various remedies mentioned in the work; firstly, in regard to the preceding sections noted with corresponding numbers, and finally under the figure VII, according to each particular remedy, everywhere with their value in rank, indicated in the same manner as indicated in the preceding sections. This laborious and time-consuming work (which indeed, has broadened and rectified my knowledge of the Materia Medica Pura) will take over the place of the Relationships, published 1836.
For myself, who for the past fifteen years have made the Materia Medica Pura my chief study as one of the most indispensable works of homeopathy, this concordances have been of extreme importance, not only for the recognition of the genius of the remedy, but also for testing and making sure of its choice, and for judging the sequence of the various remedies especially in the chronic diseases.
If you have any questions please contact me via email: Info@Boger-Boenninghausen.com