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We need another and a wiser
and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals…
We patronize them for their incompleteness,
for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves.
And therein we err and err greatly.
For the animal shall not be measured by man.
In a world older and more complete than ours,
they move finished and complete,
gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained,
living by voices we shall never hear.
They are not brethren; they are not underlings;
they are other nations,
caught with ourselves in the net of life and time,
fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
Henry Beston 1888-1968 |
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TREATING ACUTE DISEASE
As defined in Homeopathic terms, an acute disease is one imposed on the patient from an outside source and is not dependent on the inherent susceptibilities of the patient. An acute disease can be from trauma (physical or emotional), poisoning, or overwhelming epidemic contagion in which the pathogen is so virulent it overcomes all or most individual resistance in the exposed population.
Since acute disease is externally imposed and is not due to the inherent susceptibilities of the patient, and since acute disease is self-limiting (the body will recover without treatment unless the symptoms are severe enough to result in the death of the patient), the treatment of acute disease is much more forgiving than the treatment of chronic disease. In this is the latitude to use nearly any treatment modality since an acute disease is not part of the intrinsic dynamics of the health of the patient.
Any therapy which will shorten the course of an acute disease and ease the suffering of the patient may be acceptable. Treatment of most acute diseases will remove the disease or will allow it to run its course with less discomfort to the patient, but will not change the long term dynamics of the patient's health.
If you chose to treat acute disease (and in some cases acute exacerbations of chronic disease) with Homeopathy, you may enlist the services of a trained Homeopath or you may use the more cookbook methods found in most Homeopathic emergency and first aid manuals. A good emergency manual and a 30c emergency remedy kit can be used to lessen the sufferings of the patient and may in some cases be life savers.
Choose the remedy that seems best suited to the acute disease (not necessarily to the patient as a whole). Mix 2-3 tablets in 1 cup of water and dose the patient with an appropriate amount of the solution, perhaps ¼ to 1 teaspoon. Repeat at 5-30 minute (or longer) intervals depending on the severity of the symptoms for 3-5 doses.
Stop dosing when a response is seen. Use single dose repeats as this response begins to wane, repeating the dose only as necessary to maintain the continued improvement of the patient.
If no change is seen in the patient in 3-5 doses, change to the remedy that seemed to be next most appropriate to the acute disease and repeat the above process.
In treating acute disease, you will probably need to dose quicker and may change remedies faster than in the treatment of chronic disease.
This treatment scheme may also be used with acute exacerbations of chronic disease to get the patient out of crisis. In this situation, however, you must be aware that you are actually treating chronic disease. Once the crisis is resolved, you will need to address the overall chronic disease of the patient to change their tendency to have these crises.
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