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Hello everyone! So let’s carry on from where we left off last time. Last time wespoke about we started with Hahnemann and we proceeded on from there withmy other teachers and I described to you, how it is very important to have basicfundamental knowledge of homoeopathy. We are talking about the philosophy ofHomoeopathy with the ideas of individualism and holism, the idea of vital forceand dynamis and translated this into on the one hand to Case taking where weunderstand the disease as a whole with Boenninghausen’s idea of generalizationand with the idea of individualization with the idea of peculiar and rare symptomsof the patient and on the other hand the study of Materia Medica and the rubricsand how this study is also fundamental in our understanding of Homoeopathy.

Now we will try to go a little deeper than that. Taking peculiar symptoms of thecase of the patient from the repertory, is easy with regard to physical symptoms.You have a more or less a direct relationship. So you go to the symptom of thepatient in the repertory and study it in the Materia Medica. But when we come tothe emotional level, it becomes that much more difficult and then we need totake not something directly, but what it means.

Here I would like to start with a case of a woman who came to me withRheumatoid Arthritis. And the story of this person was:

24] Case of a lady affected by her friend’s death; Baryta carb.

She was a housewife and she was from south Indian state of Kerala and she cameto settle in Bombay after her marriage, that was about 15 years earlier. And Iasked her was there any kind of stress or strain in her life after which theseailments started. And the husband answered for her rather the woman didn’t talkmuch. She was rather reserved and the husband said, ‘well, yes, she was verymuch affected lost her friend a neighbour who was in this building, and then shestarted after the death of this neighbour, this woman, she started gettingfrightened. And she was even afraid to sleep alone. For example: when her


husband went out of town then she would want like her son who was like 12-13yrs old that he should share the room with her. And she was afraid to sleep alone.And she was very much afraid, affected by the loss of that friend. And after thisloss of the friend, slowly the ailments started.

So how can we understand this situation? How can we understand it? We can doone thing, we can take a straight rubric,

Mind; Death, Ailments from, Parents or Friends, of’.

This is a straight rubric but if we take this rubric, you will find that the remedythat helped her and we will be wrong.

Why is this so? Because straight away she is saying that I am affected by the lossof my friend and when we take the rubric, the remedy is not there. The questionis we cannot take just one situation but we have to understand the sum total ofthat expression. So we have to ask the question, ‘why is she affected? Who is shethat is affected by the loss of the friend?’ so I ask her ‘tell me something abouther?’

And the husband says, well she has come from the Southern Indian state of Keralaand she has come and she has lived in Bombay for 15 years but she doesn’t haveany other friends here. And the entire apartment, the complex we live in, in whichthere are several apartments, she has only one friend. And that is this lady whodied. And then what is the important thing about this lady who died, she camefrom the same Southern Indian state of Kerala and she spoke the same languageas our patient. So what is it that she made only one friend in 15 years and thatalso who spoke her language. She had not learned the local language which isHindi or Marathi or even proper English that she could converse with anyone inthe society, and that is the reason why she is so much affected by the death ofher friend.

She has lost somebody who she is very familiar with. So what does it tell abouther?

We see then there is a kind of dependence, she is very dependent kind of aperson. Even when she sits there in the office, she hardly gives any reply. Her


every reply is given by her husband. If you ask her a question, you see there is achildish kind of dependence on her husband. And when her husband is absent,she depends on her son. It is as if she is the child who needs her support.

So here our rubric will not be ‘Ailments from death of parents or friends’ but ourfirst rubric will be ‘Mind; childish behavior’, and then we have another rubric willbe, ‘Mind; weeping, tearful mood, goes off alone and weeps as if she had nofriends’. And when we look at this rubric and when we look at the childishbehaviour, we come to the remedy Baryta carb, and that was the remedy that sheneeded.

Baryta carb is a kind of childish dependence, a feeling that I am not able to learnanything, I am not able to adapt to the circumstances, I am not able to learn anew language. And then she becomes shy, reserved, inferior and incapable. Thefeeling as if every one is like a stranger to her and that she is alone. So you havethe rubric, ‘Mind; Strangers, in presence of agg’.

So in this way we need to understand the patients, not only the plain rubrics, sowe have to go below the rubric, behind into the deep experience of the patient’slife.

This is what we call as the delusion level or the sensation level and it is not onlythe fact level or the rubric level. So we see when we come to the rubrics mindpart, we cannot simply stay with the plain rubrics but that we have to go deeperotherwise we will surely be wrong.

Here the rubrics in the mind can mislead us. Because we are simply taking thefacts, just because she lost her friend, we assume the rubric “Grief”. We think it isgrief but we cannot stay there, this is an expression. We have to go deep to seewhat is the individual emotion, what is the perception of the situation, wheredoes this perception arise from, who is she? Who has this perception and then wesee good results.

25] Case- Afraid that she will harm her husband and child; Kali brom.

Let’s see another case. This was a case of a woman, whose main symptom wasshe had a fear and this fear was that she could do some harm to her husband or


to her child. For example she said ‘Sometimes when I take my child out on thestreet, I am afraid that I may get an impulse to throw the child under the bus. Orsometimes when I am cutting vegetables in the kitchen and my husband entersthe room, and I am afraid I might take the knife and put it through him, eventhough I am extremely fond of my husband’. This thought constantly bothers me.

Now here one way of dealing with it is to take the rubric, ‘Mind; kill desire to,sudden impulse to kill, her beloved husband’ And one of the remedies is Platina.But I didn’t give her Platina, because this is not the correct rubric. We have todifferentiate. What is interesting is: She never ever had the impulse to kill herhusband or her child; what she had was the fear of getting such an impulse.

Here we have to look into another rubric which is, ‘Mind; delusion, murder,husband and child, she is going to’. And the remedy is Kali brom. A similar rubricof Kali bromatum is, ‘Mind; delusion, crime about to commit’. So what we seehere is a fear, a fear of getting an impulse. A fear that she could do something andnot actually the impulse to do anything.

This is very interesting because later on when we will learn about the miasms, wewill realize this difference that Platina is syphilitic miasm. It is a heavy metal, andit is in the last row of the periodic table, the 6th row. And it has syphiliticdestructive impulses to kill, to suicide like Mercurius, Aurum, Hepar sulph, etc.these are all syphilitic remedies.

They actually have the impulse to kill and they can murder. They have nohesitation in taking the life of themselves or others because they feel they are theleaders and they are responsible and they have the right over life and death.

For example: If a prisoner is supposed to be executed, he makes a petition to thehead of the country and the head of the country has a right to decide if he lives orif he dies.

This is the feeling of the heavy metals. That they are in a position of making adecision and their decision is the right one.

But Kali brom is not in the syphilitic miasm, it is not a heavy metal, it is actually inthe 4th row of the periodic table it is a sycotic miasm and what is the feeling ofSycotic miasm is anticipation. …. what if I do something wrong? This kind of an


anxiety. And the 4th row of the periodic table does not have to do so much withleadership and responsibility, it has more to do with committing crime, criminals,policemen etc.

So Crime is related to the 4th row of the periodic table. Murder is related to the 6th

row of the periodic table. Syphilitic miasm is destructive, sycotic miasm is anxiousand anticipating. So what Remedy she got was kali brom and she did very well andher syphilitic fear just went away.

So we have to read beyond the rubrics and try to really understand what is thepatient saying, what is the patient experiencing ok.

Let’s go to another case.

26] My money, your money: Arsenic;

Now here you see that many a times a patient does not give rubrics. We have tounderstand the rubrics.

For example: Here was a man who had Ischemic heart disease; he kept talking, Iasked him ‘what is your anxiety, what is your stress?’ and he says’ my stressDoctor, is my wife.’ I said ‘tell me about it’. He said listen ‘I married a woman ofmuch lower economic status. Because I thought since she comes for a poorerfamily and she would not waste my money and she would not spend a lot ofmoney and therefore I married her’.

But then I observed that ‘she always kept taking money from me, saying forhousehold expenses. I think that she was saving my money. I don’t think she wasspending my money. And one day, she says I have so much money in my bankaccount. I said how do you have all this money. Well my uncle gave it to me. I saidhow did your uncle give it to you. I don’t think your uncle gave it to you, I think it’sfrom my money. And she kept saying oh it’s not your money, it’s my money. Shekeeps talking about, your money, my money, your money and all the time, shesays your money my money, why doesn’t she understand that it’s all our money,which she means it’s all my money. ‘ this is the way he spoke and you see theanxiety that the great and the anxiety that he was so suspicious about his wifethat she was slowly taking away his money and making it her own.


Now how do we understand this in terms of rubrics?

Here the rubric that we could take is,

‘Mind; delusion, thieves, robbers sees in the house’.

The interpretation of this rubric is not necessary that there are real robbers in hishouse but it is the people in his house appear like thieves. As if people in hisfamily they look like thieves. Once you understand this then you understand thewhole idea of Arsenic album.

Why does the Arsenicum album need to be avaricious, why does it need to be socontrolling? Why does it need to be so much to be fastidious? Why does it needto be cautious and suspicious?

And then you understand, that’s the Remedy & that’s what really helped him out& we saw a very very nicd result. This man had actually effort angina when heused to walk, when he used to get pain, anginal pain, he was advised severalsurgeries. Coronary bypass and all that. But with Homoeopathy and with Arseniche did very, very well.

I want to tell you about how Repertory helps us in discovering remedies and Iwant to talk to you about, one particular instance.

27] Young middle class boys with nervous anxiety; Calc silicata.

I used to have in my office some young middle class boy who came as patient andthey were very anxious people. I used to get … they were around 17 -21 theywould have complaints like palpitation or they would be diagnosed as mitral valveprolapse, or they would come with some vague abdominal pain , or vagueheadaches and there was no pathology. But yet they would come withcomplaints. And constitutionally they appeared to be quite lean and would comeand they would spend so much time coming to my clinic and they would be justsitting and waiting out for ½ an hour to 45 minutes for very trivial problems.

I discovered that these guys were very anxious and usually their anxiety wasabout some examination like they had to take, some test or some job interview.


And if you asked them further about that they would say about two things; myfamily expects me to work, to earn money for them, and I somehow feel will I beable to do it, will I be able to earn and to live up to their expectations. Thesewere from middle class families and their parents had invested a lot of money intheir education. A big percentage of the money of their parents had gone in. andthen there would be expectations that these boys & these girls, they would dogood and earn money back & there was anxiety in them could they fulfill theirexpectations. And this pressure was little bit too much for them.

I had several young men, esp boys, sitting in my office and wanting a medicine.

So here I thought let me take two rubrics, one was:

‘Mind; anxiety about health’

because this seemed to be the main thing. That they were so much anxious abouttheir health.

And the second rubric I took was

‘Mind; anxiety about money matters’.

Because this was the another anxiety they had, one was about their health andthe second was money.

And when I combined these two rubrics, the only remedy that came out was Calcsilicata.

So just combining these two rubrics, I got Calc silicata and I gave it to them and Ifound there was very good response. Their anxiety went down, their symptomswent away, they became more confident etc etc.

Then I started observing them a little bit more and then there were someinteresting signs which was common in these boys. One of them their handswould be somewhat moist but especially cold and moist were their finger tips. If Iwould just run my hand on their palms, I would be slightly warm, and as I gotowards the tips, they would get very very cold. This was one. I mean this is likeSilica but in Silica the whole palm would be moist and cold. In Calcarea silicata,more the tips of the fingers.


The second thing I found that their built was usually lean, and thin.

And thirdly, if you just once pull their lips open, downward, you will find on themargins of their gums, a bluish purplish line. This I found was some clinicalobservation.

So then from this a picture started building of these lean, thin, nervous,hypochondrical young men who spent a lot of time in my waiting room with nobig problem. And very nervous about their capability to earn and with cold fingertips and blue line on their gums. I found this so useful, that I used it many timesand got good results.

Now this is so familiar that if such a person walks into my clinic, I more or lessguess that he would need Calcarea silicata and indeed it often works very verywell.

Now what happened then, how to take this further? I was invited for a seminar inKerala which is the South Indian state of India and I thought if we do a proving inthat seminar. So I gave the remedy Calcarea Silicata with 400 people in thatseminar. And this proiving I published And what came out in that provings, wassome extremely peculiar symptoms. One of them was the dreams of pursued byelephants. Very strange, very inexplicable. Of course Kerala has many elephants init. But this dream was so strange.

Proving brings out the broad and the specific;

So what does the proving do? The proving brings out two things, the provingbrings out the broad and the specific.

Similarly with the clinical experience of the remedy also, you bring out the broadand the specific.

What do I mean by broad? Broad means that qualities of the group to which theremedy belongs. You can almost infer these qualities from their position innature?

For example:


Calcarea comes from the 4th row of the periodic table. The 4th row has to do withmoney, with security, with job, and the feeling of calc is I don’t have it. ‘I don’thave money, I don’t have security, I don’t have job and I need it’.

Now, Silica comes from the 3rd row of the periodic table and which has to do withidentity, expectations of other people. And so the feeling of Calcarea silicata is, ‘Iam expected by other people to develop money and security.’ So a salt combinesthe qualities of the two elements in it.

The miasm of this remedy is Ringworm miasm because there is constant doubt,‘will I be able to do it, or will I not; can I can I not. Should I try, should I not try’.And this creates the anxiety.

So the broad picture of Calcarea silicata is ‘the expectation from the family thatyou will earn money and provide security and this feeling that creates doubt inthe mind and anxiety. This is the broad picture. And the symptoms of this broadpicture will be there in the proving and they were.

But a remedy is not only the broad concepts. The remedy is also fine peculiarities.

As I pointed out in the earlier talk, with the case with Dr B N Chakraborty how heknew exactly, what was the ulcer of Medorrhinum, how it looked like, the blistersand where it is located, how painful it was.

These fine peculiarities of a remedy, one cannot infer by thinking okMedorrhinum is a Sycotic Miasm. Medorrhinum is a nosode, with this you canunderstand the broad things, Medorrhinum is egoistical, and he covers up forthings and he is not so responsible etc etc. But you cannot infer those typicalulcers of Medorrhinum, those blisters of Medorrhinum etc.

It is these fine peculiarities for example the coldness of the finger tips, the blueline in the gums, of Calcarea silicata, the pursuit of the elephants. This cannot beinferred and this is the reason why we need two things: we need provings and weneed clinical cases and clinical symptoms. Because along with the broad conceptsof sensations, the groups of kingdoms, miasms, if we use these peculiarsymptoms, these characteristic symptoms, then we are rich, then we are wellequipped. But when we use only one exclusively we are handicapped.


So many times, the peculiar symptoms and the repertory will point to a remedywhich then you have to see if it fits the broader concepts. Or sometimes you haveto see whether a remedy fits the broader concepts and whether that remedy alsocovers the peculiar symptoms. When this works together then it is so beautiful, soexact and so satisfying. And you are able to know for sure that the remedy willwork.

That is a reason why I emphasize again and again the value of peculiar symptoms,the value of repertory and the value of Materia medica.

And the only way you can really learn the repertory, is to use it.

For example: I can give you a case of a child, whose mother gave the symptomthat the child craves for burnt bread. Now I didn’t know where to look for in therepertory. So I had to open it and start reading, all the cravings and all theaversions and I came to the closest, which was craving for ashes.

‘Generalities, food and drinks, ashes, desires’

This was the closest I could come to burnt bread. And the remedy was Tarentula.

And then I found out yes the child was exactly fitted the picture of Tarentula.

Repertory gives a clue of the remedy;

So the repertory often gives a clue about the remedy. All the remedies in ourMateria Medica, are not to be found in chart of sensations, obviously there aremany many more than what I have touched or covered. And if you want access tothese remedies, then you need to be familiar with the repertory.

I will give you an example:

My teacher, Dr. Sarabhai Kapadia, whom we spoke about last time, he had apatient who said I feel hungry very often. And Dr Sarabhai asked him ‘how often?’He said, ‘after every two hours’ and he said, ‘when I am hungry, the whole roomknows that I am hungry, because I get a very loud rumbling noise in my stomachwhich everybody can hear’.

And then we see the rubrics,

‘Stomach; appetite, ravenous, canine, eating 2 hrs after’.


And if you combine this with rubric,

‘Abdomen, rumbling, noise, fasting while’

Then you come to the remedy was Taxus baccata.

And then you understand later that Taxus is from the family conifer. And then youcan see if the patient gives you the sensation of the Conifer family.

Proving helps to get the finer data of a remedy;

The idea of a proving and the importance of proving is that it brings out thespecific fine data that is connected with remedies. It also confirms the broadgrouping of the remedy. First of all the proving will give you the broad symptomsof the kingdom, of the miasm, of the remedy, but it will also give the fine data andhelps you understand the fine human expressions of that given remedy.

So let’s talk a little bit more about provings.

Originally, Hahnemann did proving individually which means he would takeprovers, individually he would put them under proving masters and conduct theproving.

Group proving enhanced the effect of proving;

But later I was inspired by a friend of mine in Germany whose name is JuergenBecker and he kind of, either he started or he did what was called as the groupproving. There a remedy would be given to a group and the group would meet, hewould have seminars, a particular remedy would be proved in that seminar in thewhole group and then people would share their experiences.

And he found that when a proving was done in a group, it enhanced the effect ofthe proving rather than giving one dose to individual prover. Each prover wouldbe examined separately from a proving master and there would be no connectionbetween one prover and the other. This is one way whereas Juergen Becker’sproving was done with a group and it seemed to make a difference.


Proving of Naja;

I wanted to test it out. So when I invited Juergen Becker to come to India, we dida seminar together in Mumbai, and I wanted to experiment with a proving. So wedid a proving of Naja, the Indian Cobra. There was a group of about 600 people inthe seminar and we sent them the remedy in advance along with the seminarbrochure. So they could come and they could write down their dreams, and theirsensations and everything and come and discuss it during the seminar. This was avery valuable experience for me because I saw with my own eyes how the groupproving enhances the effect of a proving.

I will tell you one dream of a prover that I remember from this proving, which issymbolic actually of the whole proving.

This prover had a dream that-

She was a paying guest of an old lady. She was staying in the old lady’s apartment,paying her some money. And for no apparent reason, one day the old womancame knocking at her door, and said you have to get out right now. I want you outof this room right now and she didn’t give any reason at all. The prover who is amedical Doctor, she said ‘well, where do I go at the middle of the night.’ And theold lady says ‘I don’t care. I just want you out’. And so saying she just took herbags and her luggage and her furniture and she just throw them down the stairs.

And as she threw them down the stairs, the old lady herself fell down and she hada bad injury and she couldn’t move. And then she is shouting to the prover, ‘comeand help me, come and help me’ at this time in her dream, the prover had aconflict in her mind, on the one hand she feels malicious because she feelssomething unjust had been done to her and on the other hand she feels it is herrole as a doctor, it is her duty to go and help this person who is in distress andwakes up actually from this dream with this duality, with this conflict in her mind.

This dream really stood out and kind of represented the whole proving.

How? Let’s try to understand this dream a little bit more.


If we see Naja from the original provings, you see there is a rubric,

‘Mind; delusions, imaginations, that he has suffered wrong’,

And then other rubric,

‘Mind; delusions, that he has neglected his duty’

And then there is another rubric,

‘Mind; will, contradiction of’.

So now you see how this dream is so well represented in the repertory and youunderstand how through the proving, this rubric plays out in a human sense.

So on one hand there is malice, the feeling, I shouldn’t neglect my duty, there isan intense feeling of duty and on the other hand, there is a feeling that ‘she hasdone me wrong and I should not do good for her. I should do the bad’ and thesetwo things are the contradiction in her will.

This is a peculiarity which later we realized that no other snake has except Naja.There are other snakes like the Elaps, Black mamba, Lachesis, they don’t have thisconflict. So this peculiar conflict between duty and conflict is very peculiar amongsnakes and of Naja and this proving really helped us to understand it in a verybeautiful way.

Now there is a question:

Why does group proving enhance the proving effect?

When we decided to do a group proving something else happened. This is a littlefunny, a little debatable and it is a fact. I must tell you about it.

What happened was, in a given proving, we found that 3-4 people did not takethe doses at all. They decided not to take the doses even though they belong tothe group. We met in a group, we decided to do a proving. Most of the peopletook the dose, 4- 5 people didn’t take the dose.

What was astonishing was that the people who did not take the dose alsodeveloped symptoms. And when we looked at those symptoms, we found thatthey were almost the same symptoms, as the proving, as the people who took the


dose. And it was so astonishing, so interesting. And sometimes, these people whodidn’t take the dose, developed really fine symptoms.

This is the data of observation, this is what we saw. Now you will say it cannothappen or can happen or what is the logic? We are not talking about this at all.We are saying, just what we saw. This is exactly what we observed. And each timewe did a proving, I have done so many provings, may be total of 50 provings, wesaw the same effect each time. That the people who took the dose and peoplewho did not take the dose both developed symptoms and the symptoms werevery, very similar.

So the question is how does this happen? If you want you can try this thingyourself and you will see that it happens, that’s the first thing you should know. Ithappens and you should see it.

Group consciousness;

In order to understand how it happens, we have to make a hypothesis that thereis something called as group consciousness. That means that when we meet as agroup; our consciousness does not remain enclosed but we have open up ourwindows to each other and a common consciousness of the group develop.

When you become a part of a group, somehow you become conjoined in a groupconsciousness and there is an experience of the whole group. This is thehypothesis, how to prove this hypothesis?

Experiment with colors and numbers;

I tried several experiments and it’s quite interesting what I came up with and maybe you can try these experiments yourself.

The first experiment I tried that we meet in a group in my office, mostlyvolunteers, Homoeopaths, students. And what we did is we sent one person outof the room to another room and we all decided that we would think of aparticular color. The people who are sitting in the room with other person out ofthe room, we decided for example we decided the color blue.


And we all closed our eyes and held each others hand and intensely thought ofthe color blue, blue, blue, blue everything was blue. Clothes were blue, the wallswere blue, everything was blue in our imagination. And having intensely thoughtof this color blue. We invited the person who was out of the room to come in andto just close his/ her eyes and just tell the color that came to his or her mind. Andwhat is interesting is this was an utter failure because this person mentionedgreen and yellow and black and red and every color except blue. So this was afailure.

Now we tried something else. We tried this with numbers. Again we would meetit, first two would go out of the room, the others would intensely think of anumber, let’s say the number 8 or no 6. And then we would invite the person inand ask him to guess that number. This was a failure too and it didn’t work.

Then we had to think of why didn’t this work? And the answer that came to mewas it didn’t work because it was purely at the level of thought, at the level ofmind. And it was not at the level of our vital force. It was we were trying to dotelepathy, mind to mind transmission. This was not group consciousness, it wasjust trying out a telepathic communication. It didn’t work for us.

Proving touches the vital force;

So we said we must try something which actually affects the vital force, theconsciousness of the whole group. So what I did. We did another experiment andwhat we did is:

Experiences of Elaps case;

I took a case of a woman and this case of this woman, she was intense case. Tosee this woman on the video was a scary experience. She would just look straightin the camera or into my eyes and she would say, ‘I want to kill my Mother in law.’This was cold, malicious woman. Her remedy which helped her was actually Elapscorallinus which actually helped her, the snake. But the very look of her and thetone of her voice was enough to make your blood cold.

So what I decided to do, is I decided to put up this video to the group and we hadtwo three people outside in the other room and the rest of us, just looked at this


woman in the video and tried to experience the state of this woman. Not throughour mind, not through our thought but through our experience and actually all ofus would feel the experience within us. She was quite intimidating person.

And at the end of the session we called those three people who were outside andasked them what did you experience and then what they narrated theirexperience was almost the complete symptomatology of Elaps. They saw snakes,some of them had fallen asleep, they saw snakes, they looked behind, somebodywas coming after them. They dreamt of heights, they felt as if they were fallingfrom high places into abyss and danger. And exactly almost what the experienceof the group was who saw the video.

So this was the first experiment where we succeeded and I repeated now thisexperiment about 30-40 times, different cases, different experiences. And eachtime, it kind of worked out. Because the kind of people who went out of the roomand came back after the group had experienced something almost exactly told uswhat the experience was.

Experiences of Anhalonium;

I will give you one more example of this. One experiment that we did was, we justsat in a group and I asked, again we asked two three people to out. And I askedthem, just anybody please tell me whatever comes to you spontaneously. So oneperson told us, ‘I am thinking how fascinating Homoeopathy is. And I said ‘tell mewhat do you mean by fascinating. What’s your experience here?’ and he said,‘Homoeopathy is a huge mystery’. I said, ‘describe this huge mystery’. And all ofus were now trying to experience what he was experiencing. And he is saying, ‘Ifeel this mystery as if it’s a huge space and it’s expanding. It’s all becoming bigand I feel as if I am such a small speck in this whole, I feel I am floating, I don’tknow where I am going, it’s all getting bigger and bigger and I am getting smallerand smaller and smaller.’ And I have absolutely no clue what’s happening.

Now all of us, so we all started experiencing this and just experiencing thismystery and the expanse of the space. And then we started discussing what couldthis be in terms of a remedy. And when we looked in the repertory and theMateria medica, we found the remedy to be Anhalonium lewini, which has thefeeling of the vastness and the expansion of space, like the whole space.


When you see the rubric for example:

‘Mind; merging of self with one’s environment’

This was our experience. As if I am nobody and I am expanding and merging withthe whole environment.

Anhalonium lewini as you must be knowing is a kind of Cactus. It is prepared froma kind of cactus. Then we called the people who were outside and when theycame in one of them said, ‘I had the experience of going in the sky, I am floatinginto nothing and then I am flying into the desert and there I see the cactus. Andactually he gave us the source of the remedy.

At a deep level we connect to the source;

So what is it, at a deep level in our consciousness, we connect not only to thegroup but we connect to the source. The source of what is within us, the source ofthe remedy within us. These experiments lead us to understand that there aremuch deeper dimensions to us than the mind level. Just give it a thought. Muchdeeper dimensions than the mind.

So that is what the group consciousness experiments helped us to understandthat there is something deeper and when we go really deep, we can try and evencome to the source and this is how the patients also we are able to go deeper anddeeper, and then sometimes when you go deep enough with the patients theirconsciousness can sometimes take them to the source itself.

Now this must not be taken in a superficial way. It’s not the idea that Doctor, Ifeel like wagging my tail and you are thinking oh this is Lac caninum. This will notwork, it’s not so silly.

It is that in a case or in a proving when you really allow the consciousness to godeeper and deeper you will, it can sometimes connect with the source.

Case taking;

So we can talk a little bit about case taking. Once we understand thesefundamental concepts about holism, individualism, about generalization, aboutpeculiar symptoms, about repertorization, about proving. These are the essence


of theory of Homoeopathy. The practice of Homoeopathy however consists ofcase taking and then to understand what is central in the patient and then findingthe remedy which is evaluation or remedy selection.

There are Two aspects of case taking.

The first thing about case taking is that there are two aspects of case taking,

Knowing the facts;

The first aspect is just to know the facts of the case. The exact symptoms, thelocation, sensation, modality and concomitants and eliciting it exactly. We have tomaster this and if we do that many cases will be solved then and there and youdon’t require more rocket science than that then taking case in detail.

For example;

28] Case of a lady with eructations while lying down; Calcarea.

Last week there was a lady patient with psoriasis and joint pain and loss of sleepat night; I keep getting belching at night. I said tell me about the belching and shesaid you know the funny thing about it is I don’t get it during the day, I only get itat night and then am forced to sit. I said why you have to sit up; she said if I liedown. It just keeps coming up and I lie down it becomes better.

So I had to look into the repertory for the rubric:

‘Stomach; eructations, night; lying, while’.

The remedy is Calcarea and I saw she beautifully fits into the picture of Calcareacarb and I am quite sure she will do well.

So just to get the exact symptom is very very important.

29] Case- Heat of soles; Cubeba.


One case 10 years ago of a woman it was a difficult case and I couldn’t get mygrips on it. One day she suddenly said I have this heat on feet of the soles. Thereare so many common remedies, Lachesis, Pulsatilla, Sulphur, Medorrhinum etc.

It was not so interesting so I just persisted and said, tell a little bit about this andshe said it’s not a continuous heat, it comes and it goes, in seconds I feel hot andit suddenly disappears.

So what she was actually saying was the heat in the soles comes in flushes.

So I looked in the repertory,

‘Heat, general, lower limbs, soles, flushes in.’

The remedy was Cubeba. I also confirmed the remedy because she had greatcravings for nuts and that is specific to Cubeba - nuts, oranges and onions.

Now what is Cubeba, later on we will come to know that Cubeba comes from thefamily of pepper, Piperaceae.

One of the main sensations of the pepper family is the desire for entertainmentand desire for some spice. Because everything seems so boring, so bland, sotasteless that they need something that is spicy. Desire for nuts, oranges … somany desires you will see in Cubeba.

They desire nuts to just munch when they are bored. It’s not food but justentertainment, stimulants like onion.

So one part of case taking is the detailed examination of the case and of the factswhether it is mental or physical.

Exploration of states;

The second part of the case taking has to do with the artistry. And this artistryespecially has to do with the mind states. Here the exploration has to go deeper,much deeper into the expression, so that you get the entire picture.


And here it goes down levels, from emotions, delusions, dreams, sensations, tothe experience and sometimes to the experience of the source sometimes. This isan artistic, technical and skillful part of case taking.

It comes with experience. But the basic case taking, detailed examination of thefacts. We should get it very clear before, don’t attempt to go to the next stepbefore you know the facts.

I can give you some examples.

One of them is the observation; as the patient walks in you observe certain things,the way the patient narrates the complaints, you observe it. The way theybehave, you observe it. And then you question and then you go in and you seewhatever you have observed, that you can understand at a deeper level, as anexpression of what is there.

Let me give you an example.

31] Case: Do not video me; Hyosycamus.

One of the milestone cases I had in my life was a woman who came to me and shestood there near the door of my consulting room and she says just like that,pointed a finger at me and said, ‘Are you going to video record my case’? BecauseI said why do you ask? She said if you insisted, if you are going to record my case, Idon’t want the case taken. I said ‘ Please sit down, we will not record you. If youdon’t mind can you tell me please, you will not be recorded. Let’s forgeteverything I said, just talk about this’.

So you see one of the ways of case taking is that when you see something reallystanding out, something really expressing itself, you can start taking it toexploring more about this peculiar thing and you can go deeper and deeper into ittill you come at the centre.

So she said to me, if you are going to record my case on video, then I will feelexposed’. I said ‘what do you mean by exposed?’ She said by exposed ‘I mean mysecret will be out to everybody’. I said ‘what do you mean by this?’ she said ‘it’svery important for me that nobody should know something about me what Idon’t want them to know.


She said people will come to know things about me like for example l like sweets.I don’t want anybody to know that they should not know it. I said ‘can you tell alittle bit more, about this, that they shouldn’t know about it?’ she said ‘OK, forexample: if there are people who I don’t know, they are strangers, then I don’tcare if they know about me or not.

So she said to me, if you are going to record my case on video, then I will feelexposed’. I said ‘what do you mean by exposed?’ She said by exposed ‘I mean mysecret will be out to everybody’. I said ‘what do you mean by this?’ she said ‘it’svery important for me that nobody should know something about me whatever ifthey will know even though it will be trivial. I like sweets. I don’t want anybody toknow that they should not know it’. I said ‘can you tell a little bit more, about this,that they shouldn’t know about it?’ she said ‘OK, for example: if there are peoplewho I don’t know, they are strangers, then I don’t care if they know about me ornot.

But especially people I know or people who know me. They should not have anyof my secrets.’ I said ‘what do you mean by this?’

Slowly what happens is from one thing, which is don’t record my case, we slowlyentered into the whole being because now she is not talking about this one thing,but that one thing which is a deeper expression of. You have to be clear now, tounderstand what is going on over here. What is specific, what is peculiar, what isit that is her perception?

So first she said my things about me I don’t want people to know, then theyshould not know. Especially people who know me, especially people who I knowthings which I don’t want them to know. I said ‘ok, tell me little bit more aboutthis’.

She said for example, if I am attracted to a man, it used to happen? I wasattracted to a man and I would not be able to have lunch with this person,because I was afraid that I might start retching at that time and if I start retchingthen he will know that he has some effect on me before, I would like him to knowit. So he would know something about me before I am ready to tell him. This isvery important for me that he shouldn’t know. I said tell me a little bit more aboutthis.


And she said in my office I have a partner, but I never come in the front, I amalways behind. Even at home, if somebody rings the bell, and I have to go just tothe lower floor of apartment building I must be completely well clothed because Ican never be seen with my hair down. Nobody should see me in a state that Idon’t want them to see me in state that I don’t want them to see me. I said whatif that happens, what if somebody knows something that you don’t want them toknow. She said then I am afraid that they may betray me that they could takeadvantage of me, that they could betray me. I said tell about this little bit more.And she said that’s exactly what I am afraid of.

Then we shifted from here to her interests and hobbies, and she said one thingthat affects her the most that she finds it really horrible are the horror stories ofNazi Germany and the holocaust and of what happened to the Jewish people.

Now what is interesting is when she is watching a movie, or reading aboutHolocaust, she actually imagines herself to be in that situation. Even though sheis an Indian and she has absolutely no relationships culturally or regionally orreligiously or with her family to Nazi Germany at all.

Now when you imagine the whole story of Nazi Germany and the holocaust, themost interesting thing and the most horrible thing was off course that the Jewishpeople were being taken away but they were betrayed by people who knew thatthey were Jewish. So what they were always afraid of was to be betrayed bypeople who knew them rather then people who didn’t know them.

So the rubric is,

‘Mind; fear, betrayed, of being’,

or

‘Mind, delusions, that she is being watched’

And her remedy was Hyosycamus. And she did so beautifully on this remedy thatnot only her asthma got better but her mind changed.

And 6-8 months later, when I asked her if I could record her case and she saidwhat's the problem. I told her don’t you remember the things you told me in the


past, and she said ‘no I don’t remember anything. Did I really tell you I shouldn’tbe recorded?’

Now what is interesting here, is when you read the proving of Hyosycamus thereis something very very interesting.

In Hering’s Guiding symptoms it reads:

‘ Delusion that he is being watched by the members of his family with whom hehad some slight misunderstanding; to avoid being recognized by them, he clothedhimself differently each day, and seldom left his house.’

So the theme here is to hide; because one of the symptoms of Hyosycamus is tohide. Another rubric is suspiciousness. All this is a part of panic. A Panic thatsomebody may betray me. Somebody who knows me will betray me. My ownfamily, I have to hide from them because they will recognize me and they let medown.’

Betrayal can only come from people who you trust.

So the whole main symptom of Hyosycamus is panic; it is very suspicious and thispanic of Hyoscyamus is a part of its Family sensation. Hyosycamus comes fromthe Solanaceae family, remedies like belladonna, Hyosycamus, Stramonium,Mandragora and the main symptom of this family is panic, terror, escape, hide,run away, danger, threat, that he could be killed, delusion about to receive injury,delusion about to be murdered, delusion sold as if would be.

One of the rubrics of Hyoscyamus is:

‘Delusion, as if he would be sold’

People used to take money in Nazi Germany, if you exposed one Jew; you gotmoney. It was this being betrayed.

So what is interesting over here, the symptom he dresses himself differently notto be recognized by his relatives, this is written in Hering, in Hering’s Guidingsymptoms, years and years before holocaust and it is true. So delusions basicallyare not time restrained, are not time bound. They occur in different phases ofhuman history. They are beyond time.


A delusion is a story, a situation, an event, a whole drama that plays itself outagain and again through human history. It is a stuff movies are made of,mythology, novels, arts, literature made of. In comes in different life situations, itis in human consciousness, it is in our fairy tales.

But there is even a level that is deeper than delusion. In Hyoscyamus, there is adelusion is to be betrayed, delusion is to be sold, the delusion is that he would behurt or he would be murdered. But beyond that is a sensation, the experience,and that experience in Hyosycamus is of terror, panic, of needing to escape. Andthat experience of panic and terror is beyond time then the delusion. And thatexperience comes from the source in nature. In this case, the source is from thefamily Solanaceae, that shares it’s experience.

So I was talking to you about the Case taking - the artistic form of case taking.

32] Case: I dream of shit; Cyclamen.

Let me give you another case. Here is a woman who came to me with eczema onher both feet and she was a middle aged Christian woman who held very highexecutive job in a company in Bombay. In this job, she was known for her extremeefficiency, for a very professional attitude, but she maintained a very very straightface and hardly showed any emotions in her office. She would just say hello andgood bye and that’s it. She would not socialize in any parties, any picnics or anyevent in which her office colleagues took part. She went to Work and home, shewent to home to work, that was it.

Now she had come to me with eczema and I asked to her about eczema. And hereyes were very shifty she kept moving her eyes here and there, not really lookingme in the eye, and she said to me, I think … the eczema is because I used somelotion, some ointment without checking for the expiry date. Which means shewas more or less blaming herself for the eczema, putting the cause on herself.

I said to her, ‘Do you have any stress or tension in your life?’ and she said, ‘yes, Ihave some tension. ‘Yes’ some tension, I asked, ‘what tension?’ She said sometension, some family tension. And she would not elaborate on it. I wouldn’t sayanything more. I said ‘tell said tell me about this tension?’ and she said ‘well, it’s


not to do with my husband. Just some tension’. I asked three times, I wouldn’t gether to say one word more than that.

So I asked her about her dreams. And she said reluctantly … I get dreams of shit.And she said now I must tell you that my son is a case of delayed development,delayed milestones and he gets convulsions. And I noticed that each time, thatI dream of the shit, my son gets a convulsion. And she said this with her eyeslooking down and moving her head here and there, her eyes here and there,something like that, very reluctantly. And I said to her ‘what do you feel then? Shesaid ‘I feel so guilty because even in my pregnancy; I saw a dream in which therewas a lot of shit and the child’s head was coming out. And I feel as if I amresponsible for his illness. For his convulsion because when I get the dream, hegets a convulsion. And she sounded extremely guilty.

So here I had to take the Rubric,

‘Mind; grief, silent, undemonstrative’

This was a woman who not only suppressed her grief silent, not she not only kepther dream quite but nobody in her organization even knew she had a son likethat. That she had a problem like that. So not demonstrated.

So here I have to take a Rubric:

‘Mind; grief, silent, undemonstrative’

And the second symptom for her

‘Mind; delusions, imaginations, crime committed, he had’.

As if applying lotion for her was like, checking the expiry date, dreaming of theshit, was wrong and that’s why her son got convulsion. So all this was her guilt.And when you combine these two rubrics, and the rubric:

‘Mind; going out, aversion to’

Then you get the remedy Cyclamen.

Interestingly if you check the rubric, ‘Dream of stools’ you will not find Cyclamen.Because this is at a dream level, you have to go deeper than that as to what thisdream is an expression of. In her case, it’s an expression of a guilt feeling, in her


case it’s an expression of her grief and her feeling of being responsible for hersituation with her son.

I have seen some cases with cyclamen and they have done very well.

So I was trying to illustrate the idea of Artistic case taking. And how that on theone level you have to deal with the facts, feelings, and eliciting in one hand andon the other hand, how you have to at a mind level go very artistically.

33] Case: Losing all; Calcarea flour.

I will give you one more case example. It was a case of a girl of 24 with knee jointswelling and pain. And she couldn’t move. She went to 4 different rheumatologistand they had 4 different diagnosis. One said it is rheumatoid arthritis, one said itis osteoarthritis, one said tuberculosis of knee joint and the fourth said you needto be operated and actually did a surgery on her.

But it didn’t help her and the pain and the swelling was quite bad and excruciatingand she couldn’t move it. And now she was already had began with about 3-4days of Anti tubercular treatment. But somebody had advised her to see me. Andshe came to me and said ‘can homoeopathy help me?’ I said ‘sure, let meunderstand your case’

Because I understand that the chief complaint with which the patient comes to usis the crystallization of the person’s state. Why should this particular patientdevelop this knee joint pain? What is the significance of it? What does it shows usabout who she is? So I told her tell me about this and she said I am afraid, that Imight lose the limb and I am afraid that they might amputate my limb. I said ‘Tellme a little bit more, about losing your limb about amputation of your limb.’

And she said, well sometimes I get dreams of losing my father. I said what is it foryou to lose your father? She said well very very anxious. For example, I amworking in a bank, and my job is to count the money and I am always consciousthat if I make a mistake in counting & if they find money lesser, then they will takethe money out of me.

That I will lose it. So everywhere you saw anxiety, losing her limb, losing herfather, losing money.


I said to her, ‘what are your plans for the future?’ and she said, ‘one thing is forsure, I don’t want to marry’. I said why? She said because I have heard manystories where the girl gets married and after sometime the husband says I don’twant you anymore.

I don’t want to ever be in this situation where I am simply thrown out. That I don’twant you anymore. I feel marriage is unstable. Because my experience with otherpeople’s marriage is like that the relationship is unstable and can be lost anytime.

So what you find is, in this case, you find different expression in the chiefcomplaint which is her knee joint, with her father, with her fear which is withmoney, her future which is the loss of a relationship, everywhere you see it’s lossand more loss and instability. You come to the same core. This is what shouldhappen in case taking.

Every expression of the patient should basically come to the same core sensation,to the same central experience, and here the central experience of stress was thefear that things are not stable’. The fear that the knee joints are, her parents willgo away, the father she depends upon can disappear. The money on which shedepends can go away, the relationship on which she seeks support can let herdown, can disappear one day, will not be there anymore.

Here if you want you can use a rubric,

‘Mind; fear, poverty of’,

And the remedy that I chose for her was from this rubric was Calc flour, because itis also a great remedy for joints and bones especially for the knees.

Now we can understand Calc flour from a totally different angle which is from thesensation approach.

First You understand Calcarea has the feeling of dependence, dependent onfather, job, money, which has to do with security with money, job etc and thefeeling is ‘I don’t have it, I need this and I am dependent on it’. And then we haveFlour on the other hand which is on the right side in the 2nd row.

The 2nd row has to do with being together and being separate. The process of 2nd

row is the process of labor and the process of separation of mother from the


child. In Fluorine, it is the end of the process, there is a break, a split, where themother and the child become separate. So in fluoric acid you have the idea ofseparation, loss, or wants to end the engagement. The idea is of separation.

So the idea here is the relationship, security; Calcarea is security, money, job etc.the security can come apart anytime, it is unstable. The Calcarea is security,money, job, relationship. And the fluoric is separation. So you cannot depend onit, it’s unstable. That is the idea of Calc flour. So the idea of Calc flour people is ‘Icannot be stable in my security. Security is unstable. I can lose my job, I can losemoney. My son on whom I depend can throw me out of the house, what will I do’.This is the fear. This is the anxiety.

So I told her I am sure of your medicine, now you can stop your allopathicmedicine, you can stop your anti – Koch’s treatment. The anti tuberculartreatment they started can be stopped but she didn’t want to stop the medicineand said ‘I am afraid. I can’t, I can’t leave it’. She was very insecure which was apart of her state. Trust me she couldn’t depend on me. It’s even I was unstable forher. So ultimately I had to frighten her little bit and I had to tell her ‘you bettertake my medicine otherwise you could land up in very bad complications.

I could to bargain with her to try out my medicine without allopathy for one weekat least.

& luckily With Calc flour worked on her, her pain was better, her swelling wasbetter, she was off the anti-tubercular treatment after that.

And what is interesting is off course, within six months her knee joint was as goodas new and then she decided to get married and she got married and she settleddown and it worked out very beautifully.

Now we can talk a little bit about the evaluation of the case.

Evaluation of the case.

After you take a case you need to evaluate. To need to know what to give valueto?

Traditionally we known that we have to give value to the mentals and generalsand that they are more important than particular symptoms.


Now let us understand what is a mental and a general?

Let’s do a little bit of exploration. In homoeopathy, a general symptom usually isreferred to as the one that has to do with the appetite, cravings and aversions,sleep, sweat, reactions to heat and cold, symptoms of Menstrual and sexualfunctions.

Earlier after the Kent, we had the Synthetic Repertory. In 1975 -76 I think it waspublished which has 3 volumes, it was by Barther and Klunker. The first volumehad mind, the second volume had modalities, cravings and aversions and the thirdvolume had to do with menses and sexuality. So this is the mentals and generalsof Homoeopathy.

It also includes constitution types like obesity or emaciation, growth anddevelopment, tendency to cough and cold or tendency to allergies.

The PNEI axis;

When we try to understand the generalities of Homoeopathy, in the light of whatwe call the modern science, we find that the generalities of homoeopathy have todo with symptoms of the three systems of the body: the nerves, the endocrinesand the immunology.

The nerves have to do with all the modalities of the cold, of the heat, the taste,the cravings, the aversions, symptoms of the nerves. The endocrines have to dowith symptoms of the weight or the height or the constitution types. Height andobesity, weight. Sexual symptoms, hormonal, and menstrual symptoms have todo with the endocrine glands. And the immune system has to do with tendency tocold & cough, low resistance and allergies..

So the symptoms that have to do with the nerves, the endocrines and theimmune system and the mind are important. These are called the psycho, neuro,endocrine, immunological axis what we call the PNEI axis. So what is this PNEI?When we try to understand it and we see that is the central controlling systems ofthe body.

All the parts of the body are regulated by the nervous system, by the centralnervous system, the sympathetic, the parasympathetic and they organs areregulated by the hormones and by the immune system.


So the mind and the central controlling systems of the body are closely aligned.Any disturbance of these systems then produce symptoms on the organs.Whether you have an ulcer, asthma or hypertension etc these are only theexpressions of problems in the central controlling system or in the PNEI axis.

The symptoms of this main controlling system we can call this as the centraldisturbance. The central disturbance then causes disturbance in organs systems.The symptoms of the central controlling system or the central disturbance aretherefore of primary importance because this is what comes first. This is whatcomes first in the patient, this is what comes first in a proving. And then there aresymptoms from the different organs … you know this thing from your ownexperience. When we fall sick, we fall sick as a whole, by experiencing it in ourmind state, in our moods, we find changes in our general energy level, in ournervous system, we find changes in our hormonal system and then after that wefind changes in individual organ systems. So therefore, we know these changesprecede and they are of much higher order in evaluation than local or organsymptoms.

Similarly, in a proving you will find that the mind state and the general symptomswill be common in all provers but the particular symptoms will differ from proverto prover according to his organ susceptibility. It is therefore less important thatthe particular symptoms have to match than it is more important the mindsymptoms and the generals have to match.

What is a Sensation?

A sensation is what you feel and what you perceive. It’s what you actuallyexperience. So in the case of the Hyosycamus woman what she felt and sheperceived was fear and panic. The desire to escape, the desire to hide, the desireto run. This is her experience. She always wanted to hide behind something.When you ask her what is it that you feel? What is it that you experience? Thenfor example in Solanaceae: the experience is of violence, sudden violence whichcauses you a fright and a flight reaction. We see that experience in all Solanaceae


remedies. So sensation is what you experience, what you perceive, what you feelwithin your being.

What is Miasm?

A Miasm is the depth and pace of that sensation. How is this fear and panic? Towhat depth is that panic perceived? To what pace is it perceived?

- Is the penic something that comes suddenly and goes suddenly? That is acutemiasm.

- Is it experienced like this is a danger period, this panic lasts for certain criticalperiod and if you pass this critical period somehow then you safe. This is thefeeling in typhoid. The feeling is as if I have to struggle very hard through thisshort term period and this danger passes and everything is fine. This is inHyosycamus in the Solanaceae family, the typhoid miasm has this pace.

- In some other person the same panic is experienced in a different pace. Forexample somebody can say there is panic and fear but I must not express it but Imust be in total control in a panicky situation. I must not express it, I must controlit. This is cancer miasm, the remedy in Solanaceae family in Cancer miasm isTabacum. The feeling of Tabacum ia feeling of panic but one has to be in totalcommand and control in that panic situation. One must not allow the panic to bechaotic or unruled. One must be in complete command and in control.

So that’s how Tabacum people behave, if they are in an anxious situation, they goout and smoke. The wife is giving birth to a baby and he is smoking because itsees in that situation like he is out of control, he can’t do anything. That is thewhole idea of tobacco. And tabacum is a great remedy for effects of tobacco.

The materia medica doesn’t come from planet Mars. Coffea, the main idea ofcoffea is stimulation. When do you drink more coffee? You drink more coffeewhen you want more ideas, when you want to study for the exams? When youwant to keep awake you don’t drink coffee, when your wife is giving birth to ababy, you smoke. When you want to get ideas, you drink coffee. When you wantto control, you smoke. So it’s not rocket science and it’s common sense and it isreflected in our Materia medica.


So Miasm is the depth and pace of sensation;

The sensation in Solanaceae is Panic.

But the depth of it, the pace of it can be sudden – suddenly coming & suddenlygoing. That’s acute miasm.

It can be Panic in a critical period that is Typhoid miasm.

It can be panic that needs control, it is the Cancer miasm.

Belladonna is acute of solanaceae. Here the panic comes suddenly and disappearsuddenly. And the only reaction you have, it’s instinctive, you just have the reactinstinct.

34] Case- Constantly harassed by fright; Capsicum.

I remember a case of a child, he must have been about 10-12 yrs old and he wasthe son of two allopathic doctors and He had recurrent attacks of malaria & eachtime he would be given antimalarials every month and still he was getting attacksof malaria and after doing this for 6 -7 months so they got him to Homoeopathybecause they couldn’t stop the recurrence. I asked him ‘describe to me, duringthe fever, during the heat, what do you really experience? And he said ‘I feel as ifa train is just approaching me and it is going to hit me and I really have to run fastfrom there. I feel really panic’. And I said ‘tell me little bit more, what are thethings that bother you in life?’ He says, ‘for sure it’s my sister’. And I said ‘whatdoes your sister do?’ he said ‘my sister is a few yrs older to me. And what shedoes is she really frightens me from time to time. I am sitting & reading a bookand she just comes and she coils a snake toy/ figure into my book. I get so scared.And she keeps troubling me, harassing me with this kind of fright situation.

So here is this case … you see that this child also experiences a panic likeSolanaceae where he has to run or he has to escape. But the pace of it isintermittent. He has malaria which is intermittent. He has a sister who isintermittent and the problem is persistent and keeps coming up from time totime. Whether it be his fever or his sister. This kind of pace that is always thereand keeps coming up from time to time in Malarial miasm. So here you see thesame experience of panic is found in a pace that is Malarial. The remedy for this is


Capsicum is Solanaceae and malarial miasm. The idea is to feel to be harassed,persecuted, intermittently by attacks of panic.

So now I hope ,I would make it to you clearer the difference between sensationand miasm. The sensation is the experience and how much, how acutely, howchronically, in what pace. In what depth, and what desperation that is the miasm.

This is how I came to the application of Miasms in Plant kingdom:

I will give you another example.

35] Case of a marasmic child who would bite and hit; Abrotanum.

This child of another Allopath, a surgeon, 3-4 years of old. He came with fever forsome weeks; persistent fever that was lasting for weeks and was losing a lot ofweight despite a good appetite. The child was hyperactive and he could not sit inone place. He would often hit people and bite people if he was stopped fromdoing what he wanted to do.

Now here was a case which seemed like a case of Tuberculinum because the childwas very hyperactive, very restless, he was eating well but losing flesh and he washaving fever for a prolonged period of time. This looked like a picture ofTuberculinum. I gave him Tuberculinum, nothing happened it didn’t help him.Then I thought he is a cranky child, hitting people, biting people ; this could beCina but Cina didn’t help him earlier.

And then I didn’t know what to do. These two remedies I gave didn’t help withfever still persisting. So I took the family Compositae family, because here washitting, biting to causing injury. And injury you know is from the family of Arnica,the Compositae family. And then you had the pace which was long lasting fever,losing flesh and very very restlessness and hyperactive. This was like Tubercularmiasm here.

And the sensation or the experience here, he was demonstrating here throughaction was surgery. Therefore, I thought could I choose for him a remedy fromCompositae family but which has the pace like Tuberculosis. Then I looked in therepertory and I found Abrotanum, which has this idea of Tuberculosis and it has afeeling of Compositae family. So, thinking this, I gave Abrotanum and within


24 hours there was a marvelous result and this is how I first came to the idea ofkingdoms … the plant kingdom and how in each family, we could individualize theRemedy according to each miasm. The sensation being common to all theremedies of the family.

The sensation and miasm represent the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of a phenomenon.

What you experience, is a sensation.

How you experience it, is a miasm.

These two are inseparable and there are always connected.

For example; when we say that a giraffe is a tall animal, we are identifying it bytwo things, we are identifying it by tall and animal. A giraffe is not a mixture of talland animal, you cannot separate the tall or the animal part from each other.Similarly, the sensation and the miasm describe the; what and how ofphenomenon, you cannot separate them.

For example: if You say milk is a white liquid, then you will ask, is the milk white oris the milk liquid, I would say both. the liquid represents the consistently andwhite represents the color and the milk is white liquid, it means it has a certainconsistency and a certain color. In the same way, a person’s experience has acertain the pace and depth which is the miasm, and the certain experience or thefeeling which is the sensation and they are always together.

So similarly in an expression, pace and depth is a miasm; the experience is asensation.

In every major general sensation, delusion, dream, situation, feeling and localsensation, we must see if the patient comes to that sensation and the miasm.

In every major expression of the patient, you must find the same pace and thedepth and you should find the same experience and the same miasm and thesame sensation. And what is important is that in a given sensation we mustalways find it together. You cannot find the miasm till you get the sensation.When you come to the sensation, then you ask the question, what is the pace,


what is the depth, what is the desperation to which this sensation is experiencedand that will give you the miasm.

You cannot take the sensation from one part of the case and miasm from otherpart of the case and mix it together. This doesn’t work.

For example:

The patient says ‘I like to control things’ in one part of the case and in anotherpart of the case, she said ‘I feel the constricting sensation’. So you cannot sayhere, she said controlling there so this is Cancer miasm. And she said constrictinghere. So it is Euphorbiaceae. So now … I will choose Cancer miasm, Euphorbiaceaefamily. This kind of marriage does not work. You must find the control in thesensation of constriction or you must find out the sensation of constriction towhat pace and depth. Constriction is experience. Once you get the experiencethen you can get the miasm, not otherwise.

Now the 3rd thing is our system. Besides sensation and miasm is the levels.

What is a level?

The level is the Level of Experience. Where exactly do you experience thesensation. You do experience the level of sensation at a level of local parts; thatmeans you are in level 1 / 2. Or do you experience it at the level of the mind andbody, in which case you are at level 3. Or do you experience it at an imaginarylevel at a level of delusion, level 4 and dreams or do you experience the level ofwhole being at a general level of level 5 which is the sensation and at what levelyou experience it that decides the potency of the remedy that you will give to thepatient.

The miasm and the sensation together helps you select the remedy. The level ofexperience helps you select the potency. Because if the level of experience is atthe level of pathology, you could select the 6th potency. At the level of facts islocal symptom, the 30th potency. At the level of mind and body, emotions andbody is level 3, 200 potency. At the level of delusion or imagination, is the 4th

level, 1M potency. And at the level of general sensation which is the 5th level, youselect the 10 M potency.


So the Level helps you select the Potency. In short

What you experience - represents the sensation.

How you experience it - represents the miasm.

Where at what level you experience it- represents the potency.

So this is the whole system we are talking about. It is a system of kingdoms,miasms, and levels.

And we shall continue to talk about this in our future talks. I shall conclude herewith this talk.

(50: 23)And looking forward to seeing you on next Wednesday.

In the meantime, just a few things to tell you.

One is that within a couple of days, we shall be putting the lecture, this wholelecture on the Archives, so that if anybody of you had problems with sound orwith picture or with any pauses, you could see it with very good quality in theArchives. We shall also be posting the entire transcript of this lecture in order tohelp you understand better or follow it better.

And I invite from you to send on the email some questions or comments ordiscussions or your cases or rubrics from the Repertory that you have used,peculiar symptoms that you found. If you could share it on the forum. We shall tryto answer your questions on the forum also. And in the next talk I shall take itfurther and what I shall talk of, the summary of it also I shall post it on the forum.So that you read it also the summary. You can see the references what you haveto read before and what you should have with you when we have the talk.

And the next topic will be Integration of the Repertory and the Materia Medica onthe one hand and on the System of Kingdoms and Miasms on the other hand; andhow it all comes together. We shall see on the next talk with more examples and Iwish you a great week and

Good bye for now.

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