TALK - 3 CONCEPT OF HOMOEOPATHY - III

Concept of Homoeopathy, Development and

Integration of Classical Homoeopathy and Sensation method.

OK. So good morning / good afternoon / good evening / good night, wherever
you are. It’s funny to talk to people across the world in different time zones. In
the last two talks we spoke about certain fundamental concepts. We spoke about
Hahnemann, his discovery of Homoeopathy, we spoke about the concepts of
Holism and individualism, we spoke about the Repertory and the Materia Medica.
We spoke about Case taking and individualizing each patient. We spoke about
peculiar symptoms, we also spoke a little bit about the Kingdoms, the Miasms
and the levels.

Sometimes it seems as if we are speaking about two different distinct, separate

and even sometimes opposite approaches namely on the one hand what we
might consider as the traditionally practiced form of Classical Homoeopathy with
the Repertory, Materia Medica etc etc. And on the other hand, what is now is
referred as the sensation method with its ideas of kingdoms, miasms and levels.
And very often the Practitioner or the student is compelled to make a choice. Are
you going to do this, you are going to do that Or in a given case whether we shall
look at symptoms and the rubric or whether we should look at the kingdom &the
source and the miasms etc.

Today’s talk is going to be about Integration.

Good results with traditional method

Because as you know I started with the traditional method, with repertory, with
materia medica and definitely like everyone else I had very good results.
Sometimes I have seen fantastic results. Difficult cases treated and cured with
homoeopathy and that’s why Homoeopathy has survived for so many years and it
is growing in popularity. But the problem was that you could not be really sure
that the remedy would work. The results were there but they were not
consistent. And it was not sure that you would get a result in every case.

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Homoeopath- a man with an air gun
Some of my teachers in the college said that the Homoeopath is like a man with
an air gun, sitting in the middle of an open field looking straight ahead with his
gun pointed in the air and he keeps firing shots every five minutes, and once in a
while a bird happens to pass exactly over the line of fire and then he says what a
great shot I made. Kind of pointing that our results are more of chance than of
some really good strategy. This of course is a bit of an exaggeration and it is
something you can make a fun of it but it is sure that our results are not
consistent.

The third letter is ‘A’:

One of the funniest incidents in my practice is something I would like to tell you.
After more than 10yrs of practice, I had as a guest a Dutch homoeopath Deborah
Collins, where she is a well-known teacher and now she lives in New Zealand and I
invited her to give a seminar in India. And she said it would be a good opportunity
for her to observe me in my practice as well.

So it was a kind of a sharing thing, a kind of a mutual learning experience and she
was sitting in my practice for 15 days and then each patient would come and I
would take the case the patient would leave. And I would ask her what do you
think Deborah. And each time the two of us had completely two different
remedies for that patient. And both of us of course were supposed to be good
homoeopaths and experienced once.

It so happened for 15 days we had not one case that we came to the same
remedy. And then it was on the 15th day and this was the last patient we were
going to see together and he walked in. The patient was himself a Homoeopath
and he gave such a crystal clear case of a remedy, I thought there is no possibility
that in this case, we would come to two different remedies.

So I look at her and I said Deborah, ‘What do you think?’ She said ‘Yes I think
finally we could come to the same remedy’. But then I got my doubt and just to
be sure I said the third letter is an ‘A’ because we didn’t want the patient to know
the remedy at that point. And she said ‘Yes, we got it. We finally came to the

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remedy, the same one.’ The patient left and I said, ‘Deborah, wasn’t that a
beautiful case of Platina?’ and she said, ‘what, I thought of Anacardium.’

And then we went downstairs and the patient followed us and he said to us, ‘Did
you give me Staphysagria?’

Why this uncertainty in practice?

Why do we have so much uncertainty?

And I felt we have this uncertainty in practice, one of the reasons is because we
are so dependent almost solely on symptoms.

A patient gives us a set of symptoms. We put it in a reportorial filter and we have

remedies coming up.

For example: There could be a patient coming up with symptoms; ailments from
worries, weeping disposition, yellow staining leucorrhea, aggravation from sun,
aggravation from warmth, aggravation from fatty food. If you put all these
symptoms in the repertory and then many remedies will come up like Nux
Vomica, Pulsatilla, Nitric acid, Ignatia, Calcarea, what to do here?

Then it becomes anybody’s choice. When you rely upon a set of symptoms then if
you take one set of symptoms you come to one remedy; if you take a slightly
different set of symptoms, you come to a completely different remedy.

And then in this reportorial chart, you have diverse remedies like as Nux Vomica,
Nitric acid, Calcarea which are so completely different from each other, all coming
together for your consideration. And then it is left to you to interpret what the
patient needs. So you may think, ‘Oh! I think this is a Calcarea case’. So somebody
says ‘Oh it’s an Ignatia case’. And then there is uncertainty.

Is remedy and patient only random collection of symptoms?

The question is; is a remedy or even a patient only a random collection of
symptoms? Does Ignatia mean symptoms, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, is this Ignatia? Or is
a patient is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, is this a patient? Is a remedy and a patient just a
random collection of symptoms? This is the question.

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Remedy belongs to a group
When we ask this question really deep then you understand that each remedy
actually belongs to a group. No remedy is random. Lachesis belongs to the group
of snakes, Ignatia to the plant kingdom and to a specific family Loganiaceae.

Remedy- spirit of source from which it comes

Each remedy has a particular essence, a particular nature, a particular quality that
actually comes from the source from where it comes. It’s simply not a random
collection of symptoms. The symptoms are an expression of its innate nature but
they are only an expression, not the remedy. The remedy itself is the spirit of the
source from which it comes.

Grouping – kingdoms and miasms

So then it becomes possible to group remedies according to where it comes from.
There are the two groupings that I made; the first grouping, is the grouping of
kingdoms. This grouping already exists and it’s not something I created. But
something I discovered is that this grouping can immensely be useful in practice.
The second grouping which we have is the grouping with miasms.

Patterns in the three kingdoms

The first question is it possible to find a certain pattern in the three kingdoms. You
have the mineral kingdom; in that you have remedies just to take well known
remedies like Natrum muriaticum, Argentum nitricum and Baryta carbonicum just
as examples. Second the animal kingdom, just the prominent remedies that come
to you like Lachesis, Lac caninum and Apis. Take Plant remedies like, Pulsatilla,
Ignatia and Staphysagria as examples.

Commonality in remedies belonging to each kingdom

The question now is:

Do we see anything common in remedies that belong to the mineral kingdom,

anything common in remedies that belong to animal kingdom and anything
common in remedies that belong to the plant kingdom? Just give this a thought;

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because when you think about it, when you start reasoning with it, then it
becomes your idea and not just something I told you.

Minerals- Structure
So when you give it a thought and have look at just see the three remedies from
the Mineral Kingdom -Natrum muriaticum, Argentum nitricum and Baryta
carbonicum, just look at these remedies from your knowledge of materia medica
and what do you see?

Natrum muriaticum- relationships

Natrum muriaticum all of us know it’s main symptom is disappointment in love.
So you can see that Natrum muriaticum is concerned with relationships, a love
relationship. It is concerned with breaking of relationships, which also means it
has a dependence on the relationships, etc.

Argentum nitricum- performer

What do you see in Argentum nitricum? That we know that Argentum Nitricum
has a stage fright. You see that, it necessary for him to perform, essentially Arg
Nitricum is a performer; he is a singer who has lost his nerve on the stage. The
question for him is: ‘Do I have the confidence that I will be able to perform?’

Baryta carbonicum- handicapped feeling

Take Baryta carbonicum. The main feeling of Baryta carbonica as we know it is a
handicapped feeling. A feeling that I am not good enough. That I lack of the
capacity to stand on my own feet, to take responsibility. In fact he was a beautiful
delusion that his legs are cut off, he can’t stand on his feet. That I can’t take the
responsibility. So his question is: ‘Do I have the ability to stand on my own feet or
do I have to depend on somebody else?’ This is it, isn’t it.

Mineral commonality- do I have or do I need?

So what do we see as common between these three remedies- Natrum
muriaticum, Argentum Nitricum, Baryta Carbonicum ?

We see is essentially their question; ‘Do I have it or do I need it?’

Natrum mur says ‘Do I have a relationship? Do I need a relationship?

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Argentum nitricum says ‘Do I have the ability to perform or don’t I have the ability
to perform?

Baryta says ‘Do I have the capability to take responsibility or don’t I have that
capability?’

What is common to these three Mineral remedies is:

‘Do I have it or do I lack it?’ isn’t it?

When you think deeper, you see that this commonality between these three
remedies is actually the essence the deepest feeling of all the remedies that
belong to the Mineral kingdom as a whole, Calcarea carbonica, Magnesium.

Calcarea carbonicum, Magnesium; what do you see here? You see Dependence.
What is dependence? It is a feeling – ‘I don’t have it. I need it, somebody has to
give it to me.’

If you take the remedy Arsenicum; what do you see?

The feeling, ‘I am losing it; robbers are coming and stealing all my stuff’.

This is the concern of mineral kingdom, ‘Do I have it? Do I lack it? Am I losing it?
Do I need it?’

And essentially what does this have to do with? This has to do with the feeling of
Structure. ‘Is my structure complete or incomplete? And if complete, is it losing
it’s completeness. Completeness in terms of relationships, completeness in terms
of capability, in terms of performance ability; whatever it is.

So you can extend our study of these three remedies to the whole mineral
kingdom. We can understand things deeper.

Let’s take the animal kingdom.

Animals-survival- jealously, competition and hierarchy

I would very much would like you to see with me and then it becomes real for
you. This is it, This is the whole essence.

Now take remedies from the animal kingdom, lets take Lachesis, Lac caninum and
Apis, what do we see here?

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In Lachesis and Apis, the theme of jealousy is very very strong.

What do we see in Lac caninum?

The main symptom of Lac caninum; ‘Delusion looked down up on’. That
everybody looks down upon him.

So what do we see in these animal remedies, in these three Remedies?

We see one and the other. We see there is an interaction of comparison between
the two. When you see the same thing in Lac caninum, one is high, one is low.
Again it’s comparison. This commonality that we saw in these 3 well known
remedies of the Animal Kingdom is indeed an essence of the Animal kingdom
which is :

Competition, comparison, hierarchy, superiority, inferiority. In fact it is the

comparison between the two, the duality, one versus the other. And when we
look at the animal kingdom in nature, what do we see?

When two dogs meet what do they do? What happens? Have you seen it? They
first will growl at each other, both of them will growl together. And then the
question is ‘Who growls louder?’ Who threatens more?’ So the one goes up and
the other goes down, and accepts his lower position. One becomes the top dog
and one becomes the underdog? This is the story of the Animal kingdom, isn’t it?

It’s the same story in the bee, Apis. One becomes the queen bee, and the others
become the workers and the slaves. So you see a clear hierarchy, a competition.

The same is true with the snakes as well. Intense jealousy, intense competition is
found in snakes. What is interesting of course is, how this jealousy is reflected in
our Materia medica. For example; if you see the rubric of Apis it is jealousy
between women and if you see in in Lachesis the jealousy between men, because
in the snakes the competition is between the males of the species. In the bee, if
the competition between one queen and the other queen, the old queen and the
new queen.

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It’s so unbelievable, when you see nature and you see it’s reflection in the
provings and in the Materia medica. You really have to be blind to not see the
similarity.

So this is what we see common in the animal kingdom; the hierarchy, the
competition, the survival and who will survive. It is the survival of the fittest, of
the strongest.

So when we see Lachesis, Lac caninum and Apis, it is like as if we see a snake or
the dog or the bee actually talking to us. Telling us their inner story.

Why am I telling you all this? Because just to see, just to show you. Just to be able
you are able to see through my eyes. What the mineral kingdom is? It’s about
structure. That the animal kingdom is about competition and survival. You can
see this reflected in nature and you can see it reflected in nature & you can see it
reflected in our Materia medica..

What do we see with the plants?

Plants- Sensitivity and Reactivity

When we look at the plant kingdom take three well known remedies, as example;
Ignatia, Pulsatilla and Staphysagria.

What do we see in common here? We don’t see the relations breaking up. We
don’t see so much of themes of performance, not common. We don’t see so
much of theme of competition and jealousy and hierarchy and fighting? Not
common. But what is common, is the sensitivity, these three remedies – Ignatia /
Staphysagria / Pulsatilla. Whatever you say to them is taken in a very sensitive
way and then there is a reaction. You shout at a Pulsatilla, she starts crying
immediately. You say something little rude to Staphysagria, the reaction is very
very strong, it is suppressed but internally they are really very upset.

Let me give you a small case example;

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36] Case; Small man with big tongue- Staphysagria.
There was a man, as a patient he came to me and said; I am very sensitive. I said
tell me about this sensitivity, he said I went to visit my brother in law. My brother
in law is financially well off, more better than me and on a higher social level. I
went to his house on a Sunday & they just told me to sit in the waiting room
because he was not ready yet. His wife said he was just coming, just wait here. I
was made to wait for 10 minutes, the man came out 10 minutes later and we
were going to discuss an issue of the family. Something to do with a common
relative and I had gone there to discuss the issue.

While we were talking, his daughter, she had made a lamp and she brought the
lamp and she was showing it to her father and he looked at the lamp and he said ‘
Oh you made such a small lamp and you put such a big wick. You have made such
a small lamp and you put such a big wick’. The patient said , ‘I knew immediately
he was talking about me. He was trying to tell me you are such a small man & you
have such a big tongue, you have come to talk to me’.

I was so angry, I started shivering. This is the sensitivity and the reactivity of
Staphysagria. He did beautifully on Staphysagria. Every word is taken and
sensated and reacted to, like an insult.

So this is what is common with the plant kingdom? What do we know of Arnica?
What do we know about any plant remedy. It is the sensitivity. And that’s exactly
what plant is in nature.

Because the plants survival doesn’t depend on competing or fighting with

somebody usually, but on how it reacts to everything outside to weather, to
seasons, the sunshine, to the rain, to the moisture , the time of the day and it has
to adapt itself.

It has to keep changing according to various changes in the external

circumstances. They have to be sensitive and reactive; this is how they can live.
And this is exactly what we see in remedies that come from plant kingdom and in
patients who need plant remedies.

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So this kind of classification of plant, mineral and animal is something that you
can just know by thinking. I want that you see it and make it yours. Because this is
how I came to it, just by looking. Just to see what is common between this and
that and that. Is there something common? And then you make a hypothesis, and
then you check out this hypothesis in the various remedies in the Materia medica
and in the hundreds and thousands of patients that come to you

Testing the kingdom classification

That’s what I did; I had a huge practice in those times. Generally you do have a
huge practice before you start sensation method and then it goes down, I am just
joking. So I had a huge practice and I could test out this idea with successful cases.
Then I would list and I would check out with the patients would come and I would
check out with the sensation, whether the main theme is ; sensitivity, structure or
survival.

Application of the kingdom classification

And then I found this classification is very true. And not only true but right from
the beginning, it was immensely helpful for me in practice.

For example: Patient says:

He had disappointment in love and then you open the repertory and then you
find the remedies. Just take three remedies from the rubric. You take Ignatia,
Natrum muriaticum and Lachesis, Let’s forget the rest of the remedies for the
moment. Let’s look at the three. With the idea that plant/ mineral/ animal are
made differently. If you just look at these three remedies, it’s so easy to
differentiate.

Disappointment in love: as experienced by remedies of the three kingdoms:

Ignatia
In Ignatia, the disappointment in love will be the experienced as something they
are sensitive to. It’s a kind of shock, how could this happen, till yesterday this guy
was all over prophesying undying love for me, and today he is with another
female. How could this happen? This is how they experience as a shock. That’s the

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theme of Loganiaceae family. That’s the theme of the plant kingdom, a sensitivity
in Ignatia to shock. You see this in practice. Just every day.

Lachesis
Today I had a case where I gave him Lachesis. He had disappointment in love too.
But the way he reacted in a way of competition and jealousy. I will show them, I
will do this, I will expose her, I will … he wanted to go to the telephone company
and retrack the conversations he has had with this girl in which she might have
told him certain, not very rosy things about herself or her past. And he wanted to
publicize them. He was really after her, he wanted to finish her. This is his feeling,
‘she did it to me, I am going to do it to her. She versus me. He is doing better with
Lachesis. And the energy that he brings to the room is unbelievable.. He was just
in this room few hours ago

Natrum Muriaticum
And in this room today, it’s funny to say I gave somebody Natrum muriaticum.
Who also has disappointment in love. What was his feeling? His feeling was
intense attachment to her. How can I live without her; I needed her so much, I am
not able to forget her. My whole life, my whole structure is dependent on this
relationship. That’s how he experienced it.

One rubric- three different experiences according to the kingdom

So one experiences disappointment in love as a shock, the other as a fight and the
third as a loss. A loss in his structure. So you see the same rubric but three
completely different experiences within the same rubric. Once we understand
this then our whole look at rubric, then our whole case taking takes on a different
depth. So when a person says, I have disappointment in love, we don’t simply
accept it and & say ‘Ok’ and we tell that person ‘Tell me what is your experience
in this situation’. And then we are able to go deeper in the experience and when
you go deeper into the experience, then you see; is this an issue of sensitivity or
structure or of survival. And then you are more sure, which kingdom, which
family, and which subkingdom they are talking about. And that brings about more
certainty, more predictability, more consistency in your remedy selection.

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Two approaches- symptoms and kingdoms
So there are two different ways of looking, one is the way of symptoms and the
other is the way of kingdoms or systems. But what is interesting is that both of
them ultimately speak the same language. It’s like coming from two different
angles and reaching the same place, they meet at the same place. And the person
who has mastered both, he is the real master; not the one who knows just one
way or the other. Because ultimately they both speak the same language, this has
to be.

Once we understand that each kingdom itself is a pattern, in Mineral the pattern
is Structure, in Plants; Sensitivity, in Animals; its Survival. Then the question is; are
there patterns within the kingdom?

Should we stop at kingdoms or can we go little bit further. The easiest way to
explore is the Mineral kingdom because it is already structured. So it lends itself
easily to its structure.

Patterns within the mineral kingdom-periodic table

And so you come to the Periodic table with it’s rows and columns. You have 7
rows and 18 columns and the remedies are just spread out like this, in these rows
and columns. Now let’s try & do a little bit of more research and see if we can find
together patterns within each row.

It’s easy to read my book ‘Structure’ and find it. But I would like you to find out
yourself with your own thinking, as an example: we will take the 3rd row of the
Periodic table.

As an example:

Row 3
In the row 3, you have remedies like Sodium which is Natrum, Magnesium,
Alumina, Silica, Phosphorus, Sulphur, Chlorine and Argon.

Now let you and I together try to understand, just as how we understood what is
common in the kingdom. Let’s see what’s common in Row 3. Let’s see if there’s a

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pattern here. For this we need to study a few rubrics. One of the rubrics is
Egotism or self-esteem..

Egotism
In this rubric, you will find three remedies that belong to this row: Phosphorus,
Silica, Sulphur. And these are exactly the three remedies on the right side of this
row, Silica, Phosphorus, Sulphur and all of them have to do with themes of ego.

Silica has a very fragile ego, so if he appears in public, he is very scared, and what
are people going to think about me?

Phosphorus has a more positive ego; he is able to go out there and make friends.
He has a degree of self-confidence.

Sulphur has a superior ego; he thinks he knows better than everyone else.

But you see that there is a theme of ego that goes across on right side of this row
and expressing in different ways.

Embarrassment
Similar to ego, is the theme of embarrassment, with ego you find this is opposite,
isn’ it. You also find Silica, Phosphorus and Sulphur, they feel embarrassed.

Forsaken feeling
Another feeling that is common in this row is forsaken feeling and in this you have
the remedies, Magnesium, Natrum, Silica and Sulphur and Muriaticum which is
Chlorine. The feeling ‘We don’t want you, we don’t care for you, and we don’t
love you’. That’s forsaken feeling.

Love, care and nourishment

So you have the themes of ego, and you have the theme of love, care and
nourishment.

For example you have Natrum muriaticum is from the 3rd row. It has
disappointment in love. Phosphorous is from the 3rd row, it has the theme of
Caring and sympathy. And almost all these remedies have a lack of nourishment,
even though they eat well, emaciation, marasmus & rickets etc.

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So this is very basic Homoeopathic Materia Medica. And from it is this basic
Materia Medica from which we are going to raise the ellipsis of our understanding
of our system.

Just talking about the care and nourishment, I reminded of the lecture of James
Tyler Kent on Mag carb, where he said he was asked to go to an orphanage and
the orphan children, they were dying from emaciation. They were dying from
diarrhea. They were dying from mal-nourishment. Eventhough they were being
fed properly. And on the other hand, the children were dying and he tried 1-2-3
remedies didn’t work. Till through couple of symptoms which was: “the sinking of
the fontanalle and the clay like stools”, he came to the remedy Magnesium carb.
And after that not one single child died in that orphanage. Every child was given
Magnesium carb. So the theme of lack of care and the lack of nourishment is a
strong theme of the Magnesium. Also interestingly, later on what he realise that
Magnesium has that it is the remedy in our Materia Medica with the strongest
feeling of being orphaned, of forsaken. Even though it may have living parents.

Row 3 Represents stages of development in a child

So when we look at the themes of care, ego, embarrassment, we understand
themes of row 3, is the theme of a child who is developing his own identity, he is
developing his own self-esteem and his own confidence, his own choice, his own
ego and also developing a lot of self - consciousness and therefore the feeling
embarrassed and it is also a stage in the development of the child when he does
needs a lot of care, love and nourishment from the outside.

His choice
Let’s say it is a stage of child between the age of let’s say; 3 and 10, who is now
developing his own friend circle, his own interest, his own food cravings, his own
way of dressing, his own opinion about things. Do you know such a child?

His independence
They love to become independent, they love to develop their ideas. They love to
show that they are superior. They love to show you that they are better.
Unfortunately often they do.

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His identity
They establish their identity by showing that they are better, different than you. I
don’t want to go to the movie Papa; I want to go to my friends. But my child we
are going to the movie for you, no I don’t care. I want to be with my friends. So
they are asserting their choice.

On the left side of the third row, we see Natrum and Magnesium and the feeling
is they don’t have this, they don’t feel the independence, they feel very
dependent, they don’t have an opinion, they don’t have much of an ego. They are
dependent on the other person to tell them what they would like to wear, what
they should wear, what they should do, where they should go. It’s as if they have
given up their identity or they have not developed one.

For example: the rubric ‘Late learning to talk’, the main remedy is Natrum mur.
It’s as if they have not learnt to express. They are slow. The development has
been slowed down somewhere or stopped somewhere.

When you come to the next remedy after Magnesium, it’s Alumina. And here the
main symptom is ‘Confusion of identity’. They are confused in their choice, they
are divided, “am I this or am I that” And only after they reach the stage that is
after Silica, they become firm and fixed in who they are. This is me. But it is fragile
even at that point.

Remedies as part of a group

So when you start looking at remedies like this and symptoms like this, you
suddenly see that these remedies do not remain individual remedies anymore
and that they form the part of a group and you see that they are a part of a stage
of human development.

And when you see that; then something really amazing happens. You are able to
identify the remedies in the patient according to where he is stuck in his life
emotionally or in his perception.

It’s not about children we are talking. It’s about adults and an adult can come to
you with the same problem.

37] Confusion, do I do what I want or what the other wants- Alumina.

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A woman came to me saying she has the same problem, I don’t know what to do.
I don’t know what I want? Do I want to do what I want to do or what my husband
wants me to do? I am very confused. She almost went crazy and suicidal because
she couldn’t understand what she had to do? She got Alumina, beautiful result.

Symptoms support the understanding of the essence

And when you understand it, then you see that the symptoms are an expression
of that particular stage of life. Like that confusion of identity becomes a beautiful
part of a pattern and this symptom becomes alive for you, sure for you, there is
no doubt. Because you are not now prescribing on the symptoms but now seeing
the symptoms as an expression of the very essence of the remedy. And you are
seeing the remedy as a part of a group.

Row 4
Let’s try this with the 4th row. In the 4th row you have remedies like:

Kali which is Potassium, Calcium, Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium, Chromium,

Manganum, Ferrum, Cobaltum, Niccolum, Cuprum, Zincum, Gallium, Germanium,
Arsenicum, Selenium, Bromine and Krypton. These are the remedies, 18 of them.

Anxiety about money matters

What do we see as common here? One of the symptoms we see in common here
when you look with Materia medica knowledge just seeing it all, you see
something about money. Anxiety about money matters you see this in Calcarea
flour, Calcarea silicata, Calcarea carbonicum. Fear of poverty; Germanium, Kali,
and Arsenicum. Money, very concerned about money.

Let me tell you a case.

38] Case of varicose veins – Calc flour.

A sixty-four year old male patient comes with the complaint of varicose veins and
diabetes. In the local complaints there was nothing peculiar, except that he was
very worried about the discoloration and swelling, he was very worried that the
problem could get worse.

I said ‘Tell me about this worry’. He said, “I am afraid that if the varicosities begin
to bleed, then i have to go in for surgery and if I have to do that it will involve an

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expenditure of money which beyond my current means. And though I have two
sons are earning well, I do not dependent upon them financially. I don’t want to
ask them for money.”

I said ‘Tell me a little bit more about this’. He said, “I am retired and have saved
money in the bank, from which I get some monthly income. I want to take care of
my health, take precautions so that I don’t fall ill. Because if I do fall ill, who will
take care of my wife? Right from the beginning I have told my sons, I just want
that everybody should be independent. So I just told them, you go and live
separately’. This is not common in India but this is what he told them.

‘When I was very small, I lost my father and I had no one to support me. So I really
came up the hard way, I was the eldest, and supported all my siblings financially. I
found them jobs. But what I saw, after they became financially independent, after
that they have stopped needing me, they simply stopped coming to my house.”

I asked ‘How did you feel then when they did that?’ He said, “I felt that they have
rejected me as I am no longer financially useful; they have pushed me out.” I said
‘Describe this push me out’. He said, “As if I was inside & I was just taken then and
rejected. Push me out, throw out and all connections were cut and he was
separate”.

So there are two themes here in this case. You see the theme of dependence on
money, anxiety about money matters that we will come to a wand that he will not
with any money left. That he will be dependent on other people. But also the
other theme is, the people he will depend upon are not dependable that they will
just push him out. Be separate from him, be cut off from him.

So this theme of dependence of money matters on other people, the need for
money, I want to become independent is the theme of the 4th row. It’s Calcarea in
his case. And this theme that I cannot depend and that I will be from a safe
position pushed out. This comes in the 2nd row which has to do with being in the
womb and being pushed out of the womb and being separate from the mother.
And here it is on the right side, it’s a Flourine. So the remedy for the patient was
Calcarea flour. Calcarea flour, Calcarea is the dependence and Flourine, the
feeling to be pushed out or separated from the person he is dependent on.

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The main symptom of Calcarea flour in our Materia Medica & the Repertory is the
“Fear of poverty”, Fear that they would come to want. And we can understand
this from the perception that the people he depends on for financial security will
betray him, will push him out,will not be dependable anymore. So you can
understand Calcarea flour both from the symptoms as well as from the system.
And that’s where it comes together and then you see at that point that the
symptom of Calcarea fluor, the fear of poverty is actually an expression of this
system which is ‘I cannot depend on people to give me security’.

Money, job, family, security, solidity :

So the row 4 concerned with money, security, job, occupation, material

possession and also the gathering of strength, and solidity.

The row 3 is concerned with love, care, nourishment and individuality, and once
you get this what’s the next row is the 4th row , where you now want a job, family,
a house, a bank balance, security, that’s the next stage of human development.

So you see by studying the remedies from the Materia medica and see what
individual remedy is saying, you are able to see a pattern and ultimately you see
the pattern in the whole periodic table. You see that the entire periodic table,
each row represents a separate stage, a progressive stage of human
development.

Understanding the essence through proving:

Now this is a hypothesis. Of course. What do we do then? How can we prove it?
How can we be sure that this is true? In Homoeopathy, the answer is very simple.
Prove it and know it. End of the story. Experience it and know it. There is no other
way in Homoeopathy except that.

If I may just divert from here, there is a little bit, a very beautiful Tamil poetry.
Tamil is my mother tongue and this is a conversation between Man and God. And
man asks God, ‘God, tell me what is the experience of going through life. Of
becoming sick, of getting old. How is it?’ God tells the man, ‘Experience it and you
will know it’. And man asks God, ‘What is it, the experience of dying. Of ending

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life? How is this experience?’ and God says to man, ‘Experience it and you will
know it’. Man gets a bit frustrated and he says to God, ‘God if I had to experience
everything to know it, then what are you there for?’ and God looks at man and he
says, ‘ you fool, didn’t you realize that I am the experience’. For me this is the
Philosophy with which I live. If you want to know it, experience it. There is nothing
more than that. That’s it.

So what I did was, in order to know whether this hypothesis was true, I took a
remedy from the middle of the row 4 and that is Niccolum. Niccolum is there in
our Materia Medica earlier but it didn’t have a big proving, it’s a very small
remedy, hardly used. Because I wanted to understand row 4 better, I did a
proving of Niccolum and I did it on a group of students and on myself because
I wanted the experience too.

So I said let me experience row 4, let me take Niccolum and see what happens.
And then I got a dream, a dream that I can never forget. And that’s the reason,
I recommend that all of you do a proving, if you have not done already.

I do believe that you are graduated in Homoeopathy only after you have done a
proving. Before that I don’t think you really had the experience of Homoeopathy
itself. When you do a proving, you know that truth of Homoeopathy and you
know what it is. That’s it.

So I had a dream with Niccolum.

Proving of Niccolum
What was the dream? I am going in a taxi in Bombay and then I saw that the taxi
meter, is going too fast, has a kind of tachycardia. It was going too fast and the
money is just going …. Too quick. I was watching this and I understood that
somebody has tampered with the meter. This guy, the cab driver has made some
manipulation and it’s going too fast.

What should I do? I said to myself ‘I should do something’. I told the driver, stop
here, that time. I have some work, I need to go out for just a minute.

Now what is interesting is that I could have just gone out of the cab and escaped.
But I didn’t do it. I said it is me this time, but it has to be set right because the

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next guy who gets into the taxi is going to be cheated the same way as I. so I have
to do something about it.

So what I did was. I went to the local police station, I stopped the taxi which I
knew was close by and I went to the police chief and I said to the chief, what
should I do? Do something is what I told him. And the police chief, he said; here is
the rope, you take it, you tie him up and you bring him here. And I said ok I will
get him here. So I took the rope and I was going to get him, then I woke up so I
didn’t know whether I did it or not but I think, that’s not the point.

Niccolum- nobody to help and I will have to help others

The point is that in the middle of the 4th row, Nicolum is situated, & for him the
main feeling is, he is the security, he is the police of the town. He is the one who
guards the loss of money.

And if you see the remedies close by like Cuprum, Zincum, Arsenicum etc. You
will find themes of policemen, of getting arrested, of robbers, of thieves.

So the 4th row has also to do with crime, with punishment,,with security ,with
money.It has to do with doing your job properly.. And what kind of job? A job
which involves earning, which involves routine, which involves being
conscientious, which involves being stable, steady; secure, to feed your house,
your family. a job you do 9-5, doing basically routine things. It also has to do with
defense and attack. Like being a soldier or a policeman, etc.

So this is how you build up slowly your knowledge of the entire periodic table, the
kingdoms, Remedy by remedy. And this kind of grounded fundamental knowledge
that is grounded in the Provings, grounded in the Repertory, grounded in the
Rubrics is never going to betray you. It will never let you fly so high that you lose
all the connection with the ground.

Row 5
Let’s try to understand 5th row a little bit more. Of course, we shall deal with all
these rows in the future talks in much more details with cases etc. but what am I
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can look at it because once you crossed the area of; - I have my house, I have my
job, I have my bank balance, I have my security, I have my family, what next?

You come to the 5th row, and in this 5th row, there are remedies like: Rubidium,
Strontium, Yttrium, Zirconium, Niobium, Molybdenum, Technetium, Ruthenium,
Rhodium, Palladium, Argentum, Cadmium, Indium, Stannum, Antimonium,
Tellurium, Iodum, and Xenon.
Many of them will be new remedies for you. But let’s see may be some of the
one’s that you know,What’s common you see in it? You see that it’s got lot to do
with singers and speakers. Argentum metallicum; what’s the main symptom?
Hoarseness of speakers and singers. Of Stannum, what’s the main symptom, the
hoarseness of speakers and singers, public speakers.

Performance, creativity, solving problems

So you find here, that something more than security, it’s something more than
identity, it’s something more than care and nourishment. It’s something to do
now with performance. With Creativity, with singing, with speaking, with public
speaking, not routine things.

So the 5th row is concerned with creativity. Creativity means not doing the routine
things but doing something new. Solving a problem; not doing the routine thing
but solving an issue that has really not been tackled before. Improvising,, Artistry.
Being a minister; not a soldier but a minister. A person who strategizes. Who
thinks of a solution, how to solve the problem? How to solve this new situation?
Technical advice. Somebody who has been there before and who can tell you I
have been this way before, this is your guide. But the guide is only going to guide
you from behind. A Back up. He is not going to show you the solution

So how to understand this? Again my only solution was to do a proving and the
remedy I choose to prove at that point was Strontium carbonicum. And what did
we find in Strontium carbonicum?

Strontium is between Calcarea and Baryta in the 2nd column. In Calcium, you have
the theme – he needs security. He is dependent on other people for security. And
in Baryta, below Strontium, you have the feeling he is dependent on other people
for his job because he feels incapable of doing anything.

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So what is Strontium in between these two?

Proving of Strontium
So again on a group of students & myself, we did a proving in order to understand
this remedy I decided to prove a remedy, strontium, in the second column just
below calcium and above barium.
Need of guide – venturing into new
So on a group of students and also on myself, we did a proving of Strontium and
the main theme that came up here was the theme of guidance. I need a guide.

Many many dreams like this. Many many incidents like this happened during this
proving.

And what is a guide? In that proving, the guide was somebody helps you into
something you are venturing into something new into an area where you didn’t
know anything. The feeling was ‘Oh God! This is a new situation, how am I going
to tackle it. And my look for support and that you need support form of a guide.
The sensation of a guide was somebody behind me, a back up for you in case you
made a mistake.

In Calcarea it’s somebody in front of you who protects you.

In Baryta it’s somebody who carries you on his shoulders because you can’t walk..

In Calcarea, it’s like a barrier, a wall, like an iron pillar.

In Baryta it’s like a crutch you have to lean on for support because you can’t stand
yourself up. .

But in Strontium it’s somebody who gives you a support from the behind, it gives
you a backup. In case you have a problem. It’s technical support.

So that’s what we found in strontium proving.

And in Strontium because it lies on the left side, it has a feeling of great lack of
this kind of a guidance.

And what do you find in the middle of this row is Palladium. Just sitting below
Niccolum. And the main theme of Palladium is egotism. I know things, I can do it

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very well. The main symptom of Palladium is “longing for the good opinion of
others”; it’s in every Materia Medica you will find.

Opinion and not appreciation

What is opinion? What does the word mean?

The word opinion has something to do with expert evaluation, opinion is not
appreciation. It’s not appreciation. You told me my T- shirt looks very good. This is
appreciation not opinion.

Appreciation is what you do to a child. ‘Oh your art is so beautiful. Oh you are
looking so cute’. Appreciation has something to do with how a person looks, how
we appears. Opinion has to do with one expert telling another the other; oh what
you have done is really valuable. That’s what Palladium wants. The good opinion
of others. And that’s what is common in Row 5.

You have to understand these words: opinion, creativity, they going together,
opinion, creativity & criticism, something new, problem solving and guidance.
These are all inter- related words.

They express a particular stage in Human development where he ventures to do

something new which is new to him, beyond himself. Where he has to improvise
and create and then he really needs a good opinion. And these words will come
again and again in patients who need remedies from this row.

What is interesting of course is, once you understand this, the row open up, you
are free from the shackles of symptoms. When a person says ‘I love good
opinion’. It’s not that you are only going to give him Palladium and nothing more.
Then you are able to see it is Palladium. But it could also be Argentum. It could
also be Stannum. It could also be Antimonium.

We had a beautiful case in the clinic of a man who did beautifully on Antimonium
crud. Also he loved appreciation. He loved the good opinion of others. Of course
he did and I was not restricted to Palladium. So what happens is through the
system, you are able to expand your understanding. But through the grounding in
the Repertory and the Materia medica, your knowledge becomes solid. When you
say Palladium longs for the good opinion of others, you understand this as the
theme of row 5.

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Row 6:
What is row 6? In 6th row, you find the remedies like Caesium, Barium,
Lanthanum, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Aurum, Mercury, Thallium, Plumbum,
Bismuth, Polonium, Astatine, and Radon. And what do we find here that is
common? You find here is the strong theme of responsibility as you find in
Aurum. You find Suicidal disposition, Even Homicidal disposition like in Aurum,
Mercury, Platinum, Plumbum, and Thallium.

Most of these remedies have destructive pathologies and therefore we find in the
syphilitic miasm.

What we find common in this row is heaviness, something is heavy. very heavy,
something destructive, and something which is hugely responsible. It’s so huge
responsibility that when you can’t take it anymore then there is no alternative but
to commit suicide.

Leadership and responsibility

This is the last stage, after the stage of adventure and problem solving, the stage
of leadership and responsibility where you are in the highest position. It’s a very
heavy responsibility and pressure that is felt here.

So in this way, you are able to see each row has a specific issue reflecting the
stage of human development.

 Row 1 with conception and existence, (I didn’t talk much about this row yet).
 Row 2 has the issue of fetal life and the birth process; being part of and then
separating from.
 Row 3 of identity and nourishment.
 Row 4 of security and task.
 Row 5 of creativity and performance.
 Row 6 of responsibility and leadership.
 Row 7 of letting go or of disintegration.

And this is exactly how you see nature is reflected.

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Patterns within the plant kingdom
Now let’s have a look at whether we can see any patterns within the plant
kingdom.

Because why are we doing this? We are doing this because we see that this is a
different way to approach homoeopathy. One way is the way of the symptoms
and the other way is the way of systems. What is important is that the Symptom
and the System approach they just go together.

Symptom and system approach should go together

We have to use both these in a given case, not one exclusively. Because If we
have both these approaches we are much more equipped than with one. No
system is exclusive because every system has its own limitations, but together it
can add to your strength.

Let’s study some families from the plant kingdom. The simplest of course is:

- Compositae; the Arnica Family

Sensation; injured – reaction; to injure.

Let’s see a simple family, Compositae, which is the arnica family and here you see
a common sensation belonging to this family. You have remedies, Abrotanum,
Arnica, Bellis perrenis, Calendula, Echinacea, Millifolium; the common theme is
injury. They are remedies which are known for general surgical inflammation,
injuries, they are worse from touch, sore & sensitive.

One of my teachers was Dr. J.N Kanjilal from Culcutta, he was very well senior
homoeopath. He was not only a homoeopath but he was also involved in
Obstetrics, he used to conduct child deliveries. Once he was in labor ward and
one woman was having much pain and he said to her can you please describe me
this pain. She got so angry and she just slapped him and she said what pain you
want me to describe, it is like this, it’s how you feel and she just gave him one.!!
So he gave her Chamomilla, and she did very well.

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So you see Chamomilla also from the Compositae family. The theme of injuries, to
cause injuries and to strike back. Like Cina will also wants to hit. Hitting / striking/
injuring/ receiving injury. This is the theme of the Compositae family. So you see
within one family there is a particular sensation. A specific one. like…

- Conifer-fragile.

The breaking of the Conifers, of which Thuja is an example.

- Solanaceae;

Danger, fear- flight and fright reaction

Or let’s take the example of Solanaceae family. The main common thing here in
remedies like Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Stramonium, Mandragora, and Tabacum.
What’s common?

It’s the fear, the danger, the need to escape. The great sensitivity. The
sympathetic reaction. Fright, you start sweating, trembling, the pupils dilate and
it’s a kind of fright and flight reaction. Escape, run away.

Like when you see a ghost or a lion after you.

So we understand that all the remedies of this family will have this sensation and
once you understand that, what happens is that even if one remedy in a proving
doesn’t have that exact symptom, you will be able to give it on general
understanding of that family.

Just like I gave you the example: If Antimonium has no longing for good opinion,
you still know it’s there because it belongs to that group.

Application of logic; remedies of one family have a common sensation

It’s just logic. I saw one crow it was black, I saw a second crow it was black, I saw a
third crow it was black, so if I see another crow and it must be black. This is logic.

So you apply this logic and in one family there is one common sensation. And this
helped me to prescribe remedies that do not have sufficient proving. And when
you do that your reliance total and absolute reliance on the symptoms and rubrics
becomes less.

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So now we have make a chart with Solanaceae, and say that remedies that we
have in this family must have violence, sudden, splitting, bursting, and explosive,
the need to escape, the flight and the fright. And then you can make a chart of
remedies.

Chart of remedies – common word extractions from rubrics

How do we make this chart? This chart was done with a lot of research, a research
into the rubrics, and a research into the proving, a research into the materia
medica and also a research into cured cases.

From these provings, cases, rubrics were extracted the words that were common
to the remedies of patients of this family. The words were: kills, snakes, pulsating,
black and white, murder, life and death, sun stroke, apoplexy.They are common in
Solanaceae family. Panic, escape, fright and flight.

I will post some of the cases of quotations from other past Homoeopaths on the
forum and you can read how John Henry Clarke, the famous Homoeopath,
remarked on the likeness between the members of botanical group …

Quotation- John Henry Clarke and so many others had similar experiences like
Dr.Burnett or Dr Cooper.

So this is not something that is absolutely new but something that now we used
with great effectiveness.

Animal kingdom- sub kingdom - classes

Let’s have a look at the animal kingdoms, the sub kingdoms. We have so many
classes, like the mammals, the birds, the reptiles, the arachnids, the insect, the
mollusk.

We will take one as an example: The reptiles

Class reptile; deceit, jealousy, clairvoyance

If we just study reptiles for the moment as an example; what do we know from
the Materia medica, how can we derive it.

We have in these reptiles, the symptoms deceitful and sly, jealous, clairvoyance.
You look at the rubric clairvoyance, there are lot of reptiles, Crotalus Cascavalla,
the rattle snake, Lachesis, Crotalus horridus and so forth.

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Try to understand what is Clairvoyance. Clairvoyance (clear vision), it means to
know something that you cannot normally know through your five senses, it’s an
extra sense, isn’t it.

Clairvoyance- Jacobson’s organ

Like you are sitting here and you know what’s happening in another town. Just
like all of you know what is happening in my clinic here today, even though you
are sitting far away. You have clairvoyance too.

And what do we know about the reptiles and especially about the snakes, they
have sense organs which is Jacobson’s organ and which is not found in any other
species. The snakes don’t have ears, they don’t have hearing. But they have
extra organs.

Heat sensors- pit vipers

The pit vipers. They have the heat sensors. And they can even sense a rat which is
at the distance of a few meters by the heat sensation. So they have organs which
the other species don’t have. They have extra sensory perception.

So our Clairvoyance rubric in the Materia medica is reflecting of the extra senses
that the snake has. What else do we know about snakes?

Desire to hide
The desire to hide, isn’t it. To be deceitful, to hide. And that’s the survival of a
snake that it has to keep hiding.

Quotation- Dr. Hudson

I was quite remarked to see a quotation from 1911, one Dr. Hudson, he writes in a
homoeopathic journal called the Medical Advance; and the following words:

“Tell us when you have, when you learn, how we may know whether our patient
belongs to the mineral, the vegetable, or the animal kingdom. Then sub divide
these kingdoms and make the boundary line so broad and plain that they cannot
cross unwittingly, make them so distinct that we are bound to see them”.

He says clearly differentiate into kingdoms and subkingdoms and so that we can
use them in practice.

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So Homoeopaths had this idea earlier but they didn’t make this system so clearly
as we are able to do it now.

And why is this so? Why are we are able to make a system now, that it couldn’t be
done in 1911? Can you tell me? Can you think about it?

Why Hahnemann didn’t make this system?

I think there are two main reasons, why even Hahnemann did not make this
system;

 The first reason is that the number of remedies that we know now is far, far
more than what they knew at that time. Hahnemann knew 90 remedies or so,
in that he hardly knew any animal remedies maybe Sepia or something like
that. Most of the remedies he knew were plants and some were minerals and
Lachesis even came later on, it was proved by Hering.

So for Hahnemann to attempt a classification of animal, plant and mineral would

be too premature.

 The second reason why it can be done now and couldn’t before is that we
have a big advantage, in as much as we have is our software repertories.

Using computer software repertories, we are now able to pull all the remedies of
a particular group together and ask what is common between them. I can put
Lachesis, Naja, Crotalus Cascavalla, Crotalus Horridus, Vipera…. the snakes into a
software program, and tell it to pull me out the list of rubrics in which these
remedies have a prominent place.

It makes the study very simple and you can duplicate it too on your own.

You have a look in the software and you put these remedies in the software and
you ask the software; tell me in which rubrics are found 3 or 4 of these remedies
together. Especially small rubrics so that the weightage of this group come high.

For example: if there is a rubric with 10 remedies out of which 4 are reptiles. Then
you know that rubric must be quite specific for reptiles.

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So what are our advantages of this Modern age:

Modern age advantage

So what are our advantages of Modern age:

- one is the availability: there were 90 remedies then, now we have 3000
remedies from various kingdoms.
- We have very advanced computer software program that make this
analysis easy. I feel if Hahnemann had these advantages, he would have
done this system himself. Wouldn’t have left much to us.

So what do we understand from all this;

Each remedy is the spirit of the source from which it comes.

Both the angles of study – symptoms and the systems, they meet at a common
point.

Therefore a remedy must be studied from two angles;

- One angle is the provings, the Materia medica and the repertory.

- And the other angle is the kingdom, subkingdom and the source.

And if we study a remedy from these two angles, then they will meet very
beautifully because you see what you see in the repertory and the Materia
medica reflect the qualities of the kingdom,subkingdom and the source. And they
will come to the same point and then you will have a true understanding of the
remedy.

Treating the essence and not only symptoms

Once we come to this understanding that it is not only the symptoms but the very
essence that we are treating, then it becomes important that we understand the
patients also in the same way and that we simply don’t understand patients as
symptoms, either mental symptoms or physical symptoms but we understand
them as something core essence and then we start to listen to the patients and
ask ourselves and the patients and observe, what is his inner most core
experience of the patient.

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Experience in every case; sensitivity, structure, survival

And then when we come to this core experience,

And we need to come to this core experience with an open mind. This is most
important thing of course. We are not going into the patient to examine is he
plant / mineral / animal. We are going into the patient, with the patient to
explore, purely explore what is his experience in various situations physical /
mental / emotional/ dreams etc.

And then when we come to that experience then we will see that its either an
experience of sensitivity or structure or of survival. And then our case taking
doesn’t stop short at just eliciting craving, aversions and other things; but it goes
further and further says, what is the experience of the person.

Seven levels of experience

And then we understand that there are seven levels of experience.

The first level is the name or the diagnosis of the case. The first thing the patient
often says, I have arthritis, I have migraine, I have depression.

Then you say tell me what you mean by this? And then he tells you the symptoms
of arthritis of that diagnosis or tells you the facts, I have pain in the knee, I feel
sad in the morning, I have a throbbing headache. These are the facts. Second
level. Name, diagnosis, facts – second level.

Then you say tell me little bit more and then he says because of this I am so
disturbed, I am so irritated because of the headache and I feel so angry, I feel so
upset why is it coming to me … so you come to the third level which is the
emotions.

Then you say ‘What do you mean by irritable and upset?’ then he says, I feel
somebody kind of put me into a prison, I am not able to get out of here. This
headache is like a prison for me’. So he is telling you his vision, perception of the
situation. This is level four, the delusion.

Then you ask ‘OK, you feel you are in the prison what is your experience?’ ‘I feel
something is tight, as if it is all constricting; it is going in.

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So he is not only describing a perception or a vision but he is describing an actual
experience which is both mental and physical. This is the fifth level or the
sensation level.

Then you say “Describe this feeling constriction, a little bit more and then he
starts using his hands, it’s like this ..it goes like this…. and what he shows is
particular movements.and an intensity and this is his energy pattern. The sixth
level, the level of energy.

Blank level – Seventh

And as he keeps watching this, you say look at this energy pattern & see what
comes to you spontaneously. So a part of him now goes into a level which is just
looking objectively, looking witnessing this energy pattern. The level of this
witnessing is different removed, separated from the experience itself. That is the
Seventh level. The level we simply can call it the 7th because it has no name for it.

You could call it the witness but it wouldn’t like to do that.

Let me talk to you about a case.

39] Case: It is one piece made of iron bars which fold on me; Drosera.
A 28 year old woman came with hyperthyroid and urticaria. She had the reports
to show me. She had a very low TSH (Thyroid stimulating hormone) and intense
itching with urticaria.

I said tell me more. Then she said I have mood swings, I have backache and I have
hair fall and I have irregular periods. I have too much stress and because of this
stress all the muscles in my stomach they just go into a kind of spasm. And then
she shows with her hands [Hand Gesture HG] like this ….they just go into a kind of
spasm.

She said about her constant fights with her husband and she told a big story of
her situation and for about 20 minutes of various emotional situations.

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So I said in this situation what do you feel? She said I feel as if my husband is
purposely trying to hurt me and to get back at me. He is purposely trying to hurt
me she takes her hand and makes this gesture.

So I said ‘let’s do one thing, what do you experience in this situation?’ She says ‘I
feel trapped.’ I said to her ‘Describe to me the word “trapped”. What is the
experience to be “trapped”? ’

And then she used other words for the word trap. But she was talking from her
head. And I said, ‘let’s do one thing. Close your eyes and just experience this
“trapped”. Whatever comes up just talk about “trapped”. Just experience it, don’t
think about it. Don’t use your mind. Just switch off your mind if possible and just
experience it’. That’s the whole story of Homoeopathy. Experience it.

For example: when you do a proving for Bryonia, you are not asking the prover
‘Tell me what you think about bryonia, tell me what is your concept or theory of
it’. You just tell the prover “Observe and Describe” Not through the mind. If the
prover uses mind, you will not get the symptom because all symptoms of a
remedy do not make sense at all. They are just experiences.

So a symptom or an experience has just to be observed and mind becomes

greatest obstacle to observation. So we have to find a way with the patient where
the mind is switched off. We have to put them in the 7th level, where there is no
mind, only witness. And then she closes her eyes and starts describing her
experience. She says ‘I feel it’s all sticky, it’s all sticky and I feel claustrophobic.’ I
said ‘describe this a little bit more.’

She remains in this blank space and she says “I feel stuck and it’s all coming
around me and it’s just closing in on me. I am getting attracted and stuck and it’s
all closing up on me. I said ‘stay with it a little bit more and see what happens and
she says, ‘It’s all falling on me. It’s as if the whole thing is falling, I am getting
caught, it’s a trap and, I can’t get out.

You are able to reach such a deep level in some cases not in all cases. And when
they go in depth into that experience, they are able to sometimes even visualize
the exact nature of the source of that remedy. And she says ‘It’s a trap, it’s all
one piece, there’s no door, no window. It’s just goes around you, it sticks to you,

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it goes around you and then you can’t get out. It’s like bars that just go around
you.

In fact later on when we looked at the videos, this is the exact description of
Drosera. I might even give you on the forum, a link to a you tube video which you
can have a look. How it is a one piece thing that is sticky and when that insect
sticks on it, it wraps itself around the insect like a bar and then there is no way
out.

So we realize that at the core of each and every individual, beyond symptoms,
beyond the expression is an experience. In this case, the experience is of trapped,
claustrophobia. Behind her restlessness and her speed she spoke very fast. There
is an experience and if you go deep enough into this experience, you can get the
quality of the source. You can see that kingdom and sub – kingdom. Even
sometimes in a very rare case you can see the source itself.

And then you will absolutely have no doubt of the remedy which is to be given,
because the patient is almost telling you what she needs and she is telling you
that the sum total of my expression is not the random collection of symptoms. My
restlessness is not different from my trap, it’s not different from my sticky feeling,
it is not different from my claustrophobia. It’s not different from the spasms of
my stomach. It’s all a part of one core expression, my experience. That is
sensation.

And in this case, it was a family of carnivorous plant of traps and the remedy was
Drosera Rotundifolia, of the tubercular miasm. And the result was beautiful, her
thyroid levels went down, the urticaria disappeared and what’s more important is
that her entire anger, her entire frustration, her entire trapped feeling went away
completely. Her relationship with her husband improved. Her husband says to her
what has happened to you, something has changed radically, changed beautifully.
Her entire life and being changes. Her speed, her pace becomes less. Her energy
improves.

So when you touch that level of the person, then there is a change in every level,
at the level of pathology, at the level of symptoms, emotions, delusions, at all
levels there is change.

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Materia Medica Pura - Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.

Hahnemann in his preface to Materia Medica Pura he wrote;

“As the organism, in its normal condition, depends only on the state of the vitality,
it follows that the changed condition which we call disease or sickness must
likewise depend, not on the operation of physical or chemical principles, but on
originally vital sensations and actions - that is to say, a dynamically changed state
of man”

He referred to the original thing that changes in man is the vital sensation, that is
what changes first, it’s the way you exist, the way your vital sensation is and then
your different organ systems change. And if you touch it at that level that change
will be reflected in every part of your being.

I must tell you, Hahnemann didn’t have access to my books or seminars.

Utility of this approach.

What is the utility of this approach?

Let’s us study the utility of this approach, only through cases because there is no
other way to do it.

40] Case: Meditation makes me feel free; Mangifera.

I would like to talk a little bit about a case, of a 65 year old man who came with
cervical spondylosis. That main symptom was stiffness in the neck. He said I
cannot move my neck. It’s stuck he says and I cannot move. He is a teacher of
meditation, he said. He has read a lot of books, he has done a lot of meditation
6hrs a day.

I asked him what is your main complaint, he said it is stiffness of the neck and I
just have to live with this; because I don’t know any other way. I don’t know what
to do so I just live with this restriction.

I said ‘Can you tell me please, a little bit about your meditation?’ He says in
meditation I feel free, it’s the only time I feel free. I said what you mean by free?
He said free means as if I am not caught or stuck.

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So for him meditation was essentially a way out of being caught, or stuck. And
that was the same as with his neck.

His mind and his neck are exactly saying the same experience – to be caught or
stuck. And this is well known for us in the remedy, Rhus tox which when he lifts
up something is like something got strain or stuck. And Rhus tox is belonging to
the family Anacardiaceae. So I believe the sensation of stuck or stiff or cannot
move belongs to the whole family.

His remedy cannot be Rhus tox because his speed and pace at which he felt the
sensation was not the Rhus tox,pace . In Rhus tox you pick up something and
something acute ..uuhh.. You got to move because very quickly you have to come
out of that crisis. But here it’s something that he lives with, that he accepts.

So it’s a different pace, a different mechanism, a different coping mechanism. So

the sensation belongs to the family but the pace and the depth is not of Rhus tox.
What could it be?

The pace and the depth is of something that is fixed, something that you are
going to live with, something that you cannot change and this is the pace and the
fixity of the sycotic miasm.

Like a wart, it just stays with you. You can’t do anything. It is just stuck on you,
nothing can be done about it. It doesn’t kill you but it doesn’t go anywhere. So we
understand we need a remedy from the same family but with a different pace and
depth which is the Sycotic miasm, Rhus tox belongs to the Typhoid miasm.

Need for miasmatic classification

And so we have a classification of miasms which is:

Acute; sudden pace.

Psora; where the problem is solvable and hopeful,

Sycotic is fixed,

Syphilitic is destructive.

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The question is, is this enough? Are we happy with these four miasms, can the
whole world be fitted into these between hopeful, destructive and fixed. Or can
there be some other kind of pace.

What about the guy who says my pace is such that for a day nothing happens and
then suddenly I get an attack. I am OK for some days and then suddenly I get
another attack, what do you do with this?

You heard this in migraine cases, you have this in asthma cases, it’s an
intermittency of an attack, where can you put this?

So in order to accommodate this we had to create new types of miasm.

Here was an intermittent attack like Malaria or the critical pace like Typhoid. And
then we found other pace like Ringworm or Tubercular or Cancer where you feel
things are chaotic. Tubercular, where its hectic. Leprosy where its disgusting and
isolated and nearly going towards total destruction. So these are the 10 possible
types of pace and depth that I could find and I make a map of this and started
applying this in practice.

Right remedy by applying the miasm theory

So if we look at Anacardiaceae and then we look at the Sycotic miasm in it, and if
we use the schema where I have put this chart, we find Mangifera indica and
that’s the mango and that’s the remedy this patient received, Mangifera indica
and he did beautifully.

Rhus tox would not have helped him so much, nor could have Anacardium but
Mangifera did beautiful.

Now when we look at the rubric in repertory you find Mangifera in the rubric, “
Cervical spondylosis’ you only see three remedies and one of them is mangifera
.And so you see how beautifully your understanding of remedy and miasm
coincides with the rubric. So cervical spondylosis you have a fixed stiffness of the
neck. This fixed means the Sycotic miasm and stiffness means Anacardiaceae
family and the combination of the two is Mangifera. That’s exactly where it is
found.

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So you see sometimes your kingdom approach and miasm approach, your rubrics
they speak exactly the same language. Then you are completely sure of the
remedy.

41] Case: Someone made me into a golden statue; Rhus radicans.

Just to contrast this with a case of female patient with Autoimmune hepatitis. She
came in a very bad stage, she was in line for a liver transplant.because they
couldn’t do anything. I said what’s your experience to have this problem? And she
said I feel as if I am locked in a prison cage and I cannot move and I am being
harassed by everybody. I am stiff, I am harassed, I am attacked. I feel so
unfortunate and persecuted.

So we have the stuck of Anacardiaceae family, but the harrased, persecuted

feeling and the attack intermittemtly of the Malarial miasm. So the remedy is not
Rhus tox, not Mangifera, not Anacardium but Rhus radicans. And she did so
beautifully with this remedy. Her total bilirubin count which is 9.6, very high, went
down from 9.6 to 0.5 and her SGPT(the liver function test) which was 880 went
down to 21.and she was saved from liver transplant. She is doing well now more
than 10 years later.

And so I just wanted to show you how we use the miasms and why it is important,
this classification.

Use of lesser known remedies

Another utility of this approach, of this system is we are able to use lesser known
remedies. I will give you one example.

42] Case: Perseverance in creating something new; Ruthenium.

A 67 years old male patient developed a heart attack and then with some
Ischaemic heart disease. he went in for a coronary bypass surgery and when he
came out of the bypass., he developed Chronic renal failure, his kidneys were
failing. His creatinine levels went up and it reached somewhere around 8 or 9.
And he was in for dialysis and ultimately transplant.

So he came to see if Homoeopathy could help him. When I took his history, I
found that he owned a machine factory and he is the owner of that factory.

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What he does is; he makes machines to solve problems for other people. People
come to him and say we want a specific machine like this made for a specific
function and then he puts his entire mind into it because nobody has made a
machine like that before. That was his job. He works day and night, exhausts
himself and somehow solves that problem. He says he feels under a lot of
pressure. What do we do with this kind of a case?

Here is where the kingdom approach has a huge advantage. So even if we don’t
know any remedy with exactly this expression, we can now go and look which
periodic table can have it. Because this has to do with performance and capability,
this is the Mineral kingdom.

And the fifth row has to do with creativity and with doing something new as we
saw. In the 5th row, you see that he has to put every effort and huge efforts
against the resistance, against the resistance of the problem. This usually
represents the 8th column where Ferrum lies in the 4th row and Ferrum is this
tough, strong, have to be resistant.

And under Ferrum lies Ruthenium in the 5th row which are the same experience
but which creativity. The toughness of creativity. So he got the remedy
Ruthenium and his serum creatinine it fell down gradually and came back to
normal. And what is interesting is that with Ruthenium after a year or so he
decided to give up his machine factory and now 68 -69 yrs old. He says I
don’t feel the need to do any more this pressuring job any more and I want to do
creativity and I want just be with my grandchildren. So even the compulsion to be
in that situation was gone. And he is a happy man, looking after his grandchildren.
And he sold off his factory.

So you see knowing this system has great advantages. It expands your Materia
medica. It expands and gives you a view. But this … there are two things here:

1. Is that and this is what I really want to emphasize today. Is that you have to see
that the knowledge of all this system, the miasms and kingdoms and sub-kingdom
and families and periodic table did not arise from thin air. They are not concepts
not theories. They are found on symptoms on rubrics.,on provings, on practice on
Materia medica. It is a systemization of the knowledge that comes from provings
and from the Materia medica. And unless you have that knowledge ,that

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foundation from which all this comes, you will be lost. That is why I urge you do
not lose the foundations. See from where it has come, go back to the source and
then your knowledge is solidly founded. Then you can keep your feet on the
ground and your head in the air. This knowledge is integrated with each other it’s
not separate. It’s all one and the same. Just two ways of looking at the same
thing. You are able to expand your Materia Medica with it. But I don’t want you to
lose your Materia Medica with it. I want you to use this system to expand and not
to discard.

I had planned to speak a lot more today. But I guess I have to stop today because
our time is up. And we carry on with the talks next time. But before I finish, I have
to tell you a few things.

1. The next Wednesday (he means the next lecture of essential homoeopathy)
we are going to have a discussion session which means we will dwell upon the 1 st
three talks and what I would like you to do is go through these talks. You will have
the transcript of the three talks. You will have the Archived talks also, on the
video in the forum of the website. You can go through them. We have also put
the questions and answers of the 1st two talks already there. So you can have a
look at this. I have posted some very interesting articles

I just have to wish you again Good morning / good night / good evening / good
mid- night / good breakfast / good lunch/ good dinner / good appetite and good
learning see you soon.

Bye, bye.

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