(Taken from 2023s Homeopathy & Jealousy & Envy (linked below) )
CASE SNAPSHOT
Eruption of boils with concomitant ‘I know I’m overreacting but I still just cannot stand the successes and promotions of two colleagues who both undermined me and my work abilities in the past - actually, I think I feel inferior and threatened by them.’
Jealousy within intimate human relationships are normal phenomena.
Jealousy outside of this context is a problem, and when all-encompassing and non-rational it is pathology.1
The following physical, emotional and mental symptoms were present, all of which were combined and collated (repertorized) to form the picture of the person’s suffering -which was then matched to the most similar homeopathic medicine listed within verified homeopathic materia medica.
LACHESIS – Extremely passionate and frighteningly intense people who are jealous and envious, loquacious, and long for revenge. Intensely competitive, egotistical, arrogant, sarcastic and cutting. Their mind is full of ideas, suspicion and paranoia.2
Towards evening crazy jealousy, as foolish as it is irresistible.3 Insane jealousy; irritability; ill-humour; malice.4
The Lachesis jealousy is totally illogical, therefore pathological. Full of emotions and passions. Agonizing jealousy. Jealousy and envy - ‘you have something I do not’ – this person is suffering, this is pathology.5
Lachesis is said to be an important remedy in states when a person imagines her people are trying to damage her. Self-consciousness, self-conceit, envy, hatred, and cruelty: an improper love of self.6
General symptoms: Purplish discolouration; Left sided symptoms; Aggravation from sleep or on waking; Sleeps into aggravation.7
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by Dr. John Henry Clarke (1902)
‘‘ The first trituration and first dilution in alcohol of the snake poison Trigonocephalus lachesis was made by Dr. Constantine Hering on July 28, 1828. The first cases were published in the Archives in 1835. In 1837 this remedy was introduced into our materia medica.
I quote from Hering's Guiding Symptoms, vol. vi., of which Lachesis occupies nearly one hundred pages, and comprises the substance of a monograph he was compiling at the time of his death to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of the remedy into the materia medica.
To the genius and the heroism of Hering the world owes this remedy and many another of which this has been the forerunner. When Hering's first experiments were made he was botanizing and zoologizing on the Upper Amazon for the German Government.
Except his wife, all those about him were natives, who told him so much about the dreaded Surukuku that he offered a good reward for a live specimen. At last one was brought in a bamboo box, and those who brought it immediately fled, and all his native servants with them.
Hering stunned the snake with a blow on the head as the box opened, then, holding its head in a forked stick, he pressed its venom out of the poison bag upon sugar of milk.
The effect of handling the virus and preparing the lower attenuations was to throw Hering into a fever with tossing delirium and mania much to his wife's dismay.
Towards morning he slept, and on waking his mind was clear. He drank a little water to moisten his throat, and the first question this indomitable prover asked was: "What did I do and say?"
His wife remembered vividly enough. The symptoms were written down, and this was the first instalment of the proving of Lachesis.
The natives crept back one by one next day, and were astonished to find Hering and his wife alive.
The snake grows to seven feet and upwards in length, has fangs nearly an inch long, a reddish brown skin marked along the back with blackish brown rhomboidal spots.
Nearly all the provings of Lachesis were made with the 30th and higher attenuations.
The four grand characteristics of Lach. are : (1) agg By sleep. (2) Excessive sensitiveness of the surface with intolerance of touch or constriction. (3) Left sidedness, and the direction left to right: symptoms begin on the left side and either remain there or proceed to the right. (4) amel From the onset of a discharge. ‘‘8
James Tyler Kent famously stated;9 ‘‘ Lachesis is a frequently indicated remedy, and one that you will need to study much in order to know how to use. Lachesis seems to fit the whole human race, for the race is pretty well filled up with snake as to disposition and character and this venom only causes to appear that which is in man. ‘‘
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It is important to remind readers here that homeopathic medicine is an ultra high dilution prepared (from the original substance) with in a specialist pharmacy…
Additional helpful reading
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Homeopathy & the plagiarist
Plagiarize, vb. trans. [1. plaj(i)ariz ; 2. pleidz-]. To adopt and reproduce as one’s own, to appropriate to one’s own use, and incorporate in one’s own work, without acknowledgement, the ideas of others, passages from their writings &c.
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Homeopathy & Infections
Antimicrobial Awareness Week has been ‘rebranded’ as World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW) this year, with the theme of Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together.
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Homeopathy & the rising tide of AMR
Bacteria, fungi, and parasites are evolving to resist the antimicrobials that were developed to kill them. The primary cause of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is misused/overused, excessive and inappropriate use of antimicrobials.
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Homeopathy & Jealousy and envy
When one person’s career seems better than ours we experience emotions spanning from positive admiration to negative envy, making comparisons which can influence our well-being.
‘In contrast to frequent claims, the available MAs of homoeopathy in placebo-controlled randomised trials for any indication show significant positive effects beyond placebo. Compared to other medical interventions, the quality of evidence for efficacy of homoeopathy was similar or higher than for 90% of interventions across medicine.10 Accordingly, the efficacy evidence from placebo-controlled randomised trials provides no justification for regulatory or political actions against homoeopathy in health-care systems.’11
Vithoulkas, G. 2011. Classical Homeopathy for Anxiety & Jealousy. Materia Medica Differential diagnosis. Groma Publishers, Baar. Switzerland. (Originally published in 2004)
Morrison, R. 1993. Desktop Guide to Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms. Grass Valley. Hahnemann Clinic Publishing.
Allen, T. The Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia Medica. A record of the positive effects of drugs upon the healthy human organism. Vol. V. H – L. 6th Ed. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers; 2011. (Originally published in 1874)
Clarke Prescriber. Mind. Miccant, 2015. Isis Vision [computer program]. Nottingham.
Vithoulkas, G. 2011. Classical Homeopathy for Anxiety & Jealousy. Materia Medica Differential diagnosis. Groma Publishers, Baar. Switzerland. (Originally published in 2004)
Tyler Drug Pictures/ Lachesis. Miccant, 2015. Isis Vision [computer program]. Nottingham.
Morrison, R. 1993. Desktop Guide to Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms. Grass Valley. Hahnemann Clinic Publishing.
Clarke, Henry. 1902. https://www.materiamedica.info/en/materia-medica/john-henry-clarke/lachesis
Kent, James Tyler. Materia Medica of Homeopathic Remedies. London: Homeopathic Book Service; 1989. (Originally published in 1904)
Howick et al., 2022. Most healthcare interventions tested in Cochrane Reviews are not effective according to high quality evidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Clin Epidemiol. Aug;148:160-169. PMID: 35447356
Hamre et al., 2023. Efficacy of homoeopathic treatment: Systematic review of meta-analyses of randomised placebo-controlled homoeopathy trials for any indication. Systematic Rev. Oct 7;12(1):191. PMID: 37805577