Strategies of Homeopathic Case Taking by George Vithoulkas
At times in the case-taking process it is of essential importance to disregard the suggestions that have been made by the computer and ask some basic case-taking questions such as: Is this person really healthy on the emotional level? For example, is he / she able to express his emotions with strength and clarity? Is he flexible or rigid? Is he finding creative solutions to problems or getting more trapped? Does he have a strong sense of purpose, value and meaning in his life, or is there apathy and indifference? How much strength of individuality is in his identity or …
GENERAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
GENERAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question: Cana person’s own intention prevent or facilitate the action of a remedy ? George : That is good one. The answer in no. What they can do is not let you know what they are doing. The action will be there but they do not want to acknowledge and they will not let you know it. I have seen cases where we have treated with Lyc. She comes back next month and says such and such and so we wait with a placebo. She comes the third month with Nat-m. and says,”I am the …
ABOUT HEALTH AND DISEASE – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
ABOUT HEALTH AND DISEASE George: I am not going to give you a lecture. I would like to communicate definite ideas to you concerning health, and I would like for you to discover homoeopathy together. Homoeopathy is a therapeutic system – one of the many systems which are outside of the orthodox ideas of medicine. What we are concerned with today is to find out what that system is. Unfortunately you cannot experience it on a purely theoretical basis. Behind the theory of homoeopathy there is a logic which anybody can comprehend and I believe anybody can discover. So …
SOME FACTS ABOUT GEORGE VITHOULKAS’S EARLY LIFE – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
SOME FACTS ABOUT GEORGE VITHOULKAS’S EARLY LIFE George : So I will get away from this a little, and give you some of the history of my life. The highlights are that during the German occupation during the Second World War both my parents were killed. My father was killed when I was ten years old. One year … no, two years later my mother was killed. That was 1942 and 1944. During that time, of course, we were going through great stress. We did not have anything to eat and we were starving, especially the populations in the …
IMPOTENCY – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
IMPOTENCY George: I think somebody asked yesterday why did I prescribe Staph. The reasons why I prescribed Staph. in that case … you see, from the impressions that the interview gave, would you say that this man was preoccupied with sex quite a lot? Response: Yes. George: Therefore, he has a heavy (strong) desire but there is no capacity. What was interesting is that feeling of the brain not taking part in the sexual act. The feeling was mostly on his occiput. It was one year before l decided to give a second remedy. The reason I waited was …
PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOTIC DEPRESSION – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOTIC DEPRESSION: Experiences of Stan Mayerson George: I want to make a small introduction. It is interesting for us, because in some cases we will have to deal with hospitalization of cases of mentally ill people during a crisis. It will be very interesting to hear of the experiences of Stan. We saw that case and prescribed a remedy. Somebody said that “George was very sure of what he was prescribing” ‘and yet 1 saw you talking with Stan and he was not so sure and he wanted to know what was going on. I want to make …
HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT OF BABIES – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT OF BABIES George : Today I want to give you some information concerning the treatment of little babies. When you come to the point of treating babies, you wonder what to look for, especially when you are treating over the telephone. (Laughter) There area few things that we can look at. We could first look at the mood of the baby – the psychological state – weeping, laughing and so on. We also look at the expression of the face. The second thing that we observe is the color of his face – red, pale, vesiculated, blue. Question …
CONSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
CONSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT George: If you are not able to see underneath to the next remedy, you cannot call it a disruption. A disruption is always when there is no improvement When you see a general improvement, you cannot call that a disruption. What is a cure? What is better? You call better something which is better. It may mean something like he was using 10 handkerchiefs, but now he is using one or two. So you would say that his catarrh was 80% better. Ina disruption they might say that the catarrh is the same. Question: So when you clear …
CONSTITUTIONAL REMEDIES – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
CONSTITUTIONAL REMEDIES George: Yes. You are asking how long we take with a homoeopathic treatment to wipe out a predisposition? There is no such thing. If the predisposition can be wiped out, perhaps immediately. But always there is a possibility that it will come back. This question involves a lot of thinking to see when a predisposition can be wiped out. WHEN WE HAVE A CASE WHERE THE PERSON IS SAY Nat-c. CONSTITUTIONALLY, SO HE COMES ONE YEAR AGO AND TAKES Nat-c. AND GOES AWAY. THEN THERE IS A RELAPSE AFTER TWO YEARS. AGAIN Nat-c. IS GIVEN. THEN AFTER FIVE YEARS …
MELANOMA – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
MELANOMA Question: There is a very interesting case which I wonder if we could bring up about melanoma. Answer: This was a patient who was basically treated for a petit mal epilepsy. [gave her Nat-m. and the petit mat epilepsy went away. I didn’t see her again for about five months. She came back in and said that a friend of hers had seen a mole on her skin. She went to a dermatologist and had it taken off; a biopsy revealed a melanoma. The mole had been there for a long period of time. Then they did a …
