NEW! - An Intriguing Case Illustrating Sankaran Method

Simillimum - Winter/Spring 2006

Jeff Baker ND, DHANP

The following case is one that some will find controversial since, to my knowledge, there is virtually no information about the remedy that was employed in the existing homeopathic literature. Some so-called purists find it very disturbing to hear that remedies are being given despite their not yet having been proven.

In aphorism #3 of The Organon of Medicine, Dr. Hahnemann states “.. if the physician clearly perceives what is curative in medicines, that is to say, in each individual medicine (knowledge of medical powers), and if he knows how to adapt, according to clearly defined principles, what is curative in medicines to what he has discovered to be undoubtedly morbid in the patient, so that the recovery must ensue... then he understands how to treat judiciously and rationally, and he is a true practitioner of the healing art .”

Hahnemann did not specifically state that we are limited to the use of substances that have been proven. His requirement (see the highlighted words) is that the practitioner know how to adapt the individual medicine according to clearly defined principles. And that is exactly what was done in the case I am about to describe. Using the known characteristic sensations of a particular plant family and the depth of the pathology (miasm), as was indicated in this particular case, a remedy was judiciously chosen. Therefore, I was adapting the use of the remedy according to clearly defined principles.