Hello Ananta,
Thanks for your question, it’s an interesting one, though a bit difficult to answer because there are quite a few variables here:
1) I’m not so certain that the first homeopath got your remedy wrong, and the second one got it right. Eczema will indeed worsen at first (especially if anything was used to get rid of it before hand, such as a cortisone cream.) This is called suppression. Suppressing a rash simply forces the disease into the deeper organs of the body, where it will eventually be expressed in some deeper form of illness (ITP, perhaps). As a remedy starts acting, it brings this deeper disease to the exterior of the body, where it may be expressed as eczema or some other rash or discharge. This worsening, as long as it’s not suppressed, is curative, and will eventually go away, and you’ll be left in better health. But, if it is instead seen as something that needs to be treated, and it is once again suppressed, the disease becomes even more serious and entrenched. A wrongly chosen homeopathic remedy can suppress just as easily as an allopathic medicine can. That’s why it’s not a good idea to try and treat something yourself or by just looking at a symptom or two.
It’s nearly impossible to see yourself objectively.
I would want to know when you developed ITP in this whole scenario. It could even be that if your eczema was suppressed, your body is now expressing the disease in your deeper organs and it’s coming out as ITP.
Please read the following tutorials from a homeopathic website that explains all of this in more detail.:
Tutorial 9--Palliation, Supression or Cure?
homeopathyplus.com.au/tutorial-9-palliation-supression-or-cure/
Tutorial 10 – Direction of Cure\
homeopathyplus.com.au/tutorial-10-direction-of-cure/
Tutorial 11 – Return of Old Symptoms
homeopathyplus.com.au/tutorial-11-return-of-old-symptoms/
2) Just because a homeopath prescribed a certain remedy for you, doesn’t necessarily mean it is your ‘constitutional remedy”, or the correct remedy for you. This will only be known with time, careful observation and evaluation by the homeopath and the patient. It’s not easy to get the right remedy the very first time for every patient. In fact, it often takes trying a few different remedies before finding just the best fit. Follow up appointments are important. Being observant and aware of what’s going on in your body and with your emotions is important, and you also have to convey these things to your homeopath and recognize where you’ve had improvement, where things have gotten worse, or if you’ve seen no change at all. It doesn’t sound like you had much follow up with your homeopath from your post (and maybe you did, but that’s my impression from your post), so hard to say if this really was a good remedy for you.
3) The remedy you need now might be different from the remedy you needed 15 or 20 years ago. Many times, people will continue to respond to the same remedy for many years—in other words, when they get sick, they tend to get sick in the same ways, the same pattern. They tend to have a few different places where they always get sick: they always get diarrhea or everything goes to their stomach, the kid who always gets earaches, or the adult who rarely gets ill, yet they have constant seasonal allergies.
And, eventually, a homeopathic remedy, correctly chosen, will change this propensity.
But, it doesn’t mean that you’ll NEVER get sick again in your life. We all have stress that we’re exposed to every day. We may be exposed to toxic chemicals or poisons in our environment, our food, our air, in our medicines, in vaccines. We may be exposed to infectious diseases like the childhood ones or influenza or one of the ‘superbugs’, like MRSA, that have been created through the overuse of antibiotics. You may have had a severe injury, been in a traffic accident or can’t get over the loss of a loved one.
All of these might have created another ‘layer’, so to speak, that may need to be removed by a different remedy than the one you were originally prescribed. Especially if you’ve used many of the treatments for ITP, those treatments may have further suppressed your symptoms (Prednisone is one of the most suppressive drugs, so one of the worst things you can use, IMO), and now make it harder to find your true symptoms. Or, they might act as a ‘block’ to a remedy helping you. Maybe a vaccine or a medicine needs to be antidoted first. If you lost a lot of blood or other body fluid through fever or vomiting, you may first need a remedy that is good for ‘loss of body fluids’, first, before your constitutional remedy will work again. These are called ‘intercurrent remedies’.
The symptoms that you have today, right now, that are bothering you, are the ones that should be prescribed on—not symptoms you had 15 years ago. It may be that these are still essentially the same.
You asked:
“Could I cure my ITP only using the 6c and 30c available to me at the local health food store?”
IF the remedy was correct (see above), you would likely respond some to any potency of that remedy, although most people tend to have one potency they’ll respond best to. The lower potencies usually need to be repeated more frequently, for example, the 6C might be repeated 4 times/day or perhaps just once/day, depending on the nature of your condition. The 30C is often repeated once per week. The higher potencies, like a 200C or 1M, usually last for a number of weeks, like 3-8, and should not be repeated any sooner than needed. It is always the rule to take a remedy and not repeat it until no more improvement is noted. (And, improvement must be judged on an overall basis, and over a period of time--not the outcome of one blood test.)
If the remedy you were given is made from a poisonous or toxic or drug substance, you should not take it in anything lower than a 12C or a 24X. Otherwise you WILL be getting small amounts of that substance, which is not a good thing! When there was the big scare with the fallout from the nuclear plant in Japan, I had a new patient come to me with some very odd symptoms. It wasn’t until the second interview that she told me her husband had gone online and purchased some Plutonium nitricum in a 6C, and the whole family, including all their kids, had been taking it 4 times/day for a month--Yikes! No wonder she was having strange symptoms that she’d never had before—she was proving the remedy, but also really getting small amounts of a radioactive substance. I was furious at the unscrupulous people who were marketing this to make a buck—it was not the reputable homeopathic pharmacies.
A higher potency is not necessarily better than a lower potency—you need what you need. A good homeopath should be able to determine the best potency for you. Typically, you go up the scale in potency, rather than down. Sometimes you just need to see which potency you feel best on. My daughter’s ITP was cured with a 30C potency, and that’s the potency she has always done the best on.
Keep in mind, too that you can order the higher potencies from overseas pharmacies (it is legal to do so.). Or, most US pharmacies will allow it if you give proof that you’re working with a professional homeopath. (You should be able to call up your old homeopath and you could do a follow up by phone or Skype. After this many years, they may charge you for a whole new consult, though, as, like I said, things may have changed. Often, the homeopath will provide you with the remedy.)
You can only cure your ITP with the remedy that mimics your disease in totality.
You also asked:
Right now I am using Rituxan and hope to get a remission, but a cure would be so much better.
Could I take the homeopathic remedy now in the midst of the Rituxan treatment?
First, we must define what is meant by remission and cure.
These are from the Free Online Medical Dictionary:
Remission:
A disappearance of a disease as a result of treatment. Complete remission means that all disease is gone. Partial remission means that the disease is significantly improved by treatment, but residual traces of the disease are still present.
the partial or complete disappearance of the clinical and subjective characteristics of a chronic or malignant disease. Remission may be spontaneous or the result of therapy. In some cases remission is permanent, and the disease is cured. Compare cure.
[So, remission sounds very, very similar to suppression. Please see above tutorial on “Palliation, Suppression or Cure?” If the symptoms are ‘gone’ (or suppressed), it’s not necessarily a good thing. Maybe the platelets are normal, but how well is the rest of the person?? This is a big difference between allopathic medicine and how everything that affects you has been compartmentalized and has a specialist. Your ITP is looked at as a separate disease from your allergies, nausea, migraines, hormonal imbalances, acne, arthritis, your frequent UTIs, your insomnia, depression or anxiety, your catching every cold or flu that goes around, your chronic insomnia, etc. Homeopaths and many other alternative treatments take a more holistic view, where all of these things are seen in relationship to one another, and are affected by the other. They recognize that symptoms are simply the body’s attempt to heal itself. Symptoms are NOT the disease—they are the body’s efforts to heal itself and to come back into balance.]
Cure:
n.
1. Restoration of health; recovery from disease.
2. A method or course of treatment used to restore health.
3. An agent that restores health; a remedy.
v.
1. To restore a person to health.
2. To effect a recovery from a disease or disorder.
You should really go straight to the words of Samuel Hahnemann, and read the first 10 Aphorisms in his classic work on homeopathy, The Organon , for his take on “cure”
You can read them for free, here:
hpathy.com/homeopathy-books-online/organon-of-medicine-samuel-hahnemann/aphorism-1-to-10/
This is briefly what he says:
§ 1
The physician’s highest and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed…
§ 2
The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the health, or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and most harmless way, on easily comprehensible principles.
So, to me, if a person is truly cured, all levels of their being should be improving, not just one or two areas. You shouldn’t be trading ‘normal platelets’ for more serious disease.
Rituxan may put you into remission, but at what price? I don’t know--maybe it is a cure, but maybe we don’t know the price just yet. I am not really sure of the way that Rituxan is supposed to work. Prednisone definitely suppresses the immune system, big time, making it one of the worst drugs known to man. Not a good idea to mess with the operation of the immune system! The TPO drugs, Nplate and Promacta, overstimulate the production of platelets, which just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. At what cost? What will be the later ramifications? How long can your body continue to do that, anyway? And it does nothing to stop the rapid destruction of the platelets, it doesn’t turn off the over-reaction of the immune system to itself.
I have seen homeopathic remedies work, even when someone has been taking antibiotics, or as they’re reducing their anti-depressants or anti-anxiety meds, their thyroid or high blood pressure meds (all under their prescribing doctor’s monitoring). I’ve seen the remedy still work, as nearly always we have many markers that we look at, things that would not be expected to be effected by the medication they’re taking.
I do find that most medications have an overall weakening affect on the body in general, and usually a person’s level of health will be lessened. It can be restored, but may take some time. When the immune system has been suppressed, it can take a very long time before it will start working properly again.
I believe you’ll only find true cure through using a mode of healing that treats the whole body, mind and spirit. Homeopathy is not the only way, but it is a very good way, IMO.
I hope you can find healing, whatever you pursue,
April
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