Kingdom Understanding in a System-based Approach

Summary

The search for a systematic approach to understanding patient and remedy states led to a classification based on miasms (pace and depth of desperation) as well as the natural kingdom to which the remedy belongs. Remedies of one kingdom share common themes in their core experiences, which are distinct from those of another kingdom. Remedies (and people) of the Plant Kingdom have intense sensitivity to certain situations and stimuli. Those situations or stimuli affect them, producing sensations. In a patient needing a plant remedy, at the deepest level of experience, and globally, there will be prominence of a particular sensation and its opposite. That sensation will be specific to the family to which the plant belongs, and therefore it will be found in/shared by other plants of the same family. However, each plant experiences the main sensation with a different pace and depth of desperation, which corresponds to its miasm. Thus plants can be classified on common family sensation and individual miasm. In this manner one can use a system approach to reach to the most suitable remedy. This provides an alternative or confirmatory method of finding the remedy.

Key words

Classification - Generalisation - Kingdom differentiation - Vital sensation - Plant kingdom - Anacardiaceae - Rhus venenata - Rhus radicans - Rhus toxicodendron - Mangifera indica

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