A New Book from Luc de Schepper
Achieving and Maintaining the Simillimum
Strategic Case Management for
Successful Homeopathic Prescribing
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Those familiar with Dr. Luc De Schepper's approach will find him in his latest work as tough-minded as ever. Throughout, the reader will find a point supported by principle, by citation of aphorism from the Organon and/or by the author's findings from his own practice, or from that of various of his own students.
The author addresses every issue methodically, whether with regard to potency selection, to the maintenance of a remedy that has shown curative action or to the diagnosis and resolution of an impeded case through miasmatic prescribing. The second prescription receives considerable attention.
The author has various bones to pick with his contemporaries - above all, he objects to the use of the dry dose as described by Hahnemann in the Fourth edition of the Organon.
Dr. De Schepper picks over various of these contentious bones carefully and always with reference to aphorism, to Hahnemann's own case practice, and to the Sixth edition of the Organon. Carefully reasoned arguments are made for following the Sixth edition, all clearly laid out for the reader.
For example, after a step by step procedure is set out for the split-dose method (Fifth edition), the author then turns to the LM potencies, considers various myths about LM prescribing, and compares this approach favorably to the split-dose method.
This may stand as an example: the author follows the issue historically, as it develops in Hahnemann's records of his practice - and this is done with the express purpose of demonstrating that these writings are the highest and most relevant guide for truly homeopathic practice.
The author's lively regard for the classics is evident throughout. To the highest rank he assigns only Hahnemann, Boenninghausen and Hering, adding Adolph Lippe as 'a beacon of light, the one whom we would like to imitate in our practice' (p. 353).
'Homeopathy is like an oak tree growing in the fertile soil of the Organon of the Healing Art, its roots are the Materia Medica Pura, and its branches are the repertory.
All later homeopaths are its multiple leaves: homeopaths who have used these reference works over the centuries to cure their patients. But none of these later homeopaths, except perhaps J.T. Kent and T. F. Allen, has ever contributed anything as valuable as did the four above-mentioned gentlemen.' (p. 353)
While the author begins by mentioning the 'spirit of dispassionate inquiry' the reader will find plenty of passion in this book with regard to matters of principle! In this spirit, guidance is offered with regard to manifold occurrences and difficulties in practice and case management. There is, for example, a summary chapter, entitled 'Management Inquiries,' all presented in Question and Answer format.
In another chapter within a mere ten pages we are given remedy relations culled 'from the Old Masters' - acute and the chronic complement (p. 203), remedies in series (p. 205) - along with discussions of complementarity, inimicals and antidotes, and the ever present admonitions against routine, mechanical or lazy prescribing!
Selecting at random, we are also offered remedy differentiation (say, between the nosodes Carcinosin and Medorrhinum), clinical examples, a detailed study of Hahnemann's later years (theory and techniques) - the 357 pages of text are packed full: the reader will be glad of the large print, clear pages and wide margins.
The volume throughout has examples from clinical practice - in most instances, annotated as an example of the action of a particular aphorism - with advice and strategies forged from principle.
We may end this review by giving an example from one of the 'Question and Answer' sessions that Dr. De Schepper offers:
'Q: If the homeopathic remedy is all-supreme, why is it then that some patients who have been under our care for many years develop cancer, arteriosclerosis, chronic nephritis, etc.?A: I must play the devil's advocate with this question, as my answer is a litany of more questions.
- Have you removed the obstacles to the cure - of course the patient most likely has something to do with that too!
- Have you had the full and honest cooperation from the patient: rule number one, "the patient always 'lies' or hides information."
- Have you really given the simillimum?
- How many administered remedies were truly homeopathic to the case?
- Have you used the advanced methods of the 5th/6th edition (90% among you must answer no to this question)?
- Have you applied knowledge of miasmatic predisposition (again the majority have to answer in the negative!) so that faulty inheritance was eradicated?
The failures are ours. Homeopathy has not failed. Whether from indolence, ignorance, love of ease, or prejudice, we have simply not completed all the necessary conditions to achieve success.'
(Part Three: 'Management Inquiries,' p.246)
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