The Method

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The unabbreviated text of a seminar conducted in 1993 at the School voor Homoeopathy, Amerfoort, Hooland.

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Author

Andre Saine, ND, DHANP

(1953 -     )

Dr. Saine was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on May 25, 1953.

He is a 1982 graduate of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon. He is board-certified in homeopathy (1988) by the Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians. He has been teaching and lecturing on Homeopathy since 1985.

One of the main points of his clinical work is the treatment of patients suffering from very serious chronic diseases. In addition to his private practice in Montreal, Canada, he has been the Dean and main instructor for the postgraduate program of the Canadian Academy of Homeopathy since 1986.

In 1976, Dr. Joseph Bonyun was the first person to encourage Dr. Saine's study of homeopathy while he was a student in chiropractic college. He was thus introduced to Kentian homeopathy.

Afterwards he studied with a number of teachers including Robin Murphy, Bill Gray, George Vithoulkas, Francisco Eizayaga and John Bastyr. However Andre says that his real teachers, the ones from whom he has learned the most, were the great masters of the past.

He discovered Carroll Dunham, P. P. Wells, Constantine Hering, and especially Adolph Lippe by reading the old homeopathic journals. The study of their work inspired him to review all of Hahnemann's writings and helped him to understand them better.

Dr. Saine is a much sought after teacher, holding seminars in Canada, the United States, and European countries. He is known as a homeopathic scholar based on his in-depth studies of the work of the great masters of the past and his practice of pure Hahnemannian homeopathy.

A 500-hour course on chronic prescribing for professionals, taught by Dr. Saine, is available on video through the Canadian Academy of Homeopathy.

Two books of his teachings from transcripts of seminars given in the early 1990's in Holland were recently published, Psychiatric Patients I (1997) and The Method, Lectures on Pure Homeopathy II (2000).

Even though Dr. Saine did not edit transcripts of these seminars, his students have commented that besides occasional errors, the books were quite faithful to Dr. Saine's teachings.

Dr. Saine has been busy for many years editing the voluminous work of Dr. Adolph Lippe. His book on the topic is much anticipated.

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Contents

PART I
Introduction -- 1
The method is the most important subject -- 1
Hering's Law: A law, rule or dogma? -- 2
Disappearance in reverse order of appearance -- 3
Direction of cure -- 3
From above down, from side out, from the generals to the parts -- 4
Suppress skin eruption is to disrupt the dynamic balance -- 5
Return of old symptoms -- 6
-Organon 161 and 248 -- 6
-Organon 253 -- 7
-Organon 225 -- 7
Inductive method base of discovery -- 8
Constantine Hering -- 8
Law of Order -- 9
Kent introduces 'Hering's Law' -- 11
Kent's 'Lectures on Materia Medica' -- 13
Lesser Writings -- 13
Direction of Cure again -- 14
What is meant by 'reversible'? -- 14
Classification of symptoms -- 14
Presenting symptoms of the disease -- 15
Suppressed or not healed symptoms return -- 16
Skin eruption at the end of a cure -- 17
Use the Direction of Cure -- 17
The Spirit of Hering -- 18
Where do we go from here? -- 19

PART 2: CASE HANDLING
Case handling -- 21
-Case taking -- 21
-Case analysis -- 21
-Case management -- 22
Facts, not fiction -- 23
Case Analysis: 4 basic steps -- 23
Classification of Symptoms -- 23
Discern the disease and the wrong way of living -- 24
Change of life style on getting better -- 24
How do we know the patient has more than one disease -- 25
In acute disease: what changes is important -- 26
-Organon 72 -- 26
-Organon 82 -- 27
Cases of dissimilar diseases in one patient at the same time -- 28
Treat severe acute situation -- 28
Different stages of an infectious disease -- 29
Different stages of indisposition -- 29
Case: Boy who has a cough half of his life -- 30
Second possibility: 'acute trauma' -- 32
A punctured wound, let's say to the foot -- 33
Emotional Trauma -- 33
Look for signs 'something is wrong' -- 34
Poisoning, vaccination -- 34
Acute indisposition from wrong way of living -- 35
Allergies -- 35
Crisis: Acute exacerbation of a chronic disease -- 36
Antibiotics -- 37
Advanced or complicated stage of chronic disease -- 38
Case: Rapid progression of aphthae -- 38
Case: Glomerular nephritis -- 39
Case: Total renal failure -- 43
Periodical disease -- 43
Malaria -- 44
Chronic manifestations -- 44
When infectious disease develops on a chronic disease -- 46
Study history and literature -- 46
The best prescribers in homeopathy -- 47
Alternating diseases 232 of the Organon -- 48
Alternating disease in multiple sclerosis -- 49
About nosodes -- 52
Complex diseases -- 53
-Organon 34 -- 53
-Organon 35 -- 54
-Organon 36 -- 54
-Organon 37 -- 54
-Organon 38 -- 55
-Organon 39 -- 56
Dissimilar diseases -- 57
-Organon 40 -- 57
Sometimes people need more than one simillimum -- 58
Example of treating dissimilar diseases -- 58
Unravel the case -- 59
AIDS cases -- 59-65
Wrong way of living- change of lifestyle -- 66
-Organon 99 -- 67
-Organon 252 -- 67
-Organon 17 -- 68
Case of very shy patient -- 68
Lack of symptoms is a red flag -- 71
One disease picture -- 71
-Organon 170 -- 72
-Organon 171 – 72

PART 3: EVALUATION OF SYMPTOMS
Introduction -- 73
A: Intensity of a symptom -- 73
Spontaneity -- 74
Symptoms held back -- 74
Example value 4 -- 75
B: Characteristic value of a symptom -- 75
Human nature -- 75
Pathology -- 76
Materia Medica -- 77
Kunzli's repertory -- 77
Clinical experience -- 77
Study reliable cases -- 78
Developing perception -- 78
The characteristic symptoms, Sherlock Holmes -- 79
-Organon 153 -- 79
-Organon 154 -- 80
Guiding symptoms -- 82
Example 1, 'strange symptom' -- 82
Example 2, 'strange symptom' -- 83
Case: A neurological case that should not have seen the neurologist -- 83
Aggravation after repetition of the remedy -- 85
Modalities -- 86
-Example: Worse from sunset to sunrise -- 87
-Example: Restless in sleep before a storm -- 88
-Scheme to value symptoms -- 88
Condition, etiology: what will bring on a condition -- 89
Localities -- 90
Direction or extension -- 90
Case: patient with anuria -- 91
Concomitants -- 91
-Example: Case of difficult micturiction -- 91
-Example: Extreme kidney pain with vomiting -- 92
-Example: Double pneumonia -- 93
Food -- 94
Thirst -- 94
Sleep position -- 96
Sensitivity of the patient -- 97
Lack of sensitivity to for instance pain or the loss of a function -- 97
Gestures -- 98
Having the tongue out -- 98
Case of fear going down stairs -- 99
C: The Hierarchy of a symptom -- 100
How others used the value of hierarchy -- 100
-First strategy: characteristic symptom and concomitants -- 101
-Second strategy: combination of common symptoms -- 101
-Third strategy: best known remedies for pathology -- 101
-Fourth strategy: etiology, causation, temperament -- 102
-Fifth strategy: acute curative remedies -- 102
-Sixth strategy: most commonly given remedy -- 102
Keynotes -- 103
Guernsey -- 103
Genus of the remedy -- 104
Essence of genus of a remedy -- 105
How to be a careful observer -- 106
Schemes -- 108
-Kent -- 108
-General, common, local -- 108
-Vithoulkas again -- 108
-Boenninghausen -- 108
-Eizayaga, Paschero, Pierre Schmidt -- 109
-Overview -- 109
Hahnemann -- 110
-Organon 210 -- 111
-Organon 211 -- 111
-Organon 213 -- 111
-Organon 217 -- 111
Summarizing approaches -- 112
Hierarchy of symptoms -- 112
Scheme Andre Saine -- 113
-The Valuation of Symptoms: Scheme -- 114
Examples mental/general/physical/local -- 115
Valuation by chronological appearance -- 115
Finding the genus of the remedy -- 116
The problem of transferring knowledge -- 116
Lippe's approach -- 118
Reliable Materia Medica's -- 119
Case: "The zero defect machine" -- 119
-Analysis -- 121
A) Intensity -- 122
B) Characteristics -- 122
C) Hierarchy -- 122
-Totals -- 122
-Genus of the case -- 122
-Which remedy has been identified being closest to his remedy -- 123
-Follow up after four weeks -- 125
-Follow up about 8 weeks after starting treatment -- 127
Case of schizophrenia -- 130
-Follow up after 5 weeks -- 134
-Follow up 7 weeks later again -- 136
-Two months later -- 136
Case with a Digitalis 200D -- 136
Dunham 200 -- 138
-Finding a set of Dunham potencies -- 139
Case of Delusional psychosis -- 141
-Brought back home again -- 142
-Homeopathy for the first time -- 142
-Her present condition -- 142
-Constitutional data -- 143
-Prognosis and follow up -- 146
Case: schizophrenic 'like a TV camera' -- 149
-The genus of the remedy -- 151
Olfaction -- 153
Case: oversensitive to everything -- 153
Case of Friedreich Ataxia -- 161
-Past medical history -- 162
-Prognosis -- 163
Case of fever from Lippe -- 165
Case of childhood fever -- 167
Case of acute fever -- 170
Case of albuminous urine, renal failure -- 173
Questions after the seminar -- 174
The next comment is on the way the cases are analyzed -- 174
The five diseases of homeopathy -- 175
Basics on Materia Medica -- 175
Paucity of symptoms -- 177
High potencies in acute situations -- 178
Susceptibility to caries -- 178
Being Healthy -- 179
Case of Mitrocidosis -- 179
The Life and works of Adolphe Lippe -- 181
-Allentown Academy -- 181
-Case of Phosphorus and the washer-woman -- 182
-Epidemic of intermittent fever, malaria -- 183
-Case of male infertility -- 189
-Curantur -- 195
-Summarizing the Philosophy of Adolph Lippe -- 199
-Publishing the whole works of Lippe -- 201

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