Therapy through Natural Stress and Fatigue

The description of therapy and physiology of muscular dysfunction is so careful because it involves “fixing” others. In real life and not therapy, if you have the energy, muscular or tendon injury is very low in the pathological pyramid. Not having the energy to move is a much more difficult problem, for example. Wear and tear on the muscles and connective tissue is very common. Natural life that requires both comfortable and stressful movement will naturally fix many problems. If we only move as we prefer to do, that is with all of our postural and emotional discomforts fixed by preference, it is hard to overcome dysfunction. Since we are not usually doing yoga all the time, stressful movement is necessary to get the stretch. Fatigue will call for relaxation. At that point, injuries causing flaccid muscles (phasic muscular injuries) can be worked on. Fatigue puts the most stress on flaccid muscles. So we need both fatigue and stretch in natural life, not the life on a therapist's table. If the patient basically lacks the energy for natural fatigue and stretch in daily life, then we need to be doing the “constitutional” treatment. Homeopathy should consider the constitutional treatment for a lack of energy to live a natural life of stress and fatigue before attempts to fix local musculature problems.

Symptoms Appearing in Response to the Correct Remedy

This is a letter to a patient who is producing first a rash for 5 days and then a sore throat. I am explaining to her why this can happen. It sounds like you have the pattern of rapid appearance and disappearance of old suppressed symptoms. Let me explain. Since you are in the habit (I am only guessing) of medically taking care of symptoms such as a sore throat because of job responsibilities, you have a lot of stored problems. If you are really strong, your body will really heal all the way. But if you are under continual stress, keep taking more suppressive drugs, etc., your body begins to store problems rather than finish off the healing process. So, you get stuff like chronic infections. Sometimes the problems move to to another part of your body. You have heard of the word "metastasis" in cancer. That word is not limited to the spread of cancer cells. Simply put, problems go and hide out somewhere deeper in your body. Your throat and ears are entry ways for pathogens to get into your body. They are equipped with strong defenses. Defense mechanisms such as lymph glands, saliva for your mouth and throat or hairs in your nose are examples. If you take over the defense process by using antibiotics to do the work of those bodily defenses, then as I said above when you are stressed, the problems don't get solved and either you have a chronic infection in that place or the infection moves deeper. If you have not had a strongly medicated sore throat a long time, still this could have happened when you were a little kid. For example, antibiotics for ear infections don't know that they are only supposed to act on the ear. So, they act more generally. I have seen very old suppressed infections come and go like yours in many cases. Again, I did not say every use of antibiotics is going to cause suppression. Only usage when your energy is low. The same goes for the skin rash. Probably as a result of the remedy improving your mental and energy state, it came and went fairly quickly. Intelligently, you did not suppress it. Hopefully, your skin reactions are over for this remedy, but I can make no promises. There is a kind of fancy theory about where you would expect problems to go when they are suppressed. One direction of suppression is from a more superficial place to a deeper organ. This is a pattern frequently recognized by homeopaths. Skin to brain cells is one example of a "metastasis". The following explanation is not a well proven idea, but it makes sense to me. Skin problems and mental problems can be closely related because in the fetus, the cell type is a direct specialization from the type that makes brain cells. Just one theory of the relationship between disease symptoms and fetal development. Medications and diseases are designed to work on certain tissue types or cell types. So, if the cell types are similar, they will be similarly affected. At least, in cases where cell and tissue types are important. Returning to your case, if your skin rash completely heals, this may have done a lot to relieve the pressure on your mental state. Just a theory, but watch how you develop over time. My guess is this throat symptom will come and go quickly if you take care of yourself as you say you are doing. Keep a record and watch how long it take for you to overcome old stuff. The rapid throwing out of old symptoms is a sign of a strong vital force (life force). If you were weak, this process would take much longer. You are strong, so when your body gets the message from the remedy that it is supposed to take care of old business, it works very quickly. You can get high fevers. That is a sign of a strong vital force. People with deep chronic diseases, cannot produce high fevers and they heal very slowly. They just lack the "umph" necessary to produce old symptoms and heal them naturally. I know you must be bothered by the rash and sore throat, but if you see it as a review of old business, you can emotionally sit back and watch the fireworks. In four days the rash disappeared. Now the something similar will happen with your sore throat. Since these symptoms were artificially produced diseases, not natural ones, they won't get very bad for a person who is a strong as you. If you were doing this healing work ten years from now, I don't know if you would be so lucky.

Observing our cat children

We are having a hoot watching our cats. like many older folks, our cats have become our children or grandchildren substitutes. The oldest daughter (Myu) is just like Haruna (my oldest daughter) or me. A little slow in competing with daughter 2, but too cool to care. Sumire, the second daughter is always on the move. She is more like Mizuho (our real daughter 2) or when you think about it like my younger sister Teri. She is either pushing into Myu's food bowl or off fighting a dust bunny or a scrap of paper on the floor. She love to jump on Myu's head. Recently, Myu has started hissing when Sumire gets too rambunctious. She cannot sit in your lap for 2 seconds before she has her claws out and wants to play with your hand. You have to really hug her tight to get her to look into your eyes. She is so eager to jump out of your arms and to get on to the real business of life, play. Masaki made a cage for the 2 cats so they can play outside. Surmire found all the holes to get out. So, Masaki carefully watched her trying to get out and patched up holes. Myu really wanted to run away at Sumire's age. Sumire doesn't even care about running out of the house or cage. She was beaten up once by a big male cat and was found as a 5 week old kitten with a bunch of dogs barking at her. I think running away is not high on her list. Sumire has very thin fur compared to Myu, so at night she depends on Myu for warmth. They always sleep together despite so much play fighting during the day. They share a mutual obsession with licking each other. Ears are a popular fetish.

Learning Aikido

I am going 3 times a week for Aikido lessons. The second degree black belt exam will take place this spring. I hope. I am so bad at remembering physical stuff. My 92 year old dad is taking posture lessons. It is like dad's posture lessons. I have to understand mentally before I can do it. Until then, I am like the centipede tripping on 100 legs. I am always in the position of demonstrating for students who have less experience than me. They are much younger and much better learners. So, I always have to re-learn their moves while I demonstrate it. My teacher loves to demonstrate in front of the class with me because he knows I have a thick skin. The other day he struck from above. I was supposed to automatically brace and take the strike. Instead, I automatically fell to the floor. I am very good at that. It was very funny. With Aikido, I was told to bring my shoulder blades more together and to stand straighter. When you throw someone, you don't even look at your hands or the details of the opponent's body. You just keep your head very upright. Anyway, I tried to do that and ended up feeling dizzy because of the release of energy in my shoulders and having too much energy in my head. (doubt that I became smarter) Now the dizziness is gone, but it was very interesting. I think I am getting the hang of maintaining the posture. It is much easier to make those changes than to learn complex movements that happen very fast.

Teaching Homeopathy

I have been busy creating powerpoint lessons. Lots of pictures copied from the web, diagrams and text and all in Japanese. 3 hours per class. The idea is to get 4 students ready to do real homeopathic work in 30 hours. A bit ambitious. By the end of the corse, they will have the tools to analyze a case and a remedy. We will have practiced everything several times, but doing a real case is still far down the road. I have finally decided that a 140 page dictionary (repertory) has to be translated. Only the header (rubrics) of each paragraph has to be translated, so it is doable. But a big time commitment. I just finished a 20 Internet hour course on this repertory learning about its history and use. I decided this repertory is ideal for beginners. Anyway, I will need help with the translation, so I am not at all sure that the translation work will receive backing from students. I am having a dinner with the students in 2 weeks. Then, I will get a better idea of their level of committment. Preparing for yes and assuming no seems the best course.

Japanese Group Feeling

Last night I was at a sushi place that is our hangout. Sitting in the corner of the bar, I could see the whole scene. A sushi bar in the US is never the same. Here, there is a feeling of everybody being in a cooperative group. People know the chefs and there are some acquaintances, no doubt. But, the feeling of belonging has little to do with personal relationships. If I see someone I know there, usually there would be no conversation. No sharing of personal feeling. This leads me always a certain loneliness that comes from being American and expecting individual relationships as the basis of life. But, this group feeling has another nuance that is hard to describe. It is the same in the dojyo. Never relating to anyone on a personal level, but still begin together as a group. I went to a funeral this morning. Again, the same feeling. Very moving, one of the few people whose whole family constellation that I am aware of and have known for years on many different levels invited me to her mother's funeral. Because the relationship is deep, there are pinpoints of very poignant sharing. But again, within the group framework.

My Hopes for Martial Arts Training

The muscles of the legs and hips are quite large. If they can be enlarged, the total blood vein length will increase. That will greatly increase the volume of blood entering my abdomen. I went to Praying Mantis class for the 3rd time. This time I tried a little harder to get down low like the much younger men in my class. As a result, I came home almost feeling nausea from using muscles that I have never used before. The movements are fast so I have trouble keeping track of what is being done. But there is a rhythm and a coordination to the movement that I can't quite get, but it is quite obvious to everyone else, so maybe I will pick it up. At Aikido, my teacher asked me to do a move that is the hardest one in the second belt exam. It was in front of a class of black belts so a bit intimidating. I feel my reputation is the one who forgets every move as soon as it is shown. Several days before I was the only student in class and I figured this difficult move out with my teacher'S help. Since the norm is for me to be standing in front of the class being corrected, this really felt good to have mastered something. The praying mantis if from from that. I feel if I can just strengthen my legs and hips, I really don't care that much about mastering the form. This has been my attitude for years with Aikido, so no doubt it is appropriate for the Praying Mantis.

Short Note on Why Pay Attention to the Influenza of your Neighbors

Influenza can affect the most healthy individuals.  Vaccination is not very effective. You are better off having some background information and knowing where to look for information in case of an epidemic affecting the people around you.  If you hear of a neighborhood flu, please become informed. 

Contact me if you need help in organizing flu symptoms that you hear of in your area. I won't charge you.  The flu virus evolves quickly so remedies must be chosen locally and quickly.  If you others around you are developing flu symptoms, you can choose the most likely remedy based on 3-4 other cases.  The same remedy will cure everyone in a single locality.  The same remedy is unlikely to work the next year or in a different locality where the symptoms are different.

If your health is already compromised, there are remedies that can be taken to prevent a severe attack.  They are not long lasting vaccinations.   

Oscillcoccinum is made from duck liver because water birds are the main propagators of the current human flus since 1918.  This will not prevent the flu, but it will be lighter.  It is not effective after you have the symptoms of the flu.

On my blog, http://caringvibes.blogspot.jp, I have placed a summary of a 2 hour lecture that you can watch for free.  I have also posted my own notes on the lecture.  Also, I have copied a comparison of remedies organized by another homeopath, Lynn Cremona.  You will see all the Internet references on my blog.

Comparision of Influenza Remedies

Notes taken by Lynn Creamona.  This is the list of differentials I posted earlier, This is taken from Will Taylor's webinar on Influenza.  The  freecasts can be found here: http://www.wholehealthnow.com/courses/freecasts.html#q-t
Will has the lecture slides posted here:  

http://whncourses.com/

 

Scroll about halfway down the page until you see “Video of 12 December Influenza FreeCast...”

There is a link to the video, and below that, the handouts are available in two PDFs (which you can download）

My lecture notes are posted on this blog.

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"some" remedy suggestions for Flu symptoms :     

Aconite:

Sudden onset of the flu with great anxiety and fear. She thinks she is about to die.

<  especially after exposure to very cold, dry windy weather. The person is often anxious, and feels worse in a warm room and worse at night.

Per Will Taylor DO NOT give Aconite at first signs of fever, as it will alter the symptoms and interfere with getting a true picture of remedy needed, and will suppress the fever.
Dunham says:
you should not automatically give Aconite at the beginning of the fever because you can confuse the symptoms especially in a person of low vitality. If you give a remedy that is really not the Similimum you delay healing and make it difficult to give the really curative remedy.

Better: in fresh air
Worse: in a warm room, in the evening or at night, lying on the left side, hearing music, when exposed to tobacco smoke.

Other uses:  any situation where the person is scared, such if they just witnessed something horrible, were just involved in an accident, etc

Antimonium-tart  

Too exhausted to cough up the phlegm that is in their chest.

When they can finally cough up the phlegm they are relieved. 

Prolonged respiratory complaints following the flu

Arnica: 

Flu with a feeling of soreness, as if bruised internally and externally.

·         Symptoms come on very suddenly, especially after exposure to a dry, cold wind or from an emotional shock or fright.

·         High fever, dry cough, sore throat and feeling of great worry and fear.

·         The individual is very restless.

·         Fear of death with anxiety, tossing and trembling.

·         Croupy cough, early stages of croup.

·         Pneumonia with sudden onset.

·         Coughing up of blood.

Arsenicum Album:

Extremely restless, oversensitive, anxious and weak. 

·         Fear of death.

·         Extreme prostration, out of proportion to the disease.

·         Very restless, can’t stay in one place.

·         Does not want to be left alone.

·         Chilly.

·         Pale face with an anxious expression.

·         Burning pains that are better with warm applications.

·         Thirsty, drinks in small sips often.

·         Worse between 1 and 2 a.m.

·         Vomiting and diarrhea are common.

·         Diarrhea with acrid, offensive, watery stools.

·         Too neat, upset by clutter.

·         Desires fatty and sour things, especially lemon.

Other uses: Food poisonings, stomach flues.

Baptisia: 

Looks drowsy and drunk.  Flu with high fever and a feeling of being bruised all over.

• Flu that comes on suddenly.
• Sensation of being bruised and sore all over, the body and limbs feel as if they are scattered.
• Profuse sweating with a high fever and an intense thirst.
• Dull red face, looks dazed and sluggish as if they may fall asleep at any time.
• The bed feels hard (Compare with Pyrogenium and Arnica)
• Stupefying headache, with confusion.
• Delirium with strange sensations, like as if there is somebody else in bed with him, parts of her body are separated, etc.
• Patient smells bad.

Belladonna:

Flu with a high fever, red face and dilated pupils. Dryness and burning heat. Everything is intense and concentrated in the head.

• High fever that comes on suddenly, often as a result of a change in temperature (e.g. becoming chilled or overheated, washing the hair).
• Flushed face, sore throat, eyes wide and staring, pupils dilated, bright red tongue, red throat with white spots on the tonsils.
• Constriction on attempting to swallow
• Ejection of food and drink through the nose and mouth from spasm.
• There may be confusion, delirium or vivid hallucinations.
• Twitching and starting.
• Headache.
• Symptoms tend to affect the right side of the body.
• Craving for lemon or lemonade.
• General aggravation at 3 p.m.

Better: standing, sitting upright, in a warm room.
Worse: any noise, bright light, movement, lying down, night.

Bryonia: 

Extremely irritable, talks about business.
Flu with a severe, throbbing headache, body pains.  All symptoms are worse from any motion.

• Slow onset.
• Thirst for large amounts infrequently, preferably cold.
• Pains (headache, body pains) better by pressure.  Lies on the painful part.
• Dryness everywhere, dry tongue, with generally a white coating
• Nose bleed
• Pneumonia, especially of the right side; pleurisy (pain on breathing and coughing).
• Business: worries, talks and dreams about it. 
• Wants to go home.  May be confused and not realize she is at home.

Better: pressure, rest
Worse: any excitement, noise, touch, movement, bright light, from eating and coughing and at around 3am and 9pm.

 Camphora:

Flu with laborious, asthmatic breathing, accumultion of phlegm in the air tubes, cold, dry skin.

• Profound prostration/collapse.
• Coldness and shivering.
• Cold to touch, yet cannot bear to be covered.
• Very sensitive to cold air
• Face is pale and blue, lips are livid.
• Pulse is weak and scarcely perceptible.
• Pneumonia or bronchitis with collapse. Irritability

Worse: Cold   

Carbo –vegetalis:

"Corpse reviver”

• Desperate cases.
• Cold; even the breath and tongue are cold; very pale, air – hunger, asks for the windows to be opened, to be fanned.
• Shortness of breath.  Must sit up in bed. 
• Bloating, indigestion, and tremendous amount of gas.

           This is a frequent ICU remedy, when life seems to be draining away.              Prolonged respiratory complaints following the flu.

China (Cinchona officinalis):
Ailment from loss of fluids: blood loss, vomiting, diarrhea. 

• Desperate cases.
• Debility with chilliness.
• Anemic; pallid; weak. Sensitive to touch: motion: to cold air.
• Worse at regular period: alternate days, every third day, every seven days, etc.
• Weariness of the limbs, with desire to stretch, move or change position.
• Painless diarrhea with a lot of gas.

Eupatorium  perfoliatum:

Flu with body pains so severe, that the bones feel broken. 

·         Feels as if run over by a truck, with pain deep in the bones.

·         Bursting headache and sore eyes.

·         Thirsty for ice cold water (opposite to Gelsemium, which is not thirsty).

·         Chills running up and down the back.

·         High fever preceded by chills, especially from 7 – 9am.

Worse: movement

Ferrum Phos:

Flu without any localizing or characteristic symptoms.

• High fever, usually 102 degrees or higher.
• Right sided complaints - Pneumonia.
• Flushes or redness or pallor.
• Hemorrhage [Nose or Chest]

Gelsemium:

Flu with chills and paralytic weakness.   They feel as if run over by a truck.

• This tends to be the number 1 flu remedy.
• Slow onset
• After worrying about a forthcoming task or event such as a public speaking engagement.
• Sore throat.
• Bursting headache beginning in the neck and which may extend over the head to the eyes and forehead; relieved by copious urination.
• Double vision often before or during the headache. Eyelids are heavy and droopy, can’t keep them open.
• Fatigue, heaviness and dullness.  The legs feel weak and shaky and they just want to lie in bed.
• Pain is felt in the muscles.
• No thirst.
• Aching muscles.
• Chills begin in the hands and feet, and run up and down the spine.

Worse: early morning and last thing at night, in the sun, and when exposed to tobacco smoke.
Better: urination, fresh air

Comparisons:

• Bryonia also has pains, but they are much worse from any movement. 
• Gelsemium patient does not want to move due to fatigue and heaviness, not aggravation from movement. 
• Eupatorium perfoliatum patient also feels as if run over by a truck, but the pains are more severe, and they are felt in the bones. 
• In addition, Eup-per patient is thirsty, and Gels patient is not.

Ipecacuanha  (Carapichea) 

Always Bronchospasm *wheezing / asthma) 

Short of breath, nausea, vomiting, spasms.

These symptoms will be secondary to the main respiratory complaints of influenza.

Kali-iodatum is not typical, but we should be looking for it. 

Similar to Arsenicum

from

'Phatak's Materia Medica'

Generalities

Glands are swollen; or atrophied.

Weakness, emaciation.

Discharges are COPIOUS, watery, acrid, salty; thick; green or foul.
Diffused soreness; after pains; of affected p

- Craves motion in open air.

Coldness; of painful part in bones.

Worse:

- Heat.
Pressure.
Touch.
- Night.
Damp.

Better:
Motion.
Cool air.
Open air.

Mind

Bad temper, Harsh tempered and cruel.

Irritable, irascible esp. towards his children; his family.

Despondent, Trivial details of life seem insupportable

Nervous, must walk.

Head

Violent headaches, as if screwed, through sides of head agg. warmth and pressure.

Brain feels enlarged.

Eyes

- Puffy, burning, watery; conjunctiva red.

Winking is painful.
Oedema around.
Lower lids twitch

Nose

Red, swollen.
Coryza; descending, profuse, acrid, hot, watery discharge agg. cool air; with salivation and dyspnea.

- Tightness at the root of the nose.
Cool, greenish, irritating, discharge from nose.
Burning, throbbing in nose and sinuses.
Violent sneezing.

Face

Tight pain at zygomatic nerve

Mouth

Salivation.

Throat

Dry

Respiratory
larynx feel raw.
Whistling asthmatic breathing.

Dry bronchitis.
Frothy, greenish, soapsuds like expectoration.
Pneumonia.
Chest pains go backwards; Pain from Sternum to back.

Neck and Back

Small of the back as if in a vise.
Bruised pain in lumbar region agg. sitting bent.

Fever

Chilly in bones; in painful parts.
Heat in evening.
Uncovers then chilly.

Fever alternating with perspiration
Alternate heat and chilly.
Heat with shudders.

Hot and Dry then drenching sweats

Profuse night sweats which ameliorates

Kali sulphuricum: 

Yellow, slimy discharge

• Fever with easy sweating
• Yellow slimy tongue, nasal discharge, ear discharge, diarrhea.
• Cough with easily expelled yellow slimy sputum.
• Thirsty.  Averse to hot drinks.
• Wants to lie down, but it makes her worse, so she must walk for relief.

Mercurius solubilis:  

Dirty, smelly, drooling.

·                     Increased salivation, offensive breath, profuse offensive sweat.

·                     Filthy tongue, large, flabby, tooth – notched

·                     Thirsty

·                     Craves bread and butter.

Worse:  night, heat of bed 

Nux Vomica:

Flu with great irritability and over sensitivity.  Easily offended, angry, cold.

• Irritable, impatient, angry and easily offended.
• Very chilly. Chilliness on the slightest movement. On the slightest exposure to the open air, shivering and chilliness for an hour; dreads to go out into the open air. By the slightest draught he gets chilled. He cannot get warm. Great coldness not removed by heat, or by bed coverings.  Wants to be completely covered.
• Very sensitive to light, noise and odors.
• Shivering and chilliness immediately after drinking.
• Fastidious. Wants everything just so.
• Collapse and fatigue states from overwork.

Phosphorus:  

The flu quickly affects the lungs, especially the base of the right lung.  Lots of cough.  Bleeding.

• Bloody sputum, bright red.
• Craves cold drinks, which may be vomited when they become warm in the stomach.

• Burning, pressure and constriction in the chest; worse lying on the left side; worse lying on the painful side (patient and the cough).
• Nose bleed, bright red.
• Cough, worse talking and laughing.

§  Prolonged respiratory complaints following the flu.
§  Pneumonia following Influenza. Most often they are going to also need Sanguinaria.

Pulsatilla:

Clingy and weepy when sick.   

• Flitting chilliness; chills in spots.  Chilly in a warm room.
• One sided chilliness – heat – sweat.  One cheek red, the other white.
• Palpitations with anxiety: must throw off the clothes.
• Dry cough at night, better sitting up, worse on lying down again.
• Thick yellow-green discharge from nose.  Yellow-green expectoration.

• Craves butter, cream, pastries.
• Thirstless.
• Tearful, craves company and sympathy.

Worse: external warmth, closed room
Better: open air, outside, slow motion

Sanguinaria 

Bronchitis

Pneumonia

Prolonged respiratory complaints following the flu.

High fever

Aching of neck extending to the forehead, feeling the neck has to crack

Rawness in the throat. 

Influenza that progresses down into the lungs or does not recover.

Spigelia
Headache
Pain eyes, eyes feel too large, profuse acrid tears
Chronic mucus with post nasal drip,
Prosopalgia (facial pain)
Trigeminal neuralgia, < daytime
Offensive breath
Sweat offensive
Tongue coated yellow/white
Mapped tongue
Dyspnea
Neck stiff
Fever < night

Sticta (Lobaria) Pulmonaria

from

Phatak

Commonly known as Lungwort is a remedy for

Coryza, bronchial catarrh

Nervous and rheumatic disturbances

Rheumatic stiffness
General feeling of dullness and lassitude as when a cold is coming

Painful dry mucous membranes. (needs to blow nose, but there is no discharge)

Scabs in nose

> when nose drains

Forehead pain

Sore eyeballs

Dry hacking cough

Stiff sore neck and shoulders

Restlessness

Copious sweat on hands

Worse

Night.
Lying down.
Motion.
Change of temperature.

Better

Free discharges.
Open air.

Head

Aches before catarrhal discharge appears.
Heaviness; forehead.

Eyes
Burning of eyelids with soreness of eyeballs on closing lids or turning eyes.

Nose

Pressure or stuffy fullness at the root of nose.
- Constant need to blow the nose but not discharge.
Painful dryness of mucous membranes.
Coryza which dries up soon, forming scabs difficult to dislodge.

Throat
Dry; dropping of mucus posterior.

Respiratory
Tickling high up in pharynx.
Incessant dry hacking cough prevents sleep, agg. coughing, inspiration; towards evening and when tired; after measles, colds; influenza; whooping cough.
Air passages numb.
Bronchitis.
Pain from sternum to spine agg. motion.

Neck and back
Sore stiff neck; pains to shoulder.
Restless hands and feet.
Rheumatism.

Cold moist limbs.
Profuse sweat on hands.

Chorea like spasms

Sleep
Sleepless from nervousness; from cough; after surgical operation.

Similar to Sanguinaria

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People who would improve with Ars., might not fully recover and they could next need  

Kali-bic.  

Kali-bic may also need be followed by Nux-vomica. 

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Septic States

Septic flu remedies are much sicker than the above remedies.  

Septic means the blood is dark with toxins.  [They have Incredible Fever]

Arn, Bapt, Pyrogen. 

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Aconite and Belladonna do not address remitting Pace

Fever Remittent:

Aconite and Belladonna may palliate the fever and do not address the fundamental disease process

Aconite should not be given at first signs of fever, it may be suppressive

Japanese Breakfast is mostly Leftovers

Asians and I suspect most of the world does not eat cereal and milk for breakfast.  We do not even eat standard breakfast foods.  We usually eat leftovers. We eat 2 meals a day, so this elaborate breakfast is appropriate for us.   If we were going to eat lunch, probably I would make less food.

When I cook dinner, I always try to have left overs.  The congee and miso are served in individual bowls.  Other food comes from the fridge and family members will put a small portion on their dish.  At the end of the meal, the kimchee and stirfried veggies were left in a small amount.  So they went into smaller containers and we will eat them for dinner.
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Menu for today's breakfast

Miso soup with a garnish of fresh green onions from last night
Congee (rice boiled in water) made from fermented brown rice made a week ago.  The congee was timed to be ready by breakfast time.  It needed to boil slowly.
Stirfry vegetables in the round orange bowl made this morning
Korean kimchee made last month
Stirfried miso eggplants from last night's dinner
Broccoli in a sauce of ginger and kuzu made 2 nights ago
Fresh green tea