Maria,

 

Sorry about the letters - I copy and paste for professional reasons and forgot I didn't need to!

 

I think isopathy can be very useful at times.  I remember reading (with a small amount of thrilled disgust) one of Dorothy Shepherd's books when she was ill on holiday abroad and potentised some of her own faeces to cure her bowel problems.

 

When we use, say, MMR or Polio Vaccine in potency to antidote the ill effects of the same vaccine administered allopathically, this must be isopathy, too, rather than homoeopathy, but, hey, if it works...  And, as you say, we're treating the central disorder here rather than an individual symptom.  Should we choose Vespa to treat a bee sting and Apis for wasp stings?  Then we'd be using similars.  In the end, that would depend on the symtomatology, I suppose.

 

I'm also a bit puzzled why we're urged to get the latest flu nosodes and throw away last year's.  Surely any flu nosode is going to be a similar, isn't it? Anyway, we only use these prophylactically, not once the patient's contracted it.

 

It's wonderful being a homoeopath, isn't it?

 

Neil