Each case I present in this lecture 'Revealing the Inner Conflict' believes deep within their own self that they deserve the disease state or the emotional pain they are currently suffering. My challenge to all homoeopaths is to find me a patient with a serious illness - whether it is Mental, Emotional or Physical - who does not believe they have caused their own demise. I know if you don't know how to look for and find that Disturbance inside of the patient you will not find the interplay of the Simillimum; that interplay is our homoeopathic philosophy of 'like cures like.' If we as homoeopaths do not know how to find the 'eye of the storm;' we will not find the Simillimum.

In homoeopathy there is interplay between the Mental, Emotional, and Physical. In treating a case of warts the majority of us would go for Thuja, and maybe it would work in 100% of the cases, and maybe it will work in 70% of the cases. The problem is when we have chosen Thuja have we always understood the interplay between the interconnecting components that link 'Like to Like?'

Thuja has the Rubric, Fear, of others approaching them, and the Rubric Insanity, will not be touched. Both of these are expected emotional and mental dialogues you would expect from someone who has warts all over their hands or face and feels like that they do not want to be touched; or feels unclean.   In the majority of cases Thuja would pull it off and the remedy would work. But I am not dealing with a simple cases of warts in my clinic; I am dealing with patients who have severe emotional and mental disease states, severe diseases like Cancers, Auto immune diseases like Lupus, Thyroid antibodies, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's, Rheumatism, crippling Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis, to list just a few.

Did we really explore the defining Rubrics which would indicate the Mental and Emotional inner conflict and stance that a person who needed Thuja would display; i.e. Delusion, body is delicate. The Delusion Rubric: the body is delicate is the core underlying dilemma and fear and disturbance of any Thuja case; that is why a person needing Thuja for their warts is so disturbed by the warts.   The problem is we know that in homoeopathy we have to find the interplay between the Mental stance, the Emotional feelings and the Physical disturbance but do we know how to find that, or look for it, or are we just content to wing it? With warts you can afford to do that but if you want to cure serious disease we have to look much deeper. If we don't know how to listen for the Disturbance in the case how can we with any confidence tackle serious diseases which have devastating consequences for our patients?

There is always interplay with the correct remedy. 'Like cures Like' ruminates with energy; that energy is the Simillimum. Inherent in the medical pathology and somatic presentation of our most serious diseases like Cancers and all the Auto Immune diseases is internal conflict and destruction.   If you want to treat patients with these serious diseases and be able to cure, you have to be able to find the disturbance which caused the destruction. The reason why it is important to know the disturbance in a case is because any severe disease state is always a reflection of our deep sub conscious struggles; our inner angst.

Disturbance within a patient will cause such conflict and pain that it will eventuate in a physical illness or mental and emotional illness which is reflective of the intensity of the conflict. Do we know how to find the 'Like to Like' energy interconnecting the Mental disturbance; the Emotional Disturbance and the Physical disease? In homoeopathy we do not treat the disease we treat the person; but the Simillimum is the remedy which is able to contain the same intensity of conflict and destruction to match the disease presentation. Our patients with Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's, Rheumatism, and Cancer to list just a few, all ruminate with the energy of conflict.

If you can't identify the inherent conflict you will not be able to help your patient; it is as simple as that. If you as a homoeopath do not know how to look for the inner conflict in the case you will not find the Simillimum.

Do you know how to find and listen for that Disturbance?

'Revealing the Inner Conflict.'

Where do we find the Rubrics which will lead us to the Simillimum?

The Rubrics that point to the correct remedy to cure these cases are found within the Delusion Rubrics; these are the Rubrics which ruminate with conflict and disorder.   The Rubric: Delusion he has committed a crime is not meant to be taken literally, it is reflective of a person's inner belief that they have in one way or another committed a sin or must have done something wrong or in some way be inherently evil. In all serious illness the Delusion Rubrics will be in the core of the case analysis; they are always revealing in that they show up the 'eye of the storm.' I say again, if we do not know how to find the 'eye of the storm;' we will not find the Simillimum.