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Deborah Olenev
October 3, 2016 at 2:06 pm (UTC -7)
Dear Moumina,
I am sorry for my delay in responding. I hope the patient that you gave Tuberculinum 200C to has
recovered from the initial reaction and feeling much better now. If the exhaustion persisted, I would
retake the case at this point and see if there is a remedy that covers the current symptoms better.
I generally am cautious when prescribing nosodes. I always try to see if another remedy may fit the
case better, and only use nosodes if necessary.
I wish you and your client all the best.
In love and service,
Deborah
Moumina
September 9, 2016 at 2:23 pm (UTC -7)
I really liked the article am out the nosodes. Boericke and other homeopaths warn to give
tuberkulinum as it can be dangerous to certain patients. What can happen and what can one do if
something is happening which doesnt look right. I gave a 8 year old child yesterday tuberkulinum c
200 for hyperactivity and concentration problems and other tub,symptoms. But after he went home
he was totally exhausted and just wants to sleep a lot, no real appetite, headache and burning
sensation in stomach. Still today sleep a lot and just feeling heavy and lame. Can this come from the
remedy. He had a burn accident 3 years ago ,shoulder, neck and part of arm burned from hot oil.
Thanks for answering.
Deborah Olenev
April 5, 2016 at 5:58 pm (UTC -7)
Dear Iris,
Thank you for your question about homeopathy for your son. I am a classical homeopath, which
means I prescribe only one remedy at a time, and I only repeat the remedy if the symptoms that had
improved by the time of the first follow up at seven weeks begin to relapse. I select the remedy and
the potency of the remedy very carefully.
I know that vaccine clearing is very popular these days, and giving multiple remedies. I personally do
not do this. I really am a believer in homeopathic philosophy and methodology as taught by Samuel
Hahnemann, and I endeavor to be true to the founder of this beautiful system of medicine.
I believe in rational, careful and gentle prescribing, which Hahnemann held up as an ideal Others will
prescribe their own way and according to what they believe, and I cannot comment on that.
If you would like to work with me please complete the pediatric questionnaire, which you can find
on the website and e-mail it back to me. You can also see my fee schedule on the website. Internet
consultations are only for established clients who have a quick question that does not require much
work to answer.
I wish you success in bringing your son to health.
In love and service,
Deborah Olenev CCH RSHom (NA)
Iris
March 31, 2016 at 5:43 am (UTC -7)
Hi,
I like your article, it explains a lot!
Now it makes me wonder
My son is 4 years old diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Our homeopath is currently
prescribing him a lot of remedies at the same time we are doing vaccines cleaning and besides that
he takes other 12 remedies, some of them are 200C prescribed twice a week each. Now that I read
your article and comments I am worried that its too much he had improvements during the
treatment, but also a lot of aggravation.
He doesnt fit a specific remedy or so said our previous homeopath, that gave us
carcinosinum(1M). The kid had a looooot of aggravation from it so the doctor freaked out, told us to
stop giving it, and recommended a diferent homeopath( from a different city), with more autism
experience.
I am not at ease with giving him so many remedies at once, and with a lot of repetition what if its
doing him mire harm than good? what do you recommend? Do you think you could do a payed
consult for my son by e-mail? Im interested in you oppinion for a remedy for him I feel like I shoud
do more for him
Thank you so much!
Deborah Olenev
March 3, 2016 at 3:10 pm (UTC -7)
Dear Dawn,
One has to be very careful when using Belladonna, because it can cause these mental symptoms, like
hallucinations and wild behavior. The dosing method that your homeopath recommended is way too
much.
A single dose of a 200C remedy can hold for months, and even years. Eight months is about average
for the 200C. This frequent repetition is just not appropriate for homeopathy. Samuel Hahnemann,
the founder of homeopathy, taught that one should never repeat the same remedy without altering
it slightly. I accomplish this by dissolving the remedy in water, and varying the amount of water I use
for each repetition. I usually add 2 ounces each time I repeat. I also always succuss when I give a new
dose.
It is true that sometimes one needs to repeat during an acute illness, but when prescribing a 200C
dose that is rarely the case, and even with a 30C I would be very cautious about repeating during an
acute.
In classical homeopathy we are taught never to repeat a remedy unless the remedy has gone
through an initial reaction phase, you have experienced an amelioration of symptoms, and then the
symptoms have started to return for awhile. When the symptoms have returned, you know that the
dose is no longer active and it is safe to repeat.
If your son has another high fever episode in the future, you may want to consider giving him
Calcarea carbonica. Belladonna is used if there is only one high fever incident. If it is a repeating
thing, we are taught to consider Calcarea carbonica, or study the case carefully and see if another
remedy is indicated.
I am happy to hear that your son is feeling well now.
In love and service,
Deborah Olenev CCH RSHom (NA)O
Deborah Olenev
March 3, 2016 at 2:55 pm (UTC -7)
Dear Zora,
I am sorry you have had such a strong reaction to the Psorinum? Since I am not familiar with your
case, I cannot make any suggestions. If your homeopath feels Tarentula Hispanica is a good remedy
the conservative approach of giving one dose and watching and waiting is a wise one.
I do not believe there should be a negative interaction between the Psorinum and Tarentula, if they
were both selected based on homeopathic indications.
I hope you feel better soon.
Zora
February 29, 2016 at 11:00 pm (UTC -7)
Thank you for fantastic article. Can you tell me, please, if you have in front of you, person who
recently been treated with Psorinum (last single dose was before 10 days) and apeare violence and
self-destructive behaviour. Can be now be given Tarantula Hispanica 6c only one dose and weight to
see what remedy is doing? I am afraid, could these two remedy can interact and make problem? My
homeopath prescribe it, but I want to see what you will say.Thank you so much!
Dawn
February 19, 2016 at 10:46 am (UTC -7)
Hi Deborah
A month ago, I dry dosed my 7 year old son 200c (5 pills 3 times per day) belladonna to treat a high
fever and severe headache on its second day. I stopped after the 2nd day of dosing, as that night he
freaked me out, when he woke up, and with eyes wide open was growling and laughing hysterically
with outstretched, stiffened arms. I had to get him to focus on his surroundings, to calm him out of
it. I guess each dose of 5 pills I gave him was effectively 1m in dosage, but this is what wAs instructed
by the homeopath (?). He is now fine, but is there anything I should be cautious of in the future
besides never using this remedy again?! Ps. He has never hallucinated before! And his fever was high
but not danger high.
Deborah Olenev
April 17, 2015 at 6:24 pm (UTC -7)
Dear Ganesh,
I would recommend to use a 30C potency, unless you are certain about the prescription, and you
have many years of experience with homeopathy. Also I would not prescribe the remedy without
the guidance of a homeopath who can help you with case management. If you do prescribe a 30C,
do not repeat, and evaluate after seven weeks to see what the remedy is doing. Good luck with
homeopathy.
In love and service,
Deborah
Ganesh Nikade
April 17, 2015 at 4:58 am (UTC -7)
As you have mentioned about using nosodes in children what is your preferred potency.Is it safe for
children to be prescribed the nosodes in 30c or 1m, since nosodes in lower potencies are not
advisable. please throw some light.
Deborah Olenev
December 26, 2014 at 2:55 pm (UTC -7)
Dear Uzair,
Thank you for your blog comment. One of the indications for Carcinosin is that you see indications
for several constitutional remedies in the case, but none of them fits perfectly. In addition to that
you should have some Carcinosin symptoms present, such as the fastidiiousness, perfectionism,
desire to dance, desire to travel and so forth to prescribe this remedy. Carcinosin is triasmatic, but so
are most of the constititutional remedies. I would not use Carcinosin to antidote another remedy.
I do not think in terms of miasms these days. Rather, I look at symptoms and search for a remedy
that covers the totality of the symptoms, and I keep concepts of miasms out of my head. When I am
thinking too much from my head and from concepts, I am not working intuitively and coming from
the heart. I hope this answer helps.
In love and service,
Deborah
uzair
December 7, 2014 at 6:57 am (UTC -7)
you have mentioned in carcinosin when the symptoms were indicated in 2 remedies. then we think
about carcinosin .is carcinosin trimiastic or psora sycotic.should we use carcinosin in antidoting
sulphur when clear nux vomica symptoms were present and syphilis and sycosis is also present.
because nux is not trimiastic. plz comment
Deborah Olenev
October 24, 2014 at 10:49 am (UTC -7)
Dear Erica,
Yes, homeopathic remedies can absolutely cause side effects. What is supposed to happen when you
take homeopathic remedies, that are well prescribed and repeated with great care, is that the
remedy looks for the symptoms that are in your repertoire and brings them up for treatment. I call
that period of time when it is looking for the symptoms the reaction period. On a single dose 30C or
200C potency of the remedy that reaction period is three weeks on average. On a 1M dose of the
remedy the reaction period is six weeks in duration on average.
One should not evaluate the response to a 30C, 200C or 1M potency remedy until the reaction
period is over and enough time has elapsed so that you can see the amelioration from the remedy. If
you evaluate during the reaction period you will not have a clear picture of whether the remedy is
benefiting or not. In an acute situation you should give the remedy about 48 hours to show that it is
having some benefit. If you do not see positive changes at that point, you can reconsider your
prescription. In a very acute situation with rapidly changing symptoms, you have to respond to the
changes.
A 1M potency of a remedy is very high and should be used with extreme care and never repeated
during an acute situation, and probably should not even be prescribed in an acute situation, because
it is just too powerful and the reaction period is just too long.
In the case of your daughter, she is proving the Belladonna. What this means is that she is
experiencing the classic symptoms of Belladonna, which you enumerated. The homeopathic materia
medica has been built on provings. This is the way we learn the action of the remedies. In your
daughters case this is an accidental proving, because she did not volunteer for the experiment.
When you administer a remedy of such high strength as the 1M, it will bring anyone who takes it
under its influence, whether the remedy is indicated or not. This is one of the reasons that the
provings are done with low potency remedies, up to the 30C traditionally. This brings up the
question of whether proving symptoms are side effects of the remedy or not. They are effects of the
remedy. If the symptoms you experience are not yours, then they are side effects.
Now the question arises what do you do for your daughter, who is experiencing these sides effects,
after the very inappropriate repetition of a high potency remedy in an acute situation or in any
situation. A 1M dose should NEVER be repeated (at least until the remedy has run its entire course,
meaning: the reaction time has been experienced, the amelioration time has been experienced, a
relapse of symptoms has been experienced that is going on for a while, indicating that the previous
dose has worn out). A 1M dose can hold for many years.
Again, going back to what to do for your daughter. I would suggest finding out what her original
symptoms were prior to her having been given the Belladonna, and then administering this remedy.
Another thing that can be tried is giving your daughter a 30C dose of Belladonna first, because this
may cut down the intensity of the overreaction.
I am very sorry this has happened to your family. There is a lot of confusion around posology in
homeopathy. CEASE therapy practitioners are administering remedies in ascending potencies very
rapidly for the purposes of detoxing from allopathic medications. This method of administering
remedies is contrary to classical homeopathy, but they claim it works. My concern is that it is not
safe. People do not understand the tremendous power of homeopathy to do good when used with
good education, good judgment and good experience, and its equally tremendous power to do
harm, when used with poor education, poor judgment and poor experience.
I hope your daughter recovers soon, and thank you very much for posting your question.
Warm regards,
Deborah Olenev CCH RSHom (NA)
Erica Robillard
October 23, 2014 at 8:07 pm (UTC -7)
Can homeopathic remedies cause side effects? My current homeopath says no. However, we
experienced an incident with my 5 year old after rapid-dosing Belladonna 1M. She had at least 10
doses. She became confused & unresponsive, with dilated-pupils, blurred vision & increased heart
rate. We were rapid dosing the remedy for fever. I have read that Belladonna can cause these side
effects. Can you confirm?
Jassy
July 15, 2014 at 5:45 am (UTC -7)
I heard about Miasms first time in my life at http://adidarwinian.com/forums/topic/what-are-
miasms-in-homeopathy/Now again reading about Miasms at this site is convincing me enough to
take a in-depth study in Miasms and chronic diseases.
Deborah Olenev
April 30, 2013 at 12:38 pm (UTC -7)
Dear Lynne,
Thank you very much for you comment on Nosodes, Homeopathy and Autism. I am happy that it
gave you some practical information to help you with your patients and your son.
Warm regards,
Deborah
Linda
January 20, 2013 at 11:39 am (UTC -7)
Thank you, Deborah, for clearing that up! Your approach sounds so sensible.
My sister can drink coffee all day long, even right before bed, and still go right to sleep. If I, on the
other hand, drink regular coffee, I get the shakes. If I have even one cup in early afternoon, I wont
sleep that night. I drink de-caf only. From your post, it sounds as though de-caf is ok since it doesnt
really affect people. Is that right?
I cant thank you enough for posting such important information on the net for us all to read. Your
articles are a godsend for those of us who really need help for our loved ones and ourselves. I wish
everyone knew how amazing homeopathy is (and wish I knew more myself!)
Warm regards,
Linda
Deborah Olenev
January 15, 2013 at 3:15 pm (UTC -7)
Dear Linda,
Thank you for your question. Homeopaths have different opinions when it comes to the question
about coffee antidoting remedies. I have never seen a remedy be antidoted by coffee. What I ask
people is how do they normally react to coffee. If they feel fine and it has minimal to no affect on
them, I recommend keeping the coffee consumptom as low as they can. If people are sensitive to
coffee, I request that they abstain from it and drink tea or hot water instead.
Some homeopaths believe that the taboo against coffee started from a misunderstanding, confusing
the remedy coffea tosta (roasted coffee berries), or Coffea cruda (unroasted coffee) which can
antidote remedies,with regular coffee.
I have never heard it mentioned that coffee can antidote specific remedies, such as nosodes like
Medorrhinum.
I hope I have answered your question.
Warm regards,
Deborah
Linda S
January 14, 2013 at 4:05 pm (UTC -7)
Hello again, Ms. Olenev,
Could you please tell me your opinion on whether drinking coffee antidotes nosodes, especially
Medorrhinum? Some homeopaths say to stay away from coffee during treatment, others say to just
not drink very much of it. Im so confused!
Thank you,
Linda
Linda S
January 14, 2013 at 3:46 pm (UTC -7)
Thank you for providing such great info for all of us to read! Scientists are just now beginning to
understand how and why homeopathy works. For example, doctors used to think lupus and Lou
Gehrigs Disease are autoimmune diseases. But scientists Lida Matman and Trevor Marshall have
found that they are, in fact, caused by extremely tiny, microscopic bacteria. And Dr. Hahnemann
figured out how to get these miserable, stealth bacteria out of the body by using the vibrations in
his medicines. Truly remarkable.
Anson
October 30, 2012 at 5:37 am (UTC -7)
Dear Ms.Olenev,
God Bless you. You are truely a humanitarian. I am an avionic engineer turned Homeopath(no formal
education, but book read knowledge). I have been practicing homeopathy with a qualified doctor
since 12 years. Witnessed a number of mirraculus cures. Your article has inspired and encouraged
me to a great extent. Thank you so much dear. God Bless you abundantly.
Deborah Olenev
October 8, 2012 at 10:38 am (UTC -7)
Dear Manisha,
Your question is an excellent one. Can we discard one clue and depend on many other similarities.
I believe that the answer to this is yes. You do not have to have all the keynote symptoms of a
remedy present when you prescribe it. I have prescribed Causticum and Thuja, two well known
remedies that are supposed to have warts in their symptomatology, to people who do not have
warts, but have symptoms indicating this remedy, with success..
Also from my experience people can respond well to a range of remedies and not just only to one
remedy (as homeopathic dogma states). So your client may need Medorrhinum as an intercurrent
nosode in the case, and may then show symptoms of an underlying remedy once the Medorrhinum
has been prescribed. The Medorrhinum can do a lot of positive clearing work, which will benefit the
client, but may not be the last remedy the client needs, but just another good remedy in a
sequence of remedies needed along the life long road of healing. I wish you all the best.
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April 9, 2010 at 9:10 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
This is a wonderful article Ms. Olenev. I have a young son diagnosed with PDD NOS and I am seeking
a new homeopath to work with us. I am currently giving my son Carcinocin (on the advice of my
current homeopath), but its very frustrating when I cant communicate with her as often as needed.
I must say that my son has responded well to it, but I need somene like you to help direct our
treatments. Furthermore, my current homeopath didnt agree with me when I had mentioned
several months ago that my son displayed xteristics of both Carcinocin and Medorrhinum. It was
after I mentioned your article, she changed her mind. Unfortunately, this is not reassuring to me and
I know that my son can recover from this with the right approach and homeopath. Can you help us?