N17: Nature’s Inventory from the Animal Kingdom

The animal kingdom is in fact not one kingdom, but many different ones.

The best place for anyone to learn about a remedy is through the proving of it, but we don’t have enough time or place to prove everything and this is where similarities in kingdoms and families helps find a more appropriate remedy. I personally use single remedies when looking for the Similimum and use the modern sensation method, the source method as done by Dr. Divya Chhabra and use rubrics and repertory if the symptom is rare and peculiar.  I find my case taking to always have been about the part that doesn’t make sense in a case and then the remedy is of the rare and peculiar type. 

  When you are looking for a first aid remedy for your family with a limited amount of formal or apprenticed learning then you do not have to use any specific case taking because you are looking for an acute remedy and not a constitutional. Using a first aid book for your family then becomes a wonderful guide to choosing a remedy from a well indicated list of a few given to you by a practitioner.   A constitutional remedy is found by someone learning or having completed the teachings of homeopathy as laid out in the Organon of the Medical Art.  When looking for the most appropriate remedy for an acute ailment for someone in your circle of family and friends you would not use the knowledge of the kingdoms and so on because the remedy you are seeking will not address the chronic disease.  The concepts of kingdoms is explained in detail in a book I highly recommended by Rajan Sankaran: Homeopathy for Today’s World . Sometimes we use the kingdom to better understand the patient’s individual picture. On page 60, Sankaran talks about the Animal Song. 

On the subject of the Animal Kingdom, we have remedies from quite a few sub kingdoms: ocean remedies with their own groupings,  birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, arachnids, and remedies made from bacteria and other living animals, we even have the amoeba remedy.  When looking at homeopathy and animals I am reminded of first nations and would like to read a section of a book that has captured what people call the native myths.  Someone once asked me what the difference is between a myth and a religion, and I think I said something about having people still alive who believe it is true.  Those religions no one believes anymore, but can still learn from are Myths..  So, despite the unfortunate use of the word mythology to represent the first nation understandings of Earth, her medicine, and her teachings, I would like to read a section of the book that shows the nature of animal energies finding the eternal message of mother nature and the secret to unleashing the energy in a remedy through water.  Chapter 2 on the Iroquois myths and legends: The Animal’s Medicine

The book is, The Illustrated Guide to North American Mythology, Lewis Spence, introduced by Arthur Cotterel. We read how first nations learnt to make natural (homeopathic) remedies in their teachings as well as the knowledge of being near the source of the energy that makes up your spirit/source energy/wessen.  First nation would wait until later to give an individual their spirit name.  I believe that we were probably more animal remedies and then later there developed the plant and mineral remedies.  The fact that many began to wipe out animals and grow gardens, and then many today wipe out plants as they grow mineral cities, shows the move in the nature of humans today.  In the 5 Books of Moses, also known as the Tanach, and in the Bible as the First Testament, it is written how man was to care for animals.  This need to be with the energy you have an affinity is often told in first nation stories to show Nature’s way of keeping us close to our source. 

Question for today: Do all homeopaths use the knowledge of kingdoms?

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