"Understanding Destructive Disease"

The CKH welcomed Liz Lalor already in 2008. Her lecture was much appreciated and she was asked to return in 2010. However, the volcano ash cloud hung in between Liz and Belgium and we had to cancel the event. Fortunately in September 2011 the air was clear and Liz was able to share in detail her system to understand and analyse a case in order to find the indicated remedy with an interested and engaged public. This system is based on a profound understanding of the delusion rubrics in the repertory classified in an analogy to the five stages for processing grief as described by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. According to Liz destructive pathology can be connected with deep trauma to the degree that people withdraw in a delusional world in order to avoid the painful truth or to find an explanation for their suffering because everything is more bearable than feeling the pain.

She knows her remedies and their delusions from the inside out. The example of Arnica, who “falls” from his high position of idealism and bumps painfully on the ground of reality, is illustrated by the case story of one patient who adds to this the sensation of trauma and shock and the prediction that he’s done for. The solution is found swiftly even if the complaint in this case was not an injury but Parkinson syndrome. From the patients own description of himself being a Peter Pan, we could deduce the acute miasma and find the same remedy for this case following the Sankaran method.

Clarifying in this method is how remedies can be eliminated, even after applying the kingdom and miasma filter, because their core delusion did not fit in the delusion categories that belonged to the case. Kalium Bromatum, apparently being the indicated remedy with all the rubrics in place, was left in one case for Spongia, because the core of the case was Spongia’s need for external confirmation to recognize and believe her own inner truth.

Very important, according to Liz, is that the chosen remedy is consistent both with the complaint and the way the patient processes this and expresses himself. If a remedy in the repertorisation does not produce this consistency with all elements in the case, it doesn’t fit.

A beautiful Luna case demonstrated that her prescribing isn’t limited to the handful of polychrests that always show up in any repertorisation. However Liz acknowledged that some 20% of her cases remain unsolved simply because she doesn’t know the remedy and it is not in the repertory.

The swift and quite positive results apparent in the follow up consultations (Liz does not record the intakes, she records the follow ups, when she’s established a connection with the patient), are proof that homeopathy can offer relief even in very destructive auto-immune or psychic diseases. Nonetheless she keeps her cool and stresses time and again that the incurable will die, even in the hands of a capable homeopath. She dared the public to confront the limits of their healing capabilities and their own mortality.

This was a seminar that raised questions and incited deep processing thoughts and will remain in heads and hearts long after.