Homeopathic Parrot, eh?

[materia3]

Other aspects of Cindy also corresponded with themes and symptoms that became manifest during the proving of macaw feather. What is a proving? Homeopaths learn about their remedies by taking them themselves. A proving is a detailed, organized group study of a remedy by the careful notation of symptoms, feelings, and dreams that develop while taking a remedy. In Cindy’s case, her dreams of tropical places, dreams of many colors, her deep feeling of being unable to speak (or write) her truth, were things that were recorded by homeopaths who investigated the properties of Macaw by taking the remedy in 1999. After several more conventional homeopathic remedies failed to act, I prescribed a single dose of Macaw.

http://www.newconnexion.net/article/11-02/homeopathy.html

 

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

The previous paragraph:

What a fascinating metaphor, I thought. A parrot, after all, is the embodiment of creativity denied. In spite of all its color, it cannot voice anything original, but simply "parrots" back what it is told. I researched what was known about the homeopathic remedy made from parrot feather, known as Macaw. It turns out that this remedy has proven curative in cases where the deepest conflict was between the sense of self and the need for expression, and that these issues came to the surface when the remedy was "proven."

Okay, I admit, I'm completely befuddled. Is it coincidence that parrot feather is supposedly useful for expression issues, so that the author is simply drawing the connection to "parroting"? Or is it no coincidence at all, but an expression of the deep connection among all things and concepts?

This subsequent paragraph suggests the latter, but isn't really definitive:

The cure came when there occurred a resonance between the idea, information, energy, and essence of a remedy and the "place" within the patient where energy was bound up. Remedies are not medicines in a pharmacological sense, but rather aspects of consciousness. Macaw, at essence, turns out to be the consciousness of the dilemma, or polarity, between free expression versus group identification (there are other subtle and varied manifestations of Macaw essence that are also expressed in individuals who may become sick when in a Macaw state).

I guess a homeopath is free to interpret his craft any way he likes.

~~ Paul

 

[Badly Shaved Monkey]

Okay, I admit, I'm completely befuddled. Is it coincidence that parrot feather is supposedly useful for expression issues, so that the author is simply drawing the connection to "parroting"? Or is it no coincidence at all, but an expression of the deep connection among all things and concepts?

In principle this sort of thing would be pretty impressive evidence for the power of homeopathy, if it really was true.

However, the way provings are actually done is that the prover sets up a whole philosophical rigmarole about what the remedy should do before the proving starts and is then the person who collates the provers diaries and draws out the themes from them. Since the diaries comprise many pages full of self-obsessed psychobabble, almost any intepretation can be placed on them at the masterprover's choosing. Easy-peasy.