Therapy

10 TherapyTypes
There are many types of therapy. They can be divided into two groups. The first group goes away from the problem, the other group goes towards the problem.
In our culture, medicine belongs to the first group: one tries to suppress the symptoms of the disease. The symptoms have to go away. That is why many groups of medicines have names beginning with "anti", such as antihistamines, antibiotics, antidepressants. If the symptoms cannot be suppressed, a part or the whole organ can be removed, cut out. It is a fight, it was called the war on cancer.
Paradoxical
The second way is to search for the problem, recognize the problem and feel good about it. This is a kind of paradoxical therapy, to go with the problem rather than against it. This is already a very old method, described by Hippocrates, the father of medicine. Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy, has made this principle the guiding law: treat like with like (Similia similibus curentur). The law of similia is a recognition that problems must be acknowledged. Running away from them solves nothing. You cannot solve the problem of too little oil in a car by turning off the warning light.
At first, accepting the problem looks strange and you think it will make things worse. But it works wonderfully. How can one explain this? The effect of paradoxical therapy works because it makes you aware of what is going on.
Paradoxical therapy is also very well-known in psychotherapy. Milton Erickson was very good at paradoxical therapy. The theory of neurolinguistic programming is largely based on his treatment methods. Jay Haley studied and compared many types of psychotherapy and came to the conclusion that the paradoxical element in each of these therapies is the healing factor: knowledge is healing. Viktor Frankl came to the same conclusion in his logotherapy and called it paradoxical intention.
There are also paradoxical elements in acupuncture and acupressure: the painful points are needled or pressed.
Mirror
Paradoxical therapy can be compared with a mirror. It is like holding a mirror up to the patient, making them aware of what the essence of the problem is so that they can change it. This is also expressed in an old English proverb: "The best mirror is an old friend". The therapy mirrors the personality of the patient and that makes the patient conscious of the personality and helps to free him from the obsessive character of the personality. A good mirror shows the essence of the
47problem. By understanding the core of the problem, one can let it go and become free of the blockage, the domination of the personality. Aristotle was already aware of this: “Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.”
Labyrinth
The paradoxical therapy can be compared to giving a map of the labyrinth the patient is in. The map of the labyrinth is like a map of the personality of the patient. It shows the patient the structure of the problem and thus a way out.
Consciousness
The comparisons of healing with mirrors and labyrinths make it clear that the essence of healing is becoming conscious of the problem. One has to understand what is the source, the origin of the problem. Then the solution is simple and obvious. It makes it clear that the consciousness, which is the Self, is the origin of the self-healing capacity.
Information
Healing is thus based on the psychological level. It is an information process and not a material process.
Homeopathy
This whole book gives a general view on diseases and cure. It is only in this chapter that homeopathy is explicitly different. Not in the sense that it is an information therapy, but in how the information is administered. In homeopathy this is done in the form of potencies. Potencies are a typical preparation of substances, minerals, plants and so on, by sequential dilution and succusion.
Unification
There is a particular consequence of this paradoxical therapy, especially in homeopathy. The difference between pathology and medicines disappears. The knowledge of pathology fuses with that of medicines. Unification is of great importance for science. Making it more simple and beautiful. It diminishes the amount of constants.
An example is Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, where the electrical and magnetic forces were unified. The constants of permittivity of free space and the permeability of free space predict the speed of light.
Rosa's case continued
The diagnosis was Cadmium silicatum, as explained in the previous chapter. So the therapy was the same: Cadmium silicatum. This was given in a homeopathic potency.