Bummer about the dial-up! It makes it hard to get these goodies quickly.
I think Mia Kirshner, who plays Jenny, is a fab actress, but I find Jenny's character a bit annoying. Still, she's gotten a lot better as time has gone on. Heh, I'm fairly orientated towards girlie-girls, which is why Shane doesn't work for me at all, but Bette does. Alice, the reporter, is very cute, though. She's also great at the comedy moments. Of course, my absolute fave was Marina. Phew! And I like Helena too.
Also, I meant to get back to you about cell salts, ages ago! I don't think of "cell salts" as anything special in terms of homeopathy. I think a lot of people fall into the trap of trying to prescribe them like herbs - mag phos for "spasms", kali phos for "tiredness" and the like. That's not how you should prescribe - you look at the individual picture.
I think the thing about "cell salts" is that they are often a common remedy for certain symptom pictures, but it's kind of like taking odds. For example, with a screaming, yelling, angry baby with a red face that's teething, you've probably got a 80% chance of the remedy being Chamomilla. But you can't fall into the trap of thinking that Chamoilla is the remedy for teething babies. If you can't do a proper case, and you only have first aid remedies to hand, sure, you can give it a go, and hope that you're in the 80%, but that isn't proper prescribing.
So too with "cell salts". Like any other remedies, if they're the correct remedy for the symptom picture, they will work, and perhaps they might be more likely to work than some. So, if you had a picture of nervousness and restlessness, with perhaps headaches, maybe the Mag Phos would work. But if the person was WORSE from heat and pressure, and was a PASSIVE individual, you can just about guarantee that it won't work - if they're also pale and sweaty, they might need homeopathic Zinc.
So, there's my burble about cell salts. I just think of them as being normal homeopathics, and I often forget that they've been singled out in that way. They were mainly interesting to homeopaths initially because they're fairly "inert" substances by themselves, but potentisation showed their potential. Before that, the homeopaths had mainly studied strong and poisonous elements like Arsenicum, and known medicinal herbs, like Chamomilla. So the cell salts were important in getting people to study substances that didn't immediately seem to be therapeutic, but are important to the functioning of our bodies. :-)
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Date: 2007-01-26 11:00 am (UTC)I think Mia Kirshner, who plays Jenny, is a fab actress, but I find Jenny's character a bit annoying. Still, she's gotten a lot better as time has gone on. Heh, I'm fairly orientated towards girlie-girls, which is why Shane doesn't work for me at all, but Bette does. Alice, the reporter, is very cute, though. She's also great at the comedy moments. Of course, my absolute fave was Marina. Phew! And I like Helena too.
Also, I meant to get back to you about cell salts, ages ago! I don't think of "cell salts" as anything special in terms of homeopathy. I think a lot of people fall into the trap of trying to prescribe them like herbs - mag phos for "spasms", kali phos for "tiredness" and the like. That's not how you should prescribe - you look at the individual picture.
I think the thing about "cell salts" is that they are often a common remedy for certain symptom pictures, but it's kind of like taking odds. For example, with a screaming, yelling, angry baby with a red face that's teething, you've probably got a 80% chance of the remedy being Chamomilla. But you can't fall into the trap of thinking that Chamoilla is the remedy for teething babies. If you can't do a proper case, and you only have first aid remedies to hand, sure, you can give it a go, and hope that you're in the 80%, but that isn't proper prescribing.
So too with "cell salts". Like any other remedies, if they're the correct remedy for the symptom picture, they will work, and perhaps they might be more likely to work than some. So, if you had a picture of nervousness and restlessness, with perhaps headaches, maybe the Mag Phos would work. But if the person was WORSE from heat and pressure, and was a PASSIVE individual, you can just about guarantee that it won't work - if they're also pale and sweaty, they might need homeopathic Zinc.
So, there's my burble about cell salts. I just think of them as being normal homeopathics, and I often forget that they've been singled out in that way. They were mainly interesting to homeopaths initially because they're fairly "inert" substances by themselves, but potentisation showed their potential. Before that, the homeopaths had mainly studied strong and poisonous elements like Arsenicum, and known medicinal herbs, like Chamomilla. So the cell salts were important in getting people to study substances that didn't immediately seem to be therapeutic, but are important to the functioning of our bodies. :-)