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literature in Homoeopathy drawn from the well-known homoeopathic journals published

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wise, with brief abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to the original articles for detailed

study. The full names and addresses of the journals covered by this compilation are

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Compilation, translation, publication by Dr.K.S.Srinivasan, 1253, 66th Street, Korattur,

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Lead me from Untruth to Truth

Lead me from Darkness to Light

Lead me from Death to Immortality

Adyaya I Brahmana 3 Mantra 28

Brhadaranyaka Upanisad

(This service is only for private circulation. Part I of the journal lists the Current

literature in Homoeopathy drawn from the well-known homoeopathic journals published

world-over - India, England, Germany, France, Belgium, Brazil, USA, etc., discipline-

wise, with brief abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to the original articles for detailed

study. The full names and addresses of the journals covered by this compilation are

given at the end.

Compilation, translation, publication by Dr.K.S.Srinivasan, 1253, 66th Street, Korattur,

Chennai - 600 080, India.)

CONTINUING HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL EDUCATION SERVICES

QUARTERLY HOMOEOPATHIC DIGEST

VOL. XXIV, 3 & 4, 2007

Part I Current Literature Listing

Part I of the journal lists the current literature in Homoeopathy drawn from the well-known homoeopathic

journals published world-over - India, England, Germany, France, Brazil, USA, etc., - discipline-wise, with

brief abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to the original articles for detailed study. The full names and

addresses of the journals covered by this compilation are given at the end of Part I. Part II contains selected

essays/articles/extracts, while Part III carries original articles for this journal, Book Reviews, etc.

I. PHILOSOPHY

1. Die Integration der Miasmen-Theorie ins

Organon - Ein Vergleich von Organon III

(1824) und Organon IV (1829) (The

Integration of the Miasms Theory in the

Organon - a Comparison of Organon III

(1824) and Organon IV (1829)

MORITZ, Jiirgen Dr. med. (NAH. 1, 2/2006)

In this article is shown how HAHNEMANN in

Vol. I of his "Chronic Diseases" has explained the

miasmatic cause of diseases, and integrated it in the

instruction in the Organon IV edition, 1829.

Whether these are of any consequence for the

Anamnesis or the complete elaboration of the

disease case.

Disease is, in the light of all the editions of the

Organon, identical with the "Totality of

Symptoms". The obligation for strong

individualizing has also not been altered by

HAHNEMANN through all the editions. Correctly

working on the basis of the Organon, the Miasms

theory is integrated in the application of

Homoeopathy in daily practice. There is no need to

take pains to explain the Miasms theoretically. The

work of the Physician is the restoration of the sick

to health (§ 1 in all the 6 editions) and not weave

empty speculations. The Miasm is nothing else

other than the expression of the Symptoms caused

by it. This must therefore come under

consideration for correct prescription. [J.H.

ALLEN has said that "peculiar, queer, rare, strange

symptoms are expressions of the Miasm" = KSS]

It must be pointed out that

HAHNEMANN observed that cure takes place

from within without and in the reverse order of

their appearance. The mention of above

downwards, from more important to less important

organs, etc., may be considered as synonymous.

2. Die Bedeutung des konstitutionellen Denkens

(The Significance of the Constitutional Ideas)

APPELL, Ramer G. (AHZ. 251, 6/2006)

According to different schools within

Homoeopathy the striking, singular, uncommon and

peculiar signs and symptoms stand in a certain

tense relation to constitutional attributes. As the

biography here presented illustrates, constitutional

and miasmatic constitutionality does not denote a

contradiction to individual life conception and

existential liberty; it is their foundation.

3. The integral of the Chronic Miasms

SHEPPERD, Joel (AJHM. 99, 1/2006)

There are many explanations of the Chronic

Miasms. Two major categories divide the many

interpretations. Either physical explanations or

metaphysical theories include most of the ways of

understanding Miasms. Another article addresses

the physical interpretations including Physics,

Pathology and Microbiology ideas. This paper

discusses religious, philosophical, symbolic,

psychological and generalized theories of Miasms.

In the place of all of these concepts, a descriptive,

phenomenological approach is offered that does not

ignore the actual words of Hahnemann.

Natural Chronic Miasms have three important

moments: First, the instant of dynamic contagion;

second, the penetration throughout the entire

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person; third, "the breaking out of external

ailment". This consistently observed process

describes Miasms clinically.

Natural Chronic Miasms are described, not

explained.

At the end Dr.SHEPPERD does well to say:

"The original definitions of the natural Chronic

Miasms are a description of an actual, verifiable,

clinical process. This process was first seen first

hand. It includes observable events and real signs

and symptoms of disease. The Chronic Miasms are

real experienced disease process. They are not a

postulate. . . . They are not an explanation that

reduces Chronic disease to the chance mechanisms

of Physics or Physiology."

"The question of what is a Miasm comes first;

then comes the question of when is it a Miasm.

These questions are of primary importance to the

actual homoeopathic methodology. It is only later

that the natural curiosity of mind asks why there are

Miasms and what are the mechanisms of Miasms.

"The student must actually read and study the

original definitions of original natural Chronic

Miasms before the homoeopathic community can

move forward in a meaningful way. If homoeopaths

cannot even agree on definitions, then there is

nothing build upon."

4. A Visit to Flatland: The Periodic Table in

Homoeopathy

SHEPPERD, Joel (AJHM. 99, 2/2006)

The use of the Periodic Table of Chemistry in

Homoeopathy has serious limitations. The Periodic

Law of Elements does not adequately predict the

medicinal qualities of homoeopathic remedies. The

shortcomings of grafting a Paradigm of Chemistry

on to Homoeopathy are evaluated using the writings

of Hahnemann and other observers of the scientific

method. The manifold provings law continues to

be the correct scientific method for testing

homoeopathic medicines.

The periodic table is a two-dimensional, flat,

linear, columns-and-rows representation of real

substances in nature that do not order themselves in

a geometric fashion. An artificial geometry is used

to impose an artificial order on the limitlessness of

nature's diversity. The periodic table is the map of

nothing but an imaginary kingdom. It is not real,

not earthlike. The wondrous diversity of natural

mineral substances is reduced to only the ghost of

electron atomic orbits.

The structure of an element so ordered by the

periodic table does not predict what it will do in a

sick person. Instead of real provings, imagined

themes occupy assigned locations like a marching

formation of soldiers all in step. The manifold

provings law, which has withstood the test of two

hundred years, has been discarded. An intellectual

scheme from Chemistry added to symbolic

fantasies replaces a proven method. The use of the

Periodic Table in Homoeopathy is an unproven

assumption. It is a construct that does not fit.

The manifold Provings Law continues to be the

correct scientific method for testing homoeopathic

medicines.

5. 1. Homoeopathy and Science

2. Homoeopathy and Perfinity

SCHOLTEN Jan (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

Both the articles are by the well-known Dr. Jan

SCHOLTEN. [The author justifies the path in

which "Modern Homoeopathy" is "Progressive"

with new classifications, remedy themes, etc. etc.

Most of the developments have nothing much to do

with HAHNEMANN'S teachings, although he is

quoted or mentioned. The arguments are beyond

me, I plead ignorance.