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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.)

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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. Old HAHNEMANN with

his simple methods was understood far better in

spite of his 2 centuries-old long-winding sentences.

However, to be fair. I wil give here excerpts from

the 'conclusions' of Dr. Jan SCHOLTEN]. From

'Homoeopathy and Science'. "The development of

Homoeopathy as a Science is necessarily a

development towards more generalization.

Necessarily because every science develops

towards increasing generalization. The increasing

generalization makes predictions possible. The

result is that Homoeopathy suddenly progresses

very fast. The development of Family themes and

the theory of the Elements show that very clearly

the scientific aspects of Homoeopathy have

progressed particularly through the pursuit of

generalizations. This adds coherence to the older

fragmented information and makes Homoeopathy

more accessible to scientists from other

disciplines."

From 'Homoeopathy and Perfinity': There's a

growing tendency in Homoeopathy to study families

of remedies The conclusion is that families of

remedies can be studied and that there are

advantages in doing so. That is why many

homoeopaths have done this. HAHNEMANN did it

when he created three groups of remedies: Psoric,

Sycotic and Syphilitic. [HAHNEMANN did not

create three groups of remedies. He classified the

constitutional chronic states which hindered the

otherwise rightly chosen homoeopathic medicine

from curing. HAHNEMANN has said clearly that

a medicine's action can be known (not surmised)

only by practical experimentation on a healthy

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human and in no other way. FARRINGTON,

VITHOULKAS, SANKARAN may have done

their own groupings, but that cannot be the

Homoeopathy established by HAHNEMANN =

KSSJ.

6. Logos, Mythos, Evidence

DEBATS Ferdinard (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

In this interesting article, the author argues for

tolerance of different 'schools' in Homoeopathy,

that divisions and controversies amongst

homoeopaths would enable the conventional

medicine to destroy Homoeopathy. So love those

who differ. [This is a well-intentioned article. But

for the sake of what are the comprises called for? If

for Homoeopathy's sake, what kind of

Homoeopathy? A compromise between the several

'schools'?; in which case we have to surely throw

away the Organon and other works related to it and

instead keep only the Thematic Materia Medica, the

Kingdoms, the Signatures, the Mind only, the

Periodic Tables, and last not least the

Polypharmacy! In fact late Dr.SEHGAL said that

he had no need of the Text Books of Materia

Medica, Provings, etc., that is to say that the

Practitioner need not bother about these. 'He

needed only the 93 pages of Kent Repertory!' If we

are to compromise with these neo ideas, those who

are struggling to destroy Homoeopathy will be

grateful. We bury ourselves. = KSS].

7. Homoeopathy as Information Science

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

Dr. SCHOLTEN opens the Essay very rightly.

He says that the materialistic paradigm

predominating the minds of 'Scientists' prevents

from recognizing Homoeopathy as a Science. This

view, in fact, blocks the development of the

material Science itself. Notwithstanding several

proofs the 'material' Scientists do not accept. Jorg

WICHMANN suggested the solution of dropping

the science aspect of Homoeopathy. [I entirely

agree What harm if we accept that Homoeopathy is

not a Science? Surely no practitioner will lose by

this acceptance = KSS]. Another suggestion is to

bring Materialism Paradigm up for discussion. Still

another is to present Homoeopathy as an

Information Science or Cybernetics. [We may

spend our energy, knowledge, time, in improving

our practice. To get still better results succeed in

more difficult diseases. The people will take note

and accept Homoeopathy for whatever it is. So we

go our own way, no need to tread on anybody's

toes = KSS],

8. Sensation and Function — The Grammar of

Pathology

SHERR Jeremy (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

Jeremy SHERR draws attention to § 10 of the

Organon - disease is alteration of functions and

sensations. Evidently roots of the disease are

therefore to be searched from these. Sensations and

functions are a more holistic way of describing

Pathology than Emotions or Delusions, because

they pertain to the whole organism, rather than the

mind or emotions.

Dynamis means motion, the basis of life. In

Pathology we become confined to a fixed sensation

of function, true in one particular circumstance, but

misplaced in every other situation. "Pathological

functions repeat the same actions and are therefore

easy to perceive. Grammatically, these symptoms

are expressed as verbs. For example, in the

symptom 'my green nasal discharge alternated

sides', 'alternate' is the verb, 'discharge' is the

noun and 'green' is the adjective. The verb

'alternate' is the most dynamic expression of the

case, and these dynamic symptoms are often the

most characteristic." Some more examples of

'verb' are given. "Formulating 'the verb' for a

remedy requires careful study of original language

and Provings.

9. Homoeopathy and Biophotonics - Part I

STANCIULESCU Traian D. (HL. 1 & 2/2005)

The article places before us "a (meta) physical

approach to the Life Principle". "The purpose of

the present paper is" says the author "to define a

(meta) physics of Health, Illness and Therapy, by

connecting the homoeopathic theory and practice

with the very recent contributions of Biophotonics.

Starting from the principles and laws of the

homoeopathic practices, the paper attempts to cast

them in the explanatory, rigorous terms of the new

'Science of Light'. Such an explanatory

perspective could represent the necessary condition

Homoeopathy needs to become entirely

scientific."[What is entirely Scientific? Either it is

a Science or not. It cannot be partly Scientific.

Anyway my knowledge of Physics is exceedingly

poor and therefore I cannot comment. This is a

learned Scientist's work and those who can follow

it may read it. = KSS}.

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II. MATERIA MEDICA

1. Anmerkungen zu den "Regional Leaders" von

E.B. Nash (Annotations to the 'Regional

Leaders'of E.B.NASH)

DANTZSCHER, Birger-Lutz

(ZKH. 50, 4/2006)

Several errors have been observed in the well-

known and very useful book "Regional Leaders"

by E.B. NASH. Corrections have been suggested

with reference to the original Source Literature.

Corrections in reference to the GS [The page

numbers given of Regional Leaders are according

to the publication of Sett Dey & Co. Calcutta, 1959,

the copy available with me=KSS]

1. P.112: Ant-c: The greatest sadness and

woeful mood, with intermittent fever.

2. P. 3: Bry.: Very irritable, inclined to be

angry, chilly, or a red face and heat in the head.

3. P. 11: Ant-t.: Vertigo with drowsiness.

Correct symptom: Vertigo with alternate

drowsiness.

4. P. 12: Bell.: Vertigo: falling forward after

stooping, riding or looking high up; rises from the

neck into the back with nausea.

This symptom belongs to Sil. (p. 365 GS, IX)

5. P. 17: Ant. t.: Convulsive twitches in

almost every muscle of the face.

Correct should be: Convulsive twitches in

almost every muscle of the face. With Cough.

"Coughing and gaping consecutively ... with

crying ... and twitching in face."

6. P. 18: Cic: Thick whitish scurfs appear

upon chin and upper lip; they secrete a dampness;

sometimes affects the nose.

Correct symptom is "honey-colored scurf on

chin..." or "... forming thick, yellow scabs on face

7. P. 21: Aeon.: Catarrhal inflammation of the

eyes, ... especially in the morning in eyeballs, ...

Instead of morning it must be "on moving,"

correct symptom: "Eyes red, inflamed ... especially

on moving balls; ..."

8. P. 22: Arg-n.: Acute granular conjunctivitis;

conjunctiva internally pink or scarlet red, discharge

profuse ...

Instead of "internally, it must be intensely."

9. P.30: Lach.: "Tearing extending from

zygoma into ears; raises hand to back of ear with

each scream (Hydrocephalus).

Only the first part is relevant to Lach.

Correct symptom is: "Tearing extending from

zygoma into ear."

The second part of the sentence is of Apis:

which is "Raises hand to back of ears (not ear) with

each scream. Incipient hydrocephalus."

10. P. 33: Puis.: "Coryza, fluid or dry, with

loss of taste and smell; ..."

The 'or' is incorrect.

Correct is: "Coryza with loss of smell and

taste; dry and fluent alternately". Also, "Fluent in

open air; stopped in house" ... "frequent alternation

of fluent and dry coryza ..."

11. P. 57: Ptel.: "Weight; aching distress in the

hepatic region; dull pain; heaviness; < lying on

right side; turning to left causes a dragging

sensation."

Correct symptom is: Weight, aching distress in

hepatic region; dull pain; heaviness, > (and not <)

lying on right side; turning to left causes a dragging

sensation.

12. P. 58: Berb:. "Fistula in ano with sticking

in parts, particularly if complicated with cough".

Correct symptom is: Fistula in ano with itching

(and not 'sticking') in the parts.

13. P. 59: Staph.: "After every little morsel of

food or mouthful of drink bellyache and tenesmus

during dysentery in summer."

No confirmation could be found in the GS for

"in summer".

14. P. 59: Ant-c: "Stools often liquid,

containing portions of solid matter (sometimes

involuntary in old people).

Correct should be: ... sometimes alternating

with diarrhoea in old people.

15. P. 62: Chin.: "Diarrhoea and rheumatism

(metastatic rheumatism).

Correct should be: Diarrhoea from change of

weather.

16. P. 64: Abrot.: "Alternate diarrhoea and

rheumatism" (metastatic rheumatism)

Correct symptom: After sudden checking of

diarrhoea, rheumatism.

17. P. 76. Ant-c. "Tenderness over the ovarian

region, with nausea, vomiting and white tongue."

The symptom in the text book (GS) is:

Tenderness over ovarian region, after catamenia is

checked by a bath. Nymphomania.

18. P. 77: Colch.: "Intense boring or tensive

pain in the ovary, causing her to draw up double,

with great restlessness."

This symptom is not in Colch. but in

Colocynthis.

19. P. 82: Am-c: "At every menstruation

period there is a discharge of blood from the

bowels.."

This symptom is not found under Am-c. but

under Am-m. "During menses: diarrhoea and

vomiting; bloody discharge from the bowels".

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20. P. 86: Apis: "Frequent involuntary deep

breathing; bong and sighing respirations.

No confirmation in the GS.

In Opium the symptom is: "Breathing;

frequent, involuntary, deep; laborious and drawn at

long intervals; ... long and sighing; ..."

21. P. 87: Apis: "Gaping after coughing".

No confirmation in the GS.

In Opium is found "yawning after coughing".

22. P. 92: Chin: Cough with a greenish

expectoration during the day ..."

The symptom in GS is "Cough with a granular

sputa during the day ..."

23. P. 98: Cic: "Back bent forward like an

arch."

Correct symptom is "The back bent backward

like an arch."

24. P. 105: Rhus-t.: "Powerlessness of lower

limbs; cannot draw them up".

The complete symptom is provided:

"Powerlessness of lower limbs, she can hardly draw

them up; nurse has to move them 0 after

parturition".

25. P. 106: Gels.: "Deep-seated chill, aching

in the muscles of the limbs and in the joints."

The correct symptom is: "Deep-seated, dull

aching in limbs and joints generally, induced by

cold, and attended by loss of motion." (GS V. 388-

34)

"Chilliness, languid aching in back and limb;

sense of fatigue, desire to avoid all muscular

exertion ..." (GS V393-40).

26. P. 107: Merc-sol.: "Salt rheum on hands,

worse from sweating or in warmth of bed, which

renders the itching and burning intolerable."

Instead of "swelling" it should be "sweating"

(GS. VII 389-40; ... sweat does not >, may even <

suffering; ... complaints increase during sweat."

27. P. 116: Podo.: "Great even delirious

loquacity during chill and sweat."

Careful search indicates that there is no

delirious loquacity in the sweat stage, but only in

the 'Chill' and 'Heat' stage.

28. P. 119: Apis.: "Skin usually white and

almost transparent (ovarian dropsy)"

Correction: "Skin unusually white ..."

29. P. 127: Pic-ac: "Great mental and

physical prostration < by reaching, reading, writing,

or thinking."

It should be "preaching" not "reaching".

30. P. 137: Caul: "Rheumatism of women,

especially of small joints, painful stiffness, erratic

pains."

This symptom is to be drawn from two

symptoms in the GS III., p.432, 441 "affects

principally female sexual organs " and

"Rheumatism, particularly of small joints which has

a tendency to shift."

31. P. 142: Thuja: "Horizontal position <

neuralgia"

To be corrected as "Horizontal position > (not

<) neuralgia."

2. R. H. GROSS und der Ursprung der

Modalitatenbegriffis (R.H. GROSS and the

Origin of the concept of Modalities)

GOLDMANN, Robert (AHZ. 251, 5/2006)

Modalities are characteristics, which help us to

individualize disease state from similar general

diseases. For example Ignatia: stitching pain in

throat better while swallowing.

The concept of 'modality' is post-

Hahnemannian. With a long list of references the

author points out that R.H. GROSS, author of the

Comparative Materia Medica introduced the

concept of modality for identifying the

individuality. In fact HERING points out GROSS

as the 'originator' of the Modalities concept.

A well-researched article.

3. Pinus contorta: A Proving and Cured Cases

OLSEN, Steve (AJHM. 99, 1/2006)

This article consists of a proving and several

cured cases of Pinus contorta. Additionally,

several interesting suggestions are offered in the

Preface regarding the conducting of Provings.

Central themes of Pinus contorta are found to

include loneliness, tension/anxiety, over-

compensation, and allergy. Keynotes of the

remedy are tension of the jaw, aggravation from

Coffee, and photophobia.

The proving symptoms and themes are given in

detail; comparison with other remedies and

Repertory Additions are given. The author has also

presented seven Case Reports.

A long article - 36 pages [Dr. Steve OLSEN

says ".... I must draw attention to the fact that the

methodology of Provings is in a state of evolution."

Does he mean that his methodology is different

from the path laid down by HAHNEMANN? It is

not clear = KSS]

4. Limestone

GUESS George (AJHM. 99, 2/2006)

A case of twelve year-old boy with ADD

favorably treated with Limestone. The Proving of

Limestone is reviewed and apparent essential

characteristics extracted from them: delusions,

difficult concentration, dullness, forgetfulness,

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repeating phrases, poor self confidence, low self-

esteem, loneliness, sadness and cannot cry,

exhausted, fearful and anxious, sympathetic or

unsympathetic (which could merely be a facade of

callousness to protect oneself), mentally

overs timulated.

5. 1. Likelihood Ratio - A modern approach to

Classical homoeopathy

2. Materia Medica Validation and Meta

analysis

STOLPER Erik, RUTTEN Lex, LUGTEN

Roland, BARTHELS Rob

(HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

These authors have written earlier in

Homoeopathy, 2003 two articles on Likelihood

Ratio (LR) with the purpose of improving

homoeopathic prescribing by applying

'epidemiological techniques'.

How often does a particular symptom of a

particular remedy arise, so that the value of that

symptom can be attributable appropriately. The

'likelihood ratio' is a constant that indicates the

relation between prior chance and posterior chance.

[Earlier there was report that the Faculty had sent a

questionnaire to about 100 members asking them to

report 'reliable symptoms' acquired in their

experience with regard to Arsenicum album,

Lycopodium, Lachesis, & Silica (an animal remedy,

a plant remedy, and mineral remedy). There was

partial response (as is often the case even today).

These were put in order indicating the symptom the

number of times they were reported; thus these

symptoms are characteristic clinically - see

Hahnemannian Gleanings, Vol. XXVII, Jan.

1960=KSSJ.

In the other article 'Materia Medica Validation

and Meta-analysis' have briefly described a special

combination of learning and research. For many

years the authors "organized a post graduate course

called 'Materia Medica Validation'. It lasted for

two days one in Spring and one in Autumn. In a

mailing they invited colleagues to select one or

more successful cases cured by one remedy.

During the course day an elaborate procedure was

followed to make sure that only cured cases were

accepted and to optimise the possibilities of

learning from each case. Small groups presented

cases. After clarifying the cases and how the

remedy was perceived, the group judged the effect

of the remedy. The purpose was not to criticize but

only to ensure that other interventions or causes

were not responsible for the positive effects.

This group has thus had a lot of experience

with this special combination of learning and

research. It stimulated the participants to share

knowledge and experience. Active participation is

the best guarantee for a successful course. The data

obtained stimulated the group to develop scientific

instruments, useful for improving the homoeopathic

method. [It would be worthwhile if here we could

organize and adopt these models = KSS].

6. The Toxicology of Tityus Trinitatis - The

Common Scorpion of Trinidad

BONNET M.S. (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

This article follows the publication of an earlier

article on Tityus serrulatus in the HL 1/2004.

"The biology, venomology and toxicology of

Tityus trinitatus, the common Scorpion of Trinidad,

are listed following Classical homoeopathic

Repertory format in order to present this venomous

animal as a possible source for future remedy in the

treatment of acute and Chronic pancreatitis."

III. THERAPEUTICS

1. Genuine Homeopathie — was ist das?

(Genuine Homoeopathy — What is that?)

MEINHARD, Christian (NAH. 1, 1/2006)

Since a long time, slowly but steadily, the word

"Genuine" represents a special world within

Homoeopathy, and there are several questions,

which have to be answered, like what is meant by

this new variant. Is it about something new?

In this article the description "genuine" is not

only clarified but also that "Genuine" is a logical

consequence within the development of

Homoeopathy.

"Genuine Homoeopathy" means to study the

teachings of HAHNEMANN in its original, true

and unadulterated form, to understand and after that

to practice. For this not only the works of

HAHNEMANN but also those of JAHR, von

BCENNINGHAUSEN, HERING and STAPF and

all those serious and true students, colleagues and

friends of HAHNEMANN who first knew it well

must be studied thoroughly. This may be tedious

and laborious, but for its appropriate understanding,

these sources or unalterable.

2. Eine eigenartige Arzneiwahl HAHNEMANN

(A singular remedy choice of HAHNEMANN)

MOLLER, Bernhard (NAH. 1, 2/2006)

What is genuine method of Case Analysis;

What is "Classic"; how to study the Materia

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Medica are all considered and discussed in the light

of a Case Report of Samuel HAHNEMANN

(HAHNEMANN'S Case Register published as DF

5 for the period 1837-1842). The 'centre' of these

discussions are the different ways of understanding

of the "symptoms" and "characteristic" as

methodical leading line which can proceed further

from Simile or return back to it.

In his Essay "On the Curative Powers of Drugs

..." (1796) HAHNEMANN says that the closest to

the heart of every true physician is to perfect his art

which means the knowledge of what pure action

every medicine brings out in the healthy body and

observe what this or the other of its action is in a

simple or complicated disease.

This article, in two parts, studies in detail the

principles, methodology and illustrates "genuine"

Homoeopathy. Very instructive and interesting.

3. Silicea und die Furcht von Nadeln -

Kasuistiker Beitrag zur Entwicklung der

Materia Medica (Silicea and the Fear of

Needles - Case Report for Developing the

Materia Medica)

REIS, Stefan (NAH. 1, 1/2006)

A case from the old homoeopathic literature is

picked up for discussion and establishing how the

homoeopathic Materia Medica can be cleared of

errors.

The case selected is that of Dr. KNORRE in

the AHZ. No. 5/1834, p. 326; the details of this

case is given. In this a young girl who suffers since

many years head aches and throat pain of stitching

nature. The ticking, stitching as from needle makes

her wonder if she had perchance swallowed a

needle and so she counts the needles, searches

about so that no needle is left out somewhere; and

this has become an obsessive behaviour.

The 'Fear of needles and 'searches or

constantly counts the pins' have all become rubric

probably from this single case (of Silica) in 1834.

Detailed analysis of this case as also other

sources progressively over the years gives a clear

picture.

In a Post Script Stefan REIS mentions that in

his book on Psychiatric Patients Andre SAINE,

says that he has been able to find only one case of

Silica with this searching for needles in old

literature and that is that a woman had while baking

cakes suddenly lost a needle which she had kept

earlier in the kitchen. She therefore searched all

over the kitchen but couldn't find any needle in the

kitchen nor in any other food stuffs. Except this

case in the history there has been no other. Did

Andre SAINE also refer to the case of KNORRE?

4. Characteristische Zeichen bei G.H.G. Jahr

(Characteristic Signs of G.H.G. JAHR)

RABE, Steffen (NAH. 1, 1/2006)

G.H.G. JAHR has, in his works thoroughly and

well differentiatedly exercised with the central idea

of the "Characteristic symptoms" or "Characteristic

signs". His considerations and definitions have

been recalled and constructively criticized in parts.

Proceeding from this perspectives of a coherent

further development of his concept is outlined. At

the same time these thoughts are further delineated

and discussed as introduction to the beginning of a

series of Materia Medica descriptions in the

subsequent numbers of this journal, from the angle

of some of their characteristic symptoms.

5. Eine Art von Lumbalgie (A Kind of Lumbago)

MEINHARD, Christian (NAH. 1, 2/2006)

A case of Lumbago type backache for which

the homoeopathic remedy selected according to the

"reliable indications" (Rhus toxicodendron) failed,

but Platina selected with the help of G.H.G.

JAHR's work "Clinical Instructions" (Klinische

Anweisungen); and "Symptomen-Kodex", cured.

This is a brief but very instructive article.

6. Pneumonie im Kindesalter (Pneumonia in

Childhood)

KREISBERGER, Patrick (ZKH. 50, 4/2006)

Pneumonia is a disease frequent in childhood.

The leading symptoms of Pneumonia are Fever,

Cough, Tahcypnoea, eventually Dyspnoea, nasal

flappy respiration, etc. The clinical picture can,

independent of the age of the child, the kind of

causatives and the morphology of Pneumonia vary

very much.

A 3'/2-year-old girl with fever 40.5°C painful,

barking cough, hoarseness, whistling respiration.

Rattling cough, cyanotic lips, right-sided red

cheeks, sleepiness, aversion to milk, aversion to

touch, cannot be alone were the Rubrics selected

and Antimonium tartaricum and Phosphorus came

up. Materia Medica of BOERICKE, MEZGER,

STAPF's Archiv, HERING's Guiding Symptoms

were all consulted and Antimonium tartaricum C30

- three globules were given and next morning

fever-free; and she had begun to improve. Rattling

was noted only in the left basal ausculted.

Afternoon temperature was 38.5° and one dose of

Antimonium tartaricum C200 was given. The child

recovered soon and was well.

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7. Homoopathische Behandlung einer

Haarzelleukamie (Homoeopathic Treatment of

a Hair Cell Leukaemia)

PAYRHUBER, Dietmar (AHZ. 251, 4/2006)

This author has contributed several articles of

Cancer treatment in journals Homoeopathic Links,

AHZ, etc.

In this case of Leukaemia he has selected a

remedy according to Jan SCHOLTEN's

methodology, and Calcium carbonicum alone was

given in different ascending potencies which cured

the Leukaemia in a female who had already

undergone Chemotherapy.

The mental state examined 'in depth' to

ascertain the character of the patient and analyzing

the 'themes' and 'life conflicts' of the patient

according Jan SCHOLTEN led to the prescription

Calcium muriaticum.

PAYRHUBER has, in his analysis mentioned

of Mother-child conflict in relationship as

indicative of Muriaticum.

A follow-up of two years confirmed that the

patient remained well.

[It is relevant, in my opinion, to refer here to

the work of Dr. Rike Geerd HAMER with

particular regard to Cancer. In the experience of

Dr. HAMER unresolved conflicts produce Tumor-

like swellings, which are mistaken as Cancer

Tumor in the brain; he has thousands of X-rays and

case histories to show that it is the conflict, mental,

emotional shocks with produce swellings in the

brain which are not Cancer and not to be treated

chemically or surgically.

He has prepared a detailed table indicating the

nature of conflict and the nature of Cancer resulting

therefrom; for example: "mother-child conflict"

would lead to Breast Cancer. While Dr. HAMER

was ill-treated and hounded by the established

Medicine for several years, he has his school of

followers. It would be worthwhile, in the interest

of cure of the seriously ailing like Cancer, to pay

attention with open mind to Dr. HAMER's ideas. =

KSS.]

8. Der Knie-Fall (A Case of Knee)

LANG, Gerhardus (AHZ. 251, 4/2006)

History of an orthopaedic operation of knee

complicated by inflammation followed by emboli

of lung impending danger of death for the patient.

Besides conventional therapy homoeopathic

medicine following Sehgal's method was given

when situation got critical. Immediately after

application of the remedy subjective as well as

objective amelioration followed.

9. Das unruhige Kind (The Restless Child)

GNAIGER-RATHMANNER, Jutta

(AHZ. 251,6/2006)

In Case-taking of children the observation of

the child as well as the contents of the conversation

are both important.

Three case histories are reported. Full data and

discussion for selection of the remedy as also

counseling the parents are given. The remedies in

these three cases are Kali bromatum, Staphysagria

and Carcinosin.

A table suggesting constitutional and

behavioural characteristics of the restless child and

the relevant remedies is suggested. Individual

practitioners may add, alter, etc. according to their

experience.

Constitution Contact, Behaviour

1. Restless, weak Circumspective

awkward nervous

tense

Zinc./Kali-br./Agar.

Gels./Arg-n./sil.

2. Restless, slender self-willed

delicate. Bright

Tub./Bell./Cal-p./Phos.

3. Restless, slender pedantic

sentimental melancholic

precocity

Carc./Ars./Lyc.

4. Restless, unfriendly tyrannical

playful, funny resistance

Cham./Cina/Lac-c.

5. Restless, energetic vehement, irascible

Brom./Iod./Calc-fJ

Sulph./Merc.

6. Restless, energetic chaotic

masculine impulsive

Med./Sulph./Merc.

Mag-c./Staph./Syph.

7. Restless, Unfriendly destructive

Tarent./Anac./Stram/

Canth./Hyos./Carc.

10. Ferrum met. — Friend of Anaemic and

Plethoric Women.

DUTTA Amiya Kumar (HH. 30, 5/2005)

43 year-old female, who had undergone

hysterestomy (for profuse menstural bleeding) was

very weak, pale, easily tired, intolerants of heat;

mentally depressed and irritable; changeable

moods.

Ferrum metallicum M two doses were given on

two successive days. [What is the excuse for

giving two doses of M potency? = KSS].

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11. Natrium Phosphoricum 6x the ultimate cure

for Obesity.

STORES Titus (HH. 30,7/2005)

The author reports that Natrium Phosphoricum

6x (bio-chemic salt) helps obese persons to shed

weight.

12. Phosphorus CM brought him back from the

Jaws of Death

GHOSH Kanyakshe (HH. 30, 11/2005)

38 Year-old male, Haemophilic on Factor VIII,

suffered from Haemophilia also which could not be

controlled by Conventional Medicine and many

"homoeopathic" medicines. At last after working

out again carefully a dose of Phosphorus CM

stopped the Haemoptysis.

13. Carotid Artery Stenosis

POTDAR Swapna (CCR. 14, 2 & 3/2006)

63 year-old lady, with Vertigo since 7-8

months. Obese, pale, dull and sluggish,weighs 104

Kg. with high levels of Cholesterol and

Hypothyroidism. Blood Pressure 230/100mm Hg.

Eight months ago while walking in the garden

she turned her neck suddenly and then suddenly she

was on the ground.

MRI brain shows changes of generalized

atrophy. Allopathic treatment. Eight months later

Doppler test revealed alarming results. Left

internal Carotid Artery area Stenosis increased to

80-85% with poor flow dislatry.

This patient had undergone a lot of stress for

almost two years while caring her terminally ill

husband. She also showed alternate sadness and

cheerfulness.

Ignatia CM one dose, good improvement

confirmed by Doppler. There was no recurrence of

the thrombus.

14. Save your smile Awhile

Tools for taming terrible toothaches

FISCHER, Richard D. (HT. 26, 1/2006)

Susan with toothache > by holding cold water

in mouth and worse from heat and sensitivity to

noise. Coffea alleviated the pain.

Toothache may be due to decay,

abscess/infection, trauma, gum disease, exposure of

tooth root, eruptions, impactions, disorders of the

tempore mandibular joint or spasms of muscles of

chewing.

Toothache could indicate a sinus condition, an

ear infection or even a heart attack or other heart

troubles.

Uncomplicated teethpam is helped by

Belladonna, Magnesia phosphorica, Coffea cruda

and Chamomilla.

For early tooth abscesses Hepar sulphuris

calcareum and Belladonna.

Mercuris solubilis for tooth abscess.

Myristica for abscesses which are swollen and

accompanied by numbness of that area -especially

wisdom tooth.

Silicea when pus is draining.

Toothache from trauma or surgery - Arnica,

Hypericum, Magnesium phosphoricum &

Staphysagria.

Arnica: Injuries resulting from bruises or

fractures sore spots from an ill fitting denture pain

after placement of a very deep filling apprehension

before a dental visit where discomfort is

anticipated."

In FN to Introduction to Arnica Montana

(Materia Medica Pura) HAHNEMANN writes "

very beneficial the pain and other ailments

consequent on extracting the teeth and in other

surgical operation whereby sensitive parts have

been violently stretched.

Hypericum: When nerves have been injured

from trauma; deep filing; root canal; or from a

difficult extraction.

Mag. phos: Relieves stiff, sour jaws

following an injury (such as an injection or blow to

the jaw) or a prolonged dental visit when the mouth

has been held wide open and where muscles get

cramped.

Staphysagria: Heals incision wounds after soft

tissue surgery.

The author is practicing Dentistry since 32

years and has avoided root canals in hundreds of

patients (75%) by using Homoeopathy and other

therapies.

15. An Alternative Oral Surgery Experience

No general anesthesia, painkillers or antibiotics

needed.

MILLER, Vino (HT. 26, 1/2006)

19 year-old daughter of the author had an

impacted wisdom tooth. Before the surgery she

took Arnica 200 and Rescue Remedy. Surgery was

over within 15 minutes with only a local

anaesthetic. Then Arnica 200 every two hours - 5

doses. Started feeling discomfort as the effect of

local anaesthetic had worn off. Hypericum and

Calendula did not relieve.

The indication for Ruta was bone and tendon

pain after the extraction of tooth and a dose of 200

relieved the pain. Then Arnica & Ruta in

alternation when pain returned. Pyrogen was given

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for the swelling of left lower jaw to prevent

infection in dental extractions. [The author seems

to have bungled a lot because the patient was her

own daughter = KSS]

16. Smarty pants kids

How Homoeopathy can help precocious

children. ULLMAN Judyth Reichenberg

(HT. 26, 1/2006)

Homoeopathy can help precocious children in

cohabiting with those around them. They continue

to advance in their intellectual capacity.

The child's superiority complex and the putting

down of others as if they were stupid will come

down. He will be able to relate more comfortably

with his peers.

The indications for Tuberculinum, Tarentula

hispanica and other spider remedies, Sulphur,

Lycopodium, Veratrum album, Silicea are given.

17. Gathering clues to unlock the case

How to help kids with stubborn colds and ear

infections DOOLEY R. Timothy

(HT. 26, 1/2006)

One of the precipitating causes of recurrent

middle ear infection is milk intolerance.

Indications for Chamomilla, Pulsatilla,

Belladonna, Ferrum phosphoricum, Hepar

sulphuricum are given.

18. Healthy aging with homoeopathic and natural

medicines

ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 26, 2/2006)

Living longer than they used to, people are

experiencing more of the effects of aging and

general wear and tear than did previous

generations.

Understanding all the elements of the chief

complaint and a thorough review of patient's body

systems and an understanding of the stresses that

impact their lives. The family history reveals a

potential genetic predisposition and lifestyle issues

are addressed to counter it. The impact of isolation

loneliness of the elderly people has to be

understood.

Drug history is important to know the true

symptoms of the patient or symptoms related to the

medications they take. This also informs us of our

choice of potency and repetition.

19. Sweet dreams for sleepless seniors

ROTHENBERG Amy (HT. 26, 2/2006)

The use of 'sleep aids' have increased by 60%

in the past 5 years, with its known side effects.

The indications of the following homoeopathic

medicines to help this problem are given.

Arsenicum album, Calcarea carbonica, Cocculus

indicus, Coffea cruda, Gelsemium, Ignatia, Nux

vomica, and Passiflora. [One with a clear

conscience will not need 'sleep aids'].

20. The hiccups That Would not Stop

When all else failed, Homoeopathy helped an

exhausting , annoying problem

COWARD Steven (HT. 26, 2/2006)

Cecil, 93 years, had been suffering from non-

stop hiccups for about a month. Thorazine helped

only for awhile.

Hiccups started in a week - long family

reunion which he had been looking forward to for

quite a while.

Profound prostration of mind and body with

the episode of hiccup. He was averse to company,

wanted to sleep.

Gelsemium 30 tds. The hiccups subsided after

the first dose and stopped 154 days later. After a

week of relief again hiccups. No relief from

Gelsemium 30. So Gelsemium 200, one dose ended

the episode. One brief relapse and subsided on its

own within few hours.

21. Hit by a car!

Octogenarian fights her way back to health,

with Homoeopathy's help.

SADOVSKY, Valerie (HT. 26, 2/2006)

86-year-old Regina was hit by a car and was

rushed to the hospital with severe head injury,

swelling of the brain, broken clavicle and ribs,

multiple lacerations and bruises.

4 days later, she was not responding to touch,

talk, or pressure stimulus left side of face, of

forearm purple-black and swollen. Bowels inactive

and on urinary catheter.

Constant chewing motion of mouth and

frequently swallowing and moaning. Helleborus

1M aqueous dose in mouth.

Soon, the chewing motion intensified for few

minutes and then completely stopped. Complexion

acquired color, pulse became quieter and fuller.

Within an hour, the swelling around eye diminished

considerably and within two hours, she began to

look at people with some expression and awareness

and improvement was rapid.

For pain and headache Arnica 1M in water

doses were given. Discharged 6 days later. Few

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days later her mind deteriorated greatly.

Unintelligible speech, and reflecting long to

answer. Again chewing motion. Abdomen hard,

swollen and constipated. Helleborus repeated.

Improved over the next 20 days and became normal

in 5-6 weeks.

22. Shedding Light on the Dark Side of the Mood

DOOLEY, R. Timothy (HT. 26, 3/2006)

'Depression' encompasses vast range of mood

disorder. The huge glut of prescriptions for

antidepressant medications in our Society reflects a

deeper problem relating to our cultural values and

social institutions.

ERIC in mid - 30s married with no children,

chronic depression, Dysthymia. His unique

symptomatology indicated Lycopodium which was

given in 200 potency. One dose put him on way to

recovery.

23. Beating the Blues with homoeopathy

CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 26, 3/2006)

To help recent, acute depression the indications

for Aurum metallicum, Causticum,Gelsemium,

Ignatia, Kali phosphoricum, Lachesis, Natrum

muriaticum, Natrum sulphuricum, Pulsatilla, Sepia

and Zincum metallicum are given.

24. Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro

World traveler reaches the summit - stays

healthy with homoeopathy

KRAMER W. Susan (HT. 26, 3/2006)

This is a personal experience of the author,

climbing the Mt. Kilimanjaro successfully with the

help of homoeopathic remedies.

For blisters - Natrum muriaticum 6c

General aches & pains - Arnica 6c & Ruta 6c

Stiffness - Arnica 30 & Lactic acid 30.

Before yellow fever vaccine - Thuja 30.after

Typhoid vaccine — acute anxiety - Silicea 30c.

Malaria 30 as a preventative for

Malaria.Altitude sickness - Coca 30.

For shivering at 15,580 feet -Aconite 30

For exhaustion after descent — Arnica 200.

25. Tourist troubles

Treating traveler's diarrhoea on a trip to India

DOOLEY R. Timothy (HT. 26, 3/2006)

Indications for Arsenicum album, Phosphoric

acid, Podophyllum and Veratrum album are given.

Case: Isabelle, had foul-smelling, watery, yellow

diarrhoea with occasional colicky pain. Urgency.

Pale and tired. Skin dry and moderate fever. A

dose of Podophyllum in water bottle to be taken

frequently after shaking the bottle. Next day

recovered totally.

26. Jet lag and the Night Shift

How a homoeopathic remedy helped this family

ERICKSON, Marilyn (HT. 26, 3/2006)

The author's son was working, 12 hour shifts

3-4 days a week and suffering from jet lag after

traveling. He was exhausted, physically and

emotionally drained. Supersensitive to noise.

Cocculus 30, helped him much. Weekly one dose

on the day of homeward journey helped him

dealing better with people.

27. Homoeopathy cures Irritable Bowel Syndrome

(IBS) and frees teen to follow her dreams

GAHLES, Nancy (HT. 26, 3/2006)

Molly, was suffering from IBS and her attacks

of pain, vomiting and diarrhoea interfered with

school and social activities and depressed because

of this. Copious sweat during the attack. The

attacks were worse with anticipatory anxiety. Panic

attacks with difficulty in respiration. < when alone.

Nausea during pain and during menses. Obsessive

thoughts. Internal heat at night with a desire to

cover. Pulsatilla 200. 10 days later better. 4

month later - no attacks. Relapse after five months.

Another dose brought her back to normal.

28. A case of IBS and Anaemia

Homoeopathy helps octogenarian regain her

health. COWARD, Steven (HT. 26, 3/2006)

Estelle, age 81, suffering from diarrhoea, since

her last hospitalization for Anaemia. Watery,

brown, painless stools thrice a day. Mild

discomfort in abdomen and dry itchy sakin on

abdomen. Aloe 200. Two weeks later, no change.

The diarrhoea started after an iron supplement.

Now she was having urgency for stool on rising.

Sulphur 200. Better for 2 days. No improvement

after repetition. Sulph. 6c twice daily - improved.

Then Sulphur 30 twice daily. After 3 months better

but not completely recovered. Now she was having

dry mouth in the morning, but aversion to drinking.

Pulsatilla 30 b.d. Few weeks later more incidences

of normal stool. Pulsatilla 200. Immediate and

dramatic improvement. She gained 4 pounds.

29. Urinary Tract Infection

GUESS George (AJHM. 99, 1/2006)

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27-year-old female with burning in urethra

during urination. Urethral meatus tender. Frequent

urination of small amounts of urine. Urethral

burning when walking increase in sexual activity

just prior to and simultaneous with the onset of

symptoms, burning of the distal urethra when

walking was lessened by walking with her legs

wide apart. Burning worse at the end of urination.

Cannabis sativa 200. Dramatic amelioration

next day and remained well.

30. Taxus brevifolia: the Western Pacific Yew:

Proving and Cured Cases

OLSEN, Steven (AJHM. 99, 2/2006)

This article consists of Chapter six of the book,

Arbor Medica: Four New Hahnemannian Provings

with cases.

This article consists of a proving and several

cured cases of Taxus brevifolia. Central themes of

taxus are found to include: slow to learn, timidity,

sleepiness, dissociation from reality. Keynotes for

this remedy are: slow to learn to read, falling asleep

in church or at school; Asthma, worse from eating

sweets; a numb feeling in the brain after a grief.

Comparisons can be drawn with Opium.

The Materia Medica of Taxus brevifolia, its

comparison with other remedies and repertory

additions are given.

31. Revengeful Insanity: From Disappointed Love:

Tarentula hispanica

LALOR, Liz (AJHM. 99, 2/2006)

In choosing a constitutional remedy

homoeopaths mirror the true essence of what every

psycho-therapist from Freud to Jung has ever

looked for the 'delusion'. The 'delusion' in

Homoeopathy is the combination of the emotional

motivation within the illusion that the person

presents to the world; as well as the inner

perversion or 'delusion' of the instinctual reactions

of the patient, to what we call the 'Never Well

Since symptom.' It is this instinctual reaction to a

perceived trauma that reveals the remedy and the

'kingdom.' This is the presenting 'causation' of the

case. Tarentula hispanica is noted for their plotting

and cunning revenge; the motivation behind that

revenge is the 'causation' of the case. The core

delusional causation of Tarentula hispanica is

manifested in the Rubric in which Tarentula

hispanica is the only remedy listed: Insanity: Love;

from disappointed. In this essay the author

explores the character of Iago in the William

Shakespeare play Othello, a tale of love, jealously

and revengeful hate.

[What 'delusion' or 'character', 'inner perversion'

are involved in several cases of typical carbuncles,

Abscesses where we have got strikingly good

results with 'Tarentula'? It does much damage to

the Materia Medica if remedies are constricted by

one's fancies = KSS]

Case 1: 24 year-old man with Asperger's

Syndrome. Since taking Tarentula hispanica twice

a week for two months, he was able to sit still in a

chair, hold eye contact and participate in a

conversation. Very cunning and afraid of Spiders

His father left at an early age and no contact with

him.

Case 2: A female suffering from depression ever

since her relationship broke. Horrendous fear of

spiders especially tarantulas. Feels unwanted and

rejected. No appetite; depression severe after

ovulation until the onset of the menses. Excessive

amount of alcohol every night. Tarentula

hispanica 30 o.d. for a month. Then one dose of

200

potency, one month later, a dose of 1M.

Since 2 years, one dose of 30 every day now

less depressed. Drinking less.

32. Psychosomatics and Homoeopathy

WHITMONT, Ronald D. (AJHM. 99, 2/2006)

Treatments that ignore the emotional and

psychosomatic aspects create an imbalance within

the human ecosystem that has profound long-term

disruptive effects.

If we recognize diseases as somatic

expressions of psychological, emotional and

psychic material seeking to help us grow, then each

illness can be understood as an internal crisis of

awakening, not an external threat to our organisms;

something to be attended to, not fought against and

destroyed.

Author presents a case demonstrating the

failure in treating a case of Mixed connective

Tissue Disorder (MTCD) by various methods,

because of not appreciating the fall individual

psychosomatic meaning of the illness from a

holistic perspective.

49-year-old female with MTCD since 19 years

of age. She suffered from severe, crippling

rheumatoid arthritis - like deformities in her hands

and chronic pains in most of her joints. Extreme

fatigue. She was a successful woman who never let

up and never quit even during the worst of her

illness. Failure was her greatest fear and was

unacceptable.

Inspite of many homoeopathic remedies,

supplements, lifestyle changes, diet no benefit.

During further explorations she realized that all

her energy had been devoted to trying to convince

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others that she was a success to suppress deep

feelings of inadequency. Because of this physical

treatment failure, she finally came face-to-face with

her inner fear of being seen as a failure. Once she

accepted this fact, she reacted paradoxically by

reaching an unexpected level of peace. Holistic

healing was taking place. She was able to

completely prioritize her life style, job and family

into a more practical and satisfying balance. Now

Sulphur 200 and dramatic improvements in all of

her rheumatic symptoms. Her energy and vitality

improved. Repetitions of Sulphur in varying

potency upto 50M and she nearby symptom free for

the last 2 years.

33. Treating Obesity with Homoeopathy

FEINGOLD, Ellen (AJHM. 99.2/2006)

The homoeopathic treatment of obesity is

discussed. The causes of obesity - genetic,

environmental/lifestyle, psychological - are

identified. Repertory rubrics relevant to both

mental and physical aspects of obesity are

identified, and Materia Medica of homoeopathic

remedies indicated for obesity is discussed.

34. The Mal-adjusted child

BHALINGE Sunil D. (NJH. 6, 1/2004)

Boy 5 years, frothy stools, spends long time in

toilet. Unfinished evacuation. Anxiety in morning

before going to school. Fastidious for cleanliness.

Washes hands about 50 times in a day. Has soiled

himself twice in school. Sensitive. His school

teacher is insensitive to a child's feelings. He is

intolerant of heat. Like to eat ice and ice cold

drinks, salt and rice. Medorrhinum M. Follow-up

three months. Well.

35. Alopecia Universalis

AMBANI Bandish (NJH. 6, 1/2004)

12year-old girl; loss of hair, first on the scalp

then, eyebrows and then eyelashes. Habit of Bed-

wetting 2-3 times at night. Steroid injections on

scalp have not benefited.

Voracious appetite, unquenchable thirst.

Craves cold drinks, ice-cream, chocolates, rice.

Fear of dark, alone, animals; weeping at trifles;

Rudeness; forgetful; etc. Stramonium M. She

began to improve with regard to hair growth. But

not on eyebrows to eyelashes. Case reanalyzed and

given Medorrhinum M which brought about the

desired results.

36. Cornelia De Langue Syndrome

SHAH, Jawahar (NJH. 6, 1/2004)

14 month-old, boy; delayed development. No

dentition or speech till date. Hair all over body

features evident of Hirsuitism. Cleft palate

operated three months back; tongue-tie operated;

undescended testes bilateral; flat head, fontanelles

open; low birth weight; facial features like that of a

monkey - small head, hairy, bushy eyebrows, etc.

Medorrhinum 30 on June 1993. improvement

went on. As on 21 April 2001, he is 9 years,

weighs 12 Kilo grams mental age of four and half.

37. My Turning Point

RASAL Prasad (NJH. 6, 1/2004)

Young female with chronic asthmatic

bronchitis;on Prednisolone, Deriphyllin and

Ventrolin; still relief poor. Sits knee-chest position

with great dyspnoea.

Fastidious, anticipatory anxiety, hurried.

Medorrhinum 200. she became normal; remains so

two years after.

38. My only Release?!

BHALINGE Sunil D. (NJH. 6, 1/2004)

34 Year-old Male. Rashes, Inflammation

Eruptions on the whole body concentrated more on

face, near eyes in the eyebrows, cheeks in and

outside ears, on the neck, etc. Itching, burning.

Lascivious fancies leading to masturbation,

frequent.

Anxious; attached to his parents, brothers &

sisters.

Medorrhinum 200, M.

39. Using Medorrhinum LM Potency

CHOUDHURY, SriKanta (NJH. 6, 1/2004)

32 year-old, married female; 12 weeks

pregnant.

Severe weakness. Vertigo. Heat in scalp.

Pinching pain in chest, < movement, coughing,

sneezing. Burning all over body except head.

Ulcer in nail bed appears every rainy season.

Leucorrhoea. Hot patient. Husband has history of

suppressed Gonorrhoea. History of Rheumatism,

Gout in the family.

Medorrhinum LM 6-8. Then Sulphur LM 3-6.

40. Rheumatic Heart Disease

CHIMTHANAWALA Adil (NJH. 6, 1/2004)

18 year-old Female with Rheumatic Heart

Disease - MR (Severe) + AR (moderate) + PH.

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H/o Orthopnoea. Breathlessness < exertion, <

sitting. Palpitation. Constriction sensation in chest,

> slightly massaging the chest. Cough with copious

jelly-like expectoration. Feet swollen.

Detailed treatment given. The main remedy

was Strophanthus mother tincture and later

Laurocerasus mother tincture.

A week later case taking again. From

childhood she was on Penidure for long.

Restless, constantly moving her feet. Menses

profuse, clots, with intense abdominal pain,

offensive > lying on stomach.

Medorrhinum M. Satisfactory response.

41. Spondylitis, Dyspepsia & Tension Headache

TIWARI, N.L. (NJH. 6, 1/2004)

Case 1: 36 year-old female. Spondylitis since one

year, tension headache, gastric headache. Teacher

in a College.

Sense of Insecurity, fear, sentimental, weepy.

Cravings: Ice cream, sweets.

Medorrhinum.

Case 2: 38 year-old female. Fear of going out,

high places, crossing road; Vertigo since 48 years.

Otorrhoea on and off left ear. Menses scanty.

Anaemic. Recluse.

Medorrhinum improved much.

42. Nail Biting & its Homoeopathic Approach

Dr. AGARWAL Geetika (HH. 30, 4/2005)

Nail biting or 'anonycophagia' is a common

nuisance among preschool children and sometimes

older age groups too.

Causes of Nail Biting

1. Release of stress & anxiety

2. Genetic History

3. Release of Boredom

4. To gain attention

5. Copying from friends

Harmful Effects of Nail Biting

1. Damage to Nail Bed

2. Oral diseases

3. Infections of nails

Few important Homoeopathic remedies based on

Mental Symptoms are given.

43. Natrium phosphoricum 6x the Ultimate Cure

for Obesity

STORES Titus (HH. 30, 7/2005)

Natrium phosphoricum 6x is a very effective

remedy to reduce weight safely in almost all cases

of obesity.

Natrium phosphoricum was effective in

reducing weight in Sept. 2004 of an obese man who

weighed 135 Kg. for his Gastric Reflux problem.

Later he was cured of his Gastric Reflux.

A lady employee who weighed 95 Kg. has shed

13.5Kg.

Many thousands are using Natrium

phosphoricum with a success rate ranging from 90

to 95%. Coffee, cola drinks and preserved meats

containing saltpeter antidote this remedy and are

best avoided. The use of any drugs for other

ailments also antidotes this remedy.

Dr. DETER in his Handbook of Biochemistry

has been quoted. Another explanation of how

Natrium phosphoricum works by Dr. Luc de

SCHEPPER is also given.

44. Heuristics and bias in homoeopathy

SOUTER, K. (HOMEOPATHY, 95, 4/2006)

The practice of Homoeopathy ought to be

strictly logical. In the Organon Samuel

HAHNEMANN gives the impression that the

unprejudiced observer should be able to follow an

algorithmic route to the simillimum in every case.

Judgement and Decision Research, however,

indicates that when people grapple with complex

systems like Homoeopathy they are more likely to

use heuristics or empirical rules to help them reach

a solution. Thus Hahnemann's concept of the

unprejudiced observer is virtually impossible to

attain. There is inevitable bias in both case-taking

and remedy selection. Understanding the types of

bias may enable the practitioner to reduce his/her

own bias.

45. Homoeopathy for the treatment of Lichen

Simplex Chronicus: A case series

GUPTA R., MANCHANDA RK, & ARYA

BS. (HOMEOPATHY, 95, 4/2006)

Twenty-seven patients with Chronic Lichen

Simplex involving various parts of the body were

treated. Hydrocotyle was prescribed to 21 patients

in different potencies (6c, 30c, 200c, 1M, 10M),

Thuja to three patients (1M, 10M) Graphites (6c),

Kali bich 30c) and Sulphur (200c) to one patient

each during 1 year study period. Only two patients

showed complete improvement with Thuja and one

with Graphites. In other cases, the response was

limited to partial relief of itching.

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46. Luffa operculata in Sinusitis

JUNEJA Kulbhushan (ADVH. 23, 2/2006)

The author has given a very brief resume of the

characteristics of Luffa operculata.

Three cases treated with this remedy in 50

millesimal and decimal have been given, all acute

cases.

47. Large Nasal and Maxillary Polyp

SHARMA Rajneesh Kumar

(ADVH. 23, 2/2006)

25 year-old male with bloody purulent

discharges, face swollen - nasal root extending to

frontal eminence, malar bones and maxillae, nasal

polyp, easily bleeding, rhinorrhoea; desires salt;

thirst for cold water.

Repertorisation: Phosphorus, Calcarea, Thuja,

Calcarea phosphorica; comparison in Materia

Medica and Phosphorus 200 was prescribed.

Rapid improvement within one month.

Photographs of the face before and after, are given.

48. Clinical cases

CHATTERJEE A.S. (ADVH. 2/2006)

Seven cases each with different pathology have

been helped by Carcinosinum either by itself or as

an intercurrent.

49. Astrocytoma - A Case Report

MISTRY, D.E. (CCR. 13, 2 & 3/2006)

10 May 2005: 31 year-old business man under

treatment Neuro-surgical Hospital as a case of

'terminal' stage of Astrocytoma.

History of headache from 1997. Hypertension

diagnosed in 2001. After this, CT Scan revealed

Brain Tumor. Further Biopsy confirmed

malignancy. Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy

followed for 6 months. Two months after this

convulsions came on. This continued for few

years until 2004, almost once every day. Sound

speech, heavy feeling of tongue, increased

salivation was complained and an MRI showed an

advancing pathology. Surgery done and put on

Chemotherapy. The patient was going down.

Past history: Maternal grandmother had Ca.

Breast and underwent Mastectomy. The patient

had history of frequent injuries from falls as a child.

Once he fell from first floor and suffered fracture

right humerus only.

Since six months he is on Steroids.

Phosphorus 30, three doses were given based

on his basic nature and also because Phosphorus is

a known remedy for Brain Tumors. The allopathic

medicine was continued.

For the first time he had no headaches and his

chills also reduced.

On 26.5.2005 he was given

Natrum sulphuricum 30 two doses on one day

because of childhood head injuries and also that it

may reduce the Cerebral oedema and thus decrease

the pressure.

He was given Ipecacuanha for vomiting. On

4.6.2005 he expired.

50. Chikungunya

MISTRY, D.E. & GURRAM Shubhangi

(CCR. 13, 2 & 3/2006)

22 cases of Chikungunya treated with

homoeopathic remedies.

More than 50% of these cases were given

'blanket' prescription of Bacillinum 30 and

Influenzinum 30, 2 doses 12 hourly.

In other cases remedies Thuja, Rhus

toxicodendron, Pulsatilla, Bryonia, Belladonna

were given, in some cases along with Bacillinum 30

and Influenzinum 30 [It is not clear whether

Bacillinum and Influenzinum were given together or

one after the other, etc. We should beware that

disease names should not frighten us in to adopting

method which do not accord with the homoeopathic

principles = KSS].

51. Different Pathological Cases but with common

Theme

SHINDE Prakash (CCR. 13, 2 & 3/2006)

Dr. SHINDE has reported four cases of

different pathologies, all the four cases treated with

one remedy: one case of Chronic joint pain; one

case of Adeno-Carcinoma of Ano-Rectal Region;

one case of Chronic coryza; one case of Chronic

Gastritis.

The author says that he found the 'mental'

symptoms "Indifference when in society" as the

key to all these 4 cases. And that while Kali

carbonicum is given in grade 2 in the Kent

Repertory p.55. All cases had sudden pains and

blurred vision before headache, which is peculiar of

Kali bichromicum ("the remedy is from Kali group"

and "Kali bich. has indifference, apathy and

Misanthropy while PHATAK describes Kali bich.

as anthropophobic"). The patients had long lasting

relief. [KENT'S Lectures on Materia Medica

dismisses the mental symptoms from Proving,

because they were all obtained from Provings "in

crude form. It needs to be proved in potencies to

bring out the mental symptoms." The

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Encyclopaedia of T.F. ALLEN mentions the

symptom Anthropophobia was reported by

MARENIELLER on the 4

day of proving when he

had taken "10 grains of 2d trituration (first day),

20 grains (second day), 40 grains (third day), ...."

Certainly massive doses and we have to be vary of

the 'mental' symptoms from such crude doses.

Surely, the cures in these cases have come about

because of the Kali bichromicum peculiarity of

blurred vision before headache. Moreover the idea

that all Kali remedies have certain symptoms which

can be interchanged within the group is not right. =

KSS].

52. Sabina Juniperus

MOONEN Resie (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

Two cases of Sabina juniperus (copious

menses, Metrorrhagia, Back Pain) are reported. The

cases are interesting. [However cases of this type

were reported earlier in half page; whereas now 4

pages of A4 size, narrating so many details and

some Botany, etc. and of course some speculation,

etc. - of the 'modern classists' = KSS]

53. I'm almost there - Two cases of Rhodium

LEUPEN Alex and WOUTMAN Willem

(HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

As may be evident from the title, these are two

cases of Rhodium (Jan SCHOLTEN), which cured

Polyneuropathy in the first and Musculoskeletal

pains in the other (Follow up one year).

[Application of medicine because "she was a

musician she should belong to the group of

remedies in the Silver series. That together would

lead us simply to the fitting remedy of Rhodium... I

had the feeling immediately that this should be the

remedy." [What a 'scientific justification' for

remedy selection! Ferdinand DEB ATS would like

this kind of remedy selections to be put up with and

not argue about the 'homceopathicity' of this

methodology. Great innovation indeed! = KSS].

54. Linking Two disciplines - homoeopathy and

Regression Therapy

COLLINS Deborah & ESSER Bert

(HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

Case 1: 42 year-old woman "who had been under

various treatments all her life, due to the enormity

of her problems. She since birth, was small and

weak and continuously on restricted diet, as she had

allergies to most foodstuffs. Among other

complaints she suffered from M. SJOGREN, that is

a lack of tears, saliva and sweat. Extreme

photophobia and chilliness and exhaustion.

Conventional doctors had given up on her, finally

considering her complaints to be mere attention

getting devices. Various alternative therapies

helped her to develop insight into herself, and to

use her intution, but her physical complaints

remained.

She underwent regression therapy and

improved. However, she repeatedly said gas,

gas/after the catharsis is from the regression

therapy. The author writes further "my husband

decided that if "gas" from her previous life was at

the root of complaints in this life, we could apply

the homoeopathic principle of like cures like, and

give her a homoeopathic doses of same gas. This

turned out to be a remedy already available, called

Hydrocyanic acid. Since her first dose more than a

year ago, she has been improving rapidly and

dramatically. [While the patient got relief from the

remedy Hydrocyanic acid and the remedy was

perhaps "homoeopathic" to the patient's complaints

- we do not see photophobia in this remedy - the

principle on which it was applied to this patient was

certainly not homoeopathic. Homoeopathy is not

give the "same" but give the "similar".

HAHNEMANN has clearly explained this. = KSS].

Case 2: 38 year-old woman; chief complaint being

Colitis Ulcerosa. Extreme diarrhoea, bloody stools

and abdominal pain, often having to get out of bed

20 to 30 times at night to go to the toilet. Continual

fear of dying. She always felt that she had to

protect her children from being taken away. She

had dreams repeatedly. Ultimately Hydrocyanic

acid (fear of crossing the road, fear of cars

approaching in the streets, fears of buildings falling

down, etc.) improved her condition to a great

extent. [The author has referred to 'Provings' by

'potentised remedy on healthy humans. The EN.

Vol.5, gives large number of sources almost all

being 'poisonings', no proving by "potentised"

remedy. The GS Vol. VI p.82 confirms this. There

are no symptoms of Ulcerative Colitis, but there are

quite a few symptoms of 'Cholera' like collapse

states. Moreover fear of car approaching seems to

be related to fear of accidents, whereare in the case

reported it was the woman's fear when Car

approached was that her children would be taken

away! Well. The woman became better; all is well

that ends well! Not much Homoeopathy to be learnt

from this case; I'm sorry to say = KSS].

55. Sensations 'as if - what is Striking, Singular,

Uncommon, Peculiar

SHETYE Prasad s., KAHARIWALA Falguni

K. (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

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Case 1: 45 year-old woman who one fine morning

felt as she squatted in the toilet to defaecate a ball

of hot air rising from the Vagina up the abdomen to

the throat and her head started paining. She held

head and came out shrieking. This recurred the

next day. She was diagnosed by a Conventional

Physician as Hysteria and advised that she be taken

to a Mental Hospital. The patient became panicky

at this. Raphanus sativus 30 restored her to

normalcy.

Case 2: 59 year-old Man, with severe, chronic,

recurrent cough. It was triggered by a dry throat

with a sensation as if a worm was squirming in the

throat, better by sips of water. This sensation in the

throat was peculiar to Cistus canandensis which

was given (30 potency) and a prompt cure

followed.

[The authors are running a Homoeopathy Teaching

Centre and therefore these two cases illustrative of

the importance of 'sensations as if has been

reported in over three pages in a pedagogic manner,

what a von BOENNINGHAUSEN would have

written in 4 or 5 lines - see his Lesser Writings

which by all standards are greater and worth study.

= KSS].

56. A Rope pulled so tight that you are no more -

A case of Python

BRYSCH, Irene Schliengensiepen

(HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

40 Year-old female with severe Asthma since

her third pregnancy in 1991. She has a long story

of domestic discord (she is an 'Asian');husband not

sufficiently caring or true, daughters siding their

father, son on her side. She herself spoke of hating

her children. She has already had a lot of allopathic

remedies for her Asthma. She often dreamt of

snakes, often of Python. She feared snakes.

She was given Python 30. This remedy was

later given in higher potency too over some period.

Her life situation changes are given in detail. She

later had Polyarthritis for which again. Python was

given.

Rajan Sankaran's levels of perception are

explained.

At the end the patient still has her emotional

problems.

A long case. The remedy choice scenes to

have been made on the basis of the patient's dream

of Python\

[These Case Reports, albeit 'successful' ones,

makes one more confused. What has one to say of

Hahnemann's teachings reg. ascertaining the

modalities, the 'General', the peculiar symptom, the

hierarchising of symptom, the miasmatic loads, the

exteriorization of the disease, etc. etc.? What about

the proving of Python] Upto what extent can we

fantasise? Are such 'reasonings' to be reckoned as

Homceopathy? Where and what is Genuine

Homceopathy? = KSS]

57. Establishing my Identity - A case of Blatta

orientalis

THAKARMunjal (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

42 Year-old woman, with hyperpigmented

patches on both extremities. More on the lower

extremities, since three months now.

Urticaria, < upper limbs and face; itching

palms; < alternate days. < when she is stressed.

Sneezings every morning.

Past history of depression, Polypectromy,

Middle ear atelectasis.

An artist by profession. Sensitive to loud talk.

Excitable; has had episodes of fainting with

perspiration and a sinking sensation, relieved by

Coffee and Lemon juice. She expects honor and

respect due to her.

Desires oranges and sour fruit, pungent/rich

food.

The author says that the symptoms matched

Blatta orientalis which he had proved in 1995 and

this remedy upto XM helped the patient to

overcome all complaints. Silicea X, XM were

given in between, which helped a lot. [There must

be long term follow up of 2 to 3 years before

claiming Cure.

The brief Materia Medica of Blatta orientalis is

also given.

58. Ericaceace in Post-Lyme Disease

SCHOLTEN Jan, KRAMER Anton, LEUPEN

Alex (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

Lyme Disease is caused by a Tick bite. Three

stages of Lyme disease are distinguished but it is

not necessary that all three must be gone through.

This disease is threatening Europe. Will

TAYLOR of USA had recommended remedies

from the Ericaceae family {Ledum, Rhododendron,

Kalmia, Arbutus) can be useful in this.

The authors narrate in detail three cases: one

each of Kalmia, Ledum and Arbutus are given.

[See 'Book Shelf in Part III of this QHD

regarding a new book on Lyme Disease = KSS]

59. Two cases of the Compositae Family -

Calendula officinalis and Gnaphalium dioica

SHUKLA Chetna, STEVENS Peter

(HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

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Case 1: Six month-old boy was brought by his

mother for "strengthening the weak immunity of

her son against infections". The short of the long

story is that the child had suffered from: "exchange

transfusion for jaundice"; "Third month: Urinary

infection"; Fourth month: skin (boils); "Fifth

month: Urinary tract infection"; "sixth month:

Urinary tract infection". Her mother suffered:

"Second month pregnancy: wisdom tooth infection;

"Fourth month: Urinary tract infection"; Fifth

month: stomach and Urinary infection": "Seventh

month: Vaginal infection". With this 'anamnesis'.

The word "infection" made the doctor pick up a

remedy with reputation in infections and the 6

month old boy was given a dose of Calendula 200.

The child became free from infections! [I am really

completely bewildered. The author says "all the

time the state of disposition (Aphorism 211) was

this tendency to infections and therefore according

to Law of Similar he needed a substance that can

cause and hence cure infections. The first remedy

that could be thought of in cases of infections by

any homoeopath, young or old, is and would be

Calendula officinalis."*. How ludicrous can one be?

The Aphorism 211 is in respect of mental

disposition, to quote it here is absurd. Further

Calendula did not "cause" infections. In fact in

ALLEN's Encyclopaedia, there is no mention of

any 'infection' or for that matter any injuries.

There are only two symptoms under 'general'

(p.420, EN. Vol.2): "a wound becomes raw and

inflamed anew": "a wound is painful, in the

morning as if bruised, with smarting and throbbing

in it, as if it would suppurate." Does the author

mean that when a mother reports that her child is

repeatedly 'infected' by 'cold', or 'diarrhoea' or

'dysentery' he would prescribe Calendula? It is all

funny, to say the least. Regarding the second case

— Gnaphalium dioica; the less I comment upon

the better it is. The author says that Gnaphalium is

called in German as "Kitten's Paw'. "Here we find

the hairy element. I had no other good reason for

the other members of the compositae family. What

a reasoning!" I feel sad at the level of the

'Science'. HAHNEMANN, BOENNINGHAUSEN

and HERING would turn in their graves. = KSS.]

60. PCI - answer to AIDS in Africa

VAN DER ZEE Harry and HIWAT Corrie

(HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

Since few years Peter CHAPPEL has been

using his own remedy "PCI" for treatment of AIDS

in Africa and it has been found to be very

successful. PCI is a remedy 'designed' by Peter

CHAPPEL.

The Homoeopathic Links has been publishing

PC's articles since last 4 years.

For more information for homoeopaths:

www.peterchappell .net

IV. REPERTORY

1. Die Verschlimmbesserung der modernen

Repertorien (The Modern Repertories which

are worsening instead of becoming better)

HINDERER, Rolf (NAH. 1,2/2006)

Are the modern Repertories, which are

published in "revised and enlarged" versions every

year with thousands of additions of rubrics and

remedies, reliable? The rubrics 'Stool, fatty' and

'Extremities, swelling, hip' in the latest version of

"Synthesis - Repertorium homoeopathicum

syntheticum" edition 9.1, were selected for critical

study. It seems that these modern 'super

repertories' are definitely not reliable and does not

do good to either the user or the patient.

2. Completely Universal

An introduction to the Repertorium Universale

Howard, Wendy (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

"Roger van ZANDVOORT's latest Repertory,

THE 'Repertorium Universale' is in some senses

a major departure from the 'Complete Repertory',

but in others a very natural evolution. The

alterations to the basic structure make this a far

more flexible tool than one constrained to Kent's

Schema. The Kentian structured Repertory has

been nested within an expanded hierarchy, which

includes Boenninghausen-style rubrics in the

primary classification of symptoms. He has created

rubrics for the remaining symptom dimensions at

section levels.

Nearly 1.5 million remedy additions have been

made in over 1,80,000 rubrics with extensive cross-

referencing! [What a jungle = KSS] The grades of

remedies have been re-clarified. The abbreviations

of the remedy names have been corrected and

synonyms reconciled. [What are the sources from

which such an 'avalanche' of rubrics have come to

be added? Do the additions present, life style,

foods etc. which are part of the Western World

only? Very shortly I'm afraid that the Repertory

will become larger than the Standard English

Dictionary! = KSS.]

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V. PHARMACOLOGY

1. Potenzierbarkeit von Wirkstoffspuren bei der

Herstellung von fliissigen homoopathischen

Zubereitungen - Untersuchungen mit Hiilfe des

Ileum-Modeles der Ratte (Potentisability of

pure active agents in the preparation of

homoeopathic dilutions. Research with the help

of Ileum models of Rats)

SUB, Wolfgang (AHZ. 251, 4/2006)

The way to get a homoeopathic liquid remedy

by dilution and succussion was investigated

independent of the drug concentration with the

invitro Rat ileum model. As a model substance

Atropine sulphate was used in concentrations of

10%; 1%; 0.001% and 0.0001%. It could be shown

that a threshold of potentisation exists at a drug

concentration of 0.1% or 0.01% in the presence of

water or water with 0.5 mol/1 saccharose as a

structure-forming substance. The results show that

Atropine sulphate in concentrations similar as

impurities were not potentised by succussion.

2. Q/LM Potencies: Historical reasons for the

long delay in their recognition

SCHMIDT, Josef M.

(HOMEOPATHY, 95, 5/2006)

One of the several under-researched issues still

awaiting illumination is homoeopathic Posology. In

case of LM potencies, a delay of nearly 80 years in

the publication of Hahnemann's last work, not only

prevented its contemporary reception among his

followers but allowed another tradition to rise,

spread and prevail until today. Although Richard

HAEHL in 1921 (German) and William

BOERICKE in 1922 (English) published the VI

Edition of the Organon wherein the LM potencies

were recommended by HAHNEMANN the world

of Homoeopathy seemed to be in the dark about this

new posology. However by 1950s some of the

leading German Homoeopaths - Pierre SCHMIDT

leading them began to use them.

With the definitive text-critical edition of the

original manuscript, published in 1992,

pharmaceutical companies like Gudjons in

Germany embarked on the manufacture of authentic

Q - Potencies. There have been attempts to

decipher HAHNEMANN'S Case Registers to sort

out the Q-Potency cases. Ubiratan ADLER of

Brazil has been making this study systematically

[Please also recall the scholarly article of Peter

BARTHEL in the British Homoeopathic Journal

80,2/1991 =KSS].

3. Hahnemann's experiments with 50 millesimal

potencies: A further review of his casebooks

ADLER, UC, ADLER MS.

(HOMEOPATHY, 95, 3/2006)

Background: A review of Hahnemann's

clinical records at the Institute for History of

Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation in

Stuttgart shows that until the end of his life,

Hahnemann continued to refine his clinical method,

based on clinical cases. His "most perfected

method" motivated him to write the sixth edition of

the The Organon of the Healing Art, proposing

solutions controlling the side effects he observed

with repeated doses of homoeopathic medicines.

Unfortunately, this was published many years

posthumously. The sixth edition of The Organon

introduced the fifty-millesimal scale.

Objectives: To identify the clinical cases

treated with fifty-millesimal potencies and analyze

Hahnemann's use of them.

Results: 1836 prescriptions of fifty-millesimal

potencies were found, between 1837 and 1843 in

three phases: initially sporadic; later compared

regularly to centesimal dynamizations; and finally

systematically. Thirty five medicines were

identified in fifty-milesimal prescriptions, seven in

potencies higher than 10 and only 3 (Sulphur,

Mercurius solubilis and Rhus toxicodendron) used

in the 30

de gree. This accords with Haehl's

information about the remedies in Hahnemann's

case of fifty-millesimal potencies.

Conclusions: HAHNEMANN probably

decided to write the sixth edition, in 1840, to

incorporate his latest experience with the repetition

of potentized doses and periodically modified

potencies. He must have revised it after February

1842 to include his latest findings with fifty-

millesimal potencies in ascending degrees.

Hahnemann's conception about the superiority of

the fifty-millesimal in comparison with the

centesimal dynamization was based on a significant

number of experiments with the two scales.

10. The General Iteration theory of Homoeopathic

Potentisation - Fractals - Complexity -

Attractors.

ZOEBEL August (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

[This article too is beyond the understanding of

average homoeopath. Sound knowledge of Physics

is required =KSS]

"The terms fractal, iteration, complexity and

attractor can give Homoeopathy a powerful concept

in order to help understand and explain what is

going on during the process of potentisation and

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what happens under the application of such an

iterativum." " "

VI. VETERINARY

1. Heilungshindernisse in der Veterinar

homoopathie (Hindrances to Cure in

Homoeopathic Veterinary Medicine)

KRUGER, Christiane P. (AHZ. 251, 5/2006)

There are innumerable hindrances to cure of

animals by homoeopathic medicine. These are

mostly in respect of pets.

On one side we have the lack of knowledge of

homoeopathic therapeutics which affects cure. On

the other side it is due to misunderstandings, and

commercial intrusions by Pharmaceutical

canvassing. Also the several vaccinations which

limit cures severely. There are problems with the

pet owner.

The author says that in the past 25 years the

continuing education in Homoeopathy has been in

the hands of persons who do not consider

Homoeopathy as a wholistic medicine, but more of

organopathic etc., as also "emergency" medicines.

HAHNEMANN'S Homoeopathy is going down in

so far as Veterinary Homoeopathy is concerned.

Apart from giving correct information to those

concerned not much else can be done in this

scenario now.

Five cases have been given.

2. A 50-year passion for Animal Care

Interview of Dr. Arthur YOUNG by MERRON

Myrnaw (HT. 26. 1/2006)

Dr. YOUNG is a 1952 graduate of the

University of Georgia School of Veterinary

Medicine. After 40 years of professional

involvement with animals he realized that most of

the diseases were immune mediated and the

continual use of Cortisones was preventing the

body from healing itself. So he studied with

Richard PITCAIRN and his treatment of animals

has been totally homoeopathic since 1995.

The first step of treatment is detoxification and

Bach Flower remedies for stress.

Enquiry about the family health of the pet is

necessary as animals pick up neagative energy.

Second-hand smoke, bad food, or pesticides also

significantly affect an animal's health. He advises

usual vaccinations and booster doses. If owners are

averse to additional vaccinations, pet's blood is

tested for the antibodies to illnesses and then the

need is determined. Vaccines for Parvo and

Distemper are never to be given together. By

getting rid of obstacles such as a poor home

atmosphere, poor diet, use of steroids and overuse

of vaccines, treatment would be successful.

1. Red tailed hawk, hit by a bicycle resulting in

pain of right eye and haemorrhage for a week.

blood was bright red, not coagulating.

Crotalus horridus 30 every four hours, 3 doses.

Bleeding stopped after 6 hours.

2. Iguana, pale and not eating. Phosphorus 200

brought back his natural green color within three

hours and recovered his appetite and zest for life.

3. Cat, ice-cold, prostrate with blue gums. Three

doses of Carb-v. 30, 12 hours apart, revived it.

4. Gold fish, having difficult time in swimming.

Weak flippers and huge swelling in abdomen,

vertigo while swimming backwards, Conium

maculatum 200 was put in the fish tank. Next day

recovered.

3. RC, the Golden Horse

LEVY, Jeff (HT. 26, 3/2006)

RC, 16-year-old horse, was anxious,

stumbling.

He seemed sad and bitter. Had an episode of

strangles (an infection of upper respiratory lymph

nodes). Sensitivity to flying insects. Unable to be

apart from other horses. Lethargic in hot weather

and preferred cooler weather. He was quite

opinionated and impatient, easily bored with work

that was routine or easy. Aurum muriaticum 200.

In the next three months anxiety reduced by 50 -

70%. Stumbling less frequently and more

confident. Then a dose of 1M and improvement

lasted for 6 months and then a dose of XM.

4. The Snake

BLOCKLAND Denise (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

This is an interesting article and affirms the

limitlessness of Homoeopathy. [Some speak of the

limitation of Homoeopathy. There are limitations of

the Practitioner according to his/her level of

knowledge, but the Science itself is limitless =

KSS].

The author writes about his experience in

treatment of reptiles. Many of them (Rattle Snakes)

were recovered by Police; they were in various

stages of emaciation, weakness, prostrated, etc.

Homoeopathic remedies restored these. He found

Aesthusa cynapium as a great remedy for these

reptiles which were victims of neglect. Other

presenting symptoms (Appetite wanting; Sleep

comatose; General weakness; General paralysis)

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also confirmed the remedy and it was given. Very

soon the snakes recovered. It was also found that it

was the right remedy for reptiles which were 'not

eating'. The snakes were treated with

homoeopathic remedies for various other complaints

peculiar to them like skin shedding, etc.

5. Foot and Mouth Disease

ELLINGER Lisebeth (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

Foot and Mouth Disease is a killer epidemic

disease affecting cattle. In the past Homoeopathy

has been successful in treating this disease.

Different remedies recommended by different well

known homoeopaths are: von

BOENNINGHAUSEN: Arsenicum album. Thuja;

J.H. CLARKE: Kali iodatum; MADREWAR:

Arsenicum, Mercurius corrosives, Variolinum;

GUNTHER and others: Phosphoric acid,

Helleborus, Mercury, Arsenicum, Nux vomica,

Asafoetida. McLEOD and others: Borax.

The author has detailed study of the disease.

VII. RESEARCH

1. Outcomestudie "Patienten in der

homoopathischen Arztpraxis" - Ergebnisse

und Implikationen (Outcome Study "Patients

in homoeopathic Medical Practice" — Results

and Implications)

WITT, Claudia M; LUDTKE, Rainer;

WILLICH, Stefan N. (AHZ. 251, 4/2006)

In a prospective cohort study of 3981 patients

(2851 adults and 1130 children) presenting between

September 1997 and June 1999 for the first time at

one of 103 classical homoeopathic physicians were

recruited and followed up for two years

(questionnaires at 0, 3, 12 and 24 months).

Diagnoses, medical history, consultations, and

prescriptions were documented in standardized

questionnaires. Almost all patients were

chronically ill for a mean of 10.3±9.8 (adults) or

4.3±3.7 (children) years. Most common diagnoses

were Allergic Rhinitis in men, Headache in women

and Atopic Dermatitis in children. The duration of

initial consultation was 117±43min in children and

were conducted in 50% by telephone. According to

the patients the disease severity decreased

significantly (pO.OOl) between baseline and 24

months (Adults from 6.2±1.7 to 3.0±2.2); children

from 6.1±1.8 to 2.2±1.9). Physician's assessments

yielded similar results. Moreover, the health

related quality of life improved substantially

(especially in adults) and the necessary medication

could be considerably reduced.

2. Examination of Homoeopathic Preparations by

Fourier Transformation - Infrared

Spectroscopy Preliminary Results

MAHARAJ, S.V.M., Ph.D.,CHYNWAT, V.

Ph.D., MAROTTA, Ph.D., & LUTMAR, C.

Ph.D. (AJHM. 99, 1/2006)

Abstract: We have used Fourier transformation

infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) to test for differences

between homoeopathic preparations and control

samples. We assessed the differences in FT-IR

spectra at various peaks between: (1) succussed

water samples and control samples (i.e., plain

water, not succussed), (2) sonicated 90% ethanol

samples and control samples (i.e., 90% ethanol, not

sonicated), and (3) sonicated 10% ethanol samples

and control samples (i.e., 10% ethanol, not

sonicated). Succussed water and corresponding

control samples were different with significance

(PO.05) at peaks 3293 and 2123 cm"

statistically significant differences were seen

between succussed water and controls at peak 1636

cm"

. No statistically significant differences were

seen between sonicated 90% ethanol samples and

corresponding control samples, or between

sonicated 10% ethanol samples and corresponding

control samples. FT-IR appears to be able to

detect differences between some homoeopathic

preparations and control samples. Additional work

in this field is warranted.

[The 'References' at the end of this learned

articles list 47 in number. In all the "conclusion" is

"inconclusion". We have moved nowhere. As long

as the 'researches' are modelled in the conventional

manner although we may be moving it will just be

like going in a circle reaching nowhere = KSS].

3. A Graphic Representation of the Workings of

Homoeopathy

DUPEE, Glen & BEAL Susan

(AJHM. 99, 1/2006)

Abstract: Following the lead of quantum

physics, the authors suggest a graphical

representation of homoeopathic phenomena to

facilitate their understanding and further develop a

scientific underpinning of Homoeopathy. In this

model the Vital Force of a patient is represented as

a synchronous sine wave; miasmatic contagions are

similarly represented, and the intersections and

relative influences of the two waves upon each

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other provide a graphical illustration of the disease

state. In a similar manner, homoeopathic remedies,

palliative and suppressive therapies can be

represented, as well as the deepening of disease and

its reversal secondary to these influences.

4. The efficacy of Phytolacca decandra in the

Treatment of Fibroadenoma of the Breast

MOILOA, M.R.A., BRODIE, K.J.,

ROOHANI, J. (AJHM. 99, 2/2006)

Fibroadenoma is the most common benign

tumor found in the breast. (1) It presents as a small,

round, discrete, mobile, non-tender, palpable, solid

mass in the breast. (2) A fibroadenoma may double

in size every six to eight months during its growth

phase (3) Surgery is the only allopathic option

available for treatment. (4)

This study was undertaken at the Technikon

Wit-watersrand TWR (Now University of

Johannesburg), department of Homoeopathy. The

study design was a double blind, randomized,

placebo controlled pilot study, testing the efficacy

of the homoeopathic remedy, Phytolacca decandra

in the 15 CH potency, on the treatment of

fibroadenoma of the breast in pre-menopausal

women aged fifteen to thirty five years. Twenty

nine subjects completed the study from the original

number of thirty six. Diagnosis of the fibroadnoma

was made by:

i. Clinical evaluation

ii. Ultrasonography

iii. Fine needle aspiration cytology of the breast

Patients underwent a breast examination, filled

a questionnaire and had their case history taken.

The questionnaire and the ultrasound were repeated

at the end of the study to determine any changes in

the presenting symptoms and of the size of the

fibroadenoma. Patients started treatment the day

after the first consultation. Medication was taken in

the form of one tablet sublingually twice a day.

The treatment period was for sixty consecutive

days.

The results of this study demonstrate that the

homoeopathic remedy Phytolacca decandra has a

statistically significant effect on women who have

fibradenoma of the breast. In the experimental

group, 69% of subjects showed a decrease in the

size of the fibroadenoma, compared to 36% in the

placebo group. There was also a statistically

significant decrease in the breast pain experienced

while the placebo group showed no changes. The

experimental group showed a 0% development of

new fibroadenomas and decreasing trend to the

fibroadenoma surface areas. The placebo group

showed a 20% development of new fibroadenomas

and an increasing trend to the surface area.

There were interesting, unexpected, statiscally

significant findings as the remedy also corrected

hormonal imbalances in the female reproductive

system by regulating both the menstrual flow and

the menstrual cycle and improved dry, cracked

nipples. Reduction in joint and arthritic symptoms,

especially lower back pain and stiffness was also

experienced.

Phytolacca symptoms used as criteria for

inclusion into the study:

Breast pains relieved by pressure

Breast was hard, swollen, painful and

sensitive to the touch

The breast felt hard, lumpy, nodular like a

brick

Breast pain felt like electric shocks

Pain in nipple radiating to all over the

body

Rheumatic pain and stiffness in muscles

Joint pains, with tenderness and swelling

Patients whose symptoms did not match the

above picture of Phytolacca decandra were

excluded from the study. Patients who did not

comply with taking of medication were excluded

from the study as well.

Patients were then divided into two equal

groups - the experimental group and the placebo

group. Fifteen subjects in the experimental group

were given Phytolacca decandra 15CH in the form

of tablets, to be taken sublingually twice a day for

sixty days. The placebo group received

unmedicated tablets, twice a day, also for sixty

days. Randomization of the medication was carried

out at the TWR Health Clinic.

In the clinical evaluation, and via ultrasound,

measurements of the fibroadenoma were also taken

before and after treatment..

All data was analyzed statistically, using the T-

test, the All Pairwise Multiple Comparison

Procedures (student-Newman-Keuls Method) and

the One way analysis of Variance Test.

The findings in this study imply that

Phytolacca decandra will have a positive effect

only when the remedy is indicated in terms of its

similitude to the patient's symptoms. It will not

have these positive effects if the patient's totality of

symptoms does not match the profile of Phytolacca

decandra.

Although many observers suggest that the

benefits of homoeopathic treatment are due to the

placebo effect, the findings in this study clearly

refute this theory.

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It is recommended that in any future studies of

any homoeopathic remedy for any disease

condition, researchers should ensure that selection

criteria of participants is consistent with

Hahnemann's theory of the totality of symptoms,

that the totality of symptoms represents the disease

in its full extent.

5. Double-blind, placebo-controlled homoeopathic

pathogenetic trials: Symptom collection and

analysis

DOMINICI, C, BELLAVITE, P., DI

STANISLAO, GULIA, P., & PITARI, G.

(HOMEOPATHY, 95, 3/2006)

Background: Homeopathic pathogenetic

trials (provings) are fundamental to Homoeopathy.

Since most of the data from available provings have

not been statistically evaluated, it is unclear how

specific reported symptoms are and how they differ

from those reported by people taking placebo.

Method: We combine analysis data from two

different homoeopathic pathogenetic trials-including

10 and 11 provers, respectively, and both including

30% placebo-to test the null hypothesis that there is

no significant difference between the number of

symptoms in placebo and verum groups.

Results: The principal results were:

• Placebo reported less symptoms than verum

groups.

• Symptom distribution according to predefined

classes (common symptoms increased in intensity

and/or duration-, cured, old, new and exceptional)

was statistically different between placebo and

verum group at a high level of significance

CP<0.001). compared to verum, placebo provers

reported less new and old but more common

(increased in duration or intensity) symptoms.

• Within repertory categories, other differences

were detected.

• The two groups differ in terms of the duration

of each symptom and kinetics of symptoms: most

symptoms were more persistent in verum than in

placebo groups and verum provers recorded a

decreasing number of symptoms with time.

Placebo provers did not show such a temporal

pattern.

Conclusions: If confirmed by other studies

these results would demonstrate the non-

equivalence between homoeopathic medicines in

high dilution and placebo and contribute to the

improvement of proving methodology and

evaluation.

6. Effect of a Homoeopathic complex on oestrus

induction and hormonal profile in anoestrus

cows

RAJKUMAR, R., SRIVASTAVA, SK.,

YADAV, MC, VARSHNEY, VP.,

VARSHNEY, JP. & KUMAR, H.

(HOMEOPATHY, 95, 3/2006)

This study was undertaken to evaluate the

efficacy of a homoeopathic complex in the

management of true anoestrus in crossbred cows.

Six anoestrus cows were treated with a

homoeopathic complex (Calcarea phosphorica 30c,

Aletris farinosa 30c, Pulsatilla 30c, Aurum

muriaticum natronatum 30c, Sepia 30c and

Phosphorus 30c in equal proportion, 15 pills twice

daily orally for 10 days). Six animals acted as

control without any treatment.

Treatment was 100% effective in inducing

oestrus in anoestrus cows with mean interval of

27.5±5.3 days. All animals conceived and overall

conception rate was 54.5% with 1.83 services per

conception. In the homoeopathic complex treated

group, increased serum oestradiol concentration

(20.88±5.60 to 27.80±7.28pg/ml) was observed

compared to the pretreatment (11.71±2.06pg/ml)

and control value (10.43±1.77 to 13.94±3.14pg/ml).

The homoeopathic complex medicine may be

effective and economical in the treatment of true

anoestrus condition in cows.

7. Therapeutic and pathogenetic animal models

for Dolichos pruriens

COELHO de Paula, C, ALMEIDA, V.D.,

PEDRAZZOLLI-NETO, M., DURAN-FILHO,

C, FLORIO, JC, ZINCAGLIA LMC, &

BONAMIN, LV.

(HOMEOPATHY, 95, 3/2006)

The therapeutic and pathogenetic effects of

Dolichos pruriens were evaluated using

experimental models in rats. In the therapeutic

experiment Wistar rats were housed in a heated

environment (25±3°C) to induce itch, and treated

with ascending potencies D. Pruriens (6cH, 9cH,

12 cH,and 30 cH), each for 10 days, the positive

control group received vehicle (ethanol 30% in

water). The negative control group received no

treatment and were kept at a standard temperature.

In the pathogenetic experiment, all animals

were kept at a temperature of 20±3°C and treated

for 30 consecutive days with D. pruriens 6 or 30

cH, or ethanol vehicle, or no treatment. The

experiments were performed blind.

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The statistical analysis used Bartlett's test,

followed by ANOVA/Tuckey-Krammer or

Kruskal-Wallis/Dunn. The results point to the

existence of therapeutic effects, with inhibition of

the itching, skin lesions and fur thinning produced

by heat, more evident in later observations, with the

9, 12, and 30 cH potencies (Kruskal-Wallis/Dunn;

P - 0.001). No changes were observed in the other

parameters, such as open field activity and laterality

of the itching. In the pathogenetic experiment, no

changes were observed in any parameters

examined. We conclude that the proposed

experimental model demonstrates the therapeutic

effect of D. pruriens, but not its pathogenetic

effects.

8. Amelioration of root-knot disease of lady's

finger plants by potentiized Cina and Santonin

SUKUL, NC, GHOSH, S., SUKUL, A., &

SINHABABU, SP.

(HOMEOPATHY, 95, 3/2006)

Lady's finger plants (Hibiscus esculentus),

grown in pots, were inoculated with the second-

stage larvae (76±6) of root-knot nematodes

Meloidogyne incognita, starting 7 days later they

were treated with Cina 30c, Santonin 30c or

Ethanol 30c by foliar spray for 10 consecutive

days. The drugs in 90% ethanol were diluted with

distilled water 1:1000 before application on plants.

Thirty days after the last treatment the plants were

uprooted. Cina 30c and Santonin 30c reduced

nematode infestation of plants significantly in terms

of root-gall number, root-protein content and

nematode population in roots. Santonin 30c

reduced root water content. Santonin 30c may have

influenced the water channel proteins of root tissues

thereby altering the water contents of roots. The

reduced water content in roots might have

adversely affected the root-knot nematodes and

thus reduced nematode infestation. Ethanol 30c

also has some effect on treated plants.

9. Effect of fortification of Mulberry leaves with

homoeopathic drug Nux vomica on Bombyx

mori. L.

HIWARE, CJ. (HOMEOPATHY, 95, 3/2006)

Silk worm (Bombyx mori L.) larvae were fed

on Mulberry leaves treated with Nux vomica mother

tincture. The impact on larval, cocoon, shell and

pupal weight, silk ratio, average filament length and

denier, and number of breakages during reeling

were investigated. The results were positive in all

parameters under study except cocoon weight,

pupal weight, and the average denier of the

filament.

10. Homoeopathy for anxiety and anxiety

disorders: A systematic review of the research

PILKINGTON, K., KIRKWOOD, G.,

RAMPES, H., FISHER, P., & RICHARDSON,

J. (HOMEOPATHY, 95, 3/2006)

Objective: To conduct a systematic review of

the clinical research evidence on Homoeopathy in

the treatment of anxiety and anxiety disorders.

Methods: A comprehensive search of major

biomedical databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE,

CINAHL, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library; and of

specialist complementary and alternative medicine

(CAM) databases: AMED, CISCOM and Horn-

Inform was conducted. Efforts were made to

identify unpublished and ongoing research using

relevant sources and experts in the field. Relevant

research was categorized by study type and

appraised according to study design. Clinical

commentaries were obtained for studies reporting

clinical outcomes

Results: Eight randomized controlled studies

were identified. The types of Anxiety and anxiety

disorders studied were tests anxiety, generalized

anxiety disorder and anxiety related to medical or

physical conditions such as Cancer or surgical

procedures. Single case reports/studies were the

most frequently encountered study type but other

study types including uncontrolled trials/case series

and surveys were also found. No relevant

qualitative research was identified.

Conclusions: A comprehensive search

demonstrates that the evidence on the benefit of

Homoeopathy in Anxiety and anxiety disorders is

limited. A number of studies of Homoeopathy in

such conditions were located but the randomised

controlled trials report contradictory results, are

underpowered or provide insufficient details of

methodology. Several uncontrolled and

observational studies reported positive results

including high levels of patient satisfaction but

because of the lack of a control group, it is difficult

to assess the extent to which any response is due to

Homoeopathy. Adverse effects reported appear

limited to 'remedy reactions' and included

temporary worsening of symptoms and

reappearance of old symptoms.

On the basis of this review it is not possible to

draw firm conclusions on the efficacy or

effectiveness of Homoeopathy for Anxiety.

However, surveys suggest that Homoeopathy is

quite frequently used by people suffering from

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Anxiety. If shown to be effective, it is possible that

Homoeopathy may have benefits in terms of adverse

effects and acceptability to patients consequently,

further investigation is indicated. Future research

should be of pragmatic design and include

qualitative studies.

11. Treatment of hyperactive children: Increased

efficiency through modifications of

homoeopathic diagnostic procedure

FREI, H., AMMON von, K., &

THURNEYSEN A.

(HOMEOPATHY, 95, 3/2006)

Background: The rigorous test to which

Homoeopathy was subject in our recent double-

blind trial of homoeopathic treatment of attention

deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) necessitated

optimized treatment meeting the highest standards.

Methods: Optimization was performed in

three steps: (1) In successfully treated children,

prescriptions leading to an insufficient response

were analysed by a general questionnaire to identify

unreliable symptoms. (2) Polarity analysis, a

further development of Bonninghausen's concept of

contraindications, was introduced in response to the

frequently one-sided symptoms. This enabled us to

use few but specific symptoms to identify the

medicine whose genius symptoms exhibit the

closest match to the patient's characteristic

symptoms. (3) We investigated the influence of the

primary perception symptoms on the result of the

repertorization. Perception symptoms are not

normally recorded during a patient interview even

though they are among the most reliable facts

related by the patients. At the same time we were

able to improve the continuity of improvement of

ADHD symptoms using liquid Q-potencies.

Results: Introducing the questionnaire,

polarity analysis, and including perception

symptoms, lead to an improvement in the success

rate of the first prescription from 21% to 54%, of

the fifth prescription from 68% to 84%.

(Full article is given in Part II = KSS.)

12. Outcomes from homoeopathic prescribing in

medical practice: A prospective, research-

targeted, pilot study

MATHIE, RT., & ROBINSON, TW

(HOMEOPATHY, 95, 4/2006)

Background and aims: A base for targeted

research and development in Homoeopathy can be

founded on systematic collection and analysis of

relevant clinical data obtained by doctors in routine

practice. With these longer-term aims in mind, we

conducted a pilot data collection study, in which 14

homoeopathic physicians collected clinical and

outcomes data over a 6-month period in their

practice setting.

Methods: A specifically designed Excel

spreadsheet enabled recording of consecutive

clinical appointments under the following main

headings: date, patient identity or acute, new or

follow-up case, patient-assessed outcome (7 point

Likert scale: -3 to +3) compared with first

appointment, homoeopathic medicine/s prescribed,

whether any other medication/s being taken for the

condition. Spreadsheets were submitted monthly

via email to the project co-ordinator for data

synthesis and analysis.

Results: Practitioners typically submitted data

regularly and punctually, and most data cells were

completed as required, enabling substantial data

analysis. The mean age of patients was 41.5 years,

a total of 1783 individual patient conditions were

treated overall. Outcome from two or more

homoeopathic appointments per patient condition

was obtained in 961 cases (75.9% positive, 4.6%

negative, 14.7% no change; 4.8% outcome not

recorded). Strongly positive outcomes (scores of

+2 or +3) were achieved most notably in the

frequently treated conditions of anxiety, depression,

and irritable bowel syndrome.

Conclusion: This multi-practitioner pilot

study has indicated that systematic recording of

clinical data in Homoeopathy is both feasible and

capable of informing future research. A refined

version of the spreadsheet can be employed in

larger-scale research-targeted clinical data

collection in the medical practice setting-

particularly in primary care.

13. Evaluation of specific and non-specific effects

in Homoeopathy: Feasibility study for a

randomized trial

FISHER Peter, McCARNEY, Rob.,

HASFORD Christian & VICKERS Andrew

(HOMEOPATHY, 95, 4/2006)

Objective: To determine the feasibility, in

terms of acceptability to patients, physicians and

other staff; data return and statistical power of a

study to elucidate the relative contributions of

specific and non-specific effects in homoeopathic

treatment of Dermatitis.

Design: Randomised, controlled 4-arm trial, 2

arms double-blind.

Setting: Outpatient clinic, Royal London

Homoeopathic Hospital.

Participants: Seventy-five adult patients with

Dermatitis.

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Interventions: Patients were randomly

allocated to: 'fast track' open verum Homoeopathy,

'fast track' double-blind placebo Homoeopathy or

waiting list control.

Main outcome measures: One hundred

millimeter visual analogue scale of overall

symptom severity; 10 point digital scores of sleep,

itching, skin condition; weekly 5-point Likert scale

of topical steroid use; Dermatology Life Quality

Index at entry and completion.

Results: Recruitment was below target, but

the study was acceptable to staff and feasible.

Blinded patients were more likely to withdraw (P

=0.021, x test). After correction for baseline

differences and multiple comparisons, no outcome

measure showed statistically significant between

group differences. Blindness appeared to have a

negative effect, but this was confounded by

differential withdrawal.

Conclusions: A definitive trial of this design

is unlikely to discriminate the relative contributions

of the non-specific and specific effects to the

outcome of homoeopathic treatment of Dermatitis,

because of patient preference issues.

14. Evidence of the principle of similitude in

modern fatal iatrogenic events

TEIXEIRA, MA.

(HOMEOPATHY, 95, 4/2006)

Samuel Hahnemann attributed fundamental

importance to the principle of similitude, promoting

it to a 'natural law'. Observing that enantiopathic

or allopathic treatment produced enduring

aggravation of the disease symptoms after a brief

and transitory initial relief, he systematized

homoeopathic treatment, prescribing substances that

provoke similar symptoms in healthy individual.

Based on clinical and experimental observations, he

anticipated the concept of homeostasis, dividing the

effects of substances into: primary action of the

medicine followed by secondary action or reaction

of the organism. This reaction, known as the

rebound effect or paradoxical action by modern

pharmacology, used to awake the curative response

of the body when the principle of similitude is

applied, is responsible for several iatrogenic

diseases when used on the basis of the principle of

contraries. This study discusses the role of this

paradoxical reaction of the organism in the fatal

side effects of four important drugs, used according

to the model of enantiopathic treatment of the

symptoms. I present evidence relating to

acetylsalicylic acid, rofecoxib, antidepressants and

long-acting bronchodilators. The consequences of

the allopathic treatment could be decreased if health

professionals valued homeostasis, minimizing the

rebound effect of the organism by gradual

suspension of palliative drugs.

15. The safety of Long Term Homoeoprophylaxis

GOLDEN Isaac (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

This article is a summary of the author's

findings on his homoeoprophylaxis (HP) since

1986. He has collected evidence regarding the

safety of the long-term use of his HP programme.

The author concludes that with the HP programme

short-term reactions are rare, are relatively mild and

brief; longterm health of children (under HP

programme) is usually high. "This finding was

confirmed by a General Health Survey, which also

enabled a comparison with other methods of

immunization, - vaccination, constitutional

protection and no method of protection at all. It

may be stated with confidence that the long-term

use of an appropriate HP programme does not

produce any negative long-term health effects. In

fact long term HP not only increases resistance to

targeted diseases, it is associated with an

improvement in over all health."

VIII. HISTORY

1. Ein unerfulltgebliebener Wunsch Hahnemanns

nach einer homoopathischen Pharmakopcea

(An Unfulfilled Wish of HAHNEMANN for a

Homoeopathic Pharmacopoea)

PHILIPP, Guntram (MedGG. 24/2005)

The collections of correspondence between

Samuel HAHNEMANN and his patients in the

Institute for the History of Medicine at the

Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart and the

Deutsche Homoopathie-Union in Karlsruhe

contain some letters written by the dispensing

Chemist Theodor LAPPE (1802-1882). These

documents provide details of business affairs rather

than diseases. HAHNEMANN took the help of this

Pharmacist who lived in Neudietendorf/Thunringia

in trying to develop the homoeopathic medicine

Causticum. This gave rise to the idea of developing

a homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia which

unfortunately failed because of the lack of self-

confidence of this highly talented chemist.

The correspondence between LAPPE and

HAHNEMANN began in 1931 - the entry of

Cholera time.

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2. Choleraic Times and Mahendra Lai Sircar: The

Quest of Homoeopathy as cultivation of

Science in Nineteenth Century India

SINGH, Dhrub Kumar (MedGG. 24/2005)

It is a fact of recorded Medical history that

Homoeopathy was far more successful in Cholera

epidemic in the 19

Century: and indeed in

subsequent Epidemics of Cholera.

Although he had not seen a single case when it

first came to Europe, HAHNEMANN suggested

remedies for the different stages of Cholera as also

the preventive medicine. Until HAHNEMANN

came upon the scene Venesection was the main

feature of Medicine - "For the treatment of Cholera

for example it must be four or five pounds (of

blood) recorded Dr. REISER."

In the years 1831-32 when Cholera raged in

Europe, HAHNEMANN came out with complete

instructions for prevention and cure of Cholera. To

ensure that this reached all, HAHNEMANN

cleverly used daily Newspapers and other regularly

published magazines for spreading the Science of

Homoeopathy. The paper available to all was the

"Allgemeine Anzeiger" in which HAHNEMANN

published often.

These works of HAHNEMANN were also

published as pamphlets and also published as

adapted versions. Thus HAHNEMANN could

reach maximum people in a short time. The very

purpose of HAHNEMANN'S work, viz., to reach

the common people was thus achieved.

The present research work is on the Cholera

Epidemics that occurred in India regularly during

the British Regime, and their treatment, with

particular detailed study of the work of Dr.

Mahendra Lai SARKAR (1833-1904).

Short review of the Cholera Epidemic in Great

Britain and its treatment is given and then the

Indian scene. The attitude of the British Health

Officers towards Ayurvedic methods, which was

disparaging is discussed. [In reality the

prescriptions of the allopathic school was no better

than the Ayurvedic Vaidyans. = KSS] The

historical connections of HAHNEMANN and his

followers as also Mahendra Lai SARKAR is

studied. Mahendra Lai SARKAR was not only the

first Indian doctor who changed over from

Allopathy to Homoeopathy, but was also the

founder of Institute for the Cultivation Sciences in

India.

3. Taming the Beast - How Homoeopaths and

Allopaths Handled Error in the Last Quarter of

the 19

Century in Britain and America

BRIERLY-JONES, Lyn (MedGG. 24/2005)

One of the characteristic features of scientific

disciplines are the ability to handle errors. This

again is dependent upon its empirical data and its

theoretical frame, which is another requirement for

its status as Science. In this Study the typology of

David BLOOR (1978) with the analysis of Larry

HEDGES (1987) are associated and it is shown that

towards the end of the 19

Century homoeopaths

neglected to learn from their errors. Thus they

themselves buried the possibility to promote further

the fundamentals of their specialty. On the contrary

the Allopaths learnt to overcome their errors, in the

light of their basics and to take necessary turn in the

medical practice, their rhetorics, etc. The

difference in the overcoming of errors hinges on

two factors on the social structure of the respective

medical group and also on the role of Epistomology

in their Theory. Differentiating on these two

factors shows that during early 20

Century

Homoeopathy lost its status as a Science and

ultimately kept outside the Medical World.

4. Odyssey to Koethen

CHASE, Sandra M. (AJHM. 99, 1/2006)

This is a brief account of the author and several

other homoeopaths who had come to attend the

LIGA Congress in Germany in 2005.

Kothen was the home of HAHNEMANN for

14 years, just preceding his relocation to Paris. It

was here he produced his Chronic Diseases and his

writings on Cholera. He was named Privy

councilor (May, 1822), celebrated his fifty year

jubilee (10 Aug. 1829), lost his beloved wife of 48

years (31 March 1830) and married his second wife

(18 Jan. 1835).

There is a monument erected in 1897 to the

memory of HAHNEMANN and Arthur LUTZE,

(1813 - 1870) whose busts flank a statue of the

Greek Goddess of health, Hygea.

There is a small museum devoted to

Homoeopathy and CFS HAHNEMANN and A.

LUTZE. The bed in which HAHNEMANN slept

and breathed his last, his medicine chest (small Vi

dram vials with granules), his table and chair are

some of the exhibits.

The home that HAHNEMANN purchased

where he lived and practiced has been purchased by

the German Central Homoeopathic Physicians

Association (DzVhA) and extensive and expensive

renovation completed recently.

5. Advisory on Bird Flu

MOSKOWITZ, Richard (AJHM. 99, 1/2006)

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The possible threat of a global epidemic of

Avian Influenza depends on the convergence of

several inter-related factors.

He advises a three tiered strategy.

Level 1. Prevention in Advance of the outbreak.

When the first case is reported, Influenzium

30, 3 doses to be taken in 24 hrs and then weekly

doses till the outbreak passes. Or, Oscillococcinum

200, on same schedule.

Level 2. Preventive treatment in the early stages of

the disease.

Once there is an out break, first few cases to be

treated individually with homoeopathic medicines

and a Genus Epidemicus is arrived. Then given for

early stages and as prophylactic.

Level 3. Individualized treatment of advanced or

complicated cases.

For those cases not responding to Genus

Epidemicus, equally beneficial medicines will be

identified by a trained homoeopathic physician.

"As part of the overall public health strategy, it

could be of great benefit whenever and wherever

conventional vaccines and medications are not yet

available."

[Whether the Bird Flu or Swine Flu or any

other type the application of remedies according to

homoeopathic principles apply. = KSS].

6. Strange, rare and Peculiar: Aborigines,

Benedictines and homoeopathy

TREUHERZ, Francis

(HOMEOPATHY, 95, 3/2006)

This article is about the history of

Homoeopathy in Australia. This is traced to as

early as 1857 to Bishop Rosendo SALVADO who

treated Aboringenes with Homoeopathy in Western

Australia. The spread of "Lay Homoeopaths and

their role in the spread of Homoeopathy, is also

mentioned.

IX. GENERAL

1. Friedrich Nietzsche: Leben und Werk im

Kampf mit dem Leiden (Friedrich

NIETZSCHE: Life and Work against his

Suffering)

KAISER, Otto (MedGG. 24/2005)

NIETZSCHE is one of the great Philosophers

of Europe of the 19

Century. He was an 'outsider'

in the Society that produced him, not fitting into the

accepted categories of Theology, Philosophy.

NIETZSCHE was born on Oct. 15, 1844. He

lost his father when he was only a 5-year-old. At

ten years he composed music and wrote several

plays and at fourteen his first autobiography. He

submitted himself to strict discipline and training of

the famous Pforta Boarding School, which he

entered at fourteen.

He began to teach Philology at the Basel

University, where he taught for 10 years.

NIETZSCHE suffered from Migraine, stomach

ailments, and long lasting periods of weakness.

Medical opinions about his illness have always

been divided, but the syphilitic infection and

subsequent paresis are likely to have been among

the determining factors in his breakdown.

NIETZSCHE died in 1900.

The present paper examines the connection

between the life, sense of mission and suffering in

the work of Friedrich NIETZSCHE. It shows that

as early as his Basel years he wanted to become a

philosopher who was willing to transmit without

fear what he considered to be true to everybody,

even if he would have to suffer and remain

unappreciated.

He was afflicted with increasing numbers of

headaches and bouts of nausea from the mid 1870,

and was further handicapped by constantly

deteriorating vision. The ten years before his

breakdown were spent as a traveller searching for a

place where his suffering could be eased. The

isolation imposed on him by the illness gave him

the inner freedom to break the old certainties and to

offer a new myth as an alternative. His failure as a

writer was compensated by an intensified and,

finally, gross sense of mission, which ended in

mental derangements in early January 1889.

2. Illness and Disease in the 19 Century Fiction

of Balzac, Flaubert and Zola

VANDAMME, Sofie & ODERWALD, Arko

(MedGG. 24/2005)

The authors have studied three well-known

French writers of the 19

Century. The name of

Gustav FLAUBERT, Honore de BALZAC and

Emile ZOLA are familiar to all those fairly well

read.

The 19 century is considered as the 'Golden

Century' in Medicine as well as in Literature. It

was a fruitful period in the development of

scientific Medicine, and at the same time

romanticism and realism were upcoming

movements in mainstream literature. These

medical and literary developments led to the

founding of a new kind of literary tradition:

Medical Realism. France was a forerunner in the

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development of this genre, known for its abundant

descriptions of disease and Medicine. Well-known

examples are "Louis Lambert" by Honore de

BALZAC, "Madame Bovary" by Gustav

FLAUBERT and "Therese Raquin" by Emile

ZOLA.

The depiction of the psychic disease in these

novels reflects the development of Medical Science

of the period.

BALZAC's style is filled with and at the same

time refers to existing medical authorities; while

FLAUBERT's description of diseases in "Madame

Bovary" are notorious because of accurate and

medically correct representation based on medical

sources. ZOLA's description of disease in

"Therese Raquin" is said to be the first novel

fictionalizing a medical case. The plot of the story

illustrates how the biological constitution and the

social circumstances of this young woman

determine her state of mind.

The theme of this study is the interaction

between Medicine and Literature.

[In so far as Homoeopathy is concerned, it is

seen that HAHNEMANN was in Paris during the

period of Gustav FLAUBERT and his novel

"Madame Bovary". In an interesting article in The

Homoeopath, Vol. 10, No. 1/1990, Dr. Hela

MICHOT-DIETRICH's study reveals that

FLAUBERT ridiculed Homoeopathy, through the

character Pharmacist Homais.

In another study "Homoeopathy in 19

Century American Novels" (The Homoeopath,

Vol. 8, No.1/1988) Dr. Hela MICHOT-DIETRICH

writes of the positive writings on Homoeopathy in

the American Novels.

Both these studies are very interesting. =KSS]

3. Das Diphtherie-Serum und der Fall Langerhans

(The Anti-Diphtheria Serum and the Case of

Langerhans)

HUNTELMANN, Axel C. (MedGG. 24/2005)

An 18-month-old boy called Ernst

LANGERHANS died shortly after being infected

with a prophylactic dose of an anti-diphtheria

serum in April 1896. The father, a well-known

Pathologist in Berlin, claimed, in the obituary

notice, that his son had been poisoned by

BEHRING's anti-diphtheria serum. This paper

describes the tragic events of Spring 1896; the

death of Ernst LANGERHANS, the official

investigations that followed as well as the reactions

in the daily newspapers and the medical journals.

The death of Ernst LANGERHANS afforded the

opponents of the new Serotherapy an opportunity to

call into question the whole immunological

concept. Supporters of the Serotherapy, in turn,

defended it against these attacks. The spectacular

nature of Ernst LANGERHAN's death combined

with the fact that he came from a prominent family

of physicians made the event a public scandal. The

tuberculinic affair, which had happened only a few

years earlier was another reason for the public

concern. Finally, the "LANGERHANS Case" was

a scandal because of the way in which Robert

LANGERHANS published the death notice also

causing resentment within the scientific

community. Indeed, the publication of the

accusation was one of the reasons why the

"LANGERHANS case" failed to provoke a crisis

with respect to the new therapy, as the central

argument was displaced onto wider ethical

questions. Furthermore the medical administration

had learned from the tuberculinic affair, and had

subsequently implemented a large confidence-

inspiring system of quality control. The "official"

cause of death, following the investigations into the

case, was proclaimed to be an accident; a tragic

piece of bad luck.

4. Homoopathie und beweisgestiitzte Medizin

(Homoeopathy & Evidence Supported

Medicine)

GEBHARDT, Kart Heinz (AHZ. 250, 4/2006)

The history of development of the so-called

evidence-based medicine in comparison with the

medicine of practical experience is described.

Upto the beginning of the 20

century, the

physicians were able to judge the action of

remedies prescribed by them. By careful

observation and growing experience as well as by

different kinds of treatment the family physicians

and clinicians an evaluation of the treatment was

possible. As medicine increasingly became

'scientific' and experiences were not measurable

objective measures were sought forjudging remedy

actions.

As much individual a therapy is so much

difficult it becomes to make a homogenous group

study under controlled condition.

Nevertheless in KLEIJNEN, et al and LINDE

et al researches reported in the BMJ (302: 316-323)

and Lancet 1997 (350:834-43) their surprise at the

amount of positive evidence. ... and would be

ready to accept the Homoeopathy can be

efficacious, if only the mechanism of action were

more plausible." Such an observation exposes the

whole problem of Paradigm disputes as referred by

Thomas KUHN, about Homoeopathy.

The author outlines requirement of further

studies.

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5. My Tryst with Homoeopathy

GHOSH Kanjaksha (HH. 30, 7/2005)

The author is an allopath who applies

homoeopathic treatment to some of his cases. His

article reflect his allopathic training although his

father was a homoeopath.

[As is common with most of the allopaths and

the so-called "scientific community" he says,

"personally I think one of the major weakness of

homoeopaths is that they claim which no other

branches of medicine does." This accusation is

because the allopath is of the opinion that a

particular condition is incurable and when

Homoeopathy does it, it is snubbed. Allopathy

wants Homoeopathy to be subservient to it always.

It is also amusing - to me - when they refer to

Allopathy as 'modern medicine' whereas

Hahnemann and his followers called it 'Orthodox

medicine..'! = KSS].

6. Humanitarian and Super Sleuth

Interview with ROBINSON Karl,

W.MERRON Myrna (HT. 26, 3/2006)

Karl ROBINSON studied literature at Yale. In

1967, while being treated for a rapidly spreading

skin ulcer at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in

Gabon (Africa), he read some books by Dr.

Schweitzer's daughter and was inspired to pursue a

career in healing [This is the serendipitious turn in

Dr. ROBINSON'S life; he is blessed by Dr. Albert

SCHWEITZER = KSS]. Had medical degree from

Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia and

Homoeopathy course at NCH'S summer program.

Additional study at Royal London Homoeopathic

Hospital. The most important attribute of a

homoeopath is to be attentive to small details. His

current major project is bringing Homoeopathy to

Central America. He has developed a three-year

certification program in Honduras. Dr.

ROBINSON says "Homoeopathy is essentially a

thinking game". He compares the homoeopath's

search for the correct remedy with the thought

processes of Sherlock Holmes.

[For that matter Agatha CHRISTIE'S Hercule

POIRUT is equally so. Personally I recommend the

study of FYODOR DOSTOYVESKY for

understanding 'mind' and Sherlock HOLMES for

analysis and solution of the cases = KSS]

Case: In Dec. 1988, a long time patient usually

lively and full of enthusiasm consulted for

forgetfulness, lack of concentration, clumsiness,

dropping things, sluggishness on waking, puffy

face, grumpiness and being on edge. She sighed a

lot wanted to be left alone, desired carbonated

drinks. Energy low between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. She

felt emotionally empty and anxious. No recent

emotional or physical trauma.

So carbon monoxide poisoning was suspected

as the symptoms appeared at the same time she

started sleeping in living room and at the same time

that she had turned on the gas furnace. The gas

company found leaks in the house. After repair of

leaks she made a complete recovery and the

indicated homoeopathic remedy was never given.

7. A Model for Homoeopathy within Allopathic

Medicine and Conventional Science

DUPREE, Glen & BEAL Susan

(AJHM. 99, 2/2006)

By showing that the workings of Homoeopathy

can be explained by using explanations found in

conventional medicine, we should be able to show

the plausibility of Homoeopathy and increase its

acceptance by conventional science. In this article

the authors first equate the homoeopathic concept

of miasmatic disease with the conventional

understanding of parasitic infection; then the

displacement of the miasm with the similar

homoeopathic remedy is compared with the

conventional medical concept of competitive

binding.

8. Eight Great Shortcomings of an Average

Homoeopath

Dr. DUA Shiv (HH. 30, 5/2005)

First short coming of a homoeopath is lack of

practical experience.

Second short coming of an average homoeopath

is doubt about the application of right remedy.

Third a sort of unhealthy criticism.

Fourth taking many things granted in selection

of remedy.

Fifth partial knowledge about the trait of

medicines or forgetting the briefing while

prescribing to the patient.

Sixth repetition of a medicine without thinking

about the eventualities.

Seventh shortcoming is not teaching the patient

about healthy attitudes.

Eight shortcoming is we should not promise

our patient about their easy cure. If we do so, it will

be the prime shortcoming of a homoeopath.

9. Homceo Hospital in Doldrums

(Published 27 May 2005, The Telegraph,

Calcutta) (HH. 30, 7/2005)

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A Homoeopathy College with a Diploma

course was set up near the sprawling gymkhana

ground here in 1975. It was upgraded to Degree

level college. A hospital, the only one of its kind in

the northeast was added to it in 2002.

The project christened as J.K. SABIA

Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, was a

pet project of NE Council (NEC) which has

pumped crores of rupees to make it successful.

However, the lackadaisical attitude of the State

Government has forced the Central Council of

Homoeopathy to de-recognise the college two years

ago. After this no new students have been

admitted.

At present there are three batches of students

numbering 63. After these batches complete the

course, there will be no other option but the college

to close down. President of all Assam

Homoeopathy College Students' Union, HASSAN

Uz-zaman, said, "The shutdown of the college will

result in the death of the hospital, for which

equipment worth crores of rupees has already been

purchased. "Except the X-ray machine, almost all

the equipment for the 50 bed hospital has arrived,"

HASSAN said most equipment arrived 3 years ago,

rusting in godown.

The hospital has not started functioning as the

government has failed to fill up 20 vacant posts

required to run it. The government has not

allocated any funds to feed the patients likely to be

admitted into the hospital as well.

"Two nurses, out of the 10 required, and a

wardboy are getting salary for practically no work,"

HASSAN said.

"The Homoeopathy hospital would have been a

godsend for the poor patients who would just have

to pay Rs.5 for admission. Food and medicine

would have been given free of cost," B. PEGU,

assistant professor of the college, said.

10. What the Tongue Tells us

COOK Trevor (HH. 30, 9/2005)

This is a list of the 'Tongue Conditions' and

the remedies thereto. Recommended potency of the

remedy is also given. Useful for ready reference.

11. Battling Pericardial Effusion

CHIMTHANAWALA Adil

(CCR. 13, 2 & 3/2006)

32 year-old male, with Pulmonary

Tuberculosis, left Pleural Effusion with Pericardial

Effusion.

He was on anti-Koch's regimen and 2 weeks

after starting this he started getting eruptions on the

skin — erythematous, macular, itchy rashes, on both

the lower extremities and trunk. Steroids and anti-

histamines did not help. He was then admitted in a

super specially hospital and was diagnosed as

Tuberculous Peri-cardial Effusion and was put

again on anti-Koch. The patient approached the

author at this time.

Pallor was ++; Trachea to the left. Air entry;

absent in the infra-axillary region. Crepitations in

the left infra scapular region.

X-ray chest: PA:Left Pleural Effusion, with

mid zone consolidation, Cardiomegaly ++; Sinus

Tachycardia. Dilated left Ventricle with good

systolic function, Left Ventricular Ejection 72%.

13.10.2005: Pulsatilla Ql, tds one day omit anti

Tb drugs.

14.10.2005: Pulsatilla Q2 tds. one day.

Improving.

18.10.2005: Kali iodatum for 3 days, improving.

3.11.2005: Kali iodatum 200, 3 days for 1 day.

At this stage it was learnt that the patient's

younger brother separated after his marriage; the

patient had worked hard for years to take care of his

ailing father and bring up his younger brother. The

action of his younger brother hurt him much. He

felt that he would rather die rather than trouble

everyone.

Aurum metallicum M one dose.

12.1.2006: No major problems. No cough or

dyspnoea. Chest clear. Tuberculinum bovinum M.

one dose.

5.3.2006: Well. X-ray chest PA - No Pleural

Effusion. Echo: normal.

12. Patient compliance with homoeopathic therapy

ENDRIZZI, C. & ROSSI, E.

(HOMEOPATHY, 95, 4/2006)

The homoeopathic clinic of the Campo di Marte

Hospital, Lucca, Italy (the Homoeopathic Reference

Centre for Tuscany) registered a total of 1287

patients seen for the first time between September

1998 and 31 December 2004. Of these 560

(43.5%) returned for a follow-up visit after a

minimum interval of 2 months following the first

consultation. In order to ascertain the reasons for

patients not returning for follow-up consultations

(drop-out) a telephone survey was carried out on

every patient who had been seen during the period

from 1 June 2002 to 31 May 2003, but had not

returned for a follow-up visit.

73/104 eligible patients were contacted. 37/73

referred to the effectiveness of the treatment which

led to an improvement in their state of health,

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naming this as the reason why they did not return

for a follow-up visit.

13. The Food Similia - To eat or not to Eat

SHUKLA Chetna (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

The author has taken great pains to explain the

"understanding developed from observations made

through the integrated study into (see) "the

Organon, the food affinities from the Repertory

and the verification of the same in patients from my

practice. I saw a pattern emerging and beliefs

changing " This article covers 8 pages! It is

not only painstakingly written but is painful to the

reader. There is lot of imagination.

14. Laws of homoeopathy

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

Dr. SCHOLTEN says "Homoeopathy is the

Science of the patterns behind diseases and how

these patterns are translated into different world. In

Homoeopathy we have four principles or laws. It's

a matter of taste to call them rules, principles or

laws." These four Principles are:

1. Law of Similars

2. Diadoxis

3. Potency

4. Perfinity

These four are described.

In an 'Appendix' titled 'Diadoxis

Terminology', Fernand DEB ATS says that

alternation and succession of disease states are

described by means of several terms, e.g. syndrome

shift, morbid substitution. (See his article

'Syndrome shift, the morbid substitution as a

leading principle in Homoeopathy - HL. 1/1992).

Examples of Diadoxis are the alternation between

Asthma and Eczema. Depression making place for

Colitis, etc.

XI. BOOKS

1. Handbuch der Haupt-Anzeigen fur die

richtige Wahl der homoopathischen Arzneien

von G.H.G. Jahr (Handbook of leading

indications for the right selection of

homoeopathic remedies by G.H.G. JAHR),

Leipzig, 1851: republished Hamburg: von der

Lieth, 2005. C 85 (Germany) (NAH. 1, 1/2006):

Review by Christian MEINHARD: "This is a

reprint of an unchanged reprint of a classic

pertaining to the full bloom period of Homoeopathy,

a work mentioned even by Samuel HAHNEMANN

in the sixth edition of "Organon". "In arranging the

characteristic symptoms of homoeopathic medicines

in his Repertory, Baron von B(ENNINGHAUSEN

has earned our esteem, as has Dr. G.H.G. JAHR

with his Handbook of Chief Indications now in its

third printing under the title Grand Manual". No

work can get a better recommendation! An

essential work for Genuine Homoeopathy again

brought out, thankfully."

[The reviewer explains in detail the use of this

work of JAHR].

Handbuch ... Review by Klaus HOLZAPFEL

(ZKH. 50, 4/2006): "With this and the following

book reviewed are both very valuable and

important works of the early days of Homoeopathy

coming as reprints. This is a reprint of the 4

edition of JAHR's Handbook which is a very

important book of the until-then-proved medicines

... The book is in two parts - the first part is the

important characteristic symptoms and the second a

Repertory which appears in full in special rubrics to

enable select the remedy according to the

"characteristic". The price for this edition brought

out with love and care is more than justifiable."

2. Die homoopathische Behandlung von

Kindern mit ADS/AHS - Ein systematisches

Therapiekonzept (The Homoeopathic Treatment

of Children with ADS/ADHS - A Systematic

Therapy Concept) by Heiner FREI, Stuttgart,

Karl F. Haug, 2005. XIV 1845. 44 Abbildungen

und 29 Tabellen, gebunden. G 39.95 (German)

Review by Steffen RABE (NAH. 1, 1/2006): "...

the subject is a highly complicated one. The Swiss

Paediatrician provides lot of differential

information regarding symptoms, Pathophysiology,

Epidemiology and Treatment strategies by the

allopathic as well as complementary Medicines ...

gives differently working methods with case

examples and a very good ADS oriented Materia

Medica containing remedies relevant for the disease

picture ... There is also a brief ADS Repertory ...

In the last chapter the author proceeds further and

brings attention his own Study on the action of

homoeopathic medicines in ADHS. The wonderful

proofs of the effective action of the homoeopathic

remedy is well evident in these cases, the action of

genuine Homoeopathy in treating Chronic, highly

complex diseases and include the scientifically

constructive information from the Allopathic

studies ..."

3. Klinische Anweisungen zu homoopathischen

Behandlung der Krankheiten, G.H.G. JAHR,

Faksimilie Nachdruck der 3. Auflage 1867.

Hamburg: von der Lieth, o.J. 529 Seiten, Preis G

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70/- (Clinical Instructions for homoeopathic

treatment of Diseases), G. 70/- (German) Review

by Klaus HOLZAPFEL (ZKH. 50, 4/2006): "There

are three parts: one 20 page Introduction with

general instructions for application of

Homoeopathy, one very condensed and more

general contained Materia Medica part and the core

piece-the clinical instructions.

There is a special alphabetical presentation of

diagnosis and syndromes, a list of the remedies that

come into consideration and then in many, but not

in all, cases a comparative differentiation with the

help of several accompanying characteristics.

4. Homoopathie fiir groBe und kleine

Wiederkauer Gesunde Rinder, Schafe und

Ziegen (Homoeopathy for large and small

Ruminants. Healhty Cows, Sheep and Goats),

iibers und bearb. v. N. Heront, Stuttgart:

Sonntag: 2005: 143 Seiten, Preis 6 39. 95.

(German) Review by Rainer G. APPELL (AHZ.

251, 4/2006): "The common assessment that animal

is not just animal, but there are much more kinds

and races differentiating them with their weak

points and they exhibit specific diseases is the

justification for the growing diverse books in

Homoeopathy. So is this book on the large and

small ruminants, which is based on a large practice.

... The importance of exact observation is pointer

out which is valuable for those who are not

homoeopathic veterinarians. This is demonstrated

beautifully by four different disease pictures, which

are showing Arnica symptoms. ... Lastly, the

stress-free killing is not on the aspect of the

animal's agony in the least, but simply on the

quality of the flesh. ..."

5. Homoopathie in Metaphors und Analogies

(Homoeopathy in Metaphors and Analogies), C.

KURZ. Stuttgart, Haug Verlag; 2006: 181

Seiten, geb. Preis G. 29.95. (Germany) Review by

Gerhard BLEUL (AHZ. 251, 5/2006): "Succinct

Metaphors and detailed explanations for

homoeopathic methodologies are the components of

Homoeopathic Didactics blended nicely in this. The

Rose serves for the analysis and synthesis of

structure and form in the Anamnesis. The three-

peaked Iceberg symbolizes Polypharmacy in

apparent morbidity of an indivisible patient. The

cutting into pieces of an intact wire for removing a

curve indicates the consequence of destructive

medical intervention. Immunisations are compared

with ensuring an ultimately unsuccessful collapse,

the prescription of the Q potencies with the

piecemeal removal of a dike.

The author a learned Physicist and developed

homoeopath is very much within the large limits of

Science which involves collection of facts and

wholistic thinking.

The borrowing from other disciplines and

thought processes are convincing as also the analog

picture of Dynamics of the three Miasms (Psora,

Sycosis and Syphilis) with the three fires of the

Buddha "Deception, Greed and Hatred" ... Simple

and well written, decisions clarified this is a

textbook of another kind, not systematic ... could

lead to a deeper understanding of Homoeopathy."

6. 101 Krankengeschichten aus der Praxis fur

die Praxis (101 Case Histories from Practice for

Practice), HADULLA M.M., RICHTER O.,

FATTAHI N., Uelzen: Medizinisch Literarische

Verlagsgeselschaft; 2006: 322 Seiten, 79 farbige

Abdildungen, Leinen, Preis G 55/- (German)

Review by Kart Heinz GEBHARDT (AHZ. 251,

5/2006): "Well documented case histories are rare

in Homoeopathy. We have here such a collection of

wholly excellent quality. The individual case

histories are well arranged in spontaneous

narration, findings, hierarchisation and

repertorisation, Therapy, course and accompanying

annotations with reference to the Materia Medica or

with particular peculiarity. ... The beginner can

learn the methodology very well, also the

developed and even the well experienced Masters

can pick up "gold" and profit. Can be

recommended heartily."

7. Heilung Borrelliosekranker mit moopathie,

(Curing Lyme Disease with Homoeopathy),

GRIMMA : Edition Krannich; 2005: 159 Seiten,

Kart. Preis 24.50 6 (German) Review by Rainer

G. APPELL (AHZ. 251, 6/2006): "Borrellios is

caused by Tics and they belong to the Spirochaets,

like the Syphilis organism, and cause symptom

complex which in their varieties makes one think of

Syphilis. In the volume before us sound basis

about Borrellios is given and the clinical picture is

presented. ... The remedies like Aurum, Ledum,

Lycopodium and Thuja are detailed. Aurum

arsenicosum and its proving symptoms is presented

in a separate chapter. Vaccinations are skeptically

considered. ..."

8. Die milde Macht ist GroB. Aus dem Leben

und Werk des Homoopathen Constantin Hering

(The Mild Power is Great. From the Life and

Work of the homoeopath Constantin Hering).

Grimma: Edition Krannich; 2005, 311 Seiten,

geb. Preis 33.G. (German) Review by Rainer G.

APPELL (AHZ. 251, 6/2006): "Constantin

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HERJNG's life resembles a Romance. Thrilling,

many-layered, and facets-rich. It begins in Saxony

and takes him to Surinam and over to the United

States. ... He graduated in Wiirzburg, which to him

a confessed homoeopath, was not easy. One of his

teachers was Johann Lucas SCHOENLEIN who

was at that time Professor of Clinic and

Therapeutics. He turned to literary sphere,

exchanged correspondence with Jean Paul

RICHTER and HAHNEMANN, had offer of a

Private teacher in Russia. ... Many such episodes

have been banded down by Calvin KNERR son-in-

law of HERJNG. ... A book which gives joy and

which it is our wish that more must read."

9. Rund um die Homoopathie Praktische

Ratgeber fur Patienten in homoopathischen

Behandlung und bei Selbstbehandlung (Circular

on Homoeopathy. Practical Adviser for Patients

on homoeopathic Treatment and Self-treatment)

Uelzen: Mediznisch-Literarische Verlags-

geselschaft; 2004: 304 Seiten, kart. C 19.80

(German) Review by Rainer G. APPELL (AHZ.

251, 6/2006): "Homoeopathy is popular and also

apparently free from side effects, a wonderful

medicine for self-medication - there is no dearth of

diverse advisers. Why long Anamnesis with

repertorisation when it can be simple and easy?

The homoeopathic Physician Sonja REITZ has now

leaders for patients under homoeopathic treatment,

and also for those who choose to treat themselves.

She gives practical tips. ..."

10. "der kleine kwibus" 2007. Abreifikalendar

mit Lochung zum Aufhangen ("The small

kwibus" 2007. Tear-off Calendar with

Perforation to hang up), MICKLER T., REIS S.,

(Hrsg.): Miihlheiin an der Ruhr. Kwibus; 2006:

380 Blatter, C. 26.80 (German) Review by Rainer

G. APPELL (AHZ. 251, 6/2006): "The AHZ, the

journal with intelligent brains behind it as well as

such readers, reported in 1900 the factual

information of the unveiling of the Hahnemann-

memorial in Washington in which William

McKINLEY, President of the USA, of whom none

here knew, took part. This and such other

memorable events are recalled in the "der kleine

Kwibus", a calendar one leaflet for each day. ...

Anecdotes, worth-knowings, and caricatures are all

collected herein - names which are not well

remembered are also recalled. ... In all, a calendar

which will open up quickly a warm friendly

feelings and which can be happily gifted."

11. Homoopafhische Schlaganfalltherapie

(Homoeopathic Treatment of Cerebral Apolexy),

Michael TAUT, Johannes WILKENS, Stuttgart:

Hippokrates Verlag 2006; C 24.95 (German)

Review by Jorn DAHLER (AHZ. 251, 6/2006):

"The two authors Michael TAUT and Johannes

WILKENS present a good overview of

homoeopathic therapy of Apoplexy. Basis of the

presentation is many years' clinical experience in

geriatric clinics. ... After this the possibilities of

homoeopathic therapy is presented. These are

individualizing single medicine Homoeopathy

according to KENT and BOGER, reliable

indications with details of 17 frequently needed

medicines and also a complex medicine therapy

with anthroposophical medicines Naja comp in

combination with Tabacum, Arnica or Ledum each

according to the nature of the pathological

occurrence. This part is further detailed by an

extensive description of the snake venom according

to anthroposophical and homoeopathic news and

some more complementary medicinal therapeutic

methodologies. 24 case reports follow and

synopsis of Materia Medica of important remedies

form Acidum hydrocyanicum to Zincum

phosphoricum. At the end are the results a

retrospective Pilot Study in 172 patients for

evaluation of the suggested methods. ... The

convincing book is an instrument for Therapists in

Clinic and Practice ... of this difficult disease."

12. The Companion to Homoeopathy: The

Practitioner's Guide by Colin GRIFFITH.

Watkins publishing, London: 2005, 820 pages,

hardcover. $45, ISBN 1-842931-17-2. Reviewed

by Any L. LANSKY. (HT. 26, 1/2006)

"The companion to Homoeopathy is more like

an Encyclopaedia or compendium of essays. The

book is divided into three distinct parts. The first

sub-book is a general introduction to Homoeopathy.

"Griffith's opinions are often stated as facts,

without reference to the opinion of others on the

subject or to the historical development of ideas.

"The second sub-book entitled "Maintaining

Causes" is a series of fascinating essays about

things that could potentially interfere with

homoeopathic treatment.

"The third and longest sub-book focuses on

miasms. By this he illustrates his belief that

understanding and treating the miasmatic soil of

each patient is fundamental to the practice of

Homoeopathy.

"As a finale, he ties everything up beautifully

with a chapter on 'Karma'. Accumulation of events

in one's life or inherited from one's ancestors that

have left an imprint on the Vital Force. In the

miasms, we find a way of making sense of the

layers of karmic residue within us.

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13. The American Institute of Homoeopathy

Hand book for Parents: by Edward SHALTS,

M.D. Review by Kristy LAMPE (HT. 26, 2/2006):

"This guide is different from many other

introduction of Homoeopathy books in that the

writes from two perpectives; that of a father who

has had to convince family members that

Homoeopathy works, and that of a homoeopathic

doctor who knows it works Dr. SHALTS

demystifies the homoeopathic "Case taking

process" for children .... The Handbook is a

valuable resource ...."

XII. NEWS & NOTES

I. Every year some rich and powerful Nations

hold an "annual ritual" in which they "move

themselves to tears". "They will beat their breasts

and say many worthy and necessary things - about

climate change, Africa, poverty, trade - but one

word will not leave their lips, Power. Amid the

patrician Goodwill, there will be no acknowledge-

ment that the Power they wield over other nations

destroys everything they claim to stand for ..." The

G8 nations "give with one finger but they take with

both hands".

In the Philippines, only 16% of the children

between 4 -5 months age are breastfed. The rest on

'formula' food, which are sold by the powerful

nations to the poor! According to the WHO,

16,000 children of Philippines die as a result of

"inappropriate feeding practices".

Breast-feeding would drastically reduce the

incidence of Asthma, Allergies, Childhood

Cancers, Diabetes, Coeliac diseases, Crohn's,

Colitis, Poor Cognitive development, Obesity,

Cardiovascular disease, Ear infections and Poor

Dentition. The pharmaceutical Industry controlled

by the rich Nations are producers of drugs for these

diseases; they grow richer every year introducing

new new drugs for these. Breast Feeding could

prevent 13% of all childhood deaths.

The manufacturers of formula-substitutes-for-

breast-milk spend over $100 million a year on

advertising breast milk substitutes in the

Philippines. Sale of powdered milk is high, and

these are produced by the rich companies; in fact

they are rich by these practices. Formula

companies give gifts to health department, doctors

and workers; also attractive advertisements in the

T.V. The powerful manufacturers influence

everyone, the Executive, the Judiciary, and the

Politicians of course.

And the World Bank is controlled by the G8

Nations!

Free Trade, removal of barriers and, in flow all

the unwanted and unhealthy wares of the rich

Nations! The G8 leaders simultaneously wring

their hands and wash their hands! (From The

Hindu, Chennai, June 6, 2007)

II. Sleep deprivation causes faster heartbeat

and significantly less heart rate variability

following the nights of sleep deprivation. The

effect of sleep deficit was to increase the stress on

the hearts. Shift workers are at higher risk for

Cardiovascular disease. (The Hindu, Chennai,

June 14, 2007).

III. Breast feeding mothers who get to laugh may

help babies fight skin allergies, atopic Eczema

according to a study reported in the New Scientist

"Laughter — the best Medicine". (The Hindu,

Chennai, June 14, 2007).

IV. Source of Sulphur leaf yield in Tobacco.

K.DEO, Singer. (S & C, 70, 1-2/2004).

Sulphur has been recognized as fourth major

essential nutrient for the growth and development

of all plants. It is necessary for chlorophyll

formation, synthesis of oil, enzymes and vitamins

and adds to the nutritive value of forage and fodder

crops. It also promotes nodulation in legumes,

which enhances biological Nitrogen fixation.

Sulphur plays an important role both in vegetative

growth and reproductive development of plants.

Sulphur content in plants is generally as much

as phosphorus and one tenth of nitrogen. Due to

continuous application of high analysis and

comparatively low cost fertilizers like Urea, Di-

ammonium phosphate (DAP) and Muriate of

potash, deficiency symptom of sulphur are being

observed in different crops including Tobacco.

Sulphur deficiency symptom in plants resembles in

many ways to those of Nitrogen i.e. appearance of

pale yellow or light greenish leaves which become

necrotic with time. Sulphur deficient plant remains

small, spindly with short and tender stalk.

(Extract).

V. High Alpha Radioactivity in arsenic

contaminated drinking water - a preliminary

report. Dipak GHOSH, Argha DEB & Kanchan

Kumar PATRA. (S & C. 70, 3 & 4/2004)

From time immemorial society has flourished

in the back-ground radioactivity and man has

survived to live recent reporting of large random

concentration in drinking water in different places.

Another serious problem has cropped up in recent

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time - Enormous Arsenic contamination in ground

water of different parts of West Bengal and

adjacent Bangladesh. Generally this ground water is

used as the primary source of drinking water in

rural and semi-rural areas and thus may lead to

severe health hazards. Murshidabad with a

population of about 30 million (44.40% of West

Bengal) where Arsenic contamination is above the

maximum permissible limit (0.05mg/l) in ground

water. About 8 million people of these areas are

drinking Arsenic contaminated water and 1.75

million are suffering from different diseases. Even

casualties have been reported: The health problem

which occur in these areas are not due to effect of

Arsenic only but also on account of excess presence

of radioactivity in the drinking water. As we all

know Radon (Rn

222

) in water leads to internal

radiation and may be more harmful than Radon in

air, especially because it may lead to carcinogenic

effects.

This paper presents the first-ever reporting of

the measurements of Alpha activity in drinking

water of West Bengal where Arsenic contamination

is severe and we find positive evidence of presence

of high Alpha activity.

The present analysis indicates that the severe

Arsenic contaminated drinking water of South 24

parganas is highly Alpha active and one can suspect

that occurring health hazards in the area may be

investigated also be due continuous exposure

levels, both internal and external. This is a

preliminary report, further work is in progress,

VI. The Practice of Classical Homoeopathy has

been said to be always time-consuming and it is

often said that homoeopathic practice must be small

to enable a good Homoeopathy. As a matter of fact

there are cases, which are difficult and need much

time to treat them suitably, but not all cases are

difficult and it mostly lies upon us to extoll specific

case techniques as "lessening" the work, which are

far from HAHNEMANN'S methods, and thereby

too much time is taken by us as well as by the

patients. At all times good homoeopaths have had

very large practice and also have had excellent

results. However, it is not to be denied that from

the beginning there have been attempts to find

quicker ways to find the Similie and of all that the

repertorisation has been the most successful. The

"Polarity and Repertory specific Questionnaire"

explained by Dr. Heiner FREI et al in this issue of

ZKH. appears to be one such facility to find the

Similie easily. Another method is explained by Dr.

Ramanlal PATEL, which involves the basic main

features of Genuine Homoeopathy laid down by

HAHNEMANN (Editorial ZKH. 50, 3/2006) [It

has been said that H.C.ALLEN had a large practice,

50 to 60 patients; that Ad. LIPPE too had a large

number of patients, many more like that. We can

mention more names. If they had adopted the long

narratives in the modern homoeopathic journals like

the Horn. Links they could hardly have treated 10

patients! Homoeopathy has been made un-

necessarily difficult to practice with the adoption of

'themes', wandering through the labyrinth of the

dreams, etc. = KSS]

VII. If we compare the current procedure of

Case recording with those of HAHNEMANN

and BCENNINGHAUSEN, it is striking that now

the Anamnesis reports are much detailed. If few

lines were sufficient for the old masters now ours

consume several pages. And the working out the

remedy is also today extensive. Neither

HAHNEMANN nor BCENNINGHAUSEN thought

that their journals would be available for analysis.

Unlike BCENNINGHAUSEN, HAHNEMANN

provided notes so that we can follow his method of

remedy choice. For example take his Case Register

DF5 for the period 1837-1842. Here

HAHNEMANN noted the remedies for the single

symptoms. Often this is an alphabetical two rows

of remedy abbreviations chosen which mostly is a

series of remedies of first rank from

BCENNINGHAUSEN's Systematic Alphabetic

Repertory; often the rows are interchanged and only

the higher grade remedies are taken note of. This

utilization of two repertories of

BCENNINGHAUSEN which had appeared only

about two years ago is surprising not only because

HAHNEMANN himself had worked with this

repertory with the idea of preparing his own

"Symptomen Verzeichnis" ("Symptoms Index") ...

The overstepping of the Miasm therapy,

particularly the many-headed growth of the so-

called Sycosis which together with the invention of

Remedy types and Essences the further horizon of

Homoeopathy to an easily applicable duality of

black and white, good and bad, of clean and soiled,

has shrunk, to an enrichment of homoeopathic

practice may likewise be subject to experience.

(ZKH. 50, 4/2006)

VIII. For Transparency in Clinical Trials

(The Hindu, Chennai, 3 Aug. 2007) To make

human clinical trials more transparent and

accountable, Indian Council of Medical Research

has launched an online, open access registry.

The British Medical Journal has commented:

"By suppressing negative findings and exaggerating

positive ones, by downplaying harms and talking

up benefits, health-care decisions are based on

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incomplete data and ultimately harm the

patients..."

Only two years ago International Committee of

Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) made clinical

trial registration mandatory for results to be

considered for publication in the journals. This

policy has in effect forced the Industry to become

transparent.

If successful, this will go far in furbishing the

image of clinical trials. [That the Pharmaceutical

Industry will do this is only a dream = KSS]

IX. International Meeting at Coethen (ICE) 6:

25-27 May 2006: Everyday Homoeopathy in

Clinic. Report by Gerhard BLEUEL (AHZ. 251,

6/2006: 299-302) Eight medical practitioners

spoke of their experiences with homoeopathic

practice in Clinic, six younger physicians spoke of

their experience, possibilities, limits and chances in

Homoeopathy and dialogue with allopathic

Medicine. An important aspect of the speakers was

the role of the guidelines in Allopathic Medicine

and Homoeopathy which activated both

controversial and fruitful discussions in the Plenum.

Dr. Bettina BALTACIS opened the Congress

with an impressive talk on the insertion of

Homoeopathy in the Intensive Therapy of

Newborns. She pointed out examples of cases'

amazing success of results of single doses (like

Opium, Aconitum, Phosphorus but also the

followup therapy over weeks (for example in an

early-born with Pneumonia, Convulsions and Sleep

disturbances with the administration of doses of

Aeon., Phos., Mag-p., and Sulphur) and the

inadequate action in continuous disease causes

(infective Vein Catheter).

Dr. Wolfgang STORM (Children Clinic of the

St. Vincent Hospital) spoke of his own son with

Down-Syndrome. He came from Allopathy to

Homoeopathy. Since 20 years he was the

Superintendent of the Out-patient treatment for

children with Down Syndrome. Every second child

was treated exclusively with or accompanied by

Homoeopathy. The experiences included Anorexia

nervosa, Guillain-Barre-Syndrom, Idiopathic

Thrombocytopaenia, Pertussis, Infants, Paralytic

ileus, Purpura Schonlein-Henoch, Pneumonia,

Brain oedema.

Dr. Michaela ZORZI managing since 10 years

an Obstetric-Gynaecological Hospital in Wien-

Hietzing. In 2005 he treated 105 patients, 52 of

them gynaecologically. Among his presentation: a

case of Emesis gravidorum was very rapidly

relieved by Petroleum 30, a Migraine in a pregnant

woman who fitted well in Lac defloratum, a woman

who had pre-term pains was treated well with

Kalium muriaticum and a model case Nux vomica

in a pelvic problem.

Since 1997 Dr.Enfried PRICHLER has been

treating children with Cancer homceopathically

with LM potencies in the beginning and then with

C potencies. Supporting materials were Selenium,

Carotenes, Misletoe and others. The first chosen

medicine alone is not sufficient always; for the

adverse effects of Chemotherapy, appropriate

medicines were given, e.g. Okoubaka for

chronicity, Nux vomica for sensitivity to different

irritants, Chininum arsenicum in Leucothrombocyto

paenia, Ipecacuanha in complaints of digestive

tracts and the air passages if other symptoms agree

with the remedies. A case of Hodgkins disease was

illustrated to explain the above: Natrum

phosphorica was the first choice, followed by Nai-

rn., Cean., Phos., C 200, again Nat-p. C 1000, later

Pic-ac. C12.

The theme of Dr.Jeus WURSTER was the

homoeopathic treatment of Cancer in the Clinic, the

strategies in Tumor pains, Chemotherapy and

Irradiation consequences. Main remedies for the

adverse effects of radiation are Phosphorus,

Radium bromatum and X-ray. For treatment

accompanying Chemotherapy: Ars., Nux v., Cadm-

s.,. Phos., Okou., Sulph., Tab., and Ip. For selecting

a remedy for the pains of Cancer, it is not the

totality which is decisive but the predominant

symptoms. As an example a patient of Ca.

Oesophagus; with Nux vomica he could keep off

Morphine completely, under Phosphorus the

stomach pains could be got over and remain free

from metastasisation. Mainly Q potencies and after

stabilizing, C potencies in single potencies.

Dr. Arthur WOLFEL spoke of the possibilities

and limits of homoeopathic therapy in a potential

field between other clinical methods which one

rejected and so-called 'half-Homoeopathy'.

Important is a concept of simultaneous treatment.

The methods discussed were: "Symptom-

falsification", blocade, suppression. The treatment

strategies are:

1. Homoeopathic single remedy, 2. Continuing

dose reduction of the allopathic medicine, 3. The

threshold of the dose is known by the disease

activity, 4. To wait to decide, give the medicine

oftener, to alter the potency or remedy. A case of a

Urticaria depicted clearly the significance of

homoeopathic Anamnesis.

Dr. Michael TEUT reported his singular

profession in a geriatric section of Miners Hospital

where internistic and homoeopathic were combined.

Only low or middle potencies (D6, D12, C30, Q)

were applied. 46% of all patients were

homceopathically treated; difficult cases which

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failed other therapies. In 2007 prescriptions 82

different remedies were used. Most frequent

remedy: Tabacum (arteriosclerotic changes in

smokers) Stage 2: P/z-ac.(weakness, apathetic

geriatric patients), further on Zinc-val., Sulph.,

Vise, Con., Lack., Arn., Ars., Naja comp. The Kent

Repertory is too time consuming. Therefore

General Analysis and Synoptic Key of BOGER

and the Repertory of PHATAK were used. The

hierarchisation was according to BOGER. The

cases presented were very impressive.

Dr. Andre THURNEYSEN spoke of his 10

years experience as University Consultant. In 10

years there were 290 consultations, from these 135

prescriptions, 88 from the practice, 11 reference to

Homoeopathy.

Dr. Ulf RIKER put the question: "When

Homoeopathy? When Allopathy". Treatment after

careful diagnosis. If we make an allopathic

diagnosis then we discuss the therapeutic method.

If allopathic treatment is not to be done and we are

unable to find a similie then the patient is without

helpful treatment. Diseases with high level of

complications potential (Hypertension, Bronchial

Asthma) must be taken care of carefully. The case

of a woman was illustrative. According to her

symptom similarity, Lycopodium 200, 1000 and

10,000 was given and her complaints went away

completely. The diagnosis then said: Exulzeriertes

signet ring Ca. No metastasis. After an operation

she is well until now (10 years later), fully free

from the disease. Lesson: "Sometimes we have to

refer the patient for an allopathic diagnosis."

Prof. Markus HERRMANN spoke about the

key words in general medicine for example

"cough". A key word is an entry corridor a

systematically developed introduction for necessary

measures for patient care, demarcation of check

lists for rules for guidance. In peculiar cases we

may not use the Keyword. The key words are not

diagnosis oriented, they are simply for example, not

urinary tract infections but burning during

urination.

The theme of Dr. Anne KOLER-WILMKING

was "Cough in Paediatrics". His cases included

Influenza, Pneumonias, Asthma bronchial, Croup.

FABIAN who was treated since his birth,

developed at 7 year age non-stop irritating cough

for which he received Kali-c. 200 because he when

asked about his favourite sport answered "of course

work comes first, and then comes sport".

JOHANNES during his Pneumonia will not be

alone, was with his mother in the kitchen and

wanted to be caressed constantly, and flapping of

the wings of the nose; he was cured within 4 days

with Phos XM. A 10 year-old girl with severe

cough received Calc. for her severe cough but

without result, Tub. and Bac. also similarly; when 3

year-old she was always talking with imaginary

friends whom she sought for protection and

telephoned to them. She received 4 x Humarus

gammarus. ELISABETH, 12 years received

several remedies for Asthma and Neurodermatitis;

Nat-m., Tub. and many others. Three years ago she

had severe Asthma attack after her classmates again

made her feel that she was fat. Aqua marina helped

her.

Dr. Jean-Francis CHENOT spoke on the

lumbar pain and held a brief workshop. The ideas

of the participants regarding the procedure went too

far wide and disparate according to their our

individual knowledge and possibilities. Therefore a

guideline could not be drawn but a guideline as to

what should not be, was drawn out [Margaret

TAYLOR wrote an Essay 'How not to do it' =

KSS]. The aetiology is 98% vertebral.

Complicating factors are: significant neurological

issues. Age above 20 and below 50, poor general

state; known tumor disease inadequate traumas,

intravenous drug use, HIV infection, Steroid

medication or suspected Osteoporosis,

Inflammation, Rheumatic Disease. There is a great

tendency of spontaneous healing and therefore the

superfluity of the diagnosis. The natural element of

therapy is the physical activity. For Homoeopathy

only two studies were available, which were in the

National Library, from STAM et al and by

GMUNDER and KISSLING.

Dr. Karl Fnedrich SCHEIBLE spoke of the

"Tools of Quality maintenance in homoeopathic

treatment, hierarchisation and Case analysis

according to CANDEGABE and CARRARA."

The two authors order the symptoms in three

groups (mental, general, local) and their length of

time in historic intermedial (occurring in the last

one third of life time) and actual (new). Arranged

in a Table with the symptom groups in the left

(vertically) and the Timelength (horizontally), is an

"Energetic Hologram" with new fields. The

highest value and therewith the maximum

weightage contain the "historical" (long remaining)

symptoms; amongst them the mental are the most

important, followed by the general and then the

local symptoms, the intermedial and then the actual

symptoms are, in the same manner are arranged

according to their topical appearance.

Charaterological symptoms will not be represented,

but only in the second line. A case from Practice

(37 year-old Nurse with recurrent Tonsilitis and

Heart palpitations) was cured with Phosphrous, and

it showed the practical method.

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Dr.Anton ROHRER spoke on "Homoeopathic

Treatment of Lumbar pains" with examples from

his actual Practice. For method he recalled

BOENNINGHAUSEN, who in recurrent

symptoms, gave more weightage for the symptoms

between the attacks and the mental state, and also

on G.H.G. JAHR, who said "when the main

symptom is underterminate the best reference

points for the remedy choice may be almost mainly

on the so-called consensual appearance of the mind,

the respiration, the digestion and the nutrition or the

movement, and indeed so much more if they are far

from the actual seat of the disease and its direct

local signs"; KUNZLI called these valuable

symptoms as "far from the storm-centre". Higher

modalities are signs of first rank, what BOGER said

as Bird's-eye view. Three cases were presented to

show actually how these are worked.

X. Medicinal adverse effects lead to 250,000

hospital admissions per year in the United

Kingdom, HITCHEM, L. (BMJ 2006: 332 : 1109):

It is learnt that the use of homoeopathic medicines

leads to 250,000 hospital admissions per year. The

cry and vindictiveness of some of the evaluations of

the allopathic colleagues is not fantam. Attempts to

forbid speculation is useless. The count by the

British Medical Association is more than quarter

million hospital admissions per year. The resulting

cost estimate is 680 millions Euro. The situation is

Germany is not different. So no cause for worry.

(AHZ. 251,5/2006).

XI. Siesta harmful to health, WIELAND, L. (FAZ

07.6.2006) HAHNEMANN has clearly warned of

obstacles to cure of the chronically ill patients and

"long afternoon naps lying in bed" is one of them.

HAHNEMANN'S list is long (FN to § 260). This

wise knowledge had to wait until now for

'scientific' confirmation! Spanish physicians have

noted from a clinical study of more than 4,000

patients that a mid-day sleep of more than half an

hour lead to severe hypertension with its

consequences and even brain stroke or heart infarct.

While rest for less than 30 minutes refreshed, a

longer rest on the Sofa could be a sign that the

concerned person suffered from respiratory

disturbance in sleep. A brief Siesta suffices the

sleep deficit, but a longer rest cause life-threatening

detriments.

XII. Whooping cough in School children with

persisting cough, HARNDEN, A., GRANT, C,

HARRISON, T. et al (BMJ. 2006); 333: 174 - 177

(AHZ. 251, 5/2006): In 64 children out of 172 with

longer than 14 days cough serological finding of an

increased pertussis infection was recorded. 54 of

these had been fully immunized. Evidently

protection by basic immunization in infancy holds

only for a shorter time than thought of until now.

XIII. Recovery and false recovery

(PASCHERO ACTA 6, 1969): The clinical

experience with the biographical examination of all

and each of the sick persons establishes irrefutably

the conviction that physiopathological illnesses,

whether organic or local, appearing one after

another during the life of the sick, are metastasis or

substitutive vicarious manifestations of the game of

a psychoneurovegetative dynamic substratum

which rules the total function of the individual as a

person. This dynamic substratum constitutes the

idiosyncrasy, diathesis or determining miasma of

the development of the individual in his process of

maturation, rationalization or humanization and for

the same reason his psychobiological personality.

The vicissitudes of this evolutive process from the

instinctive automatic Will to the exercise of a free

and responsible Will, derive from the moral

conscience which constitutes essentially the human

being, bringing about the psychosomatic symptoms,

raised by the homoeopath to the rank of

characteristic and fundamental clinic values of the

frame.

The general symptoms and pathological

modalities make sense only when they are referred

to the total biopathological context or synthetic

vision of the patient. This pathological sense can

only be given by the symptoms of the mental

attitude: what the sick want, desire, long for, disturb

or vex in his animistic relation with the world,

always acting on the basic conflict of life and

fulfillment of Will, presented to him by the enigma

of his existence and the human condition of his

inborn vocation of transcendence.

The moral obligation imposed on the

homoeopath by the Hahnemannian legacy, is that of

searching and knowing what it is that he must heal

making a true anthropological medicine or

medicine of the human person.

XIV. Some letters to the Editor of Homoeopathic

Heritage (HH.30, 4-7/2005) report about Poly-

pharmacy Practice in Homoeopathy. It is also said

that this is not an exception but rather common

especially with the neophytes. And what kinds of

'poly pharmacy'! It is not just prescribing several

remedies - 2, 3, 4 or more - in one day; but taking

more than one remedy at a time; putting into one

vial 2 or more remedies and advising the patient to

take the doses from that; putting different remedies

in different potencies and even 'mother tinctures'

and take from this mixture - 3 or 4 or more doses

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per day. All sorts of permutations and

combinations, the limit of these cannot be said.

One correspondant takes this easy and condones it

because a young graduate lacking experience and

needing to stand on his own legs, has no other go!

All these are reflections of the very poor

teachings by our Institutions... A lamentable state

indeed. [What efforts should we take and how, to

remedy this disease caused this disease caused by

ignorance? What would the ill patients become if a

'doctor'; pleads ignorance and hence he may be

allowed to bungle! = KSS]

XV. In the July 2005 issue (HH, 30, 7/2005)

the "suffering Homceopths, Karnataka" - i.e.

Students of Homoeopathic Medical colleges in

Karnataka State, India, of the years, 2000, 2001,

2002, say that many of them are unable to procure

50% marks in both Theory and Practicals, - mostly

they do poorly in the Theory — and so they are

detained; this deprives them of six months of

precious student life. These students have not been

covered by the 'internal assessment system and/or

the 'carry over system. The state of these students

is pathetic. They have said that all their

representation to the concerned 'authorities' have

failed. [The Editor of HH has not commented on

this. Every one is indifferent! = KSS]

XVI. The Editor, Horn. Heritage writes of:

"Pneumonia in Homoeopathy followed by Clinical

Materia Medica of Pneumonias as seen my

Practice" (HH, 30, 5 - 8/2005): Pneumonia is the

leading cause of death due infectious diseases. In

2000 Pneumonia was the 8

leading cause of death

in America after Heart disease, Cancer, Iatrogenic

diseases, Strokes, Chronic lower respiratory tract

diseases, Accidents and Diabetes.

Comparative results of treatment of Pneumonia

by Allopathy and Homoeopathy in 1912 are given

which showed that Homoeopathy way ahead in the

successful treatment of Pneumonia. There are

records to prove the excellent treatment of

Pneumonia. There are records to prove the

excellent treatment of Homoeopathy. "In 1928

homopathic physicians reported a death rate of

2.8% among 11,526 patients with Pneumonia who

were treated with Homoeopathy. Dr.P.P.WELLS

commented that a death rate of even 2 or 3% is still

too high under "right" Homoeopathy and gives the

example of Dr. REIS who in his Practice between

1843 to 1848 in the hospital of Linz, Austria had a

mortality rate of 19%. As far as Dr.WELLS is

concerned there has not been even a single case of

mortality.!

The Editor, Dr. Farook MASTER writes of his

own experience. At the end he gives the Materia

Medica in respect of remedies most often required

in the treatment of Pneumonia homoepathically.

[The details provided by the Editor - there is much

more in the old journals - must be carefully read

and digested so that they will gain confidence and

avoid poly pharmacy and surreptitious practices. I

would even recommend that the teachers in the

Homoeopathic Medical Colleges read this one and

such other articles in the old Journals = K.S.S]

XVII. Avian Flu Conference. PUNZO, Molly

(HT. 26, 1/2006). In Nov. 2005, an international

medical congress was organised by Boiron at Paris

to discuss Homoeopathy and the Avian Flu. The

objective was to develop a strategic plan for a

worldwide homoeopathic response to this lurking

and potentially catastrophic threat. It was decided

to create a formal network communications

infrastructure to rapidly disseminate clinical and

homoeopathic information, about Avian Flu from all

over the world.

It was also determined that animal model

research should be done with the hopes of treating

infected bird populations and determining remedies

for prevention and treatment in humans. Boiron

announced donation of one million Euros toward

Avian Flu research.

XVIII. A brand new NCH educational

programme - First Response Homoeopathy:

Disasters, Epidemics and Emergencies is

planned in June 2006 at Philadelphia in

association with Drexel University's Goodwin

College of professional studies. (HT. 26, 1/2006)

The programme is for anyone who wants to

know more about Homoeopathy and its use in

emergency situations. CROCE, Ann Jerome.

XIX. Drug Ads: What we can do. SWOPE,

Harry. (HT. 26, 2/2006)

The major pharmaceutical companies now

spend far more on advertising than on basic

research. Two new books - Generation Rx by

Greg CRISTER and the Truth about the Drug

companies by Marcia ANGELL have revealed how

the flow of information about prescription drugs to

doctors and FDA is corrupted and how the industry

has used its economic and political power to

reshape the FDA to its benefit.

The ultimate challenge that now faces us is this

dis-information barrage of the big pharmaceutical

companies.

We must redouble our efforts to educate the

public about the benefits of Homoeopathy. Only

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certification in homoeopathic practice by a single

nationally recognized board will be the kind of

"Seal of approval" that will make Homoeopathy a

credible alternative to prescription drugs.

XX. World Homoeopathy Awareness Week -

April 24 - 30, 2006. TRAUB, Gabrielle.

Second Annual World Homoeopathy

Awareness week was celebrated by homoeopaths

and friends from 28 countries. (HT. 26, 2/2006)

XXI. The Henry N.WILLIAMS Professional

Service Award was presented to Harry SWOPE

and The Martha Oelman Community Service

Award was presented to Polly GIRVIN.

(HT. 26, 2/2006)

XXII. The art of medicine has gone wayside.

Third World Network Features. The Networks'

WATCH on Medicines, Vol.15, no.3 (May-June

2006). Dr.Ray STRAND. (NAMAH, 15,

3/2007).

Q: You are an MD, and yet you speak out quite

directly about the dangers of prescription drugs.

How does that happen?

A: What really got my attention was an article

written in The Journal of American Medical

Association back in 1998, in which they showed

that properly prescribed medication - prescribed

and taken properly - is the fourth leading cause of

death in the country. Then, when you add another

80,000 deaths due to improperly prescribed

medications that are not taken properly, this would

make prescribed medication the third leading cause

of death. So I think that was the purpose and

reason for writing the book Death by Prescription.

It's just to warn people that they don't need to take

so much medication. If you really need to take

medication, take it. But do not have blind faith in

the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), the

pharmaceutical industry, the doctor or the

pharmacist. You need to take some personal

responsibility to protect yourself and your loved

ones from an adverse drug reaction.

Q: In the world of modern medicine and all of

these pharmaceuticals, your voice is not exactly the

majority voice from, say, organized medicine. Do

you receive a lot of criticism for this?

A: Physicians find their comfort in writing

prescriptions. They understand their drugs, at least

most of them do, and that's what they are trained to

do. We are looking for disease and the treatments

that we know we can prescribe. But what has

happened is that the art of medicine has kind of

gone out the wayside, because we do not teach

them how they can best avoid high blood pressure

medication or cholesterol-lowering drugs or

diabetes medication, because number one, we don't

have time and number two, we don't believe the

changes they can make will be effective. It is partly

demanded by the people and the patients, but it is

also due to our training, and being inundated by the

pharmaceutical representatives that come into our

office promoting products.

Q: What sets you apart in your medical practice

from other doctors and how does that happen?

A: There are well-documented health benefits of

exercising and eating a healthy diet. If people

would just do that, then they wouldn't have to see

me that much. People need to know that Heart

disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Osteoporosis, and Stroke

- I mean the list goes on and on - are really closely

related and can be prevented by a healthier lifestyle.

So I have really changed my practice to be more

involved in wellness and health - a part of which is

teaching people healthy lifestyles. That's where I

have gone in the last ten years.

Q: One of the latest statin class of drugs is being

marketed as miracle drugs to treat practically

everything. What do you say about it?

A: Here is a very classic thing; they just lowered

the recommended level of LDL cholesterol, or the

bad cholesterol, to be below 70 in high-risk people.

Well, 1 have not seen less than 4 or 5 percent of my

patients have LDL cholesterol below 70. In other

words, almost everybody would then be on statin

drugs. This is a real shot in the arm for the

pharmaceutical industry, because they have got a

government agency - about nine leading people in

this industry - making these recommendations.

Well, then you find out that at least seven of these

nine physicians who were major key people on the

studies and recommending these changes were

receiving money and, for some of them, pretty good

stipends from the pharmaceutial industry.

XXIII. The Frogs go marching out; Habitat

loss, pollution and global warming are driving frogs

and other amphibians towards extinction. Frogs are

highly sensitive; not only Frogs, but Toads and

Salamanders also are so. Apart from the

degradation of the environment by man causing

vanishing several creature species, the Frogs are

also now afflicted by a Fungal disease,

Chytridomycosis. This Fungus has wiped out

native amphibians on a mass scale in Panama.

(The Hindu, Chennai, Oct. 22, 2007). [In his

Essay what are poisons? What are Medicines?

(1805) HAHNEMANN has cited a long list of

Man's stupidity and greed leading to environmental

degradation. In effect HAHNEMANN declares in

this Essay that a Wise Man knows how to live

happily with the help of all creatures. Those of

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us professing Homoeopathy should conscientiously

be out of this degradation club but instead maintain

all lives. = KSS.]

XXIV. From time to time comes out from the

"Scientific World" with the signature of eminent

Scientists including Nobel Laureates, some very

unscientific conclusions. (The Hindu, Chennai

Oct. 30, 2007). A scientist can well model his

scientific research to reach a preconceived result.

For example, the 'scientific' 'discoveries that 'race

matters for Intelligence'; that the dark skinned

people are less intelligent! Again 'Eugenis' is

raising its head. The Nobel Laureate James

WATSON is reported to have said that "black

people have lower level of intelligence than

whites"! [What is this intelligence? If the

discovery of the power of Atom is great

"intelligence" how would we rank the manufacture

and application of the Atom bombs? Is that an

"intelligent" race's action? Are Mahatma

GANDHI and Nelson MANDELA in any was less

"intelligent" than EINSTEIN and Niels BOGER?

Modern 'genetics' is flawed. Spencer WELLS in

his book - The Journey of Man, A genetic Odyssey,

Penguin. 2002 — has clearly come to the conclusion

that every man alive today is descended from the

African; that includes Prof. James WATSON! =

KSS].

XXV. In an article in the 'Supplement' to The

Hindu, Chennai, Oct. 28, 2007, Dr. Uma

Krishnamurthy writes about Breast Cancer; this

article gives some alarming "progresses" in the

field of diagnosis and treatment of Breast

Cancer. The learned author speaks of "the

dramatic and ongoing advances in the field of

Breast diseases". Of course there is more drama.

The "crunch" of the advances is "that the best

methods of diagnosis and treatment came at a cost

even diagnosis is an expensive business

Treatment is financially crippling Today we

have special drugs The cost of these injections

is approximately Rs. 1,00,000 per dose. These

drugs need to be given every three weeks for close

to an year. To meet the bills families have been

known to reduce themselves to penury. The

tragedy is that many do not servive". The question

raised at the ends "Whom does one blame for this

financial juggernaut?: The Government, the Private

Sector, or the Multi National Companies? Or the

patient asking to live in peace for a few more

years?" [ The physician has no blame? Does not

the physician cooperate with the multinational

pharmaceutical industry? Let the homoeopaths

wake up. Homoeopathic treatment would involve

the smallest fraction of the expenditure. There is

also better life quality. = KSS].

XXVI. A Promise of Health. Bringing

Homoeopathy to rural Yucatan GRANNELL,

William. (HT. 26, 2/2006)

For the past 4 years, a small U.S. charity, A

Promise of Health, has labored to bring

Homoeopathy to poor rural villages in Mexico's

Yucatan Peninsula. Today, Homoeopathy has

become the primary form of health care for the

people in these villages.

Dr. ROSADO studied medicine at the National

School of Medicine and Homoeopathy in Mexico

city. He now visits each village for an entire day in

a mobile clinic.

The village leaders are not only supportive,

contributing financially which they receive from

Mexico's State and Federal government.

One of their successful programs is cataract

surgery - in association with ophthalmic surgeons.

They are also calling upon medical specialists to

assist them with cases requiring surgery.

www.promiseofhealth.org.

XXVII. Intestinal superbug claims

more lives. Are antibiotics and heart burn drugs

to blame? Help your heartburn with

Homoeopathy. Amy E.LOCKWOOD (HT. 26,

2/2006)

Clostridium difficile (C-diff) is one of the most

common hospital acquired infection which cause

diarrhoea and colitis.

It's increased virulence is due to overuse of

antibiotics, use of new heartburn drugs, carriers of

C-diff. Who have no symptoms and inadequate

hygienic practices.

Bleach is an effective cleaning agent against C-

diff.

Indications for Antimonium crudum,

Arsenicum album, Bryonia, Carbo vegetabilis, Nux

vomica, Pulsatilla and Robinia are given.

XXVIII. Making Homoeopathic History. Jean

HOAGLAND (HT. 26, 3/2006)

The first Annual American Joint Homoeopathic

Conference was con vened on 7

April 2006. The

NCH assumed responsibility for this with the

support and encouragement of all the other groups

represented in the Homoeopathic Action Alliance

(HAA). This is a historic resurgence of

Homoeopathy in the United States.

XXIX. Your Emotions do impact Productivity.

SRIDHAR, Bindu (The Hindu 27, June, 2007)

Our individual traits, mood swings and positive

or negative emotions not only affect all aspects of

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our job performance (including decision making,

creativity, efficiency, teamwork and leadership

abilities), but also the behaviour and emotions of

those we interact with.

Emotions are short-term response to stimuli,

while moods linger over a relatively longer period

of time. Personality traits or disposition on the

other hand define a person's overall approach to

life.

Our overall mood is in effect defined by the

number of positive versus negative moments

experienced during the course of a day.

The impact of the ratio of positive to negative

interaction could be used to accurately predict

behaviour.

Negative thinking is oriented towards

achieving or averting immediate consequences,

rather than focusing on long term considerations.

Positive emotions, on the other hand, create a

more expansive and inclusive range of behaviours

with a win/win basis. Excessive expression of

emotion - positive or negative - can do more harm

than good.

XXX. Hahnemann Monument Restoration

Project: Tenth Report. Sept. 28, 2005. CHASE,

Sandra, M. (AJHM. 99, 1/2006).

The repair on the mosaic had ben completed.

Substantial portions of the Statue of Hahnemann

have been cleaned and waxed. The oak tree planted

to the right of the monument in 2004 had grown.

Due to painstaking research and the meticulous care

undertaken in the restoration of the Hahnemann

monument and its site, a date for the completion of

the work cannot yet be set.

XXXI. Two 'Letters to the Editor' (AJHM. 99,

1/2006) are with reference to the article of

Dr.Todd A.HOOVER LYME disease.

Evaluation and Treatment; in the AJHM, 98,

3/2005. One writer (Dr.Ellen FEINGOLD)

expresses his approval of Dr. HOOVER's

recommendation of using antibiotics for

'prevention' of Lyme Disease. He agrees with

Dr.HOOVER that antibiotics do not "suppress" [Do

they 'cure' then? = KSS]. He also agrees with Dr.

HOOVER that Homoeopathy and antibiotic work

well together for Lyme disease. The writer is in

complete agreement with Dr. HOOVER.

The other Dr.Ronald D.WHITMONT disagrees

totally with antibiotic use. He writes with detailed

references that antibiotics do suppress and that in

his experience with Homoeopathy there is great

success with treatment of Lyme Disease. [Lyme

Disease seems to be on 'Lime-light'. A recent

book "The Homoeopathic Treatment of Lyme

Disease", by Peter ALEX "with contributions from

Bill GRAY, Mathias RICHTER, Alize

TIMMERMAN, Fran VERMEULEN and others",

is the latest in this I met Peter ALEX (he is a

Veterinarian) at Torgau, Germany, where he is

involved - with several others - in restoring

Hahnemann's House (Hahnemann lived for six

years in Torgau) - and purchased it. A proving of

Aurum arsenicosum, considered as a major remedy

in Lyme Disease, is given in this book. Borrelia

nosode also come in well. The book contains 16

cases also. = KSS].

XXXII. The nexus between the Drug Industry

and the 'Doctor' has once again come up for

discussion.

In a Sub-Editorial in The Hindu, Chennai, 5

Nov. 2007, bemoans the nexus between doctors and

Pharmaceutical companies. Through "expensive

gifts, sponsored conferences, lavish holidays,

compromised medical education in the garb of

continuing medical education have all become

common. The malady has eroded the health care

system to such an extent that practices such as

unnecessary medication, prescribing expensive

medicines when cheaper equivalents are available,

and 'premature adoption of novel treatments', do

not keep the best interests of patients in mind."

Rewarding doctors for switching from one drug to

another was "the standard industry practice". It

appears that "Companies spend 19 billion each year

for establishing and maintaining the relationship"!

In another article by R. PRASAD ('Science &

Technology', The Hindu, Chennai, Nov. 8, 2007),

it is said that "Companies in the US that produce

drugs and medical devices with a turnover of more

than $100 million may soon be forced to reveal the

money that they give to doctors to influence their

prescribing patterns. The bribes by the

pharmaceucatical companies are both overt and

covert. According to an Editorial in the British

Medical Journal (April 2005) 'over half of all

postgraduate medical education in the U.K. is

funded by the pharmaceutical industry, ....the

industry spends about $ 13,000 a year per doctor on

marketing activities. In all they spend more than

$20 billion per year on marketing about 90 percent

of which goes to doctors." There is much more.

But enough. Everyone knows [There is nothing

new in this. That the Pharmaceutical Industry was

threatened with Hahnemann's small doses and

simple single remedies and hence they harassed

him in many ways is well known. The

homoeopathic Pharmacies are, in their own small

way trying to emulate this unethical practice with

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regard to their several compounds, is unfortunate.

Homoeopaths should beware = KSS].

XXXIII. Unsetting sign of the times. (HT. 11,

5/1991 P.8): "Pam CALLIGAN mailed us an

article from the American Medical News titled

"Sign of the Times." It said that Leyden County

Community Hospital in Northlake, IL sent a

"Holiday Surgery Scheduling Incentive Memo"

advising that any physician who performed major

surgery between certain dates would be entitled to

receive a "Promotional Incentive" - a fax machine

or a cellular telephone. Surgeries during the

incentive month rose 15% to 20%.

XXXIV. The NJH, 6, 1/2004 covers

Medorrhinum as the 'theme' of the issue. The

Editor, Dr. Vishpala PARTHASARATHY raises an

important question. Medorrhinum is from the

Gonococcal poison. Does the knee chest lying

position, agg. during day and amel. by night

indicate promiscuity? Could the spread of STDs

be due to the promiscuity? The progression of

disease seems to be from Gonorrhoea to Syphilis to

HIV-AIDS, each a worser killer than the previous

one.

XXXV. Conference Report: Improving the

success of Homoeopathy 5: A global perspective;

London, January 26-27, 2006, Royal London

Homoeopathic Hospital: Report by Dana

ULLMAN.

Since 1997 the Royal London Homoeopathic

Hospital has sponsored a conference on

homoeopathic research approximately every two

years. The 2006 Conference is the fifth in the

Series entitled "Improving the Success of

Homceopathy: A Global Perspective" Dr.Xiaorui

Zhang head of the Traditional Medicine department

at the World Head Organization sent a paper (as she

was to attend another WHO Meet). The WHO is

preparing a Special Report on Homceopathy which

is said to be "too positive" for Homceopathy and

therefore there was much 'attack' on the Report.

But WHO kept up.

- In Brazil, a double blind randomized and placebo

— controlled clinical trial was conducted on 52

subjects who were occupationally exposed to

Mercury. The treatment group was given

Mercurius 7c or 12c. Patients submitted their

blood, urine and hair for analysis prior to treatment

and at 30 and 60 days after treatment. The level of

Mercury reduction in the hair sample was

statistically significant. The treatment group

experienced a greater increase in Mercury excretion

through the urine.

A potentised homoeopathic remedy Arsenicum

album 30c was administered to a group of arsenic

exposed people in West Bengal and thereafter the

arsenic contents in their urine and blood were

periodically determined. The subjects experienced

higher excretion amounts of Arsenic. [Such

experiments - "Elimination kinetics" - have been

carried several years ago - may be 25-30 years.

Unfortunately documentation centrally is not there.

So we keep on repeating this experiments. To

satisfy whom? Even if we present a thousand cases

it will still be rejected = KSS].

A double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized

trial on 50 patients with Chronic Obstructive

Pulmonary Disease in which either Kali

bichromicum 30c or a placebo was prescribed for

tenacious tracheal discharge. This study found

highly significant effects in the treatment of these

seriously ill patients. This study is being replicated

in Israel.

Clinical outcome studies are conducted to

evaluate the results of the entire package of care

provided by homoeopaths. This better represents

the way that homoeopaths provide care and that

patients receive it.

An international primary care outcomes study

compared homoeopathic and conventional treatment

for acute respiratory and ear complaints. A total of

2055 patients recruited and 1200 were given

homoeopathic and 829 were given conventional

treatment. Children (under 18) who received a

homoeopathic treatment experienced 'complete

recovery' or 'major improvement' at a significantly

higher rate at 7 and 14 days.

A cost effectiveness and quality of life study

conducted in France compared the results of

treatment from homoeopathic general practitioners

with that of non-homceopathic GPs and

Paediatricians in the management of Recurrent

Acute Rhino-pharyngitis in children and Infantile

Bronchiolitis. The homoeopathic GPs produced

better results in medical effectiveness and quality of

life for equivalent costs reimbursed.

In Infantile Bronchiolitis, the homoeopathic GPs

obtained better results in medical effectiveness with

lower costs reimbursed.

Only 16% and 24% of infants treated by

homoeopathic GPs received antibiotics and cortico

steroids respectively. (HOMEOPATHY, 95,

3/2006)

XXXVI. Clinical cases following Sankaran's

method: Opuntia vulgaris. INGRID VAN DE

VEL (RBH. 2006, 2: 80 in HOMEOPATHY, 95,

4/2006)

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A woman suffering from Dyspareunia and a

man with headache. The theme was compression

and expansion and hope alternating with

hopelessness. This belongs to Ringworm Miasm

and Cactaceae family. Opuntia vulgaris is the

medicine. Materia Medica is described.

XXXVII. Elaps corallinus. MARCHAT

PHILIPPE (L'Homeopathie Europeenne 2006 in

HOMEOPATHY, 95, 4/2006)

Elaps patients dream of or fear of falling and

may desire solitude or fear being alone. Somatic

symptoms are blackness of discharges, green crusts

in nose, chronic Otorrhoea, worse on right side,

chilliness, marked craving for Salads, Oranges,

bananas, > by lying on abdomen, desquamating

eruptions on tip of fingers.

XXXVIII. Six feet under. LITTNER FRANCOIS

(Les Echos du Centre Liegeois d'Homeopathie

2006 in HOMEOPATHY, 95, 4/2006)

16 year-old boy wearing a 'six feet under' Tee

shirt and suffered from severe acne. Curvature of

spine, destructiveness, fear in crowd, aversion to

and aggravation by company, childish behaviour,

ejaculation failing during coitus, enjoyment absent

during coitus [16 year-old boy already complaining

of ejaculation failure etc.! = KSS].

XXXIX. Kreosotum. WOLFGANG EICHER et al

(CGH. 2/2006 in HOMEOPATHY, 95, 4/2006)

The main features of Kreosotum in children are

recalled: Difficult dentition with acrid diarrhoea

and excoriation between nates and thighs. Irritable

and won't sleep at night unless cuddled all the time.

Some clinical cases emphasize the main

symptoms of this medicine in adults: fear of coitus

and rape, weeping from music, corrosive and foul

discharges, early decay of teeth, menstrual pains

relieved by cold drinks, sensation of balls in soles

of feet in morning on waking.

XL. Obituary - KATHLEEN GORDON

PRIESTMAN (3 June 1911 - 26 May 2006)

Dr. PRIESTMAN, was a well-known general

practitioner in Hendon, North London. She studied

and practiced Homoeopathy becoming a fellow of

the Faculty of Homoeopathy in 1955. She worked

at Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital and

took charge of the Children's Department after Dr.

Donald FOUBISTER. She has lectured on

children's diseases by illustrating her discussion

with personal experiences.

She was president of Missionary school of

medicine between 1981 and 1991. She retired in

1980s. During her retirement Kathleen enjoyed

craftwork and reading [I have read several articles

of Dr. PRIESTMAN in the old BHJ and they have

helped me learn more particularly for daily practice.

Her passing away is a great loss indeed = KSS]. -

Anita E. DAVIES.

XLI. Editorial: (Farokh J. MASTER, HH., Vol.

30, 8/2005)

Acalypha indica: This remedy is used mostly

in Pulmonary Tuberculosis. 1 have been using in

case of Lung Cancer, especially when the

expectoration is bloody-bright red, and not very

profuse but in streaks; this comes, after a violent

cough which has two unique features; cough worse

at night and patient is extremely exhausted when he

wakes up in the morning; he gathers strength as the

day advances. Another characteristic feature of the

remedy is "hemorrhage from rectum" due to Piles

or Rectum Cancer. Important indication: blood is

bright red, profuse. Few doses of 6x is enough.

After reading ANSHUTZE's book Lactic acid

is good remedy for Tissue Rheumatism and Acute

Arthritic Rheumatism and shifting pains. The most

important joints affected are the elbows and knees,

the shoulder and the wrist. Motion in any form

aggravates Rheumatism. In the background you

will find Diabetes in such patients with profuse and

sour perspiration on hands and feet.

Lactic acid patients always have stomach

disorder. They love butter milk and sugar.

Aethiops antimonialis: An excellent remedy

for furuncles. Unique symptom is starts with

scratching later on turns big, red, painful and

pustular. Marked remedy for ecematization. Acts

on Tuberculosis or Syphilis. Eczema around anus

Chronic Otitis Media where discharge is offensive.

Pustular variety of Conjunctivitis.

Alpha alpha: Enlarged prostate. Control

excessive frequency of urination.

(The spelling found in ANSHUTZE Alpha alpha -

in BOERICKE and SCHROYENS is Alfa alfa).

XLH. [Several unauthenticated, arbitrary

entries have been made to the Repertories that

have come after the Kent Repertory. The

Repertories are becoming very obese. What are the

sources for these additions? How trustworthy are

these? No body questions. Some one publishes a

"Proving" containing pages of 'Mental' symptoms

and few under other heads. Few cases treated by

him/her with this new remedy are given. And then

the author gives "additions to the Repertory"!

What can one comment?! = KSS]. The

Homoeopathy First (HF. 2/2006) has made a

study of Silica in the Repertory. [Which Repertory

has not been mentioned. But well-known

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"modern" ones are the Synthesis and Complete

Repertory = KSS.]

Single symptom Rubrics have been taken up

for the study. The symptoms (Rubrics) are looked

for in the 'Source' Books. 'The conclusion' is:

1. Number of Rubrics (studied) under Silica: 99

2. Number of incorrect Rubrics: 39

3. Number of non-existent Rubrics: 30

4. Out of 99 dreams, 69 dreams are wrongly

entered in to the Repertory.

However, the authors of HF themselves have

given 16 "additions" from the Chronic Diseases

and Encyclopaedia. [Since about 15 years (if not

more) new 'Guru's have been appearing in the

homoeopathic world and teach their own

'discoveries'. The homoeopaths already

bewildered, lap up these eagerly. It was the

'Delusion' first, then the 'Themes', 'Periodic

Table', 'Signatures' (climbers, spinners are

spiders!), 'Kingdoms', 'Sensations', 'Facets', and

so on. Now the authors of HF are talking of

'Ripple Effect'; In respect of case Analysis Paul

HERSCU introduced his own method of 'Cycles

and Segments' and propagated it through his

journal - the New England Journal of Homoeopathy

which unfortunately folded with an incomplete Vol.

9 in 2001! Those amongst us who look about for

clear direction for improving ourselves are shown

different directions by different 'teachers'.

Hahnemann was called rigid, dogmatic, autocratic,

when he insisted on following him rightly. He

know that leniency would lead to chaos.

Homoeopathy seems to be too plastic, flexible,

pliable and formless that any one and/ or everyone

can mould it in his/her own ways according to the

'insight' ! What occult powers he/she has to

develop 'insight' of this individual. The saving

grace is that there are still some 'minority' who cry

out to the profession to 'hew to the line' and not be

carried away by fascinations = KSS.]

XLTII. In the HL. 17, 4/2004 there was 'review'

of Jeremy SHERR's 'Dynamic Provings Vol.2', by

Rene HUTLIER in which the reviewer has found

certain deficiencies. Reacting to this, a reader,

Steve WALDSTEIN, USA. Writes (HL. 18, 1 &

2/2005), that "actually it's a wonderful book. It

introduces seven new remedies and adds to our

knowledge of one more. I have already, in the

short time since it has been out, had six patients

who are doing well on three of these new remedies

" [This is not unusual. In Homoeopathy

Today (since nearly a decade) you present a new

remedy, with lot of data, 50% of it on 'mind', more

than 25% on 'dreams' and suggest at the same time

additions to rubrics (!!), and lo! Soon there are

reports - like Steve WALDSTEIN now saying that

already we had six patients who were doing well on

the new remedies - of the remedies great curative

effects. In a Seminar by one well-known

Homoeopathy 'Master' (there are quite a number of

them now who give seminars all over the World,

and the hungry world of Homoeopathy eagerly

swallow the presentation) presents 'Stramonium'

and it makes, a great impression; soon there are

several cases of Stramonium (or Staphysagria or

Carcinosin, etc.). Colleagues will recall that.

Carcinosin is not so often prescribed now (as

we see in the journals) as say, ten years ago. When

Dr.M.L.SEHGAL introduced Opium - Fear of

extravagance: Op. — for more than an year there

were case after case where in the Sehgal method

users applied this remedy, "successfully". Then

Dr.SEHGAL, gave 'Belladonna' and for the next

one year and more this remedy ruled with

unbounded sway the Sehgal School followers; it

was to the extent that one homooeopath who was

applying the Sehgal method swore that more than

80% of cases could be cured with either of these

remedies. I was stunned when she said so. Now

we do not see either of these remedies so often;

why? Are there no more "Fear, extravagance, of?

Today we read of homoeopaths who are able to do

good work with the 123 remedies in

Boenninghausen's Pocket Book. Personally, I

feel that if one masters the Materia Medica of well-

proved and well clinically confirmed homoeopathic

remedies, we can do well enough. I hasten to

assure that I am not against new provings they are

part of a homoeopath's job. What I would like to

say is that we should be careful that we are not

messing up. Already the Materia Medica is getting

unwielding and the repertory is so awesomely big.

Where are we heading? = KSS]

A Prover ('Prover 32') in the about mentioned

Proving of Jeremy SHERR has also responded to

Rene HULTIER's review. This response is a

"thought about Provings". The Prover 32 says "a

prover simply records the way in which a substance

temporarily colours and shifts our perceptions, so

that for a while we all resonate with the unfolding

narrative, out of our usual time and space. Ideally

the ego is suspended and the self moves out of the

way so a true unprejudiced observer may emerge.

.... The skill of the master prover is to take insights

from the collective experience to refine and

produce a coherent and useful resource ". [A

proving need not be associated with such

explanations as 'shifting of perceptions',

'Collective conciousness' etc. Proving, as cure, is

individual not collective. Substances produce in a

normally person alteration of feelings and functions

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and these are noted down iriTull detail; awaiting

verification in a case. That's all. HAHNEMANN

did not attempt 'explanations.' Also the Master

Prover is not to take 'insights' and 'refine' etc. He

should simply ensure that the Prover reported

exactly; the Master Prover has no business to add

'insights' or 'refine' them = KSS]

XLIV. New homoeopathic Provings and

Remedies: This is a 'regular'column in the HL

henceforth. (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005). "The ideal

medium to collect provings is a website", which is

run in two languages - German and English. New

Provings: Golden pyrite (Pyr-d.); Vitis vinifera, Viti

Vivifera (Website:

www.homeopathycumm.com/html/hm@

provings.html). Other full provings available are:

Loxarecles reclusa, Helodrilus caliginosus, Carbon

dioxide, Coriandrum sativum, Argentum

sulphuricum, Calypti anna, Musca

domentica,Hippocampus kuda.

XLV. Newly founded homoeopathic College in

former house of Hahnemann: reported by Peter

ALEX, Doughlas SMITH (HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005):

In Torgau, Saxony, a new homoeopathic

institute for training and research is to be

established in the very building that Hahnemann

occupied while writing his 'Organon of the Healing

Art,' among other works. Located on the River

Elbe, Torgau was the seat of the court of the Prince

Elector of Saxony, until the late 16

century.

Hahnemann himself lived here from 1805 to 1811.

Converging upon what was the cradle of their

discipline two centuries before, in August 2003

some twenty practitioners from all over Germany

joined forces to provide Homoeopathy with a fresh

impetus. Unfortunately, the heyday of

Homoeopathy in Saxony had been rather brief, a

decline setting in soon after some key founding

fathers departed for America. The community they

left behind never consolidated. While

Homoeopathy took root in many parts of the world,

it had little impact in Saxony, despite the dedicated

efforts of some enthusiasts. The many places

where Hahnemann and other famous homoeopaths

had lived and worked were either inaccessible (as

in the Communist period) or simply of no interest.

Through the discovery Hahnemann's house in

Torgau, on Pfarrstrasse 3, new light was shed on a

bit of homoeopathic history that had long been

concealed. No sooner was the house listed for

demolition in 1991 than rain entered via a leaky

roof, washing off layers of plaster to reveal some

wall paintings underneath. The resorers who

examined them shortly thereafter determined that

the paintings originated from the time when the

house was first built, in 1474, and that these in fact

constituted the oldest wall paintings ever found in

any house in Saxony. Built on the location of a

former nunnery, the original house had been deeded

to a nobleman by the Saxon Prince Elector.

Arriving in Torgau in early 1805, Hahnemann

and his family were quite well off due to an

inheritance from his mother-in-law. Thus, they

could afford this still rather large and splendid

'house with a doorway and a garden' (as

Hahnemann described it in a letter).

In the course of the present restoration, some

rooms will be given the original design and tone of

the renaissance, while others will be decorated in

the baroque style of Hahnemann's time.

Compared, for example, to Hahnemann's home in

Koethen, where only the outer walls remain, his

residence in Torgau retains many interior details

dating from his own period. They give us a lively

impression of how the residents lived two centuries

ago.

In order to oversee the restoration and

redecoration, a group of practicing homoeopaths

founded the Torgau International Homoeopathic

College Foundation as a non-profit organization.

Once the restoration is complete, our Foundation

will seek to maintain Hahnemann's residence as a

place for homoeopathic work and international

exchange. We are about to rent the house, which

still belongs to the municipality. Embarking on a

campaign to secure subsidies and raise funds, we

will rely entirely for assistance upon our

colleagues, the public, and local government. The

mayor of Torgau welcomes our project and has

found various ways to support it.

To read more on the subject, look for the

English translation of the booklet entitled 'Where

the Organon was Written' to be published in 2004.

To see www.hahnemann-targau.de

XLVI. The Second East-Western Homoeopathic

Conference - Institute for Systematic

Homoeopathy, Gottingen, Germany, July 3-6, 2003.

(HL. 18, 1 & 2/2005)

(Report by Mary GILLIES, UK): The main

speakers were all "very experienced in the use of

the new approach to case taking and analysis, as

developed by Dr. Raj an SANKARAN and his

colleagues in Bombay. It was inspiring to listen to

the different cases and to see on video how widely

applicable and reliable the new method proves to be

in practice, however varied the culture and context

of both patient and homoeopath. The cases

presented were "Cheetah's milk', 'Lillium

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tigrinum', 'Asarum europaeum', 'Aristolochia

clematis', 'Natrum sulphuricum' and 'Rabbit'.

[It is not possible for me to learn anything from

these cases. They are not the Homoeopathy which

has been founded by HAHNEMANN and taught

further by illustrious persons like

BOENNINGHAUSEN, HERING, DUNHAM,

WELLS, LIPPE & further in the lineage = KSS].

LIST OF JOURNALS

Full addresses of the Journals covered by this Quarterly

Homoeopathic Digest are given below:

1. ADVH: Advent of Homoeopathy, 37, South Anarkali Extn.,

Delhi-110 051.

2. AHZ: Allgemeine Homoopathische Zeitung, Karl F. Haug

Verlag, Hiithig GmbH, im Weiher 10, 69121,

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY.

3. AJHM: American Journal of Homoeopathic Medicine,

801 N.Fairfax Street, Suite 306, Alexandria, VA 22314,

USA.

4. CCR: Homoeopathic Clinical Case Recorder, Dr. Subhash

Meher, Near Hotel Chanakya, Anandrishiji Marg,

Burudgaon Road, AHMEDNAGAR-414001.

5. HF: Homoeopathy First, "Classical Homoeopathic research

Centre", E-4, Om Motinagar Society, Roshan Nagar Road,

Off Chandavarkar Road, Borivali (West), Mumbai - 400

092.

6. HH: Homoeopathic Heritage, B. Jain Publishers Overseas,

1920, Street No. 10, Chuna Mandi, Paharganj, Post Box

5775, New Delhi - 110 055.

7. HL: Homoeopathic Links, Homoeopathic Research &

Charities, F/s, Saraswat Colony, Linking Road, Santacruz

(W), MUMBAI - 400 054.

8. HOMEOPATHY: Formerly British Homeopathic Journal

(BHJ), Homeopathy, Faculty of Homeopathy, 29 Park

Street West, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU13BE, UK.

9. HT: Homeopathy Today, National Center for

Homeopathy, 801, North Fairfax Street, Suite 306,

ALEXANDRIA, VA. 22314, USA.

10. NAMAH: New Approches to Medicine and Health, Sri

Aurobindo Society, PONDICHERRY - 605 001.

11. NJH: National Journal of Homoeopathy, 71B Saraswati

Road, Near Gokul Icecream,, Santacruz (W), MUMBAI -

400 054.

12. S & C: Science and Culture, Indian Science News

Association, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road,

KOLKATA - 700 009.

13. ZKH: Zeitschrift ftir Klassische Homoopathie, Karl F.

Haug Verlag, Hiithig GmbH, Im Weiher 10, D-69121

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY.

THE FIVE ENERGIES

RETURNING TO THE ORIGIN

The five energies are the true energies of the

fundamental forces. When they are correctly

aligned they congeal into one.

When your body is not agitated, your

vitality is stable, and its energy returns to

the origin.

When your mind is not agitated, your

breath is stable and its energy returns to the

origin.

When your nature is always tranquil,

the higher soul is stored, and its energy

returns to the origin.

When emotions are forgotten, the

lower soul is subdued, and its energy

returns to the origin.

When the physical elements are in

harmony, the will is stable, and its energy

returns to the origin.

When these five forces are in their

proper place and at peace, they revert to

their reality, which is the source of

religion.

["Research of the Source, 'Teaching

of the Pure Clarity of the Spiritual Jewel of

the Exalted' in Vitality, Energy, Spirit - a

Taoist Source Book", Shambala, 1991]

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PART II

(This section contains abstracts/extracts from selected articles; even the entire article in some case)

1. Temperament and Behaviour Assessment of

Children in Classical Homoeopathy

NEUSTAEDTER, Randall (JAIH. 82, 2/1989)

It is often difficult to understand a child's

emotional case adequately. Homoeopaths resort to

keynote prescribing in children, because subtle

levels of emotional expression are difficult to

fathom. The homoeopath must usually rely on the

parents' report, which is not always accurate. A

structured approach to the child's case is essential,

and it is helpful if the homoeopath can utilize

several options for eliciting accurate data. Separate

parent and child interviews, parent questionnaires,

and self assessment questionnaires of older children

are tools that the homoeopath can use to bring out

the emotional case in order to determine accurate

rubrics and correct prescriptions.

Behaviour assessment:

In a child's emotional case, Homoeopathy

focuses primarily on behaviour. This is because, by

principle and definition, Homoeopathy is grounded

in symptom expression. The Materia Medica for

children is a database of observed symptoms.

Adults can describe their symptoms and feelings;

young children must be observed. Proving records

describe emotional behaviours and observed

feelings ("He was in a rage" or "involuntary

weeping"). Similarly, cured case reports describe

behaviours observed by the homoeopath or revealed

by the parents that have improved after a

prescription ("contrary" or "timidity"). Symptoms

of value to the homoeopath should be observable or

clearly stated by the child or parents. Prescriptions

are usually not based upon intuition, conjecture or

theoretical, psychological analysis. A homoeopath

may sometimes search for causes, such as grief, or

make assumptions about a child's fears based upon

observed behaviour (for example, clinging to a

parent at any separation).

A useful evaluative tool for the homoeopath

would facilitate and organize the clinical interview

rather than complicate it. Ideally it would provide

information about the child's behaviour. Obtaining

valid information about a child's emotional state

can be a perplexing task. The child's behaviour in

the office may not be consistent with her behaviour

in other, more familiar settings. Parent reports may

reflect their inadequacies, anxieties, or wishful

thinking, rather than the child's own nature. A

written parent questionnaire that asks about specific

behaviours is often helpful to obtain valid

information. Several pediatric screening

questionnaires have been developed to find children

with significant behaviour problems. Two

examples of these screening devices are the

Pediatric Symptom Checklist

and the Child

Behaviour Checklist (CBCL)

. These were

designed for Pediatricians and Pediatric

Psychologists to screen for those children in need

of further psychological evaluation and treatment.

They are not very specific.

Such a diagnostic and screening tool may

reveal specific behavioural and emotional problem

areas, but they have limitations for homoeopathic

practice. The primary limiting factor in

behavioural assessment questionnaires is their lack

of descriptive parameters. The purpose of these

tools is to suggest psycho-pathology and assist in

diagnosis. Homoeopaths are less interested in a

diagnosis than description for a very specific

reason. The decision to give a medicine is based

upon living images and subtleties of response.

Diagnostic testing devices are not capable of

eliciting the information necessary to differentiate

remedies, but they may help to lead interviews in

the right direction, especially with an

uncommunicative child or adolescent.

Temperament Assessment:

Another tool that proves even more useful in

homceopathic practice is the evaluation of

temperament. It is helpful for the classical

homoeopath to differentiate temperament attributes

from emotional pathology when considering a

constitutional medicine. If the homoeopath makes

an objective and disciplined assessment of

temperament, then the child's behaviour can be

placed in perspective. It will then be easier to

differentiate which behaviours arise from innate

tendencies (such as slow adaptability to new

situations), which behaviours are a product of

parents' inappropriate or insensitive management,

and which indicate psychological problems in the

child. This will establish clarity in the on-going

case and provide realistic expectations for progress.

The homoeopath will then be in better position to

make appropriate interventions. The remainder of

this article will present methods for evaluating

temperament and using this information for

homceopathic prescribing.

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Temperament is equivalent to behavioural

style, as opposed to behavioural content.

Temperament is defined as the way a child

expresses herself, or the how of behaviour

: This is

in contrast to motivations (the why of behaviour) or

abilities (the what of behaviour). The assessment

of motivations and developmental skills may also

have utility in homoeopathic prescribing, but a

discussion of their assessment is outside the scope

of this article. Temperament is central to the

child's homoeopathic constitutional case because

temperament descriptors embrace both the inherited

tendencies of the child's personality and the

dynamic responses of the child to her environment

The assessment of temperament has evolved

through the pioneering work of Alexander

THOMAS and Stella CHESS. These two

prodigious researchers and prolific authors have

conducted a thirty year study, begun in 1956, which

has evaluated temperament characteristics in a

group of 133 individuals from birth through early

adulthood, the New York Longitudinal Study

(NYLS)

. The initial purpose of this study was to

identify and describe the individual behavioural

differences in children. Through extensive parental

reports and child interviews they were able to

define nine categories of behaviour. Children can

be evaluated on scales within each of those

categories and an individual temperament profile

established. These temperament profiles have been

used for several purposes including advising

parents about behaviour management

, facilitating

various aspects of pediatric care

, and assisting in

psychological evaluation and treatment

Temperament can be assessed in three ways.

First, parental questionnaires have been developed

for children from four months of age through

twelve years old. Second, techniques for parental

interviews have been described

' '°. And third,

direct observation of the child has been used to

confirm the parental report. Questionnaires have

the advantage of allowing parents to consider their

answers at home in a non-stressful environment and

require little time on the homoeopath's part. They

are easily scored by an office staff person in

approximately fifteen minutes and they provide a

quantitative description of the child's temperament.

Parental behavioural reports have been shown to

correlate significantly with the child's behaviour

recorded in the home environment by independent

observers ' . Parental temperament ratings have

also demonstrated significant validity when

compared to brief professional ratings

and with

standardized behavioural assessment techniques

On the other hand, one should keep in mind that

parent-generated ratings of temperament are more

consistent with observed parent-child interactions

than with the child's free play or peer play

. From

a homoeopath's view this distinction may not be

especially significant unless there are reasons to

think that the parents are themselves stimulating

certain types of behaviours in the child.

It is usually possible to assess temperament

during the parent interview, but this is more time-

consuming and impractical in a pediatric setting

than a review and confirmation of the questionnaire

at the second visit with the parent(s). In addition,

parent ratings (derived from scored questionnaires)

are sometimes at variance with the parent's own

perceptions of temperament. This may be because

of parent's natural desire to think well of their

children

The nine temperament categories of THOMAS

and CHESS are outlined in Table 1. These

categories were derived from parents' descriptions

of their children. They, therefore, reflect the same

data that arise during the homoeopathic interview

with the parents, but in an organized form.

Although the methods and conclusions of

THOMAS and CHESS have been criticized at

times, from a homoeopathic perspective this method

of retrieving information from parents about

children can be time-saving and enlightening.

Criticisms have focussed on the accuracy of these

parental perceptions and reports. The temperament

categories focus on those aspects of the child's

behaviour that disturb parents. They may not

actually characterize the child as much as the

parents' complaints about the child

. The

homoeopath relies on parental reports. In fact, most

prescribing is based on those behaviors that parents

find difficult to handle. At the same time the

homoeopath should develop the ability to perceive

the accuracy of parental reports through his own

observation of the child. A formal assessment of

temperament can facilitate this process.

TABLE I

TEMPERAMENT CATEGORIES

1. Activity Level. Motor component of a child's

functioning which includes motility during play,

eating, handling, crawling, walking, running, etc.

2. Rhythmicity (Regularity). The predictability

or unpredictability of any function, such as sleep,

hunger, feeding and elimination.

3. Approach or Withdrawal. A child's initial

response to a new stimulus or situation.

Withdrawal is usually assumed to be a negative

response such as grimacing, fussing, moving away,

or hiding when confronted with a new situation.

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4. Adaptability. Ability to adjust after an initial

response. How easily can the initial reaction be

modified in a desired direction.

5. Intensity. The energy level of response.

6. Mood. Positive, pleasant, friendly behaviour

and responses contrasted with negative, unpleasant,

unfriendly behaviour.

7. Persistence and Attention Span. Ability or

desire to continue an activity or behaviour in the

face of obstacles or discussion.

8. Distractibility. Effectiveness of extraneous

environmental stimuli in altering the direction of a

behaviour.

9. Threshold. Sensitivity to environmental

stimuli; the intensity level of stimulation necessary

to evoke a discernible response.

Some of these categories are more useful for

homoeopathic purposes than others. The

homoeopath will be particularly interested in the

levels of Approach/Withdrawal, Activity, Intensity,

Mood, and Persistence. The other categories may

be useful or confirmatory at times.

The simplest method for the homoeopath to

collect information on temperament is to give

parents a questionnaire, appropriate for the child's

age, to complete at home. This can be returned by

mail and scored in the office. [Quantitative scores

in each category are then charted on a graph that

displays each score in relation to the mean and

variations recorded from broad samples.] A list of

sources for obtaining temperament questionnaires

appears in the Appendix. At the following visit the

results of the parent's ratings can be reviewed with

them to determine their accuracy.

Parental interviews will confirm the profile

scores in each temperament category. The

manifestations of extreme temperament reactions

should especially be explored with the parent in

order to arrive at a clear picture of the child's actual

behaviour. Each of the significant temperament

categories should be reviewed. When any area

seems important to the case, it should be described

in detail and through example. Some typical

questions are included in Table 2 for assessing

infants and older children with the temperament

categories of Activity, Approach/Withdrawal and

Mood.

TABLE 2

Category

High activity

Low activity

Withdrawal

Approach

High Intensity

Negative Mood

Positive Mood

High Persistence

Low persistence

High Distractibility

Low Distractibility

Low Threshold

High Threshold

Rubrics

Restlessness; Loquacity;

Vivacious

Indolence; Lethargy; Sit,

inclination to; Quiet

disposition

Timidity; Fear, strangers;

Company, averse to

Affectionate; Company,

desires

Depends on the form of

expression, e.g. Anger,

Striking; Shrieking; Fear

Irritability; Censorious;

Contrary; Discontented

Cheerful; Mildness

Obstinate; Thoughts,

persistent; Industrious

Concentration, difficult

Absorbed, buried in thought

Sensitive, to noise, to sensual

impressions; Senses; acute;

Touched, aversion to being

Senses, dullness of

Homoeopathy should change temperament

expression. One should expect that the extremes of

temperament categories will be mollified by the

correct homoeopathic medicine. This especially

applies to those aspects of temperament that make

up "difficult" behaviours and reflect the child's

inability to manage stress. Ratings of high

intensity, negative mood, and extreme withdrawal

may lessen after a homoeopathic medicine, since

they often constitute the symptoms of the case.

Activity level may also be favourably altered in an

individual child, the very active child will often

calm down and the lethargic child will perk up.

Some aspects of temperament, such as a high level

of persistence, may only change in so much as they

reflect imbalance in the child. Persistence may

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manifest as obstinacy and bull headedness when

modified by negativity, but it may also lead to

consistency and task completion when presenting in

a positive form. Few parents would complain about

a child who diligently practices the piano or persists

at solving a difficult math problem. On the other

hand, if a child's ability to focus and concentrate is

improved by homoeopathic treatment, then

distractibility and non-persistence ratings are likely

to improve.

Cases:

A few case examples will illustrate the utility

of temperament data in homoeopathic practice.

Case Report 1: Jason S. is a 10 year-old boy.

This boy was given Arsenicum album 1M primarily

on the basis of his temperament data and some

peculiar symptoms. His primary problems are

dependency, shyness and fears. He cannot go to

sleep unless his parents are sitting within view

while he lies in bed. His room is situated so that he

can see them while they sit in the kitchen at night.

He says that he is afraid of "getting kidnapped".

This is a problem that embarrasses him a great deal.

It is also significant that if he sleeps at a friend's

house he is not bothered by fears. This desire for

company and amelioration of fears from company

led to Arsenicum. The temperament picture of

withdrawal, negativity, and low threshold to stimuli

are also consistent with an Arsenicum dynamic.

The high activity level reflects the restlessness of

Arsenicum as well.

Throughout the interview Jason was anxious,

an unusual presentation in a boy his age. During

the interview alone with him, he would sit on the

edge of his chair, continually play with his fingers,

and avoid direct eye contact, frequently glancing

nervously around the room. His anxiety was much

more pronounced when discussing his night fears.

He could barely talk about them without crying. In

other respects his emotional picture was

unremarkable. He responded openly to questions,

seemed curious and optimistic, but he did show

signs of immature dependence on his parents.

Besides his desire to have them near while he was

falling asleep, he required frequent stories at night

and would often climb into his mother's lap for

these. Some characteristics confirmed the

Arsenicum prescription. His mother describes him

as quite organized and neat. He likes his room kept

neat and as a small child he would never spill

things. He related an interesting hobby. He will

research the populations of cities and put them in

order, or do a similar exercise with the capacities of

football stadiums. In the past he would accumulate

large collections of bottle caps, baseball cards and

seashells. During the interview, when asked about

things that concerned him, he said, "I want to be

healthy, and I want my father to be healthy." This

is an unusual "Anxiety about health" in a boy who

has few physical symptoms.

After the Arsenicum he said, and his mother

confirmed, that he goes to sleep much more easily

and he is able to get himself back to sleep when he

wakens in the night. His mother was frankly

amazed at the difference after the medicine. He is

more confident. Instead of his previous dreams

about werewolves and rejection, he recently had a

dream about a giant who popped out of the ocean

and made friends with him. He wrote a story about

a baseball team that won the pennant, which his

mother found particularly expressive of his

newfound confidence. (A follow-up temperament

profile eighteen months after the Arsenicum shows

the withdrawal was reduced)

Case Report 2: Diana L. has been seen over

several years from ages 3 to 6. She has three

categories of temperament above one standard

deviation on parent ratings and these make her a

difficult child, who is capable of terrorizing her

family. She has the combination of Intensity,

Negativity, Slow Adaptability and High Activity

that can produce quick tantrums and difficulty

changing her immediate reactions. These children

can be fascinating homoeopathic studies, because

they present dramatic and graphic pictures.

However, their recurrent dramas can cause

problems for the unwary homoeopath, who may

resort to prescribing many medicines for the ever-

changing profusion of acute and constitutional

symptoms.

At 3 years old this girl's mother was at her

wit's end. She would continually disrupt the

household with her tantrums. Her older brother and

younger sister are mild, easy children who have

also learned to tolerate their sister's moods. Diana

would throw fits about going to sleep, then have

bad dreams, wake screaming in the night and refuse

to go back into her room. She strikes out at people

for no apparent reason, breaks toys of other

children, scratches, and purposefully hurts them.

She resents any interference or authority. Parents

refuse to allow their children to play with her and

the mother is exasperated by her deliberate acts of

aggression. She will walk up to a stranger at the

beach and throw sand in his face. She often bangs

her head repeatedly against the bed or car seat.

Her treatment has included Sulphur 200,

Stramonium 1M and Medorrhinum 1M and 10M.

The Stramonium in particular has resulted in less

violent, aggressive behaviours and disappearance of

her night fears. At 4V4 years old her remedy was

changed to Medorrhinum because of a change in

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symptoms. She had a return of aggressive and

jealous behaviour, with gruesome, violent thoughts

(cutting off people's heads) and a new obsessive

interest in sex (playing sexual games with her girl

friend, touching her older brother, and smelling her

younger sister's genitals). She has the typical

difficult syndrome of frequent dramatic symptom

production. She has, therefore, received acute

homoeopathic medicines for various troublesome

symptoms and these have interfered at times with

the action of constitutional remedies. On the

whole, her difficult temperament manifestations

have been fairly well controlled by homoeopathic

treatment, though her personality and conflicts will

probably continue to discomfit her family and

teachers.

Case 3: David G. an 11 year-old boy in fifth grade

was treated for allergies to dogs, cats and pollens

with typical Hay Fever symptoms. He is in other

respects a perfectly healthy boy. His only other

problem is a learning disability for which he has

tutoring and special reading classes at his school.

His parents describe him as clumsy, restless and

active with difficulty keeping still. He presents as a

very personable, polite and responsive boy.

Temperament ratings show that High Activity,

Non-persistence and Distractibility are the only

categories greater than one standard deviation.

These are typical findings in a child with learning

disabilities. These data confirm that David has a

generally mild disposition, but difficulty persisting

at tasks and a tendency to be distracted, which his

parents perceive as laziness. This proved to be a

quick method of confirming the aspects of

temperament that correspond to learning

disabilities, though analysis of more specific tests

would give detailed information concerning his

mental functioning and learning styles.

He was given Calcarea carbonica 1M

primarily because he is over-weight, craves milk

(3), cheese (2) and hot sauce (3), and frequently

sweats on hands (3), feet (3) and back of neck (2).

The remedy was confirmed by his delayed

cognitive development, learning problems, laziness

and the temperament data, which was confirmed on

parent interview.

A final note on the use of temperament profiles

is relevant here. The usual reason for assessment of

temperament by Psychologists, Psychiatrists, and

Pediatricians is to promote greater parental

understanding. It is thought that if parents

understand their child's temperament traits, then

they can become more effective in their roles as

guides for the child. In addition, if parents become

more adept at adjusting their reactions to their

child's unique requirements as an individual, then

the family environment will be more conducive to

that child's emotional growth. This process has

been described by THOMAS and CHESS as

creating a "goodness-of-fit" between the child and

her environment

. Simply stated, this consists of

increasing parents' understanding and acceptance

of their child's temperament so that emotional

stress can be prevented. For example, a girl with

temperament attributes of Withdrawal and Slow

Adaptability will experience much less stress if her

parents allow her to adjust slowly to new situations.

They can permit her to sit and watch at a new dance

class before she is expected to participate, or make

an agreement that she attends several sessions

before she decides to quit. Similar techniques can

be adapted for the variety of developmental levels.

A homoeopath may choose to utilize temperament

data in parent interviews to encourage positive

interactions and a goodness-of-fit between parents'

expectations and a child's personality.

Appendix

Temperament Questionnaires

(Send $10 for each scale to cover expense.

These can be reproduced as needed for clinical

use.)

Infant Temperament Questionnaire

(4 to 8 month old infants)

William B, Carey, M.D.

319 West Front Street,

Media, PA 19063

Toddler Temperament Scale

(1 to 3 year old children)

William Fullard, Ph.D.

Department of Educational Psychology

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA 19122

Behavioural Style Questionnaire

(3 to 7 year old children)

Sean C. McDevitt, Ph.D.

Devereux Center

6436 East Sweetwater

Scottsdale, AZ 85254

Middle Childhood Temperament Questionnaire

(8 to 12 year old children)

Robin L. Hegvik, Ph.D.

307 North Wayne Aven

Wayne, PA 19087

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[This article is excerpted from Dr.

NEUSTAEDTER's upcoming book,

Homoeopathic Pediatrics]

2. Brain Powered - A Wave of New Advances

Shows How the Mind Affects Health in Ways

We Never Imagined

FERBER, Dan (Reader's Digest, May 2007)

It's been a very good year for the brain - that

1.3 kilo wrinkled lump of grey matter that directs

our movements, thoughts and memories, our loves,

hopes and dreams. It's the organ that makes us

who we are. It can also make us lose who we are,

through degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's,

which affects almost half of those who live past 85.

And now we know it has far more to do with our

overall health than we ever imagined.

A recent wave of breakthrough technologies

has yielded unprecedented insight into how our

brains work, and a better grasp of how they go

wrong. That, in turn, has led to new targeted

treatments designed to fix malfunctions. Science is

also revealing the surprising power of the mind,

when used correctly, to heal the body. Here are

some of the mind-boggling findings.

MAPPING THE BRAIN

September 2006 marked a major milestone for

our noggins, with completion of the Allen Brain

Atlas, the first gene map of the brain. It all started

in 2002 when billionaire philanthropist Paul

ALLEN, co-founder of Microsoft, gathered some of

the world's top scientists and charged them with

finding an innovative new way to accelerate our

understanding of the brain. From that he

committed $100 million and established the Allen

Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.

Using custom-built robotics and software, 60

full-time researchers tested 250,000 preserved

slices of mouse brain, which resembles the human

one enough that most discoveries would also hold

true for us. They generated a volume of raw data

that revealed where in the brain each of the mouse's

21,000 genes was activated. (Different types of

brain cells activate different sets of genes,

producing a unique roster of proteins that enables

each cell to do its job - storing memory, directing

movement or some other task.)

The map revealed that about 80 percent of the

body's genes are turned on in the brain - more than

anyone had expected. That means if pharma

companies are not careful, drugs targeted to other

organs could have unwanted side effects in the

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brain. The map also uncovered evidence that could

help reveal what goes wrong in complicated brain

disorders such as Schizophrenia and Autism.

The result is a 3-D virtual mouse brain atlas

(brain-map.org) that does for Neuroscientists what

a survey map pinpointing gold deposits does for

miners: It lets them quickly get to where the action

is and start digging, says David ANDERSON, PhD,

a Professor of Biology at California Institute of

Technology and a project advisor.

MEMORY GENES

Scientists are already striking gold thanks to

the Allen Brain Atlas. Dietrich STEPHAN, PhD,

who directs neurogenomics research at the

Translational Genomics Research Institute

(TGen) in Phoenix, has used it to learn more about

a gene called Kibra, which affects our short-term

memory. The Atlas revealed that the gene was

activated in the hippocampus, a small sea-horse-

shaped brain structure that helps store memories.

TGen plans to market drugs to reduce age-related

memory loss, including the common short-term sort

that causes senior moments and lost car keys.

PROGRESS ON ALZHEIMER'S

Today's Alzheimer's drugs improve memory,

buying many patients several years of mental

clarity, but brain cells still die and patients decline.

New experimental drugs, in contrast, are designed

to get to the root of the problem, blocking the

suspected bad actor, a molecule called beta

amyloid, from forming clumps and killing brain

cells.

Anna HICKERSON, 71, of Oklahoma already

considers one of those drugs a success. Three years

ago, she'd lose track of orders in the flower shop

she ran with her husband, James HICKERSON, 75.

She'd forget the day of the week and got lost so

often, she quit driving. Ralph RICHTER, MD, a

clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry,

diagnosed her with early-stage Alzheimer's.

In November 2004, Anna enrolled in a Phase

III clinical trail for Alzhemed, an experimental drug

made by Neurochem, a small Canadian drug

company. The drug seems to have stopped her

decline. Today, after more than two years on the

medication, she arranges flowers for church

services, drives 37 kilometres on her own to shop m

a nearby town, and rarely gets lost. "I'm more

clear and I feel better about myself," Anna says,

"It's been a real blessing," says her husband.

Researchers reported encouraging Phase II trial

results on Alzhemed in a neurological journal last

year. Patients, on average, maintained their score

on a 30-point standard test of mental function.

(Patients on today's medications typically lose

three points a year.) Alzhemed also reduced the

level of beta amyloid (the bad stuff that kills brain

cells) in the cerebrospinal fluid, suggesting that

there's less of the bad stuff inside the brain as well.

The results of the North American Phase III trail

are expected this year and may provide solid

evidence that the drug works. Similar trials of no

less than eight different drugs from other

companies will finish within two to five years and

also look promising.

GENE DELIVERIES

Targeted gene therapies could help patients

with brain diseases that drugs alone cannot heal.

Such therapies deliver healthy genes to parts of the

body where faulty ones are wreaking havoc. In the

past, gene therapies turned out to be more

dangerous than scientists had expected, and the

death of an Arizona teenager in a 1999 clinical trial

set the field back years. But a new method of gene

delivery to the brain, via a harmless virus called

adeno-associated virus (AAV), has proved safe in

early human trials.

One AAV therapy may ease advanced

Parkinson's disease by repairing an overactive

brain circuit that causes typical symptoms of

slowness and rigidity. That circuit acts like a brick

on a car brake, interfering with the patient's ability

to move. Brain surgeons currently remove that

brick by implanting a pacemaker-like device that

overrides this circuit. But the treatment, called

deep brain stimulation, requires three months of

weekly visits to a specialized neurosurgery facility,

which is tough when you live hundreds of

kilometers away, says American Neurosurgeon

Michael KAPLITT.

Dr. KAPLITT's AAV therapy removes the

brick from the brake by delivering a neurochemical

called GABA into brain cells. In a safety trial that

ended in 2006, the gene therapy proved safe. At

the highest levels, it helped patients as much as

deep brain stimulation. If this proves effective in a

larger trial, someday an advanced Parkinson's

patient could have brain surgery, get a gene

implanted in precisely the right spot and go home a

couple of days later. "Our hope is to bring this type

of therapy to a much larger audience of patients in

need," Dr. KAPLITT says.

Since his trial, other AAV gene therapies have

been used in six early trials: three for Parkinson's,

two for lethal paediatric brain disorders and one for

Alzheimer's. If they continue to prove safe and

show positive results, we'll be able to treat some of

the most devastating brain disorders.

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BRIDGING THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER

Scientists have begun to overcome one of the

biggest obstacles to treating brain disease: getting

drugs into the brain. Ninety-eight percent of

candidate drug compounds do not pass from the

bloodstream into the brain, even though they move

easily into other organs, says William

PARDRIDGE, MD, a Professor of Medicine in Los

Angeles. As a result, good drugs for brain

disorders are few and far between.

Would-be drugs fail because the walls of the

brain's blood vessels act like border-crossing

guards after a code-red terror alert: They allow only

molecules that have essential business in the brain

to cross. To get his drugs past the hypervigilant

guards, Dr. PARDRIDGE turned to smuggling. He

uses genetic engineering to link potentially helpful

brain drugs to a specific kind of antibody that is

welcomed and escorted into the brain.

In a 2006 study, one such hybrid drug reduced

brain damage by two-thirds in rats when given two

hours after a simulated stroke. The drug contains a

normal brain protein that stimulates cells to thrive

but is normally too scarce to prevent stroke-induced

brain damage. Such brain-cell-saving drugs are

desperately needed to protect stroke patients from

brain damage, but over the past decade, none have

passed muster in clinical trials. ArmaGen

Technologies, which Dr. PARDRIDGE founded to

commercialize the technology, plans a human

safety trial on the new stroke drug in late 2007.

The smuggling strategy could work with any

brain drug, Dr. PARDRIDGE says, and ArmaGen

is developing drugs for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's

and a class of hereditary brain diseases that cause

birth defects, mental retardation and other severe

problems.

HOW YOUR MIND HEALS YOU

In one of brain biology's most amazing

advances, scientists have found that our brain may

actually help our immune system fight disease. It

took 20 years of careful experiments for Kevin

TRACEY, MD, to see it that way. It also took a

very special patient - an 11-month-old girl named

Janice. "She changed my life," says Dr. TRACEY,

a Neurosurgeon, Immunologist and Director of the

Feinstein Institute of Medical Research in New

York.

In the spring of 1985, Dr. TRACEY was a

surgeon in training at New York Hospital, treating

patients for such things as gunshot wounds, head

injuries and infection, when Janice was admitted.

She had been crawling on the kitchen floor of her

grandmother's apartment when her grandmother,

who was cooking pasta, tripped over her and split a

large pot of boiling water on the baby girl. Dr.

TRACEY cared for the girl, who had suffered

second- and third-degree burns over 75 percent of

her body. A week after she was admitted, Janice

developed severe sepsis, a condition in which the

immune system massively overreacts to a bacterial

infection, indiscriminately training its cannons on

the body's own tissues.

For the next two and half weeks, Janice lay

clinging to life in her hospital bed, as Dr. TRACEY

and his colleagues tried one heroic measure after

another to revive her. She recovered enough to

celebrate her first birthday in the burns unit with

her parents, her grandmother and the medical staff,

and was expected to be discharged soon. Then, the

next day, her heart stopped suddenly and she died.

"She's the only patient I ever had nightmares

about," Dr. TRACEY says. "She shouldn't have

died."

No one knew then what caused severe sepsis,

so inspired by Janice, Dr. TRACEY set out to leam.

Two decades later, his work is paying off. In a

series of studies since 2000, he's shown that

stimulation of the Vagus nerve - a major nerve that

runs from our brainstem to our belly and regulates

our heartbeat, breathing and intestines - stops

severe sepsis. It does so by using neurochemicals

to signal immune cells, which prevents them from

releasing alarm molecules that spur inflammation

and cause damage. In a 2006 study, he discovered

a brain circuit that could stimulate the Vagus nerve

to switch off inflammation.

Taken together, the studies demonstrated a

hard-wired connection between the brain and

immune system that Dr. TRACEY calls the

"inflammatory reflex." Normally, when

inflammation spreads, the brain tells the immune

system to turn it down. In patients like Janice with

severe sepsis, that reflex fails.

Drugs that activate the reflex could one day

reduce chronic low-grade inflammation - the kind

that causes Crohn's disease and Rheumatoid

Arthritis, and contributes to heart disease.

Meditation might help, too, says Dr. TRACEY.

People can leam to slow their heartbeat by

modifying Vagus nerve activity, which suggests

they might be able to control their own brains to

calm inflammation and fight disease. "It's the most

exciting thing I've ever worked on," he says.

Calming the mind and body might even slow

the spread of some Cancers. The stress hormone

Norepinephrine can spur lab-grown Cancer cells to

release two compounds that help them move

through the body and then metastasize, according to

a study in the November issue of Cancer Research

by Virologist Ronald GLASER, PhD, of Ohio. A

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third compound that's released helps supply

growing tumours with nutrients. So reducing stress

may prove a Cancer fighter.

BUFF UP YOUR BRAIN

Studies like GLASER's and Dr. TRACEY's

have "given credibility to mind-body approaches,

which had been rejected and ignored by the

scientific and medical communities," says Esther

STERNBERG, MD, Director of the Integrative

Neural Immune Program at the [US] National

Institute of Mental Health. Now scientists and

doctors have begun taking the next step, harnessing

the immense powers of the human brain to help

people heal themselves.

For example, using special MRI scanners and

software that allowed patients to see their own

brain activity, scientists at Stanford University and

Omneuron, a biotech company, trained participants

to reduce chronic pain by just visualizing it and

learning to control it. Some were able to decrease it

by more than 40 percent, says pain expert Sean

MACKEY, MD, one of the study leaders.

Dr. MACKEY foresees a day when doctors

might use such imaging to train us to ease

depression, battle addiction or overcome phobias.

And years from now, he says, we may head to a

real-time brain-imaging centre the way we go to the

fitness centre today, and buff up parts of our brain

that improve performance, memory and even

intelligence. Now, that would be a real no-brainer.

3. A Visit with Samuel HAHNEMANN ... in a

Dream

MORRELL, Peter (AJHM. 99, 1/2006)

Abstract: Our own Peter Morrell, frequent

contributor to the journal and scholar steeped in

homoeopathic history, especially with regard to our

founder, recently dreamed of a visit with Samuel

HAHNEMANN. The dream offers up some

answers about certain aspects of Hahnemann's life

and motivations hitherto a mystery. Is the

information accurate? We may never factually

know; nevertheless, all of us in homoeopathy have

an appreciation for the sometimes valuable

information that dreams can provide; so we offer

this dream rendering for your amusement and, who

knows, possible edification.

One night recently (7 December 2005) I dreamt

of meeting Hahnemann and speaking with him at

great length. A range of topics became revealed in

this dream, but the dream seemed to start with me

roaming through some streets at night looking for a

certain house. I think I had previously been

sleeping in an unfamiliar house somewhere in the

countryside. Anyway, I knocked on a door at night

and an old man opened the door and beckoned me

to enter. I could see it was Hahnemann at the age

of about seventy-five in the Kothen period. I asked

if he was Dr. Hahnemann and he said yes. I

showed him some papers or may be a letter and he

immediately took me on a guided tour of the house

while additionally showing me numerous rooms

and cupboards, bookshelves, tables and bureaus

stacked with books, papers and manuscripts, many

covered in dust and obviously untouched for many

years. He also showed me various old scientific

instruments, bottles of remedies and remedy cases.

Throughout our encounter he seemed to treat me

with considerable respect as if I were some long-

awaited guest or official who he had been expecting

or waiting to arrive and somehow impress. He

greeted me and spoke to me throughout warmly and

respectfully, as a close confidant and trust friend.

He was a small man of very light frame with

twinkling eyes and ready smile and a shock of

silvery hair, bald on top. He spoke softly in

excellent English with only a slight German accent.

The house seemed to be like a complex

Aladdin's cave, a 'rabbit warren' consisting of

many rooms and stories, all dimly lit. Much of the

time we spoke we were in a sort of cluttered attic

with numerous manuscripts and old documents

strewn about the place, some on the floor, laid out

on tables and some high up on shelves. There was

another person in the house perhaps an old woman,

who I assumed to be his wife. Whenever we sat or

stood, I could see almost nothing beyond the pool

of light around us, which travelled with us and

which I assume came from a burning candle

Hahnemann carried with him on a small dish. In

time we sat in armchairs in a downstairs room and

talked of many things about Homoeopathy and

Hahnemann's life, during which, and while

smoking his long tobacco pipe, he revealed many

details of his views I had never heard of before.

Mostly he spoke softly and calmly, but at times he

became very loud and animated when he expressed

things he felt very strongly or which he wished to

emphasize most forcefully as true.

Vienna

"In Vienna medicine let me down for the first

time. I had taken up medicine as a serious lifelong

commitment, but I had not fully really realized

what a very serious and somber profession it is in

reality. I saw first-hand the incredible barbarity of

bleeding and purging and despaired at this repulsive

medical system in which I was being trained. It

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caused great harm and in many cases terrible

suffering was made even worse. My conscience

was deeply troubled by my studies as I squirmed

uncomfortably at the career choice I had embarked

upon. I had plunged myself into something I was

ill-prepared to deal with on an emotional level. I

was high-minded, principled and enthusiastic but

wished to be handed the best and most gentle

healing tools. Was I really cut out for medicine?

Could I really apply these disgusting methods to

close friends and relatives, to my own children?

My conscience was deeply troubled by everything I

saw.

Medicine let me down for the first time in

Vienna, for I felt a great inner crisis, because I

could not realistically see myself in my life ahead

applying these barbaric methods to human beings.

Who would dare to apply them even to animals, let

alone human beings? I was deeply revolted by the

methods of Allopathy at a very early stage. My

conscience was deeply troubled. Everything I saw

made a very deep emotional impression on my

mind. Therefore, I had serious misgivings about

my choice of career and felt like throwing it all in

and concentrating on translation work instead, as an

alternative life path. I discussed this with Dr. von

QUARIN, who was in so many ways my personal

tututor and confidante. He was very understanding

and helpful towards me."

A gift for Languages

"I was born with a gift for languages. Of that

there is no doubt. I excelled in Latin, Greek and

French as a school child and from there I found that

I could easily pick up any language in a morning or

an afternoon and would easily have a useable

vocabulary within only a few days. English, Italian

and French came easily to me, and later Spanish,

Chaldaic, Syriac and Hebrew*. I even picked up

some Arabic, I had no difficulty reading and

speaking languages. This wonderful gift was a

blessing that never let me down once in my entire

life. That is why I call it a gift or facility I was

born with. This gift also meant that I had a choice;

I always had two paths before me in life which I

could use, and 1 knew that languages was a path I

could always rely upon, one that would never fail

me or cause me to be sad, or to stop and think."

Sibiu

"I was very fortunate when medicine let me

down in Vienna because von QUARIN came to my

aid immediately. He understood my problems and

arranged for me to spend some quiet time in

Hermannstadt [Sibiu] to recover from my upset and

to study in the Brukenthal Library, where I was

employed to produce a new catalogue of the

possessions, especially the coin collection. This

task enabled me to study many subjects, to learn

new languages, and to study prior medical systems

often from their original texts, such as the works of

Galen, Avicenna and Hippocrates, as well as many

great philosophical writers contained in the

magnificent surroundings of the library."

"I was also fortunate in that von QUARIN and

Brukenthal both regarded me very highly as one of

the most outstanding pupils in the Vienna medical

school. I do not wish to boast, but they often told

me that. I simply accepted their judgement. On

reflection, I do not think I had the makings of a

good doctor quite so much as being a good scholar

who was energetic and willing to stay up all night

as required in order to master any subject. As with

my gift for languages, this was a gift I had been

bom with and which I had exercised as a child -

devotion to hard work and study. Either way, the

consequence of this was that Brukenthal and von

QUARIN had kindly provided me with an

opportunity to take time out of my medical studies

for almost two years, solely because they regarded

me as an exceptional pupil. I was very grateful for

this. They did not make such provision for anyone

else in the Vienna medical school, and so I have to

conclude that they regarded me somehow as a

special case."

"My time in Sibiu was certainly envisaged as a

rest and recovery period and a time for me to reflect

on my future. However, during this period I also

had the opportunity to study many ancillary

subjects and especially original medieval and

Renaissance texts on Alchemy, Kabbala and Magic,

subjects I was not especially interested in per se,

but which had been a very important thread in the

history of European culture. I felt obliged to study

them in that context. I always had a great desire to

learn everything I could. Whether these ideas were

truly relevant to my later studies is a debatable

point. However, the immediate problem I had was

to decide if and when I was going to make my

return to Vienna and complete my medical

education. I often felt the sensation of Dr. von

QUARIN waiting for me to give the signal about

when I would return."

"Increasingly, as time wore on, I became

anxious about this matter and had more or less

decided that I could not go back there and study

under him. There were two reasons for this.

Firstly, he had taken such trouble to kindly provide

for me the time in Sibiu and for this I was very

grateful, yet gnawing away at me were my doubts

about medical practice and the methods he regarded

as the best and most effective. These doubts made

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me even more worried about my indebtedness to

him. Secondly, I could not find in any of the texts

in Sibiu a better system of medicine and so my

search there had in this respect been a complete

failure. I became burdened by a sense of failure

and the sense that I had let down both Brukenthal

and von QUARJN,who had so kindly provided for

me for almost two years. Thus, I felt there

somewhat like a scolded cat, creeping out so as not

to be noticed. The easiest option for me was thus to

spend a term of study at and submit a thesis to

Erlangen and graduate that summer with the least

possible fuss, hoping that nobody noticed. I felt

that sense of guilt and failure towards Brukenthal

and von QUARIN very acutely for some years. In

truth, I could not face seeing them ever again, for

fear of them being very angry with me for

disappointing them so much and wasting their time

after they had taken so much trouble to help me as

their valued student."

Doctors are Passionate and Serious People

"Many people outside medicine do not realize

what an emotional and serious business medicine

really is. When you commit yourself to medicine,

you are committing yourself to aiding sick

humanity. That is a very serious calling. Death

stands close to a doctor all the time and follows him

wherever he goes. He has seen worse cases; he

knows the worst that can happen. In truth, he is a

lonely and isolated figure with only his conscience

and inner voice to guide him. This is a deeply

emotional matter. There is no getting away from it.

Therefore, the idea that medicine can somehow be a

strict science and emotionally detached is nonsense.

When you stand near a dying child or a close friend

who is in high fever or desperately ill, you know

that can happen, you know the worst thing that can

happen. Death stands close by you, it hovers close

and yet you are expected to do something, to

perform a miracle, to cast death out, to see it off.

We cannot perform, miracles every day, nor even

regularly."

"You are emotionally connected to every

patient and the eyes of their relatives are upon you.

They expect you to do good, to cure the sick, and

that your intervention will help. In only a slightly

diluted form, you feel what they feel. You want to

bring benefit and relief, but this is also an enormous

emotional burden to be placed upon you; it weighs

heavy. A doctor carries that inner burden all his

life and for many it carries them off to an early

grave; they die young, because you cannot escape

your conscience. Every good and bad thing we said

or did is held within us and invisibly we take it with

us and are held to account. This is the problem

with being a doctor: we carry all these secrets about

life, death and suffering, and on the deep emotional

level, we are accountable for our actions. It is a

very serious and emotional calling and not one to

be taken lightly."

"The doctor is thus a burdened man. He is

burdened by his duty to the sick and ultimately

accountable for his decisions and actions; his

conscience keeps reminding him of any failures he

may have been guilty of, and the real sense of

failure hangs heavy on his heart. This is an

inescapable fact. He blames himself for every loss.

Therefore, it is clear that a good doctor and a man

of conscience may not make very good bed-

fellows. They make for much trouble and strife and

much inner wrestling with one's conscience. It is a

great mistake to imagine you do not have a

conscience, for we are all built this way. It is

inevitable that a good man will reflect on the bad

things he has seen and witnessed and have regrets

over certain errors, misjudgments, decisions or

mistakes. This is a fact of life for every doctor.

We sometimes appear arrogant or cavalier in an

attempt to make light of it and think we can shrug it

all off, but at night and late in life many of these

things come back to haunt you. It can at times be a

pretty miserable and lonely calling."

Search for the Possible

"One thing I never fully grasped as a young

man is that we must try and find what is possible

for us to achieve. We can easily waste much

precious time trying to do things we are not meant

or destined to succeed in. We may even see others

achieving things easily that we cannot achieve. We

should not be distracted by such events, but should

find and focus on what our own life path offers for

us. Do not look at what others can do, but look

within yourself and find your own path. This can

be a very hard lesson to learn. In my case, as I have

said, I wrestled long and hard with medicine and

several times gave up on it because it let me down.

I struggled with it."

"At any stage I could have had a good career in

writing and translating and almost embraced that

path in the 1780s as a permanent option. But

medicine was never far from me and I knew that at

any time I could reach out and have that path too. It

was only my conscience that prevented me from

using the allopathic tools I had been trained in. But

my conscience in the end was my savior, because

without it I would never have kept trying to find

abetter method than the awful 'bleed and purge'

approach of Galenism. Thus, we can say, keep

looking for your own path, that which life has given

to you as a gift, and follow your path. This is such

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an important point for every person. We can save

ourselves a lot of grief and vexation by knowing

this."

Discovery of Homoeopathy

"Yes, of course, people say my discovery of

Homoeopathy can be shown to rest on certain hints

and ideas scattered throughout the past in such

places as Hippocrates, Paracelsus and Arabian

medicine. But let me assure you that is not how it

was discovered. No matter how many ideas I

absorbed in the Library at Sibiu, the fact is that I

knew nothing about Homoeopathy for another

twenty years. In truth, it emerged of its own accord

through detailed research and experiments. There

really was no hidden plan which 1 had followed all

my life. At every stage I had no idea where my

studies were leading me. Even after the provings in

the 1790s, I still had no a priori idea of where my

studies were taking me. It is therefore completely

untrue that I carried inside me the germs or seeds of

Homceopathy from my youth and that they simply

got confirmed and that they were somehow

mysteriously aggregated together in my thinking

from a very early stage. That is simply untrue

quasi-teleological nonsense. This applies as much

to the method of potentization, and the Law of

Similars as it does to the proving and olfaction.

They were all discovered and confirmed separately

through empirical work. People will believe what

they like, but that is all there is to it."

No Magic in Medicine

When I asked him about Paracelsus, he became

animated but insisted that he had personally never

found very much magic in medicine and he had

little patience with those who believe there is such

magic.

"The problem with magic, you see, is that it is

all very well for a tiny minority of doctors who

have that gift and who can actually rely on it from

time to time. Good luck to them! but what about

the rest of us who do not have this gift? We must

base medicine on something more reliable and

predictable, something more rational, a better,

firmer basis. For the vast majority of doctors, magic

has no place; it is a very deceptive path and is a

pretty useless basis for reliable and effective

medical practice. It lets you down too often."

Hering

With regard to the training of homoeopaths,

Hahnemann said how much he admired

Constantine Hering, even though he had been

criticized by many outside America for his strange

views, such as using Nosodes and high potencies.

"What people should remember about Dr. Hering is

that, for all his faults, he was the one who

established the first purely homoeopathic medical

college in the world. That is a most important

achievement as every homoeopath has had to train

as an allopath first, and this appalling and unjust

situation has cursed our pure and sublime method

of healing for years. Certainly, we should thank

Dr. HERING for paving the way ahead."

Organon

"I still think that the Organon is the finest

book on medicine ever written. I do not say this

boastfully. The reasons are that although it reads

like a rather dry philosophical work, and has been

incorrectly criticized as such, yet every word in it is

based upon empirical observations and experiments

and has been repeatedly confirmed through

countless clinical observations. It is thus the

distillation of my life's work in clinical practice and

theoretical cogitations compressed into one volume.

It is therefore a well balanced blend of theory and

practice. Homceopathy is not really a theory or a

medical system; it is a proven method on how drugs

should be prepared and employed. When closely

followed, this healing method is the gentlest and

safest in the world. It is the most natural healing

method that renders no harm to the patient. That is

my claim and I defy anyone to disprove it."

Melanie

"So many people have commented on this

French lady who breezed into my life and changed

it forever. Why could they never see the simple

truth of what happened? My life, when she made

her appearance, was very ordinary; my wife had

been dead a number of years, and I was living a

meager kind of life in Kothen just like a recluse.

Suddenly this beautiful creature comes to my house

and we talk and talk all day and all night. It was

never ending. It is so beautiful when you meet a

person who lights up your life with love and joy,

just as if you have been roaming in darkness all

your life and then suddenly the light comes. What

a wonderful feeling! We fell in love instantly.

There was no doubt about it for both of us. It was

incredible. It was really a recognition of two souls

in deep fellowship, who had found each other, like

two moths each attracted to the light of the other."

"She completely turned my life upside down.

And people said, 'Why are you leaving your family

and going to Paris with this young girl, Dr.

Hahnemann? It is quite scandalous.' Well, I would

have followed her anywhere, even to the ends of

the earth if necessary. I did not turn my back on

my family; I kept in touch with them, but she

awakened in me something totally new and

unexpected .. .love. What can we do but follow this

sweet fragrance called love? It makes sense of our

life and gives us new meaning and purpose. I had

grown dry and rigid any my life, in so many ways,

was over.

There is no doubt that it was a stale and

loveless life. And then along comes Melanie!

What a treat. What a breath of fresh air in old

lungs. What a miracle. She made my life really

come alive for the first time. Yes, I was blissfully

happy with her in Paris just like I said in letters. It

was wonderful. She lit up my life as nobody ever

had. Of course, Melanie and I were two souls who

shared a deep fellowship of love. In a sense I

suppose I was waiting for her to arrive so as to

make my life complete. We resonated with each

other at a deep emotional level; and so it was the

Law of Similars in action."

Discussion

While I was astonished and amazed by this

dream, which made on me a very strong emotional

impact, it is difficult to evaluate its real

significance. Hahnemann confirms many ordinary

and well-known things in this dream. It is not

especially contentious.

However, there are several rare and peculiar

things which he refers to, which cannot be easily

confirmed, but which seem quite plausible when

taken at face value. For example, he admits for the

first time to reading Kabbala, Hebrew and Magical

texts, which are known to be in the Brukenthal

Library,* but he qualifies this comment by saying

he was not very interested in these subjects per se.

That sounds just like the old Hahnemann, admitting

one thing and then denying it on another level,

giving with one hand and taking back with the

other! He was a slippery customer and 'held back'

many things he did not want others to know.

Freemasonry provides a good example of this

tendency, a subject he returned to while residing in

Kothen . His documented views about Paracelsus,

provide another example. What he did or did not

read in Sibiu is yet another example.

His comment about the origin of Homoeopathy

is also interesting for the same reasons, for he at

least admits for the first time that there were ideas

in scattered fragments in prior medicine which he

knew about and which he could perhaps have

adapted into use later in his career. May be he was

consciously aware of them, or may be they were

just subliminally working in his discovery of

Homoeopathy. We shall probably never know for

sure. In this dream, this point remains unclarified.

His comments about Sibiu and Vienna are

quite revealing and seem to signal a very plausible

line of argument that does not offend the known

facts and in some ways makes greater sense of

them. Likewise his astonishing remarks about the

passionate nature of a medical calling. For me that

section is the most remarkable and unexpected

section of the entire dream. It is very revealing and

convincing because every doctor in the world

would understand what he says; they would

resonate with it all. Furthermore, it is stated with a

very typical brand of HAHNEMANN passion; that

is, with great emotional emphasis. Taken together

with his comments about Vienna, we do have a

very plausible explanation both for his deep

disenchantment with the methods of allopathic

medicine from an early stage, and also why he

never returned to complete his studies at the Vienna

medical school. On this basis, the dream solves an

historical riddle.

It is also clear that his failure to return to

Vienna and complete his studies under his

affectionate patron, Professor von Quarin,

physician to the Empress of Austria, is a true

historical puzzle which this dream sheds some

possible light upon. Maybe he did go to Sibiu to

take 'time out' for the reasons given here, and may

be he did not go back to Vienna for the reasons

stated here. But we shall never really know for sure

unless/until some written documents of that period

of his life come to light; that is, if they exist.

His comments about the Organon seem quite

sound and justified, even though he really is

boasting in a sense. What he clarifies superbly is

that he regards the Organon as a wonderful blend

of theory and practice, that it comprises really a

body of theoretical aphorisms constituting a guide

to what Homoeopathy is and how it should be

practiced, but he also declares that each aphorism

was won through endless experimentation with

drugs on healthy volunteers and in clinical practice.

This was precisely the empirical stance Hahnemann

repeatedly used to defend Homoeopathy against its

detractors.

Those who regard the dream as a form of

psychic channeling, which I was inadvertently

subject to, are entitled to see it that way. 1 am

open-minded about that but have zero experience in

that field. As far as I am concerned, the dream

represents a vivid dramatization of many issues

about HAHNEMANN that have been troubling me

for at least the last six months. I have made some

progress with all of them, but in essence much

mystery surrounds all these topics. I have been

especially interested recently in why he left Vienna

and went to Sibiu and why he never returned to

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Vienna to complete his medical studies. I have

been thinking long and hard about that for months.

This dream is clearly one attempt to answer the

problem. However, I have never heard or thought

of the views he states in this dream about doctors

being passionate people. That was completely new

information to me, even though I can see the

absolute sense of what he said. What he said about

Melanie seems completely self-explanatory and

valid.

Finally, I regard this dream as a pure

unconscious dramatization, which in itself

represents an 'excursion of the historical

imagination' in an attempt to solve some real and

unsolved historical puzzles. To what extent this can

be regarded as a valid 'historical method' and to

what extent the results are valid remain questions

for others to judge. Even this method has an origin

in some thoughts I had a few months back that

when you think of a place you knew as a child, then

you can imagine the town as it was then with all the

people who lived in it then going about their lives.

One can recreate it in the imagination, just as we do

now when we think of any town or place we know.

The other compelling thought I had that is explored

in this dream is that we can only truly know a

person by actually meeting them. Or can we meet

them in various other novel ways and thus come to

know them intimately? Such as in this dream. As

was once said: "The past is a foreign country, they

do things differently there." [LP Hartley, The Go

Between, prologue, 1953]

*I wish to acknowledge my sizeable debt to Dr

Gheorghe Jurj, MD, a homoeopath in Timisoara,

Romania, who has recently been visiting the

Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu to ascertain the

contents of the Hahnemann Catalogue of the

Library, much of it written in Hahnemann's own

handwriting. He has kept me briefed in some detail

of the library's contents. It includes the key works

of the following: Agrippa Cornelius von

Nettesheim, Georgius Agricola, Francis Bacon,

David Humne, Theophrastus, Pico de la Mirandola,

Marsilius Ficino, Montesquieu, Descartes, Voltaire,

Boerhaave, Stahl, Celsus, Hippocrates, Galen,

Erasmus, van Helmont, Helmbold. Is it really

credible that Hahnemann read none of these?

4. Treatment of Hyperactive Children: Increased

Efficiency Through Modifications of

Homoeopathic Diagnostic Procedure

FREI H., von AMMON K., & THURNEYSEN

(HOMEOPATHY, 95, 3/2006)

Introduction

The attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

(ADHD/ADD) occurs in 3-5% of all children and is

a combination of various cognitive disorders with

hyperactivity/impulsiveness or passivity

(the

more frequent acronym ADHD will be used for

simplicity from here on). According to the Conners

Global Index (CGI), which is also used for

evaluating ADHD treatment in conventional

medicine, the 10 most frequent symptoms are:

irritability; impulsiveness; easy and frequent

weeping; fidgeting; always on the move;

destructive; don't finish what they started; easily

distracted; sudden, large mood swings; easily

frustrated; interrupt other children. In the CGI the

intensity of symptoms is graded from 0 = not at all,

to 3 = very strongly.

Treatment of ADHD is one of the most

difficult challenges in Paediatrics, as well as in

Homoeopathy. It is the task of the homoeopathic

physician to find the best-suited medicine based on

the individual and characteristic symptoms of the

patient. The success rate using normal

homoeopathic patient interview techniques (i.e.

according to Organon §§ 82 - 950

is surprisingly

low at only 21%,

the average success rate with

other complaints treated homceopathically may

easily reach 65-75%.

This is due to the fact that

ADHD is frequently a one-sided complaint, i.e.

there are no other symptoms besides those related

to ADHD, and these are usually reported in a

stereo-typical way. Frequently the parents find it

very difficult to describe any other symptoms

besides those listed in the CGI. Notably, many

parents tend to be unsure when they observe

symptoms in their children - a fact which is

probably connected to the extreme variability of the

ADHD patient's behaviour. A well-indicated

medicine, once found despite those difficulties,

given in a 200C as a single dose, usually effects a

noticeable improvement lasting on average between

2 and 5 months.

Single doses, however, may, in

the experience of the authors, lead to significant

fluctuations in progress, since it is difficult to gauge

the right moment to prescribe the next higher

potency. In our recent double-blind study of

homoeopathic treatment of ADHD,

Homoeopathy

was subjected to a rigorous scientific test; we

therefore had to optimize the treatment. The

objectives of the work discussed here were to

increase the success rate of prescriptions and to

improve the stability of achieved improvement.

The latter has proved to be susceptible to external

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influences such as problems at school or tensions in

the family. The optimization process comprised

three consecutive stages, so that knowledge gained

in the previous optimization step could be applied

in the following (Table 1). From the beginning, Q

(LM, 50 millesimal) potencies were used in order to

achieve more stable progress.

Table 1 Steps to increase the effectiveness of

homoeopathic treatment of ADHD

Problem

Solution

Low success rate

Difficult differential

Diagnosis

Paucity of specific

symptoms

Unstable remedy

action

Identification of

unreliable symptoms

using a repertory-specific

questionnaire

Polarity analysis as

Comparative Materia

Medica

Use of pathognomic

perception symptoms for

repertorization

Use of Q-potencies

Methods

This paper is as a report of our experience in

which the data are documented prospectively. It is

not meant as a strictly scientific study.

Inclusion criteria

We included in this study patients attending a

paediatric-homceopathic practice, aged 2-16 years,

who were diagnosed with ADHD according to

DSM-IV criteria,

and treated only with

homoeopathic medicines.

Outcome parameter

The parents performed a CGI rating after each

treatment stage, i.e. after every 4 weeks. A

prescription was counted as a 'hit' when continuous

treatment resulted in improvement of the CGI score

by at least 9 points or a reduction of the initial score

by at least 50%. On talking to the parents we

gained an impression of the stability of

improvement, which was not expressed in a more

objectively measured quantity.

Optimization steps

General questionnaire

In order to identify unreliable symptoms we

used a general questionnaire, which listed ADHD

symptoms as well as the most common accessory

symptoms (i.e. symptoms occurring at the same

time yet unrelated to ADHD). The questionnaire

was used until 100 patients had achieved a

substantial improvement of their symptoms, then

we analysed the failed previous prescriptions,

which led to no or only insignificant improvement,

and which predated the successful medicine in each

patient (Table 2). The goal was to identify those

symptoms which prevented the prescription of the

primarily best-suited medicines. Each symptom

which led at least once to a failed prescription was

included in the list of unreliable symptoms, and

then precluded from the repertorization in further

patients.

Polarity Analysis

In the next step we searched for a way to better

match the characteristic patient symptoms with the

'genius symptoms'

of a homoeopathic medicine,

thereby improving the reliability of the

prescriptions. To this end we started with

Bonninghausen's idea of contraindications and

developed what we call polarity analysis: almost

every homoeopathic medicine includes a number of

polar symptoms. These are symptoms which also

encompass their opposite, e.g. desire to

move/aversion to move; thirst/thirstless; warmth

ameliorates/warmth aggravates, etc. A medicine

may exhibit both poles, usually in different grades.

According to Bonninghausen, high grade symptoms

(grade three and four) correspond to the

characteristics of the medicine. In choosing the

medicine we have to find the one, whose

characteristics best corresponds to the characteristic

patient symptoms. All important symptoms of the

patient ought to be covered by the correctly chosen

medicine, in as high a grade as possible. If, in a

given polar symptom, the opposite is covered by a

particular medicine in a high grade whereas the

pole exhibited by the patient occurs only in a low

grade, then this medicine - according to

Boenninghausen - is contraindicated and will not

cure the patient. Nux vomica, for example, has

aversion to movement in third grade, desire to

move however only in first grade. Consequently,

Nux-v will not likely cure a patient who exhibits a

strong need to move, even though it covers this

symptom in principle. Bonninghausen used this

method to check his choice of medicines.

Polarity analysis is a further development of

Bonninghausen's concept of genius symptoms and

contraindications: by summing the grades of a polar

patient symptom for each likely medicine and

subtracting the grades of the corresponding polar

opposite symptoms, one arrives at the polarity

difference. For example: a patient suffers from

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Tonsillitis with the following symptoms: <

swallowing, <speaking, <cold food, <after waking,

>after eating, thirst increased. All these symptoms

are polar and covered by 19 medicines. However,

only three of those are not contraindicated

according to Bonninghausen: Natrum carbonicum,

Mercurius solubilis and Magnesium carbonicum.

The concept of polarity difference for these three

medicines is illustrated in Table 2.

Table 2 . Polarity analysis showing positive and

opposite symptoms and polarity difference for a

patient with Tonsillitis

Patient symptoms Medicine, degree of symptom

Nat-c Merc Mag-c

<swallowing

<speaking

<cold food

<after waking

<after eating

Thirst increased

Total

Opposite symptoms

Medicine,

3 2

1 2

2 1

4 3

1 1

4 1

15 10

degree of syr

>swallowing

>speaking

>cold food

>after waking

>after eating

Thirstless

Total

Polarity difference

Nat-c

Merc

Mag-c

Polarity difference

The polarity difference is the sum of the grades

of patient symptoms minus the sum of the grades of

opposite symptoms.

The higher the polarity difference, the more

likely the medicine matches the characteristic

symptoms of the patient, provided there are no

contraindications. A polarity difference of 0 or less

(i.e. negative values) points to medicines which

cover the patient symptoms in an unspecific way,

ie, do not cover all patient symptoms with their

genius symptoms . Such medicines have very little

chance of curing the presenting complaint in the

patient. According to our example, Nat-c, exhibits

the highest probability to cure, Merc, the second

highest. Using this method, the best-suited

medicine in a repertorization containing several

medicines, which all cover the patient symptoms,

can be more readily identified. The algorithm of

polarity analysis has been since integrated in the

repertorization program of Bonninghausen

Taschenbuch 2000

as well as the Amokoor

Programm,

which is based on Bonninghausen

Taschenbuch 1897 and further sources. The case

example given below demonstrates the practical

application of polarity analysis.

Test of primary perception symptoms

Since the list of unreliable symptoms obtained

in the first optimization step proved rather long, we

tried to identify symptoms of higher reliability in a

next step. ADHD, which according to current

understanding, involves primarily perceptive

disorders, ie, disorders of selection and processing

of sensory perceptions. These may, in variable

combinations, affect the visual, tactile, auditory,

proprioceptive, olfactory, and gustatory systems as

well as perception of temperature. Most perception

symptoms are not spontaneously picked up in a

homoeopathic patient interview, because the effects

of the impaired perceptions are more obvious and

inconvenient than the primary perceptive defects.

Hence, as a further optimization step, we located

those rubrics (primarily modalities) in

Bonninghausen Taschenbuch 2000

which exhibit a

direct link to perception symptoms (Table 3),

Modalities are generally the most reliable of all

characteristic symptoms, since they are more easily

recognized and related by the patient than, eg.

sensations or mental/emotional symptoms.

A number of other symptoms, which at first

sight also pertain to perception, turned out to be

unreliable in practical evaluation: <reading,

<talking, <soft touch, >touch, physical clumsiness,

falls easily/frequently, rocking, riding in car, over-

sensitive sense of taste, flabby muscles, tense

muscles. After an in-depth evaluation, an ADHD

questionnaire was designed, which includes the

perceptive symptoms of Table 3. Additionally, it

includes a list of unreliable symptoms, so that

parents may identify particularly notable

observations not contained in the questionnaire.

Use of Q-potencies

Treatment with single doses, as mentioned in

the introduction, may cause large fluctuations in

treatment effect, which is tiring and stressful for

everybody involved. In order to improve the

stability of the treatment effect we used liquid Q

(LM) potencies from the start: initially the children

received a Q3 every other day. If the parents

reported that the patient was worse on the days

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when medication was not taken, we changed to a

daily regime. After 4 weeks the treatment effect

was assessed. In case of a favourable assessment,

the patient continued immediately with the Q6,

again for 4 weeks, and so on up to Q42 or until

other symptoms indicated a change of medicine.

After reaching the Q42 (the highest available

potency) we started again with low Q-potencies,

this time with Q4, followed by Q7, Q10, and so on.

When a stable improvement was reached, the

follow-up intervals were extended to 4 months.

Table 3 Perception symptoms in ADHD

Tactile:

Visual:

Auditory:

Olfactory:

Gustatory:

Temperature:

Processing:

Gross motor

skills:

Fine motor

skills:

time of day:

Emotional:

touch aggravates (he/she has an

aversion to touch)

light in general aggravates

(hypersensitivity to [bright]

light), straining eyes aggravates

(eg. increased restlessness after

watching TV or computer games)

sense of hearing too sensitive

(cannot stand noise from others)

sense of smell too sensitive

sense of taste diminished (adds

spices to everything)

she/he gets hot easily, desire to

take off clothes, undress, heat

aggravates (hot weather, stuffy

rooms), cold ameliorates, gets

cold easily, desire to wrap

himself up, cold aggravates.

comprehension, cognition,

thinking slow, weak memory,

absent minded, lack of

concentration.

physical restlessness, increased

desire for physical activity,

sports, motion ameliorates

(during), aversion to motion.

writing aggravates (writes tense,

tires easily)

<after waking

<morning (before noon)

<afternoon

<evening

irritability, sadness

Results

Introducing the general questionnaire resulted

only in a slight improvement by raising the success

rate of the first prescription from 21% to 28%, after

five prescriptions from 68% to 78%. Interpreting

the results of the questionnaires, many symptoms

which are considered to be reliable for the selection

of a medicine in other illnesses, were in ADHD

patients reported in a misleading manner (Table 4).

On the other hand, sometimes the corresponding

observations were correct, so that the overall result

was an uncertainty with respect to the symptoms to

be used. All unreliable symptoms were excluded

from repertorization.

Introduction of the polarity analysis increased

the success rate of first prescriptions to 48%,

whereas the success rate after 5 months remained

practically unchanged at 79% (previously 78%).

Focusing the patient interviews on the perception

symptoms, ie. Introducing the ADHD questionnaire

led (in combination with the general questionnaire

and the polarity analysis) to a first prescription

success rate of 54% and a 5 months success rate of

84%. The three optimization steps (general

questionnaire [GQ], polarity analysis [PA] and

ADHD questionnaire with perception symptoms

[PS] ) were performed consecutively and their

effect on the precision of the prescription recorded .

It is gratifying to note that the optimization

process did not result in a reduced pool of

medicines. Table 5 lists the 27 medicines which

resulted in a lasting and increasing improvement

use in 160 ADHD patients in both of our clinical

studies.

" Treatment with Q-potencies yielded a

significantly improved continuity of the medicine's

action and better compliance of parents when

compared to the single dose regimen.

Table 4: Unreliable symptoms with failed

prescriptions preceding successful homoeopathic

medicine in 100 patients with ultimately successful

treatment of ADHD

(number of observations)

< = aggravation, > = amelioration

Mental/emotional symptoms

• Timidity (5)

• Fear of future events (2)

• Bashful (2)

• Fear of thunderstorms, < thunderstorms (1)

• Seriousness, fussy (1)

• Compassion (5)

• Day-dreaming (1)

• Illusions (1)

• Loquacity (7)

• Obstinate (1)

• Dictatorial (3)

• Haughty (1)

• Quarrelsomeness (1)

• Swearing (1)

• Jealousy (6)

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Covetous, avarice (2)

Impolite (1)

Violence (1)

Irresolution (1)

Disconsolate, unhappy (2)

Discontented (2)

Introvert (1)

Aversion to washing (1)

Modalities of mental symptoms

< being alone (3)

<company (8)]

<crowd (1)

<strangers (7)

<darkness (1)

<gnef(l)

<consolation (3)

<reprimands (3)

<anger (3)

<rage (3)

<thinking of complaints (1)

<music (1)

>music (1)

Mental-motor phenomena

tics (2)

grinding teeth (1)

stuttering (1)

biting nails (4)

Intellectual symptoms

weakness of memory (1)

< mental exertion (1)

Perception symptoms

>touch (4)

>soft touch (1)

<touching hair (2)

<pressure of clothes (1)

travel sickness (2)

disgust (2)

Motor symptoms

desire to move (1)

muscle tenseness (1)

repetitive motions (2)

clumsiness (2)

falling frequently, easily (2)

<writing (1)

General modalities and desires

<noon (1)

>fresh air, open air (4)

>walking outdoors (2)

>after sleeping (1)

<lack of sleep (4)

<full moon (2)

>massage (1)

>physical exertion (1)

desires fresh air (3)

desire to wrap oneself (1)

desire to doff clothes (1)

Food

<various foods (5)

desires various foods (4)

aversion to various foods (1)

<hunger (5)

>eating (3)

>drinking (1)

Weather and climate

<cold-wet weather (1)

<autumn (1)

<winter (1)

<windy weather (1)

<change of weather (1)

<hot weather (4)

Table 5: Homoeopathic medications for patients in

two placebo-controlled ADHD trials,

''' associated

with improvements of 50% or 9 points in the

Conners Global Index.

Calc. c.

Lye.

Sulph.

Nux-v.

Phos.

Caust.

Ign.

8. Sil.

9. Merc-s.

10. Bell.

11. Cham.

12. Sep.

13. Hep.

14. Arg-n.

15. Chm.

16. Lach.

17. Ph-ac.

18. Puis.

19. Staph.

20. Ars.

21. Hyos.

22. Nat-m.

23. Caps.

24. Agar.

14%

11%

10%

<1%

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25. Bar-c.

26. Bry.

27. Stram.

<1%

Table 6: Repertorizadon performed with

BSnninghausen Pocket Book 2000 program

M.G.,12 years, AD Calc Lye Cham Chin Borx Puis

Rubrics covered 111 11 1

Weighted grades 22 22 16 14 12 10

Polarity difference 18 15 10 8 4 4

Desires movement 114 4 1 1

>Undressing 3 4 2 2 3 2

<Eye strain 4 1112 2

<Noise 3 3 3 2 2 1

Difficult compre-

hension 3 4 2 11 1

<Writing 4 3 12 1 1

Flabby muscles 4 3 3 2 2 2

Aversion to

Movement

<Undressing

>Eye stain

Easy compre-

hension

>Writing

Firm muscles

Amokoor polarity

Percentile**

Amokoor Kl

1 3/K1"

0 0

0 1

0 0

81 71

1 2

1 1

0 0

0 2

74 71

]<^]***

Normal font, patient symptoms, oblique, opposite

symptoms.

*K1 = contraindications, in the realm of genius

symptoms the opposite pole is in high grade (3, 4),

the patient pole however in low grade (1, 2).

** Amokoor translates the absolute value of the

polarity difference into a percentile. PP = 50

corresponds to a polar difference of 0. values

above PP = 75 indicate a good specify of the

medicine.

***The contraindication of Pulsatilla (weak muscle

tone) is only visible in the Amokoor program due to

symptom grading which differs from the

BSnninghausen Program.

Case example

In conclusion we would like to illustrate the

methods we have introduced using a case example

from the double blind study:

Marco (name changed), a 12 year old boy,

draws attention to himself because of his impulsive,

restless and at times difficult behaviour. He is

always on the run, can never finish anything, and

becomes frustrated quickly in difficult situations.

He develops severe headache after lack of sleep,

excitement, sadness or fear. As a small child he

used to be very fearful, but not anymore. His

psycho-motor development was on the slow side

but within normal bounds. If he feels well, Marco

is an open, sociable nature boy. Even in situations

which are difficult for him he remains approachable

and consolable. He has difficulties in school due to

serious learning and attention problems, and is

scarcely able to follow lessons in a normal class

room setting. His parents rated his CGI

hyperactivity score at 20, corresponding to an

ADHD of medium severity. Neurological and

neuropsychological examinations at the University

Clinic, Bern confirmed the diagnosis of ADHD.

On examination I find a tall, restrained,

slightly adipose patient with a low muscular tone,

who is able to remain relatively calm for a

hyperactive child. The only notable feature is his

rather pale complexion.

The parents mark the following symptoms on

the ADHD questionnaire:

• Increased desire to move

• Gets too hot easily, desire to undress

• Straining eyes aggravates (eg. increased

restlessness after watching TV or computer

games)

• Noise (of others) aggravates

• Comprehension, cognition, thinking slow,

abstract reasoning difficult

• Writing difficult, cramped, tiring

Symptoms listed in the General questionnaire,

except weak muscle tone, were not used for

repertorization; such symptoms were: overweight,

headache due to lack of sleep and strong emotions,

profuse perspiration, aggravation from mental

exertion, amelioration from motion, outdoors, and

physical exertion - they may lead to failed

prescriptions as described earlier.

The repertorization was performed with the

Bonninghausen Program and checked with

Amokoor. Results are shown in Table 6. Six

medicines cover all symptoms, two of them,

however, Lycopodium and Pulsatilla, have to be

discarded due to contraindications. Calcium

carbonicum exhibits the highest polarity in both

repertories. Comparing the Materia Medica leads

us to exclude Chamomilla, since Marco shows no

temper tantrums, is not inclined toward violence,

and does not complain of increased sensitivity to

pain. China and Borax cover the patient symptoms

in a rather uncharacteristic way due to their low

polarity differences of 8 and 4, respectively, and

hence offer only low probabilities of cure. In

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favour of Calcium carbonicum we have next to the

high polarity difference the coverage of accessory

symptoms such as profuse perspiration, pale

complexion, and slow psycho-motor development.

Also fitting are the discarded symptoms

amelioration outdoors and from physical exertion

as well as aggravation from lack of sleep and strong

emotions.

Consequently, Marco received Calcium

carbonicum Q3 in liquid form every 2 days

initially, later in daily doses. After 1 month the

mother reports that he is significantly more stress

resistant, able to concentrate better, and his CGI

score is only 9. Family and teacher are enthusiastic

about the far reaching changes in such short a time.

During long-term treatment with rising Q-potencies

of Calc-c, the CGI score declined further to 6

(Figure 2). This case example shows clearly how,

owing to polarity analysis, relatively few symptoms

suffice to identify the most likely medicine.

Discussion

The Organan in §§ 82-95, demands an open

case interview, we deviated from Hahnemann's

method by introducing questionnaires. This step

has to be justified carefully, since there is a risk of

missing individual, characteristic symptoms.

Because the cause of ADHD is according to current

understanding, probably of a genetic nature, we

frequently find ADHD symptoms in one or both

parents. Therefore, in our experience, the rather

unstructured description of the family history

frequently centres on the unavoidable complaints of

school, neighbourhood and siblings more than on

the actual symptoms of the child. So that we

frequently observe that the described symptoms are

limited to the range of the CGI and exhibit no

individual traits of the illness. The questionnaires

proved helpful in drawing the parents' attention to

those symptoms which have been shown helpful in

finding a fitting medicine. Therefore parents are

given 2-4 weeks to familiarize themselves with the

truly characteristic symptoms of the child. This

frequently helps to avoid having to revise the

primary symptoms after a first (unsuccessful)

treatment phase. Because in our methodology the

medicine selection is based on relatively few but

important symptoms, it is decisive that those are

truly accurate.

Excluding symptoms, associated with a failed

prescription in one patient only, may be

problematic. Since homoeopathic treatment of

ADHD is so difficult, we aimed primarily at the

discovery of unreliable symptoms, without

considering the quantitative aspects (ie the relation

of reliable to unreliable reports of the same

symptom). Through the fact that the perception

symptoms of ADHD patients presented a more

specific alternative, we were not forced to

investigate the unreliable symptoms further. Since

this kind of problem does seem to be ADHD

specific, these results may not be applicable to

other diseases.

It has also to be emphasized that reliable

polarity analysis requires at least five polar

symptoms. A single inaccurate symptom

frequently leads to a failed prescription.

Furthermore, it should be noted that the

contraindications are the more important part of the

analysis, since disregarding them almost invariably

leads to the wrong medicine, while the size of the

polarity difference constitutes only a relative scale

indicating the best fitting medicine. An interesting

new method of grading is being developed by the

Dutch Committee for Methods and Validation.

They propose the use of likelihood ratios (LR) to

calculate the probability a specific symptom

contributes to the selection of a specific

homoeopathic medicine. LR compares the

prevalence of a symptom in patients that have been

cured by a specific homoeopathic medicine, with

the prevalence of this symptom in the rest

population (unsuccessful prescriptions of the same

medicine and all prescriptions of other medicines).

While the theoretical basis for the use of LR's is

established, a considerable research effort is

necessary to arrive at a repertory with LR-grading.

It will be interesting then to test the hypothesis if

polarity analysis with LR's instead of

Boenninghausen's symptom grades is more

accurate. Polarity analysis must be regarded as an

additional tool with which the precision of the

prescription can be somewhat increased. In parallel

to our investigations into ADHD we also checked

their influence on the success rate with other

patients. The initial indications are that they lead to

a significant increase in the precision of medicine

selection. There has also been concern that polarity

analysis may lead to an increase in prescription of

polychrests, and that smaller medications may be

lost in this procedure. In our first ADHD study

without polarity analysis we used 24 different

medicines for 86 children (number of patients who

received the same medicine: 3.58), in the second

with polarity analysis 17 medicines for 62 patients

(number of patients who received the same

medicine: 3.65). thus, the individualization of the

homoeopathic treatment in ADHD patients has not

suffered through this method. On the contrary,

applying polarity analysis in other diseases, we

observe a wider range of successful prescriptions

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with a more frequent use of smaller medicines

(publication in preparation).

The introduction perception symptoms into

the repertorization violates the (misunderstood)

homoeopathic dogma of never basing a case

analysis on pathognomic symptoms. Dunham, who

initially pointed out this problem, counted only

such symptoms which exhibit already more or less

pronounced tissue lesions as pathognomic.

' '

Later homoeopaths changed the meaning of

pathognomic to its current medical definition,

encompassing those symptoms pertaining to a

conventional medical diagnosis. This change in

interpretation means that even in all respects

characteristic symptoms in the sense of Organon §

153 are subsumed under the heading pathognomic.

If we exclude such symptoms from repertorizations,

we are violating the Law of Similars.

broadening of the definition of pathognomic

beyond Dunham's tissue lesions seems

inadmissible, as shown by the increase of the rate

of cure associated with the inclusion of perception

symptoms.

Conclusions

A modified Bonninghausen treatment approach

has enabled us to optimize the treatment of ADHD

patients. In Bonninghausen's ranking of

symptoms, the main complaint with its peculiarities

comes before the accessory symptoms with their

associated peculiarities, while mental/emotional

symptoms are only considered afterwards. The

polarity analysis evolves and extends

Bonninghausen's concept of contraindications.

This optimization process required about 5 years of

hard work, during which we had the opportunity to

become intimately familiar with the problems

associated with the homoeopathic treatment of

ADHD patients. We believe that the significant

result in favour of Homoeopathy in the Bernese

ADHD double blind study are thanks only to this

process.

Acknowledgements

Sincere thanks to Dr. Klaus-Henning

GYPSER, for his assistance in preparing the

manuscript, Dr. LEX RUTTEN for the introduction

into the scientific work of his team, and Dr.

Christian KURZ for the careful translation of the

text. Conflicting interests: None declared.

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5 FACTS AND THEORIES OF

HOMOEOPATHY

JACOB JEANES, M.D.

(READ BEFORE THE PHIL. HOM.

MEDICAL SOCIETY)

**********

THE SINGLE DOSE

Although judicious observation is the medium

for the attainment of knowledge, that is, of a certain

perception of truth, fact, or existence, still we may

resort to speculation as a means of stimulating the

mind to observation. And we may do this properly

and profitably whilst we are careful between

opinion and knowledge.

Opinion, like belief indeed, they are nearly

convertible terms, may be rational, speculative, or

arbitrary. It is rational when it is a just judgement

of strong probability resulting from reasoning upon

ascertained facts. It is speculative when it is the

result of reasoning upon opinions or hypotheses. It

is arbitrary when it exists from the determination of

the Will.

The ratiocination and resulting opinion

constitutes a theory. But convenience, this term is

often applied to either of these constituents. It

would, therefore, seem that theory could only

appertain to rational or speculative opinion. But, a

theory may be arbitrarily adopted, and this will

most frequently occur from a confidence in the

judgement of its propounder. It may be proper for

the pupil to receive with respect the doctrines of his

preceptor. But when the time has arrived in which

his pupilage ought to terminate, it becomes his duty

to submit the precepts which he has received to the

ordeal of observation and reflection. And when, in

his turn, he endeavours to become the teacher of

others, he should remember that arbitrary opinion,

in which the will usurps the place of reason, ought

to be excluded from the realm of science, and

fortunately for the progress of mankind, it is not

now nearly so influential in medicine as it was a

few centuries since. Then the authority of great

names was much more potential than it is at the

present time. No man of sense would dare at this

day to utter a sentiment similar to that of the

zealous Galenist, who said, "Malo cum Galeno

errare, quam Harveyo esse circulator" - I would

rather err with Galen, than be a circulator with

Harvey.

After this brief elucidation of the sense in

which some important terms are employed in these

papers, we may proceed to the consideration of a

few of the theories which exist among the

cultivators of homoeopathic medicine. And first,

the theory of the single dose. This, which has some

influence in modifying the practice of many

physicians, is nowhere absolutely taught. It ought

not, therefore, to be called a doctrine. It is

suggested by the writings of HAHNEMANN, but

he can easily be exonerated from the charge of

having taught it absolutely. His "Eine oder ein Parr

Gaben," his one or two doses, together with his

allowance of the repetition of a medicine in certain

cases, are sufficient to settle this matter.

The rational theory of the single dose is an

induction from the following facts.

First, that violent and even inveterate diseases

have been cured by single doses.

Second , that the repetition of the dose appears

sometimes to excite needless aggravation, and

seems to delay rather than to expedite the cure.

Third, that in some cases there is a diminution

in the amount and duration of relief from each

successive dose, evidencing merely palliative

operation; whilst, at the same time, medicinal

symptoms of a severe character may be produced.

Such facts are sufficiently prominent in

homoeopathic practice to call our attention to the

theory of the single dose, and to demand for it a

careful investigation, but they are far from being

sufficiently constant to justify its acceptance as

worthy of universal or even of general application

in the treatment of disease. It is, indeed, too

extensive an induction from certain facts, whilst

others of a counterpoising character are either

entirely neglected or much undervalued. The fact

that very many cases of disease appear to require a

repetition of the doses, and to be benefited thereby,

certainly militates against this theory, which we

will agree may be usefully accepted in those cases

in which the single dose is evidently effecting a

cure.

In order to prepare ourselves for the proper

appreciation of facts, it will be necessary for us to

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free ourselves from the bias of speculative opinion,

or at the least to ascertain the true value of any

speculation which is allowed to operate upon our

minds.

The evident truthfulness of this proposition

should induce us to vigorously examine and

criticize every speculative theory which may have

an important influence over us. Therefore great as

is the debt of gratitude which we owe to the genius

of HAHNEMANN we are justified in a close

investigation of his theory of disease, and of the

modus operandi of remedies in its cure,

remembering that he did not enunciate it as

absolutely true, but as most highly probable. The

following inelegant but literal translation of Article

29 of his Organon, shows us his theory.

"In that every disease (the purely surgical

excepted), depends upon a disturbability of our

vital power, in feelings and activities; so in the

homoeopathic healing of the vital power disturbed

by natural disease, through the administration of a

medicinal potens, selected accurately according to

symptoms resemblance, there is produced a

somewhat stronger, similar morbid affection, and as

it were substituted in the place of the weaker,

similar natural morbid commotion against which

then the instinctive vital power, now only

medicinally disordered (but stronger), is compelled

to direct an increased energy, but on account of the

shorter working-duration of the now morbidly

affecting medicinal potence, soon overcomes this,

and as at first from the natural, so now from the in

its place entered artificial (medicinal) affection

becomes free, and therefore fitted to guide the life

of the organism again into health".

In the consideration of these theoretic

explanations, we may first notice the opinion, or

rather the hypotheses of the DISTURBABILITY

OF THE VITAL POWER.

The terms employed in the statement of this

hypothesis may be new, but the idea which they are

intended to convey is old. The theory of dynamic

and adynamic diseases appears to contemplate

disturbances of the dynamis or vital power. In

many other theories of disease there is an

approximation to this idea. Indeed, at first view, it

appears so truth-like, that we are ready to accept it

as truth. But remembering that the apparent is

often very different from the real, let us try its

merits by instituting a comparison between it and

the directly opposite hypothesis of the

INDISTURBABILITY OF THE VITAL

PRINCIPLE.

This, also, is not novel. For the Archaeus of

some, and the Vis medicatrix naturae of other

writers convey the idea of a power residing in the

living organism, which is constantly operating for

the development, perfection and integrity of the

organization. The functions of such a power are the

same as those of an indisturbable Vital Power or

principle. Therefore we may consider the power as

a thing with different names. Of these, that of the

indisturbable Vital Principle may have sufficient

advantages to justify its employment.

Upon the admission of this hypothesis, we

must look elsewhere than to the Vital Principle for

the primal seat of disease. And we can now only

look to the organization for this; since it is the

recipient of the injuries and offence which

constitute diseases. For, however extensively, we

may consider diseases as consisting of symptoms,

and may name them therefrom; we all have a

perception of something beyond this; namely, the

disease itself. Then, considering an injury or

offence to the organization to be the morbus ipse,

the disease itself, which must have as its necessary

consequences, alterations of the actions and

feelings; and, also, considering that the Vital

Principle in establishing new and extraordinary

processes must produce alterations of actions and

feelings, we must arrive at the conclusion that these

alterations are of two kinds. These may be termed

the direct and the indirect. And, as all these

alterations are called symptoms, we may say of an

incision by which a muscle is divided, that the

gaping wound, the haemorrhage, the immediate

pain and the loss of power, are direct symptoms of

the injury, the morbus ipse. And, that the

symptoms which speedily become blended with

these and finally supersede them, being the

production of the vital power in its processes of

preservation and restoration, are indirect symptoms.

Some among us may by this time be ready to

ask, what are offences: It may be replied, that they

are conditions of the organization which might be

termed injuries, if it were not that they are as yet

not attended by structural lesion, and therefore

permit a restoration to the original condition. When

from the particular nature, the violence, or the long

continuance of an offence, structural defect is

produced, it becomes an injury. The most

necessary and proper food when eaten in too large

quantity, becomes a cause of offence. These cases,

which are not infrequent, the sensations of weight

and fullness, the general lassitude and many other

uncomfortable feelings, are the direct symptoms of

the offence of the organization; whilst the

paroxysmal pains, the nausea and the vomiting, are

the results of the action of the Vital Principle for

the removal of cause of offence, being the indirect

symptoms. Another illustration derived from those

organs which are provided for the reception and

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temporary retention of certain excretions. When

these accumulate until they ought to be discharged,

the Vital Principle establishes its processes for their

removal which are marked by alterations in the

actions and feelings.

Extending our views to the exhalents of all

kinds, we find that the performance of their

functions may sometimes be interrupted or entirely

suspended. The causes of offence which occasion

such interruptions or suspensions, are generally

from the exterior of the organization. But whether

their causes be interior or exterior, their effect is to

overload the system with matters which ought to be

eliminated from it. So important is the removal of

these matters, that the vital power when it does not

succeed in removing the primary offence, and

recalling the inactive exhalents to their work,

imposes their duties upon other sets of exhalents.

These in their turn being overtasked, perform their

own duties imperfectly, overwork other exhalent

with similar results. In all this, the vital power is

doing the best which it can now do to preserve the

life of the organism. Its first great duty appears to

be the preservation of the organization in health and

integrity, and when from the force of adverse

circumstances it has been unable to do this, its

second great duty commences, which is to maintain

the life of the organism as long as may be possible.

Therefore, the Vital Principle, as the inimical forces

become more powerful, contends inch by inch in

retreat, yielding position after position, until it is

compelled to succumb, and the life of the organism

is extinct.

The offences to the organization from external

as well as from internal causation, are innumerable.

But the vital power resists or overcomes the larger

portion of them by its own forces. When from the

violence of a cause or from a complication of

causes, serious disease results, we are often able to

afford aid through the employment of medicinal

agents. These are useful, not from their nutritious

or invigorating properties, therefore, not from any

power which they possess of adding directly to the

power of the Vital Principle. Their utility appears

to consist in modifying the conditions of the

offended of the offence. Sometimes, the medicinal

power may substitute the existing disease by that

which it is capable of producing, and when this is

of a nature to be speedily overcome by the vital

power, a rapid cure must ensue. At other times, the

medicinal offence being super-added to the pre-

existing, serves as an additional incentive to the

Vital Principle to free the organization from the

irritation of both. And, at many, if not at all times,

the medicinal power operates through its offence

both as substitute and incentive. The last of these

methods is deserving of special attention, as being

substantially that given by HAHNEMANN in his

explanation of the mode of operation of

Homoeopathic remedies in the cure of disease.

From this, it can be seen that whichever hypothesis

we may accept, our views in regard to the mode of

operation of medicines in the cure of diseases are

the same, except as relates to the hypothetical

connection. And here it is that either of these

hypotheses becomes of importance, because of its

power of giving a bias to the mind in relation to the

repetition of doses. For under the idea of adding a

new disturbance to an already disturbed vital

power, we may sometimes fail to repeat the dose

when it might be repeated with great advantage.

Whilst under the view that the medicinal offence is

offered to a part or parts of the organization, the

Vital Principle being fully capable of overcoming

it, will give us much greater freedom in the

repetition of doses.

Follow members, if on this occasion there has

been evoked from the realm of thought a creature of

the imagination and named the Indisturbable Vital

Principle. It has been done not for the purpose of

offering matter for discussion this evening, but also

to show how careful we ought to be to avoid bias

from speculative reasoning, and how watchful we

should be in the proper observation and estimation

of facts.

(H.M. 1868-506)

6. PHILADELPHIA HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL

SOCIETY

Discussion on Jacob JEANES paper "Single

Dose"

Dr. WILLIAMSON: We are all deeply engaged in

the treatment of cases as they arise in practice, that

we have not permitted ourselves to penetrate very

deeply into the realms of science. While I

appreciate the valuable paper, I do not wish to

comment until I see it in print. A judicious

practitioner will not repeat the dose when he

conceives it to be unnecessary, he will not refrain

from repeating it on any theoretical grounds, where

it may appear to be necessary. He must be

governed by the indications of his case. We have

not arrived at that point where we are able to decide

when and how often the dose should be repeated,

but I have no doubt that this would eventually be

settled.

At first, the almost universal plan was to give

two doses following Hahnemann's method. We

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must remember, however, that from 1835 to 1843,

HAHNEMANN treated almost exclusively chronic

diseases, generally prescribing from the detail of

symptoms given to him. There are acute diseases

that have no specific course to run, and these may

often be out short by a single dose of the right

remedy; but it has always appeared to me sound

both in theory and practice, that in particular

diseases arising from some morbific agency, where

the cause continues to act, that a single dose

exhausts its action on the system before the action

of the morbific cause ceases. Thus by theory I

would be led to repeat the dose and it has been

confirmed in practice.

Dr.H.N. MARTIN: Does it not make a difference

in regard to repetition, whether you use the high or

low potencies?

Dr. WILLIAMSON: Most assuredly. If in a case

of acute disease, as Scarlet Fever, the physician

were to prescribe a single dose of a low potency

and wait 24 hours, he might have no opportunity of

repeating it; whereas, if a high potency were given,

and frequently repeated the case might become

considerably mixed.

Dr. GUERNSEY: It is quite as hard to know when

to repeat as it is to know what to prescribe in a

given case. The phase of the case may vary so

from time to time, that we may be prompted to

repeat where it would actually be injudicious. In

nature, the transition from season to season is

gradual. Summer approaches through Spring,

gradually. The Spring days often assume the garb

of Winter, and then become more genial, and thus

changing fine weather is established, and Summer

is fully set in. In the natural processes of the body,

as after parturition, the same thing is observed.

Thus the lochial discharge, gradually fading, with

occasional outspurts, ceases, and the woman thinks

she is well; but it returns again and again, in the

nature of a pinkish discharge, until it finally ceases

and the woman is then well. Thus in disease, also,

we find the same thing obtains; the same ups and

downs. We give a high potency of a carefully

selected and homoeopathic remedy, and after a time

we find the patient is not so well as at first. Now

the questions arise, is this the natural action of the

remedy, or of the disease influenced by the remedy

or is the patient getting worse? This appears to be a

difficult point to be decided. If he is fully assured

the homceopathicity of this remedy, his course is to

await patiently its action, and he finds everything

come right. In consequence of the varying action

of the diseased organism, it is difficult to know

when to repeat a remedy, and when not to repeat it.

Dr. H.N. MARTIN: I have frequently observed

that after giving a single dose of a high potency

with good effect, that the patient got worse. By

waiting in these cases, I had found the patient get

better again, and well. Some I had repeated the

dose, and the patient became worse; repeated again

and still worse; changed the remedy, still worse;

then in disgust had given nothing, and the patient

speedily recovered.

The idea of a medicine curing a disease, is

something, I have grave doubts about. I have

established a theory of my own in this regard.

Nature has always something held in reserve. We

might suppose it impossible that we could jump

twelve feet, yet if pursued, under the influence of

terror, we would develop surprising power that

would enable us to leap the distance readily. If the

vital powers become depressed, and the patient

lapses into that condition we call disease, I would

think of giving medicine, by its action the power

lying dormant in the system is released and

compelled to drive the disease out. If the first dose

does not call up the force, it will be necessary to

repeat. This idea is very crude, but I have

entertained it for sometime.

Dr. JEANES: Under both hypotheses, as laid down

in the paper, we are led to the sigle dose. Under

one, however, the disturbability, we would be

exceedingly timid about repeating the dose, or of

even giving the first dose. I had had the same

experience as Dr. GUERNSEY. Had seen many

such cases as alluded to by him. The bad part of

the wheel will come uppermost again and again,

and yet the patient be gradually getting better.

Repetition of doses is something that the physician

seems prone to. The one who uses low potencies

repeats frequently, while he who uses high

potencies dissolves his pellets in water and orders

doses to be given so and so, which is certainly

repeating the dose. I think it is often prejudicial to

repeat the dose.

Dr. GUERNSEY: There is absolute danger in

repeating the dose, in these "turning up of the bad

part of the wheel", as Dr. JEANES happily

expresses it. Dr. WILLIAMSON had said to him, a

long time ago, and I had never forgotten it, that he

had hadpatients getting along finely, until he

unfortunately repeated the doses, and he could not

get his patients back into the old good condition

again. Where aggravations of the nature spoken of

before occur, I think it bad practice to repeat.

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Dr. B.W. JAMES: Just here we see the

importance of knowing the difference between the

symptoms of disease, those of the drug, and those

of nature in her reaction. There certainly is a line of

demarcation, where the disease symptoms leave

off, and those of restoration set in; the same as there

is in the proving of a drug, where a certain train of

symptoms are the effect of the drug itself, and other

symptoms are only those produced by the system

itself, in re-establishing a normal state or in

bringing the functions again into healthy play.

These latter effects, if noted in the proving of a

remedy, are ofcourse, not properly drug symptoms,

and will not be cured, in disease manifestations, by

that drug. We cannot yet discover the dividing line,

but I think we might, at some day, by close

observation, be able to do it, and then we will be

able to know just when to give a remedy, and how

often to repeat it, and when to stop and leave nature

to herself.

Dr.J.C.MORGAN: I usually give three doses, have

often found my patient on the first after prescribing

better of some symptoms; on the second day others

are better, but some new, collateral symptoms are

presented. I have often at this point been at a loss

whether to repeat or not. I was called to a case of

Croup. The child was fat; had barking cough, like

the barking of a dog, fever and vomiting. Gave

Spongia 200 every two hours for some days. The

child was constipated, and on calling again, found

the mother had given Castor oil. I then gave S.L.

Two days after the cessation of the Spongia, he

found the child's cough much softer, yet still

barking. I gave Hepar, three doses, and there was

no more of it. In another case, that of an old lady,

there were symptoms of Pneumonia. Auscultatory

symptoms those of Bronchitis; sibilant respiration;

crackling sound in upper part of left lung, with

bellows sound, chills, etc. Gave first, three doses of

Belladonna, in water, in repeated doses. This was

followed by amelioration, but subsequently its

action ceased. Then gave Sulphur in water. This

produced amelioration also, followed by

aggravation of double the former extent. At this

point, after much doubt and hesitation as to what I

should do, gave S.L. and the patient has been

getting better ever since. If I find the periodicity the

disease started with, changed, I regard it as the

effect of the disease. If the periodicity and the

morals are manifestly changed, while the main

affection is unchanged, I regard it as an aggravation

by the remedy, and repetition unadvisable. In the

old lady's case, I regarded it as the aggravation of

Sulphur, because the nose became very red; a

Sulphur symptom. In treating Gonorrhoea, I have

found that by repeating the dose, violent

aggravations have resulted. I think that this disease,

belonging to the animal sphere, is liable to show

aggravations. I would like to know what it is that

we term "Vital Principle." I regard it as composite.

Dr.WILLIAMSON: If we would know the true end

of things, we must study the means. We must study

the natural history of diseases. A large number of

diseases, attacking the organism, in course of time

change their locality and conditions. I was called to

see an old gentleman who had Apoplexy. I gave an

appropriate remedy, and he got better. But while his

health was better, his heart was worse.

Hahnemann's doctrine, that symptoms disappear

inversely as they appear, was in his experience,

correct. The appearance and aggravation of the

heart symptoms in this case, were the natural results

of the apoplectic condition being removed. When

we relieve the heart symptoms, we have showing

itself, a kidney affection. Thus, in apoplexy in old

persons, we almost invariably find they had, earlier

in life, some heart affection, and before this,

perhaps in childhood or youth, a kidney affection.

Thus , the symptoms last appearing are the first to

be cured. Thus we will perceive it is important to

study the natural history of the disease, as well as

the pathogenesis of drugs.

(H.M. 1868-547)

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Part III

(While Part II features articles from other journals, P;

original

BOOKSHELF

1. History of Homoeopathy in India in the 19

Century by Prof. Dr. Diwan Harish CHAND.

Published by B. Jain Publishers (P) Ltd. I

edition - 2007 Price Rs. 325.00 C 21.95. US$

25.00.

This book deals with the life of pioneers of

Homoeopathy in India in the 19

Century. These

pioneers were Dr. John Martin HONIGBERGER,

Babu Rajinder DUTT, Dr. Mahendra Lai SIRCAR,

Sir Syed Ahmed KHAN and Fr. Augustus

MULLER.

This book written by Dr. Diwan Harish

CHAND reports on their lives, their trials, beliefs,

and their subsequent triumphs. In his preface Dr.

Harish CHAND mentions a chance meeting at an

airport in Germany with Dr. Renen DUTTA, who is

the 5* generation descendent of Babu Rajinder

DUTT, one of the pioneers of Homoeopathy.

The book is divided into seven chapters.

Chapter-1 deals with the inception and

development of Homoeopathy in the 19

century. It

is believed that one Dr. Henry Westly VOYCEY,

who was a geologist, was perhaps the first person to

bring Homoeopathy to India and practice it.

Subsequently some German missionaries settled

down in Karnataka around 1834, and began treating

lay people and top government officials of that

time, through Homceopathy. The chapter gives

various other references during those days of those

who took to Homoeopathy, but it was Babu

Rajinder Lai DUTT, who may be considered as the

father of Indian Homoeopathy. This Chapter

includes a Speech given during the year 1867 by a

British Judge of Banaras, Mr. IRONSIDE whose

pertinent remarks, I shall briefly quote as they are

valid today inspite of the passage of so much time.

"Medical men are specially prone to resist any new

doctrine ... It is very difficult at all times to

introduce anything new into medical use, and to get

people to believe in it and adopt it, especially when

they have made up their minds - apriori - as to the

absurdity of it. People generally in this world fail

in moral courage and use ridicule as a weapon with

success where any object is to be gained. Men like

Dr. HARVEY and Dr. JENNER suffered from this

III contains the editor's own contribution and other

icles.)

ridicule." This article by the judge contains many

such interesting points, and I will quote one more

sentence of his which coming from a layman

should make all doctors sit up in their comfortable

arm chairs and think. "The science of medicine, I

consider, consists in knowing exactly what to give

and administering just sufficient to remove the

illness and no more, without producing any

inconvenience whatever to the patient. People who

suffer from the effects of the medicine, suffer from

the superfluous quantity they have taken. ... the

science of assisting nature which in essence

Homceopathy is, should be the ground work of all

medical theory." This chapter also contains an

important article by the Late Dr. P.C.

MAZUMDAR and also contains an extensive

article on malarial fevers in India by Late Dr. P.C.

MAZUMDAR who has given various remedies in

chronic and protracted cases along with the acute

stages. Much useful information is there in this

chapter about the establishment of Calcutta Medical

College and the spread of Homoeopathy in Bombay

and Mangalore.

Chapter-2 is written entirely by Dr. Mahindra

Lai SIRCAR and is titled Homoeopathy in India.

This was first reproduced as a speech sent to the

International Homoeopathic Convention, London

1881 and covers pages from 21 to 48. Dr. SIRCAR

has also written about Homoeopathy in the

treatment of diseases prevalent in India during his

time. When one reads the various remedies that he

has mentioned especially for diarrhoeas, one is

struck with the depth of knowledge and the

homoeopathic mastery that Dr. SIRCAR had and his

remarks about the essential features of various

remedies would be very helpful for anyone of us

today. This chapter also includes the treatment of

Indian Dysentery and Cholera by Dr. P.W.

CARTER of Australia who treated such cases in

India between 1876 and 1878. He has given also a

statement of Cholera cases that he treated between

1872 and 1878, both in the invasive stage and in the

fully developed stage. He was the first to advocate

giving a solution of saline orally in water every

fifteen minutes.

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Chapter-3 deals with the association of

Maharaja Ranjit SINGH and Romanian physician

John Martin HONIGBERGER. This physician

remained as a court physician to the Maharaja for a

period of four years, and then after the death of the

Maharaja he stayed for another ten years during his

second visit to India. He has recorded his

experiences in a book titled "35 years in the East".

The story of this doctor and his treatment of the

Maharaja during his first visit is perhaps known to

all homoeopaths. The Maharaja improved

remarkably initially, by giving him a potentised

remedy of Dulcamara prepared in front of the

Maharaja and his courtiers. This incurred the

jealousy of so many hakims and other allopathic

doctors especially that of a fakir who exerted an

unholy influence over Ranjit SINGH. Shortly

afterwards, the Maharaja was treated by other

physicians and he passed away. The chapter

contains an interesting account of not only the

Maharaja's inner circle, but also the personality and

attributes of Ranjit SINGH himself.

HONIGBERGER during his stay treated many

patients of the Cholera epidemic of that time, and

also the other Europeans like the French, Italians,

English who were staying there. HONIGBERGER

travelled over 30 years in his lifetime getting

acquainted with various medical systems. The

systems of the Hindus and the Muslims, systems

from Egypt and ancient Greece and even studied

some ancient astrological notions and some absurd

superstitions. He had extensively practiced both

Allopathy and Homoeopathy, finding each system

useful in its own way, he composed his own system

which he calls 'median system'!. His book

contains a Repertory and a Materia Medica of 300

pages and also mentions various strange remedies

which he himself prepared from plants and animals.

Sadly to say, the works of HONIGBERGER are no

longer available to us. A great volume of

impressive literature seems to have been lost for all

times. The Chapter is enlivened with coloured

photographs of HONIGBERGER and the place

where he prepared the medicine for the Maharaja.

The chapter ends with some reproductions from

HONIGBERGER's book, which the author Dr.

Diwan Harish CHAND has given in an enlarged

form.

Chapter-4 deals with Rajinder DUTT, the

pioneer of Homoeopathy, who may be called as the

Father of Homoeopathy in that century. It describes

how Rajinder BABU converted Dr. Mahindralal

SIRCAR to Homoeopathy and also describes the

treatment of Bhagwan Sri Ramakrishna during his

terminal illness. It is said that Ramakrishna

improved initially with Rajindra BABU's first dose

of Lycopodium 200c and for two weeks at least was

feeling better raising hopes of eventual cure, but as

was well-known Sri Ramakrishna slowly

deteriorated and passed away. It is said that Swami

Vivekananda was also in 1887 cured of kidney

stone disease by Babu Rajinder DUTT. Rajinder

DUTT was not only a great social-worker and

educationist but also an excellent businessman, a

lover of art and crafts and an excellent account of

this man was published in the Span magazine

which Dr. Diwan Harish CHAND could get a copy

after much efforts. The personal library of this

person was said to be so extensive that it was

supposed to be the largest of any of its kind by a

private person. He is said to have read all his books

as they arrived, for an hour or two before

consigning it to his shelves. More material is given

in this chapter by Swami Prabhanand about Babu

Rajinder DUTT which makes very interesting

reading especially the parts of the meeting and

treatment of Sri Ramakrishna by these two

homoeopaths. It is said that after Sri Ramakrishna's

passing, the spiritual urge of Babu Rajinder went on

increasing, though he survived only for three years

after the master's departure. Some rare first day's

stamps have been shown in this book as the author

is also a philatelist. More information about

Rajinder DUTT and his connection with the Pea-

body museum in Salem in Massachusetts is given

in this chapter. The Peabody museum also houses a

clay model of Babu Rajinder DUTT and various

other letters and gifts which Babu DUTT sent from

time to time. Coloured photographs of Indian

merchants and Yankee traders of those days and a

photograph of goddess Laxmi, a portrait of the

Babu, have been given in this chapter.

Chapter-5 gives more details of Mahindra

SIRCAR of which we have mentioned in an earlier

chapter. The far reaching results of SIRCAR's

conversion to Homoeopathy, his formation of the

association for the cultivation of Sciences, and his

last terminal illness with his undying loyalty to the

creed of Homoeopathy are some of the important

paragraphs which should be read by everybody.

The house of Dr. SIRCAR and even the street

named after him is shown by coloured photographs

in this chapter. Chapter on SIRCAR is from pages

143 to 215 and is perhaps the largest of all.

Chapter-6 deals with Sir Syed Ahmed KHAN,

the founder of Aligarh Muslim University, and is

associated with the spread of Homoeopathy in North

India. Sir Syed Ahmed KHAN strongly supported

Homoeopathy, and he stands out prominently as a

dynamic man pitted against conservatism,

superstition, inertia and ignorance. He also wrote a

book on Homoeopathy in Urdu and it is sorry to

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learn that his house - the haveli where he lived,

though it still exists today is a place of pigeon holes

and crumbling walls where some 8 to 10 families

still live.

The Chapter-7 is about Fr. Augustus MULLER

a pioneer of Homoeopathy in South India. Arriving

in Mangalore in 1788, amongst the first batch of

Jesuit missionaries he taught English and side-by-

side with a small chest of homoeopathic medicines

began treating relatives and common people and his

students. He soon quit his English teacher's job,

opened a 'Homoeopathic Poor Dispensary' and also

wrote many useful books to spread the message of

Homoeopathy. He then started a manufacturing

unit and later on opened The Father Muller's

Charitable Institutions. Fr. MULLER, though a

pure homoeopath suggested the use of

SCHUESSLER's tissue remedies and later on he

came across Count Mattei's remedies which were a

combination formulae for various diseases, the

combination was based on organ remedies. This

lead to the development of what is known even

today as Fr. MULLER's 'Specifics' which he

advocated could be used by many lay people. In

1890 he started a Leprosy hospital and Asylum and

in 1895 a general hospital, and in all these hospitals

he was ably assisted by Sisters of Charity. Later on

came an isolation hospital and a hospital for

Cholera and all the nursing of these patients was

done by a devoted band of young men, and of the

women by the Sisters of Charity. In 1910

FR.MULLER suffered from an attack of asthma

and cardiac complications. Inspite of this he went

to Colombo and then to Mangalore and passed

away peacefully in 1910 in his 70

year. It is said,

"Heaven had plans for him. That plan brought him

from United states to France, from illness to health,

from Allopathy to Homoeopathy and through it all

finally to India." He wrote four books still

available today and his body was interred in the

chapel of the leper asylum at the foot of the altar.

Many black and white coloured photographs are

given at the end of this chapter. A list of sixteen

references is given at the end of this book.

Going through this book for me, has been a

marvellous journey to the past in the 19

century

and Dr.Diwan Harish CHAND should be

congratulated for the tremendous zeal, patience and

dedication with which he has written this book for

the benefit of all Homoeopaths in India and the

world. The price is reasonable and this book will

go down as a classic of it's kind about the History

of Homoeopathy in India in 19

Century.

-D.E. MISTRY.

1 Materia Medica Revisa

Homoeopathiae - Einfiihrung von

Klaus Henning GYPSER (Hrsg.),

Wunnibald Gypser Verlag,

2007 Einfiihrung.

2. Materia medica Revisa

Homoeopathiae Dulcamara von

Klaus-Henning GYPSER (Hrsg.)

Wunnibald Gypser Verlag, 2007.

H.C. ALLEN said "The life-work of the

student of the homoeopathic Materia Medica is one

of constant comparison and differentiation

To enable the student or Practitioner to do this

correctly and rapidly he must have as a basis for

comparison some knowledge of the individuality

of the remedy" .... (Preface to the First Edition

of "Key Notes and Comparisons" .... By H.C.

ALLEN, Boericke & Tafel, 1936). Such a study of

the remedies can be made only if we have reliable

Materia Medica. What, for example, are the

sources from which William BOERICKE compiled

his Materia Medica? How much from Provings and

verifications? What errors and how many have

crept in in the different translations? This is very

important since erroneous entries have entered into

the Repertories from the Materia Medica which

itself contained the error. The source Materia

Medica must be available to enable verification.

In the L.H. TAFEL's Translation of the Lesser

Writings of BOENNINGHAUSEN, in the article

". . . Concerning Expectoration" I found three

errors when I verified this with the original in

GYPSER's Boenninghausens Kleine

Medizinische Schriften, 1988.

Thus the importance of source verification is

necessary especially when most of the books on the

practitioner's desk for consultation are secondary

ones.

In the course of over a century and a half of

clinical practice of Homoeopathy several

verifications, corrections, additional symptoms,

etc., have been presented by quite reliable authors

which are lying scattered in several articles and

such other records; for example the

Characteristics in J.H. CLARKE's Dictionary of

Practical Materia Medica which precede the

Schema presentation of each remedy. To the best of

my knowledge no one has attempted to add to this

subsequently. There are certain errors in the

CLARKE's Dictionary itself. Meanwhile most of

the valuable old journals wherein these are

contained have been lost totally.

The late Dr. Georg von KELLER had, over a

period of several years, collected much useful and

reliable material and he began to collate them and

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present them in Monographs. This series of

Monographs began in 1973, and 14 Monographs

were published; some of them were slim and some

large. The 14

in the series was Kali carbonicum

(1987) and contains 523 pages.

In this work of Dr. von KELLER every

symptom is given in exact words with the time, etc.

so that an exact comparison can be made.

Many symptoms reported in Clinical Cases

have been included.

The strenuous work involved in this kind of

work is too much for one man.

It is indeed of great value to the genuine

homoeopaths that source material are made

available once again by Dr. K.-H. GYPSER who

has besides his own sources, been fortunate enough

to have the collections of Dr. von KELLER. It is

works of this kind that are of value to the present

and future generation of homoeopaths and not the

weaving of fantasies.

The first volume now under review is an

Introduction to the works that follow. It is

therefore necessary that one should have this

Introductory volume to understand the Monographs

that would follow in a series. The successive

publications would depend upon the colleagues'

willingness to cooperate; this would involve the

sifting of the literature - both current and past.

There is a brief Chapter on the development of

the Materia Medica, beginning from the

"Fragmenta de Viribus .... (1805)", then the First

Edition of Pure Materia Medica in 6 volumes

(1811-1821). Subsequent provings appeared in

STAPF's "Archiv" and other journals.

There have been several Provings and

Reprovings, reliable ones, and these have not been

brought to the attention of the Homoeopathy

Practitioners nor all of them available in one

book/source (even though they may be in several

volumes); besides these there are thousands of

cured symptoms which too form part of Materia

Medica. Except Dr. von KELLER and now

GYPSER, no one, to the best of my knowledge

seem to have even thought of it, let alone venture to

collect as much of these material of practical value.

On the other hand lot of efforts have been, and

still are being, made to weave fantasies. There is

enough treasure left to us by the stalwarts of the

past; we should locate them and harvest them for

our use.

In the Introduction GYPSER gives a brief but

very important observation regarding the Primary

action and the Secondary action. A close and

detailed study of these will surely help.

In the next Chapter the role of the clinical

symptom is discussed.

Formulation criteriae of the Revision is

explained in the next chapter. This is observed

throughout all subsequent Monographs.

The Appendix gives list of the journals

consulted in the collection - at least 500 to 600!

Almost all of them old ones.

The last Chapter is an excellent Essay about

how the Materia Medica is to be studied. Here the

various Masters who had written on this subject —

HERING, LIPPE, BOENNINGHAUSEN,

DUNHAM, JAHR, BOGER - are all discussed.

Thus the 1

Volume - the Introduction is alone

worth repeated study and everyone who does so

will be rewarded.

2. The second under review is the first of the

proposed Monographs - Dulcamara (Solanum

Dulcamara - Bitter sweet)

Following the traditional 'Schema' it begins

with brief information about the first Proving, the

pharmaceutical information, etc. and then begins

'Mind', 'Sensorium', 'Inner Head', 'Brain', etc.

....until end 'Skin', 'Sleep' ending with

'Puis'.

We find in this several symptoms which still

have to find their place in the Repertory; also the

intensity of some of the symptoms. Let me cite

only 2 or 3 examples which will indicate the value

of this work:

"Eyes: Inflammation of eyes of the new born."

The symptom is given in Capitals. It is from

WESSELHOEFT. W.P.

"The pupil was very wide" also in Capitals.

This symptom is from BODENMUELLER and

E. SCHLEGEL.

"Maximally widened pupils" Symptom from

HILBERT.

"chronic diarrhoea after he had fallen in cold

water when sweating". Diwan JAI CHAND.

For every symptom the source is given in

abbreviated form and the expansion is given in the

end in two parts: 1. Medicinal Provings and

Toxicological; 2. Clinical observations. Everything

well tied up leaving nothing! No printing errors.

It is in the interest of every genuine

Practitioner to obtain this series and update his

Materia Medica and consequently improve his rate

of success and bring greater glory to Homoeopathy.

- K.S.SRINIVASAN.

II. The Homoeopathic Treatment of Lyme

disease, by Peter ALEX, with contributions from

Bill GRAY, Mathias RICHTER, Alize

TIMMERMAN, Frans VERMEULEN and others.

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ISBN: 978-0-9754763-1-4. Homoeopathy West

Publishing, 7829, Terrace Drive El Cerrito, CA

94530 - USA. English Translation by Doug

SMITH from the original German "Heilung

Borreliosekranker mit Homoopathie", 2005. Price

€20/-.

Lyme disease is a seroius threat particularly in

Germany, USA. It is an infectious disease and

therefore preventable. The infection is by a tick

bite. The disease is insidious and develops severe

complications and disabilities like severe Arthritis.

As is not unusual with other serious diseases

Homoeopathy does very well in this.

The book under review opens with an

introduction of Infections Diseases in general and

Lyme in particular. ALEX's observations cannot

be disputed. He says "From time immemorial

epidemics only occur where very difficult social

relations prevail; where there is hunger, privation

and misery, most often accompanying or

consequent to war. Thus the epidemic situation in

Germany, as in Europe, eased considerably, due

simply to the subsequent improvement in living

conditions." [Yet what is done in the so-called

'developing nations' or poor nations is to keep

pumping into the otherwise healthy but frail bodies

of their emaciated children many vaccines, instead

of improving their living conditions and economy.

Internecine, sectarian, ethnic wars are encouraged

so that the weaponry manufacturing Western

Countries can have grand sales of their weapons

and at the same encourage administration of several

vaccines so that the Western Pharmaceutical

Industry will earn more. Out of the money got

from such unethical practices, they offer funds to

the poor countries! Thus while they give with one

hand they take away with two hands!! - KSS],

ALEX points out that every therapy directed

against bacteria creates a disturbance, that is, it

upsets the natural course of our existence.

There is a small Chapter on Spirochetes;

clinical expressions of Lyme Disease is detailed:

Mind, Sensitivity, Emotion, Cognitive impairment

etc. etc. then head to toe, then generalities.

Next Chapter is prevention of Lyme Disease

with Homoeopathy, miasmatic aspect.

ALEX lays great stress on Aurum

arsenicosum; the Proving of this remedy is given.

Next Part - Part 3 gives several Case Reports;

15 cases with follow up. Case 16 is a homoeopathic

cure of Lyme disease in animals.

Lastly is Bibliography.

This book of 168 pages only is very well

conceived and written with all information

pertaining to one disease - Lyme - and is of great

use not only in Lyme but also in similar diseases

which sap away the energy of the sufferer and

causes decay.

The book should be read closely and applied in

practice.

I have no hesitation at all in recommending it

to every homoeopath.

- K.S.SRINIVASAN.

HOMOEO DRUG CARTELS AND MOTLEY

SECT OF HOMOEO PHYSICIANS,

HOMOEOPATHY AND WHAT DR.

HAHNEMANN HAS TO SAY ? DR.

RAMANLAL P. PATEL, Director, Dr. R. P. Patel

Institute of Homoeopathy, Vadodara, Gujarat.

INDIA.

"120 SUSPECT COMBO DRUGS TO GO OFF

SHELF" FRONT PAGE News, (4, The Economic Times

. November 2007).

Domestic drug makers have agreed to withdraw 120

combination drugs totaling over 270 brands from the

market. The reason is "that the Govt, of India and its

health ministry feels or contends that the therapeutic

efficacy of these combination drugs has not been

vetted by the Drug Controllers General of India

(DCGI). Now where does our HOMOEO DRUG

CARTELS STAND? ARE ALL THEIR

COMBINATION WITH NOS. VETTED BY THE

DRUG CONTROLLER GENERAL OF INDIA (DCGI)?

Why not a "blanket ban" be imposed on Homoeo Drug

Cartels to manufacture combinations drugs having no

"therapeutic efficacy".

INTRODUCTION AND PERSONAL ENCOUNTER

WITH HOMOEO DRUG CARTELS :

It was in 1948, it so happened that when I was a

student at Calcutta Homoeopathic College, I was very

much impressed with lectures on ORGANON OF

MEDICINE by Dr. B.K. Bose who was direct

student of Dr. J.T. Kent of U.S.A. I used to read different

editions and commentaries on ORGANON. We had

college library which was hardly used by any student or

teacher. As I was interested in Organon I asked librarian

who was also a compounder in I.P.D. and O.P.D. He

obliged my request to see library after a week. Cupboard

were rare commodities for books except for some old,

rare books. When the room was opened, it was a room

which was not ventilated and books were not arranged

properly or catalogued in a library manner. I saw heaps of

books and journals lying on the floor with heavy load of

fine dust on books and journals. The librarian told me

that "Nobody asks for books so I have not cleaned the

room neither books for nearly six months and more. You

are the only one who recently asked for a book. What do

you want?" First I volunteered to clean the room and

books. He agreed and put faith in me. It took nearly six to

seven hours to clean dust and to put alright, but I found a

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GOLDEN book in the heaps - The SIXTH EDITION of

ORGANON OF MEDICINE by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann

translated in English by William Boericke, San

Francisco, December 1921 and published in 1922. It was

a surprise for me as I was taught in the college only

according to Fifth edition by Dr. B.K. Bose and in our

I.P.D. and O.P.D. all followed prescribing centesimal

potencies accordingly.

I sincerely and honestly took the book with the

permission of the librarian to read. I found vast difference

with the fifth edition in many aspects. Meanwhile I went

to all publishers in Calcutta to find out anybody who has

published so that I can own a copy. None published. So I

tried to copy by hand the differences in sixth and fifth

edition. I published an article in our college magazine by

name "Homoeopathy and Homoeopathic Methodology".

That infuriated the whole Homoeopathic community

against me. Even at one stage I was asked by Dr. A.N.

Mukherjee who was Chairman of the Society which was

running the college to leav e the college. I survived

because of Dr. B.K. Bose.

The problem was changes in sixth edition and

preparation of medicines, potentisation and

administration. Nobody cared to prepare potencies

according to directions given in 6' edition.

Manufacturers all over the world never prepared their

medicines according to directions given as they never

read, and professors and teachers in Homoeo colleges

never properly read in between the lines of Organon

hence they never taught to wards (students). For me the

situation was confusing. What to do?

During this period Calcutta was the ONLY place to

manufacture homoeo medicines. I took courage to

approach being student to most prominent manufacturers

and explained what I want with the help of the Organon

of Medicine. First, they did not understand and to some I

made to understand when I told that 1 dram of medicine

in globules can treat 300 to 400 patients. They said,

"THERE IS NO MONEY. WHO WILL BUY?" I was

sad and disheartened. Hahnemann Publishing Co. was

mistaken by me that they only publish books. When I

came to know that they manufacture homoeopathic

medicines I tried to catch a straw as a drowning man to

save life. I went to their head office. Dr. Baur was there

as manager and a qualified pharmacist. I told to him all

my efforts and failures to get medicines to prepare

according to sixth edition. He understood my thoughts

and thinking. But he was helpless as "THERE IS NO

BUSINESS AND NO MONEY AS NOBODY KNOWS

ABOUT THIS WAY OF PREPARATION". Last straw

for drowning man vanished with drowned man. As I was

leaving his office he said; "wait". He told me; "1 can

prepare for you one or two medicines as a trial but it will

cost you huge amount". I asked him, "How much?" Two

rupees for each potency, he said; "During that time for

one dram medicine it was priced or costed only 25 paise".

When he was ready I agreed and he prepared within a

month two remedies - Nux Vomica and Sulphur upto

0/30 and later upto 0/50. (Now they have 125 or more

medicines in LM potencies).

Now the problem of clinical trial. Dr. B.K. Bose was

against 6" edition as he was teaching all along with the

fifth edition and getting good results. I had discussion

with him many times and he always tells me during

discussion "PAGAL BOY (Mad boy)". Once he agreed

for a trial of Nux vomica, in O.P.D. What a inner joy I

experienced which is still with me. We tried without

anybody's knowledge as he was Vice-Principal of the

college and Professor of Organon of Medicine and

Materia Medica. We tried nearly three to four months and

with good results with Nux vomica and Sulphur. Finally

he told me, "Turn pagal nahi ho (you are not mad)". The

whole course of my life changed as a student and

practitioner. Now I am known as "50 Millesimal man or

Doctor". SHANTI (Peace) with inner self. I am 82yrs. in

this life with 56 yrs. with Homoeopathy.

Now, let us read and listen to the words of the

FOUNDER OF HOMOEOPATHY, DR. SAMUEL

HAHNEMANN:

(1) "But from the time when the authorities introduced

dispensatories - that is, books full of compound

medicines, which were to be kept ready made - it became

necessary to form the apothecaries into a close

corporation, and to give them a monopoly (on condition

that they should have always a stock of ready prepared

medicinal mixtures), whereby their number was fixed and

limited, in order that there should not be too many of

them, which might cause these costly compounds to

hang upon their hands and become spoilt. True now a

days with expiry dates. What about present day Homoeo

drug cartels who bring out for every disease new

combinations in attractive packing? Are scientific trials

(H.P.T.) been made according to Homoeopathy or

clinical trials made according to modern methods and the

evaluation done? What are the results in percentage and

side effects noticed? ARE THEY (COMBINATIONS)

HOMOEOPATHIC ACCORDING TO LAW OF

SIMILARS (HOMOEOPATHY)?

It is true, that after the authorising of the

complicated mixtures in dispensatories, which was the

first step to mischief, had been taken, the second - the

granting a privilege of the exclusive sale of these

expensive mixtures to apothecaries - was neither an

unexpected, nor an unjust proceeding; but had the public

approval of these senseless mixtures not preceded it,

then the trade in single medicinal substances would have

remained as it was at first; and there would have been no

need of apothecaries privileges, from which infinite

injury has gradually accrued to the healing art.

(HAVE HOMOEO DRUG CARTELS FOLLOWED

LAWS OF THE LAND? Have they got permission from

authorities for churning out for every disease condition a

patent combination on any rule or criteria or category?).

The earliest dispensatories, and those nearly down to

our own time, called each compound formula by an

alluring name after the disease which it was to

remove, and after each, the mode of its administration

was described, and numerous commendations of its

virtues. By this the young physician was led to employ

these compositions in preference to the simple

medicines, especially as the former were authorised by

the government. (How many Drug Cartels follow

Government authorization? What about young, fresh

homoeo physicians who do not learn the true

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Homoeopathy according to ORGANON OF

MEDICINE? Are they not victims of our Homoeo Drug

Cartels? They are lured with commission to forget real

Homoeopathy).

The privileged apothecaries did what they could to

increase the number of these formulas, for the profit

derived from these mixtures was immensely greater

than would have been derived from the sale of the simple

drugs employed in their composition; and thus, gradually,

the small octavo dispensatory of Cordus grew into huge

folios (the Vienna, Prague, Augsburg, Brandenburg,

Wirtemburg, & c. dispensatories). And now there was

no known disease for which the dispensatory had not

certain ready-made compounds, or, at least, the

formulas for them, accompanied by the most eulogistic

recommendations of them. The professor of the healing

art was now prepared, when he had such a receipt-book

in his hand, - full of recipes for every disease sanctioned

by the highest authorities in the land! What does he want

more to make him perfect as a healer of disease? How

easy has the great art been made to him! (1, pp.490,

491.)". (How true the forecast by HAHNEMANN for

present Modern Medicine Drug Cartels and our

HOMOEO DRUG CARTELS and so-called HOMOEO

DOCTORS?), of the healing art was now

(2) "My respected brethren on the opposition benches, I

can give you better advice as to how you should set about

overthrowing, if possible, this doctrine, which threatens

to stifle your art, that is founded on mere assumption, and

to bring ruin upon all your therapeutic lumber. Listen to

me! (Are our young homoeopaths and many homoeo

practitioners, listening to the voice of our Master?).

Your attempts against the systematic exposition of

the doctrine, entitled the "Spirit of the Homoeopathic

Medical Doctrine", have as you perceive, proved

unsuccessful. You had better leave it alone! Spirits such

as this is, are no subjects for joking with. It is said there

are spirits whose appearance has left behind a life-long

disquiet in the conscience of the wicked and of those who

act contrary to their knowledge of what is right and

which nightly torment them, for their neglect of

acknowledged and yet neglected duties! Mark this;

otherwise you may not be able to silence the judge within

you, which has wakened to speak to you in unmistakable

accents! (Has any homoeo student or practitioner read

before using COMBO DRUGS, the SPIRIT OF

HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL DOCTRINE? None, who

are using combination Patent Homoeo Drugs.).

No! there is another and an infallible method of

overthrowing this doctrine, if that is possible to be done.

This doctrine appeals not only chiefly, but solely to

the verdict of experience - "repeat the experiments", it

cries aloud, "repeat them carefully and accurately, and

you will find the doctrine confirmed at every step" - and

it does what no medical doctrine, no system of physic, no

so-called therapeutics ever did or could do, it insists

upon being "judged by the result". (Have our Drug

Cartels made trials - Drug Proving on healthy human

beings and clinical at bed-side - "repeated experiments"

and "Judged by the result"?). No data, No experience.

No results.

Here, then, we have homoeopathy just where we

wished to have it; here we can (come on, dear gentlemen,

all will go on nicely) give it the death blow from this

side. (ARE OUR HOMOEO DRUG CARTELS

SUFFOCATING, THROATLING AND GIVING

DEATH BLOW TO DIVIDE HOMOEOPATHY?)

Think over. Do we want Science of Homoeopathy or

unauthorised, unhomoeopathic business?

Take one case of disease after another, note it down

according to the directions given in the Organon,

specially in respect of all its discernible symptoms, in so

exact a manner that the founder of homoeopathy himself

shall be unable to find fault with the minuteness of the

report (of course any case selected must be one for which

a homoeopathic medicine is to be taking care to remove

all other kinds of medicinal influences from the patient,

and if it do not give relief, speedy, mild and permanent

relief, then, by a publication of the duly attested history

of the treatment according to the principles of the

homoeopathic system strictly followed out, you will be

able to give a public refutation of this doctrine which so

seriously threatens the old darkness. (How many of us do

what Hahnemann has written and said? HOMOEO

COMBO DRUGS users never follow Hahnemann. They

are out-cast).

But I pray you to beware of playing false in the

matter! - all roguery comes to light and leaves an

unfavourable stigma behind it as a warning. (Are you

listening to our Master?).

If then, following your conscientious example, every

other equally conscientious and careful medical

experimentalist meets with the same result - if all that the

homoeopathic doctrine promises from being faithfully

followed out does not take place - then homoeopathy is

as good as lost, it is all up with homoeopathy if it does

not shew itself efficacious, remarkable efficacious (1,

pp.744, 745)". (When combination of drugs fail, you

blame Homoeopathy. Why take wrong and unlawful act

to tarnish Homoeopathy?).

(3) "In direct opposition to plain common sense, they

attack disease by complex mixtures of medicines, none of

which they are more than superficially acquainted with,

and of these medicinal pots pourris they often give

several together, and many in one day: "haud leve

obstaculum penitiori virium in medicamentis cognitioni

objicit, quod rarissime simplicia, sed ut plurimum

composita, nee haec sola, sed aliorum usu interpolata

usurpentur" . (When using Homoeo Patent combinations

your conscience and common sense should prick and

pinch you. Are you not feeling guilty?).

Such a mode of proceeding, of itself, knocks all the

pretensions to philosophical simplicity and consistency of

these a-priorists [a priori men] on the head. No single

physician on the face of the globe, neither the framer of

the system nor his followers, uses a simple unmixed

medicament, and then waits till its action is exhausted

before giving another! (How does Homoeo Patent

Combination works? We do not know. Are we ignorant

of facts?)

Even supposing the virtues of each single medicine

were exactly known, this employment of the many-

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mixed, this pell-mell administration of several substances

at once, each of which must have a different action,

would in itself be highly absurd, and produce a blind and

confused practice. For how complicated must the inter-

action be of so many ingredients; how impossible to

trace back the combined effect of the patient to them each

individually, in order, in the subsequent treatment, to

omit or diminish the one and increase the other! (This is

the way HOMOEO DRUG CARTELS combines and

Patent combination and publish attractive glorified each

of the substance (drug) in combination. Ignorant

Homoeopaths with tallest claims in pamphlet accept the

use in their practice with commercial mind). But this

will not do with these hotch-potch doses; they produce,

thus united, such a resultant, that no one can tell what is

owing to this or the other ingredient in the combined

effect. No one can tell which ingredient vitated the

action in such and such a manner, or which altogether

antagonized the other, and neutralized its effect (1, p.

566-67) (Do Homoeo cartels and practitioners know

this?).).

"But the case is worse still, and the proceeding more

reprehensible, when we consider that the action of each,

or, at any rate, of the most of these substances thus

huddled together, is individually great and yet

unascertained. (The attractive literature - a brochure

describing action of each drug is given and not aware of

total mixture. Only Heaven knows. All passes off with

smelly stool with no action on disease or abnormal

condition(s) for which it was given. Good business

both for Drug Cartel and ignorant Homoeo

practitioner).

Now, to mix in a prescription a number of such

strong disordering substances, whose separate action is

often unknown, and only guessed and arbitrarily

assumed, and then forthwith, at a venture, to administer

this mixture, and many more besides, thick upon one

another, without letting a single one do its work out upon

the patient, whose complaint and abnormal state of body

has only been viewed through illusive theories, and

through the spectacles of manufactured systems - if this

is medical art, if this is not hurtful irrationality, I do not

know what we are to understand by an art, nor what is

hurtful or irrational. (How true these words are of

Hahnemann for Homoeo Drug Cartels?).

It is usual at this point, for want of anything else to

say, to excuse one's self by saying, "the several

ingredients in a prescription are to be chosen with

reference to the various aspects of the (hypothetically

assumed) inward condition of the body, or, indeed, of the

symptoms".

Just as if one single simple substance, if it were but

rightly known, might not conform to several, many, all of

the (un-ideal) aspects of the complaint, - as if all the

numerous symptoms could be covered by a medley,

whose ingredients, so unknown in their action, in

combination counteract and, in an unforeseen manner,

vitiate and neutralize each other! (Is it not true for

practitioners who use combinations of Homoeo Drug

Cartels?).

This motley mixing system is nothing but a

convenient shift for one who, having but a slender

acquaintance with the properties of a single substance,

flatters himself, though he cannot find any one simple

suitable remedy to remove the complaint, that by heaping

a great many together there may be one amongst them

that by a happy chance shall hit the mark. (Are you, the

motley sect of Homoeo physicians listening to

Hahnemann? Have you read any time The PREFACE

of the First Edition of ORGANON OF MEDICINE?).

Whether this mode of treatment be successful, or the

reverse, in neither case is anything to be learnt from

it, nor can it cause the medical art to make a hair's-

breadth of progress (1, p.567.)".

(4) "A quack nostrum is a medicinal agent prepared in a

certain invariable manner, for public sale, which is puffed

off as efficacious for several named diseases, or for one

disease, whose name includes several morbid states

differing from each other, each of which will require for

its cure an essentially different, peculiar remedy (1,

p.640)'\ (ARE YOU "QUACK HOMOEO DOCTOR"?

Please listen to our Master!).

(5) "But how did it happen that in the employment of

these medicines among patients during the many

centuries that this system of medicine has existed, they

should not gradually have noted in these medicinal

substances what peculiarities each individually

possessed, and what were the effects of each upon the

health of man, so that at length they might have so

gathered what each was adapted to as a curative agent?

(ARE YOU IGNORANT OF HOMOEOPATHIC

MATERIA MEDICA?).

To this it will suffice to reply, that these physicians

of the old school possessed and do still possess a most

approved method of guarding and preserving themselves

from the knowledge of the peculiar mode of action of

each individual medicine, and thereby rendering it

imperceptible to their eyes and observation. (Are you

one of them as Homoeo physician in the present

century?).

Every one of the young physicians, namely, on

undergoing his examination for the high degree of

Doctor of their art, must prove by the certificates of the

professors that he has diligently attended the lectures on

the art of prescribing, and must by the extempore writing

of prescriptions, that is to say, of recipes composed of

several different medicinal substances for the names of

diseases given to him by the examiner (like conti finti),

demonstrate that he is perfect master of the noble art,

essential to allopathy, of always prescribing for the

patient, lege artis, several medicinal ingredients, mingled

in one prescription, and, consequently, of carefully and

entirely eschewing the employment of a single simple

medicinal substance. (Have you learnt any thing of an

art of Homoeopathy or have you come out of Homoeo

colleges as RAW POTATO with D.H.M.S., B.H.M.S.

and M.D. (Homoeo.) who use HOMOEO COMBO

DRUGS?).

Thus even to this day every prescription composed

of several different medicinal substances, betrays the

prescriber to be without dispute an allopathist, one of the

many thousands belonging to the unimprovable old

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school of physic! (Dear Homoeo Drug Cartels, are you

listening the founder of Homoeopathy? or You are only

money minded?).

Here I would ask my readers on their consciences to

tell me, how it were possible that these physicians,

although during these many centuries their numbers must

amount to millions, could detect and leam the peculiar

properties of each of the single medicinal substances

while constantly using such mixtures of drugs? (Do

prescriber of combinations have any conscience? Does he

feel guilty conscience?).

If we should give one of the mixtures according to

their prescription even to a quite healthy person, would

we from the effects that result from such a mixture, even

though it should consist but of two

different ingredients,

ever be able to decide with certainty which of the effects

that ensue are to be attributed to the one, which to the

other ingredient? Never! - in all eternity, never! (Is it

clear to Homoeo Drug Cartels and MOTLEY Homoeo

Physicians what Dr. Hahnemann has said?).

Now, as even in trying a mixture of only two

different medicinal substances upon a healthy person, we

can never satisfactorily observe the special effects of a

single one of the two upon the human health - since the

mixture can only manifest a middle action of both the

two together; how, I should like to know, can it be

otherwise than quite impossible to distinguish the

peculiar powers and special action of each of the

several ingredients in an artistic prescription, when it

is given to patients, that is to say, to persons already

suffering from a number of alterations of health? (1,

pp.833-4.)". ARE DRUG CARTELS AUTHORISED

FOR EACH OF THEIR COMBINATION PRODUCTS?

MANY TIMES THEY EVEN DUPLICATE THEIR

COMBINATIONS BY GIVING DIFFERENT NOS.

WITH ADDING OR SUBSTRACTING one or two

ingredient with 3x or 6x Trituration or liquid potency.

This is with IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC

PRODUCTS. Some Imported Combo Drugs are ONLY

for India and not for their countries. May be these are not

allowed for public use. Even they have gone to court to

threaten each other. All is a game without results.

Why AUTHORITIES ARE SLEEPING AND

NOT TAKING ACTION AGAINST HOMOEO DRUG

CARTELS WHEN ACTION IS TAKEN against big so-

called modern medicine (Allopathy) Drug Cartels TO

WITHDRAW 270 COMBINATION DRUGS OF

MODERN MEDICINE? How many Homoeo

Combinations will survive REAL CLINICAL TRIALS

ACCORDING TO HOMOEOPATHY AND

AUTHORATIVE TRIALS WITH ALLOPATHY WAY

under the eyes of Government highest authorities

(D.C.G.I.)? Let the cat come out of the bag.

References :

1. The Lesser Writtings of Samuel Hahnemann by

Dr. R.E. Dudgeon published by IBPS, New

Delhi.

2. Materia Medica Pura by Dr. Samuel

Hahnemann.

3. Chronic Diseases by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.

4. THE ECONOMIC TIMES, 3 Nov. 2007.

5. Organon of Medicine by Samuel Hahnemann,

6 edition; translated by Dr. William Boericke

and published by Boericke & Tafel.

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Aggravations

(from Bcenninghausen's Characteristics & Repertory by ROGER)

If the aggravation is long, with a decline of the patient's

strength, the case is incurable and can only be palliated.

If the aggravation is long, with a slow improvement, all will

be well if the remedy is not too soon repeated.

If the aggravation is short and violent, the best results will

follow.

If the quality and quantity of the remedy administered are in

exact proportion to the quality and quantity of the sick-

making force, then do we have a cure without an

aggravation.

If we have an immediate amelioration, followed soon by an

aggravation, it is a failure - the case is incurable.

If too short an amelioration follows a pronounced

aggravation, in a psoric case especially, it will prove

incurable.

If a full time amelioration of the symptoms occurs without

any increase in the patient's strength, he will prove too weak

for a restoration to health.

If the patient develops symptoms of the remedy given

without any improvement in his disease symptoms, the case

is a hard one to treat, even for an experienced

homceopathician.

If the old symptoms appear with the aggravation, you may

wait; you need study no more; you have the remedy.

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