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CONTINUING HOMŒOPATHIC MEDICAL EDUCATION SERVICES

QUARTERLY HOMŒOPATHIC DIGEST

VOL. XXXII, 1 – 4, 2015

Part I Current Literature Listing

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

homœopathic 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.

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I. PHILOSOPHY

1. Wahrnehmen aus der Sicht Hahnemanns

(Perception according to Hahnemann)

DINGES, Martin (ZKH. 57, 2/2013)

HAHNEMANN has said more often how reality,

facts, may be perceived. This applies to symptoms for

which he developed suitable semantics.

HAHNEMANN has already laid down what the

essentials are:

Exact observation is fundamental

Documentation of the knowledge

It’s necessary which can be recalled later;

Therefore exact recording of the knowledge

obtained from the patient is essential

HAHNEMANN has given clear instructions on drawing

an Anamnesis. He has also developed suitable

semantics. Hahnemann has developed semantics for

Provings too.

2. HAHNEMANN – sein Erbe und seine Erben

(HAHNEMANN – his heir and its heir)

OOMEN, Gert (ZKH. 57, 2/2013)

This is a very interesting study of the history of

Homœopathic Philosophy and technique from

Hahnemann to today.

Dr. OOMEN rightly says that various trends that

have entered into modern days: like newer Miasms,

Periodic Tables, Lanthanide study, etc., only reveal that

the successes we get today are far below expectations

and far below the results of the practice of successful

homœopaths of earlier days. We would therefore look

into this subject at greater depth.

A careful study of Hahnemann’s Writings would

help us to find the reasons for our fall.

“Thus Homœopathy is an entirely simple medical

art, always constant in its principles as well as in its

procedures. These principles and procedures, as well as

the theory on which they rest (if well grasped) will be

found to be self-contained and only in this way helpful.

The purity of its theory and of its practice is self-

explanatory. It therefore entirely excludes all

backsliding into the ruinous routine of the old school

(whose contrary it is, as day is to night). If it is other

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than this, then it ceases to earn the venerable name of

Homœopathy.”

This HAHNEMANN wrote during the last part of

his life.

With several examples the author establishes the

cause for the sliding down of successes.

3. Patientensymptome miasmatisch verstehen. Hilfe

bei Fallanalyse und Verlaufsbeobachtung

(Understanding patients Symptoms miasmatically.

From Case analysis and observation of the course

during treatment)

WILDFANG Stefan (ZKH. 57, 4/2013)

Only through comprehension of the miasms,

HAHNEMANN managed successful cures of Chronic

diseases. Till nowadays, there is no consensus of how

to transform the knowledge of miasms into practical

orientation for therapy. Starting from HAHNEMANN,

v. BOENNINGHAUSEN and ORTEGA, we present a

comprehension of Miasms that offers criteria for

procedure in practice. Through case presentations, we

show that a clear structure and thus a secure selection of

relevant symptoms for analysis can be reached which

furthermore is helpful for the evaluation of chronic

diseases and the course of their treatment.

Careful restudy of Boenninghausen’s Lesser

Writings (Anamnesis of Sycosis, Boenninghausen’s

‘last work’) will enlighten.

4. Die Psora Hahnemanns als conzept für die

Gegenwart

(Hahnemann’s Psora as Concept for the present)

SPARENBORG-NOLTE, Anne

(ZKH. 57, 4/2013)

The concept of psoric miasma is discussed on the

basis of Organon (6th edition) and Chronic Diseases

(Vol. I). The idea of Hahnemann’s Psora comprises no

nameable disease entity within the meaning of the

currently prevailing medical technology. The psoric

miasma can manifest itself in many different symptoms

that are interpreted according to HAHNEMANN

erromeously as separate diseases. A Chronic disease in

this sense is not identical with Crohn’s disease or

Asthma, but designates a morbid affection of the Vital

Force behind these Chronic diseases.

5. Evaluation der vershiedenen Miasmslehren –

Schlussfolgerungen für die heutige Praxis

(Evaluation of different theories of Miasms –

concluding observations for today’s practice)

METHNER Roland (ZKH. 57, 4/2013)

The Miasm – a Jungle. In the last century, later

part many ‘Miasms’ were discovered and propagated;

confusion confounded.

METHNER analyses 14 different theories of

Miasms. These ‘Miasms’ are given to us by:

1. HAHNEMANN, S.

2. KENT, J.T.

3. J.H. ALLEN

4. BURNETT, J.C.

5. PATEL, R.P.

6. ORTEGA

7. SUBRATA BANERJEA

8. RAJAN SANKARAN

9. GERHARD RISCH

10. Y. LABORDE

11. MOHINDER JUS

12. PRAFUL VIJAYAKAR

13. PETER GIENOW

14. LOUIS KLEIN

In the analysis 175 typical parameters of the

Miasms are examined through 400 chronologies of

patients. The result challenges several miasmatic

paradigms.

What should a bewildered homœopath do?

Perhaps, follow HERING. So long as one gives the

most similar remedy and cures it does not matter what

that Miasm was. [As much as possible stick to the

Master HAHNEMANN, in selecting the remedy for the

case before you. = KSS]

6. Über eine zeitgemäẞe Auffasung der Theorie von

den Chronichen Krankheiten (Miasmen)

Hahnemanns (On an uptodate comprehension of the

theory of Chronic Diseases (Miasms)

ZWEMKE Hans (ZKH. 57, 4/2013)

The question is raised whether and how

Hahnemann’s concept of Miasms – in spite of

mutilations by J.T. KENT, J.H. ALLEN, et al. –

comprises in its core modern knowledge of disease

which comes close to principles of current concepts of

infectious diseases. Therapeutic consequences, which

have largely been lost in contemporary Homœopathy

are discussed. The surprising realization of

Hahnemann’s theory is not so much the biographic

consideration of symptoms, but rather the causal

reduction of diseases to a specific infectious agent,

whose symptomatology of body and mind can be

surveyed only through the characteristics of the diseased

population, similar to strategies in acute epidemics.

7. Miasmen oder Chronische Krankheiten? – Wer in

den Miasmenzug einsteigt, bleibt auf dem

Abstellgleis der Medizin stehen

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(Miasms or Chronic Diseases? – One who enters

into the Miasms train remains in the siding)

WITZIG Friedrich (ZKH. 57, 4/2013)

Miasm is no concept of Homœopathy but of

Medicine in general and describes how diseases come to

the person. HAHNEMANN had used Miasm for the

purposes of medicine, while ALLEN made a meta-

physical concept out of Miasm. With the discovery of

microorganism medicine substituted infection for

Miasm to which ALLEN for ideological reasons

opposed. Since that time Homœopathy uses Miasm in a

manner as Medicine had never thought it and prevents

therefore the occupation with Chronic diseases on a

basis of our actual knowledge; Microorganisms from

the point of view of infection, leads to an enemy’s

image which shows its meaning in the process of the

evolution completely disorted.

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II. MATERIA MEDICA

1. Transformation: A Proving of Lanthanum

metallicum

HUENECKE, Jason-Aeric (AH. 19/2013)

Lanthanum is not found free in nature. It is found

mainly in the minerals monazite and bastnaosite.

Eleven provers – nine females, two males. 30c

potency, double blind.

Symptoms and suggested rubrics.

Rubrics not in Synthesis but recommended:

MIND

COLORS - silver, desire for;

DELUSION – another dimension, she is in;

- parallel world

CHEST

PAIN – burning – like fire

- morning – bed agg.; in – changing position

amel.

DREAMS

ALIENS (drop the line from outer space)

ANIMALS – moose

AUM or OM

BODY – submerged, underwater

BOOTS – tall metallic with buckles

BUDDHA

MASTURBATION

POWER EMANATING – from feet

PARALLEL WORLDS

CELESTIAL BEING(S)

- merging with

POLAR BEAR

ROYALTY – queen, princess

SEED – of being a;

SCOLDING – a child

Rubrics found in Synthesis:

MIND

ABRUPT

ABSENTMINDED – dreamy

ABSTRACTION OF MIND

ACCIDENT-PRONE

ACTIVITY – desires activity

ADDICTED; tendency to become

AILMENTS FROM – anger – indignation with

-anticipation

-disappointment

-embarrassment

-grief

-mental exertion

-reproaches

-scorned;being

ALERT

AMBITION -blocked

-increased – competitive

AMOROUS

-fits of amorousness

ANGER -abdomen; with complaints in

ANSWERING -refusing to answer

-slowly

-snappishly

-unable to answer

-hurt emotionally; when

ANTICIPATION

ANXIETY -beside oneself from anxiety; being

-future, about

-heart; about his

-hurry, with

-morning – waking; on

-time is set, if a

ARDENT

AUTISM

-children; in

AWARENESS heightened – body; of – Heart beating

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CAREFULNESS

CARES, full of

CAUTIOUS

CENSORIOUS

CHECKING – twice or more; must check

CHILDISH behavior

CLAIRVOYANCE

CLARITY of mind

CLEANNESS – mania for

COLORS – blue – desire for

COMPANY -aversion to

-aversion to – bear anybody, cannot

-aversion to – desire for solitude

CONCENTRATION – difficult

CONFIDENCE – want of self-confidence

- want of self-confidence – self-

depreciation

CONFIDENT

CONFUSION of mind

-identity, as to his

-boundaries; and personal

CONTENT

CONTRADICTION – agg.

CONTRARY

CURIOUS

CURSING

DANCING

DECEITFUL

DELUSIONS

-alien, she is

-alone, being – belong to anyone; she did not

- world; alone in the

-body – half – left half – belong to

her; does not – out of the body

-distances; of

-division between himself and others

-drugged; as if

-enlarged – distances are

-existence – own existence; he doubted his

- two existences; to have

-floating – air, in

-great person, is a

-head – balloon, rising up and stretching the

neck; head is a hot air

-high – he were high

-invaded; one’s space is being

-light [= low weight] – is light; he

-persecuted – he is persecuted

-pregnant, she is

-prisoner; she is a

-seeing – herself

-separated – world; from the – he is separated

-small – things – appear small; things

-trapped; he is

-watched, she is being – herself; by

-will power; as if loss of

-worthless; he is

DESPAIR

DETACHED

-observing; as if – outside; from

DETERMINATION

DISCONTENTED

DISCOURAGED

DISGUST

-body; of the – own body; of one’s

-oneself

DISOBEDIENCE

DISTANCES – exaggerated; are

-inaccurate judgment of

DOUBTFUL

DREAM; as if in a

DRUGS - taken drugs; as if one had

DULLNESS

-understand; does not – questions addressed to

her

EMOTIONS – predominated by the intellect

ESCAPE, attempts to

EXCITEMENT

-alternating with – sleepiness

-weather – windy and stormy weather

- before

FASTIDIOUS

-personal appearance; about

FEAR

-age; of one’s own

-alone, of being

-causeless

-company, of

-contagion

-control; losing

-crossing – street

-crowd, in a

-happen, something will

-heart – arising from

-high places, of

-hungry, when

-narrow place, in

-sudden

-terror – night

-touched; of being

-waking, on – dream, from a

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FOREBODINGS

FORSAKEN feeling – isolation; sensation of

GIGGLING

GRIEF

HAUGHTY

HELD – desire to be held

HELPLESSNESS; feeling of

HIDING – himself

-fear, on account of

HONEST

HURRY

IMPATIENCE

IMPRESSIONABLE

INDEPENDENT

INDIFFERENCE

-appearance; to his personal

-dearest friends; even towards

-duties; to

-everything, to

INJUSTICE, cannot support

INSECURITY; mental

IRRESOLUTION

IRRITABILITY

-menses – during

LAUGHING

LAZINESS

LIAR

MEDITATING

MENSES – before

MISTAKES; making

-speaking, in

-spelling, in

-words

-writing, in -transposing – letters

-wrong – letters, figures

MOOD – changeable

NATURE – loves

OBSTINATE

PLANS - making many plans

POSTPONING everything to next day

POWER – sensation of

PRAYING

PROPER – too

PROSTRATION of mind

PURITY – desire for

REBELLIOUS

RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS

-too occupied with religion

REPROACHING oneself

REPROACHING others

RUDENESS

SADNESS -morning – waking – on

-stomach complaints; with

-waking – when

SECRETIVE

SELF-CONTROL – increased

SENSITIVE

-rudeness, to

SIZE – incorrect judgment of

SLOWNESS

SPACED-OUT feeling

SPEECH -embarrassed

-loud

STOOL – after – amel.

STUDYING – difficult

SUCCEEDS, never

TENSION, mental

THOUGHTS – circles, move in

-compelling

-control of thoughts lost

-disconnected

-rapid

-vagueness of

-vanishing of

-wandering

TIME -quickly, appears shorter; passes too

-slowly, appears longer; passes too

-timelessness; sensation of

TRANQUILLITY

TRUTH – desire for truthfulness

-sensitive to people’s truthfulness

-telling the plain truth

UNIFICATION – sensation of unification

UNTIDY

WILL – loss of will power

-weakness of

WITHDRAWAL from reality

VERTIGO

FEAR agg.

NAUSEA – with

STANDING – agg.

HEAD

BUBBLING sensation in

COLDNESS, chilliness, etc. – pain; with

CONGESTION

CONSTRICTION – band or hoop

ERUPTIONS – eczema – Margin of hair

- Occiput

HEAT – flushes of

HEAVINESS

-Vertex

ITCHING of scalp

LIGHTNESS; sensation of

PAIN – dreams, after unpleasant

- exertion – agg.

-Eyes

-Forehead – Eyes – Behind

- Frontal sinuses

-pinching pain

-pressing pain – weight; as from a

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-pressure – amel.

-Temples

TENSION – Scalp

EYE

DISCOLORATION – red

DRYNESS

HEAT – during – agg.

HEAVINESS

ITCHING

LACHRYMATION

PAIN – burning

PARALYSIS – Lids, of

PHOTOPHOBIA

TENSION

TWITCHING – Lids – left

VISION

AURA – people; of

BRIGHT

FLICKERING

HALO around the light

LIGHT

PERSPECTIVE; distorted

SPARKS

ZIGZAGS

EAR

ITCHING

HEARING

LOST

NOSE

CONGESTION

-Sinuses

DISCHARGE – dripping

-Posterior nares

-night

DRYNESS – Nostrils

PAIN – Pressing pain

SINUSES; complaints of – Frontal sinuses

SNEEZING -night

-lying down agg.

FACE

CLENCHED jaw

CONGESTION

CRACKED –Mouth; corners of

-left

ERUPTIONS -acne

-Nose

-painful

HEAVY feeling

ITCHING – Jaws – Lower

PAIN – Jaws

-Sinuses – Frontal

-Maxillary

SWELLING

TINGLING – Lips

MOUTH

BLEEDING -Gums

-morning

DISCOLORATION – Tongue – brown

GUMS; complaints of

ODOR – metallic

-sulphurous

PAIN – Tongue – burning

TASTE – bloody

ULCERS – Tongue

THROAT

HAWK; disposition to

ITCHING

PAIN – burning

-dryness; with - burning

-raw; as if

-right

PRICKLY

SWELLING

EXTERNAL THROAT

ERUPTIONS – burning

STOMACH

ANXIETY

APPETITE - diminished

-increased

-ravenous

NAUSEA

PAIN

-empty; when

THIRST

-extreme

-night

VOMITING – diarrhea – during

ABDOMEN

ANGER agg.

ANXIETY in

COMPLAINTS of abdomen – Gallbladder and ducts

DISTENSION

-flatulence – from

FLATULENCE – obstructed

GURGLING

-noon

PAIN -bending double – agg;

-Lower abdomen

-sore

RECTUM

CONSTIPATION

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FLATUS – offensive – eggs; spoiled

STOOL

COPIOUS

FORCIBLE, sudden, gushing

MUCOUS

BLADDER

URINATION – frequent

URINE

ODOR - strong

MALE GENITALIA/SEX

SEXUAL DESIRE – INCREASED

FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX

COMPLAINTS of female genitalia – accompanied by –

Lumbar region; complaints of

LEUKORRHEA

MENSES -clotted

-copious

-early; too

-late, too

METRORRHAGIA

PAIN -burning

-cramping

-left

-Ovaries

-sharp

-stitching pain

-Uterus – cramping

-Vagina

SEXUAL DESIRE – diminished

SEXUAL DEISRE – increased

LARYNX AND TRACHEA

PAIN – cough agg.; during – burning

RESPIRATION

ASTHMATIC

DIFFICULT

EXERTION – agg.

IMPEDED, obstructed – oppression; from – Chest

PAINFUL – inspiration agg.

SUPERFICIAL

WHEEZING

YAWNING – after – amel.

COUGH

DRY

-air; in open – agg.

-vomiting, until

EMOTIONS agg.

LYING DOWN agg.

NIGHT – bed – in bed – agg.

SLEEP – disturbing

WHOOPING

EXPECTORATION

BROWNISH - yellow

YELLOW

CHEST

ANXIETY in

ERUPTIONS – acne

-boils

HEARTBEAT – each heartbeat agg.

-shaking – body; whole

HEAT

INFLAMMATION – Bronchial tubes

OPPRESSION

-respiration – difficult; with

PAIN -burning

-Lungs – left

-morning – bed agg.; in

-night – waking; on – aching

-pressing pain

-weight; as from a

-raw; as if

-Ribs

-Sternum – stitching pain

VIBRATION

-sensation as if

BACK

ERUPTIONS – Lumbar region

PAIN – Lumbar region – extending to – Sacrum

-Sacral region

-Sacroiliac region

-bending forward agg.

-sitting agg.

-Sacroiliac symphyses

-sore

-Spine – aching

-stretching – amel.

SPASMS

Neck

ERUPTIONS

-boils

PAIN – paralyzed; as if

TENSION

EXTREMITIES

CHILLINESS - Feet

-Hands

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COLDNESS -Thighs – night

CONSTRICTION – Lower limbs

DRYNESS – Hands

ERUPTIONS – bleeding – scratching; afer

-boils

-Feet – fungus

-Fingers – Tips – blisters

-hard

-Nates

-pustules

-rash

-Thighs – Inside

-itching

FINGERS; complaints of – Nails

HEAVINESS

-Lower limbs

LIMPING

PAIN –aching

-bed agg.; in

-bed, in contact with – sore

-cramping

-cutting pain

-Feet – left – cramping

-Fingers – Tips – sore

-Hips – left – aching

-stitching pain

-Lower limbs – cutting pain

-sharp

-Shoulders -left – aching

-right – aching

-Spots; in – sore

-Tendons

-Wrists

RESTLESSNESS – Lower limbs

-Upper limbs

SENSITIVE – Fingers

SHOULDERS; complaints of – right

STIFFNESS -Feet

-walking – agg.

TENSION – Hands

TINGLING

VIBRATION; sensation of

-Hands

-Lower limbs

-Upper limbs

WEAKNESS -Upper limbs

-walking – agg.

SLEEP

ANXIOUS

DEEP

DISTURBED

-cough, by

INTERRUPTED

INTOXICATED; as if

POSITION – changed frequently

RESTLESS

SHORT – catnaps, in

SLEEPLESSNESS

-accompanied by – sleepiness

-daytime

SLEEPLESSNESS – night

WAKING - early; too

-frequent

DREAMS

ACCIDENTS

ACTIVITY

ADVENTUROUS

AGGRESSIVE

AIRPLANES

ALIEN from outer space

AMOROUS

ANIMALS

ANXIOUS

APOCALYPTIC, trying to save the world

ARMAGEDDON

AUTHORITY

BEAR

BEATEN, being

BELONGING – she knows where she belongs

BETRAYED, having been

BICYCLE; riding a

- maximal force; with

BOAT

BOILS

BUILDINGS

CALM

CAMPING

CATS

CEREMONIES

CHAOTIC

CHILDREN; about

CLAIRVOYANT

CLEANING

CLIMBING

CLOSET – dirty

COLORED – exaggerated colors and proportions

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CONFUSED

COUNTRY – foreign

CURIOUS dream

DANGER

DARKNESS

DEATH

DELIVERING a baby

DESPAIR

DISAPPOINTMENTS

DISCONNECTED

DISGUSTING

DOGS

DRIVING – car; a

ENDLESS

ESCAPING

ESCAPING – danger; from

EXAMINATIONS

EXCREMENTS

FAMILY, own

FARMING

FATHER

FEAR

FIELDS

-large, open

FIGHTING; one is

FISH

FOOD

FOREST

FORSAKEN; being

FRIENDS

FRIGHTFUL

GAMES

GHOSTS

GOD; of

GROUPS

GUNS

HIGH places

HILL – standing on a hill

HOLES

HOUSE

INJURIES

JEALOUSY

JOURNEYS

-train

LEWD

LIFTED out of her body she was

LIGHT; of’

LOST; being

-forest; in a

-house; in a

-strange place; in a

MAGIC

MISTAKES; of making

MONEY – gold, of

MURDER

MUSIC

NARROW place

NIGHTMARES

NURSING newborns

OCEAN

PEOPLE

PHOTOGRAPHS, taking

PLANTS

POWERFUL

PRISONER – being taken a

PURSUED, being

-enemies, by

-ghosts, by

QUARRELS

RELATIVES

RIVER

ROBBERS

ROCKS – large, white rocks; of

ROOMS

SEXUAL

-several people, having sex with

SHIP

SHOCKING

-events – emotions; without

SNAKES

STREAM

TEACHER – spiritual; of a

TEACHING

THIRSTY, being

THREATENED; of being

TIME – traveling through

TRAIN

TRAP – being trapped

VIOLENCE

VIVID

WAR

WAVES – huge wave approaching

WOMEN

WORK

WORLD – dark and cold, another world that is

WOUNDED, being

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PERSPIRATION

BED – in bed – agg.

NIGHT

ODOR – offensive

SKIN

DRY

ERUPTIONS – acne

-pustular

-boils

-pustules

-yellow

STINGS of insects

GENERALITIES

ALLERGIC constitution

COLD – air – amel.

COMPRESSION amel.

ENERGY – excess of energy

ERUCTATIONS – amel.

EXERTION; physical – agg.

-slight exertion

FOOD and DRINKS –alcoholic drinks – agg.

-beer – desire – cold beer

-carbonated drinks – desire

-fat – desire

-ice cream – desire

-lemonade – agg.

-lemons – agg/

-meat – desire

-pastry – desire

-pizza – desire

-rich food – desire

-salt – desire

-sugar – desire

-sweets – desire

-tomatoes – aversion

HEAT – lack of vital heat

HEAVINESS

INTERNAL PARTS; complaints of

KNOTTED sensation internally

MENSES – before – agg.

MUSCLES; complaints of

PAIN – Joints

PARALYSIS – left

PRESSURE – agg.

-steady pressure – amel.

STIFFNESS

TENSION – Muscles; of

TINGLING

TOBACCO – desire for tobacco

VIBRATION, fluttering, etc.

-sensation as if

WEARINESS

WEATHER - hot – agg.

-wet weather – agg.

WOUNDS – bites

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2. The Game and the Battle: A proving of

Promethium muriaticum

HUENECKE, Jason-Aeric (AH. 19/2013)

Robert Müntz of Remedia Pharmacy originally

prepared Promethium muriaticum in a nuclear research

institute in Austria. Potentised upto 12c with 43%

11

ethanol and all preceding steps discarded. The last step

was checked for remaining nuclear radiation and

released. Helios produced its starting stock from

Remedia.

11 Provers (8 female, 3 males) 30c potency.

Double blind study

Themes arose: Life is a game, selflessness, longing to

be the hero; anyone can be the hero.

Anticipation, worry, cares.

Doubt, inner chaos, dis-integration and

desire for order an epic battle and high

stakes that accompany that battle.

Suggested rubrics Promethium muriaticum

Rubrics not in Synthesis, but recommended:

MIND

COLORS – caramel colored

COLORS – coffee colored

Delusions – air – there isn’t enough air or oxygen

-another dimension, she is in;

-body – ugly; body looks – to ward people

off

-contained

-fire – he is

-parallel world

-power – all-powerful; she is; with ujjaiya

breath

-bound in solar plexus

-sacrum is bubbling and laughing

FEAR – power, of;

SENSITIVE – to the aura of others

CHEST

ANXIETY IN – chaos

OPPRESSION – breathing – deep – amel.

PAIN – burning – like fire

EXTREMITIES

PAIN – Upper arms – Biceps – burning

DREAMS

BREATHING in space

DAKA – or Dakini, he is a;

FOX

LEVELS – moving or advancing by levels

SPACE

YOGA

Rubrics found in Synthesis:

MIND

ABSENTMINDED

ABSORBED – become of him; as to what would

ABSTRACTION OF MIND

ACTIVITY – desires activity

AGILITY, mental

AILMENTS FROM – anticipation

- betrayed; from being

- business failure

-cares, worries

-discords – parents; between

one’s

-mental shock; from

ALCOHOL – agg.

AMBITION

ANGER – mistakes, about his

-questioned; when

ANTAGONISM with herself

ANTICIPATION

ANXIETY –anger – during

-conscience; anxiety of

-future, about

-motion – amel.

-success; anxiety from doubt about

-time is set, if a

-work – preventing work; anxiety

ARDENT

-desires to be

AVERSION – persons – certain, to

BUSINESS – aversion to

CARES, full of

CHANGE – aversion to

CHAOTIC

CHEERFUL – dancing, laughing, singing; with

CHILDISH behavior

CLAIRVOYANCE

CLARITY of mind

COLORS – blue – desire for – dark blue

CONFIDENCE – want of self-confidence

-self-deprecation

-support; desires

CONFIDENT

CONFUSION of mind – headache, with

-ident5ity, as to his

-boundaries; and personal

CONSCIENTIOUS about trifles

CONTACT; desire for – reality and real people; with

CREATIVITY – lost

CURIOUS

CURSING

DANCING

DELUSIONS – alien, she is

-body -greatness of, as to

-out of the body

-ugly; body looks

-dissolving, she is

-divine, being

-emptiness; of

-existence – own existence; he doubted his

-fail, everything will

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-fire

-visions of

-floating – air, in

-God – communication with God; he is in

-head – open and his consciousness is

expanding above him; top of head is

-influence; one is under a powerful

-light[ = low weight] – is light; he

-neglected – duty; he has neglected his

-possessed; being

-power – all-powerful; she is

-evil power had control of the whole

of him

-prince; he is a

-small – he is

-soldiers – being a soldier – night

-superhuman; is

-control; is under superhuman

-superiority, of

-inferiority at the same time; and

-swimming, is

-tall – he or she is tall

-water – flowing water; sees

-of

-wades in water; he

-worthless; he is

DETACHED

-ego; from

DISCOMFORT

DISCONTENTED

DOUBTFUL

DRUGS – desire – psychotropic

DULLNESS

DWELLS – offenses come back to him; long forgotten

-past disagreeable occurrences, on

EFFICIENT, organized

ENNUI

ESCAPE, attempts to

EXCITEMENT

EXERTION – physical – amel.

EXPANSIVE

FAITH – maintain; need to

FASTIDIOUS

FEAR – blind; of going

- change; of any sudden

- children, in

- failure, of

- unfit for work; of becoming

- unknown; of the

FEARLESS

FORGETFUL

FORSAKEN feeling

FREEDOM – doing what he had to do; remarkable

freedom in

GRIEF

-loved ones; long lost

HATRED

HAUGHTY

HELD – desire to be held

HELPLESSNESS; feeling of

HIDING – himself

HOMESICKNESS

HUNGRY; when

IDEAS – abundant

IMPATIENCE

INDEPENDENT

INDUSTRIOUS

INTELLECTUAL

INTROSPECTION

IRRESOLUTION

IRRITABILITY – questioned, when

-sadness, with

LAUGHING – childish

LAZINESS

LEARNING – desire for

LIBERTINISM

MALICIOUS

MEDITATING

-deeply

-desire for

MENTAL POWER – increased

MERGING OF SELF with one’s environment

MISTAKES; making – calculating, in

MOOD – changeable

MOON –full moon agg.

MOONLIGHT agg.

MYSTICISM

NEW IDEAS – aversion to

OCCUPATION – amel.

OFFENDED, easily

MORDER – desire for

OVERACTIVE

PHILOSOPHY – ability for

PITIES herself

POLITICS – aversion to political engagement

-occupied with politics; too

POSITIVENESS

POSTPONING everything to next day

PRAYING

QUARRELLING – aversion to

QUARRELSOME

QUICK to act

REFUSING – help

REMORSE

REPROACHING oneself

RESERVED

RESTLESSNESS – hunger, with

RITUALISTIC BEHAVIOR

RUDENESS

SELF-CONTROL – increased

SENSITIVE - external impressions, to all

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SHRIEKING

SLEEPLESSNESS agg.

SPACED-OUT feeling

SPIRITUALITY

-lack of

STRIKING – desire – strike; to

STUPEFACTION

SUCCEEDS, never

SUPERSTITIOUS

SYMPATHETIC

TACITURN

THEORIZING

-proving substance; about the

THOUGHTS -persistent

THROWING things around

TRANQUILITY

TRAVELLING – desire for

UNFORTUNATE, feels

UNIFICATION – desire for

-sensation of unification

-crystals; with

-universe; with the

UNOBSERVING [= inattentive]

UNREAL – everything seems

WANDERING – desire to wander

WEEPING

-desire to weep

WITHDRAWAL from reality

VERTIGO

EXCITEMENT; EMOTIONAL

FLOATING, as if

LOOKING – upward

SUDDEN

HEAD

CONGESTION

CONSTRICTION – band or hoop

-Forehead

ERUPTIONS – Scalp

FOREHEAD; complaints of – Eyes – Behind

HEAVINESS – sleep – loss of sleep; from – as from

loss of sleep

PAIN

-accompanied by – Gallbladder; complaints of

-nausea

-dull pain

-extending to -all directions

-Face – drawing pain

-Forehead

- Eyes – Behind

-lancinating

-motion – amel.

-pressing pain – band; as from a

-pressure – amel.

- dull pain

-rubbing

-Sides – lancinating

-left

-oneside – accompanied by – nausea

-right

-sun – exposure to sun; from

-Temples – lancinating

-Vertex

-waking – on – bursting pain

EYE

AGGLUTINATED – left

CONJUNCTIVA; complaints of

DISCOLORATION – red

DRYNESS

EYEBALLS; complaints of – Behind

HEAVINESS

INFLAMMATION

LACHRYMATION

PAIN – sand; as from

PARALYSIS – Lids, of

SWELLING – Lids

EAR

ERUPTIONS – acne

MOVING in ear; sensation of something – swallowing

agg.

PAIN -aching

-Deep in ear –stitching pain

-pressing pain

-pulsating pain

WATER; sensation of – in ear

-out of ears; running

NOSE

DISCHARGE – crusts, scabs, inside

-dripping

-glue-like

-Posterior nares

-plugs

-thick

OBSTRUCTION

SMELL

SNEEZING

FACE

CLENCHED jaw

ERUPTIONS – acne

-Cheeks – right

-pustules

-spots

-Temples

PAIN –burning

-Cheeks

-Jaws

-Sinuses – Frontal

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-Maxillary

-sore

TENSION of skin

TENSION of skin – Forehead

TINGLING

TOUCH – agg.

WARTS

MOUTH

BITING – Tongue

DRYNESS – thirst; with

-drinking – not amel.

GUMS; complaints of

INFLAMMATION – Gums – Lower

TASTE – bitter

-metallic

THRUSH

ULCERS – canker sore

THROAT

DRYNESS

-accompanied by – mouth; dryness of

EMPTINESS

HANGING in throat; sensation as if something were –

thread – accompanied by – vomiting

HAWK; disposition to

MUCUS

-drawn from posterior nares

-morning

-Posterior nares

PAIN – acidity; from – burning

-sore

-swallowing – empty – agg. – burning

-waking; on – sore

-warm – drinks – amel.

EXTERNAL THROAT

ERUPTIONS – boils

-painful

STOMACH

ACIDITY

-eating – after – agg.

ANXIETY

-people, on approach of

APPETITE – diminished

-evening

-increased

INDIGESTION – accompanied by – acidity of stomach

NAUSEA

-SUDDEN

PAIN – emotions; after – pressing pain

THIRST

-extreme

TURNING; as if

-over; seems to be turned

ABDOMEN

CONSTRICTION

DISTENSION

-sudden

ERUPTIONS

FULLNESS, sensation of

GURGLING

-Sides – left

-stool - after – agg.

-before

HEAT

LIVER and region of liver; complaint of

PAIN

-burning

-digestion; during

-dull pain

-Gallbladder

-inguinal region

-Liver

-Region of liver

-morning – waking – on

-Spots; in sore

-sudden – cramping

TREMBLING

TWITCHING and jerking

RECTUM

CONSTIPATION – chronic

DIARRHEA -accompanied by – nausea

-sudden

STOOL

BALLS, like – small

PASTY, papescent

SHEEP dung, like

SOFT

URINARY

BLADDER – URINATION – frequent – night

-urging to urinate – night

--night – waking; on

KIDNEYS – PAIN

-left

-rubbing – amel. – stitching pain

URINARY ORGANS – PAIN – urination agg.; after –

spasmodic

URINE – COLOR – pale

URINE – SCANTY

FEMALE

COITION – painful

LARYNX AND TRACHEA

DRYNESS

RESPIRATION

DIFFICULT

-inspiration

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INSPIRATION – agg.

MOUTH; through

PAINFUL –inspiration agg.

-morning

WHEEZING

-night

COUGH

LOOSE

MUCUS – Throat; in

EXPECTORATION

MUCOUS

THICK

WHITE

CHEST

ANXIETY

CONSTRICTION

-inspiration agg.

EMPTINESS, sensation of – Heart – Region of

ERUPTIONS – boils

EXPANSION; sensation of – Heart

HARD body – Heart – were a hard body; as if heart

HEAT – External chest

-rising upward; heat

OPPRESSION

PAIN – burning

-constricting pain

-lying down – agg. – burning

-Ribs

-left – stitching pain

-Sides – left – sudden – stitching pain

PALPITATION of heart – talking agg.

STERNUM; complaints of

TINGLING

VIBRATION – sensation as if

BACK

COCCYX; complaints of

DISCOMFORT; sensation of

DORSAL REGION; complaints of – Scapulae – left

HEAVINESS, weight – Coccyx

PAIN – Coccyx

-Lumbar region

-extending to – Coccyx

-sudden

-Lumbosacral region

TOUCH – agg.

WEAKNESS

-Cervical region – Muscles

NECK

ERUPTIONS – boils

PAIN

-right – drawing pain

-sore

RUBBING – amel.

STIFFNESS – one side

TOUCH – agg.

EXTREMITIES

CONSTRICTION

-Upper arms – Shoulder; near

-Upper limbs

CRACKING in joints

-Upper limbs, joints of

CRAMPS

-Legs

-Lower limbs

ELBOW; complaints of – Tip

ELECTRICAL current; sensation of an - legs

ERUPTIONS – Legs – psoriasis

FINGERS; complaints of

-Nails

-Tips

FORMICATION – legs

-Lower limbs

HEAT – Hands – left

INFLAMMATION – Fingers

-Joints

-Forearms

-Knees

ITCHING

KNEES; complaints of – Bend of

LIMPING

MOTION – Legs – sensations as if – Skin; under

wavelike

NAILS; complaints of – hangnails

NUMBNESS

-Fingers

-Hands

PAIN

-aching

-Feet – left

-Fingers – First – Joints

-Joints

-Hips -aching

-left

-JOINTS

-Shoulders -aching

-left

-right

-sore

-Toes - First – joints

-Toes - First – standing agg. – stitching

pain

-Joints

-Second

-Upper arms – Bicups

-sore

PERSPIRATION –Knee – Hollow of

-Upper limbs

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-Inner side of

RUBBING – amel. – Lower limbs

-Upper limbs

SCRATCHING – amel. – Upper limbs

TINGLING – Hands

UNSTEADINESS, joints

-Legs

VIBRATION; sensation of

-Legs

-Thighs

WARTS – Fingers

WEAKNESS

-Hips

-Knees

-Legs

-Lower limbs

-Shoulders

SLEEP

DEEP

FALLING SLEEP – early

POSITION – side; on – left side; on

SHORT – catnaps, in

SLEEPINESS – daytime

-driving – agg.

-lying – inclination to lying down

-overpowering

-work – during

UNREFERSHING – morning

WAKING – difficult

-early; too

-3 or 4 hours after falling asleep

-asleep late; and falling

-frequent

-heat – from and with

-hunger, from

-sneezing, from

-thirst, by

YAWNING

DREAMS

ACCIDENTS

BATTLES

BIRDS – eagles

BOARS, WILD

CHANGING – everything is changed

CHILDBIRTH

CHURCHES

CLEANING

-everything

COUNTRY – beautiful

CRYSTALS

-trapped inside a crystal; being

DANCING

-circle; in a

-spiral; in a

DANGER

DARKNESS

DEATH

DOGS

DOLPHINS

EARTH – beautiful; earth is

ECSTASY; of

ELDERS, respect for

ESCAPING

EXCITING

FEARLESS

FIELDS

FIRE – house on fire; setting a

FISH

FLOATING

FLYING

FOREST

FRIGHTFUL

GIANTS

-pursued by giants, being

GODDESS; of

GRIEF

GUNS

JOURNEYS

KIDNAPPERS

KILLING

LIGHT; of

LOOKING – down from above

MOON

OCEAN

PREGNANT – being

PRISONER

-being taken a

PURSUED, being – robbers, by

ROBBERS

ROOMS – many

SCHOOL

SHARKS

SHOPPING

SNAKES

STOOL

STRUGGLING; of

SUN – sunrise

SUPERNATURAL things

SWIMMING

TEACHER – spiritual; of a

TEACHING

TIME – travelling through

TRAIN

TRANSFORMATION

UNIFICATION, of

VEGETABLES

VIVID

WANDERING

WAR

WASPS

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WEEPING; about

SKIN

EXCRESCENCES – fungus haematodes

MOLES

NEVI

STINGS of insects

GENERALS

ACTIVITY – amel.

AIR; IN OPEN – amel.

ALLERGIC constitution

ENERGY – excess of energy

-Muscles

EXERTION; physical – desire for

-impossible

FOOD and DRINKS

–alcoholic drinks – agg.

-beer – agg.

-bread – agg. – butter agg.; and

-caffeine – desire

-chocolate – agg.

-coffee – agg.

-dairy products – agg.

-fat – desire

-ice cream – desire

-meat – desire

-pizza – desire

-sweets – agg.

HEAT – Affected parts – left side

-flushes of

-anger; after

-menopause; during

-night

-lack of vital heat

KNOTTED sensation internally

LIGHT; from – agg. – moonlight

MUSCLES; complaints of

PAIN –aching

-sore

SIDE – left

STIFFNESS

STRENGTH, sensation of

SWIMMING – while – agg.

TEMPERATURE – change of

TENSION – Internally

TREMBLING – Externally

-Internally

VIBRATION, fluttering, etc.

WAVELIKE sensations

WEAKNESS

WEARINESS

WOUNDS – bites

3. On our knowledge of the Materia Medica:

Quantitative knowledge of Remedies

TAYLOR, Will (HH. 40, 1/2014)

In the opinion of the author a remedy is

reckoned as polychrest by the frequency it appears in

the rubrics in the Synthesis Repertory by Frederick

Schroyens. A remedy is considered ‘small’ if it appears

only in very small number of Rubrics. Between these

are several other remedies. [“A knowledge of many

symptoms is of small value, while on the other hand

learning how to examine a patient and then to find the

remedy is of the utmost importance.”

---Cyrus Maxwell Boger.]

4. Perceiving the Trio: Pulsatilla, Silicea and Fluoric

acid

KULKARNI, Ajit (HH. 40, 1/2014)

This is a brief Comparative study of three remedies.

The comparisons are mostly Mind, Emotion,

related.

5. How to study Polychrest Remedies

SANKARAN, Rajan (HH. 40, 1/2014)

The learned author has examined three polychrest

remedies Sulphur, Staphysagria, Lachesis. The

differentiation study is done on one single ‘mind’

symptom – ‘Egotism’.

Homœopaths who follow the [SANKARAN

method would appreciate this well. For me I would

rather depend more on NASH’s Leaders, on Sulphur,

HERING on Lachesis, which I can comprehend better =

KSS.]

6. Some thoughts on the Psychology of Nux vomica

with special reference to Children

SHORE, Jonathan (HH. 40, 1/2014)

This study is based on the repertories.

However, the repertories are based on Case

Reports, the veracity of which is assumed.

7. Sulphur

KOPPIKAR, S.P. (HH. 40, 1/2014)

This is a ‘sound’ one since it is based on personal

experience and ‘facts’.

The article is an actual lecture of late Dr.

KOPPIKAR in the fortnightly, (later monthly) meetings

of the Society of Homœopathic Physicians, Madras

and I have personally been in this lecture as I was the

Secretary of the Society = KSS.]

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III. THERAPEUTICS

1. Homœopathic treatment of Brain Hemorrhage:

Several cases

MÜELLER, Manfred (AH. 19/2013)

Case 1: Hemiplegia after Haemorrhagic stroke with

Hematoma.

Eleanor, aged 70, collapsed after a haemorrhagic

stroke, nearly unconscious and paralysed on left side.

Noisy breathing. On Ventillator. Responding by

making sounds and nodding head. Bloated face, red,

hot to touch. Rattling respiration and Pneumonia. Scan

– haematoma on right side of the brain.

Arnica LM I and Antim tart.LM I. Two days later,

considerable improvement in breathing. More alert.

Face not red. “Enjoyed being fanned”. Carbo

vegetabilis 30c one dose and then as needed. To

continue Arnica in ascending Q potencies, one dose

daily.

10 days later: Completely recovered from Pneumonia

and was off respirator. Fully conscious but unable to

talk – To continue Arnica.

22 days later: Able to eat normally, talk. Good

progress in moving left hand and leg.

21 days later: Brain Scan showed complete resolution

of haematoma. But hemiplegia and

difficulty in speaking persisted.

Amnesia for events following the stroke.

Always feeling hot and dull. H/o

Hypertension, Obesity. Loves oysters,

alcoholic drinks. Worse on waking and

talkative. Lachesis in Q potency in

alteration with Arnica.

3 weeks later: She could walk with a walker. Major

progress in ability to walk and talk.

Optimistic.

[Dr. MÜLLER prescribed multiple remedies justifying

that cases needing several remedies to cover several

syndromes in severe cases! = KSS].

Case 2: Coma and Hemiplegia after Brain Surgery.

10 year-old Rachel fell and hit the back of her head.

Pale and disoriented. Consulted at ER and taken to

brain Surgery for subarachnoid haemorrhage. Survived

the surgery but slipped into a Coma within the hour. In

the next one week, Arnica, Carbo-veg., and Stront. c.

did not help. By visiting the patient in person, the facts

observed were, half open eyes with contracted pupils

and noisy breathing with difficulty. Opium Q1, one

pellet in water and to apply on forehead. Once daily for

10 days, succussing before each dose. After first dose,

twitching of toe and after 5 days, out of Coma for 24

hrs. and is responsive. Drowsy, disoriented, difficulty

in talking and paralysed on the whole left side. Strange

hand movements as if picking bed covers. Helleborus

Q potency, daily applied to her arm, in alternation with

Arnica Q1.

42 days later: Lachesis Q1 in alternation with Arnica

Q1. Now in olfactory dose. Ten days later, sitting up

and able to eat and swallow with assistance. Trying to

talk.

40 days later: Lachesis Q2-4 daily, ten days each. Able

to use pencil with left hand, walking with walker.

Overall progress in all areas. Two weeks later

transferred to rehabilitation. She continued to improve.

Case 3: Subarachnoid Haemorrhage after Head Injury.

Bill 65, fell off the ladder and hit his head against

the tool box. On rising blood from nose and mouth. X-

ray revealed fractured rib, punctured lung, thoracic

spine fracture, a possible facial bone fracture.

Arnica to match injuries of the fall, including brain

trauma.

Bryonia for pain worse from slightest motion.

Symphytum to cover fractures of ribs and vertebra.

All in Q potencies, a plussed liquid dose every half

hour, next higher potency after ten doses.

Echinacea angustifolia tincture for the first week,

to prevent possible infection and improve healing from

serious injury.

Urged strongly to continue to have regular medical

exams.

35 days later, complained of difficulty in thinking,

expressing, slurring. Slow to respond. Lack of energy.

CT was scheduled next week. Symptoms pointed to

haemorrhage in subarachnoid space. So Gelsemium.

Repertorisation of symptoms led to Lachesis.

Alternated. Also Hypericum.

9 days later: Felt better, more alert, completely

recovered from rib and back fracture. X-ray 30c in

liquid doses to be taken after CT Scan scheduled later

that day.

Scan revealed subarachnoid haemorrhage and was

advised surgery. 12 days later second opinion was also

for surgery.

Two weeks later decided against surgery

encouraged by his improvement from homœopathic

treatment. Another scan revealed improvement.

Hesitation in lecturing in front of people since injury.

Weakness of right arm. Lycopodium clavatum to cover

weakness and fear.

Three weeks later: CT showed no haemorrhage.

The surgeon told “I have never seen anything like this.

Did you go to a witch doctor?”

3 months later: No relapses. No abnormalities in

mental state, cognitive or language abilities.

Case 4: Subdural Haematoma after a fall.

Claire 47, helped by Homœopathy with her

anxieties over the past one year. She tripped over a

power cord landed on left knee hitting her head on the

corner of a furniture at the orbital bone near eyebrow.

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Swelling around the eye. She took Arnica 30c,

Traumeel [What is Traumeel?] and Symphytum 30. 30

doses in 3 weeks.

Still headache. Tired easily, needed more sleep,

could not think long – may be due to minor concussion.

Dizzy on turning and slow in responding. Sensitive to

noise. Spelling and pronunciation worse. Difficulty in

comprehension and to focus.

Arnica, Gelsemium, Symphytum, Hypericum in

alteration in Q potencies. Headache disappeared in 24

hrs. relapse on discontinuing medicines during

menstrual cycle.

A CT scan had revealed haemotoma in

subarachnoid space. They wanted to drill to relieve the

pressure. Because of the obvious improvement in all

aspects, she refused it.

A month later, recovery was complete. Another

month later, no sign of haemotoma in CT. [The cases

speak for themselves. I do not know what I should learn

from these successful cases = KSS].

2. What is to be cured?

Lessons from Africa

ZEE, Harry van der (AH. 19/2013)

The author discusses at length the use and

advantages of PC remedies in Africa for various

conditions.

PC 1 – Aids; PC – Rape trauma.

PC Malaria; PC – Gonorrhoea; PC – War – trauma

[What is the remedy PC1, PC 2? = KSS]

3. A cured case of Pemphigus Vulgaris

ELMORE, Durr (AH. 19/2013)

Emotional shocks in utero may cause severe

physical pathology.

A ten month old boy with Pemphigus since 3

months. He was on Prednisone which effectively

suppressed the lesions. A homœopath who gave

Sulphur and then Mezereum, which did not help.

Upon further enquiry, mother told that the terrible –

looking, large, raw blisters, which would weep serous

fluid, did not bother him much. He also had

constipation. During pregnancy, mother was frightened

on seeing the sudden status epilepticus of husband.

Opium 200 and to wean Prednisone in 2 weeks.

A month later, doing well and no signs of skin

lesions.

A year later mild cough and Sulphur cured it.

[This is a ‘model’ homœopathic cure. = KSS].

4. Antimonium tart. to the Rescue

ALMQUIST, Lena (AH. 19/2013)

3 year-old with Pneumonia with rattling in left lung

and inflammation in right ear. High fever. Back hurts

when he coughs. Born with Pulmonary edema.

Recurrent colds and coughs. Always wants to hold his

mother’s hand. Aversion to being looked at. Ant. t.30.

shortly after fell asleep. No cough. Next afternoon

worse. Ant. t.200. Next day much better. Two months

later: he recovered well, however his aversion to being

touched was still unchanged, Ant. t. 200. Three months

later, looks at persons and talk. Allows being touched.

[Great cure.]

5. Sinking Sepia surfaces from Stress

SPERLING, Vatsala (AH. 19/2013)

Diana, 50, presented with hormonal imbalance and

headaches. Overwhelmed with her life at home and

office. Emotional outbursts help her to survive. Loves

dancing as it is freeing. Feels like going away from

family and children. Sepia 200 one dose. In the follow-

up visit she had much more energy levels and only one

bout of headache. No medicine. Two months later

quite angry as husband lost job and no raise in her

salary. No medicine. Two months later, aversion to

consolation, sympathy for her kids. Tears stinging her

eyes. Constipation. Nat mur. 200. 6 weeks later, heavy

debts, much workload and none to help. Sighing. Sepia

1M dissolved in half a cup of water and taken on three

consecutive days and then discard.

Ten weeks later, much better. Few days later while

walking the dog “Felt as if a cloud lifted from my

head.”

6. Should Homœopathy be considered as part of a

treatment strategy for otitis media with effusion in

children?

FIXSEN Alison (HOM. 102, 2/2013)

Background: Otitis media with effusion (OME) or

‘glue ear’ is the most common cause of pediatric

hearing loss, and a drain on global healthcare resources.

It is associated with frequent episodes of acute otitis

media (AOM) and upper respiratory tract infections

(URTIs) and linked with environmental and social

factors, including diet, smoking households,

overcrowding and day care use. Current conventional

treatment for OME is unsatisfactory, the area constitutes

an ‘effectiveness gap’. Homœopathy is a relatively

common and popular choice of complementary and

alternative medicine (CAM) treatment for childhood

conditions, including otitis media. Antibiotic resistance

is now a major global problem, Homœopathy may have

a role to play in combating its further development.

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Method: Systematic review of the literature for clinical

studies of Homœopathy for AOM and upper respiratory

tract disorders. Discussion in the context of current

treatment options and public health issues including

antibiotic resistance.

Results: Several randomized trials of Homœopathy for

OME, using a pragmatic framework and evaluating

long-term effects in different settings, in conjunction

with other healthcare and social services should be

considered. Reduction of antibiotic use is an important

outcome.

7. Konzepte der homӧopathischen Therapie von

Kindern – von Hahnemann bis heute

(Concepts of homœopathic Therapy of children –

from Hahnemann to today)

LUCAE, Christian (ZKH. 56, 3/2012)

In this well-analysed essay the concepts and

strategies of Homœopathy in the treatment of children

in the last 200 years are discussed. Four time-frames

are discussed

i. Early days of Homœopathy beginning with

HAHNEMANN

ii. The second half of the 19th Century with the

‘Golden era’ of Homœopathy (lead by Constantin

HERING) which flourished in the USA.

iii. The 20th century with its main focus on Clinical

Homœopathy and constitutional aspects. (post

Kentian).

iv. ‘Contemporary’ Homœopathy

Among the early Homœopathy Practitioners who

wrote on homœopathic paediatrics, JAHR, GROSS,

CASPARI, HARTMANN and later BORLAND,

FOUBISTER, KENT, and contemporary personalities

Heiner FREI, are some discussed.

A very interesting study.

8. Die homӧopathische Behandlung der Anӓmie im

klinischen Umfeld

(The homœopathic treatment of Anaemia in

Clinical Field)

HAGGENMÜLLER, Georg (ZKH. 56, 3/2012)

Homœopathy picks ups a challenge in the clinical

terrain. Anaemia is one such and good results have

been obtained. The repertories of KENT, BOGER and

PHATAK have been very helpful in this. Also NASH,

FARRINGTON, DORCSI are considered.

Case Report in brief with Alumina, Kali

carbonicum, China, Natrum muriaticum are mentioned.

9. Zahnschmerzen –Eine Fallserie aus der Praxis

(Toothache – A case series from practice)

GNAIGER-RATHMANNER, Jutta

(ZKH. 56, 2/2012)

Once in a while as a general practitioner, one is

confronted with patients suffering from toothache. In

addition to consultations with the dentist’s, six cases

successfully treated homœopathically are presented.

Mercurius solubilis, Lycopodium clavatum,

Mezereum daphne, Kreosotum, Ammonium carbonicum

are the remedies. Repertorial analysis have been given.

10. Die Schmerzsymptomatik von Berberis vulgaris

am Beispiel urolosgischen Erkrankungen

(The pain symptoms of Berberis vulgaris – an

example of urological diseases)

ZENKER, Ulrich (ZKH. 56, 2/2013)

54 year-old man with prostatitis treated with

Berberis vulgaris prescribed on the basis of

characteristics. The author presents Berberis as a

remedy for pains with reference to the Materia Medica.

Berberis pains in urogenital tract, abdomen.

Extremities, Back ache, headaches are discussed. Cold

sensation in single parts is characteristic. [Very recently

(Jan. 2016) I visited a close relative. They had a large

labrador past 9 year age. He appeared weighed down

with age. Would walk a few feet and lie down. She

was under treatment of a Veterinary doctor who had

diagnosed kidney stones; The (Vet) gave a poor

prognosis; Was passing much blood urine. Appeared

that the urination was painful.

Prescribed Berberis vulgaris 200. Two days later I

was informed that there was no more blood in urine and

no pain. Three months later remain well. = KSS].

11. Colocynthis bei Morbus Crohn

(Colocynthis in Crohn’s Disease)

Von PICHLER, Erfried (ZKH. 56, 2/2012)

It is well-known that painful conditions can be

cured by homœopathic remedies. It is also certainly

speedy.

In this case cure of painful abdomen is described;

the results are better than conventional therapy. [It is

not necessary to stress this to any Homœopathy

practitioner of even a few years practice. In fact one

takes to practice only because of its results = KSS].

The repertorial chart shows that the physician has

chosen 12 symptoms and a computer to analyse them

[Unless one is adept at picking up the symptoms which

are indicative of the disease, and prescribe the remedy,

we in India where a fairly good homœopath has 40 to

50 patients a day, we cannot do. And it is this method, a

knowledge of the Materia Medica that has made

Homœopathy popular here. In spite of ‘innovators’

‘illuminators’ of the ‘modern’ days there is still a strong

number of these prescribers who serve the common

man. And that keeps Homœopathy quite alive. = KSS]

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12. Impfen in der homӧopathischen Praxis

(Vaccination in homœopathic practice)

LEHRKE, Philipp (ZKH. 56, 4/2012)

In homœopathic practice, vaccinations are more

critically viewed than in eclectic practice. An

individual handling of vaccination is presented and

explained with aid of case presentations of a female

patient with Epilepsy and a male patient with recurrent

Leukaemia. The epileptic patient had a relapse of

convulsions after vaccination which had ceased before

under Calcium carbonicum. In the case of the parents

of the patient decided against new vaccinations after

stem cell transplantation in order not to jeopardize the

success of treatment. It resulted in a stable course.

Vaccinations can spoil the laboriously obtained and

labile balance in homœopathically treated patients with

severe chronic diseases or tumors.

A well researched study worth study carefully.

[Harris COULTER brought out a book recording

several cases of ill effects of vaccination, but the powers

of Hegemony Medicine was not moved = KSS].

13. Hahnemann und die Pockenimfung

(Hahnemann and the Pox vaccination)

HEINZ Inge and WISCHNER, Mathias

(ZKH. 56, 4/2012)

Hahnemann’s view of vaccinations is often being

discussed controversically and emotionally. A clear

overview and survey of this is not available. Only Cow

Pox vaccination of JENNER was these. Taking into

account Hahnemann’s writings, his correspondence with

colleagues and as well as his files, we clearly see that he

supported in principle the Cow Pox vaccination, at the

same time observing its side effects. In some single

cases he recommended an alternative prophylaxis of

Smallpox with Rhus toxicodendron.

A detailed presentation of Hahnemann’s view with

a digression to homœopathic prophylaxis of epidemic

diseases with Nosodes is presented.

A very well researched article worth study.

[In our experiences of some cases of Autism, children

who were well and talking, normal in every way

according to the parents became autistic after an

‘immunisation’ particularly the modern Penta vaccine.

It is, however, gratifying that Autism is responding well

although over a period of time to homœopathic

medication. This is our personal experience = KSS.]

14. Impfeinstellung und – verhalten unter

niedergelassenen Pӓdiatern mit und ohne

Zusatzbezeichnung Homӧopathie

(Support of vaccination and restraining it with or

without Homœopathy in the view of Paediatricians)

SCHMIDT Judith, BRUNS Roswitha, WEIGEL

Martin, RAUTMANN Christiane, WEITMANN

Kerstin, HOFFMANN Wolfgang

(ZKH. 56, 4/2012)

In a cross-section survey in 2006/2007, 50% of

paediatric physicians in Germany were questioned on

vaccination. About 63% responded, and this was

representative of the Nationwide Paediatricians. There

was significant difference in the opinions of

Paediatricians with Homœopathy as an additional title

and without. Homœopathically trained physicians were

not opponents to vaccinations. They are mostly

individual critics of vaccinations, they more often

vaccinate later than recommended by medical

authorities and they follow the rules of vaccination. The

majority of homœopathic physicians in Germany (about

70%) have a positive attitude towards vaccinations.

15. Polaritӓtsanalyse bei Husten

(Polarity analysis in cough)

LUCAE, Christian (ZKH. 56, 4/2012)

The ‘Polarity analysis’ of Dr. HEINER FREI is

based on the usage of BOENNINGHAUSEN

Therapeutic Pocket Book which allows a very specific

selection of the appropriate homœopathic remedy by

defining contra-indications. Based on a series of 61

patients suffering from cough, the advantages and

disadvantages of this method are discussed and the

success rate is worked out.

16. Dioscorea villosa – eine eigenartige Empfindung

(Dioscorea villosa – a singular feeling)

HOLZAPFEL, Klaus (ZKH. 56, 2/2012)

This is a very interesting and educative Case Report

and it would imprint in our mind how different it is

from the mainstream medicine and ‘art’ of

Homœopathy. It is the Art that brings out successes and

not ‘Science’ as many are striving to make it.

A suckling, 5 months old girl, suffered from

paroxysmal abdominal pain; it stretched its limbs,

changed its position suddenly stiffening the limbs.

Paediatricians diagnosed flatulence, teething; was quiet

when lying on the abdomen.

With the aim of BOGER’s General Analysis

Dioscorea villosa was selected and it relieved promptly.

The entire case and selection of the remedy is

thoroughly discussed. The author has also cited the

monograph of Dr. Georg von KELLER.

17. Polychrest Remedies: Case Reports

TREUHERZ, Francis (HH. 40, 1/2014)

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Case 1: A case of Breast Lump, 35 year-old female.

Wanted solitude, was huddling in a corner of top bunk;

wanted to cry for no reason, Could not cry in front of

men. Her relationship had broken up, much mental

stress, indignation. Had grief, could not cry before men

and only women. Music would move her to tears. She

cried and used half a box of tissues; laughter when

crying was over as the Klenex were for men! Averse to

crowds. Fear of cancer, war. Her mother had died of

Cancer and she suppressed her grief. At 17, suffered

attempt to rape. Angry with men. Fastidious, was

chilly, desired warmth, little sweat.

Menstrual onset was traumatic. History of two

abortions. Premenstrual tension, tender breasts.

Desired sweets, salt and chocolates, spices. H/o

Eczema on neck, face and knees and elbow, on her

breasts also a mole on the lips. Treated with Betnovate

ointment. Lump in breast removed when she was 24;

Now she had a palpable motile induration on the distal

lower edge of the breast.

Repertorised and remedies that came up for

consideration were Carcinosin, Conium, Hydrastis,

Staphysagria, Syphilinum, and Conium which came

closest …..10M was prescribed.

Rapid and complete cure. She began to study

Homœopathy about which she had never before even

heard.

Case 2: This is a long, interesting case of Parkinson

Disease. He was a university lecturer, 45 year age.

Already on Dopa but decided to try Homœopathy for

six months at least.

Was treated Jan. 1985 to July 1985 and not yet

totally cured. But has been improving quite well. The

remedies were Arnica, Sulphur, Mercurius solubilis,

Lycopodium, Calcarea and responded very well.

It is surely worthwhile to read the whole case.

18. Urticaria treated with Natrum muriaticum – case

Report

TRIVEDI, Tejas, NITURKAR, Yogesh

(HH. 40, 1/2014)

36 year-old lady with generalized urticaria. The

case has been explained in the ICR method. Natrum

muriaticum was the remedy. At the end of the article,

the patient has not been declared ‘cured’…

Nevertheless interesting to read to understand the ICR

method.

19. Dengue – Its homӧopathic management

KOWSHIK, Dinesh A. (HH. 40, 2/2014)

As the title says 10 cases of Dengue cured

homœopathically are discussed.

[Dr. Dinesh is unnecessarily apologetic when he

says “ten cases may not have generated sufficient data

….”. It is this state that keep Homœopathy as a

‘subordinate’ method in the minds of homœopaths

themselves. In some states it has become mandatory

that physicians should treat only, allopathically, the

Dengue cases! In so far numbers are concerned we

should remember that Homœopathy is not quantitative

but qualitative. We do not have a ‘fixed’ medicine for

Dengue, Flu, etc. and hence we should not feel inferior

because the number of cases are less = KSS].

20. Acute Prescription for Infectious Diseases

DHANIPAKAR, Gyanan (HH. 40, 2/2014)

The author has discussed four cases: i) Herpes, ii)

Lower respiratory tract infection, iii) Staphylococcus

infection, and iv) Dengue fever.

[In the pre-Antibiotic, pre-Pencillin era when

Diphtheria, Whooping cough, etc. were killers if not

successfully treated in the early stage itself,

Homœopathy scored high in ‘cure’ and statistically

quite significant. See Temple HOYNE’s 2 volumes. =

KSS].

21. Infection and their Miasmatics

BANERJEA, Subrata (HH. 40, 2/2014)

The author is well-known. His books on this

subject are also well-known all over. The charts given

here are useful for study. His book on this subject is

full of charts which can easily be studied and followed.

[It is worthwhile to study Dr.R.P. PATEL’s

lectures/essays on Miasms =KSS].

22. The inappropriate use of long-term

Homœopathylaxis

GOLDEN, Issac (HH. 40, 2/2014)

The pride of Homœopathy is that it does not, as a

rule, require long-term – to take every day once, twice

or more times for years – medication however chronic

the disease may be. If the disease does not yield to the

‘homœopathic’ remedy within a reasonable time, the

physician should honestly admit so to the patient and

advise suitably.

[There was about 15 or more years ago a case (in an

American journal) ‘of a person having severe sufferings

from use of a homœopathic remedy for 2 years (or

more) and the patient asked the Profession ‘who will

prevent such a damaging application of remedies?’

There was a discussion on this by eminent Homœopathy

practitioners.

The physician should know his limitations and not

play with the life of one who has come to him/her for

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relief not otherwise. Honesty is expected more from a

homœopath than anyone else.

A good article to be carefully read.

23. Respiratory Tract infection in a case of COPD: A

Case Report

MATHAI Issac & ISSAC Suja Mrs.

(HH. 40, 2/2014)

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is

considered to be a further major cause of death in India.

A case of COPD with acute lower respiratory tract

infection was treated with periodical assessment with

Diffused Lung Capacity for Carbon Monoxide,

Spirometry and 6 minute-walk tests. Kali bichromicum

and then Kali carbonicum were the remedies that

relieved the patient’s complaints. The last report says

‘the patient is following up and has been given Kali

carbonicum 1M for three consecutive nights.’

[A case should be reported only if it is ‘cured’, not

just improvement. BOENNINGHAUSEN has said that

one should wait for 2-3 years before ‘declaring cure’.

Do ‘Cures’ occur now-a-days in the order of the so-

called ‘Herings Law’? I don’t think so. Again in this

Case Report, it is seen that the patient was given the

remedy in 1M potency – once daily night for three

consecutive night, every time. Why three consecutive

nights? Will not ‘once’ suffice. On what rules can one

fix, two days, three days or five days, etc.? Would a

10M also be given in this manner? These questions

keep gnawing me = KSS].

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IV. REPERTORY

1. Die Benutzung von Repertorien in Hahnemanns

Praxis – Teil I: Die verwendeten Repertorien

Teil 2: Der Einfluss auf die Arzneimittel wahl.

(The use of Repertories in Hahnemann’s Practice.

Part 1: The Repertories applied in Hahnemann’s

Practice – Part 2: The influence of Repertories in

the selection of the remedy)

WISCHNER, Mathias (ZKH. 56, 2 & 3/2012)

In his time HAHNEMANN used in his practice

GHG. JAHR’s Handbook der Hauptanzeigen and C.v.

BOENNINGHAUSEN’s Systematic Alphabetic

Repertory, whose values he laudatorily mentions in the

notes to his §153. A majority of the 62 remedy

annotations in DF 5 (Hahnemann’s Case Register

pertaining to the Paris period (1835 – 1843) are denoted

as DF) can be referred to one of the two books, equally

often used. RUCKERT’s, Systematic Darstellung was

used only as a special exception. HAHNEMANN very

often to nature and localization of a symptom.

In part 2: in some cases, the influence of repertories

consulted the procedure of HAHNEMANN’s selection

of remedies can be comprehended directly, and in some

cases it is open to question.

Discussion of these results both for

HAHNEMANN’s prescriptions and the historical

deduction of different homœopathic methods.

This is a thorough thesis.

2. Fehler in Repertorien (Errors in Repertories) –

(Magnesium muriaticum)

ZAUNER, Bernhard (ZKH. 56, 2/2012)

It has been clarified with reference to original

sources and later authors like J.H. CLARKE, Samuel

LILIENTHAL, that the rubric “Mind Kleptomania”,

the subrubric “Steals dainties” and the rubric “Food and

drinks, sweets, desires, cakes desires” are not correct.

3. Ergӓnzungen, Fehler, Ungenauigkeiten und Unklar-

heiten in der Materia Medica und ihr Eingang in die

Repertorien

(Supplements, Errors, In-exactness and unclearness

in the Materia Medica and their entries in the

Repertories)

SEIPEL, Jürgen (ZKH. 56, 3/2012)

This is a genuine criticism of the decadence and the

inflation of books marketed in Homœopathy.

The original Proving Symptoms as given in

HAHNEMANN’s Materia Medica Pura, Chronic

Diseases have been given in JAHR,

BOENNINGHAUSEN, CLARKE, et al and how later

these symptoms have entered in the Repertory, has been

compared. We note important aspects changed in the

different works. In fact even some symptoms in

HAHNEMANN are different from the ‘Proving’

Records. As example, Alumina, Angustara, Atropa

Belladonna, Pulsatilla, Borax veneta, Sabina, Silica are

studied.

Surely studies such as this are very necessary to

ensure greater successes in our cures.

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V. PHARMACOLOGY

1. The Creation of Empathy: A conversation with

Alize Timmerman

SPERLING, Vatsala (AH. 19/2013)

“The Trituration Handbook-into the Heart of

Homœopathy” by Anneke HOGELAND and Judy

SCHRIEBMAN, describe C4 Homœopathy as a way of

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learning Homœopathy by experience. The trituration or

C4 Homœopathy is a way of learning Homœopathy by

experience. By doing the trituration, one becomes

increasingly aware of the stepwise unfolding of the

substance information and one can move through layers

and layers inherent in the medicinal substance.

Alize TIMMERMAN, lovingly called the

ambassador of C4 Homœopathy, explains that by giving

the remedy, the homœopath also gives his empathy and

connects with the patient at a deeper level.

The concept is postulated by the German

Pharmacist Witold EHRLER in his book Pearls of

Pharmacognosis. He discovered that the person

grinding the remedy experienced symptoms of the

remedy. These were consistent for a large number of

people taking part in the grinding session. Each

successive step of trituration shows a specific set of

symptoms thus creating a hierarchy. The starting point

is C0 and proceedings to C8. C1 to C8 does not

correspond to centesimal scale. This refers to Witold

Ehrler’s one of eight carbon levels of existence.

C0 Material, substance, tincture

C1 Biological, physiological level

C2 Sensations, feelings, emotions, compensations

experienced to the body.

C3 Mental, thinking, delusions, illusions, religion

mythical, contrasts like good versus bad.

C4 Acceptance, to be Buddha, Spiritual, without

judgement, Destiny, Synchronicity

C5 Individual archtype, the Source, dreams

C6 Collective archetype, vitality and vital

sensation, energy

C7 Transformation of opposites.

[I am thoroughly confused. In the name of potentisation

so many ideas! Another group may experience in

different order. What then? God help me to remain a

Homœopath = KSS].

4. Understanding potency – A thought Experiment

LANSKY, Amy L. (AH. 19/2013)

This article discusses the difficulty in

understanding the action of different potencies and

potency systems as it is an intuitive form of knowledge

that grows with experience and time.

The author is honest enough to admit that this

reflects his own intuition and way of visualizing

potencies, and not any kind of verified scientific

understanding.

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VI. VETERINARY

1. Early udder inflammation in dairy cows treated by

a homœopathic medicine (Dolisovet):

AUBRY Eléonore; ISSAUTIER Marie-Noëlle et al.

(HOM. 102, 2/2013)

Background: Mammary inflammation in dairy cows is

a widespread problem in dairy farming resulting in

significant economic and welfare concerns. Dolisovet

(Belladonna 1dH, Calendula MT, Echinacea 1dH,

Dulcamara 1cH) a homœopathic medicine, licensed in

France and indicated for the restoration of mammary

function in cows is presented as a 10g tube of ointment

for intramammary use.

Method: A prospective, uncontrolled, observational

pilot study involving the collection and analysis of data

from 31 udder quarters identified as being inflamed by

an automated milking system (AMS) was conducted to

evaluate the effect of Dolisovet on selected parameters

of mammary inflammation. Inflamed quarters were

identified when milk quality started to deteriorate, via

an alert generated by the AMS, on the basis of electrical

conductivity (EC). Milk yield and EC were retrieved

five to seven days prior to the AMS alert, on the day of

and for the following seven days. Dolisovet was

administered twice daily for two consecutive days,

commencing on the day of the AMS alert.

Results: A significant reduction in EC was observed 4-

7 days following the first treatment. An increase in

milk yield was also observed following the first

treatment.

Conclusion: Dolisovet may have a beneficial

therapeutic effect in the early stages of udder

inflammation and for restoring udder health and

function. This medicine may be an effective first line

treatment for sub-clinical bovine mastitis, reducing the

need for antibiotics. Randomized, controlled studies

should be undertaken to further investigate this

possibility.

[A research of no use. There are excellent ‘single’

remedies in Homœopathy which will work faster and

gentler on the poor …= KSS].

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VII. RESEARCH

1. Homœopathy Research in Our Indian Laboratory:

An overview

KHUDA-BUKSH, Anisur Rahman (AH. 19/2013)

Many research papers with positive outcomes have

been discussed. Many ask us whether there are

researches in Homœopathy. This answer all the

questions. A really great advance.

2. Randomized controlled trials of Homœopathy in

humans: characterizing the research journal

literature for systematic review

MATHIE, T Robert; HACKE, Daniela et al.

(HOM. 102, 1/2013)

Introduction: A new programme of systematic reviews

of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in Homœopathy

will distinguish important attributes of RCT records,

including: Placebo controlled versus other-than-placebo

(OTP) controlled; individualized versus non-

individualised Homœopathy; peer-reviewed (PR) versus

non peer-reviewed (NPR) sources.

Aims: (a) To outline the methods used to search and

categorise the RCT literature; (b) to report details of the

records retrieved; (c) to compare our retrieved records

with those reported in two previous systematic reviews

(Linde et al., 1997; Shang et al., 2005).

Methods: Ten major electronic databases were

searched for records published up to the end of 2011. A

record of a clinical trial of homœopathic treatment or

prophylaxis in humans, randomized and controlled, and

published in a PR or NPR journal.

Results: 489 records were potentially eligible: 226 were

rejected as non-journal, minor or repeat publications, or

lacking randomization and/or controls and/or a

‘homœopathic’ intervention; 263 (164 PR, 99 NPR)

placebo-controlled RCTs, of which 121 were included

by, 66 were published after, and 30 were potentially

eligible for, but not listed by, Linde or Shang. The 137

PR records of placebo-controlled RCTs comprise 41 on

individualized Homœopathy and 96 on non-

individualised Homœopathy.

Conclusion: Our findings clarify the RCT literature in

Homœopathy. The 263 accepted journal papers will be

the basis for our forthcoming programme of systematic

reviews.

3. Replication of an experiment on extremely diluted

Thyroxine and highland amphibians

HARRER, Bernhard (HOM. 102, 1/2013)

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to

reproduce an experiment with diluted thyroxine and

amphibians. A detailed account of the difficulties of

this line of research has been published by the initial

team (Endler and Scherer-Pongratz). One experiment

which has been reported reproducible by the initial team

and independent researchers is the effect of extremely

diluted agitated Thyroxine (T30x) versus analogously

prepared water (W30x) in amphibians from biotopes

above the tree line (highland amphibians).

Methods: (A) The author replicated the experiment.

Rana temporaria were taken from an alpine biotope and

the methods given in the original protocols were

followed. Animals were treated from the 2-legged stage

on. (B), the author reanalyzed the results reported by

the initial team and by independent researchers (van

Wijk, Lassnig, Zausner-Lukitsch, Bach, Harrer).

Results: (A) In the author’s own experiment, there was

a clear trend of T30x animals developing more slowly

(i.e. up to 6h within 3 days) than W30x animals. This is

in line with the previous experiments. Due to small

numbers of animals, the differences in the frequency of

larvae reaching the 4-legged stage, pooled T30x values

from the initial team were 10.1% smaller than @30x

values (100%) and pooled T30x values from the 5

independent researchers were 12.4% smaller (p < 0.01

and d > 0.08). Analogously, the number of animals

entering the juvenile stage with reduced tail was smaller

for T30x than for W30x.

[Researches on amphibians with thyroxine has been

going on for nearly 15 years if not more and may go on

for more decades always not fully conclusive = KSS]

4. H3N2 homœopathic influenza virus solution

modifies cellular and biochemical aspects of

MDCK and J774G8 cell lines

SIQUERIRA Camila Monteiro; COSTA Beatriz et

al. (HOM. 102, 1/2013)

Background: Influenza viruses cause highly

contagious acute respiratory illnesses with significant

mortality, especially among young children, elderly

people, and individuals with serious medical conditions.

This encourages the development of new treatments for

human flu. Biotherapies are diluted solutions prepared

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from biological products compounded following

homœopathic procedures.

Objectives: To develop a biotherapy prepared from the

infectious influenza A virus (A/Aichi/2/68 H3N2) and

to verify its in vitro response.

Methods: The ultradiluted influenza virus solution was

prepared in the homœopathic dilution 30dH, it was

termed Influenzinum RC. The cellular alterations

induced by this preparation were analysed by optical

and electron microscopy, MTT and neutral red assays.

Glycolytic metabolism (PFK-1) was studied by

spectrophotometric assay. Additionally, the production

of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) by J774.G8

macrophage cells was qualified by ELISA before and

after infection with H3N2 influenza virus and treatment.

Results: Influenzinum RC did not cause cytotoxic

effects but induced morphological alterations in Madin-

Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. After 30 days, a

significant increase (p < 0.05) PFK-1 activity. TNF-α

in biotherapy-stimulated J774.G8 macrophages

indicated a significant (p < 0.05) increase in this

cytokind when the cell supernatant was analysed.

Conclusion: Influenzinum RC altered cellular and

biochemical features of MDCK and J774G8 cells.

5. Dynamized follicle-stimulating hormone affects the

development of ovine preantral follicles cultured in

vitro

DE LIMA Laritza Ferreira; PEDROSA ROCHA

Rebeca Magalhã; et al. (HOM. 102, 1/2013)

Objective: To evaluate the effect of dynamized follicle-

stimulating hormone (FSH) on the survival, activation

and growth of ovine preantral follicles (PFs) in vitro.

Methods: Ovarian fragments were cultured for 1 or 7

days in alpha minimum essential medium (α –MEM+

control or AI control (p < 0.05). This group also

showed higher follicle and oocyte growth than α-MEM+

control (p < 0.05). FM and TEM techniques confirmed

that FSH 6cH promoted viability and ultrastructural

integrity of follicles after 7 days of culture.

Conclusions: FSH 6cH (24 h) treatment maintained the

viability, and promoted the activation and in vitro

growth of ovine PFs.

6. Effect of the oral administration homœopathic

Arnica montana on mitochondrial oxidative stress

DE CAMARGO Ronaldo Antỏnio; DA COSTA

Ellen Dias & CATISTI Rosana

(HOM. 102, 1/2013)

Objective: To analyze the effect of homœopathic

Arnica on mitochondrial oxidative stress induced by

Ca2+ plus inorganic phosphate and/or Fe2+-citrate-

mediated lipid per-oxidation through changes in oxygen

consumption rates.

Methods: Mitochondria were isolated by differential

centrifugation from the livers of adult male Wistar rats

which had been treated with Arnica Montana 6cH,

12cH, 30cH or succussed 30% ethanol (control) for 21

days.

Results: In the presence of antimycin-A, electron

transport chain inhibitor, as evinced by antimycin-A

insensitive O2 consumption, Arnica inhibited lipid

peroxidation of mitochondrial membranes. In oxidative

stress conditions, in the presence of Ca2+ and inorganic

phosphate, animals receiving Arnica 30cH had a

significant decrease in mitochondrial O2 consumption

compared to control animals.

Conclusion: When administrated orally, Arnica 30cH

protects against hepatic mitochondrial membrane

permeabilization induced by Ca2+ and/or Fe2+-citrate-

mediated lipid peroxidation and fragmentation of

proteins due to the attack by reactive oxygen species.

7. Clinical verification in Homœopathy and allergic

conditions

VAN WASSENHOVEN, Michel

(HOM. 102, 1/2013)

Background: The literature on clinical research in

allergic conditions treated with Homœopathy includes a

meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCT) for

hay fever with positive conclusions and two positive

RCTs in asthma. Cohort surveys have shown positive

results in Eczema, allergy, seasonal allergic rhinitis,

asthma, food allergy and chronic allergic rhinitis.

Aims: This paper reports clinical verification of

homœopathic symptoms in all patients and especially in

various allergic conditions in my own primary care

practice.

Results: For preventive treatments in hay fever

patients, Arsenicum album was the most effective

homœopathic medicine followed by Nux vomica,

Pulsatilla pratensis, Gelsemium, Sarsaparilla, Silicea

and Natrum muriaticum. For Asthma patients,

Arsenicum iodatum appeared most effective, followed

by Lachesis, Calcarea arsenicosa, Carbo vegetabilis

and Silicea. For eczema and urticaria, Mezereum was

most effective, followed by Lycopodium, Sepia,

Arsenicum iodatum, Calcarea carbonica and Psorinum.

Conclusions: The choice of homœopathic medicine

depends on the presence of other associated symptoms

and ‘constitutional’ features. Repertories should be

updated by including results of such clinical

verifications of homœopathic prescribing symptoms.

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8. Homœopathic treatment of premenstrual syndrome:

a case series

DANNO Karine, COLAS Aurélie et al.

(HOM. 102, 1/2013)

Objective: Observational, prospective study to describe

the homœopathic management of premenstrual

syndrome (PMS) by a group of French physicians.

Method: Women with PMS for > 3 months were

prescribed individualized homœopathic treatment. The

intensity of 10 clinical symptoms of PMS was scored

individually at inclusion and at a 3-6 month follow-up

visit: absent = 0, mild = 1, moderate = 2, severe = 3.

Total symptom score (range: 0-30) was calculated and

compared for each patient at inclusion and at follow-up

as: none, mild, moderate, severe, very severe.

Results: Twenty-three women were prescribed

homœopathic treatment only (mean age: 39.7 years).

Folliculinum (87%) was the most frequently prescribed

homœopathic medicine followed by Lachesis mutus

(52.2%). The most common PMS symptoms (moderate

or severe) at inclusion were: irritability, aggression and

tension (87%), mastodynia (78.2%) and weight gain and

abdominal bloating (73.9%); and the most common

symptoms at follow-up were: irritability, aggression and

tension (39.1%), weight gain and abdominal bloating

(26.1%) and mastodynia (17.4%). Mean global score

for symptom intensity was 13.7 at inclusion and 6.3 at

follow-up. The mean decrease in score (7.4) was

statistically significant (p <0.0001). twenty-one women

reported that their QoL also improved significantly

(91.3%; p < 0.0001).

Conclusions: Homœopathic treatment was well

tolerated and seemed to have a positive impact on PMS

symptoms. Folliculinum was the most frequent

homœopathic medicine prescribed. There appears to be

scope for a properly designed, randomized, placebo-

controlled trial to investigate the efficacy of individual

homœopathic medicines in PMS. [We have been

treating tens and tens of women with PMS successfully

with single homœopathic remedies = KSS]

9. Testing the nanoparticle-allostatic ccross-

adaptation-sensitization model for homœopathic

remedy effects

BELL, R. Iris; KOITHAN Mary and J. BOOKS

Audrey (HOM. 102, 1/2013)

Key concepts of the Nanoparticle-Allostatic Cross-

Adaptation-Sensitization (NPCAS) Model for the

action of homœopathic remedies in living systems

include source nanoparticles as low level environmental

stressors, heterotypic hormesis, cross-adaptation,

allostasis (stress response network), time-dependent

sensitization with endogenous amplification and

bidirectional change, and self-organizing complex

adaptive systems. The model accommodates the

requirement for measurable physical agents in the

remedy (source nanoparticles and/or source absorbed to

silica nanoparticles). Hermetic adaptive responses in

the organism, triggered by nanoparticles; bipolar,

metaplastic change, dependent on the history of the

organism. Clinical matching of the patient’s symptom

picture, including modalities, to the symptom pattern

that the source material can cause (cross-adaptation and

cross-sensitization). Evidence for nanoparticle-related

quantum macro-entanglement in homœopathic

pathogenetic trials.

This paper examines research implications of the

model, discussing the following hypotheses: Variability

in nanoparticle size, morphology, and aggregation

affects remedy properties and reproducibility of

findings. Homœopathic remedies modulate adaptive

allostatic responses, with multiple dynamic short-and

long-term effects. Simillimum remedy nanoparticles, as

novel mild stressors corresponding to the organism’s

dysfunction initiate time-dependent cross-sensitization,

reversing the direction of dysfunctional reactivity to

environmental stressors.

The NPCAS model suggests a way forward for

systematic research on Homœopathy. The central

proposition is that homœopathic treatment is a form of

nanomedicine acting by modulation of endogenous

adaptation and metaplastic amplification processes in

the organism to enhance long-term, systemic resilience

and health.

10. Nanosized solvent superstructures in

ultramolecular aqueous dilutions: twenty years

research using water proton NMR relaxation

DEMANGEAT Jean-Louis (HOM. 102, 2/2013)

Background: Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

(NMR) relaxation times T1, T12, T1/T2 are sensitive to

motion and organization of water molecules.

Especially, increase in T1/T2 reflects a higher degree of

structuring. My purpose was to look at physical

changes in water in ultrahigh aqueous dilutions.

Methods: Samples were prepared by iterative

centesimal (c) dilution with vigorous agitation, ranging

between 3c and 24c (Avogadro limit 12c). Solutes were

silica-lactose, histamine, manganese-lactose. Solvents

were water, NaCl 0.15 M or LiCl 0.15 M. Solvents

underwent strictly similar, simultaneous

dilution/agitation, for each level of dilution, as controls.

NMR relaxation was studied within 0.02-20 MHZ.

Results: No changes were observed in controls.

Increasing T1 and T1/T2 were found in dilutions, which

persisted beyond 9c (manganese-lactose), 10c

(histamine) and 12c (silica-lactose). For silica-lactose

in LiCl, continuous decrease in T2 with increase in

T1/T2 within the 12c-24c range indicated growing

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structuring of water despite absence of the initial solute.

All changes vanished after heating/cooling. These

findings were interpreted in terms of nanosized (> 4-

nm) supramolecular structures involving water, nano-

bubbles and ions, if any. Additional study of low

dilutions of silica-lactose revealed increased T2 and

decreased T1/T2 compared to solvent, within the 10-3-

10-6 range, reflecting transient solvent destructuring.

This could explain findings at high dilution.

Conclusion: Proton NMR relaxation demonstrated

modifications of the solvent throughout the low to

ultramolecular range of dilution. The findings

suggested the existence of superstructures that originate

stereospecifically around the solute after an initial

destructuring of the solvent, developing more upon

dilution and persisting beyond 12c.

11. A quantum-like model of Homœopathy clinical

trials: importance of in situ randomization and

unblinding

BEAUVAIS, Francis (HOM. 102, 2/2013)

Background: The randomized controlled trial (RCT) is

the ‘gold standard’ of modern clinical pharmacology.

However, for many practitioners of Homœopathy, blind

RCTs are an inadequate research tool for testing

complex therapies such as Homœopathy.

Methods: Classical probabilities used in biological

sciences and in medicine are only a special case of the

generalized theory of probability used in quantum

physics. I describe Homœopathy trials using a

quantum-like statistical model, a model inspired by

quantum physics and taking into consideration

superposition of states, non-commuting observables,

probability interferences, contestuality, etc.

Results: The negative effect of blinding on success of

Homœopathy trials and the ‘smearing effect’ (‘specific’

effects of Homœopathy medicine occurring in the

placebo group) are described by quantum-like

probabilities without supplementary ad hoc hypotheses.

The difference of positive outcome rates between

placebo and Homœopathy groups frequently vanish in

centralized blind trials. The model proposed here

suggests a way to circumvent such problems in masked

Homœopathy trials by incorporating in situ

randomization/unblinding.

Conclusion: In this quantum-like model of

Homœopathy clinical trials, success in open-label

setting and failure with centralized blind RCTs emerge

logically from the formalism. This model suggests that

significant differences between placebo and

Homœopathy in blind RCTs would be found more

frequently if in situ randomization/unblinding was used.

12. Homœopathy – between tradition and modern

science: remedies as carriers of significance

ALMIRANTIS, Yannis (HOM. 102, 2/2013)

The healing potential and description of

homœopathic remedies, as determined in homœopathic

pathogenic trials (HPTs) and verified by medical

experience, are often found to be meaningfully

connected with the symbolic content attributed to the

original materials (tinctures, metals etc.) through

tradition or modern semantics. Such a connection is

incompatible with a biomolecular mechanistic

explanation of the healing action of remedies. The

physiological effects of crude substances are often

similar to the symptoms of illnesses cured by the

corresponding homœopathic remedy. This is considered

a manifestation of the similia principle. [Exactly how

Homœopathy originated with Hahnemann’s experiment

with China = KSS]. Evidence is brought here that in

several cases the inverse situation occurs, with the

healing properties of the crude substance and those of

its homœopathic preparation partially coinciding, the

remedy usually having broader healing properties.

[That is what the ‘proving’ showed = KSS].

The existence of these two possibilities in the

relationship of medicinal actions of remedy and the

crude substance, offers evidence in favor of a direct

involvement of the level of significances in the

mechanism underlying the homœopathic phenomenon.

Finally, an experimental methodology is proposed,

which may bring the result of double-blind randomized

studies for homœopathic remedies closer to the reported

performance of Homœopathy in real life medical

practice. If successful, this method would be a further

indication of a non-local, significance-related

interpretation of Homœopathy.

13. A randomized placebo-controlled pilot study of Cat

saliva 9cH and Histaminum 9cH in cat allergic

adults

NAIDOO Prenitha & PELLOW Janice

(HOM. 102, 2/2013)

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Background: Cat allergy is an abnormal immune

response by the body to cat dander or saliva, leading to

the development of a complex of symptoms which can

negatively influence health. Cat saliva 9cH and

Histaminum 9cH are indicated, according to isopathic

principles, for the treatment of cat allergy, however no

research has been done to date.

Aim: To determine the effect of Cat saliva 9cH and

Histaminum 9cH (combined) on cat allergic adults.

Method: 30 Participants with a positive test result for a

cat allergy skin test (SPT), conducted at the beginning

and at the end of the study.

Results: Cat saliva 9cH and Histaminum 9cH produced

a highly statistically significant reduction in the wheal

diameter of the cat allergen SPT at the end of week 4.

The placebo group showed no statistically significant

change.

Conclusion: The homœopathic medicine reduced the

sensitivity reaction of cat allergic adults to cat allergen,

according to the SPT. Future studies are warranted to

further investigate the effect of Cat saliva and

Histaminum and their role as a potential therapeutic

option for this condition.

14. A prospective multi-centric open clinical trial of

Homœopathy in diabetic distal symmetric

polyneuropathy

NAYAK Chaturbhuja; OBERAI Praveen; et al.

(HOM. 102, 2/2013)

Objectives: To evaluate homœopathic treatment in the

management of diabetic distal symmetric

polyneuropathy.

Methods: A prospective multi-centric clinical

observational study was carried out from October 2005

to September 2009 by Central Council for Research in

Homœopathy (CCRH) (India) at its five Institutes/Units.

Patients suffering from diabetes mellitus (DM) and

presenting with symptoms of diabetic polyneuropathy

(DPN) were screened, investigated and were enrolled in

the study after fulfilling the inclusion and exclusion

criteria. Patients were evaluated by the Diabetic Distal

Symmetric Polyneuropathy Symptom Score (DDSPSS)

developed by the Council. A total of 15 homœopathic

medicines were identified after repertorizing the

nosological symptoms and signs of the disease. The

appropriate constitutional medicine was selected and

prescribed in 30, 200 and 1M potency on an

individualized basis. Patients were followed up

regularly for 12 months.

Results: Out of 336 patients (167 males and 169

females) enrolled in the study, 247 patients (123 males

and 124 females) were analyzed. All patients who

attended at least three follow-up appointments and

baseline curve conduction studies were included in the

analysis). A statistically significant improvement in

DDSPSS total score (p = 0.001) was found at 12 months

from baseline. Most objective measures did not show

significant improvement. Lycopodium clavatum (n =

132), Phosphorus (n = 27) and Sulphur (n = 26) were

the medicines most frequently prescribed. Adverse

event of hypoglycaemia was observed in one patient

only.

Conclusion: This study suggests homœopathic

medicines may be effective in managing the symptoms

of DPN patients. Further studies should be controlled

and include the Quality of life (QOL) assessment.

15. Basic research in Homœopathy and ultra-high

dilutions: What progress is being made?

Conference Report (HOM. 102, 2/2013)

This report summarises the latest research

developments in the field of high dilutions and

Homœopathy, as presented at the GIRI symposium of

the leading international organization of scientists in

this field, in Florence, Italy in September 2012. The

scientific community’s early skepticism concerning the

possible biological and pharmacological activity of

highly diluted solutions, is giving way to a more open-

minded attitude that no longer obstructs critical and

experimental investigations in this emerging field of

biomedicine. [To me, Homœopathy is not Biomedicine

= KSS].

16. Effect of homœopathic preparations of Syzygium

jambolanum and Cephalandra indica on

gastrocnemius muscle of high fat and high fructose-

induced type-2 diabetic rats

SAMPATH Sathish; NARASIMHAN Akilavalli et

al. (HOM. 102, 3/2013)

Background: Homœopathy is a holistic method of

treatment that uses microdoses of natural substances

originating from plants, minerals, or animal parts.

Syzygium jambolanum and Cephalandra indica are used

in Homœopathy for treatment of type-2 diabetes.

However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for

such effects are not known.

Methods: Homœopathic preparations of S. jambolanum

and C. indica in mother tincture, 6c and 30c were used

to examine the molecular mechanism of antidiabetic

mellitus. After 30 days treatment, fasting blood

glucose, serum insulin and insulin signaling molecules

in the skeletal muscle (gastrocnemius) were measured.

Results: Diabetic rats showed a significant decrease in

serum insulin and lipid profile as well as low levels of

insulin receptor (IR), v-akt murine thymoma viral

oncogene homolog (Akt), p-Aktser473and glucose

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transporter-4(GLUT4) protein expression (p < 0.05)

with a significant increase in fasting blood glucose level

(p < 0.05) compared to the control group. Treatment

with homœopathic remedies significantly increased the

serum insulin and expression of these proteins (p <

0.05) with a significant decrease in fasting blood

glucose (p < 0.05) compared to diabetic rats.

Conclusions: In the present study homœopathic

preparations of S. jambolanum and C. indica, including

ultramolecular dilutions exhibit antidiabetic effects,

improving insulin action through activation of insulin

signaling molecules in skeletal muscle of type-2

diabetic rats.

17. Preliminary investigation on ultra high diluted B.

vulgaris in experimental urolithiasis

JYOTHILAKSHMI Vasavan; et al.

(HOM. 102, 3/2013)

Purpose: The study focuses on the anti-urolithiasis

potential of ultra-diluted homœopathic potency of

Berberis vulgaris (B. vulgaris) root bark, commonly

used in homœopathic system to treat renal calculi.

Methodology: B. vulgaris root bark (200c, 20µl/100g

body weight/day, p.o. for 28 days) was tested in an

animal model of urolithiasis. Urolithiasis was induced

in male Wistar rats by adding 0.75% ethylene glycol

(EG) to drinking water. Urine and serum samples were

analyzed for calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, uric acid

and creatinine. Enzymic makers of renal damage

(alkaline phosphatase, lactate dehydrogenase, leucine

aminopeptidase and ɤ-glutamyl transpeptidase) were

assessed in kidney and urine. Renal tissues were

analyzed for oxalate content.

Results: Administration of EG to rats increased the

levels of the stone-forming constituents calcium,

phosphorus and uric acid, in urine. Levels were

normalized by B. vulgaris treatment. The decrease in

the urolithiasis inhibitor magnesium in urine was

prevented by treatment with B.vulgaris. Serum

creatinine levels were largely normalized by B. vulgaris

treatment. Hyperoxaluria induced renal damage was

evident from the decreased activities of tissue marker

enzymes and an apparent escalation in their activity in

the urine in control animals; this was prevented by B.

vulgaris treatment.

Conclusion: Homœopathic B. vulgaris root bark has

strong anti-urolithiasis potential at ultra-diluted dose.

[We have been experiencing this since decades = KSS].

18. Stimulative influence of germination and growth of

maize seedlings originating from aged seeds by 2,

4-D potencies

DRAGICEVIC Vesna; SPASIC Mihajlo et al.

(HOM. 102, 3/2013)

Background: The 2, 4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic

acid) is using as a growth regulator in tissue culture

media. Maize seeds have poor ability to maintain

germination rate in the long term.

Objective: To examine the possible restorative effect of

homœopathic 2, 4-D potencies on maize seedlings

originating from seeds damaged by accelerated aging.

Methods: Seeds of four maize lines were subjected to

accelerated aging stress treatment. Seed samples were

treated with distilled water (control) and a range of

potencies of 2,4-D: 3C, 3.75C, 4.5C, 5.25C and 6C.

The germination capacity, fresh substance (FS) and

length of root and shoot were determined. Hydrolysis

and biosynthesis, GSH/GSSG ratio and redox capacity

were calculated.

Results: Induced seed aging decreased germination rate

and growth of seedlings. 2,4-D potencies did not have a

statistically significant effect on germination. However,

there were statistically significant effects on FS

production, root and shoot length and redox capacity.

The 3C potency had the largest effect on the FS

accumulation, 4.5C increased root and shoot length,

compared to control (statistically significant). The

GSH/GSSG ratio and the redox capacity were decreased

by aging. The 3C and 4.5C potencies tended to reverse

the GSH/GSSG ratio (statistically significant) in the

root and shoot, (i.e., shifted the redox balance to the

reduced state).

Conclusion: Homœopathic potencies o 2,4-D appear to

have a beneficial effect on artificially aged maize seeds:

they stimulate growth through better substance

conversion from seed rest, and shift the redox capacity

towards a reduced environment. Further work is

required to determine if this is an useful means of

improving maize seed germination and growth.

19. Homœopathic treatment of patients with influenza-

like illness during the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza

pandemic in India

MATHIE, T Robhert; BAITSON S. Elizabeth; et

al. (HOM. 102, 3/2013)

Introduction: We conducted a prospective, multi-

centre, data collection survey of homœopathic practice

in treatment of influenza-like illness in India during the

2009 pandemic of A/H1N1 influenza (‘Swine flu’, SF).

Aims: To survey the practice of homœopathic

practitioners in India in the management of SF, with

respect to: (a) patients’ symptoms at presentation and at

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follow-up (FU) consultation; (B) Homœopathic

medicines prescribed.

Methods: Data collection took place from October

2009 to February 2010, at the peak of the pandemic.

All patients satisfying the minimum diagnostic

symptoms of SF were eligible for inclusion. Data per

appointment (in person or by telephone) were recorded

by practitioners in spreadsheet format. All records were

anonymised and included: whether patient was

immunized against A/H1N1; influenza symptoms at

consultation; the homœopathic medicine/s prescribed;

whether antiviral medicine prescribed.

Results: Twenty-three homœopathic physicians

contributed to data collection. At the first appointment,

1126 patients had valid SF symptoms. A total of 89

different combinations of SF symptoms was observed,

the most common being temperature >38°C + cough +

runny nose (n = 170; 15.1%). A total of different

remedies (or combinations of remedies) were used at

these first appointments, the most frequently prescribed

being Arsenicum album (n = 265; 23.5%). For a total of

99 FU appointments with valid SF symptoms,

Arsenicum album was prescribed most frequently

overall (n = 28; 28.0%).

Conclusions: In our sample, the 2009 A/H1N1

influenza pandemic in India was characterized by

several prominent symptoms and symptom/medicine

associations, particularly temperature > 38°C + cough +

runny nose, associated with Arsenicum album. Future

studies should collect additional keynote prescribing

symptoms that influence the choice of homœopathic

medicine.

20. Homœopathic drug therapy Homœopathy in

Chikungunya Fever and Post-Chikungunya

Chronic Arthritis: an observational study

WADHWANI G. Gyandas (HOM. 102, 3/2013)

Objectives: To observe the effect of homœopathic

therapy in Chikungunya Fever (CF) and in Post-

Chikungunya Chronic Arthritis (PCCA) in a primary

health care setting.

Methods: A prospective observational study was

conducted at Delhi Government Homœopathic

Dispensary, Aali Village, New Delhi, India, for a period

of 6 months, from 1st October 2010 to 31st March 2011.

126 patients (75 CF, 51PCCA) were enrolled based on

predefined inclusion criteria. A single homœopathic

medicine was prescribed for each patient after case

taking with the help of Materia Medica and/or

Repertory. Results were evaluated on the basis of visual

analogue scale and symptom scores.

Results: Complete recovery was seen in 84.5% CF

cases in a mean time of 6.8 days. 90% cases of PCCA

recovered completely in a mean time of 32.5 days.

Conclusion: Homœopathic therapy may be effective in

CF and PCCA. A randomized controlled trial should be

considered.

21. Homœopathy in rural Australian primary health

care: a survey of general practitioner referral and

practice in rural and regional New South Wales

Australia

WARDLE J.; ADAMS J.; and SIBBRITT D.

(HOM. 102, 3/2013)

Introduction: Homœopathy has attracted considerable

recent attention from the Australian conventional

medical community. However, despite such increased

attention there has been little exploration of the interface

between Homœopathy and Australian conventional

medical practice. This article addresses this research

gap by exploring homœopathic practice and referral by

rural and regional Australian general practitioners

(GPs).

Materials and methods: A 27-item questionnaire was

sent to all 1486 GPs currently practicing in rural and

regional New South Wales, Australia (response rate

40.7%).

Results: Few GPs in this study utilized Homœopathy in

their personal practice, with only 0.5% of GPs

prescribing Homœopathy in the past 12 months, and

8.5% referring patients for homœopathic treatment at

least a few timesover the past 12 months. Nearly two-

thirds of GPs (63.9%) reported that they would not refer

for Homœopathy under any circumstances. Being in a

remote location, receiving patient requests for

Homœopathy, observing positive responses from

Homœopathy previously, using complementary and

alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners as information

sources, higher levels of knowledge of Homœopathy,

and being interested in increasing CAM knowledge

were all independently predictive of increased referral

to Homœopathy amongst GPs in this study. GPs in this

study were less likely to refer to Homœopathy if they

used peer-reviewed literature as the major source of

their information on CAM.

Conclusions:Homœopathy is not integrated

significantly in rural general practice either via GP

utilization or referral. There is significant opposition to

Homœopathy referral amongst rural and regional GPs,

though some level of interaction with homœopathic

providers exists.

22. Hepatitis C Nosode: The preparation and

homœopathic pathogenetic trial

SHAH, Rajesh (HOM. 102, 3/2013)

Background: A double blind, randomized placebo

controlled homœopathic pathogenetic trial (proving) of

Hepatitis C (Hep C) nosode was conducted with the aim

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to introduce the new nosode in homœopathic

pharmacopeia.

Method: Documentation included approval by Ethics

Committee, Informed Consent Form, Laboratory

investigations, safety and ethical measures. The

volunteers were trained to write data in prescribed

diaries and data were analyzed. A fifteen-step method

was used in the preparation of Hep C nosode (genotype

I and III), allowing future preparation of Hep C nosode

(genotype I and III), allowing future preparation of an

identical nosode. 2 volunteers were entered, 15

received Hep C nosode in 30c potency, 7 received

placebo, once a week for four weeks.

Results: The Hep C nosode was associated with

qualitatively and quantitatively distinct symptoms,

which can be applied in clinical practice. A

significantly higher incidence of pathogenetic effect of

homœopathic medicine compared to placebo was

observed. Safety was documented. The nosode

produced symptoms comparable with Hep C disease.

Conclusion: An improved method of nosode

preparation was used. A double blind, randomized

placebo controlled pathogenetic trial of the Hep C

nosode generated guiding symptoms, which may

facilitate its prescription in practice. The nosode should

be further explored for the treatment of

immunologically mediated diseases, infections

including Hep C, fibrotic pathology and chronic

inflammatory disorders.

23. Immunomodulatory drugs (natalizumab),

worsening of multiple sclerosis, rebound effect and

similitude

MARCUS ZULIAN TEIXEIRA

(HOM. 102, 3/2013)

Background: Homœopathic treatment is based on the

principle of similitude (‘like cures like’) administering

to sick individuals substances that cause similar

symptoms in healthy individuals, employing the

paradoxical or biphasic action of the organism as

therapeutic response. This homeostatic, vital or

secondary action of the organism is scientifically

explained by the rebound effect of drugs, resulting in

worsening of symptoms after enantiopathic treatment

withdrawal. Natalizumab reduces relapses in patients

with active multiple sclerosis (MS), but recent studies

report severe worsening of MS after suspension of

treatment, as a consequence of the rebound effect.

Method: Extending this source of evidence, this work

reviews research that demonstrates secondary

worsening of MS after discontinuation of natalizumab, a

human monoclonal antibody that suppresses the disease

inflammatory activity as primary action.

Results: Several studies refer to the immune

reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) as a

plausible explanation of reactivation of MS after

withdrawal of natalizumab: a rebound effect or

secondary action of the organism in response to the

primary immunosuppression caused by the drug.

Conclusion: Relapses of MS after discontinuation of

natalizumab treatment indicate rebound of disease

activity, supporting the homœopathic principle and

warning healthcare professionals about this serious

iatrogenic event.

24. Morpho-functional response of Nile tilapia

(Oreochromis niloticus) to a homœopathic complex

GRACIELA LUCCA BRACCINI, et al.

(HOM. 102, 4/2013)

Background: This study evaluated the performance,

prevalence of ectoparasites and morpho-functional

response of the liver and the branchiae of Nile tilapia

(Oreochromis niloticus) raised on fish meal with added

of the homœopathic complex Homeopatila 100 at

different concentrations.

Methods: Post-reversed juvenile Nile tilapia

(O.niloticus) of the GIFT (Genetic Improvement of

Farmed Tilapia) strain were used in this study. The

performance, ectoparasite prevalence and parasite load

in the branchiae and skin as well as the liver and

branchial histology. Fish were randomly assigned to

receive one of four treatments: control, 20mL

hydroalcoholic solution (alcohol 30 GL); 20 mL

Homeopatila100 per kg of meal; 40 mL Homeopatila

100 per kg of meal; or 60 mL of Homeopatila 100 per

kg of meal, compared to control with out the addition of

the complex. There were four replications per treatment

type (16 experimental units total) at a density of 40 fish

per m3 over a period of 57 days. The Kruskal-Wallis H

test (p < 0.05) was employed to analyse the physical

and chemical parameters of water as well as for parasite

prevalence; whereas analysis of variance was used for

liver performance. If the values were significant (p <

0.05), they were compared by Tukey’s test. Multiple

comparisons of averages were performed using

Student’s test (p < 0.05).

Results: There were no significant differences between

the physical and chemical parameters of the water

between the different groups at the end of the

experiment. Significant differences (p < 0.05) in the

mixed parasite conditions were found within the

different Homeopatila 100 treatments. The

hepatosomatic ratio of fish treated with Homeopatila

100 was significantly lower than that of fish from the

control group. The best results in the liver and

branchiae occurred in fish receiving Homeopatila 100 at

40 mL/kg in terms of the number of hepatocytes/mm2,

the intercellular glycogenic behavior, the rates of

histological changes (hyperplasia, lamella fusion and

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telangiectasia) and the percentage of neutral and acidic

mucin-producing cells.

Conclusion: The addition of Homeopatila 100 at a

concentration 40 mL per kg/meal to the diet of juvenile

Nile tilapias resulted in improved hepatocytes and

intracellular glycogen levels as well as the lowest mean

rate of branchial histological changes with an increase

in acidic mucin-producing cells compared to neutral

mucin-producing cells, compared to control.

25. Homœopathic prescribing for chronic and acute

periodontal conditions in 3 dental practices in the

UK

FARRER S; BAITSON ES; et al.

(HOM. 102, 4/2013)

Introduction: This investigation extends our previous

dental data collection pilot study with the following

main aims: to gain insight into the periodontal

complaints that dentists in the UK treat using

individualized homœopathic prescription; to record

patient-assessed change in severity of treated complaint

(acute or chronic); to determine periodontal pocket

depth (PPD).

Materials and methods: Three dentists recorded data

systematically at 249 homœopathic appointments in 51

patients over a period of 18 months. A spreadsheet

enabled the data collection of the following records:

date of appointment; anonymised patient identity; main

periodontal problem treated; whether the condition was

acute or chronic; patient-assessed clinical outcome on a

7-point Linkert scale, ranging from –3 to +3, to compare

the first and any subsequent appointments; whether any

interventional dental surgery (IDS) had been carried

out; clinician-assessed PPD measurements.

Results: At least one follow-up (FU) appointment was

reported for each of 46 patients (22 chronic [6 with IDS,

16 without IDS]; 24 acute [10 with IDS, 14 without

IDS]). In chronic cases, strongly positive outcomes

(score of +2 or +3) were reported by 2 (33.3%) of 6 IDS

patients and by 1 (6.3%) of 16 non-IDS patients. In

acute cases, strongly positive outcomes were reported

by 7 (70%) of 10 IDS patients and by 8 (57.2%) of 14

non-IDS patients (no statiscally significant difference

between sub-groups). The FU conditions most

frequently treated with Homœopathy were chronic

periodontitis (19 patients) and acute periodontal abscess

(11 patients). Analysis of PPD data was not feasible

due to the small numbers of patients involved.

Conclusion: Limited insight has been gained into the

periodontal complaints treated by Homœopathy in the

UK. Due to small sample size and equivocal results, the

interpretation of the patient-reported outcomes data is

unclear. Positive findings obtained in the acute

treatment setting suggest that this may be a promising

area for research in periodontal Homœopathy.

26. Homœopathic Rhus toxicodendron treatment

increased the expression of cyclooxygenase-2 in

primary cultured mouse chondrocytes

YUN HYUN HUH; MEONG JU KIM et al.

(HOM. 102, 4/2013)

Background: Rhus toxicodendron (Rhus tox) is a

homœopathic remedy with anti-inflammatory activities

used for arthritis pain.

Methods: We studied the effects of 4x, 30x, 30c and

200c homœopathic dilutions of Rhus tox in primary

cultured mouse chondrocytes. We examined the

expression of collagen type II, a marker protein of

chondrocytes, and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), which

is responsible for the biosynthesis of prostaglandin E2

(PGE2) and the regulation of the inflammatory

response. We assessed the expression of collagen type

II and COX-2 using biochemical and immunological

methods, such as reverse transcription polymerase chain

reaction (RT-PCR), quantitative (or real-time) RT-PCR

(qRT-PCR) and immunoblot assays.

Results: Stimulation with different concentrations of

Rhus tox increased the mRNA expression of COX-2,

and stimulation with 30x Rhustox showed the most

prominent mRNA expression in both RT-PCR and qRT-

PCR analyses. We also observed that homœopathic

dilutions of 4x, 30x and 30c Rhus tox inhibited collagen

type II expression, suggesting that Rhus tox induced the

dedifferentiation of chondrocytes. In addition,

treatment with 30x Rhus tox significantly increased

PGE2 release compared with other homœopathic

dilutions of Rhus tox.

Conclusions: Taken together, these results suggest that

homœopathic treatment with Rhus tox induced

chondrocyte dedifferentiation and inflammatory

responses, such as COX-2 expression and PGE2

production, in primary cultured chondrocytes.

27. Effect of a homœopathic-complex medicine on

state and trait anxiety and sleep disorders: a

retrospective observational study

LUIGI COPPOLA and FABIO MONTANARO

(HOM. 102, 4/2013)

Purpose: The primary objective of this open-label,

retrospective, observational study was to examine

change in indicators of anxiety changed after treatment

period of at least 1 month with the homœopathic-

complex medicine Datif-PC. A secondary objective

was to describe the quantitative changes in the sleep

pattern of the subjects included in the study.

Methods: The study population consisted of 71 subjects

suffering from mild to moderate anxiety, who were

treated with a homœopathic-complex medicine. The

subjects had attended at least 2 consultations during the

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year 2010, with the second visit taking place at least 30

days after the first baseline visit. At both visits, subjects

were administered the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

(STAI)-Y questionnaire (consisting of trait and state

subscales) to assess their level of anxiety. Sleep quality

was assessed based on the subjects’ self-reported

number of hours slept and number of night-time

awakenings, before and after treatment.

Results: Compared to baseline, the average (STAI)-

state score at visit 2 decreased by more than 6 points,

while the STAI-trait score decreased by more than 3

points. This was statistically significant (p < 0.0001)

for both subscales. These findings were stable in

subgroup analyses (gender, age and anxiety level). The

average number of hours slept per night increased

significantly at visit 2 compared to baseline (from 5.1 ±

1.1 to 5.56 ± 0.9 h, p < 0.0001). a marked decrease in

the average number of night-time awakenings was also

observed at the second visit (--42%, p < 0.0001).

Conclusions: This retrospective observational study

suggests that treatment of anxiety and sleep disorders

with Datif-PC can produce notable improvements even

in a short period of time. Furthermore, the observed

effects were not affected by sex, age or baseline anxiety.

Further controlled, randomized studies are justified.

[Beware of ‘complex’ preparations. There are enough

single remedies available. The ‘complex’ are the Trojan

horses into the Homœopathy = KSS]

28. Dielectric dispersion studies of some potentised

homœopathic medicines reveal structured vehicle

MAHATA, CR (HOM. 102, 4/2013)

Background: Avogadro’s Number gives 12c as the

limit beyond which no original substance can be present

in a highly diluted and succussed (potentised)

homœopathic medicine, implying that chemically such

dilutions consist of nothing but the vehicle. But there is

evidence that living systems react to homœopathic

medicines diluted even above 12c. To explain how such

medicines differ from another I hypothesise that altered

structure may cause the difference, such as that between

diamond and amorphous carbon. Some scientists have

argued that dilution followed by succussion may lead to

altered structural arrangement of water molecules. This

concept may be termed ‘Induced Molecular Structure’.

Methods: Dielectric dispersion studies were conducted

in a broad range with potencies below and above the

Avogadro limit by taking 6c and 30c potencies of

Graphites and Cuprum metallicum in liquid form.

Measurements were made with an Anomalous

Dielectric Dispersion Detector (A3D), an instrument

developed by the author.

Results: Experiments were carried out in a frequency

range of 100 kHz to 50MHz. Shifting of resonance

frequencies as a function of medicine and potency, with

potencies below and above the Avogadro limit, was

observed.

Conclusion: The range of resonance frequencies

suggest that the phenomenon might originate from

oscillation of dipoles caused by electric field in

variously structure and polarized water. Also, there is

reasonable evidence that frequencies change with

materials and potency.

29. Physiological responses of pacu (Piaractus

mesopotamicus) treated with homœopathic product

and submitted to transport stress

DE OLIVEIRA FEITOSA KÊNIA CRISTINE et

al. (HOM. 102, 4/2013)

Background: Pacu (Piaractus mesopotamicus) is a

species with great potential for Brazillian fish farming

and losses through mortality are common after transport

as a direct or indirect result of stress. The use of

homœopathic complex is a further option to minimize

the various stress factors that can interfere negatively in

production.

Methods: After feeding for 10 consecutive days with

commercial diet; or diet supplemented with

homœopathic complex, juvenile pacu were placed in a

polyethylene bags and transported for four hours with

the following treatments: commercial diet (control);

commercial diet and homœopathic complex dissolved in

the transport water (W + HP); commercial diet

supplemented with sucrose (D+SU) and commercial

diet supplemented with homœopathic complex (D

+HP). Blood was collected before transport (basal),

after transport (arrival), 24 and 72h after transport. The

physiological indicators of the stress were blood

glucose, cortisol and chloride levels, hematocrit,

hemoglobin and total protein. Condition factor and

mortality were also determined.

Results: Blood glucose significantly on arrival,

returning to the basal values 24h after, similarly in all

treatments. Plasma cortisol levels were elevated on

arrival but not significantly compared to the basal

values for fish from W + HP and D + SU groups.

Increase in hematocrit and hemoglobin and low plasma

chloride levels were observed after transport in all

treatments.

Conclusions: Transport resulted in stress responses in

juvenile pacu and the homœopathic complex,

administered in the water or diet, did not minimize these

responses. Sucrose supplementation altered the cortisol

and blood glucose levels, suggesting a moderating effect

on these stress indicators.

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30. Anti-proliferative effects of homœopathic

medicines on human kidney, colon and Breast

Cancer cells

ARORA, Shagun; AGGARWAL Ayushi; et al.

(HOM. 102, 4/2013)

Objective: Homœopathy is controversial, due to the

claims made for very high dilutions. Although several

theories are proposed to understand the mechanisms of

action, none are scientifically verified. This study

aimed to investigate the efficacy of the selected

homœopathic medicines in specific in vitro cancer

models.

Methods: We assessed the cytotoxic activity of selected

homœopathic medicines in mother tincture (MT), and

ultramolecular dilution (30C, 200C, 1M and 10M)

against cell lines deriving from tumors of particular

organs, Sarsaparilla (Sars) on ACHN cells (human

renal adenocarcinoma), Ruta graveolens (Ruta) pm

COLO-205 (human colorectal carcinoma), and

Phytolacca decandra (Phyto) on MCF-7 (human breast

carcinoma). Sars was also tested against Madin—

Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells (a non-malignant

cell line). Cytotoxicity was measured using the 3-(4, 5-

dimethylthiazolyl-2)-2, 5-diphenyltertrazolium bromide

(MTT) method, anti-proliferative activity by trypan blue

exclusion assay, apoptosis determined by dual staining

the cells with ethidium bromide (EB) and acridine

orange (AO) dyes.

Results: MTs and ultra-diluted preparations of the three

homœopathic medicines had highly significant effects in

the respective cancer cell lines, producing cytotoxicity

and a decrease in cell proliferation. The effects were

greatest with the MTs, but in all cases and persisted,

although to a lesser degree in the ultra-diluted molecular

preparations. Sars showed no effect on MDCK cells.

In the homœopathic medicine treated cultures,

hallmarks of apoptosis were evident including, cell

shrinkage, chromatin condensation and DNA

fragmentation.

Conclusion: This study provides preliminary

laboratory evidence indicating the ability of

homœopathic remedies are warranted.

31. Wheat Germination and highly diluted agitated

gibberellic acid (10-30) – a multi researcher study

KIEFER, Peter; MATZER, Wolfgang et al.

(IJHDR. 11(39)/2012)

Abstract: Grains of witner wheat (Triticum aestivum L.,

Capo variety) were observed under the influence of

highly diluted gibberellic acid (10-30) prepared by

stepwise dilution and agitation according to a protocol

derived from Homœopathy (“G30x”). adequate control

was used (water prepared according to the homœopathic

protocol “W30x” and/or untreated water “W0”). Two

sets of multicenter experiments were performed, 4 in

2009-2010 and 4 in 2011, involving altogether 6

researchers, 6 laboratories and 4,000 grains per

treatment group. Data were found to be homogeneous

within the control groups as well as within the verum

groups. When the 2009-2010 experiments were pooled,

mean germination rates after 24 hours were (85.9 ± 2.6)

for the control group and (82.1 ± 5.7) for G30x (mean ±

SD at the level of experiments in %) (N = 2,000 per

group). Verum germination rate was 4.4% lower than

(i.e. equal to 96.6% of) (4.4 + 96.6 = 101) the control

germination rate (100%). The difference is statistically

significant (p < 0.001) and the effect size (d) is large (>

0.8). observations at other points in time between 0 and

40 hours of germination yielded similar results.

Practically no difference was found between W30x and

W0 groups (p > 0.05). When the 2011 experiments

were pooled, the mean germination rates after 24 hours

were (73 ± 12) for the control group and (73 ± 14) for

G30x (N = 2,000 per group), i.e. there was practically

no difference between the groups (p > 0.05). We

interpret the data from 2009-2010 on wheat germination

within 40 hours as being in line with our previous

findings on wheat stalk growth after one week, i.e. as

confirmation that gibberellic acid 30x can influence, i.e.

slow down, wheat development. Various possible

reasons for the absence of any difference groups in the

2011 experiments, including seasonal variance, are

discussed and it is suggested to perform wheat

germination experiments in the very beginning of

autumn season only.

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VIII. HISTORY

1. Homœopathy in New Zealand

EVANS, Gwyneth (AH. 19/2013)

“It is likely that immigrants from England brought

Homœopathy with them” to New Zealand in 19th

century – wrote Julian WINSTON in his book ‘The

Faces of Homœopathy’.

It was the continuation of that pioneering spirit that

saw Homœopathy being practiced in a small way by

self-taught home prescribers until the late 1980’s and

early 1990’s – when three colleges opened offering a

more formal, professional education.

A partnership between the New Zealand

Qualifications Authority (NZQA) and the homœopathic

community drafted the ‘Unit Standards’..

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New Zealand Council of Homœopathy (NZCH)

maintains a register of homœopaths, both Physicians

and professionals – 190 in number.

Homœopathy is certainly alive in New Zealand,

though not as healthy as it could be.

2. Homœopathy in Japan – Past and Present

HISA, Shinsuke (AH. 19/2013)

In the 1950’s Hiroshi SAKAGUCHI, a

conventional western medical doctor as well as a doctor

of traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture,

travelled to Germany as an Instructor, and studied

Homœopathy in Stuttgart. He returned to Japan and

published Homœopathic Treatment (1961).

From 1980s along with a surge in interest in

Complementary and Alternative Medicine worldwide,

few began using Homœopathy. In 1990s first

homœopathic organization and educational institution.

In 1997, Royal Academy of Homœopathy and

then Japan Homœopathic Medical Association (JPHA)

was established by TORAKO YUI.

Maashiro NAGAMATSU founded Hahnemann

Academy of Homœopathy in 1997 and Japan

Homœopathy Foundation in 2000.

In 2009, a baby girl was administered a

homœopathic remedy of potentised Vitamin K instead

of Vitamin K syrup. The child developed deficiency of

Vitamin K and died of Neonatal malena. In August

2010, this story was widely reported and since then

Homœopathy has come under a great deal of pressure

and scrutiny in Japanese society.

3. Die Geshichte der Homӧopathie in der Sovjetischen

Besatzungszone und der DDR

NIERADE, Anne (ZKH. 56, 1/2012)

The history of Homœopathy in the Soviet occupied

zone and the German Democratic Republic.

Homœopathy was suppressed in the Soviet

occupied part of Germany-German Democratic

Republic, after the Second World War. Clearly while it

was not prohibited, neither was it developed. While the

people chose Homœopathy, there were differences

between the ‘scientific’ Homœopathy and the ‘lay’

practitioners.

Homœopathy was historically well anchored in the

people and there was much homœopathic self-

medication and ‘Layman’ practice grew. The thinking

that by proscribing, Homœopathy would die down was

wrong. Homœopathy was with the people and soon

after the Soviet withdrawal, Homœopathy began to look

up more.

4. Entwicklungen der Homӧopathie seit 30 Jahren

(Development of Homœopathy since 30 years)

DINGES, Martin (ZKH. 56, 3/2012)

Of late there is a big cry to suppress Homœopathy

Worldwide. One reason is the spread and development

of Homœopathy in more countries. While on one side it

has found strong foothold in countries like Japan and

renaissance in the former ‘Iron Curtain’ countries and

the dominant School of Medicine which enjoys political

support is raising its voice and doing all it can to

suppress Homœopathy; the success of Homœopathy is

causing the animosity just as during Hahnemann’s days.

HAHNEMANN said that when the hatred became

worse he silenced them by performing more cures.

Nevertheless the attacks, Homœopathy is growing

certainly all over the world during the last 30 years! We

have more patients from the well-educated class. We

have several allopathic doctors who seek Homœopathy

for their ailments.

[However, Homœopathy must keep on its own lines

and go ahead in its cures. Homœopathy must not forget

that this Science of Therapeutics is well alive because of

its intrinsic quality alone and avoid all pollution = KSS].

IX. GENERAL

1. The Ghana Homœopathy Project: Sharing our

passion for Homœopathy Across continents

SHANNON, Linda (AH. 19/2013)

The Ghana Homœopathy Project began eight years

ago and has grown into a dynamic endeavor with a team

of committed homœopaths and students based in Ghana

but with strong links to homœopaths in the UK, South

Africa and India.

The project has two focused areas: the village-

based community clinic in Mafi Seva and our

homœopathic college just outside Accra, where we offer

a two year certificate course and a four year Diploma

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course in Homœopathy, together with an urban outreach

clinic.

The community clinic offers integrated health care,

so midwifery and orthodox medicines are also available.

Protocols are carefully followed with regard to which

would be the most appropriate treatment.

The Premier Institute of Homœopathy and

Alternative Medicine, (PISHAM), Kasoo, Accra was

founded by Dr. Julius BERDIE, who was trained by

Homœopaths Without Borders. The Health Ministry

in Ghana has a dedicated branch (The Traditional and

Alternative Medicine Directorate) whose role is to

support the responsible integration and development of

modalities such as Herbalism, Acupuncture and

Homœopathy.

2. Simplicity and Synopsis: Cyrus Boger

(1861 – 1935)

HAYES, Deborah (AH. 19/2013)

The power of Cyrus BOGER himself lay in his

ability to distill the characteristics of a remedy down to

the essential elements, the “genius” of the remedy.

“The strain which runs through every pathogenetic

symptom complex has been called the ‘genius’ of the

drug. To give this its proper place in the prescription

should be the ideal of every practitioner”.

What often makes a cure hard is the laying of too

much stress upon some particular factor at the expense

of the disease as a whole, thus destroying its symmetry

and forming a distorted conception of the natural image

of sickness. This does not, however, mean that all

symptoms stand on the same level, for certain effects

must be more prominent than others, yet be part and

parcel of them.”

He co-founded the AFH with Julia M GREEN

1921, with the aim of preserving the integrity of

Classical Hahnemannian Homœopathy. He also co-

founded the West Virginia Homœopathic Medical

Society in 1898.

Taking his philosophy of distilling the essence of a

remedy down to its key characteristics, he produced in

1931 The Boger General Analysis and Card

Repertory comprising of 360 cards.

His contribution to preserving the fundamental

philosophy of Hahnemannian Homœopathy and his

incisive work on Materia Medica place him among the

masters of our profession.

3. Homœoprophylaxis (HP) as a cure for Fear of

Disease

BIRCH, Kate (AH. 19/2013)

The world is currently undergoing an enormous

epidemic driven by ignorance, greed and fear of disease.

The epidemic propagates itself through susceptibility to

inflated media stories of rampant diseases and the ever-

increasing availability of vaccines to prevent them.

Despite the diagnosis of one in fifty children in the

USA with Autism, this epidemic is compounded by

denial in the scientific world that there is any causal

relationship between vaccines and the immunological

changes noted in vaccinated children. [In our practice

we have been seeing more cases of ‘Autism’ in the last

10 years at least. Until twenty years ago, we did not

know what Autism meant. Certainly this can be linked

to the aggressive immunizations = KSS].

In our opinion we need to turn towards other

methods of disease prevention because infectious

contagious disease is real.

If we have a disease prevention model that looks

enough like the vaccine model, a systemic program

covering many diseases over an extended period of

time, may act as a cure for the fear of disease.

HP is the use of potentised substances given orally,

singly or sequentially, prior to exposure to disease with

the aim of preventing that disease.

In 2009, Cuba used HP with a H1N1 Influenza

nosode HTSF – SEP – NF2 TO 9.8 million people

resulting in zero cases of the disease during the high risk

season.

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X. BOOKS

I. 1. Fledermäuse melken am Amazonas – 60 neue

Arzneien für die Homӧopathie by MÜNTZ, R.,

Eisenstadt: Remedia Homӧopathie GmbH: 2011.

Geb.274S, 29, 50EUR. (German): review Christian

LUCAE (ZKH. 57, 1/2013): “60 remedies most of

which are unknown in Homœopathy – Plants Animals

and Minerals – are covered, which Robert MÜNTZ had

come across his travels for several years in the last 30

years; he had collected and had directly triturated.

These are from the Amazonas, Surinam, Peru,

Madagaskar, Egypt, Namibia, Thailand, Papua New

Guinea, USA, Hawaii, Kenya and Borneo. Soon as one

begins to read the first part it will be clear that the

author is not just Pharmacist, manufacturer of

medicines (Remedies Homӧopathie GmbH),

manufacturer of instruments and Bagpipe player but

also an impired traveler, explorer of Nature and

adventurer. For finding new remedies he was worked.

…….

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….An original, wonderfully constructed book:

warmly recommended.

II. Homӧopathie in der DDR: Die Geschichte der

Homӧopathie in der Sowjetischen Besatzungzone

und der DDR 1945 bis 1989 by A. NIERADE.

Homӧopathie in the German Democratic Republic.

The history of Homœopathy in the Soviet occupied zone

and the G.D.R 1945 to 1989): Hans-Walz-Preissehrift.

Quellen und Studien zur Homӧopathiegeschichte. Band

16. Essen: KVC Verlag 2012 geb. 320S. 34.90 EUR.

“… For his well-researched and well written work

she was bestowed with the Hans-Welz prize in 2011.

…. Looking back, it should remembered that in

spite of all oppositions Homœopathy stood up for itself

for its role in the Health Science in the German

Democratic Republic. This is due to the invitations of

the doctors and Homœopathy Practitioners and of

course by several individuals who were treated

successfully by Homœopathy.

A carefully well–researched, readable, with

references to several Government original documents.

Lay out and publication very good.

III. Homӧopathielegitimation aus wissenschafts-

philosophischer Sicht. Vom vorwisscenschaftlichen

Phänomen zum technowissenschatlichen

Forschungsgegenstand (Legitimations of

Homœopathy from scientific view).

WÜRTENBERGER, S., Darmstädter Arbeiten zur

Literaturwissenschaft und Philosophie, Band 13,

Marburg: Tectrum-Verlag: 2011 kart. 176 S.

24.90Ɛ(ZKH. 57, 1/2013) (German); review Mathias

WISCHNER.

This readable philosophic Thesis about the uptodate

experiments carried out to legitimize Homœopathy. She

does it under three main sections:

1. Philosophical and Psychological basis, she

discusses in this regard, the works of Ekkehard

FRӒNTZKI (aprioric knowledge of cure certainty),

Rudolf FLURY (Reality Philosophy) Kart Heinz

GEBHARDT (Homœopathy is a different

Paradigm) and Volker HESS (Semiotics).

2. Clarification through analogy to scientific and

technical models. Here he refers to Georg BAYR

(Kybenetik), Harald WALACH (System-Theory

and generalized Quantum theory and Walter

KӦSTER (Quantum Logic).

3. Homœopathy Experiments:

1. Physical and chemical experiments to ascertain

Homœopathy’s action mechanism.

2. In-vitro experiments in laboratory.

3. Experiments with animals and plants.

4. Clinical experiments.

5. Research about homœopathic evaluation.

…… A good-to-read, deeply philosophical

discussions of the experiments hitherto. Recommended

to everyone interested in ‘scientific’ aspect of

Homœopathy; also the techno-scientific aspects.

IV. Homӧopathie bei pschycho-trauma. 20.

ausführlich kommentierte Fallanalysen (20

thoroughly discussed case analysis) GNAIGER-

RATHMANNER, J., MAYR, R., Stuttgart.

Haug: 2012. Geb. 208 S. Ɛ59.99 (German)

review Christian LUCAE (ZKH. 57, 2/2013):

“Jutta Gnaiger Rathmanner is in Homœopathy

General Practice since 30 years. She gives in this book

20 throughly analysed cases with comments with regard

to psychic trauma.”

“She points out deep based aetiology and brings

new aspects of well-known remedies as well as ‘young’

medicines Lac humanum or Folliculinum. … well

recommended.

V. Die Geschichte der Selbstmedikation in der

Homӧopathie (The history of self-medication in

Homœopathy), BASCHIN, M., Essen: KVC: 2012;

geb., 434 S. Ɛ34.90 (German). Review Peter

MINDER (ZKH. 57, 2/2013): “It is indeed astounding

the fund of information available in the library of the

Robert Bosch Foundation, Institute for history of

Medicine with regarding to history of Homœopathy. In

the Vol. 17 of this Marion BASCHIN discusses how

Homœopathy became the most liked self-help medicine.

Very well researched covering 19th to mid 20th Century

…. Homœopathy was the gentle, safe medicine and

costing very less and that made it a ‘home medicine’,

also there were much less Homœopathy doctors. ….

The 1830 CholeraEpidemic was a turning point. While

there was 80% mortality with the official medicine

those who were treated homœopathically had a far

better results with Hahnemann recommendatikons of

Camphor spirits and Veratrum album, Rhus

toxicodendran, Arsenicum album and Cuprum

metallicum, as required. Similarly Diptheria in the 19th

Century …. There was a number of domestic medicine

literature abd neducube vixes, tge nist faniys was

GERUBG’s 1835 publication ‘Domestic Physician’

which appeared ikn German language in 1837. After

several etc. by Richard Haehl a print appeared in 1949

(Reprint 1993).” [This book was of great help even day

to-day practice, and it is still so. Most ‘modern’

Homœopathy ‘Doctors’ are not even aware of this

excellent book = KSS].

Travel Kits, Home remedies, Pocket remedy Kit –

all these were quite popular. The spread of

Homœopathy into many households (including

Schussler’s salts) is a movement which in itself has not

been equaled by any other medicine.

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VI. The Homœopathic Recorder Vol.I (1886) –

Vol.75 (1959) – DVD – Genéve Fondation Pierre

Schmidt; 2013. www.pierreschmidt ch

Buchwerkstatt Markus.combo. Magnihalden 3. CH

9000 St. Gallen. Preis Ɛ. 230.00. Review Peter

MINDER (ZKH. 57, 2/2013).

“The Homœopathic Recorder carried very valuable

articles by great ‘masters’ in Homœopathy during

‘Golden Era’ of Homœopathy (in the USA). Many of

the articles selected from 116 ‘Researchers’ appeared in

later journals.” Even though the ‘lean years’ the T.F.

ALLEN, T.L. BRADFORD, J.T. KENT, F.E.

GLADWIN, H.A. ROBERTS, C.A. DIXON, R.E.G.

HAYES, A.H. GRIMMER, H. FARRINGTON, J.M.

GREEN, E. WRIGHT-HUBBARD, P. SCHMIDT and

many others, carried it through.

The DVD contains all the 75 years; the idea, to scan

the entire publications is due to Hansjӧrg Heé, the

trustee (of the Pierre Schmidt Foundation, Geneva

Library) who had discussions on this an year ago with

Dr. René CASEZ. They considered this literature as the

World’s best. The copies missing in the Pierre Schmidt

were obtained from the Robert Bosch Institute in

Stuttgart. It took time to scan the papers. Further

missing issues were got from the Library of K.-H.

GYPSER. Carefully and thoroughly done work, the

DVD is user friendly. Recommended as a “must

have”.”

VII. Characteristische Hustensymptome.

Systematische Darstellung and Materia Medica

(Characteristic Cough Symptoms: Systematically

described and Materia Medica), ALBRECHT, J.,

Verlag Ahlbrecht; 2012. Geb. 124S. Ɛ34.50 (German)

Review Christian LUCAE (ZKH. 57, 3/2013).

….This is a carefully worked out collection of

‘Cough’ Chapter from HERING’s Condensed Materia

Medica. Those who are well versed with this condensed

method will certainly benefit from this book.

VIII. James Tyler Kent, Kents unpublished

Materia Medica, ed. CURRIM, A.N. Assesse. B.

Jain Archibel. 2010 geb. 1702S. Ɛ45. – (English)

review Klaus HOLZAPPEL (ZKH. 57, 3/2013).

This contains Kent’s Seminar Lectures and other

writings Lectures on Materia Medica during years 1893-

95 in the Hering Medical College as well as in Dunham

Medical College in 1901-02. (3 Dunham Lectures from

1899 on Chamomilla, Phosphorus and Pulsatilla were

already published by Jay YASGUR). Here we find

new Materia Medica on remedies, Abrotanum, Aceticum

Acidum, Anthracinum, Lycopus, Robinia, Tabacum and

Terebenthina.

… For those who follow KENT it is a good book

full of additional information. The authenticity of Kent

in some places is doubtful. We are much thankful that

an unaltered material as such has been brought out.

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XI. OBITUARY

1. In Memoriam: Ellen GUNTHER

PFEIFFER, Edi; KALFUS, Franca (AH. 19/2013)

Dr. GUNTHER began her medical practice in 1952

after training at McGill faculty of Medicine in Montreal,

Canada, followed by children’s Hospital in San

Francisco. In early 1970s she trained in Structural

Integration (Rolfing), Acupuncture and Homœopathy

and began her long-term studies and advocacy of

Classical Homœopathy. She was pivotal in passing the

first law to license practitioners of acupuncture in

California. In the mid 1980s she was pivotal in co-

founding the Pacific Coast Academy of Homœopathic

Medicine. She passed away on Sept. 12, 2012 at 87

years.

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XII. NEWS & NOTES

I. A Message from the President. A Science of the

World. MUELLER, Manfred (AH. 19/2013)

Homœopathy continues to enjoy growing

popularity around the world. In medical sciences,

scientific accuracy is achieved by quantifying observed

facts and near total exclusion of subjective feelings and

subtle qualitative changes.

The qualitative shift in how we feel when we are

sick characterizes not only our sickness but directly

reveals the remedy the homœopath is looking for.

The way we relate to our clients and our ability to

obtain and understand their subjective experience is

crucial to our success as homœopaths. Case-taking is a

healing dialogue.

II. Notes from the Field: Reflections on

Homœopathy Around the world BOYCE, Carol (AH.

19/2013)

This article is about the various endeavours of the

author.

In 1985, she had a Homœopathy clinic for 6 weeks,

in a remote place 2 hours drive from Kolkatta, India. In

1987 set up a mobile clinic and children’s nutritional

project which serves rural Bengal even today. In 1991,

co-ordinated a peace camp from Amman, Jordan and

gave a lecture tour in Baghdad. On the way back set up

a teaching project in Cairo which led to the formation of

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Egyptian Society of Homœopathy. Co-founded the

non-profit Homœopathy for a change the forerunner of

Homœopaths without Borders UK and part of the

European Federation of HWB.

Working in War Zones and in the wake of natural

disasters like Sri Lanka and Haiti brings its own set of

special challenges.

In 2002 taught in Cuba and witnessed the value of

integration. As a result of 50 years of blockade, Cuba

had used innovation to solve problems and fully

integrated medical system is one of them.

In 2009, visited Netherlands and then Africa. In

2011 again to Africa.

In 2011, 50 minute film-Making a difference –

showing 22 of the large projects being done quietly by

homœopaths around the world. HAHNEMANN would

be proud that there are few regions left untouched by

Homœopathy!

In the field, whether in small clinics, at make shift

desks in village halls or under the banyan tree,

homœopaths are quietly doing incredible work.

However, worldover the push against Homœopathy

continues. “Local Newspaper reporters, both in the UK

and in the field, would pose as patients and secretly

record the case taking and then publish newspaper or

TV exposes”.

Carol Boyce has also recorded the hatred of

Homœopathy by a group who caused police questioning

the homœopaths, the attempts thro’ TV and other Media

to dis-credit Homœopathy which treats serious cases

with “Sugar pills”. They influenced the Uganda Govt.

to ban homœopathic treatment of Malaria under threat

of prison sentence! [Here in India some State Govts.

have warned against homœopathic treatment of Dengue,

it must be treated only by Allopathy! = KSS].

III. HRI Barcelona 2013:

The cutting edge of Homœopathic Research (May

31 – June 2nd 2013). TOURNIER, Alexander

ROBERTS, Rachet (AH. 19/2013).

The Homœopathy Research Institute’s inaugural

International Research Conference’s primary goal was

to gather the best researchers in the world from as many

subfields of Homœopathy as possible.

To this end strict peer review and selection process

was implemented.

Dr. Stephan BAUMGARTNER summarized the

current state of basic research and considered

possibilities for the future. Professor Iris BELL, shared

her theory that nanoparticles of Silica and the source

homœopathic substance play a key role in the

mechanism of action of homœopathic remedies.

Dr. Alexandar TOURNIER, presented an

alternative theory based on quantum coherence

domains.

Dr. Elizabeth THOPMPSON, Peter VIKSVEEN,

Dr. Elio ROSSI and Dr. Gualberto DIAZ-SAEZ,

concentrated on the pragmatic realities of clinical and

cost effectiveness in the delivery of Homœopathy in

public health systems.

Dr. BRACHO highlighted the potential use and

integration of Homœopathy in hospitals as a first line of

defense in the case of epidemics.

Also discussed was the hypothesis that

homœoprophylaxis could strengthen the innate immune

system, making patients more able to cope with a wide

variety of strains of a pathogen.

Dr. Peter FISHER covered the issue of antibiotics

ineffectiveness in depth and demonstrated that sound –

implementation of Homœopathy could reduce both the

clinical and cost burden of healthcare budgets.

Dr. Yaccov FREED, Dr. Christian ENDLER, Dr.

Giovanni DINELLI, Dr. Maria olga KOKORNACZYK,

Prof. Leoni Villano BONAMIN and Dr. Tim JAGER

delivered the latest from the laboratory based research

world.

Lex RUTTON presented his work on the

application of probabilities to homœopathic clinical

work.

Jeremy SHERR and Alastair GRAY looked into the

quality of homœopathic pathogenetic trials (Provings).

Dr. Robert MATHIE introduced a new approach

for assessing the homœopathic quality of research

studies.

Dr. Lionel MILGRAM discussed the shortcomings

of RCTs. Dr. Delny BRITTON addressed the ethics of

animal experimentation in homœopathic research.

To encourage the next generation of Homœopathy

researchers, workshops were held on Research skills for

beginners.

Kate CHATFIELD showed participants how to

make sense of research papers; Dr. Clare RELTON

described how to write a protocol; Dr. Elizabeth

THOMPSON spoke about the choice of trial design.

The conference program, containing all oral and

poster presentation abstracts, is available to download in

PDF form at www.HRIBarcelona2013.org.

IV. Who was Kaviraj? The Untold Stony NAVAB,

Imam. (AH. 19/2013).

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Kaviraj was born Ben Rozendal on Oct. 31, 1945 in

the Netherlands. He was a homœopath scientist of more

than 30 years experience and was the developer of

Homœopathy for Agriculture. He learnt Homœopathy

in Vrindavan, India as an apprentice of Dr. Chatterjee in

1964. In 1982 initiation in the Bhakthi Tradition. In

1990 moved to Australia and did experiments with

remedies for sick plants.

Since 2009 lived in Holland, spent time writing

about Homœopathy and medicine in general. In 2007

moved to UK and continued services.

He passed away on March 2, 2013 at 6.30 p.m.

V. A Tribute to Dr. Sigsbert Rwegasira (1957 –

2012) BOYCE, Carol (AH. 19/2013)

Dr. SIGSBERT RWEGASIRA was an engineer by

profession and his mother a traditional herbalist. After a

personal experience became fascinated by Homœopathy

and its potential for Africa. He studied in UK and India

and opened his clinic in 1991 and Natural Therapy

Centre in 1999. He worked from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. and

even late at night patients were never turned away,

receiving a first aid or acute remedy and an appointment

for the following day.

He developed a series of combination remedies that

enabled him to individualise the symptom complexes of

malaria and provide rapid and effective prescribing.

SIGSBERT was instrumental in bringing to fruition

the Traditional and Alternative Medeicine Act of 2002,

which enabled the legal practice of a range of traditional

and alternative therapies in Tanzania including

Homœopathy.

Since 2006, he survived nine strokes, perhaps

driven by his determination to serve but succumbed on

3rd July 2012.

VI. International Kӧthen exchange of Experience

10-12 Nov. 2011. This is the 11th Kӧthen Exchange of

Experience. A surprisingly large number of persons

took part. National and International Researchers and

Practitioners took part. (ZKH. 56, 1/2012)

1. Michael FROSS: Homœopathic treatments in

Intensive Medicine and its documentation for clinical

Research. With three cases the referant explained the

specific problems and the potential for a homœopathic

supplement therapy in seriously ill patients in the

intensive stage: a premature born with intra-cerebral

bleeding (after many remedies) a 61-year old man with

pulmonal embolism (Lachesis) and 34 year-old man

Psychoorganic syndrome after Aorta operation

(Hyoscyamus).

2. Martin BÜNDNER: A case from his practice as

example for good case documentation: The longtime

course of treatment of 3 persons is narrated: treatment

of a Vaccine complication, a Sarcoidosis and a Colitis

ulcerosa. Different case analyses and strategies and

different dosage methods application.

3. Josef SCHMIDT: On the basic researches of the

relevance of medicine historic and medicine theoretic:

The materialistic paradigm in Science developed at

the same time as an enormous awakening - of the desire

for money. The new ideal was quantifization,

mathematicisation, Positivism, Reductionism. Ethics is:

utilitasisation as the basic which meant the total good to

the maximum number of persons.

Of course Quantum Physics made it understand the

unsustainability of the naïve Realism, Objectivism and

Materialism. And the modern Biology described

Perception as nothing more than understanding

objective things, as a construction process. In the same

way Homœopathy cannot as a language be understood

unless it is practiced. It stands in the way of thought

form of “money” and can relieve the mental Miasm.

4. Jorg HILDERBRANDT: The Medicine experience

as a universal Principle of the Living – observation and

consideration from a homœopathic medicinal self-

experience.

The concept ‘medicine Proving’ is close to the

proving of the chemical substance. Therefore he has

established in Austria a ‘medicine self-experience’. For

example with the Acanthester Planci the simili

principle, the signature theory, and the medicinal

proving discussed.

5. Günter HECK: Introduction of a thorough complete

medicinal Proving: The execution of a Classical

homœopathic Medicinal Proving according to

HAHNEMANN as Jeremy SHERR had stated is

presented through a Proving of Pecten, Jacobaeas in

Berlin.

6. Curt KӦSTERS: Legal situation of self proving of

a remedy and approved medicine proving: The Law

with reference to a medicine proving. What is the aim

of medicine Proving – to prove clinical or

pharmacological action.

7. Jӧrg HABERSTOCK: Problems with Nosodes and

excretory substances. Discussed the manufacture of

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Nosodes and material from animal excretion substances

and difficulties in it.

8. Gerhard RESCH: Why a Philosophy against a

physical is a better alternative as basis of Homœopathy

and the Medicine. In the first edition of Organon

HAHNEMANN “The Physician has no higher goal than

to make man healthy”. In the second edition he wrote.

“The Physician’s higher and only calling is to make the

sick persons healthy again.” The term ‘calling’ has

been put in. What is the goal, what calls? The Health

(or Soundness). The Science of the individual is called

Art.

9. Kate CHATFIELD: Going beyond numbers: the

gift of qualitative methods in Homœopathy research. It

is necessary to know the belief systems of the

researcher. Thomas KUHN has written had the

scientific paradigms have become, changed

revolutionary by the entry of Researchers (GALILEO,

COPERNICUS, NEWTON, EINSTEIN). There is a

large difference between the quantitative paradigm and

the qualitative paradigm. Qualitative methods are

appropriate for Homœopathy, would we like to prove or

improve?

10. Stefan BAUMGARTNER: Stand of the Basic

researches regarding the homœopathic potentisation: the

Speaker gave a thorough lecture of the studies so far

undertaken – with regard to the basics and clinical

applications, the possibilities of the action proofs and

the positive results, the Meta analyses. Specific

effectiveness of potentized substances have been proved

in Laboratory experiments, positive results.

11. Klaus von AMMON: Qualitative Research and

Classical Homœopathy: Quantitative researcher brought

in numbers. Numbers are abstract, Homœopathy is

concrete and complex. Case studies are a collection of

individual cases for purposes of numbers and an overtly

covered facts. A correlation is not same as causality.

Designing a study decides the result. So design study

accordingly.

12. Peter MATTHIESSEN: Singular Case Report

research between Evidence-based medicine and

Narrative based Medicine. Requirements for a good

case research are the documentation and the

denomination of prognosis (and the expected

spontaneous course).

Therapie aim. Therapy base. Expected results and

analysis of the course.

For the ‘Medicine man’ a spontaneous cure is a

wonder, for the ‘Physician’ it is absence of the same.

While the bio-medicine clarifies the hermeneutic

understanding, the narrative medicine is the opposite.

VII. Effect of Cadmium at Cellular and Sub-Cellular

Level and its Remedies by Amla and Lycopodium

Mahasweta CHATTERJEE; Gobinda Chandra

SADHUKHAN; Jayanta Kumar KUNDU (S & C. 80

(3-4)/2014)

The Cadmium toxicity at different cellular and sub

cellular level is due to its accumulation in different

organs through food and drink from the environment.

Its removal is not possible by most chelating agents as

they are unable to pass through membrane. These

accumulations cause severe damage at cellular and sub-

cellular levels. This study is to observe the remedial

effects of Amla and Lycopodium on Cadmium induced

toxicity. To conduct this study, Swiss albino mice were

given chronic exposure of cadmium chloride with the

following treatment series. Mice were divided into

different sets; one set without any treatment and with

normal food and water, one set with cadmium followed

by Amla extracts, one set with cadmium followed by

extracts of Lycopodium and another set provided with

Cadmium followed by extracts of Amla and

Lycopodium both. To observe the changes tests for

micronuclei detection and sperm head anomalies were

performed. Result showed that toxicity caused by

Cadmium was reduced to some extent by the treatment

series, but the drugs were more effective when applied

additively.

VIII. DEBATE: Phenomenology and Homœopathy.

Tom WHITMARSH (HOM. 102, 3/2013).

There is a great overlap between the way of seeing

the world in clinical Homœopathy and in the technical

philosophical system known as phenomenology. A

knowledge of phenomenologic principles reveals

HAHNEMANN to have been an unwitting

phenomenologist. The ideas of phenomenology as

applied to medicine show that Homœopathy is the ideal

medical system to fulfill the goals of coming ever closer

to true patient concerns and experience of illness.

IX. Encephalitis Menace in India: Major cause for

concern. (S & C. 7-8/2014). BBC News India: July

22, 2014 Reports – Viral encephalitis has killed

hundreds of children in India.

Times of India: August 5, 2014 Japanese Encephalitis

and acute encephalitis Syndrome [AES] have killed

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1890 people in Assam since 2008. In 2013, U.P.

recorded 3,096 AES cases resulting in 609 deaths.

Japanese Encephalitis [JE] is one of the major

health problems in India with over 17 States affected by

the disease. Mostly children below 15 years are

affected. Highest rates of JE have been reported from

the states of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa,

Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamilnadu, Uttarpradesh

and West Bengal.

The causes are Rabies virus, Herpes, Simplex virus,

Measles virus, Varicella Zoster virus, Flavi virus, West

Nile virus by Togaviridae such as Eastern Equine

encephalitis [EEE], Western equine encephalitis [WEE],

Variola major and Variola Minor virus.

To Tackle JE problem, Government of India

launched Rs.4000 cr. Plan in Oct. 2012.

Vaccination of Children (1.5 – 15yrs.)

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Full addresses of the Journals covered by this Quarterly

Homœopathic Digest are given below:

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1. AH: The Journal of the North American Society of Homeopaths,

1122 East Pike Street, #1122, Seattle, WA 98122, USA.

2. AJHM: American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine, formerly

Journal of the American Institute of Homœopathy (JAIH). 101

South Whiting Street, Suite 16, Alexandria, VA 22304. USA.

3. HH: Homœopathic Heritage, B. Jain Publishers Overseas,

1920, Street No.10, Chuna Mandi, Paharganj, Post Box 5775,

New Delhi - 110 055.

4. HOMŒOPATHY: Formerly British Homeopathic Journal

(BHJ), Homœopathy, Faculty of Homœopathy, 29 Park Street

West, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU13BE, UK.

5. HT: Homœopathy Today, National Center for Homœopathy,

101 South Whiting Street, Suite 315, ALEXANDRIA, VA.

22304, USA.

6. IJHDR: International Journal of High Dilution

Research, Romania.

7. S & C: Science and Culture, Indian Science News Association,

92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, KOLKATA – 700 009.

8. THE HINDU: Newspaper, Chennai–600 002.

9. ZKH: Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie, Karl Stiftung,

Straussweg 17, 70184 STUTTGART, GERMANY.

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A Beautiful Mind

NASAR, Sylvia

(Tower of Silence)

News that NASH had been committed to a state hospital spread quickly

around Princeton. One person deeply disturbed by the notion that a genius like

NASH was incarcerated at a state hospital, notorious for its overcrowding and

aggressive medical treatments – including drugs, electroshock, and insulin coma

therapy – was Robert WINTERS. WINTERS, a Harvard-trained economist who

happened to be the business manager of the physics department at the time, was

friendly with both Al TUCKER and Don SPENCER. Winters contacted Joseph

TOBIN, the Institute for Advanced Study’s psychiatric consultant and director

of the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute in Hopewell, which is a few miles from

Princeton, calling him in late January to say, “It is in the national interest that

everything possible be done to bring Professor NASH back to his original

productive self.” TOBIN suggested that WINTERS contact Harold MAGEE,

Trenton’s medical director at the time. Winters did so and won an assurance

from Magee, as he later wrote to Tobin, that “there would be a thorough study of

Dr. Nash’s condition before any treatment was started at the state hospital.”

In truth, this was too much to expect. As Seymour KRIM, a beat writer in

New York, wrote in 1959 in his essay “The Insanity Bit” about his own

experiences in mental hospitals, that work “in a flip factory is determined by

mathematics; you must find the common denominator of categorization and

treatment in order to handle the battalions of miscellaneous humanity that are

marched past your desk with high trumpets blowing in their minds.”

Very soon after that assurance was given, or perhaps even before, NASH

was transferred from Payton to Dix One, the insulin unit. EHRLICH, the

psychiatrist at Princeton Hospital who had recommended Trenton, was

convinced that NASH would benefit from the treatments available at Trenton.

Whether Alicea, Virginia, or Martha gave explicit consent for insulin coma

therapy is not clear. “I don’t remember whether the family had to give further

permissions beyond the commitment.” BAUMECKER recalled. “In those days

you could do just about anything without asking anybody.” Martha recalled that

she was consulted: “That was a drastic decision. We were extra wary of

anything that might affect his mental abilities. We discussed this with doctors.”

The insulin unit was the most elite unit within Trenton State Hospital.

The unit had two separate wards – one with twenty-two male beds, the other

with twenty-two female beds. Danskin later described it as looking like “the

inside of the Lincoln Tunnel.” Its chief had the eye and ear of the hospital’s

directors. It had the most doctors, the best nurses, the nicest furnishings. Only

patients who were young and in good health were sent there. Patients on the

insulin unit had special treatment, special recreation. “All the best of what the

hospital had to offer was showered on them,” said Robert GARBER, who was a

staff psychiatrist at Trenton in the early 1940s and later President of the

American Psychiatric Association. He said, “The insulin patients got a hell of a

lot of TLC. In the family’s eyes, insulin had great appeal. Patients’ relatives

were overwhelmed.”

For the next six weeks, five days a week, NASH endured the insulin

treatments. Very early in the morning, a nurse would wake him and give him an

insulin injection. By the time BAUMECKER got to the ward at eight-thirty,

Nash’s blood sugar would already have dropped precipitously. He would have

been drowsy, hardly aware of his surroundings, perhaps half-delirious and

talking to himself. One woman used to yell, “Jump in the lake. Jump in the

lake,” all the time. By nine-thirty or ten, NASH would be comatose, sinking

deeper and deeper into frozen solid and his fingers would be curled. At that

point, a nurse would put a rubber hose through his nose and esophagus and a

glucose solution would be administered. Sometimes, if necessary, this would be

done intravenously. Then he would wake up, slowly and agonizingly, with

nurses hovering over him. By eleven in the morning, NASH would be

conscious again. And by the late afternoon, when the whole group would walk

over to occupational therapy, he would be among them, the nurses bringing

along orange juice in case anyone felt faint.

Very often, during the comatose stage, patients whose blood-sugar levels

dropped too far would have spontaneous seizures – thrashing around, biting their

tongues. Broken bones were not uncommon. Sometimes patients remained in

the coma. “We lost one young man,” recalled BAUMECKER. “We’d all

become very alarmed. We’d call in experts and do all kinds of things.

Sometimes patients would get very hot and we’d pack them in ice.”

Good, firsthand accounts of the experience are difficult to find, in part

because the treatment destroys large blocs of recent memory. Nash would later

describe insulin therapy as “torture,” and he resented it for many years

afterward, sometimes giving as a return address on a letter “Insulin Institute.” A

hint of how unpleasant it was can be gleaned from the account of another

patient: Breaking through the first sodden layers of consciousness … the

smell of fresh wool .. they make me come back every day, day after

day, back from the nothingness. The sickness, the taste of blood in

my mouth, my tongue is raw. The gag must have slipped today.

The foggy pain in my head … this was my unbroken routine for

three months … very little of it is clear in retrospect save the agony

of emerging from shock every day.

It’s true, as Garber said, that insulin patients were coddled

compared to others at Trenton. Insulin patients got richer and more

varied food. They got special desserts. They had ice cream every

night at bedtime. Most had ground privileges and permission to go

out on weekend visits. All the patients gained weight. That was

considered a good sign. The doctors on the ward were proud that

their patients were in good physical health. “people would put on a

lot of weight because of the insulin,” recalled Baumecker. “The

low blood sugar would make it necessary to give them a lot of

sugar and the sugar had a lot of calories. For some of these spindly,

skinny schizophrenics it wasn’t such a bad thing.” But patients

often hated it. Nash’s subsequent obsession with his diet and

weight may well have stemmed from this experience of being “

[From A Beautiful Mind Sylvia Nasar, Simon & Schuster]

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