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Part I Current Literature Listing

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

homeopathic journals published world-over - India, England, Germany, France, Brazil, USA,

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

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

given at the end of Part I. Part II contains selected essays/articles/extracts, while Part III carries

original articles for this journal, Book Reviews, etc.

I. PHILOSOPHY

1. Homeopathy and its Paradigms:

Semiotic, Vitalist and Fragmentary

ROSENBAUM Paulo (IJHR. 2, 5/2003)

This is an excellent study and difficult to be

condensed. The title of the article is self-explanatory.

Several basics are examined. It will be worthwhile to

read the entire article, ponder and respond.

2. Bemerkungen zu Homöopathie, Miasmen und

Krebs

(On Homeopathy, Miasms and Cancer)

WÜRGER Wolfgang (ZKH. 52, 3/2008)

This article probes the theory of Miasms. What is

the connection between Miasms and Cancers? Can

modern Řscientificř experiments/enquiries, as for

example POPPERřs Řfalsifiabilityř, or METHNERřs

suggestions, etc. give the answer? Or since

Homeopathy is Řinductiveř science, should we Řreflectř

on the philosophical theory of Science, make self-

reflection and base our experience with Homeopathy?

[What was ŘScienceř for HAHNEMANN? Perhaps we

should agree with Ekkehard FRÄNTZKI Ŗ. . .

Wissenschaftlichen Charakter hat das Heilverfahren

nach HAHNEMANN dann, wenn es zum ersten auf

dem Boden der E r f a h r u n g steht. Jahre bevor die

erste Auflage des ŖOrganonŗ erschien, hatte

HAHNEMANN sein neues Heilverfahren unter dem

Titel: ŖHeilkunde der Erfahrungŗ der Fachwelt

vorgelegt. Erfahrung ist für HAHNEMANN Idee der

Wissenschaft von zentraler Bedeutung . . . . . Ŗ (Die

Idee der Wissenshcaft bei Samuel Hahnemann von

Ekkehard Fräntzki, KH, XVIII, 6/1974) = KSS]

3. ŖItřs Done with Mirrorsŗ

Observations on the Nature of Healing

NOSSAMAN Nicholas (AJHM. 101, 2/2008)

The metaphors of the mirror is useful in describing

the phenomenon that takes place when the simile or

simillimum is administered to the ill patient, to initiate a

healing process. This transformational event is

explored through references to the Organon of

HAHNEMANN and his concept of the power of the

Vital Force compared with the power of the similar

medicine in the promotion of healing. The relevance of

the mirror metaphor to the healing process in general is

explored in other fields, with reference to Jungian

Psychology, Mythology and the Bible, among others.

4. An analysis of the Concept of Miasm in the Light

of the State of Medicine as Existing in 18

th

Century

Europe

MATHUR Mohit (AJHM. 101, 3/2008)

This paper reviews the circumstances in which the

concept of Miasm (acute and chronic) evolved and how

subsequent developments in the field of medicine, most

notably in the realm of infectious disease, have

improved our understanding about the nature of diseases

and brought into question the validity of the Miasm

theory. It concludes with an emphasis on the need to

further refine the homeopathic concept of disease.

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II. MATERIA MEDICA

1. Hartlaub & Trinks Pure Materia Medica: to save it

or lose it?

ZOBY, Elias Carlos (IJHDR. 2, 5/2003)

Homeopathic Medicine is based on ŘProvingř of

substances and faithful recording of the signs and

symptoms so obtained, i.e. empirically obtained Řfactsř.

Full symptom, with the location, the sensation, the

modalities with regard to motion, time and space,

remain for all time to be applied, researched, etc. Facts

survive time provided they are known. Our Pure

Materia Medica preserves its accuracy ; time helps

us to discover many previously unrealized features.

It is essential that we read these Řsource booksř and

discover for ourselves rather than follow secondary,

fancy writings.

The Řsource booksř are only few as available to us

now, for example HAHNEMANN, HERING, TF

ALLEN, HUGHES & DAKE, STAPF, et al. The main

pathogenetic compilations available are six or seven.

STAPFs, HARTLAUB & TRINKS, and HERINGřs

American Provings are not available in English.

Whatever given in the compilations by HAHNEMANN,

ALLEN only are available in English. For this reason

the repertories do not contain all that are in these

sources. It is however seen that even in these English

compilations there are several omissions, errors.

In this article the author examines some mental

symptoms in the HARTLAUB & TRINKS vis a vis the

books used in the daily practice and points out the

lacunae which are serious enough. It is hoped that this

will kindle interest in the members of the profession to

do further studies on these lines. [I would like to draw

the attention of colleagues that Dr. K.-H.GYPSER of

Germany is already carrying out such studies and is

engaged in the Materia Medica Revision Project; so far

about 10 monographs, one remedy in one volume, have

come out. We invite others to undertake such work and

centralise them all with Dr.GYPSER. This is my

personal opinion. = KSS]

2. Patogenesia Qualitativa de Arsenicum sulphuratum

flavum

(Qualitative Proving of Arsenicum sulphuratum

flavum)

SOLON Luiz Ricardo (RH. 70, 1-2-3-4/2007)

Six volunteers, pharmacy students, proved

Arsenicum sulphuratum flavum 1000CH. This short

experimentation was conducted within the framework of

qualitative research on the epistemology of subjectivity.

A hypothetical configuration of the subjective pathology

was constructed: the remedy elicited anguish of

imprisonment, which gave rise to an imperious

explosion of feelings with physical restlessness, as well

as pressive headache, desire for chocolate and desire for

eggs.

3. Proposta de Matéria Médica de Tormentilla erecta

(Proposal for a Materia Medica of Tormentilla

erecta)

CAROCCIA Ana Lúcia, CORTELLO Giseide,

CEMBRANELLI Isa Maria Mendes, METZNER

Barbara Susanne (RH. 70, 1-2-3-4/2007)

This paper presents the proposal for a clinical

proving of Tormentilla erecta, built upon the reports on

its effects mentioned in historic, traditional medical,

toxicological and pharmacological literature as well as

on the effects verified by the authors in clinical practice.

4. Provings

SHORE Jonathan, SCHRIEBMAN Judy,

HOGELAND Anneke (AJHM. 101, 2/2008)

The authorsř experience in conducting proving

raised some profound questions regarding the nature of

the data collected and information revealed, suggesting

the importance of adopting a new, more inclusive

proving methodology. It seemed clear that not only

those participating who actually took the remedy being

proved developed symptoms, but also that there was an

amazing congruence with the symptoms that arose in

very sensitive Ŗproversŗ who did not actually take the

medicine. Consequently, the authors concluded that for

a proving to reveal the full potential of a remedy the

following information should be included: data gathered

from journal provings, data gathered from a group

setting where there is direct involvement with the

process of remedy preparation, and especially data

gathered from those who are so sensitive to the process

as to produce symptoms even at a distance.

5. Review of Proving Methodologies

SHORE Jonathan, SCHRIEBMAN Judy,

HOGELAND Anneke (AJHM. 101, 2/2008)

The varied sources/methods of homeopathic

proving are discussed; included among them are;

trituration, toxicology, Hahnemannian (Classical)

proving, Modern classical proving, Modified Classical

proving, and finally seminar and meditation provings.

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III. THERAPEUTICS

1. Hahnemannřs later Prescriptions

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ADLER, Ubiratan C., ADLER, Maristela Schiabel

and PADULA Ana Elisa

(Med GG. 27/2008)

There has been much speculative statements about

the potencies used by HAHNEMANN in his last years

in Paris. It was thought that he used both the C and Q

potencies equally. It was thought that it would become

clear if the number of prescriptions in C and Q

potencies were identified separately, especially during

the last years of his Practice in Paris.

The six months period between 1 January and 30

June 1843 was taken up for study and a careful and

thorough analysis was made of Hahnemannřs Case

Register pertaining to this period available in the

Institute for History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch

Foundation, Stuttgart.

As a result 743 prescriptions wee identified out of

which 582 (78%) were Q potencies, 142 (19%) were C

potencies and 19 (3%) of unidentifiable potencies. The

Centesimal scales were mostly in C 30 in descending

scale, (C30, C24, C18, C12, C8 and C6). On the other

hand the Q potencies were in the ascending scale.

It may be concluded therefore, that in the last six

months of his Practice HAHNEMANN the 50

millesimal Potencies four times more than the

Centesimal. These findings agree with his

observations in the VI edition of the Organon.

2. Homöopathie Und Transpersonale

Psychotherapie als Integratives

Behandlungsmodell

(Homeopathy and Transpersonal Psychotherapy

as integrated treatment model)

SCHNEBEL Beata (AHZ. 253, 5/2008)

The synthesis of Homeopathy and Transpersonal

Psychotherapy is an effective and profound kind of

treatment. The author gives a case from his

Practice of a 54 year-old woman with depression. Her

case was worked out to be Pulsatilla. Simultaneous

treatment with transpersonal Psychotherapy involving

Dreams, Imagination and Creative works helped much

in restoring the health of the patient. This integrative

method would surely help difficult and complex cases.

3. Homöopathie und Naturheilfahren Ŕ eine sinnvolle

Kombination am Beispiel des akuten

Harnwegsinfektes

(Homeopathy and natural healing methods Ŕ

appropriate combination, for example acute

Urinary tract Infection)

SPARENBORG-NOLTE Anne and NOLTE

Stephen (AHZ. 253, 5/2008)

The homeopathic treatment of the acute urinary

infection often cannot be successful on first hand for

various reasons. Especially urinary tract infections tend

to relapse, so the dynamic of acute, chronic and

miasmatic diseases can be studied well in this example.

Natural complementary medicine is suitable to gain

time and to ease the acute symptoms; the chances in

applying Physiotherapy are shown. In the so-called

irritable bladder are a complex of functional-vegetative-

psychosomatic symptoms Homeopathy Ŕ as long term

e.g. constitutional treatment Ŕ is the method of choice.

[While we do not want to enter into debate whether

homeopathic treatment is not successful on first hand,

it is our experience that it has been successful. In such

an early work as von BÖNNINGHAUSENs

Aphorismen des Hippokrates (1863) he has dealt with

Harnwegsinfektionen in detail and the homeopathic

medicines for that. However such help as may be from

physiotherapy, dietary regulations are not barred, they

may help hasten the cure. = KSS]

4. Die Behandlung des akuten Gichtanfalls

(The Treatment of acute attacks of Gout)

BÜNDNER Martin (AHZ. 253, 5/2008)

In this case of Gout with recurrence over the years

the patient who is a Heilpraktiker treated himself with

homeopathic medicines and every time the response

was good. The remedies were chosen after appropriate

repertorisation. However the complaints kept on

recurring. The author says that whereas the acute

attacks were promptly relieved every time, it kept

recurring. The repertories provide with information to

treat the acute attacks. A constitutional treatment

which would prevent the recurrence of the attacks must

be found, including dietic support.

5. Infertility and Homeopathy

(IJHDR. 2, 5/2003)

Female, 39, consulted for Sterility in May 2003,

with uterine Myomata diagnosed 6 years before. Very

concerned about her fertility, she had tried

unsuccessfully to conceive for 9 years. Other

complaints: constipation, flatulence, Hay fever, Acne.

Pulsatilla 200, 300 and M were given according

evolution of the case within a period o 3 months. In the

3

rd

month she became pregnant. The author explains his

choice of the remedy. This case shows that the action of

the homeopathic remedy which is not related to matter

but to some kind of Ŗenergeticŗ action would act

immediately. Vitalism involves a most peculiar

understanding of the biologic phenomena, completely

against the materialist-mechanist paradigm

characteristic of contemporary Bio-Medicine.

Homeopathy developed outside the frame of Ŗofficial

scienceŗ, not only out of external exclusion, but also by

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a sort of auto-exclusion. One way to correct this

negative trend, is to publish well-documented case

reports, which is the aim of the present article. [While

the case was worked out with Repertory with reference

to the symptoms, did not lead to Pulsatilla. A study of

the remedies obtained through Repertory seemed to be

inappropriate. Therefore the author used Key Note and

Řthemeř which also indicated Ignatia which seemed to

be not the remedy for this case. Therefore a few but

extremely characteristic symptoms (only 4 symptoms)

were chosen and the result was Pulsatilla which gave

satisfactory result. A word about Řthemesř. Themes are

not real symptoms they are interpretations and

extrapolations whereas Homeopathy has to do with

Řfactsř which are symptoms told by the patient. = KSS]

6. Bulbar Ulcer und Homeopathy

(IJHDR. 2, 5/2003)

27 year-old male, 10 Sept. 22; dyspeptic since 9

years. Sporadic attacks of Vertigo. Antecedents of

epileptic seizures since age 1, currently treated with

Fenobarbital, 200 mg/d. Splenectomy in 1988 after a

car accident.

Symptoms: Sour taste in the throat; Irritated, wanting to

scream; Dizziness, cannot focus things clearly,

perfectly; Workaholic; I ponder on new strategies 24/7,

my work absorbs almost 100% of my time. Worried

about the goals I set for myself, I must reach the goal.

Desire for Ice Cream; High Fevers almost always with

seizures; Grinds teeth during sleep.

Examination: Active Bulbar Ulcer (Sakitařs A2;

moderate erosive bulbo-diodenitis; positive urease test

for H.pylori.

Diagnostics: Clinical: Bulbar Ulcer; Epileptic seizures;

Miasmatic: Tertiary Psora Ŕ covert Egotropy (Masi

Elizaldeřs classification).

Repertorial analysis and then study of the Pure Materia

Medica: Nux vomica 30, then 200, single doses on 17

Sept 2002 and 12 Oct. 2002.

Improved. Patientřs attitude to work also changed.

He stopped blaming himself and thinking of

professional matters in his free time. Upper digestive

Endoscopy: healed bulbar Ulcer (Sakitařs S2); slight

erosive bulbitis; slight emantematic gastritis; positive

urease test for H. pylori. Upto this the patient remained

free from symptoms. He took new doses of Nux

vomica 500 and then 1000 in January and July 2003.

This case shows that the action of the homeopathic

remedies is systemic, not restricted to any particular

part of the organism.

7. Schlaf störungen bei Kindern - Drei Kasuistiken

(Sleep disturbances in children - three cases)

SPARENBORG-NOLTE Anne

(AHZ. 253, 6/2008)

With three cases from her practice the author

demonstrates homeopathic treatment of sleep disorders

of children.

8. Müde bin ich, geh zur Ruh

(Iřm tired, and go to rest)

ZIPPERMAYR Philipp (AHZ. 253, 6/2008)

Sleep can be seen as retreat by the events of the

day and by the social surrounding field. The different

forms of sleep disorders are therefore disturbances of

this retreat. They refer to a specific social conflict of

the patient, not or not completely permitting this retreat.

The analysis of the temper and the message of the

dominating disease symptomatology bring to light a

disturbed bond of trust to the surrounding field as a

reason for the sleep disorder. The knowledge of the

cause, the motive of disease, makes it possible to

compare with motives of the remedies which are

applicable, facilitating the homepathic choice.

9. Carcinosinum und Medorrhinum bei der

Behandlung von Schlafstörungen

(Carcinosinum and Medorrhinum in treatment of

sleep disturbances)

HADULLA Michael (AHZ. 253, 6/2008)

The author demonstrates with two of his cases of

treatment of sleep disturbances in children with the

Nosodes Carcinosinum and Medorrhinum.

Case 1: Ten year-old girl had come to me before, with

nervous abdomen pain after the death of her

grandmother. She gave the impresssion of a very much

sad person. After examination, gave a dose of Ignatia

D200 with rapid improvement. Since her mother was a

strong, open, promoter of Homeopathy. She now came

with complaints of sleep, which she had unsuccessfully

treated with Coffee. The anamnesis: weeps

despairingly; the usual tricks of bedtime stories,

banning of TV, etc. did not help and the child woke up

every fifteen minutes and this torture the mother has to

undergo until mid-night. Throughout the day the child

is inattentive, annoying everyone. She has slided down

at school too. She has craving for chocolate; she is very

conscientious, ambitious, responsible and extremely

structured. Repertorisation brought out Carcinosinum

which was given in 200. In six weeks the mother came

with great exclamation at the wonderful change. The

child is her normal and studies very well, etc. The

sleep disturbance is not there anymore.

Case 2: 32 year-old female; she spoke of her two small

sons. During the second pregnancy she suffered much

from opathsleep disturbances. Sometimes she slept at

5 ořclock in the morning, and was finding it too weak

and tired and as a result Anaemia. She underwent

allopathic treatment and also from a homeopathic

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prescription of Silica, and also a complex prescription;

and also a colleague gave her Sepia and Aconitum as

also Acidum phosphoricum Ŕ all to no good result.

Since the case appeared complicated, I could not come

to a homeopathic remedy, so applied Acupuncture, and

the sleep became better. Unfortunately the

improvement did not last and she again could not sleep

well. Became irritable and annoyed. She then told of a

craving for meat, sharp spicy food. She further

revealed of an unpleasant discharge, yellowish,

burning and itchy. There were also some mental and

emotional symptoms: Temper, aggressiveness,

impulsiveness, bashfulness, alternately introversion and

extraversion, could easily weep particularly when she

spoke of her complaints. She bites her fingernails right

from childhood. She washed her hands very frequently

particularly when returns after purchases. She is

grumbly through the day and during evening and night

better.

Repertoriation indicated Medorrhinum which was

given in D200, three globules. There was a very good

response. For maintaining the improvement

Medorrhinum LM 6 sweekly.

10. Eine Rückschau über 20 Jahre Krebstherapie in

eigener Praxis und 10 Jahre in der Clinic Santa

Croce und Ausblicke in die Zukunft

(A retrospective study of 20 years of cancer

therapy in own Practice and 10 years in the Clinic

at Santa Croce and prospects in the future)

SPINEDI Dario (ZKH. 52, 3/2008)

The author has over 20 years experience in the

homeopathic treatment of different Cancers, and since

10 years experience with the St. Croce Hospital. Dr.

SPINEDI was trained by Dr. KÜNZLI. Accordingly

the following are the main guidelines in classical

Homeopathy:

- The Simile rule

- The Proving on the healthy

- The preparation of high potencies

- The invention of the 50 millesimal potencies

- The Kent Scale

- The exact technique of Anamnesis

- The homeopathic aggravation

- The exact dosage

- The second prescription

- The long-term follow-up

The knowledge of these are the foundation for the

cure of chronic diseases including Cancer. We are very

much grateful to the homeopaths of the past and

present who have worked so hard with these

Ŗmultifarious factorsŗ and have given us valuable

instructions. I think of Eli JONES, BURNETT,

CLARKE, COOPER, GRIMMER, SCHLEGEL,

CARLETON, BARTHEL, Farook MASTER, PAREEK

and many, many others. Our attempts at the St. Croce

Hospital is to arrive at a methodology which

synthesises the best of the great homeopaths mentioned

above and others. We are lucky to have whole

generations of homeopaths and only a thoroughly

considered synthesis of their knowledge will result in a

optimum success.

The author gives 15 cases of different Cancers: 1.

Ewing Sarcoma. 2. Malignant inoperable coccyx

Teratoma with multiple Lung and Liver metastasis. 3.

Inoperable Sarcoma of the Uterus. 4. Inoperable Liver

Carcinoma in a one year-old child. 5. Primary

metastasizing Mamma Carcinoma. 6. Embryonal

Testicle Carcinoma and Mediastinal Sarcoma. 7.

Mamma Carcinoma. 8. Prostate Carcinoma. 9.

Metastasizing Melanoma Clark Level IV. 10. Prostate

Carcinoma operated, PT2b GIII. Gleason-Score 7. 11.

Axillary Lymphnode metastasis left , an occult primary

carcinoma in a pregnant female. 12. Metastisizing

Ovarial Carcinoma Figo III/IV, G III. 13. Low

malignant Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. 14. Status after

amputation of a breast Cancer and high doses of

Chemotherapy. 15. Recurrence of a Rhabdomyo-

sarcoma in a boy.

Practically no side-effects of radiation were

observed.

11. Eine Schizophrenie? Homöopathie und Psychiatrie

bei einem schwer traumatisierten Flüchtling in

aufenthaltsrechtlichen Verfahren

(A Schizophrenic? Homeopathy and Psychiatry in

a severely Traumatised refugee in an Asylum)

EPPENICH Heinz (ZKH. 52, 3/2008)

This article has a two fold topic: the presentation of

a model case study of a successful prescription of

Anacardium with a verification of the Proving symptom

Ŗhe imagined he heard his name calledŗ, as well as the

problem as to which instance is legally legitimate to

judge the evidence of the truth (diagnostic and

therapeutic) in the Asylum Proceedings of severely

traumatized refugees. The middle part consists of a

correspondence of the author and a Psychiatrist; the

names of the persons involved have been made

unrecognizable with exception of the authorřs name.

12. Gentle little souls

Everyday uses for the humble tissue salt

CASTRO Miranda (HT. 28, 1/2008)

SCHÜSSLERřs Biochemic system is based on

supplementing the deficient mineral salts.

Sulking Cat

Ten year-old Minnie had exiled herself since two

days refusing all food. This started after another new

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kitten sophie was rescued and was entrancing the whole

family and getting all the attention.

A tablet of Natrum muricaticum 6x was dissolved

in water and rubbed on to Minnieřs outraged nose.

About half an hour later, Minnie quietly came in to the

house, ate little food and then climbed into the basket

with sophie, curled up and fell fast asleep.

High in the Pyrenees

The author lived for two years in a remote hamlet

iun the French Pyrenees. Prone to horrid urinary tract

Infection with urge always and burning after urination.

Usually before menstrual period and during emotional Ŕ

weepy and irritable. Cracks at the corner of the mouth

or in the middle of lip. Natrum muriaticum 6x

frequently on the first day would improve immediately.

The common indications for all the 12 salts are

given. A handy cell salt index (Repertory) is given.

Dishrag, string Bean Kids

A course of Calcarea phos. during and/or after a

growth spurt to keep these kids from falling into a

slump. It improves the vitality and appetite. It helps the

horrid growing pains. Phases of complaining of

stomach and or headaches on coming home from

school. These usually occur before, during or after a

growth spurt.

13. Addicted to Love?

ASPINWALL, Mary (HT. 28, 1/2008)

James 33, returned from abroad and found his wife

of 3 years had left the family home, taking their two

year-old son with her and refused to have any contact

with him. His reaction was overwhelming disbelief.

Exhausted and yawning frequently. After Ignatia XM,

he felt much better, exhaustion and yawning improved

greatly and was able to understand the truth of the

situation.

An older woman happily married for 50 years was

terribly saddened and shocked by her husbandřs death

and completely withdrew herself, feeling life was no

longer worth living. She stayed in seclusion for 2 years.

a dose of Natrum muriaticum, lifted the feeling of grief

and she felt like her old self again.

Angela had a kind of loving partner. Unfortunately

she was still in love with a man with whom she had an

affair few years earliuer, though she knew the current

partner was by far the better. Antimonium crudum 30

helped dramatically. This remedy is for sentimental,

romantic persons.

Jeanette, who recently separated from her

husband, enraged by his hurtful behavior towards her

and their very young child. She felt she would kill him.

While talking she was picking invisible fluff her

clothing. Hyoscyamus 200 and within 2-3 days she

became relaxed, calm and able to see the funny sides of

things again.

Indications for Natrum muriaticum, Phosphoric

acid, Aurum metallicum, Lachesis are also given.

14. The Heart of the Matter

Homeopathy helps a woman with irregular heart

beat.

ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 28, 1/2008)

Abigail, 60 years, with atrial fibrilliation since a

month, especially at night, disturbing her sleep.

Anxiety worse at night. Felt light-headed and off

balance at that time chilliness of extremities. Felt cold

in her back. Great need for warm covering profuse

perspiration, over head, hands and feet. Tendency to

constipation and swollen glands. Much organized in

everything. Silica 200. No change. Kali silicatum 12c

once a day.

A week later better overall. Fatigue lessened and

sleeping better. Atrial fibrillation less. Continued to be

on Kali silicata12c. in the next two years AF only

during the time of stress. [This is interesting. Is Kali

silicate a ŘProvenř remedy? Or a synthetically created

Materia Medica only? = KSS]

15. Avoiding or Delaying Root Canal Therapy (RCT)

A case of Ŗirreversibleŗ pulpitis

SHORT, John. A. (HT. 28, 1/2008)

A 47-year-old woman with very deep decay in her

lower left first molar since a month. Increased

sensitivity to cold liquids. Pain was distributed

generally on the left side of face. Radiograph indicated

inflammation. She was withdrawn. Greasy face.

Menstrual colic and unrefreshing sleep. Preliminary

removal of decayed part was done and antibiotics not

given. Natrum muriaticum 200. She remained

symptom free and a Radiograph couple of months later

showed dentinal bridging, a sign of healing. Over the

years 30-40% of patients with homeopathic medicines

did not require RCT.

16. Dissolving Scar Tissue, growths & Tumors

The homeopathic remedy as Řsurgeonř

ST. JOHN, Gloria (HT. 28, 2/2008)

Anna, 60 year-old with painful, large neuromas in

both feet and had enforced a sedentary life style.

Surgery was advised but she was not willing. Feet were

more painful when standing better when siutting and

somewhat better when walking. Silica 12c daily and to

stop it whenever the relief was felt. Three weeks later,

she lamented that she was doing so well at first and

then all the pain is back. She had taken Silica 12c, even

after she had significant pain relief. Within 2 days of

stopping Silica12c, pain was gone. Five weeks later

many positive changes. Lost 15 pounds due to her

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increased mobility. A year later, no pains but the

status of neuromas not known as she was reluctant to

undergo X-rays.

Bill, 66 years had series of accidents as a young

man and lot of suffering due to it. One knee replaced.

Continued back pain and several surgeries to relieve it.

He had twisted. Spine pain worse in cold, damp

weather. He had melanoma (resolved). His hearing

was compromised from military and industry noise

exposure. He was on Thyroid Medication and Quinine

for muscle cramps. He was on Morphine. Back pain

increased after each surgery. Hypericum 200 and 12c

did not help. Thiosinaminum 6c daily. Pain briefly

increased, but now much reduced. Memory better. Felt

better overall, with increased energy. He was on

reduced dosage of Morphine. Thiosinaminum 12c few

times and Morphine at 25% of the original dosage.

17. Bridging Thought and Homeopathy

LUEPKER, Ian R. (HT. 28, 2/2008)

Six year-old Simon had delayed milestones and

with apraxia of speech i.e. difficulty in sequencing the

motor movements needed for volitional speech. He

also struggled with a sensory processing disorder and a

tic disorder. Flaps hands often. Mother was under

much stress during his pregnancy and as an infant had

the inability to co-ordinate the motor movements to

suckle.

Now he miususes or omits words while speaking,

gives irrelevant answers. Grinding teeth. Enjoys deep

pressure. Has high pain threshold. Alternating moods.

Nux moschata 200.

Six weeks later, his sensory issues had improved

by 50%. Speech more clear. No hand flapping.

Four months later, irrelevant answers decreased by

80%.

Two years later progressing in all areas. (Overall 7

doses were given).

[By the appropriate homeopathic remedy,

communication became appropriate and that is much in

day to-day life; it meant one expressed, verbalized what

are thought. Thanks to Homeopathy = KSS].

18. Clear your seasonal Allergies

And revel in the springtime again!

GAHLES, Nancy (HT. 28, 2/2008)

Indications for Allium cepa, Euphrasia, Sabadilla

and Wyethia are given.

45 year-old Sally with spasmodic sneezing attacks

in the presence of flowers, perfumes and scented soaps.

Itchiness of eyes and mouth. Chronic vaginal yeast

infection, burning and irritating. Feels bloated,

tightened. Sabadilla 200. For 4 days much worse and

with throat pain. Knee pains and gum abscess flared

up. Then felt much better. In the next 4 years, two

more doses.

Skylark, with runny nose, cough and wheeze since

one year of age in the hay season and then in wet, damp

or cold season. First mucus in throat, then hoarseness,

dry, burning throat, incessant cough and the tormenting

attempts to cough up the mucus. Causticum 30 helped.

Later he could explain that it started with itchiness

of palate. Wyethia 30, stopped the problem.

19. Hay Fever magic and the Minimum Dose

ASPINWALL, Mary (HT. 28, 2/2008)

Authorřs brother with Hay Fever since 7 years of

age intolerable itching of eyes and swelling of eyelids.

Repeated and violent sneezing. Running nose with

soreness between nose and upperlip. Itching inside

nose and roof of mouth. Sabadilla 30, 7 pills. One pill

to be taken and wait. To repeat only if there is

disimprovement after improvement.

He took one pill daily and had terrible bout of Hay-

fever Ŕ homeopathic aggravation. He was reassured.

In the next twenty years another bout of Hay fever. He

is now one of Homeopathyřs greatest fans.

20. Goodbye Itchy Eyes!

COWARD, Steven (HT. 28, 2/2008)

Bella, 3½ years old with severe allergies that got

especially bad each Spring and Fall. Intense itching of

eyes with sneezing, running nose. Better in rainy

weather and when she was indoors. Hated to cover her

feet. Past history of rapid tooth decay. Kreosotum 200.

Her symptoms went away immediately and no further

problems.

21. Give Hives the Heave ŔHo!

ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 28, 2/2008)

Shelly, 44 years, with hives since five years. first,

small, on abdomen, before menstruation and colder

months on right side. Then grew larger, itchier and all

month long. Confused, irritated and short-tempered

during hives. Later dysphagia and dyspnoea during the

attacks. Tendency to indigestion and bloating. Right

sided ovarian cyst. Heavy menstrual flow due to

Uterine Fibroid. History of Fibro cystic breast disease

worse in right side, chilly feeling with a need of electric

blanket. Craved sweets. Lycopodium 12c daily. Six

weeks later, fewer and less severe outbreaks. To

continue daily. Two months later, worse since 3 weeks

Lycopodium 30c. in the next one year need of a dose

every 2-3 weeks. In the next five years occasional

attacks subsided with a dose of Lycopodium 30. A

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remedy that addresses the whole person, including but

not limited to the hives, has a broader and deeper-acting

effects.

22. A wonderful Remedy for Anger

Chomomilla helps angry kids of all ages

RAUNIAR, Rashana (HT. 28, 2/2008)

Siya, 3 months old born with a blocked tear duct,

constantly discharging clear watery fluid. Worse from

wind. Redness of eyes. Mother was much stressed and

angry during her pregnancy. Cranky and cried a lot

with cough. Better when being held or carried.

Chamomilla 200 1 pellet dissolved in 11 teaspoons, one

teaspoon every hour. Within three doses, she started

improving. After 10 days no discharge from eyes.

Two year-old Beth with running nose, mild cough,

progressed to watery discharge from eyes, sneezing.

Antihistamines did not help. She became exhausted,

irritated, increased salivation. Acon., Ars.alb., Puls. did

not help.

Red eruption on right cheek, 10 days before the

cold, other cheek was pale. Chamomilla 200. After 30

minutes she started improving.

23. ŖHello, This is the Homeopathic Helpline!ŗ

TREUHERZ, Francis (HT. 28, 3/2008)

In the spring of 1996, David NEEDLEMAN,

Pharmacist managed to convince the official UK

telecoms regulator that a Homeopathic Helpline was a

legitimate service to operate a premium rate (i.e. Pay-

per minute) number and enlisted the author to help.

Since then more than 165,000 calls have been dealt

with.

The Homeopathic Helpline is open from 9 a.m.

through midnight, 7 days a week. It costs callers $3 a

minute of which British Telecom keeps $1.

Few of the cases are discussed.

The author has much satisfaction from this work of

offering service to many thousands of largely unknown

callers. [Very interesting article, that would gladden

the heart of every genuine homeopath. = KSS].

24. Appendicitis strikes thrice!

NEEDLEMAN, David (HT. 28, 3/2008)

On a Christmas day, three mothers phoned each

reporting that their child with pain in lower right side of

abdomen.

The pains started around the navel and then

descended and moved to right. Children felt better

when applying pressure and worse on release of

pressure.

A dose of Bryonia 30 and a dose of Lycopodium 30

both be given on the way to the Emergency Room and

doses to be repeated if the patient is kept waiting in the

Emergency Room.

First child was pain free on arrival at the ER and

sent home. The second child was also pain free on

arrival at ER but was kept overnight for observation.

Both these children had no further problems. The third

child was operated within ten minutes of arrival. This

was timely, as just after the surgeons opened him up the

appendix burst. The child recovered well.

25. Running on empty no longer

Working holistically with a person who has Cancer

ASPINWALL, Mary (HT. 28, 3/2008)

Rita, 54 was convalescing from double mastectomy

for Breast Cancer. Recent incoordination of hands and

feet because they felt numb and clumsy. Chronic

insomnia. Son died in an accident at the age of 17 and

many years later a beloved godson died tragically in a

fire and all the pain and sadness from her sonřs death

returned. Anxiety decreased by exercise. Had PMS,

painful periods, benign cystic breast disease and

Hysterectomy. She loved to be very active always.

Sudden impulse to kill in anger. Iodum LM 3, daily

doses alongwith macrobiotic food and Juices. 4 weeks

later, worrying less, palpitations less, constipation much

better. Six weeks later, further improved. Sleep better.

After the third chemo session nauseated and black

vomiting. Cadmium sulphuricum 30c helped. Higher

LM potency of Iodum every four or five weeks.

26. Comfort Remedies

Relief for Chemo, Radiation and surgery side

effects

ASPINWALL, Mary (HT. 28, 3/2008)

During conventional Cancer treatment,

Homeopathy can help to ease the side effects.

Homeopathic remedies are very gentle and do not

interfere with chemotherapy or radiotherapy, so they

are a perfect choice for those who are weakened or who

prefer an alternative to conventional Ŗcomfort

medications.ŗ

Success depends on individualizing, and itřs

important to remember these golden rules of acute

homeopathic prescribing:

Match the symptoms carefully to the best

homeopathic medicine you can find.

Take one pill of a 6c or 30c potency. If you feel

better, there is no need to repeat unless the same

symptoms return.

Remember, you may need to switch to a different

remedy as the symptoms change, to ensure you donřt

break Rule #1. Ideally, however, you should consult a

professional homeopath to prescribe for you. They

will not only be able to help you with Ŗcomfort

medicine,ŗ but will also work with you to identify and

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address the underlying dis-ease that produced your

cancer symptoms.

While side effects of conventional treatment vary

widely and any of a large number of remedies can be

indicated to help, here is a selection of remedies that

cover the most common discomforts during such

treatment.

After surgery

Arnica helps heal all traumas to soft tissues and is

useful after any surgery.

Bellis perennis is especially useful after

trauma/surgery of the abdomen or breast, when deep

soreness is present.

Staphysagria may help if the incision site is very

painful.

Phosphorus can help if there is nausea after general

anaesthesia.

Calendula is a wonderful antiseptic that reduces

the risk of infected wounds. It can be used topically or

given internally.

Belladonna can nip potential infections in the bud

if there is heat, redness, or throbbing in the wound.

Hepar sulph. If the person is extremely chilly with

a pus-filled, painful wound, this medicine works very

well to heal the infection.

Silica. Think of this medicine if the wound is

infected and pus-filled, but, strangely, painless.

During Chemotherapy

Arsenicum album. The person who needs

Arsenicum feels very cold and restless. Emotionally

they may feel distraught, anxious, and despairing,

especially if left alone. They are thirsty, taking

frequent sips of usually warm drinks, but are likely to

vomit food and drink as soon as it reaches the stomach.

They may also have diarrhea. Although both the

discharges and pains are burning, they are relieved by

heat.

Cadmium sulphuricum addresses very violent

nausea and vomiting especially when the vomit is

black; the vomit may also contain tough mucus and

there may be retching and gagging. The person may

feel so nauseated that theyretch at the very touch of

food or drink to their lips. They are extremely

exhausted and may feel faint. They feel better when

they stay still and quiet.

Ipecac (the Ŗdilutedŗ homeopathic preparation of

Ipecac, not the pure form of Ipecac used to induce

vomiting) can be very helpful to relieve nausea that is

constant and unrelenting. Think of this remedy when

vomiting brings a person no relief from their nausea.

Phosphorus not only helps with the after-effects of

general anesthesia but may also help with side effects

of chemotherapy. The person feels theirsty for cold

water, but vomits it as soon as it becomes warm in the

stomach. They may actually feel hungry during the

nausea, but are still unable to keep anything down.

Tabacum. The person needing this remedy has

tremendous nausea that may feel like motion sickness

and be accompanied by vertigo. Cool open air makes

them feel better, and they may prefer to be uncovered,

even though their skin is cold to the touch. They feel

better lying still with their eyes closed.

During radiation therapy

Calendula, known for its ability to heal abrasions

and wounds of the most superficial layers of the skin, is

sold in topical ointments as well as pills. The pills can

be taken internally and/or dissolved in water and

applied to a dressing for the wound (or a diluted

tincture may be used on the wound).

Urtica urens is ideal for superficial, first-degree

burns that sting and/or itch. The area feels worse from

heat and after bathing. It can be taken internally or

applied topically in the same way as Calendula.

Cantharis. burns that respond to Cantharis are of

medium severity and may blister. They are raw and

sore and feel better with a cold compress. The pains

that respond to Cantharis are described as cutting,

smarting, and burning.

Causticum. Known as a remedy for serious second

and third-degree burns, Causticum addresses the deeper

layers of the skin. Burns that do not heal in a timely

manner, or that are accompanied by symptoms

throughout the body may respond to Causticum. The

burns may itch, crack, or ulcerate. The person feels

better in warmth and worse from cold and wind, and the

burn is likely to feel better when it is covered.

Hypericum. The primary remedy for damage to

nerves, Hypericum can ease side effects of radiation

when they include shooting pains.

Radium bromatum. This is the most specific

remedy for radiation burns. The skin may itch and

burn; there may be swelling and even ulceration. If

there is a systemic reaction, it is likely to include aching

pains all over the body, with a sensation of heat, and the

person feels better from cool open air.

Note: If a person develops nausea and vomiting

after radiation, also consider the remedies used during

Chemotherapy.

27. Pharmaceuticals, Homeopathy and Natural

Supplements

Can we use them all together?

ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 28, 5/2008)

Many patients present with long list of medicines

they take. Few are essential and many others are

ineffective, unnecessary or even detrimental to health.

According to a Journal of the American Medical

Association article, 108,000 Americans died in 1996

from adverse reactions to FDAŔapproved medications

that had been properly prescribed by licensed medical

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professionals and another 2.2 million Americans had

negative drug reactions.

The author in her practice uses Homeopathy with

almost every patient and advises with regard to diet,

lifestyle, stress reduction and natural medicine and

helps them figure out which prescription and over-the-

counter medications they need versus which are more

optional and can be safely reduced or stopped.

She was on a long list of medications for many

years without much improvement.

As patients begin to feel better from homeopathic

treatment, some conventional medications can be safely

reduced or discontinued. Many drugs used on an Ŗas

neededŗ basis, can often be decreased or stopped

without issue slow and steady route is usually the best

way to wean off medication. Strong drugs such as

Prednisone, high blood pressure medications, blood

thinners and anti-cholesterol drugs need to be

monitored more carefully and if they can ever be

reduced at all, it will only be under strict supervision

from the person who prescribed it and with strong

changes in lifestyle including diet, exercise and

nutritional supplements and as well as based on blood

test valves.

During the treatment for any acute illness which is

life threatening, antibiotic usage is advised and then any

adverse results are addressed afterwards.

For people undergoing Cancer treatment, protocols

of Chemotherapy or radiation, homeopathic remediues

can be used safety to curb side effects without

compromising the desired effect of Cancer treatment.

Carla 39, was struggling with anxiety, depression,

insomnia, attention deficit disorder, chronic tonsillitis

and Fibromyalgia. She was stressed out in all areas of

life Ŕ physically, emotionally and financially.

In the first four months of treatment sleeping

medicines for sleep and attention deficit were

withdrawn on consultation with her Psychiatrist. In the

next two months her medicines for anxiety and

depression were withdrawn with the support of her

therapist.

She was on Baryta carbonica 12c daily dose for

two months. Then 2 doses of 200 in the next 6 months.

In the 18 months of treatment, Carla has greatly

reduced her use of conventional drugs. She has begun

to date and enjoying her children. Seems more

confident and less needy.

28. Major Moves and Transitions.

ASPINWALL, Mary (HT. 28, 5/2008)

Authorřs son Gabrielřs thumb was trapped, when a

large heavy fire door closed suddenly. Screaming with

pain and lost lot of blood. A deep gash was seen. He

was shaking and teeth chattering with shock. A cock

tail of homeopathic remedies were given. Arnica 30 to

reduce shock, swelling and bruising.

Hypericum 30 for shooting pains of nerves.

Ledum 30 for injury to nails.

Calendula 30 to help the cut to heal quickly.

By next day he was pain free. The gash healed in 2

weeks.

This injury occurred during the process of major

moves of the family from Ireland to USA.

The author has given indications for Arnica,

Coffea, Bryonia, Cocculus, Tabacum, Bellis perennis,

Ignatia, Pulsatilla for the use of problems involved in

the major moves. [Sorry, this type of prescription is a

caricature of Homeopathy; as if Arnica alone will not

do all the work of the latter remedies! = KSS]

29. Teens and the ŖKissing diseaseŗ

Mononucleosis

Speed up the healing with homeopathic treatment

SALTZMAN, Sussanne (HT. 28, 5/2008)

Mononucleosis is caused by Epstein-Barr virus.

The primary symptoms are fever, fatigue, severe sore

throat and swollen lymph nodes on examination

enlarged Liver or Spleen.

Usually spreads via saliva.

Incubation period is about 4-6 weeks. Symptoms

last from 2 weeks to 2 months, occasionally fatigue for

few months.

There is no conventional treatment for Mono

beyond rest, drinking plenty of fluids and taking pain

killers.

In the authorřs experience Mono resolves within 24

to 48hrs. after correct homeopathic remedy.

Many of her cases of Mono became alright with

Lycopodium. Few required other remedies.

16 year-old girl with milk drinking problem.

Suffered with Mono or she had very offensive breath

with sensitivity to extremes of temperature. Mercurius

30 tds. for few days. She recovered in 2 days and over

the next few months her behaviour and drinking

problem improved.

15 year-old with Mono with intense fear of dark

and robbers, recovered with Stramonium.

30. Fast recovery for a woman with severe Mono

GUESS, George (HT. 28, 5/2008)

23 year-old woman with Mono since 10 days, had

excruciating Headache, Fever from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Tired, unable to hold head. Strong Nausea even from

thought of eating. Abdominal tenderness. Inflamed,

sore lymph nodes. Preferred warm drink. Weak legs.

Mental dullness. Urine dark yellow. China 200.

Within four hours began to improve and well after 2

days.

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31. Mononucleosis paves her way

GROCE, Ann JEROME (HT. 28, 5/2008)

Heather, 18, with yet to recover from

Mononucleosis since 3 months with fatigue. All the

symptoms were common, so no acute remedy could be

given. Few weeks earlier to Mono, her boy friend

broke with her for another girl. There was much grief

and anger. She enjoyed being in the sun. Ignatia 200.

Five days later, she developed a sore similar to one

during infection [exteriorization of the disease?

Heringřs Law? = KSS] and slept more then usual.

Within two weeks she recovered and was back to her

usual self. Since then three more doses of Ignatia had

helped her in a variety of complaints.

32. Women and children first.

BUTEHURN, Loretta (HT. 28, 5/2008)

Nio IMANI, a substance abuse Counselor in a

residential treatment program for women with

addictions has been using Homeopathy effectively.

The women in the program ranged in age from 22

to 60 with an average addiction of 12 years.

Addiction is a Medical problem. The first step in

the treatment is medically supervised detoxification in

which patient experiences many difficult and

unpleasant physical symptoms.

After detox, a life of recovery begins, presenting its

own steep challenges.

First homeopathic medicines were used for First-

Aid, then for treating the cravings and symptoms that

come in the first six months of recovery.

Then the chronic life issues that had often led the

women to use drugs in the first place were addressed.

If precipitating and underlying issues remain

unaddressed, they can trigger relapse.

Their ailments could be traced to incest, physical

abuse, rape, injury, early loss of parents, familial drug

addiction, domestic violence, time in prison and

despair. How life circumstances can unbalance a

personřs Vital Force and about the resiliency of the

human spirit could be learned.

A short description of cases helped by Nux vomica,

Arsenicum album, Stramonium, Pulsatilla, Magnesium

muriaticum and Anacardium are given.

33. Special kids Ŕ Special Care

ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 28, 6/2008)

Ten year-old Michael suffered a massive stroke in

Utero and was born with Epilepsy, Hydrocephalus and

mental retardation. Blind and deaf, nourished by

feeding tube offensive smell to the skin and vacant

expression on face. Excessive mucus in chest hindering

breathing. Downy hair. Tuberculinum. A month later,

much reduction in his mucus production. No more

seizures and had begun to track sounds. Over the next

several years no more improvement and he died

peacefully.

Marian 7, with ADHD, destructive at home and

school. Robust look with red lips, cheeks and ears.

Comfortable with new people. Responded well to

Tarentula hispanica. After few months Sulphur

successfully addressed her Diarrhoea and Eczema.

Homeopathy can help the child optimize its

genetic potential, whatever that may be. It is important

to understand the childřs chief complaint/medical

diagnosis to give patients a realistic prognosis rather

than offering false hope. An accurate diagnosis can

also enable parents to access support from therapists,

health providers and schools and allow appropriate

goals to be set for the child.

In the treatment of children in the autistic

spectrum, the author has seen children make gains in

their ability to learn and to interact in social settings. It

is important to focus on what is limiting to the child at

that time. It is essential to try to figure out what drives

the childřs behaviors and what makes symptoms better

or worse.

34. Miracles in a Time of Darkness Ŕ Healing Autism

with Homeopathy

LUEPKER, Ian (HT. 28, 6/2008)

5 year-old Uriel with High functioning Autism

(HFA), lacked social awareness which interfered with

his ability to connect and engage with his peers.

ŖDisconnectionŗ with others, between brain and colon

which interfered his toilet habits resulting in soiling.

Increased tactile sensitivity. Strong passion in

Astronomy. Frequent dreams of death. Feels like

floating in air. Hydrogen 1M. aggravation for 4 weeks

and then steady improvement. No soiling. Sat with

others. In the next 4½ years two more doses of 1M and

five doses of XM. His extreme physical sensitivity

became normal.

35. Yoga! Stay Safe and healthy with Homeopathy

REICHENBERG-ULLMAN, Judyth

(HT. 28, 6/2008)

In USA, Yoga has become mainstream and big

business, accompanied by a significant rise in the

number of injuries. Injuries often occur when students

push themselves too hard too quickly to do postures

beyond their level of ability. Also when yoga practice

is undertaken sporadically rather than on a regular

basis. The author presents indications for Arnica, Rhus

toxicondendron, Hypericum, Bryonia, Ruta and Lactic

acid.

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She narrates her own experience of low back pain

during the practice of yoga relieved by Bryonia.

36. Yoga, Scoliosis, and over stretching

AVALOFF, Shura (HT. 28, 6/2008)

The author is prone to frequent neck strains during

yoga exercises due to her Scoliosis. Rhus tox relieves

her neck strains.

37. Back in Balance after a Car Accident

WEAVER, Judy (HT. 28, 6/2008)

The author is a practitioner of yoga. She met with

a car accident and had serious shoulder and neck

injuries. By using a homeopathic healing joint cream,

she improved wall and regained 100% function in neck

and 90-95% function in shoulder. The cream contains

low potencies of Arnica, Rhus tox, Ruta, Symphytum,

Thiosinaminum and Calcarea flourica. [Strictly

speaking there is no ŘHomeopathy in this kind of

treatmentř]

38. Flu outbreak? We are prepared!

JEROME, Ann, J. (Croce) (HT. 28, 6/2008)

Over its 200 year history, Homeopathy has proven

extraordinarily effective in flu outbreaks and other

epidemics through genus epidemicus.

A study in the October 2008 Archives of

Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine found no

reduction flu Ŕ related cases who had received the flu

vaccine. Centre for Disease control also admits that

Ŗthe ability of the flu vaccine to protect a person

depends on the age and health status of the person

getting the vaccine, and the similarity or Řmatchř

between the virus strains in the vaccine and those in

circulationŗ.

Ultimately getting a flu shot has to be an individual

decision. (See the Table Ŕ How to for Flu: Healing

Homeopathic Remedies, p. no. 102)

39. Abordagem Homeopática no Tratamento de

Pacientes com DeficiÊncia Mental Ŕ Relato De

Casos

(Homeopathic Approach to the Treatment of

Mentally Handicapped Patients Ŕ Case Reports)

FILHO Rubens Dolice (RH. 70, 1-2-3-4/2007)

The author describes his experience assisting

mentally disabled patients with Homeopathy. In these

patientsř anamneses, common traits shared by some

syndromes, pathologies and behavior were taken into

consideration, mainly to choose the most characteristic

symptoms in each case. The study describes 58 cases

of patients suffering from this pathology: 28 females

and 30 males, whose ages ranged from 1 to 49 years,

and whose average age was 20 years. From the total

number of cases, 47 presented some kind of

improvement. Although Homeopathy is here at the

limit of its field of action, it is a good alternative to

relieve pathologies associated with mental disability. In

those cases in which there were similarities between

remedy and whole symptomatology, improvements in

adaptation skills, and in overall health were observed.

40. Gênio Epidêmico da Dengue

(Epidemic Genius of Dengue)

BAROLLA Cêlia Regina, CARVALHO Maria do

Perpêtuo Socorro

METZNER Bárbara Susanne

(RH. 70, 1-2-3-4/2007)

It is presented a summary of the main clinical-

epidemiological aspects and the results of epidemic

genius of Dengue study, developed in accordance with

Hahnemannřs and Kentřs methodological proposal, and

a study of the Materia Medica of the most indicated

remedies for its treatment and prophylaxis. It is also

discussed a multicentric study proposal for the

treatment and prophylaxis of Dengue.

41. Homeopathic drug selection using Intuitionistic

Fuzzy Sets

KHARAL Athar (HOM. 98, 1/2009)

Using intuitionistic fuzzy set theory, Sanchezřs

approach to medical diagnosis has been applied to the

problem of selection of single remedy from

homeopathic repertorization. Two types of

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Relations (IFRs) and three types of

selection indices are discussed. I also propose a new

repertory exploiting the benefits of soft-intelligence.

42. Ignatia in the treatment of oral lichen planus

MOUSAVI Fahimeh, SHERAFATI Safa &

MOJAVER Yalda Nozad (HOM. 98, 1/2009)

To evaluate the effectiveness of Ignatia

homeopathic 30C in management of oral lichen planus

(OLP).

In this single blind randomized control clinical

trial, 30 consecutive patients with oral lesions

consistent clinically and histologically with erosive

and/or atrophic OLP were recruited. The patients were

randomly divided into two groups to receive Ignatia or

placebo. They were treated for 4 months.

Mean lesion sizes and mean pain measures differed

between control and treatment groups favouring Ignatia

(p < 0.05).

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Our results suggest that Ignatia has a beneficial

effect in treatment of OLP in selected patients.

43. Polarity analysis, a new approach to increase the

precision of homeopathic prescriptions

FREI Heiner (HOM. 98, 1/2009)

The Swiss randomized controlled trial of

Homeopathy for attention deficit Hyperactivity

disorder (ADHD) was a rigorous test of Homeopathy.

In each of its three phases it delivered evidence for a

specific effect of homeopathic treatment, but it also

unmasked weaknesses of the method. Misleading

reports of sensations and mind symptoms by parents

were frequent, while modalities and polar symptoms

usually proved to be reliable information for

repertorisation. The problem of cases with a paucity of

symptoms was resolved by reintroduction of

(pathognomonic) perception symptoms into the

repertorisation. Additionally polarity analysis, a further

development of Boenninghausenřs concept of

contraindications, was tested and introduced. It allows

a precise differential diagnosis of possible

homeopathic medicines. Increasing the rate of optimal

prescriptions by 20%, polarity analysis turned out to be

the most efficient modification to case analysis. This

paper describes the transfer of the new insights to the

treatment of other diseases and as the evaluation of this

process.

Polarity analysis was tested and applied in acute

diseases by completing patient histories with repertory

specific checklists, mainly based on modalities and

polar symptoms. The checklists encompassed eleven

complaints. Treatment results were compared with

results reached by conventional homeopathic case

analysis methods. The same procedure was applied in

chronic diseases with repertory-specific questionnaires.

Again, eleven different areas were covered. Treatment

results for chronic diseases were also compared with a

conventional case analysis approach.

Polarity analysis, checklists and questionnaires led

to an increase in optimal prescriptions of 22% in acute

diseases and 16% in chronic diseases. In addition, the

average improvement rates in chronic disease were 9%

higher than with conventional homeopathic

procedures. The new method is demonstrated by a case

example with a verified clinical cure, and its impacts on

Homeopathy are discussed.

The use of polarity analysis as an integral part of

case analysis and differential diagnosis of possible

remedies together with an increased awareness for

assessing the reliability of symptoms in repertorisation

lead to a substantial improvement in the precision of

homeopathic prescriptions. [See whole article in Part II

of this QHD = KSS].

44. Treatment of spasmodic dysphonia with

homeopathic medicine: a clinical case report

AN ZUE Steve, DE SCHEPPER Luc & HAO

Grace Jianping (HOM. 98, 1/2009)

Botulinum toxin (Botox) injection is the only

conventional medical treatment available for patients

with Spasmodic Dysphonia (SD). Some patients are

reluctant to receive Botox treatment due to concerns

about unknown long-term side effects, expense, and

dependence on repeated injections. The purpose of the

study was to report the perceptual and physiological

changes in the vocal functions of an SD patient treated

with classical Homeopathy. The results were similar

to a previous case report: classical Homeopathy seems

to be capable of ameliorating SD symptoms beyond the

short-term effects of Botox injections Although the

physiological mechanism of homeopathic healing is

not fully accounted for by the current bio-medical

models, it may be an effective therapeutic alternative

for some SD patients.

45. Carbo vegetabilis

SHEVIN William (AJHM. 101, 2/2008)

Three cases responding well to Carbo vegetabilis

are presented. Dr. SHEVIN then dicusses important

symptom themes that facilitate identification of the

remedy, most prominently, a sensation of heaviness and

overheating leading to exhaustion. Heaviness is also

identified as a theme of the Hamamelididae family

members in general (see Sankaran). Of course,

coldness and exhaustion with the desire to lie down are

symptoms commonly seen in the remedy.

46. Erectile Dysfunction in Patients with

Cardiovascular Disease

MOILOA R. Motlhabane (AJHM. 101, 2/2008)

The association of many cases of erectile

dysfunction with Cardiovascular disease is emphasized

and the profiles of five frequently indicated

homeopathic medicines for this condition are

described.

47. A case of Chronic Otitis Media

COOK Daniel (AJHM. 101, 2/2008)

A 3 year-old child with 21 courses of antibiotics

for either Otitis media or Pharyngitis in the past 3 years.

She was sullen, pale, desired grapes and oranges,

constipated Ŕ little balls Ŕ every 2-3 days. Grossly

impaired hearing. Enlarged tonsils. Leg pains better

from rubbing. Pulsatilla 1M. Two weeks later, looked

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better, hearing was subjectively better and had more

energy and appetite. No change in the ear conditions.

Sulphur 1M. One month later, right ear was entirely

clear of congestion. No fluid. No constipation.

Hearing in both ears was sensitive and acute. No

leg pain eating better. Two months later acute flare-up.

Sulphur 200 resolved in two days. Five days later, right

tonsil slightly swollen. No further improvement in

appetite, weight gain Pulsatilla 200. Two weeks later Ŕ

right tonsil normal. Pulsatilla 1M. Hearing improved

in the next 2 weeks. No other changes. Lycopodium

200. No changes in 2 weeks. So Pulsatilla XM.

Three weeks later, much active, hearing almost

normal, but fatigue since 2 days with leg pain, left ear

pain and chilliness. Placebo. Three wereks later no

change and Fever with vomiting. Dull. No appetite.

Silica 200. In the next three years few doses of

Pulsatilla 200, 1M and a dose of XM and two doses of

Sulphur 1M.

Overall in the nine years of homeopathic

treatment, only on three occasions antibiotics were

given.

Now she is rarely ill.

48. A woman with a painful thumb

SEBASTIAN Irene (AJHM. 101, 2/2008)

LR, 39-year-old female with right thumb pain since

4 years constant pain, sometimes throbbing, sensation

as if thumb is swollen and heat inside the joint.

Difficulty in grasping objects. X-ray revealed bony and

cartilaginous degenerative changes involving the first

carpal-metacarpal articulation as well as the radio

carpal articulation. Pain decreased by rubbing and cold

application. Guaicum 30. A week later 70% decreased.

Three months later 90% decreased with another dose.

In the next two years two more doses of 200.

49. Letting the symptoms fall where They May

ROBINSON Karl (AJHM. 101, 3/2008)

Dr. ROBINSON discusses the importance of

avoiding prejudicial observation and analysis during

homeopathic case taking and illustrates same with a

case.

60-year-old former seafarer, with difficulty in

opening eyes with a sense of coarse grains in eyes. Zig

zag vision. He was operated for Prostate Cancer and

has recovered, followed by Herpes Zoster. Since few

weeks a feeling that he will die soon. He is unhappy as

his mother is dying. His son and sisters treat him

disrespectfully. Thuja occidentallis 200. Cured his eye

problem and acute mental state. Six weeks later, he

was back to his usual jovial self.

50. Benign Prostatic Hyperrophy: Analysis and

Homeopathic Treatment

WEINSTEIN Corey (AJHM. 101, 3/2008)

Benign prostatic hypertrophy is a common ailment

in older men, causing both obstructive and irritative

urinary symptoms. Proper diagnosis and follow-up is

important as the consequences of undiagnosed prostate

Cancer and possible resulting renal failure can be dire.

The pathophysiology, diagnosis, and conventional

treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) are

discussed. Homeopathic treatment can offer

significant relief to men suffering the symptoms of

BPH; it can also result in a lowering of elevated and/or

accelerating PSA (prostate specific antigen) levels. The

cases of eight patients with BPH from Dr. Weinsteinřs

practice are discussed, most of whom benefited from

his homeopathic treatment. The more common

remedies employed in the treatment of BPH include:

Baryta carbonica, Mercurius vivus, Sulphur (iodatum),

Thuja, Aurum muriaticum, Chimaphila umbellate,

Conium, Ferrum picricum, Iodum, Nitric acid,

Pulsatilla nigricans, Sabal serrulata, Senecio aureus

and Staphysagria. Brief Materia Medica descriptions

of several of these remedies are discussed. Dr.

WEINSTEIN asserts that a consideration of the local

prostatic/urinary symptoms, in addition to more

constitutional symptoms, is important when

homeopathically analyzing these cases.

51. When New Symptoms Appear after Homeopathic

Treatment

ROBINSON Karl (AJHM. 101, 3/2008)

Dr. ROBINSON puts the question to us whether

we should consider adding a symptom to the repertory

when a patient produces, so-called Řaccessory

symptomsř as a result of a prescribed remedy. An

example is given of a case that developed severe right-

sided sternocleidomastoid pain after the prescription of

Kali carbonicum. While this symptom does not appear

in the Repertory, it is well represented in Hahnemannřs

Chronic Diseases, adding support to the

appropriateness of considering adding such evoked

symptoms to the repertory.

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IV. REPERTORY

1. Gradeinteilung, Höherstufung und Herabstufung

von Arzneimitteln in Repertorien Ŕinsbesondere in

Kents Repertorium

(Gradation, increasing and downgrading of

Remedies particularly in Kentřs Repertory)

PATEL Ramanlal (ZKH. 52, 3/2008)

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The author warns to be careful with the abundance

of addition in homeopathic repertories. In his

experience, 98% of his cases can be solved with the use

of Kentřs Repertory alone. Additions of remedies and

rubrics to which Kent had not yet access should be

confirmed at least 15 times before they are inserted into

the Repertory.

2. Statistical analysis of six repertory rubrics after

prospective assessment applying Bayesř theorem

RUTTEN ALB, STOLPER CF, LUGTEN RFG &

BARTHELS RWJM (HOM. 98, 1/2009)

After prospective assessment of six homeopathic

symptoms we validated some rubrics of the repertory

using Bayesian theory. In this paper we introduce

statistical arguments for introducing or discarding

entries from the repertory.

4094 patients entered the prospective study and

4072 prescriptions were evaluated. After translating

typeface into Likelihood Ratios (LRs), Confidence

Intervals and the probability of existing repertory entries

compared to our findings were calculated.

Our assessment yielded 121 relevant results to

validate existing repertory entries. Five symptoms

could be compared with Kentřs original repertory; they

have about the same prevalence (range 3.9-6.5%) in the

whole population, but the size of the corresponding

repertory rubrics varies from 3 to 103 entries. LR

assessment reduced the larger rubrics and supplemented

the smaller ones. Our results do not correspond with

56% of the existing repertory entries regarding five

symptom-rubrics. This result cannot be generalized for

the whole repertory.

3. In search of the reliable repertory

GADD Ben (HOM. 98, 1/2009)

The development of homeopathic repertories is

complex, reflecting history, the emergence of divergent

views on homeopathic philosophy, and differences in

opinion as to what constitutes reliable Materia Medica.

The purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate

the content of repertories examining its reliability, the

quality of source material, and the evidence that it forms

a reliable bridge between case and Materia Medica.

Reliability may be improved by demanding higher

standards and consistency of evidence. However, it is

necessary to understand what constitutes evidence, and

the importance of taking into account the context in

which practitioners use the repertory. This paper will

suggest that rather than demanding certain Řstandardsř,

practitioners will be better served by a greater

understanding of the sources of knowledge and by

reflexivity of the key players in the construction of our

repertories. ŘThe repertoryř is considered generally here

as the deconstruction of different repertories. The

strengths and weaknesses in particular, whilst

interesting, would be the topic of another a paper in its

own right. Where individual repertories are mentioned,

they are referred to as examples only.

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V. PHARMACOLOGY

1. Dynamization

CÉSAR, Amarilys de Toledo

(IJHDR. 2, 5/2003)

ŖHomeopathic Remediesŗ meant Ŗvery diluted,

dynamizedŗ medicines. What is Ŗdynamizationŗ and

how is it done? ŖDynamizationŗ comprises the process

of diluting and agitating the solutions. This constitutes

one of Homeopathyřs Foundations and it was taught by

HAHNEMANN who developed it by both logical

reflection and intuition (which he verified repeatedly in

his actual practice) , as he always sought better ways of

applying the Law of Similars into practice.

Many practitioners seem to ignore many aspects of

these as may be seen from their prescriptions. This

article may seem to be very basic, but it aims precisely

at reviewing all pharmaceutical aspects essential to a

right prescription, contributing thus to better therapeutic

results. Several interesting points are raised that need

to be considered.

2. Ultradiluições e Contaminação por Mercúrio

(High Dilutions and Contamination with Mercury)

BERINGHS-BUENO Liane Athayde,

PASCALICCHIO Áurea Eleutério

(RH. 70, 1-2-3-4/2007)

Mercury (Hg) is one of the pollutants involved in

environmental contamination. It causes a large number

of organic alterations mediated by immune reactions.

The susceptibility to the latter has a genetic basis.

Inorganic Hg may cause specific alterations in the

immune reactions through the unbalance of granulocytic

and IgG-IgE function. Ways to reduce the in vivo

toxicity of heavy metals has been sought for through the

use of chelating and other competing agents. Another

effective method for the rebalancing of the immune

system is to use highly diluted amounts of the same

metal involved. The action of high dilutions is based of

the hormesis principle and they may control the levels

of metals in human beings and the toxic effects of Hg

on the immune system. This review discusses aspects

of the contamination by Hg. focusing on the

immunological ones and evaluates the effects of high

dilutioons on the treatment of Hg-contaminated patients.

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VI. VETERINARY

1. Homeopathic Treatment of Malignant Melanoma

in a dog

BENITES Nilson e MELVILLE P.A.

(IJHDR. 2, 5/2003)

Malignant Melanoma is a Neoplasm of

Melanocytes, the cells that produce the skin and

mucous membranes pigment. Almost all oral

Melanomas of dogs are malignant. Melanoma is most

frequent in dogs older than nine, especially black-

coloured ones and particularly in Cocker Spaniel.

Treatment consists of surgical excision, radio, and

Chemotherapy, yet its efficiency is very low; survival

rates are 10% an year later.

This article presents the case of a nine-year old

Cocker Spaniel female dog affected by malignant

Melanoma which was treated homeopathically

according to HAHNEMANNřs guidelines after two

suppressive surgical procedures.

HAHNEMANN states in the Organon §80 that

Cancer and Neoplasms are forms of Psora and they

must therefore be treated with antipsoric remedies. In

the present case the antipsoric remedies Phosphorus,

Silicea and Calcarea carbonica were prescribed

successfully.

The author concludes that malignant Melanoma in

dogs can be healed if treated according to

HAHNEMANNřs Guidelines for treatment of Psora.

[Why only malignant Melanoma only, and dogs only.

HAHNEMANNřs Guidelines will suit every case =

KSS].

2. When our Beloved Pets Get Cancer

How Homeopathy can help them heal and live well

MOSS, Dale (HT. 28, 3/2008)

Ulysses, a black Lasbrador retriever was adopted

from a shelter in 1998. Minor health issues. In 2003,

he was panting and abruptly vomited a frothy pink

liquid with blood clots. Diagnosed as Lymphoma.

Following Dr. Ramakrishnanřs method, Thuja as organ

specific remedy (Ulysses was heavily vaccinated at the

shelter) and Carcinosin as Nosode. Changes in diet in

accordance with Dr. Richard PITCAIRN. His coat

improved and muscles gained definition further

vaccinations were avoided. No more vomiting, normal

stools. In few weeks energy levels improved. Lymph

nodes normalized over the course of six months.

Missy, 17 year-old cat with Liver Cancer.

Vomiting, dry painful stools, Bloodshot eyes. Wanted

her abdomen rubbed hard. Pressing pain was elicited by

Animal communicator dawn ALLEN

(www.dawnallen.org.) Chelidonium. Within days,

Missyřs coat, grew silkier and breath improved and

personality also changed to sociable. After few months,

potency raised to 1M, and then 10M alternated with

Carcinosin. The animal communicator told us though

Missyřs Cancer has metastasized, it was retreating and

primary tumor was shrinking. According to him, it

never entirely disappeared, but was contained for years

until her eventual death in her early 20s.

Many clients were benefitted by Dawn ALLEN

who provided symptoms unobtainable by observation

alone.

Roland, an energetic yellow lab, had an aggressive

tumor in his anal sac, a tumor that continued to grow

despite several operations and homeopathic remedies

and Cancer metastasized to the dogřs lungs. Under

close questioning by Dawn, he Ŗcomplainedŗ of pain in

his left shoulder, great thirst and burning urination and

also strong craving for human company. He did well on

Argentum nitricum for five months; then his symptoms

changed to Lycopodium.

A black cat with Osteosarcoma so advanced that

her jaw was already broken and impossible to eat.

Hekla lava achieved little. Symphytum by spraying

worked a miracle cat was able to eat and enjoy the

outside. For few months then abruptly declined and

died.

3. A Mare in crisis on a Cold, Windy, Christmas Eve

DUPREE, Glen (HT. 28, 6/2008)

On Christmas Eve 2001, the weather was cold and

windy and blowing rain. A mare was in extreme

distress with distension of abdomen. Her mucous

membranes were pale and clammy, her legs would draw

to her abdomen causing her to crash.

A nasogastric tube to relieve the distension and a

warm electrolyte solution to give her more energy did

not help.

Aconite 200 for the sudden onset with change of

weather, did not help.

Nux vomica 200 did not help.

Colocynthis 200 and change was immediate.

Within 2 minutes her eyes began to show life. Within 5

minutes, she expelled a large volume of gas and was

nibbling.

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VII. RESEARCH

[The International Journal of High Dilution

Research (IJHDR) has been publishing high quality

research articles since nearly a decade. Earlier to this,

research papers were presented in annual GIRI

(Groupe International de Récherche sur

l‟Infinitésimal) Symposium and these were presented

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in abstract form in the British Homeopathic Journal.

What is GIRI? Paulo ROSENBAUM and Leoni Villano

BONAMIN explain in the IJHDR Vol. 5, 16/2006:

ŖGIRI is an independent international scientific

society, created in France in 1986. Its aim is to bring

together researchers on different areas of knowledge,

active in Universities or research institutes and who

develop basic or applied research on ultra-dilutions,

where the subject ŖHomeopathyŗ is included. GIRI

organizes itinerant annual meetings, and this is the first

time that a GIRI Symposium happens in the Americas.

The meeting of XX GIRI Symposium in Sāo Paulo is a

reason for great satisfaction. We have always dreamed

of Homeopathy as an academic field of study, that we

would have a new paradigm to orientate our thinking

and practice, that we would conceive nature in a more

integral way and thence, generate knowledge and

technology… This is what we experience along the XX

GIRI Symposium. Numbers reflect the importance of

this event: 110 researchers, trained in 13 different

fields, from 30 institutions of teaching and research,

10 of them coming from abroad, 35 DSc/PhDs, 28

graduate students, 45 abstracts 20 conferences. Yes,

Homeopathy is a subject of scientific interest and

Brazil has an outstanding place in it. We are

already able to expand the principles of

Homeoppathy beyond medicine, to areas such as

Veterinary and Agriculture, generating

technological innovation, even if we have not yet

reached an exact scientific understanding of the

mechanism of action of dynamised systems. We are

still at the beginning of the 21

st

Century but our

dreams are becoming true. For further information

on GIRI, www.giriweb.comŗ [bold is mine = KSS.]

The Titles of the papers presented in the XX GIRI

Symposium in Sept. 2006, Brazil is given in the IJHDR

Vol. 5, 16/2006. This table of the titles is given in the

Section News & Notes in this QHD. = KSS]

1. Novíssima ciência (Brand New Science)

ROSENBAUM Paulo (IJHDR. 5,16/2006)

This number of the IJHDR has the abstracts and in

many the full text of the papers presented in the XX

GIRI Symposium. Although the research so far done is

quitre encouraging there is still much to be done, and

the community of researchers on Homeopasthy is well

aware of this. There is no doubt that basic research on

infinitesimal substances progress quickly to its self-

determination. This indicates that it is a very special

field that investigates the infinitesimal, that seemingly

Ŗalmost nothingŗ that currently motivates scientists and

researchers, and not only the Homeopathy-minded.

Due to its specifities, it cannot be necessarily be

considered a sub-area of nano-technology. On the other

hand it is a serious concern, research both inside and

outside Homeopathy cannot detached from the context

that generated it.

Homeopathy is usually disqualified by detractors

due to a supposed anachronism in its therapeutics and

the lack of techno-scientific support. Yet, as evidence

for its biological plausibility accumulates and the full

homeopathic episteme finds important resonance in

many interface areas, reactions of manifest discomfort

are visible in the international media. Reactions

ranging from sarcasm to instantaneous rejection.

For this reason the endeavour of many groups are

publicized and made public Ŕ the considerable advances

of many research fields on the infinitesimal. If team

work becomes the focus of scientific research centres,

we will have finally reached the maturity we have

always lacked, besides, the necessary cohesion to

demand massive insertion in the institutional world.

The distance that separates us from that moment

cannot be précised, but it can be waited for hopefully,

as a movement of fusion of the different fields to

decode the mysteries is perceptible. A true Ŗnewŗis

growing, which stimulates generations of new

researchers to glimpse at the brand new science that if

not yet born, has already an outlined path and many

ways to go.

2. Cost-benefit evaluation of homeopathic versus

Conventional therapy in respiratory diseases

ROSSI Elio, CRUDELI Lara, ENDRIZZI Christina

& GARIBALDI Danila (HOM. 98, 1/2009)

A retrospective observational study was conducted

on 105 out of 233 patients suffering from chronic

respiratory disease attending the Homeopathic Clinic of

the Campo di Marte Hospital in Lucca (Tuscany, Italy)

between October 1998 and May 2003. We assessed the

cost of conventional medicinal products using Anatomic

Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification, specific for

the pathology in question, and the general costs in the

year preceding the first appointment at the

Homeopathic Clinic vs. the fiurst and second year

subsequent to homeopathic treatment. The costs of

conventional drugs for a group of patients affected by

Asthma (8 patients) and recurrent respiratory infections

(16 patients) with long term use of conventional

medicine treated by Homeopathy were compared witn

the expenses of conventional drugs of a matched group

of 16 and 32 patients, respectively.

Costs of pharmacological therapy specific for

respiratory diseases were reduced by 46.3% (n = 105) in

the first year (P < 0.01); and by 47.5% (n = 72) in the

second year (P < 0.01) of homeopathic treatment.

Reduction in general drug costs during homeopathic

therapy was 42.4% in the first year (P < 0.01); and -49.8

in the second year (N.S.) costs for patients affected by

chronic Asthma showed a reduction in expenses of

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71.1% for specific medicines relative to the group in

homeopathic treatment vs. an increase of 12.3% in the

group treated only with conventional drugs after the first

year of follow-up and, respectively, a reduction of -

54.4% for homeopathic treatment vs. = 45.2% after the

second year. For patients with recurrent respiratory

infections we found a reduction of 35.8% in the

homeopathic group in the first year, compared to an

increase 8.6% of costs for specific drugs in the control

group; in the second year the respective figures were -

43.6% versus =7.8% in the control group.

Homeopathic treatment for respiratory diseases

(Asthma, allergic complaints, Acute Recurrent

Respiratory Infections) was associated with a significant

reduction in the use and costs of conventional drugs.

Costs for homeopathic therapy are significantly lower

than those for conventional pharmacological therapy.

3. Evaluation of the quality of life after individualized

homeopathic treatment for seasonal allergic

rhinitis. A prospective, open, non-comparative

study

GOOSSENS Maria, LAEKEMAN Gert,

AERTGEERTS Bert, BUNTINX Frank & The

ARCH study group: DANDOIS, Marc,

SCHEEPERS Leon, SMOUT Jean-Louis, van

WASSENHOVEN Michael, LINMANS Jo,

DOEUVRE Erwin (HOM. 98, 1/2009)

Quality of live (QoL) is an important outcome

measure in the treatment of Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis

(SAR), a condition for which Homeopathy is frequently

used.

The assessment of the effect of homeopathic

medical prescriptions with the Rhino-conjunctivitis

Quality of Life Questionnaire (RQLQ) in the treatment

of SAR.

A prospective, open, non-comparative study was

conducted in Belgium. Patients aged between 14 and 68

years with SAR were treated by one of seven

homeopathic physicians. Patients completed the

RQLQ at baseline and again after three and four weeks

of homeopathic treatment.

Seventy-four patients were screened, of whom 46

met the study eligibility criteria (average age 36 years,

70% female). The mean RQLQ score at baseline was

3.40 (± .98). After three and four weeks of

homeopathic treatment it had fallen to 1.97 (± 1.32) (P

= 0.0001), and 1.6 (± 1.28) (P = 0.0001), respectively.

After homeopathic treatment, patients reported an

alleviation of their symptoms of allergic rhinitis as

reported in the RQLQ. A formal Randomized Clinical

Trial (RCT) is indicated.

4. Observational study of homeopathic and

conventional therapies in patients with Diabetic

Polyneuropathy

POMPOSELLI Raffaella, PIASERE Valeria,

ANDREONI Cristina, COSTINI Gavina, TONINI

Elena, SPALLUZZI Antonietta, ROSSI Daniela

QUARENGHI Chiara, ZANOLIN Maria Elisabetta

& BELLAVITE Paolo (HOM. 98, 1/2009)

The feasibility and outcomes of homeopathic

therapy in a group of type-2 diabetes mellitus patients

with diabetic Neuropathy were studied in a prospective

observational study. Patients were followed from

baseline (T0) for 6 months (T1) and for 12 months (T2),

treatment was adjusted as necessary. Primary outcome

was diabetic Neuropathy symptom (DNS) score,

secondary outcomes were clinical evolution and short-

form-36 (SF-36)-evaluated quality of life (QOL).

Homeopathy was used in 45 patients, 32 of whom

completed the observation study, and in parallel the

conventional therapy outcomes were observed in 32

patients, 29 of whom completed the study. DNS

improved in both groups during the observation period,

but the change witgh respect to baseline was statistically

significant only in Homeopathic group at T1 (P =

0.016). Over the course of the observation there was a

substantial stability of the electroneurophysiological

values, blood pressure and body weight in both groups,

a slight decrease of fasting blood glucose and glycated

haemoglobin in Homeopathic group. QOL scores

showed an improvement in Homeopathic group only.

The cost of conventional drugs decreased in

Homeopathic group from 114 Є/month to 94 Є/month

at T1.

Complementary homeopathic therapy of diabetic

Neuropathy was feasible and promising effects in

symptom scores and cost savings were observed.

5. Lymphocyte proliferation stimulated by activated

human macrophages treated with Canova

BUBANO Rommel Rodriguez, LEAL Mariana

Ferreira, Da COSTA Joana Borges, BAHIA

Marcelo de Olivieira, LIMA DE LIMA Patricia

Danielle, KHAYAT André Salim, SELIGMAN

Igor Chamon, De ASSUMPÇÃO Paulo Pimentel,

BUCHI Dorly de Freitas & SMITH Marilia de

Arruda Cardoso (HOM. 98, 1/2009)

Canova (CA) is a homeopathic medication with

immunomodulatory properties, recommended for

patients with a depressed immune system. CA has been

reported to increase in leukocyte numbers, cellular

differentiation and reduction in tumor size.

Since CA may stimulate lymphocyte

differentiation, proliferation, and/or survival, the aim of

the present study was to compare the mitotic index (MI)

of phytohemagglutinin-stimulated human lymphocytes

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cultured in a medium supplemented with human

macrophages activated by CA, with lymphocytes

cultured in a medium without CA-treated macrophages.

In this study, the MI of lymphocyte cultured

received the medium containing CA-stimulated

macrophages showed a higher proliferation index (p <

0.01) than the lymphocytes cultured in a medium

without CA-treated macrophages. Our results suggest

that CA treatment, in addition to activating

macrophages, indirectly induces lymphocyte

proliferation and has potential as a new adjuvant

therapeutic approach. [Canova is a complex

Řhomeopathic medicineř containing Aconitum napellus,

Thuja occidentalis, Bryonia alba, Lachesis muta, and

Arsenicum album. It has been mentioned in the article

that this commercial medicament is prepared according

Hahnemannia homeopathic techniques. It is

blasphemous to present this synthetic product as a

Řhomeopathic medicineř and worse still to pull in

Hahnemann regarding its manufacture technology. =

KSS]

6. Healthcare provided by a homeopath as an adjunct

to usual care for Fibromyalgia (FMS): Results of a

pilot Randomised Controlled Trial

RELTON Clare, SMITH C., RAW J., WALTERS

C., ADEBAJO AO., THOMAS KJ., & YOUNG

TA. (HOM. 98, 2/2009)

To assess the feasibility of a Randomised

Controlled Trial (RCT) design of usual care compared

with usual care plus adjunctive care by a homeopath for

patients with Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS).

In a pragmatic parallel group RCT design, adults

with a diagnosis of FMS (ACR criteria) were randomly

allocated to usual care or usual care plus adjunctive care

by a homeopath. Adjunctive care consisted of five in

depth interviews and indifvidualised homeopathic

medicines. The primary outcome measure was the

difference in Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ)

total score at 22 weeks.

47 patients were recruited. Drop out rate in the

usual care group was higher than the homeopath care

group (8/24 vs 3/23). Adjusted for baseline, there was a

significantly greater mean reduction in the FIQ total

score (function) in the homeopath care group than the

usual care group (- 7.62 vs 3.63). there were

significantly greater reductions in the homeopath care

group in the McGilll pain score (0.21, 95% CI Ŕ 1.42 to

1.84); but a large effect on function (0.81, 95% CI Ŕ

8.17 to 9.79). there were no reported adverse events.

Given the acceptability of the treatment and the

clinically relevant effect on function, there is a need for

a definitive study to assess the clinical and cost

effectiveness of adjunctive healthcare by a homeopath

for patients with FMS.

7. Isopathic versus enantiomeric inhibition of U-

50488 HCI toxicity Ŕ experimental studies

KUZEFF RM., TOPASHKA-ANCHEVA M.,

METCHEVA R. (HOM. 98, 2/2009)

Previous studies have investigated toxicity

inhibition of optically active compounds by potentized

preparations of their enantiomers. It was hypothesized

that inhibition of toxicity may be stereospecific. This

paper presents 2 studies investigating stereoisomer

potencies in terms of their ability to counteract toxicity

of the (-) stereoisomer. The stereoisomers used were

(-)-trans-(1S,2S)-U-50488 HCI and (+)-trans-(1R, 2R)-

U-50488 HCI.

Designs were prospective, blind, randomized,

intention-to-treat and compared the efficacy of 2

indistinguishable treatments. The outcome was the

difference in survival. Potency Řchordsř consisting of

4

th

, 12

th

and 30

th

approximately centesimal dilutions

were prepared, representing concentrations of 1.08 x 10

-

10

M. One study compared inhibition of (-)-U-50488

toxicity injected ip at the estimated LD50 into male ICR

mice, treated with a potency chord of the same

stereoisomer, with control (Řisopathicř study). The

other study compared inhibition of toxicity by potency

chords made from the stereoisomers (+)-U-50488 and

(-)-U-50488 (Řenantiomerř study). Treatments were

administered orally on 11 occasions: twice before and

nine times after ip injections.

The isopathic study did not yield a significant

result. In the enantiomer study, comparison of isopathy

with enantiomer potency treatment showed a highly

significant difference odds ratio 1.97 (95% CI: 1.23-

3.14).

We conclude that enantiomeric potencies are

superior to identically produced isopathic potencies, in

inhibiting toxicity of (-)-U-50488 HCI. Homeopathic

inhibition of toxicity may be stereospecific.

8. Dual effect of Toxicondendron pubescens on

Carrageenan induced paw edema in rats

PATIL R. Chandragouda, GADEKAR R. Ajit,

PATEL N, Pramit, RAMBHADE Ashish,

SURANA J. Sanjay (HOM. 98, 2/2009)

Toxicodendron pubescens is the current botanical

name of homeopathic Rhus toxicodendron (Rhus tox).

Rhus tox drug is widely used in homeopathically

diluted form in the treatment of inflammatory and

edematous conditions. We studied the effect of crude

form of this plant, after single and multiple doses in

Carrageenan induced paw inflammation in rats.

We evaluated effects of single dose and multiple

doses of orally administered Rhus tox on Carrageenan

induced paw inflammation in rats. We tested 10 mg/kg.

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20mg/three days and Carrageenan was injected 1h after

the last dose.

Paw volume was measured using a digital

plethysmometer.

Administration of a single dose of Rhus tox 1h prior

to injection of Carrageenan significantly reduced the

paw inflammation in a dose dependent manner.

Administration of multiple doses of Rhus tox increased

the intensity of inflammation induced by Carrageenan,

but this was not statiscally significant.

Rhus tox, in crude form, exerts anti-inflammatory

effects after a single dose and proinflammatory effect

after multiple doses in Carrageenan induced paw

inflammation in rats. Further study is needed to explain

this dual effect. [Homeopathy is well aware of these

Řconclusionř even without torturing voiceless creatures

in the name of Science. = KSS].

9. Homeopathic treatment for bone regeneration:

experimental study

ALMEIDA Janeta Dias, ARISAWA Emília Angela

Loschiavo, BALDUCCI Ivan, FERNANDES DA

ROCHA Rosilene & CARVALHO Yasmin Rodarte

(HOM. 98, 2/2009)

The objective of this research was to study the

effect of homeopathic treatment with Plumbum

metallicum (Plumbum met.) on mandibular bone repair

in rats.

We analyzed the mandibles of 60 male rats,

approximately 3-month-old, randomly divided into three

groups of 20 animals each: control, treated with

Calcitonin, and treated with a homeopathic medicine.

A circumscribed bone defect measuring 4mm in

diameter was made in the mandible and covered with a

polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) barrier. The group

treated with calcitonin received 2 IU/kg intramuscularly

three times a week; the group treated with Plumbum

met. 30c received three drops in water every day. The

animals were sacrificed after 7, 14, 21 and 28 days. The

mandibles were removed and submitted to histologic

and histomorphometric analyses.

Data were analyzed statistically by two-way

ANOVA and by the Tukey test. The interaction effect

(ANOVA, F df(6; 48) = 4.64; p = 0.001< 0.05)

indicated that the relationship between treatments was

not the same at each time of sacrifice. Although

statistical analysis of the histomorphometric data

showed a similar results for the treated and control

groups. But histological analysis showed complete

filling of the surgical defect throughout its extent was

only for the group treated with Plumbum met.

The study demonstrated that for repair of surgical

defects in rat mandibles Plumbum met. 30c and control

did not differ significantly in histomorphometric terms.

[In what way these kinds of Řresearchř help homoe-

therapeutics? = KSS]

10. Homeopathy for the treatment of menstrual

irregularities: a case series

CARDIGNO P. (HOM. 98, 2/2009)

A preliminary study to evaluate the usefulness of

homeopathic treatment in the care of menstrual

irregularities.

Patients were diagnosed at the first appointment

according to menstrual cycle over the past year:

Amenorrhea (AM), Oligo-amenorrhea (OL-AM), OL,

Taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT). All

patients were prescribed in individualized, global

homeopathic treatment. The main outcomes were: time

to resumption of periods, change of clinical diagnosis at

the end of follow-up or after 2 years. the secondary

outcomes were: menstrual regularity at the end of

follow-up, compared to pre-treatment frequency; flow

characteristics; clinical course of acute and chronic

concomitant symptoms.

18 consecutive cases of secondary amenorrhea

(SA) and oligomenorrhea (OL) met the entry criteria. 8

women had SA, 2 were on HRT, 6 had OL-AM and 2

had OL. The average duration of considered follow-up

was 21 months. The average time before the

reappearance of menstruation was 58 days (s.d. 20) in

the 8 women with SA at the time of the first

appointment, for all cases 46 days (s.d. 42). Change of

clinical diagnosis: 50% of women, who were diagnosed

AM, recovered their ovulatory cycle (OV), whereas

12.5% remained amenorrheic; 33.3% of patients, who

were initially OL-AM, showed an OV; 100% of

oligomenorrheic and HRT patients recovered an OV.

The average frequency of spontaneous cycles per year

changes from 4.32 (s.d. 1.97) pre-treatment to 9.6 cycles

per year at the end (s.d. 2.92). Four detailed case

histories are reported.

11. Antidepressants, suicidality and rebound effect:

evidence of similitude?

TEIXEIRA Marcus Zulian (HOM. 98, 2/2009)

Samuel HAHNEMANN noticed that palliative

treatments for the symptoms of chronic diseases, after

an initial improvement, provoked symptoms similar but

stronger symptoms to those initially suppressed. He

regarded this as a consequence of the vital reaction of

the organism: an automatic instinctive capacity to return

to the initial health condition altered by medicines.

Using this homeostatic conception of the organism as a

treatment rationale, HAHNEMANN proposed the

therapy of similarity, administering to the patients

medicines capable of causing, in healthy individuals,

similar symptoms to the natural disease. Based on

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experimental observations, he proposed that the primary

action of the drug was followed by the secondary and

opposite action of the organism, inaugurating

homeopathic pharmacology, and alerting to the harmful

consequences of palliative medicines in susceptible

individuals. Such iatrogenic events can be observed in

contemporary medicine, after the withdrawal of modern

enantiopathic medicines, according to the study of the

rebound effect or paradoxical reaction of the organism.

This study reviews the recent studies which

describe suicidality after the suspension or

discontinuation of second generation antidepressants

according to the hypothesis of the paradoxical reaction

of the organism.

Rebound and withdrawal effects, including

suicidality occur with antidepressant drugs. They are

relatively rare but more intense than the primary action

of the drug. The probability of such effects is

influenced by patient factors including age and

diagnosis, and drug factors including half-life.

12. New Facts about the Munich Headache Study

VITHOULKAS George & SEILER HansPeter

(AJHM. 101, 3/2008)

Since its publication, the Munich headache study

by Walach (Walach 1997 and 2000) has been the

subject of controversial discussion. [Particularly by

VITHOULKAS (VITHOULKAS 2002/1 and 2002/2), but also by

Kösters (Kösters 1998) and others.] In spite of this, even in

homeopathic circles, Walachřs study is still regarded as

a serious scientific trial with negative implications for

classical Homeopathy and has influenced all meta-

analyses since published. As a result, it Ŗdamaged

Homeopathy more than anything else that had so far

surfaced in medical journalsŗ (Vithoulkas 2002/1 p.32) and

has become a main pillar of Walachřs interpretation of

Homeopathy as Ŗnon-causalŗ or Ŗmagicalŗ, (Walach 1999

p.232) contradicting Hahnemannřs principles.

This has recently prompted SEILER to carry out a

detailed review of Walachřs study. (Seiler 2006/1 and

2006/2) This shows that Vithoulkasřs original criticism

that the verum group was suffering from homeopathic

aggravations can be proven to be correct. Walachřs data

concerning the therapeutic reactions of verum and

placebo have been interchanged for the most part and

are interpreted in a clinically inadequate manner;

moreover, an essential error in randomization has been

overlooked and the clinical parameters for Migraine

have been used inappropriately. The following text

includes a review of the history and the most important

critical aspects of the Munich study.

13. Tratamento Homeopático da amigdalite recorrente

em crianças: Um estudo Randomizado Controlado

(Homeopathic Treatment of Recurrent Tonsillitis in

Children: A Randomized controlled trial)

FURUTA SERGIO Eiji, WECKX LucLouis

Maurise, FIGUEIREDO Claudia Regina

(RH. 70, 1-2-3-4/2007)

To assess the effectivcness and safety of the

homeopathic treatment in children with recurrent

tonsillitis justifying surgery.

A randomized controlled, double-blind trial

included 40 children, ages 3-7; 20 children were trated

with homeopathic medication, based on the principle

of individualization (simillimum); 20 children received

placebo. All treated children also received Baryta

carbonica 6CH daily; Beta bemolytic streptococcus

21CH, Staphylococcus aureus 21 CH Haemophylus

Influenza 21CH and Tonsil 21 CH daily. The duration

of the study was 4 months. Evaluation was clinical,

through standard interview and physical exam, at the

first and last days of treatment. Criterion for recurrent

tonsillitis was 5-7 episodes of bacterial acute tonsillitis

per year.

From the 18 children who completed the

homeopathic treatment, 14 did not present any episode

of Acute Tonsillitis; from 15 children who completed

the treatment with placebo, 5 did not present any acute

episode. This difference is statistically significant

(p=0.005). None of the treated patients presented side-

effects.

The homeopathic treatment was effective in

children (78%) could, thus, avoid surgery. The

homeopathic remedies did not provoke adverse effects.

VIII. HISTORY

1. Merging with the University of California: History

of the Homeopathic College and the Hahnemann

Hospital in San Francisco

SCHMIDT Josef M. (Med GG. 27/2008)

The course of history of Homeopathy in different

lands depended upon the social, economic, political,

religious and cultural lines. In the United States in the

19

th

Century there was an impressive boom followed by

a relatively rapid fall in the 20th Century; since some

decades it is showing a trend of looking up. Within the

USA there are States which have developed

Homeopathy more. For example, San

Francisco/California has in comparison with the East

Coast developed more. Even though the Flexner

Report (1910) caused the downfall of many

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homeopathic institutions, in 1881 the San Francisco

based Hahnemann Medical College (later:

Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific) in 1916

and the 1906 opened Hahnemann Hospital in 1918

fused with the University of California in San

Francisco (UCSF) so that a State University with its

own Chairs to teach homeopathic therapeutics and

Materia Medica for two decades could be obtained.

After the last occupant of the Chair in 1936 this slowly

lost its relevance until in 1967 it was re-occupied. At

the same time when American Homeopathy was at its

depression, a lay womenřs organisation (California

Women‟s Homeopathic Association), started in San

Francisco in 1959 and from fund raised and Foundation

it was possible in the 1970s to carry out researches in

clinical Homeopathy in the UCSF. As before in the

1930s clinical research studies alone were not sufficient

to hold Homeopathyřs value within the official

Medicine.

The renaissance of Homeopathy in the USA in

recent years are almost of the ŘLayř and Řnon-medicalř

Health Care professionals not connected with any

University.

2. O Princípio Homeopático de cura ao Longo da

História da Medicina

(The Homeopathic Principle of cure along the

History of Medicine)

TEIXEIRA Marcus Zulian (RH. 70, 1-2-3-4/2007)

Homeopathy is a therapeutic method based on the

application of the principle of similitude utilizing

medicinal substances that awake effects similar to the

symptoms being treated. In this process, the organism

is stimulated to react against its own disturbances

through a Vital (secondary or homeostatic) reaction

oriented by the primary effects of the drug employed.

This effect should have properties similar to the

symptom that is being treated and was mentioned by

exponents of countless medical schools, along time.

Suggested initially by the founder of Greek medicine, it

was enunciated by HIPPOCRATES through the

aphorism similia similibus. According to different and

peculiar applications, it was mentioned as a therapeutic

technique by the propagators of Roman medicine

(Erasistratus, Mitridates, Heraclides of Tarento,

Nicandro, Celsus, etc.), medieval medicine (Basilio

Valentino), Renaissance medicine (Paracelsus) and

post-renaissance medicine (Sydenham, van Helmont,

Stahl, von Haller, Stoerck, Jenner, etc.). At the end of

the 18

th

century, HAHNEMANN systematized the

homeopathic method of treatment of illnesses in a

rational and logical way, that finds current scientific

fundamentation in the paradoxical reaction described by

classic physiology and in the rebound phenomenon of

modern pharmacology.

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IX. EDUCATION

1. ŖIn at the deep endŗ: an intensive foundation

training in Homeopathy for medical students

THOMPSON DB Trevor & THOMPSON A

Elizabeth (HOM. 98, 2/2009)

UK medical students spend 25% of their curricular

time on elective ŖStudent Selected Componentsŗ

(SSCs). We report one in homeopathic medicine run

jointly by the University of Bristol and the Bristol

Homeopathic Hospital. The SSC was an intensive

four week course using a variety of learning methods,

grounded in the Faculty of Homeopathyřs Primary

Health Care Examination (PHCE) Certificate syllabus.

Students were exposed to specialist clinics and the

prescribing methods used in them. They received

tuition from a veterinarian, a Psychiatrist, a medical

historian, a professional homeopath andan expert in the

evidence base of complementary medicine. Educational

methods included interactive lectures, out-patient

clinics, recorded video cases, live cases via video link, a

Ŗdream provingŗ and a reflective diary. At the end of

the course students sat and passed the Facultyřs PHC

examination. Assessment also included an in-depth

case report in which most students revealed

understanding of the course. Though students were

uncertain about the nature of the healing stimulus, many

were affected by the healing responses they witnessed

and the intellectual challenge of remedy selection.

Some professed interest in further training and all

wished to see the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital (BHH)

develop as a centre for holistic care. For some the

experience was Ŗtransformative learningŗ. We conclude

that this approach to a foundation training in

Homeopathy is feasible and effective.

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X. GENERAL

1. Suffices to give Voice to Tradition again

ROSENBAUM Paulo (IJHDR. 5, 14/2006)

This very interesting article is a Řloud thinkingř on

Homeopathy today. ŖRecently, Prof. José Ricardo

AYRES wrote that Homeopathy is not necessarily

antagonistic to hegemonic Medicine, but it is as if

Homéopathy analyzes and investigates Ŕ thus cares for Ŕ

aspects not valued in regular medical practice.

Therefore, there is not necessarily complimentarity, but

parallel paths that may enter into dialogue. The reason

why we could not yet establish Homeopathy as a

standard, although it has been socially validated

worldwide, is mystifying. What may be the reason for

such a curious historical cyclothymia?

Then the issue of medicinal Ŗproofŗ: There is a

large confusion between ignorance of the mechanism of

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action of homeopathic remedies and the large empirical

evidence of its effectiveness. No one doubts a

mechanism of action exists, but nobody has been yet

able to expose it. In both humans and animals the

effectiveness of the remedy is seen [in plants too =

KSS]. These are real, concrete, tangible. But whenever

the issue is non-hegemonic medicine, it tends to awaken

uncontrollable passions [recall Lancet titling Ŗdeath-

blow to Homeopathyŗ! = KSS] in both Ŕ defendants

and accusers.

As Prof. Madel T. LUZ warned, Homeopathy

could never achieve institutionalization [in India and in

Pakistan too and perhaps Bangla Desh, all these were

earlier one unified country, India it has been

institutionalized = KSS]. There is lack of organization

and belligerence in the field and these add to the

difficulties in gathering empirical proof for

homeopathic knowledge..

Different from Psychoanalysis and other

approaches, Homeopathy did not become a part of the

cultural agenda, neither in the field of health nor in

correlated areas where it should have entered into a

dialogue. A low level of engagement in research and

the obvious difficulty to establish such interlocution

explain that kind of atavism, expressed as a perpetual

self-exile under the stereotypes well known to all.

Although we are witness to re-editions of old-fashioned

attacks, Homeopathy is nevertheless growing in

Europe, in the United States, in the Eastern countries

and in South America, but not made in-roads into

Universities.

3. The way of the Peaceful Healer: Eckhart Tolle on

Homeopathy

Peace, Healing and Restful sleep for a boy with

Autism

LUEPKER, Ian (HT. 28, 3/2008)

Eckhart TOLLE, in his latest book ŖA new Earth

Awakening to your Lifeřs purposeŗ, p.75, writes

ŖHomeopathy and chinese Medicine are two possible

alternative approaches to disease that do not treat the

disease as an enemy and therefore do not create new

diseases.

Dr. Samuel HAHNEMANN, observed that the

mind-body has an amazingly intelligent and inherent

ability to establish, restore and maintain health Ŕ a

vitality that guides the mind-body toward balance.

Homeopathy nourishes and supports this vitality and

the mind-bodyřs ability to move toward health.

Eli, 8 year-old boy with Autism and Sensory

processing disorder. Treated by antibiotics for upper

respiratory tract infection at 14 days of age. Awakened

between 2-5 a.m. and rock his head back and forth.

Eliřs difficulty in expressing would result in angry

outbursts accompanied by pinching, scratching and

biting. Restless. Hated haircuts and trimming of nails.

Loved eating indigestible food items. Strong preference

for ice cold water. Hands and feet always cold.

Veratrum album LM 1, daily. Within two moths,

his anger and low tolerance for frustration had shifted.

Three and half months later, sleep had normalized and

95% calmer.

4. Grow your own!

You can have a glorious garden of homeopathic

healing plants

JONES, Diana (HT. 28, 3/2008)

The author has been in love with gardening and her

one quarter acre lot in Baltimore is crammed with some

exotic beauty. There are many plant remedy friends in

the garden. Her favourites are Hamamelis virginica,

Gelsemium sempervirens, agnus castus. Over the years

she had success in finding specimens by frequenting

speciality nurseries and garden club shows.

5. A master homeopath and gardener shares his

favorite

YANO Mary Frances (HT. 28, 3/2008)

Andre SAINE, is well known in the global

homeopathic community. He uses some of his spare

time for gardening. He tends to over 80 species of flora,

which includes ornamental and fruit trees as well as

variety of flowers, many are part of our homeopathic

Materia Medica.

6. Casos Clínicos em Homeopatia: Diretrizes para

Publicação

(Case Reports in Homeopathy: Guidelines for

Publication)

DANTAS Flávio (RH. 70, 1-2-3-4/2007)

Case report is a traditional type of publication in

Medicine, being a source of learning as well as an

inspiration for new research and scientific discoveries.

Case reports are published to describe unexpected

events that happen in medical care, including unknown

diseases, new adverse or beneficial effects of medical

interventions or previously unsuspected causal

associations, among other uses. Case report in

Homeopathy should approach the patient as a whole

and include the description of the patient together with

his or her health problems. The proposal of an editorial

structure for the publication of case reports is followed

in the paper by some guidelines and criteria to improve

the quality of clinical case reporting in Homeopathy.

Experience, together with Ethics and Evidence, are the

three pillars of medical competence. It is, thus,

fundamental to publish an accurate, reflexive and clear

report of clinical experiences acquire by medical

doctors in their daily care of real patients.

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XI. BOOKS

1. Homöopathische Behandling von Jugendlichen

(Homeopathic Treatment of Adolescents), HEÉ, H.,

FOERSTER, G., Stuttgart: haug: 2008, 194 S., 17

Abb. German) Review Christian LUCAE (ZKH. 52,

3/2008): ŖWith their practical book the duoauthors

Hansjörg HEE and Gisela FOERSTER had presented

earlier the ŖVergleichenden Arzneimittellehre

homöopathischer Polychresteŗ (Haug 2002) in regard

to PASCHERO and CANDEGABEřs well-known

elements like the integration of the repertory rubrics and

the original proving symptoms in flowing text so that it

can be directly compared and remedy selected. In the

present the authors have taken up the much needed

work on the treatment of adolescents and considered 36

remedies in around 140 pages. Contains several colour

charts; a thorough list of reference literature is given as

well as a useful Index. The book fills well a gap.ŗ

2. Die Lehre der Chronischen Krankheiten nach

Samuel Hahnemann (The teaching of Chronic

Diseases of Samuel HAHNEMANN),

DIMITRIADIS, G.: Buchendorf:Irl; 2007, brosch,

72 S., E 19,00. (German), review Heinz PSCHEIDL

(ZKH. 52, 3/2008): ŖIn a short, readable, critically

considered manner, an overall well-written 70 page

booklet, DIMITRIADIS has managed to discuss

HAHNEMANNřs controversial legacy, the Miasms

teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . A book every homeopath can

draw information from, as required.ŗ

3. Homöopathie für Multiple Sklerose,

(Homeopathy in Multiple Sclerosis), PLANITZ C,

vd, LORZ,T., München, Urban & Fischer, 2007:

424 S., kart. E 44,95 (German) review Martin

BÜNDNER (ZKH. 52, 3/2008): ŖThis book deals

exclusively with Multiple Sclerosis. Besides

introductory words about Homeopathy and

homeopathic therapeutics including Potency choice,

repetition of the dose particularly for the inexperienced

Practitioner several cases are discussed. . . . . .An

important book on an important theme for the present

time which also deals with the sequelae of

vaccinations.ŗ

4. MEINHARD, C. (Hrsg.): Leitfaden zu C.M.

BOGER‟s “General Analysis”. Index. Synonyme,

Differenzierungen, Kommentare und Zuordnungen

(Guide to CM BOGER‟s “General Analysis”. Index,

Synonyms, Differeentiations, Commentary and

coordinations), Eigenverlag, 2007. E 25,-: (German).

Review Anton ROHRER. (ZKH, 52, 3/2008): Ŗ. . . . .

Application of the Bogerřs General Analysis (GA),

implies sufficiennt experience in Homeopathy

including knowledge of homeopathic Materia Medica.

A commentary work on this subject is most welcome;

the 341 rubrics in the GA are explained with the help of

a table for synonyms, comparative rubrics and

commentaries . . . . . also the anatomical regions

wherein the remedies are more effective with the

Anatomy, pathological general symptoms, dynamics in

relation to Time and Space, Colour, etc. To understand

these it is necessary that one grasps the knowledge of

the basis literature. . . . . A valuable guide.ŗ

5. MORITZ, J.: Grundlagen der Homöopathie und

die Bedeutung von Hahnemanns Characteriska.

Eine quellenorientierte Darstellung (Fundamentals

of Homeopathy and the significance of

Hahnemann‟s Charactristics) Sinzig-Löhndorf:

BERNHARD Möller. 2008, 572 S., Paperback, E

44,0 (German), review Robert GOLDMAN (ZKH. 52,

4/2008): ŖWhy again a book on the fundamentals of

Homeopathy? And what exactly is Characteristic? . . .

. . From careful study of HAHNEMANNřs Medicinal

Provings and comparison with the writings of von

BÖNNINGHAUSEN and LIPPE who are considered to

be the most successful homeopaths of the 19

th

Century,

it is evident that it is § 153 of the Organon which refers

mostly to the modalities, sensations and the

accompanying symptoms. In HAHNEMANNřs works

the characteristics is printed in words which are printed

with letters interspaced. Clearly it does not mean

extremely rare symptoms as is commonly opined.

JAHR and HERING have as advised by

HAHNEMANN, as mentioned in p.54 of this book,

suggested long and deep study of the source works. . . .ŗ

6. PETRUCCI R. Kinder. Ausgewählte

Repertorium-Rubriken und Arzneibilder (Children.

Selected Repertory Rubrics and Drug Pictures),

Greifenberg: Hahnemann Institut; 2008. Geb. 944 S.,

E.95,00. (German) review Christian LUCAE (ZKH. 52,

4/2008): ŖWith this work translated from the English

the author Roberto PETRUCCI has given us a book

from which new aspects of well-known remedies could

be got, as well as Ŗsmallŗ remedies could be better

understood. The author has put together 20 so-called

concepts which play important roll in day today

practice. . . . . . The Materia Medica contains around

540 remedies . . . . Lot of Rubrics are from the

Synthesis Edition 9.1. . . . . The book will be of good

help in the treatment of Infants and children in daily

practice.ŗ

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7. FREI, H. Effiziente homöopathische

Behandlung. Ein strukturiertes Konzept für den

Praxisalltag, (Efficient homeopathic Treatment Ŕ a

structured concept for daily Practice), Stuttgart,

Haug: 2008, geb. 360 S.,e49,95 (German), review

Christian LUCAE (ZKH,52,4/2008): ŖOne of the

interesting books published in the recent years is the

actual publication of Heiner FREI. The author leads a

large Practice of children in Laupen, Switzerland with

approximately 40 patients per day. Based on several

years of practice and research FREI presents his

concept: every patient receives a structured

questionnaire form which refers to main complaint.

The clearly stressed symptoms, or recurring often are

underlined. In the final analysis a Software is used

with symptoms which are relevant for the individual

patient. All the questionnaires used by FREI contain

only the symptoms and remedies in

BÖNNINGHAUSENřs Therapeutic Pocket Book

(published by Sonntag Verlag 2000, edited by K.-

H.GYPSER). . . . . . .. . . . .The new concept would

make it possible to prescribe taking care of the basic

principles. Particular stress is on the Modalities (see §

153) and the Polarity analysis which help in leaving out

contraindications and correct evaluation of the

symptoms of the case. . . . . . . The second part of the

book has a Materia Medica. The Genius symptoms of

more than 75 rubrics in the Pocket Book are given.

FREI has in this manner brought out the Genius

Materia medica of BÖNNINGHAUSEN. He has

completely discarded the usual, common Materia

Medica. . . . . . The book is helpful since it is directly

linked to a day-to-day Practice . . . . . .ŗ

8. Insights into the consciousness of Snake

Remedies by Sadhana THAKKAR.

www.homeopathyhealthcare.com, 451 pages, Soft

cover $60. ISBN 978-0-9793180-0-9 by GUBBAY,

Diana. (HT. 28, 2/2008)

Informative book about the history, lore and habits

of many snakes that form a rich part of our

homeopathic Materia Medica. The book is divided

into three sections with several chapters in each.

Section II has 14 Chapters, each devoted to a single

snake. Cases are only from her practice and this limits

and enhances the bookřs appeal.

Section III inquires into the nature of diseases

among snakes.

9. Quick Study System by Lucy CLARK and Gwynn

CADWALLADER $199. www.quickstudy-system.com

(HT. 28, 3/2008).

The authors have prepared this to help students

prepare for the Materia Medica section of Council for

Homeopathic Certification (CCH). This contains

154 remedy cards and 4 audio CDřS. Contain the same

information on each remedy card, read in a clear voice

by the authors. The Řessenceř of the remedy is extracted

from the literature: KENT, LIPPE, Roger MORRISON,

NASH and VERMEULEN; also from the experience of

the authors themselves. Although meant for students

who are to appear for ŖCertificationřs these are helpful

for those who would like to study remedies in greater

depth.ŗ

10. Homeopathy: the Science and Art of Dynamic

Healing. Shaik RAHMATHULLAH. UK 2006.

£29.95. ISBN: 978-0952076536. Review by David

OWEN. (HOM. 98, 1/2009)

This book gives a basic but sound introduction to

homeopathic Philosophy. It could act as a primer for

those who wish to know the historic background of the

philosophy of Homeopathy, without reading the

original texts. The book presents straight forward and

integrated presentation of the key philosophic

principles.

11. Homeopathic prescribing pocket companion.

Steven B. KAYNE and Lee R. KAYNE.

Pharmaceutical Press: London, July 2007. Price:

£21.95, ISBN: 978-0-85369-697-1. (HOM. 98, 1/2009):

In this pocket companion the KAYNES have done

an excellent job of summarizing the process and making

acute prescribing easier and more practical. It

comprises of 56 commonly encountered minor ailments

with a simplified, easy to follow flow chart, for each

ailment, guiding the reader to a possible indicated

remedy. In addition to the flow charts there is a brief

summary of each remedy included for the particular

condition in a comparative table format including

modalities and Keynotes to help the prescriber to

distinguish between remedies and find the right one.

A step by step approach on when to treat, when to

refer, how to decide on a remedy is described.

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XII. OBITUARY

1. Marianne HARLING. 13 August 1923 Ŕ 28 June

2009. KAPLAN, Brian (HOM. 98, 1/2009)

Marianne HARLING trained in Medicine at

Oxford, was an early environmentalist and found

naturally drawn to Homeopathy. She was a founder

member of the Wessex Healthy Living Foundation

which offered Holistic medicine and Homeopathy. She

taught the ŘLong courseř in the Faculty of Homeopathy

for many years.

She co-edited D.M. Gibsonřs studies of

Homeopathic Remedies in 1987. She also translated

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Leon Vannierřs Typology in Homeopathy from French

into English in 1992. [several articles by her appeared

in the British Homeopathic Journal in the early days. =

KSS].

2. Gregory Blake BEDAYN Ŕ Nov. 19, 1949 Ŕ Jan.4,

2008.

Greg BEDAYN great friend of Homeopathy

expired on Jan. 4, 2008 after a long rare illness. He

conducted a thorough Hahnemannian proving,

participation fact-gathering on home of James Tyler

KENT. He published treatises on Lachesis, Bufo and

proving of Ravenřs blood. He was a famous skilled

Craftsman, Pilot, Blacksmith, Drummer and Climber.

One of his best articles was ŖAs if one patientŗ

which appeared in The American Homeopath 1998.

(See QHD, 16, 1/1999)

It speaks for the scholarship of Greg BEDAYN.

Under his Editorship during its early years the American

Homeopath was doing very well.

It is difficult to fill his void.

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XIII. NEWS & NOTES

I. VACCINES, A BOOSTER SHOT FOR

DOCTORS‟ INCOME

Rema Nagarajan, Times Insight Group

Times of India, 29.03.2010.

Vaccines are meant to help prevent diseases. But

they could also have another vital use as an alternative

and significant source of income for doctors.

Many vaccine manufacturers are offering vaccines

at hugely reduced prices to doctors, many of whom

charge the full price from patients, pocketing the

difference. The greater the discount, the bigger the

profit margin for the doctor. So when a doctor pushes a

vaccine that is not part of the universaI immunization

programme, it would be difficult to decide whether he is

thinking of your childřs health or his pocket.

A study by Dr Rakesh LODHA of the Department

of Paediatrics, AIIMS, and Dr Anurag BHARGAV of

Jan Swasthya Sahyog in Chhattisgarh, published in a

recent issue of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics,

reveals the huge difference in the price of vaccines

offered to doctors. ŖThe percentage margin between the

price to doctors and the MRP ranges from 30% to 69%,

while in rupee terms, the discount over the MRP per

vaccine dose ranges from Rs 85 to Rs 620,ŗ the study

says.

Many vaccines require giving three or more doses

and hence the profit margin could be as high as Rs

1,800 per child vaccinated.

Interestingly, the vaccines being offered at hugely

discounted prices to doctors are not those that are

recommended for universal immunization. Such

aggressive promotion is for new and expensive vaccines

and combination vaccines whose use in the Indian

context is Řŗnot well established in terms of

epidemiological rationale or cost-benefit analysis,ŗ says

Dr LODHA.

VACCINE

DISEASE IT

PROTECTS

AGAINST

MRP

IN

2008

(Rs)

PRICE FOR

DOCTORS

(Rs)

PROFIT

FOR

DOCTORS

Pentaxim

Diphtheria,

Tetanus,

Pertusis,

Polio,

Influenza-B

2,066

1,446

43%

Immovax

Polio

365

280

30%

Tripacel

Pertusis,

Diphtheria,

Tetanus

1,211

762

59%

Okavax

Chicken pox

1,468

968

49%

Avaxim 80

Hepatitis-A

952

665

43%

Tetract Hib

Diphtheria,

Tetanus,

Pertusis,

Influenza-B

504

305

65%

ActHib

Influenza-B

426

251

70%

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II. Selected papers and abstracts presented at XX,

GIRI Symposium - Sep 2006, Brazil IJHDR Vol. 5,

No 16 (2006)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Brand new science

Paulo Rosenbaum 4-5

Fundamental Research (Physics and Chemistry)

Water and ultra high dilutions: characterization and

phenomenology

Adriana R. Miranda

Non-linearity modelling of ultra dilutions

Gabino Estevez Delgado, Guadalupe Ruiz Vega

31-34

Mercury intoxication: high dilutions as mercury

chelating agents

L. Athayde Beringhs-Bueno, H. M. Moreira, V. D.

Almeida, A. A. Eleuterio Pascalicchio

Physical-chemical properties of high diluted solutions of

Euphorbia tirucalli L. (Aveloz) following

HAHNEMANN method of multiple flasks

I. O. Silva, M. C.B.N. Varricchio, V. F. Veiga, R.

Kuster, S. Garcia, C Holandino

Ultra high dilutions and their virtual structure

W. R. Guimaraes Silva, S. CP. Rodrigues, J. E O

Storace, J. CT. Carvalho

Conductivity measurements of ultra diluted solutions: a

comparative study of two different potentization

methods of homeopathic solutions

F. D. Leal, M. A. Campos, R. Oliveira, V. F. Veiga, S.

Garcia, C. Holandino

Basic Research (Biology)

Therapeutic and pathogenetic animal models for

Dolichos pruriens.

Cideli Paula Coelho, Leoni Villano Bonamin,

Claudemir Duran Filho, Katia Silva Martinho, Vania

DAlmeida

Homeopathically prepared dilution of Rana catesbeiana

thyroid gland modifies speed of metamorphosis

JRP Guedes, CM Ferreira, HMB Guimaraes, PHN

Saldiva, VL Capelozzi

Experimental models for the study of the effects of

Chamomilla 6cH on the treatment of stress and

depression

S. A. G. Pinto, E. Bohland, L. V. Bonamin, M. S. F. A.

Morgulis

Interpretative Theories about Ultra Dilutions.

Supporting Evidences

Madeleine Bastide 22-30

Effects of Arnica montana (6cH, 12cH and mother

tincture) in the lymphatic absorption in rats subjected to

acute inflammation

Leoni Villano Bonamin

Effects of ultradilutions of dexamethasone in rat

embriofetotoxic model: a histochemical study

F. Sanches Andrade, V. Del Bianco, C. Landi Moraes,

L. Villano Bonamin

Evolution of granulomatous inflammation in the

subcutaneous tissue under treatment with thymulin in

homeopathic preparations: a pilot study.

R. Zalla Neto, R. Toledo Russo, G. Morante, B. Anjos,

M. Mariano, L. Villano Bonamin

Ultradilutions and hepatic carcinogenesis: a

histochemical study

V Del Bianco, F Sanchez Andrade, K. Silva Martinho,

V. Aparecida Marcondes, L. Villano Bonamin

Effects of Homeopathy in Trypanosoma cruzi

experimentally infected mice: parcial results.

L. Rodrigues Almeida, M. C. Oliveira Campos, H.

Miraglia Herrera, L. Villano Bonamin, A. Henrique

Fonseca

Effect of Atropa Belladonna and Echinacea angustifolia

homeopathic dilutions on experimental peritonitis

C. M. V. Pedalino, F.F. Perazzo, J. XT. Carvalho, K.S.

Martinho, CO Massoco, L. Villano Bonamin

Study of the dynamic effects of different doses of

Arsenicum album 6cH in mice intoxicated with arsenic

O. Leite Fontes, M. V. Chaud, A. Borelli Alonso, C.

Harada Okuda, J. Teixeira Bueno

Experimental study of the pathogenetic action of

ponderal and ultradiluted Palicourea marcgravii in

Rattus norvegicus.

L. Figueira Pinto, P. Vargas Peixoto, L. Rangel

Castilhos

Effect of low doses and high homeopathic potencies in

normal and cancerous human lymphocytes as in vitro

isopathic study

C. Wälchli, S. Baumgartner, M. Bastide

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In vitro antimicrobial activity of Arnica montana

A. L. Amato, A. Cunha Carvalho, S. Dall' Acqua

Coutinho

Effect of different pharmacotechnic preparations of ultra

diluted solutions of Euphorbia tirucalli L. (aveloz) on

leucocytes variation.

M. C. B. N. Varricchio, G. Moreno, F. Leal, C. Pereira,

N. R. Pereira, F. Sales, T. Gomes, V. C.S. Ferreira, F.

G. Lima, N.B. N. Gomes, P.E. M. Hobaica, A. Pyrrho,

R. M. Kuster, M. T.L. Castelo Branco, C. Holandino

Antitumoral activity of ultra diluted solutions and

fractions of the latex of Euphorbia tirucalli L: an in vitro

study.

C. Lessa Aquino, M. C. B. N. Varricchio, C. Pereira, G.

Moreno Barbosa, F. Carreiro Sales, T. C. Fernades

Santos, P. Zancan, M. Sola-Penna, V. Feo Veiga, M. T.

L. Castelo Branco, C. Holandino Quaresma, R.

Machado Kuster

In vitro evaluation of the action of the homeopathic

medicine Sanguinaria canadensis on Streptococcus

mutans.

M. S. Giorgi, C. Valentim, T. Aguilar Passeti, J. C.

Tavares Carvalho

Evaluation of the effect of ultradiluted

lipopolysaccharide prepared according to homeopathic

pharmacotechnics on the maturation of dendritic cells in

vitro

J. S.M. Tondolo, P. Cruz Bergami-Santos

Development of a new biotherapic of infectious

influenza virus and verification of its in vitro

effectiveness

C. Monteiro Siqueira, V. Feo Veiga, J. N. Couceiro, C.

Lyrio, C. Holandino Quaresma

Clinical Research

Homeopathic medicines in "potency chords"

Carmela M.V. Pedalino

Pharmaceutical Research

Research on biotherapics Luciana Rodrigues Almeida

Sociological Research

Innovations in the Health System and Homeopathy

Aurea Eleuterio Pascalicchio

The value of non-conventional medicine in public

health

Catherine Gaucher

Homeopathy and public health care

Flavio Dantas

Evaluation of the use of homeopathy among adult and

elderly patients of Public health services in a small city

in Sao Paulo, Brazil

M. A Figueiredo, V. Danielli Fleith, K. F.L.R. Oliveira

Figueiredo, E. C. Moura

Homeopathic pharmacology, the evolution of the

research in the field since the 80's.

D. V. Menezes Pinto, T. C.A Leitao Aguiar

Theoretical and Historical Research

Interpretative theories on ultra dilutions:experimental

illustrations Leoni Villano Bonamin

Interpretative theories on ultra high dilutions, follow up

Carlos Renato Zacharias

The hegemonic paradigm and new trends: cell signaling

and research on ultra diluted

solutions

A. Eleuterio Pascalicchio, L. Beringhs-Bueno

Plant and Microorganism Research

Use of ultra high dilution (UHD) therapies in

agricultural production

Fabiola F. Schwartz, Ana Maria Claro Paredes

Euphorbia tirucalli (aveloz) biotechnological potential

M C. B. N. Vanichio, C. Pereira, T. Gomes, C. E. Lessa,

G. Moreno, R L. Carneiro, M. T Varricchio, J. L. G.

Canano, O. Telles, N.B. N. Gomes, C. B. Moreira, I. C.

N. Direito, B. E. Araujo, P. E. M. Hobaica, A. Pirrho, C.

Hollandino, S. Malfacini, M. T. L. Castelo Branco, R.

M. Kuster

Microbial efficiency in soil treated with Homeopathy

F M Coutinho Andrade, V. W. Dias Casali, M. C.

Megumi Kasuaya, PR. Cecon

Interaction between C02 assimilation and time after

treatment of Spagneticola trilobata with Apis mellifica

6cH

M. R. Batirola Silva, V.W. Dias Casali, C. M. Bonato,

N. Terra Santos

Regression analysis of tannin content in Podophyllum

ruderale plants after application of Sulphur 4cH

M. C. Fonseca Marques, V. W. Dias Casali, PR. Cecon

Pathogenesis in Ocimum basulicum L. plants:

experimentation under randomized blocks

A. Zopelar Almeida, V. W. Dias Casali, PR. Cecon

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Effects of homeopathic solutions of Rosmarinus

officinalis L. and Artemisia absinthium L. on the

germination and growing of corda-de-Viola.

G. G. Marques-Silva, C. M. Bonato

Repeatibility and stability of photosynthesis in

Spagneticola trilobata plants treated with Cantharis

R. T. Batirola Silva, V. W. Dias Casali, S. P. Lisboa, M.

R Batirola Silva, C. D. Cruz

Repeatibility of Co

2

assimilation data in plants of

Spagneticola trilobata treated with Apis mellifica 6cH

M. R. Batirola Silva, R. T. Batirola Silva, V. W. Casali

Application of the homeopathic drug Lachesis and

isotherapic Virus in the growth and infection control for

SCMV in Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moech)

plants

C. M. Bonato, E. Globo Viotto, J. Hideaki Hara, B.

Reis, A. T. Myzote, J. A. Cisneiros

Rust (Phakopsora euvitis Ono) control in grape culture

with application of homeopathic solutions

C. M. Bonato, A. Ferreira Souza, M. A. Collet

Plant Pathogenesy

F. Rossi, E. J. Ambrosano, P. R. Ringhetto Rolim, E. M.

M. von Atzinguem, N. M.

Azevedo Silva

Veterinary Research

Homeopathy in the treatment of behavior disorders in

aggressive and/or destructive dogs Elisabeth Estevao,

Leoni Villano Bonamin

Developing homeopathic vaccines in veterinary.

A.A. Komisarenko

Clinical veterinary research in homeopathy at

Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro.

Luiz Figueira Pinto

Homeophatic treatment of bovine subclinical mastitis

E. L. Silva, B. Goloubeff

Homeophatic control of Dermatobia hominis in milk

cattle

I. Goncalves, B. Goloubeff

Effects of homeophatic medication Arnica montana

and Ruta graveolens on weight gain, food and water

consumption and food conversion in broilers

H. M. Rosi Cruvinel, A. H. Chaves, B. Goloubeff

Use of homeophatic medicine as support in return form

anesthesia

K. Leal Matsuhara, B. Goloubeff

Evaluation of the homeophatic theraphy of cystic

ovarian disease in dairy cattle

L. Rangel Castilhos, J. Camisao Souza, L. Figueira

Pinto, F. Tenorio Albuquerque, C. Alvarenga Oliveira

Evaluation of the function of ovaric function in airy

cows after continuous use of homeopathic remedy

Oophorinum 6cH

L. Rangel Castilhos, L. Figueira Pinto, M. G. Carvalho

Moura e Silva, P. Viau Furtado, C. Alvarenga Oliveira

Homeopathic treatment of mastitis in lactating dairy

cows within organic prodution

L. Figueira Pinto, R. Scatamburlo Lizieire Fajardo, P.

A. Moreira Alves, L. Rangel Castilhos

Homeophatic treatment of wild animals at Sao Paulo

Zoo

L. Rangel Castilhos, M. Galvao Bueno, F. Miranda, A.

Setzer, J. L. Catao Dias, L. Figueira Pinto, C. Alvarenga

Oliveira

Use of homeopathy in the treatment of renal failure in

feline: case report

C. Carreiro Jorge Santos Elis, L. Villano Bonamin

Education

Homeopathy is the therapeutics of the individual

E.M. GALHARDO

III. Annual Meeting of the DZVhA (German

Central Union of Homeopathic Physicians), 1 Ŕ 3

May 2008, held at Bamberg: Homeopathy Ŕ

acute, chronic, epidemic. (Report by Gerhard

BLEUL et al.): (AHZ. 253,5/2008): There was wide

reepesentation - Miasms theories from HAHNEMANN

to ORTEGA to GIENOW, the remedy selection

according to BENNINGHAUEN, KENT, BOGER,

SCHOLTEN or SANKARAN, in retrospect the

medicine History, critical views of the present period,

prospects of the future of Homeopathy due to the

modern scientific disciplines. Over 500 participants

were there. At the beginning Lars Broder STANGE

the President of the DZVhÄ gave a welcome speech

briefly. He spoke of Dr. Adalbert MARKUS of

Bamberg about whom HAHNEMANN has mentioned

in his Introduction to Arsenicum album

[HAHNEMANN refers to MARKUS in whose hospital

Opium was used in pounds! see Materia Medica Pura

= KSS]. However, the speaker said, MARKUS

propagated, unlike many of those days, the freeing of

the mentally ill patients from fetters.

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Ulrich FISCHER spoke on application of the

Miasms theory. He recalled HAHNEMANNřs

statement that the cure of chronic disease was the touch-

stone of a genuine curative art. He has laid the

foundation clearly for understanding the three Miasms

caused by suppressions from false treatments and

causing Ŗadverse circumstancesŗ. His genuine

followers developed it further, like Heringřs Rule. Later

on BÖNNINGHAUSEN gave a far greater importance

to Sycosis with regard to understanding it and begin its

treatment at once and that complicated chronic disease

would require more remedies to follow. ORTEGA

whose understanding of the Miasms may be seen in

Organon § 74, took it further and delineated the typical

manifestations of the three Miasms and the ŖMiasmstic

rotationŗ in the course of Cure.

Reinhard FLICK presented a long-term miasmatic

case. In actual Practice it is not more 10% of cases that

do very well with only one remedy. He therefore

selected a case from the remaining 90%. A Bosnian

who had broken his studies in his homeland and took up

a job in Austria, developed a lot of symptoms, always

Ŗthree diseases in a day, never less than threeŗ.

Thorough anamnesis including family history and

analysed and selected Natrum sulph. D 12, then

Lachesis; after improving some new symptoms came up

and indicated Carcinocin then Sepia LM 1,

Medorrhinum, Silicea, Lycopodium, and lastly Silicea

once again. The break came then. ŖRemarkable, my

greatest desire is to learn, learn, learn Ŕ now everything

comes back , what I had learntŗ.

In the afternoon it continued to be classical; Karl

ERNST demonstrated the analysis of a case with the

Boger-method. Anton ROHRER spoke on Epidemics

and Homeopathy Ŕ History, Prophylaxis, curative

remedy and

curative remedy. He pointed to the examples of Spotted

fever, Cholera, Pox, Measles, and Influenza with

wonderful results.

On the second it was Curt KÖSTERS with the

presentation of Miasms Theories of Hahnemann until

now.

Use of Nosodes and specific remedies. He

developed his idea of Miasms theory in ten thesis.

Thomas KOCH spoke on Miasms in Theory and

Practice, mental scientific analogies with regard to the

ideas of Peter GIENOW, the same or similar part as the

disease; it must affect it in a similar manner, and

moreover the range of drug action must be co-extensive

with the disease-action.ŗ (BURNETT‟s “Curability of

Tumours” = KSS]

Thus the miasmatic potency of the remedy must be

suitable tol the deepest state of the disease.

A refreshing, practical lecture was by Jutta

GNAIGER-RATHMANNER on Folliculinum, the

follicle hormone Oestradiolbenzoat. Three case were

discussed: 58-year-old female with Mamma tumor right

side, 39-year-old female with Migraine, poly-cystic

Ovaries and Bulimia, 36-year-old female with PMS,

Dysmenorrhoea). These cases showed in brief the role

of this Nosode: Reaction remedy for Mamma

Carcinoma patients who have underone long-term

treatment with hormones, persisting follicular cysts,

sterility, bleeding disturbances of all kinds, physical and

mental consequences of IVF-failed attempts, etc.

Comp. emedies: Lach., Nat-m.,Carc.,Lac-h., and Sacch.

Dietmar PAYRHUBER, a specialist in Cancer

therapy with Mineral remedies presented a synthesis

of Miasms theory and the knowledge of Jan

SCHOLTENřs Periodical System. Four Cancer cases

and their very astonishing cures with Calc-m., and

Kalmia (Hair-cell Leukaemia), Plb-i. (Astrocytoma),

Ferr-i. and Wyethia (Non-Hodgin-Lymphoma), Ferr-

sil. and Ars.(Breast- and stomach-Ca. with Osteolysis)

were the cases by this peculiar kind of remedy selection,

also the miasmatic dynamics in the curative phases of

difficult diseases.

Klaus-Roman HÖR closed the second dayřs

Congress with Poly-miasmatic cases. Specially

interesting was the case of a female with Tetanus,

chronic coryza, prophetic dreams of accidents, anxiety

about position, Fear of knife. ŖSymptoms of Psora,

Sycosis and Syphilis and also Tuberculinicŗ. Treatment

began with Asa foetidamdue to characteristic symptoms.

From the third day there were three episodes. Later the

symptoms called for Thuja, Lyssinum, Mercurius

sol.and lastly Platinum. Since 6 years no conversion

neurotic symptoms, only physical complaints, stiff

shoulders, skin itching.

On the last day Joachim STÜRMER spoke,

arresting and lively pictures on the miasmatic

association of diseases, symptoms and remedies. As

main remedy of Psora, Sulph., Psof., Calc., botanically

Mes., and Lyc., animal Ambr.,and Sep. The first level of

Sycosis is a ŖUrogenital-messŗ. Physical examination

will throw some light on the case: Warts, Condyloma,

Polyps, Lipoma, Hämangioma, Fish odor. Modalities

are the worsening from dampness, humidity, fog. Main

remedy: Thuja, Med., Nat-s. For the Syphilis ultimately

belongs the leading symptoms Ŗeverything worse

nights, heavy weakening sweat, pungent and offensive-

smelling dischargesŗ, the Ŗpatient is deep in inner

sicknessŗ. Main remedy: Merc., Syph., Nit-ac.

Wolfgang SPRINGER, on the last day of the

Congress, spoke on Supervision: Criteriae, Controls,

Cases, a very important stock-taking of the very much

heterogenous scene and the working of connecting

quality markings of a good homeopathic supervision.

On the first day, parallel to the main lecture there

was Experiment of Double-Live-anamnesis with

Wolfgang SPRINGER and Reinhard FLICK. Both took

the anamnesis of 45 year-old female patient with Still-

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Syndrome, and it was available to the participants on

the screen; by individual techniques both the doctors

came to their own interesting points in the case and their

individual working out and concluded it to be of

Syphilitic Miasm but they did not obtain from this

complex case, one remedy agreeable. Both laid great

value on the modality of the joint pain (better from cold

during the worst phase of the pain). While FLICK

selected Guaiacum to be followed by Mercurius

solubilis as the possible follow-up medicine,

SPRINGER prescribed Lac-c (because the pain

wandered and shifted from one side to the other, and

better from cold). The interesting aspect of this

experiment was that two experienced homeopaths

belonging to the same School and trained in the same

way came to prescribe different medicines. In the

discussion that followed some questions were left

undecided. Must one wait for agreement? What role

does the different dynamics of the drawing of the

Anamnesis play in the working out of the case by the

two different homeopaths? What help will be the

answers in first anamnesis, in the subsequent

interviews? What will be the result if similar

experiment is made with homepaths of different

Schools? The final word may be in the future.

On the second day Seminar, we had the ŘSankaran-

Methodř by Andreas HOLLING and Willi NEUHOLD,

two experts in this method, Miasms theory, Vital

sensations, and such ideas which would dig up deeper

disturbances. Anamnesis in this methodology were in

different words and word repetitions and body language

which were all noted by the homeopath, and perhaps

the patientřs remedy may be found in them.

The Seminar on Boenninghausen‟s Method were

by Heiner FREI and Dominik MÜLLER. They laid

special stress on the analysis of the polarities through

the computer programme of the revised Therapeutic

Pocket Book, as well as the ŘCheck Listsř and

ŘQuestionnaire formsř with which the efficiency of the

selection of the medicine is evidently improved.

The Samuel Prize for the best lecture was given to

Anton ROHRER for his depiction of Therapeutics of

Epidemics.

IV. Following extract from the International

Journal of High Dilution Research (IJHDR), Vol.2,

No.1, 2003, by Rachel ROSENBAUM: Ŗ . . . . . . The

Homeopathy School was born as a healthy reaction. . . .

What has not yet been analyzed is the fact that

Homeopathy is undergoing a crisis that has not yet

been evaluated correctly by the community of

Pratitioners that support it. . . . .Homeopathy has long

become more than one single body. That is the reason

why jargons fail when they try to explain the real world.

Homeopathy has grown branches and not only in terms

of therapeutic strategies. To cure and to find palliatives

can be understood in many ways. The Similia principle

can be applied with different efforts. To mature is no

longer to hide our political courtesy. The exposure of

our contradictions does not mean vulnerability, but to

point out to the future of a new methodology, and this,

to those who fear, is to provide a voice to the plurality

of methods that characterize us as an emerging

technology, and this technology has a type of

knowledge that is very interesting to health sciences.

Perhaps the most difficult part is to admit that the

conceited task of healing requires patience and living

with diversity. To be aware that each treated being has

a special way to remain healthy is as important as to

repertorize a patient accurately. To perceive the

anthropologic reform proposed by Homeopathy is as

crucial as to perform sophisticated basic research. . . . . .

The immobility of the doctrine, that was apparently so

secure in the past, can no longer be called upon to

protect anything. . . . . In terms of research, we have to

advance and see that Homepathy needs to be urgently

reinvented. Either we create a new research policy to

develop the method or we remain in a boring path that

repeats itself endlessly. . . . . . In a turbulent

scientific world, the idea of being condemned to

perform permanently what the classic authors dictated

in apocryphal papers reissued with the power of

compulsory mandate of knowledge is almost

unbearable. HAHNEMANN, in the motto of his

Organon, conveys an emblematic Aude Sapere. . . . .

Those who represent the novel, and who fight to oppose

a past that has hidden itself in the veils of tradition, have

to become aware that a new form of Homeopathy is

becoming organized. Either we finally go forward in all

fronts, from basics to clinic, from philosophic to

scientific, from ethics to aesthetics, in order to conduct

Medicine for subjects (human beings) or we must be

very earnest to face up to the fact that the future has a

very unfavourable prognosis for us. . . . . Ŗ. [There

have been such calls for homeopaths to come out of

Ŗtraditionŗ and turn Ŗmodernŗ, Ŗscientificŗ, etc. While

there is no gainsaying that Homeopathy must Ŗmove

with the timesŗ, we must beware the direction of the

move. Surely, it does not mean blind following of the

hegemony Medicine. I do not agree that classical

authors were apocryphalic; the knowledge that we

possess which helps us cure diseases came from them,

they are the pillars, surely. Readers are requested to

convey their views. We must discuss these. = KSS]

V. The great Indian Epic Ramayana has reference

to a herb „Sanjeevani‟ which has reputation or

reviving the „near dead‟. This herb was applied to

LAKSHMAN brother of Lord RAM during the battle

with RAVANA in Lanka; the story of Sanjeevani is

quite interesting. However, our interests is now raised

from a ŘNewsř in The Hindu, dated Sept.10, 2009 and

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24 Sept. 2009 Dr. D.BALASUBRAMANIAM writes

that the plant Selaginella has been identified as the

Ŗresurrection plantŗ. This plant is reputed to Ŗplay

deadŗ for months and Ŗresurrectŗ itself into full bloom

if water is sprinkled on it. This remarkable ability is

shared by a few other plants such as Rudanti or

D.fimbriatum found in the Western Ghats and

Myrothamnus of Zimbabwe in Africa. Dr.Ramesh

MAHESHWARI the famous Plant Biologist has

however said Selaginella is the ŖSanjeevaniŗ. Prof

MAHESHWARI points out that such Ŗresurrection

plantsŗ are the only plants containing sugar called

Trehalose, instead of the usual sugar Sucrose. And

Trehalose has some remarkably unique properties that

no other sugar has. The Ŗresurrection plantsŗ

synthesize Trehalose and store it as a preservative agent.

The Selaginella belongs to the oldest plants known to

us. Dr. Jo ANN BANKS of Purdue University traces

them to at least 400 million years ago and have had to

survive climate catastrophes of various kinds. [The

Repertory Synthesis, Edn. 9.1 contains in the Chapter

List of Remedy Abbreviations an entry - p.49 Appendix

Ŕ ŖSelanigella aus” abbreviated as ŖSela.” = KSS]

VI. “Humanising Mental Hospitalsŗ is the title of a

report by Harsh MANDER in The Hindu, dt. 6 June

2010. It will be evident from the title of the article that

the state of the ŘMentalř Hospitals is far from being

Řhumanř. This report is, of course, about the state in

Tamil Nadu. ŖPatients in many hospitals are found to

suffer brutal treatment, violence, abuse, or neglect at the

hands of untrained medical, nursing and orderly staff.

There is excessive regimentalisation, and a regime of

fear, and opacity. Chaining . . . has not fully

disappeared. In some hospitals, patients are denied

most basic facilities such as clothes, beds, clean toilets,

and regular bathing. . . . . . food served is poor in

nutrition, and badly cooked. There are still reports of

brutal and indiscriminate application of ECT, or the

controversial application of current, without

anaesthesia. . . . . There is almost exclusive reliance on

pharmacological remedies, with little or no

psychotherapies, counselling or alternative therapies. . .

. . . . The most tragic predicament is of patients who are

abandoned in the mental institutions, often with the

active complicity of hospital staff. . . . . . The long-

term answer to all these problems is to break down the

wall of institutions, to end medical legal and social

practices which sanction the custodialisation and brutal

treatment, neglect or abandonment of people living with

mental illness.ŗ

A colleague who visited a Mental Hospital with

some other students of Psychology, said that several

patients were begging them for some food; the hospital

authorities were providing food, but that seems to be

insufficient and the patients are still hungry. Explaining

this a correspondant (Dr. G.Rajamohan) writes (The

Hindu, 13 June 2010): ŖEven after hundred years after

starting the mental hygiene movement, conditions have

not been improved. The sad fact is that the

antipsychotic drugs increase the appetite and create

craving for food. But the food given to the patients are

meagre and insufficient. It is true that hospitals are

prisons in effect. . . . . Ŗ [It is very important that at

least in countries like India where Homeopathy is a

Government approved medical system of treatment, the

Government must provide homeopathic care in these

hospitals and the homeopathic fraternity must move

earnestly for that. = KSS]

VII. Liga Congress, 20-24 May 2008, Oostende,

Belgium Ŕ Evidence-based Homeopathy: Report by

Gerhard BLEUL (Some Extracts): (AHZ. 253, 6/2008):

About 700 participants were there; there were parallel

meetings in six adjacent rooms. Out of 250 lectures

only some can be referred. The complete transactions

including several power-point presentations can be had

on DVD (for E 35,).

Michael van WASSENHOVEN, Congress

President, opened the sessions with a lecture on the

proof of action of Homeopathy. He said that evidence-

based medicine is not the domain of the allopathic

medicine but also of homeopathic research in which

several definite evidences existed the evidence-ranking

of which are far higher.

The lecture was by Christian BOIRON of the

Boiron homeopathy pharmaceutical firm; he spoke on

ŖHomeopthy is a languageŗ. He pleaded for allowing

the two different streams Ŕ Ŗthe unicist as well as the

pluralist Ŗ. In his later speech the Liga President Dr.

Ulrich FISCHER said that Homeopathy must adhere to

the principles laid down by Hahnemann as basis, work

in accord to certain rules, codes; to let different training

concepts would only create anxiety and uncertainty.

Ton NICOLAI spoke on complementary and

alternative Medicine. Gilles CHAUFFERIN asked ŖIs

Homeopathy cost effective?ŗ [This question is strange.

One of the strong points in favour of Homeopathy is

that it is quite cost effective and indeed no other

medicine is as much cost effective as Homeopathy. =

KSS]. Maria GOOSENS spoke on the organisation of

Medicinal Provings in Belgium. Patricia LE ROUX and

Jean Michel LONGNEAUX asked why homeopathic

physicians often involve themselves into sects.

The second day was on research Ŗfrom Provings to

double-blind studiesŗ. Claudia WITT presented a study

of treatment of children with atopic Eczema; the

treatment by conventional therapy and homeopathic

were compared. Peter FISHER referred to about more

than 50 studies of research and asked ŖWho needed

these?ŗ Answer: It depends upon, who asked: the

homeopath, the patient, the critic.

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Christian KLEIN-LANSMA reported of a multi-

central study of the treatment of Pre-menstrual

Syndrome with 10 selected cases which were given

individual medicines on the basis of leading indications

in each case.

Miriam SOMMER demonstrated the design of

planned study of homeopathic treatment of Dengue

Fever in Brazil. Probable main remedies were recalled.

A homeopathic Symptom-verification of

Phosphorus through a retrospective study with reference

to likely-hood ratio was presented by Michael VAN

WASSENHOVEN.

U.C. ADLER presented a randomised controlled

study in which the individualised homeopathic

treatment against the doses of Fluoxetin, in Depression,

and the comparative results.

Gustavo DOMINICI received for his report of a

remedy proving of Hydrogenium peroxidatum (H

2

O

2

)

the Prize for the best lecture of the Congress.

Lex RUTTEN, the inaugurator of likelihood ratio of

repertorisation, had collected the data of 4094 patients

from 10 practices over a period of 3½ years; 4072 of

these were evaluated. Every Polychrest was present in

every large rubric, but that meant nothing with regard to

their likelihood ratio. The evidence rises with the

application of the likelihood ratio. Result: over 50% of

the results contradicted the reportorial entries, small

rubrics had to be explained, large rubrics were to be

reduced: 50 remedies were relevant to 70% of our

successes.

Philippe SERVAIS presented clinical verification of

symptoms of Petroleum, Roland LUGTEN of Lachesis.

Jan SCHOLTEN gave a classical example business

interests within the Congress. The title of his lecture

was ŖThe art of classification, for example, of

Lanthanide casesŗ. He explained briefly the not yet

proved Lanthanides, his hypothesis of its homeopathic

action, particularly in respect of auto-immune diseases,

and naturally his new book. The Lanthanides themes

are Autonomy, Freedom, independence, determination,

aversion to tutelage. SCHOLTEN then ran a long trailer

film of propaganda for a complex medicine which come

out of the Lanthanide.

Spiros KIVELLOS gave brief view of Ŗthe

Vithoulkas approachŗ with 12 levels of healthy state.

On the third day Walter GLÜCK spoke on the

nutritional substances used as remedies like Milk, Fat,

Plants, etc. The essence of his talk: we can apply the

nutritional remedies as Simile if it helps the cure.

Purnima SHUKLA put on well-documented cases

on Ŗhomeopathic managementŗ of Mamma nodes,

Fibro-mastopathy. Chronic Mastitis, Mamma-abscess,

etc.

Carl Rudolf KLINKENBERG presented 7 criteriae

for verification of medicinal symptoms with support of

GUERNSEY, HERING, which can lead to a reliable

Materia Medica.

In the afternoon Guido MORTELMANS spoke on

Insulin, Michael TAUT on Galphimia glauca, Carmen

STURZA on Ytterbium nitricum.

Summarizing the day, we can see which lectures

were missed; these are:

1. Camila SIQUEIRA Ŕ Biotherapeutics from the

Influenza virus

2. Sonia BADULICI Ŕ Homéoplasmin Cream (a

complex preparation) in Eczema

3. Karin LENGER Ŕ Homeopathic Potencies have been

identified as Photons

4. Luiz PINTO Ŕ Ultra-high dilutions of Palicourea

marcgravii, in intoxicated rats Ŕ the plant is the main

causative of toxicity of Rinders

5.Vincenzo ROCCO Ŕ Homeopathic private patients in

Italy

6.Aurélie COLAS Ŕ Luteinum C 15 in nausea during

pregnancy

7. Claudio ARAUJO A Ŕ Clinical verifications of

Anacardium orientale

8. Steve Xue Ŕ Homeopathy in China Ŕ explaining the

classical Chinese Medicine

9. L. SCHEPPERS Ŕ Syphili num, Anthracinum,

Proteus other Bowel Nosodes

10.Paolo BELLAVITE Ŕ Homeopathic effects in

anxious mice compared with Anxiolytics

On the last day of the Congress there was a further

example of how in these days reports of solid Studies

remain behind while pompously announced Studies take

their place.

Carlo REZZANI spoke on the work regarding

Clinical Homeopathic File Collection (CliFiCol) Group

which was founded in 1986, which suffers from lack of

financial support.

The Congress President Michel WASSENHOVEN

ended the Meeting with a round up Overview of the

impressive Studies on ŖEvidence Based Homeopathyŗ.

The next Congress was to be in Warsaw.

VIII. Homeopathy helps in ADS and ADHS Ŕ

Long-term Study confirms. In the 42 Medizinischen

Woche of Europeřs largest Medical Congress of Natural

Healing Procedures and Complementary Medicine, the

Holzschuh-Preis for Complementary Medicine in the

Research branch was given to Dr. Klaus v. AMMON

Ŗnot only for the long-term impressive successes in

homeopathic treatmentŗ said the President of the Karl

and Hilde Holzschuh-Stiftung but also Ŗthe Study

also points that the cost is far below that of the

conventional treatmentŗ. The Attention-Deficit-

Syndrome with and without Hyperactivity

(ADS/ADHDS) makes the largest group of

Neuropsychiatric diagnoses in children and youth. The

disease has impressive effects on the family, school,

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social milieu and not the least the later career

development. . . . . Since years homeopaths apply

homeopathic remedies with successes as evidenced by

Dr. von AMMONřs Study in 2005 showed. With a

completely blind, randomised Study which is

considered as Gold standard in scientific experiments

for Evidence the Evidence for the homeopathic

remedyřs action in ADS/ADHS could be edstablished

(FREI, et al. 2005). (ZKH. 52, 4/2008)

IX. A Debut Debate: Your input needed. (HT. 28,

1/2008)

A Debate Ŕ ŖHomeopathy: Quackery or a Key to

the Future of Medicine?ŗ Ŕ was conceived and

organized by National Center for Homeopathy and

co-sponsored by the University of Connecticut

Health Center. The goal was to have a Candid,

objective presentation on the Řfactsř. Pre and post polls

were conducted. Before the debate 30% of respondents

believed Homeopathy was unscientific. After the

debate only 15% still believed that.

The debate was successful in bringing

Homeopathy to a large audience.

X. 2007 Exam Results: Council for Homeopathic

Certification. FOX, Jackie (HT. 28, 1/2008)

The results of the three parts of the exam were:

Homeopathy, 88% pass rate. Health sciences 69% pass

rate. Case Analysis 63% pass rate. 27 practitioners

were certified between January and October.

XI. Homeopathy in the News. (HT. 28, 1/2008)

Russian Homeopathy Market targeted.

The sales of Boiron homeopathic pharmacy in

Russia has a 40% growth in 2006. The sales in 2007, is

anticipated to reach 18 Million Euro, which is 75%

higher than the year earlier, in stark contrast to Boironřs

home market, France where the Company has seen

steady losses in recent years.

Ŕ Global insight, Mira THOMPSON, October 1,

2007.

Spain considers alternative Medicine.

The Spanish Minister of Health has commissioned

a report on Alternative Medicine in order to consider

including Homeopathy in Spainřs National Health

System. At present 10-15% of the Spanish population

uses homeopathic treatment.

- Global Insight, Dr. Elura DRAGA, October 25,

2007.

XII. Interview with Dr. A.U. RAMAKRISHNAN,

M.B.,B.S., M.F. Hom., Ph.D. A family tradition:

World renowned Homeopath, Healer, Trailblazer,

LOCKWOOD, Amy. (HT. 28, 1/2008)

Dr. RAMAKRISHNAN travels the globe for four

months each year, teaching Homeopathy in the U.S.,

the U.K. Europe and Asia. The other 8 months he

practices in Chennai, India.

In the 1930řs Dr. UMAPATHI MUDALIAR, father

of Dr. RAMAKRISHNAN, who was a surgeon was

impressed by the rapid improvement in piles with Calc

fluor. 6x and soon was interested in tissue salts and in

the larger practice of Homeopathy.

Dr. RAMAKRISHNAN started learning

Homeopathy from his father from the age of 4. He

often uses cell salts along with chronic homeopathic

treatment and finds that cell salts are supportive and

helps improve peripheral problems such as injuries or

acute illnesses that may arise during chronic treatment.

Most memorable case is a Glioma Ŕ operated twice

and undergone radiotherapy but recurred. Seizures

during which her eyes would roll downward.

Intolerance and averse to milk. After one year of

treatment with Aethusa cynapium, the womanřs health

turned around. The tumor completely disappeared in a

yearřs time and has not recurred in 20 years and still

alive.

His advise for todayřs homeopaths is to have an

open mind and to examine different ways of working.

XIII. Speak up. (HT. 28, 1/2008)

Medicine for the people is a new organization

campaigning against negative media coverage that

Homeopathy has been receiving in the UK by

collecting 250,000 signatures to take to the UK

government in June 2008. These declarations will give

a voice to those people whose experience is denied by

the recent attacks against Homeopathy and the Royal

London Homeopathic Hospital. It will also, for the

first time, begin to to establish the extent to which

Homeopathy has helped the general public in the UK

and throughout the world, whether through prescription

or self-medication. Thereřs also a link from their home

page for international supporters from outside the UK to

add their voices.

Make your voice heard at: www.hmc21.org!

XIV. Journal writing and homeopathic care,

WEINSTEIN, Corey (HT. 28, 2/2008).

In an effort to awaken and nurture patientřs interest

in their distinctive manifestation of illness, the author

sends each new patient a two-page handout on preparing

for the homeopathic visit. Those who write in a

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personal journal usually have already explored much of

the territory to be covered in the homeopathic

consultation. ŖPeople who experience stressful life

events and patients suffering from hypertension chronic

pain, Asthma, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Cancer

experience a decrease in physical symptoms when they

practice expressive writing. Healthy and chronic pain

patients who become aware of their deepest emotional

secrets or pains open the door to measurable positive

charges and healing …. Writing produced the fastest

transition from one emotional state to another. In his

ground breaking book, ŖWrite for life: Healing Body,

Mind and Spirit through Journal writing,ŗ Dr. Shepperd

KOMINARS invites readers to explore this useful tool

for Health.

XV. Homeopathy in the News. (HT. 28, 2/2008)

Virgin group to open clinics in U.K.

Sir Richard Bransonřs Virgin group announced that

it would enter the UKřs National Health Service

primary health care Market by opening six Ŗone-stop-

shopŗ health centers in 2008, offering services from

Homeopathy to therapy alongside typical GP services.

UK Homeopathy funding cuts.

Homeopathy is becoming the highest profile

victim of the Governmentřs drive to promote cost-

effective use of NHS resources, with PCTs (Primary

Care Trusts) across the country stopping the funding ŖA

pulse investigation into the services provided by 132

PCTs reveals only 37% still have contracts for

homeopathic services. More than a quarter of trusts

have stopped or reduced funding over the past two

years, with many cancelling the contracts with

homeopathic hospitals.

-Pulse (UK), ŖHomeopathy a Victim of PCT

Funding Cuts,ŗ January 30, 2008.

[This is rather paradoxical when it is a question of

Ŗfundingŗ meaning financial support no therapeutic

system can be lesser costly than Homeopathy. In fact

funding Homeopathy saves a lot of money = KSS]

Veterian notices change in attitudes.

The Jan. 28, 2008, Vancouver Sun profiled

Veterian Susan KRAKAUER,ŗThe Roving Vetŗ, who

noticed definite increase in peopleřs willingness to use

Homeopathy for their animals, but donřt do it for

themselves. They donřt want to give their animals

steroids or antibiotics.

XVI. Letter to the Editor. Gabrielle Howard

GLADISH (HT. 28, 2/2008).

Sixty years ago she trained as a nurse at the Royal

London Homeopathic Hospital. She worked in

England, Canada and in US and fully appreciated the

superiority of homeopathic treatment. Recently she

had total hip joint replacement and her rapid recovery

amazed others. No nausea due to Phosphorus. Arnica,

Staphysagria and then Symphytum, improved the

bruising, swelling and drainage. Painkillers were no

longer needed and was back at home three weeks after

the surgery. [Those who benefit from Homeopathy

must write and speak. Why donřt they? Why should

anyone feel shy to speak facts? = KSS]

XVII. The Henry N. Williams Professional Services

Award was presented to Stephen MESSER and the

Martha Oelman Community Service award presented to

Dana ULLMAN. (HT. 28, 2/2008)

XVIII. In Memory JOANNE MATTKE (September

27, 1931 Ŕ March 30, 2007) HENDERSON, Marilyn

(HT. 28, 2/2008)

Joanne Mattke believed deeply in Homeopathic

Health Care, dedicating more than 20 years of her life

toward building Homeopathy in Florida. She formed

the Central Florida Homeopathic Study Group. She

was pivotal in bringing homeopathic education to

Florida. The 21

st

Annual Florida Homeopathy

conference, in Feb. 2008 was dedicated to Joanneřs

memory.

XIX. There is Gold in them than Hills… How to

grow and nurture a homeopathic practice in a rural

area ST. JOHN, Gloria. (HT. 28, 2/2008)

The author narrates her experience of settling down

in the countryside and how she established her

homeopathic practice.

XX. Fostering Community. GAHLES, Nancy (HT.

28, 3/2008).

As Homeopathy gains recognition worldwide, it

attractws the attention of factions whose self-interest

appears to be at stake. Fostering community, educating

and getting the word out about Homeopathyřs success

is the way against their misinformation campaign. The

National Center for Homeopathy ardently pursues its

mission all year long, finding every possible way to

promote awareness of Homeopathy. [The best

response to all the unfounded calumnies, the

Homeopathy Practitioner must respond by doing more

and more cures, thatřs all. That will silence the hate

campaign = KSS].

XXI. Bringing on “Late Babies”, NEEDLEMAN,

David. (HT. 28, 3/2008)

ŖWe are often asked to help bring on late

babies when the due date has passed and the mother still

hasnřt delivered. The first remedy to try is Calcarea

carbonica 30 (for bashful babies), one dose each hour

for 3 hours in the morning, followed at 11 p.m. by

Caulophyllum 200 (for muscle tone) and this is followed

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at 11.30 p.m. by Gelsemium 200 (for slow onset of birth

from anticipatory fears). I have found this very

successful as the waters usually break between 3 and 4

a.m. If they donřt I advise waiting for 24 hrs. and then

repeating this protocol.ŗ

XXII. Facing Cancer… What can we do?

Taking an integrative approach: Homeopathic

treatment for people with Cancer. ROTHENBERG,

Amy (HT. 28, 3/2008)

Gene 60 years old with Pancreatic Cancer with

metastasis to the liver and lymphatic Leukemia.

Primary tumor was removed. Abdominal pain radiating

to back. Heartburn. Pain worse when he thought about

it. His purpose of consultation was to help in relieving

his digestive pains, improving his comfort and enjoying

his life for as long as he could. Copious sweat on head

and back at night in bed. Labored breathing and

cramps. Terrible gas since the surgery had Thyroid

Cancer in his forties. Carbo vegetabilis helped him

much. 2 months later severe pain and short breath.

Carbo vegetabilis in higher strength. Pain was

controlled and breathing improved. In the next 6

months few more doses and Arsenicum album when his

anxiety and fear of death were more than he could bear.

The need of opiate painkillers were less and he

peacefully passed away.

Alicia, 45 years old, undergone lumpectomy for

cancerous lump in her left breast. Lymphedema in left

arm since surgery and radiation. Body rash, red,

slightly raised and itchy, and worse when she became

warm. Sulphu and vitamin-mineral-botanical medicine.

A month later, swelling and range of motion were

improving steadily. Rash was fading. She remained

free from Cancer.

In her experience, homeopathic and other natural

medicine care is extremely helpful whether used at the

time of the diagnosis, during conventional Cancer

treatment or afterward for healing and prevention of

further disease.

XXIII. A change in Leadership at the HPCUS.

Source: Homeopathic Pharmnacopoeia Convention of

the United States. (HT. 28, 5/2008).

On 5

th

August 2008, at the Homeopathic

Pharmacopoeia Convention of the United States

(HPCUS) Board Meeting, John A. (Jack)

BORNEMANN, III, RPh., announced that after 23

years of service to the homeopathic community as

president of HPCUS, he will transition to the newly

created role of HPCUS Chairman of the Board. J.P.

(Jay) BORENEMANN, Ph.D. was unanimously elected

to the position of the third President of HPCUS since its

incorporation in 1980.

XXIV. Nonprofit plans homeopathic care for

trauma survivors. (HT. 28, 5/2008)

The Birmingham (England) Alliance of

Homeopaths (BAH) will begin a six month pilot project

in Jan. 09, offering homeopathic care to people in the

support services suffering from emotional trauma.

Britainřs Ministry of Defense Study fears that upto

20,000 British troops may be affected by brain injuries

and post-traumatic stress symptoms. Homeopathy can

be more effective in releasing the trauma. Britainřs

Army Families Federation is supporting and advertising

the pilot project.

-reported in Birmingham Post (UK)

Aug. 8, 2008.

XXV. Letter to the Editor

Late stage Lyme Disease and Homeopathy.

GARDNER, Darien (HT. 28, 5/2008)

The author started suffering from Lyme disease

since 2006. After an avalanche of advice from people,

he started homeopathic treatment from 23.2.2007 with

Borrelia Burdorferi (Remedy prepared from the bacteria

that causes Lyme Disease). Gradually improved and

within a year fully recovered and remained so.

XXVI. Hospitals offer alternative therapies (HT.

28, 6/2008)

An American Hospital Association Survey shows

that 37% of the hospitals in the U.S. are providing more

complementary and alternative therapies in addition to

conventional services.

54% of the hospitals cited patient demand as a

factor and 64% gave clinical effectiveness as their main

reason. Another reason is their Ŗgreenŗ nature.

-Compiled from Congressional Quarterly

Healthbeat, Sept. 13, 2008.

XXVII. In memory: Ananda ZAREN (1946-2008)

COHEN, Karen (HT. 28, 6/2008).

Ananda ZAREN, passed away on 28 Sept. 2008, 4

days after an accident. She practiced Homeopathy for

30 years in Santa Barbara, California and authored Core

Elements of the Materia Medica of the Mind, Volumes

1 & 2. Homeopathy was Ananda ZARENřs passion

and lifeřs work since 1976. She preferred to spend her

time in her Ŗlearning labŗ as she called the practice. Her

power of observation was extremely acute and she was

a master at cataloguing nuance and gesture, every aspect

of human expression which she interpreted as the

language of the Vital Force. Her great strength was her

work with women and infants. She believed that

comprehending the emotional state of the person before

you, regardless of age was requisite to finding the

homeopathic simillimum.

In Germany while teaching, she observed a three

month old infant on oxygen. For an hour and prescribed

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Natrum sulphuricum based on Jaundice, aversion to

contact and photophobia. The next morning the infant

appeared stronger, able to breathe on her own and

voluntarily opened her eyes to make contact with her

mother for the first time.

A man with restless leg syndrome of 25 years

duration was cured with Belladonna by her by using the

rubric Mind Ŕ desire to escape.

ZAREN was a rare jewel. Through she was only

barely 5 feet tall, but had a towering intellect and

vitality to burn. Her greater joy was in helping people

get well, but in the fullest sense of the word, not just

allaying symptoms.

XXVIII. Celebrating Links. October 19-21, 2007.

Heidelberg, Germany. (AJHM. 101, 3/2008). Review

by Jay YASGUR.

Around 850 homeopaths offered a stage for some

bright ideas which are beginning to set off sparks, albeit

controversial ones within the homeopathic community:

The Sensation of SANKARAN, The Periodicity of

SCHOLTEN, the Animalia of MANGALIAVORI,

Triple salts of George LOUKAS.

A Tsunami is visiting Homeopathy bringing

sensation, periodicity, and animalia to itřs shores. Many

on that sandy beach have been jolted and awed; indeed,

even those who have brought the Řnew waveř are

paddling in the midst of a state of upheaval. Yet the

spines of those few are flexible and adjusting to radical

innovation sifting in from all directions.

Yes, this Řnew waveř which our community is

experiencing is unsettling and now the question is: will

that community be so moved, so inspired to allow room

for new material to be rinsed, clarified and crystallized.

Will the homeopathic community permit new seeds to

sprout on uncertain shores?

These are the essential questions which arte nopw

being asked of our Řband of brothers.ř Our still fragile

community which has yet to realize that, divided as we

are, there is really more which unites us.

Sensation, periodicity, animalia. Let us take the

new, judiciously graft it onto the firm foundation

established by our equally innovative and bold

ancestors, and create a tree of even greater strength and

possibility. [God save us from this = KSS].

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LIST OF JOURNALS

Full addresses of the Journals covered by this Quarterly

Homeopathic Digest are given below:

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1. AHZ: Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung, Karl F. Haug

Verlag, Hüthig GmbH, im Weiher 10, 69121, HEIDELBERG,

GERMANY.

2. AJHM: American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine, formerly

Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy (JAIH). 801

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

3. THE HINDU: Newspaper, Chennai Ŕ 600 002.

4. HOM: Formerly British Homeopathic Journal (BHJ),

Homeopathy, Faculty of Homeopathy, 29 Park Street West,

Luton, Bedfordshire, LU13BE, UK.

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

801, North Fairfax Street, Suite 306, ALEXANDRIA, VA.

22314, USA.

6. MedGG: Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte, Institut für

Geschichte der Medizin Robert Bosch Stiftung, Straussweg 17,

70184 STUTTGART, GERMANY.

7. RH: Revista De Homeopatia, Rua Dr.Diogo de Faria, 839,

VilaClementino Ŕ CEP 04037-002, Säo Paulo Ŕ SP. Brazil.

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

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

9. IJHDR: International Journal of High Dilution Resarch, Sibiu,

Romania. Via Internet.

10. ZKH: Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie, Karl F. Haug

Verlag, Hüthig GmbH, Im Weiher 10, D-69121 HEIDELBERG,

GERMANY.

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PART II

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

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1. ON THE STUDY OF HOMEOPATHIC

MATERIA MEDICA, CONSTANTINE

HERING

(BHJ. II, 7/1844)

Section 1

The ordinary mode for acquiring knowledge of remedial

agents - namely, merely by experience during practice -

cannot be termed studying the medicines, and no

directions are required for it.

Much time and labor may be expended in this mode

without ever attaining a complete command of the

medicinal agents. Many a homeopathic practitioner will

find himself in the situation of walking on a treadmill -

setting machinery in motion, without moving from the

spot.

He who trusts solely the experience and observations of

others, and thinks that by means of published

collections of cases he will also attain accuracy in the

selection of medicines in individual cases, or find a

similar accuracy in his general views of medicinal

agents - such a one constantly remains in a state of

dependence, moving merely in the narrow circle which

others have chalked out.

In another country amidst other customs, and at other

times when a different character of disease is present -

indeed, during the prevalence of individual epidemic

diseases - he stands helpless and bewildered. His

pockets are full of paper money that is not current there,

and his hands are destitute of any available coin.

He who relies only on his own experience for

knowledge of medicines can only attain a very limited

understanding. His personal knowledge will be quite

imperfect as regards individual remedial agents. If,

perchance, one or other property appears peculiarly

prominent, then the others will be but seldom or never

attended to.

For example, consider the case of Aconite, which

certainly is of frequent use in inflammations, but much

more often in cases where no inflammation exists. Or

consider Belladonna, which is frequently employed

where it does not answer at all, and where Hyosc.,

Arsen., Bryon., or some other remedy, should be used

instead.

So understanding acquired only in this way will be

imperfect, in fine, as regards our whole Materia Medica

- because by this method the knowledge of Materia

Medica cannot but always be very deficient. Only a

small number of favorite remedies will be retained in

memory - merely such ones as are known, or thought to

be known, to possess some general determinate

properties which render their selection easy.

In the greater number of cases that come under daily

observation, these favorite remedies will very frequently

be given where they are not of the slightest use. A

number of remedies will be employed for merely single

symptoms. And a large number will never be prescribed

at all.

In cases of a more serious and rarer description, even

where the most careful research is employed, it is often

all in vain. For sometimes many remedies seem to be

equally indicated, so it is difficult to make a selection

from among them. At other times no single remedy

seems applicable.

The more intimate our acquaintance with the medicines,

the more seldom will such cases occur, and the nearer is

the physician to the attainment of complete mastery of

his subject.

Tyros, who have merely glanced at the remedies,

imagine that it is not possible to become acquainted

with a single remedy which has such a vast number of

symptoms - just as a country clown on coming to town

is at a loss to conceive how the people know which way

to go among such a number of houses. And yet, in the

course of time, he himself finds no difficulty in doing

this.

Let us observe how this happens. It may help us a little

in studying the materia medica.

It is well known that a person who has been in many

large towns can much sooner find his way than other

strangers who have not. This is true without there being

much resemblance between the towns. He must

unconsciously have invented some method by which he

becomes quickly at home in every new town.

In like manner, many homeopaths have unconsciously

adopted a method of studying the Materia Medica. Our

present object is to make this method known.

Learning the Materia Medica Ŗby heart,ŗ would be a

highly absurd plan - and not only impossible on account

of the extent of the undertaking, but even if possible,

still, utterly useless. In order to acquire a foreign

language, what good would it do to learn the dictionary

from beginning to end?

One who could repeat the list of symptoms of a remedy

in their regular order would not thereby possess

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knowledge of the combination of symptoms - and it is

that knowledge of which we stand in need.

In practice, we never make use of the whole range of

symptoms, but only of a particular combination of a

small portion of them. To the general symptoms of

every form of disease, corresponding ones may be

found in a large number of remedies - and every remedy

contains the indications of a vast variety of diseases.

Section 2

THE GOAL OF STUDY

Every medicine has its peculiar characteristic traits

which must occur in each of the groups that are

mentioned above. There cannot be the least doubt about

this fact. But this only shows the goal from afar - a goal

that we may reach by a careful study of the Materia

Medica.

Up to this time, only a few fragments of such

characteristic traits have been discovered. Anyone may

soon learn these by heart; but this can never be called

studying the medicines.

Properly speaking, the study of the medicines is rather

the road to a fresh discovery of those traits which,

during practice, are continually presenting themselves to

us. And, at the same time, it will show the fallacy of

many well-known dicta proceeding from some who

have attained the reputation of great authorities through

the indolence of others.

The homeopathic physician who knows little more than

the characteristics of a few polychrest medicines (with

the addition, perhaps, of a few other scraps of

knowledge which he himself picked up) has only a one-

legged stool - we may turn ourselves hither and thither,

but it will fall to the ground if not sat on by someone

with two legs.

The homeopathic physician who knows no more than

this is like a bad chess player Ŕ someone who only

knows one or two methods of giving checkmate which

he has learned from studying the fag ends of games

played by celebrated players - put together with but a

few other modes he has discovered himself.

The master of the game commands all the pieces in

every situation. He shows his skill even when

checkmated, and, properly speaking, he never loses.

Even though the physician at the bedside of the patient

has ever so carefully compared a medicine with the case

before him, this will tend but little to advance his

knowledge of it. And such a comparison cannot be

termed a study of the medicine, as it is only viewed in

connection with the case thus before him.

To study a remedial agent is to attentively observe its

symptoms and curative powers, without any reference to

particular cases or particular diseases. It is to consider

all its effects as connected with one another.

All its individual symptoms are seen as separate parts of

a whole. The many changes produced in the sensations

by its action, which have been separately observed and

collected together, are to be regarded as symptoms of

one and the same artificial disease. They are seen to

belong to one morbid picture.

The proper mode of studying the whole Materia Medica

consists of first making one self the complete master of

a few medicines. Afterwards comes the mastery of those

medicines most nearly connected with the first few, and

so on.

There is always a comparing of the new ones with those

that were first studied. On this account, I call this the

diagnostic method.

After one or more families of nearly related substances

have thus been worked out, the others follow much

more easily. After pursuing the study in this manner

with unremitting diligence for several years, then any

new medicine may be made available after only one

perusal.

By carefully reading it over only once, so much remains

impressed on the memory by the unconsciously

acquired habit of comparison, that in a case of disease in

which it is indicated, it is easily recalled to mind.

He who can do this will not complain of the number of

imperfectly proved medicines, or of the fewness of their

recorded symptoms, while at the same time finding fault

with the large number of symptoms presented by other

medicines.

Be the symptoms as numerous as they may, he can

make himself be the master of them. Be they ever so

small in number, he understands how to avail himself of

them.

He who has not the requisite foundation finds all

additions to the Materia Medica a disagreeable burden.

He shows by his discontent that he has not yet made

himself master of the old matter.

Methinks most of those who complain of our Materia

Medica, are either totally ignorant of, or have but a

scanty acquaintance with, our medicines.

Before we proceed to give specific directions, we shall:

1. Endeavor to defend the method we have proposed

2. Show how a single medicine is to be studied

3. Show how the others are to be connected to this one

Section 3

A DEFENSE OF THE METHOD WE HAVE

PROPOSED

The assertion that one remedy must first be perfectly

known, and that then the rest will be acquired with less

difficulty, and still more easily the farther we advance,

is founded on the principles and practice of mnemonics.

This diagnostic method, indeed, appears to me to be the

only practical plan of studying the Materia Medica, or at

any rate, the shortest and most direct way of attaining

the end proposed.

There are certainly two other possible methods. One is

to learn what are called the principal symptoms of each

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medicine. The other is to study each substance by itself,

and thus, all of them unconnectedly. A fourth and last

method would be, not to study the Materia Medica at

all. (Exempla sunt odiosa!)

To learn the so-called principal symptoms - e.g., to

extract from an epitome like Jahr's Manual, the most

prominently marked sentences, and to get these off by

heart - is the shortest way to practice.

But, at the same time, it is the surest way to permanent

mediocrity. Let him who is forced to make a trade of his

profession, adopt this method. It will bring him soonest

into the center of the woods.

But let him not forget to secure at the same time a

permanent possession. If not, he will resemble the

squatters in the far west, who establish themselves

without troubling their heads about their right to the

soil. And when the buyer of the land chases them off,

they remove to a distance, out of one wretched wooden

hut into another.

They barely support their existence by the scanty profits

arising from ill cultivated ground, and the uncertainties

of the chase. This superficial, unmeaning sort of life has

charms for them. And their labors, together with those

of the destructive wood louse, lighten the task of the

settler.

Those qualities that we at present term the principal

symptoms of the medicines are, for the most part,

unsatisfactory - nay, they prove an obstacle in the way

of accurate individualization, and lead to carelessness. It

is much more convenient to administer to patients a

dozen homeopathic remedies according to this principle,

than any plan of the old school. And one may, by such

practice, be pretty sure, that by the end of the year a

number of patients will have recovered.

These principal symptoms are, moreover, in many

instances incomplete, and in many others perfectly

false. They can only be known with certainty, and have

their due value assigned them, by a careful study of the

various medicines, having especial regard to their

relations one with another.

A mere acquaintance with these principal symptoms

cannot be called studying the remedies. If we were in

possession of a scientific arrangement of the Materia

Medica, we might make it the basis of our study of the

medicines. But at present, we cannot expect to construct

anything satisfactory on such an uncertain and

incomplete basis.

He who seeks to study the medicines according to their

symptoms, but each medicine separately and without

instituting a comparison between them, will, with the

very best memory, not advance far before forgetting

what he had previously learned. The memory is

incapable of retaining anything but what is presented to

it in connection with something else. An idea is easily

brought to the recollection only when in connection

with others.

We would remind him who has had no experience of the

comparative method, either on himself or others, that

acquiring a knowledge of the symptoms of medicines, is

exactly similar to the mode in which the chemist, the

mineralogist, the botanist, and the zoologist acquire a

knowledge of the objects connected with their

respective sciences. We should, therefore, set about it in

a similar manner.

Let it be considered what a multitude of signs are so

perfectly at the command of the zoologist, that he can

easily recall them to his recollection. Although no one is

capable of giving a complete description of all animals,

a repetition of all their characteristics Ŗoff the book,ŗ as

the saying is.

Yet the zoologist can at once tell a new animal when he

sees it. He can instantly determine to what class it

belongs, and point out its particular characteristics. By

merely looking at each animal, he already knows its

characteristic peculiarities, or at least has no difficulty

in discovering them.

The homeopathic physician must do just the same with

his medicines. Let it not be alleged that zoology and the

other branches of natural science are things quite

different from our science. It must be regarded and dealt

with in exactly the same manner as the natural sciences.

Let it not be said that those sciences are so far advanced,

and the system so perfect, that everything connected

with them is much easier. Suppose that our Materia

Medica were at present as little advanced as a natural

science - as zoology in the time of ARISTOTLE.

This should not deter us from regarding it as such,

working it out as such, and studying it as such.

By this means we should make as much progress in it as

was then made in zoology - and that is a good deal in

comparison to knowing nothing at all, or to wandering

in benighted ignorance amidst a profusion of

everything.

I refer to those who possess a real knowledge of our

Materia Medica, if that has not been obtained in the way

I have just pointed out - and I doubt not that some now

see that they have unconsciously obtained their

knowledge in the same manner. There can only be one

right way. But this may have been pursued without the

individual being exactly aware of it himself, as has

happened to those proficient in many of the arts.

When one remedy has been accurately studied, and the

art has been acquired of classing others along with it

according to their resemblance and of distinguishing the

differences between them, then each subsequent group

that is studied in a similar manner costs far less trouble.

The result will be that he who has thus made himself

master of a hundred medicines will require for the

second hundred scarcely so much time and labor as he

expended on the first ten.

An increase of the medicines, therefore, ad infinitum,

will never prove too much for human capabilities.

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Entomologists can easily acquire knowledge of a

number of new insects. It requires little trouble on the

part of the botanist to learn an endless succession of

new plants. This they do by a speedy conception of the

resemblances and differences among them - and the

more practice they have, the easier it is.

It may be urged that no such laborious mode need be

adopted to acquire of one of the natural sciences, but

that the general characteristics of the various classes are

soon learned. In the present state of the natural sciences,

all the relationships existing among the various classes

and orders may be seen at a glance, and the study of

them thereby greatly simplified.

But, as we have not brought our Materia Medica to such

a pitch of perfection - and from the short time of its

existence, it has been impossible to advance it farther

than it is at present - we must dispense with this

simplifying glance.

We must, however, on this account, follow the only path

that leads to this end - laborious though it be at present.

As the progress of inventions facilitates commerce and

travel more and more, so the progress of science always

lightens the task of learning what has been discovered.

The same will be the case as regards the Materia

Medica.

Until that time comes, we must study the remedies as

we find them. The time is, we hope, not far distant,

when we shall be able to talk about the objects of our

science in the same manner as natural historians do of

theirs - when, like them, we may be able to give

complete descriptions of these objects without touching

upon unimportant information.

The time, we hope, is at hand when we shall know what

is and what is not important in our Materia Medica.

Section 4

HOW IS A SINGLE MEDICINE TO BE

STUDIED?

How can a remedy be studied, if the symptoms are not

learned by heart? It can be learned through the same

principle as the whole materia medica - by comparison.

The symptoms of a medicine are to be read through

carefully several times. This should be done from

beginning to end, in the first years of study, with the pen

always in hand. While reading, one thing or other is

always to be particularly attended to.

-- The First Reading --

At first attention should be directed to the organs in

which the symptoms occur. It will be at once noted that

many organs or tissues are particularly attacked. The

organs that show the greatest number of symptoms are

to be regarded according to their physiological

relationship.

In this, our previous studies are a great assistance, just

as every physiological dogma, every hypothesis, even

though false, is an aid to the memory.

Thus, the ear is said to be the peculiar organ of the

osseous system. Therefore, when pains or nodes in the

bones occur, I would observe attentively the symptoms

of the ear. And, in this manner, many individual

symptoms would appear more significant where

connections exist.

For instance, between the functions of the skin and

kidneys, symptoms occurring in the one system will

always call to our mind those of the other - whether

those symptoms harmonize with or are opposed to one

another.

In our comparison, pathology will also be of use, and

that will be so whether its theories are true or false.

Thus, where symptoms referable to the liver occur, I

would always compare the pains in the right shoulder,

and vice versa.

Where turbid urine is passed in small quantity, I would

pay attention to the symptoms which point to the serous

cavities.

In doing this, for example, when studying Aurum, a

number of symptoms would thereby appear more

important, and consequently be more deeply impressed

on my mind. And this remedy would occur to my

memory not only in cases of effusion into the

pericardium, but also in hydrothorax and ascites.

The important observation of Neumann - that diabetes is

always preceded by a diminution in the activity of the

kidneys - will be often serviceable in our consideration

of the medicines. It will, for example, help to confirm

the supposition that not much is to be expected from

Argentum in cases of diabetes, and that this disease is

mentioned in our repertories in connection with silver in

this manner: HAHNEMANN, distrusted the alleged

diuretic properties of nitrate of silver. Rather he

ascribed to it powers that are exactly the reverse. But as

far as I know, he does not adduce a single instance of its

efficacy.

While studying the symptoms of Phosphoric acid, we

should call to mind the same observation that is also the

recorded experience of its efficacy in several cases of

milky urine - a kind of diabetes.

In this manner we will see that a large number of the

symptoms may be pathologically connected.

During the first reading and comparison, the symptoms

arrange themselves, as it were, into some sort of definite

form. Thus we gain a collective impression of the whole

that we retain in the memory, and recall to mind in all

cases where the remedy is suitable.

-- The Second Reading --

During a second perusal of the medicine, attention

should be directed at the character of the symptoms. The

former perusal was but a preparation for this step. The

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character of the pains in different parts should be

compared - all pains or other sensations of the same, or

a similar or a nearly related kind, that occur in different

parts should be carefully observed.

If this is done, it will be found, for example, that

burning pains occurring frequently in various parts are

not peculiar to Arsenic and Carbo-vegetabilis alone, but

they also occur in Phosphoric acid and other

substances. The mind will take a comprehensive view of

them, and a complete picture of them will be retained.

At the same time, attention must be paid to the parts

where these pains principally occur. Thus, we note

whether the burning pains are more in the mucous

membranes, or in the serous cavities, or in other parts.

For instance, the burning pain in the case of Arsenic

occurs most frequently internally, in the blood vessels.

In the case of Carb. veg. pain is seen more externally, in

the skin and joints.

Both substances cause burning in the stomach and

bowels, but Arsenic to a greater degree. On the other

hand, Carb. veg. causes much more in the breast - and

so forth.

In every substance where the same description of pain

prevails, an attentive examination will show the

characteristic features of each.

We will soon discover that certain kinds of pain prevail

in certain organs and tissues, e.g., tearing in the

muscles, dartings in the chest, cuttings in the abdomen,

pressure in the head, compression in the ears, boring in

the bones, etc. But this we shall enter into more

particularly in another place.

This tends much to assist the memory, both directly and

indirectly - the circumstance of an unusual pain

occurring in any organ would be the more observed. A

number of isolated symptoms are, moreover, more

easily remembered in connection - when placed side by

side.

For example, with respect to Aurum, it produces

determination of blood to the head, to the chest, to the

eyes; toothache from a similar cause; determination of

blood to the legs; and many other symptoms that may be

found to be connected with these.

An accordance of many of the symptoms of different

organs may often be observed. Thus Caust. has sparks,

flickerings, figures, an appearance of gauze before the

eyes. Also, it has ringing, whistling; singing, chirping in

the ears.

On the other hand, Phosph. has points and spots, dark,

black, and gray veils before the eyes; loud noises,

buzzing, throbbing in the ears.

After the moral symptoms have been arranged in

groups, they may be easily impressed on the memory by

comparing them with the corresponding symptoms of

other organs.

Thus anxiety, melancholy, etc., are to be compared with

the symptoms of the heart and chest Ŕ or a weak,

wandering, or obstinate state of mind, is compared with

the frequently analogous symptoms of the digestive

organs. And so forth.

Section 5

-- The Third Reading --

At the third reading, the conditions under which the

symptoms take place should be noted. This must always

be done pen in hand, even though Ruckert's comparative

work be employed.

Doing it one self has great advantages, especially at the

commencement of the study. One is exercised thereby;

and all that has been previously learned is at the same

time revised.

It should be observed whether the symptoms take place

on the right side or the left. If this has not been done

previously, note at what part of the day they occur,

when our pathological knowledge will be of great

assistance to us. Observe in what attitudes, positions,

during what motions, etc., the symptoms occur.

Care should be taken not to indulge in vague

generalities, such as Ŗaggravation in the evening,ŗ

Ŗworse on motion,ŗ and the like. This is of small use in

acquiring knowledge of the medicine, and it is an

obstacle in the choice of it as a remedy.

What we wish to know is, what symptom is aggravated

in the evening or on motion. When possible, this

symptom should be noted along with some connecting

idea.

Since HAHNEMANN taught us to distinguish between

Bryon. and Rhus. by pointing out their opposite qualities

- motion producing aggravation in the one case and rest

in the other - it has frequently happened that too much

value has been assigned to this circumstance in the

choice of Bryon.

Many other similar remedies are distinguished by

possessing a similar pair of opposite properties - Bell.

and Hyosc.; Nux. and Puls.; Chin. and Seneg.; Phos.

and Nitr.; Sulph. and Con.; Carb. and Dros. These along

with many other substances bear the same relation to

each other as Bryon. and Rhus.

Bell. has a far larger number of symptoms that are

worse on motion than Bryon. - yet the symptoms that

are worse on motion are perfectly distinct. As regards

Bell., they occur mostly in the vascular system. With

Bryon. they are chiefly to be found in the joints. The

symptoms of the respiratory organs with Bryon. are not

aggravated by motion. However, those produced by

Bell. are decidedly so.

One should be careful of coming to a converse

conclusion. I mean to say, in the case of a remedy

having a number of symptoms that are aggravated by

rest, it does not follow that they will be ameliorated by

motion, and vice versa. Thus Dulc. has many symptoms

that are better on motion, but very few that are worse

when at rest.

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The Fourth Reading

The remedy may be perused yet a fourth time, with

particular attention being paid to the combinations of

the symptoms. The student may carefully observe what

symptoms follow each other or occur simultaneously.

However, the attention must have been previously

directed to this point. When this was not the case, the

student should seek to bring these combinations into

connection with his former observations.

Care should be taken not to adopt the notion that a

remedy can cure groups of symptoms in a patient only if

they occur in the order it produces them. A remedy is

capable of curing groups of symptoms which it does not

produce in the same combination at all - groups whose

component parts were observed in a number of different

provers, and frequently in quite a different order.

From a pathological point of view, a special study of a

medicine which compares it at the same time to

different forms of disease may be useful after a

thorough knowledge of the symptoms of the medicine

has been acquired. Experience teaches us that a number

of apparently perfectly different diseases, which are far

asunder in pathological works, may still be cured with

the same remedy.

It would consequently be necessary to go over almost

all diseases in connection with the remedy.

This would be a great waste of time, and would not lead

to a perfect knowledge of the remedy after all - our

pathological systems are very far from being complete

enough for this.

It would be well, however, to compare the description

of individual forms of disease, with many classes of

remedies. Thus, for instance, those catarrhs which

indicate Mercury and allied medicines are very

dissimilar to those in which Arsenic, and medicines of

its class, are efficacious.

Section 6

HOW OTHER MEDICINES ARE TO BE

CONNECTED TO THIS ONE

After a thorough acquaintance with one or more

remedies has been gained in the above manner, the

student must then pass on to others. The best course will

be to go on next to those most nearly allied.

The study of the second remedy is already somewhat

easier. This is partly owing to the practice that has been

had in acquiring knowledge of the symptoms, and partly

because deviations from the character of the last studied

medicine become more vividly impressed upon our

mind.

We must, consequently, have a very clear perception of

these differences. They must assist us to attain a distinct

idea of the peculiarities of the second medicine, as well

as to stamp the knowledge of the first more forcibly on

our memory.

Therefore we must search for resemblances and observe

differences in the more prominent symptoms - and in

those that are more easily remembered, rarer, and more

striking.

I have called attention above, in the examples of Bryon.

and Bell., Caust. and Phosph., Arsen. and Carb. veg., to

the fact, that medicines which otherwise present great

similarities in their symptoms, are yet widely different

in certain respects.

No regard needs to be paid to slight differences, nor

even to whole groups of symptoms which one of the

medicines has, and the other has not. No attention need

be given to the fact that, in one case many symptoms are

known, while with the other, very few are.

These factors may, however, demand our attention in

cases where the different characters of the remedies are

thereby marked - as in the case of Bell. compared with

Bryon. regarding the moral symptoms, the effects upon

the organs of the senses, the symptoms of the throat, etc.

The differences sometimes lie in the combinations of

symptoms, whereby they may present resemblances to

perfectly different diseases.

More frequently, and much more clearly, these

differences are expressed in the conditions under which

the symptoms occur. These are often exactly opposite.

Thus the very similar headaches produced by Bell. and

Bry. occur in the former in the evening, in the latter in

the morning.

These differences are sometimes very subtle. For

instance, most of the exacerbations of Acid. nitr. occur

in the evening, but those of Acid. mur. are before

midnight. Those of Acid. sulph. are after midnight, and

those of Acid. phosph. are seen towards the morning.

But all the acids present nocturnal aggravations.

Symptoms of an opposite character are rare. But

differences in nature are very frequent, as is the case in

the gastric symptoms of Bell. and Bry., Bry. and Ant.

crud., Ant. crud. and Ipec., etc.

Symptoms in opposite situations are more frequent.

Thus, similar symptoms are often distinguished by

occurring in one case on the right, in another on the left

side - as happens with Arn. and Lach and others.

The catarrhal affections of Bell. are distinguished from

those of Dulc. in that those of the former occur more in

the mucous membranes of the head and neck Ŕ in the

region of the carotids Ŕ where those of the latter occur

more in the chest and abdomen Ŕ in the course of the

descending aorta, etc.

Beginners are apt to attend too much to specialties when

making these comparisons. This over attention becomes

a very laborious task, and is apt to lead to a total

abandonment of the study.

There is, however, no better way of avoiding this error,

and of learning how to make one's self quickly the

master of the generalities, than to surmount undauntedly

the laboriousness of the beginning.

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On a second comparison, the mind is more accustomed

to the work. According to the talents and previous

acquirements of the student, will it be a longer or

shorter time before he comes to be able to complete the

comparison of two remedies in a few days.

We must caution those who pay too much attention to

specialties not to be so very minute, but above all things

to seek for points of crystallization. We must point out

to those who are disposed to be superficial that

important discoveries for practice may be made by a

careful comparison.

The comparisons may be very easily made by means of

Ruckert's systematic tables. The remedies to be

compared are to be sought out in each division, their

symptoms carefully read, and the result committed to

writing.

A separate column is assigned to each medicine. Those

symptoms which both have in common should be

written in the middle. When there is only similarity, the

sign of similarity should be placed in the middle

between them. Where opposites, or well-defined

differences exist, they should be distinguished by an

interposed arrow, etc.

It cannot be expected that anyone, least of all a

beginner, will compare every remedy with every other.

The student should select remedies for this purpose that

he considers to be analogous, and which are known to

possess important properties.

All remedies that are closely related by the source of

their derivation, must also be related with respect to

their symptoms. All that are chemically allied must be

so medicinally. Those possessing similar odors Ŕ as are

Phosph., Ars., All. sat., Asaf., and Bufo. Ŕ must possess

resemblances in their symptoms, etc.

The chemical preparations may be arranged in natural

families, according to one or other system.

Those nearly related are thus compared, e.g., Sulph. and

Phosph.; Chlor. and Iod.; the carbons and Graph.; the

oxygenous acids, Nitr. ac., Sulph. ac., and Phosph. ac.

are compared with each other, and with the

hydrogenous acids, Mur. ac., Hydrocyan. ac.

Further, Sil., Alum.; the carbonates of potash, soda, and

ammonia; Bar. and Stront.; Calc. and Magn.; the

muriates of soda and Am., Bar. and Magn. The acetates

of Cupr., Ferr., Plumb., Mang.; the metals Aur., Plat.,

Stann., Arg., and Zinc.

Interesting comparisons may be made between Phos.

ac. and Phos.; Sulph. ac. and Sulph.; as also Sulph. and

Hep., Hep. and Calc.

Section 7

MEDICINES FROM THE VEGETABLE

KINGDOM

Among medicines belonging to the vegetable kingdom,

those which may be compared as being nearly allied,

are:

Anac. and Rhus.

Bryon. and Coloc.

Ind. and Tong.

Op. and Chelid.

Spig. and Menyanth.

Viol. od. and Jac.

Thuya. and Sabin.

Coff., Ipec., Chin.

Colch., Verat., Sabad.

Euphr., Dig., Grat.

Lauroc., Prun. sp., Amyg. am.

Led., Rhod., Nux vom., Ign., Oleand.

Arn., Cham., Cin., Leont.

Asa., Cic., Con., Aet., Phell.

Bell., Caps., Hyosc., Stram., Tab., Verb.

Acon., Clem., Hell., Puls., Staph., Ran. bulb., and Sol.

The cryptogamous plants, Agar. musc., Bov., Lycop., are

too remote from each other - and yet their symptoms are

much more similar than those of the more nearly related

families of Solaneae and Ranunculaceae. Sec. can only

be judged from the cures it has effected - the symptoms

of it derived from epidemic diseases are not to be relied

on.

It is worthy of observation that the differences of those

substances which are allied in their origin lie principally

in the conditions of the symptoms; whereas those

substances nearly connected by the similarity of their

symptoms alone, agree merely in single departments of

symptoms, but in others have quite a different character

and seat.

Families of substances that are related only in their

symptom may be formed from such medicines as may

be employed with advantage in succession - or which

serve as antidotes to each other.

In the present state of homeopathic literature, the

formation of such families is a very hazardous

experiment. But they are of much greater practical value

than those formed from their natural affinity.

It is perfectly evident that substances that have a similar

origin must produce many similar symptoms. Our

business should be to search for the differences, in order

to avoid confusion.

When, however, minerals, plants, and animals, widely

different from each other, produce similar groups of

symptoms, there must be some deeper reason for this. It

must indicate the similarity of the medicinal to the

natural diseases.

Such allied medicines are in general the best antidotes

of each other. However - as must happen from the rules

laid down above - among the metals that form several

families, there are antidotes which are never found

among those that are nearly connected, but always

among those that are widely separated.

Thus it follows that Sel., Ars., and Am.; Plat. and

Argent.; Stan. Plumb., Zinc. and Nic.; Ferr. and Mang.

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do not antidote each other. But the metals Plumb. and

Plat.; Ferr. and Ars.; Am. and Merc. do.

Among plants there must be antidotes in each family,

and perhaps in each genus. There are, indeed separate

parts in every plant and animal, which seems to have a

power of neutralizing the effects of the others.

Other homeopathic writers have pointed out a close

connection between the two naturally allied substances

Nux. and Ign., on the one hand, and the symptomatically

allied Puls. - to which may be added Cham., Coff., and

Caps. We may, I think, also reckon Ambr. among these.

Another family is Ars., Verat., Ipec., Asar., to which we

may add Ferr. and Chin.; perhaps also Staph., and Ac.

sulph.

Sulph., Calc., and Lyc. are well known as doing well in

succession Ŕ to which may be joined Led., and in

another point of view, Therid.

One of the most remarkable and beautiful families is

Hep., Merc., Bell., and Lach. Between these and those

allied to Arsen., may be placed Phos. ac. and Carb.

veg., and those related to them, as also Cupr., and on

another account Aur.

Anyone who has thoroughly made himself master of

two or three families, and then from time to time makes

a comparison between two remedies which appear to

him to be related Ŕ and between which he has frequently

needed to make a most accurate choice in practice, as

for instance, Sulph. and Ferr.; Phos. and Caust.; Ars.

and Carb. v.; Bell. and Bry.; Bry. and Rhus.; Rhus. and

Dulc., etc. - this homeopathic doctor gradually obtains

such an extensive basis of knowledge that all the rest of

the remedies are acquired without difficulty.

If a crystal of salt is suspended in a saturated solution of

the same salt, the most beautiful crystals collect upon it.

So, one who is acquainted with a large number of

medicines in the above manner, can thereafter compare

every medicine with every other in a very short time -

and without many quires of paper.

This must happen before our Materia Medica, which

ought to belong to the natural sciences, can be looked

upon as one of them.

(From "Wirkungen des Schlagengiftes", Allentown

und Leipzig, bei C. Kummer, 1837. British

Homeopathic Journal, Vol. II, 7/1844. Modernized

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2. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE

HOMEOPATHIC RESPONSE

M. ENGLISH John

(The BHJ. 70, 1/1981)

Research and Homeopathy

There seems to have been a tendency in the past for

homeopathic research to be introverted and

introspective. Having thought of one method of

research, like the one being discussed this morning, if

you do clinical proving, or re-provings of

Hahnemannian Homeopathy, it should not be

considered the only one. There are other types of

questions which are legitimate ones to ask. A map of

the area to be covered might include:

Academic studies: Questions to be askedŕDo

potencies produce physiological responses in the body?

What are the physiological and biochemical responses

to homeopathic treatment? Does it work clinically?

This is the function of the evaluation study to answer.

There is also a need to look at the relationships between

the part of our work which borders on psychology.

Intra-homeopathic studies: Not enough is known

about our provings and proving methods. High and low

potencies are used and we need to know which work

better, in what circumstances. There are local

symptoms, general symptoms and mental symptoms,

and their relative importance needs defining.

Comparative history taking needs to be done, weighing

the subjects differently, to find out which are really

important symptoms. These subjects only interest the

homeopathic physician.

Methodology

It requires different methodologies to do these

different sorts of work. Some .of the scientific projects

in the laboratory must be carried out by suitably trained

technicians. Some require the co-operation of

clinicians practising in hospitals and general practice.

One of the methods that ought to be used is

epidemiology. Is there a value in knowing the number

of remedies we use, how often we use them; for what

conditions do we use them, and in what sort of people?

General practice showed.early in this century the overall

value of epidemiology, in establishing the incidence of

disease. Could it not also show us something of the

incidence of the use of remedies, and would not that

have a wider effect in showing us something about the

people we are treating? That tool, should be used as

well as the clinical evaluations already undertaken and

planned.

This morning we heard about the intra-

homeopathic material, and later on we are going to hear

something more related to the scientific basis of what

we do.

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This discussion about subliminal Body Cues is

based on Alexander LOWEN's book on the "Language

of Body".

Body language

The factor of "imprinting" was mentioned this

morning. If there is an incident in which there is pain

and emotion, the environment in which it occurs will

make a different impression, and this includes the

thoughts passing through the mind at the time, and the

things that others say. The effect stored in the body will

be different than when an incident occurs without pain.

It will affect the muscle tension, the posture a person

adopts, and these have a reciprocal effect on other

organs of the body. These bring into play the accepted

musculo-musculo, musculo-cutaneous, and viscero-

muscular and viscero-cutaneous reflexes. This has

come out quite a lot in Acupuncture work, which uses

skin stimulation to treat both muscular and visceral

complaints. These things are closely inter-related, and

Psychology shows how the earlier experiences in

particular, have an ultimate effect in the way the whole

body works.

Dr. CLOVER rightly pointed out that it is a

mistake, in some ways, to divide us up into a separate

Psyche and Soma. They are so closely related in the

way they function that we ought to consider them an

integral whole.

Alexander LOWEN was a pupil of REICH, who in

turn was a pupil of FREUD. Thus his work derives

from the psycho-analytic school. He was more

interested in the way the body was implicated in

psychological problems. In his character analysis he

noted that the muscles became rigid in different areas

for different sorts of psychological disturbances. He

invented the term "Character analysis".

LOWEN described seven different types of

character. His descriptions are partly psychological and

partly physical. The types are: Oral and masochistic;

hysterical; phallic; narcissistic; passive feminine;

schizophrenic; and schizoid. His descriptions read

remarkably like drug pictures; not that one recognizes,

for example, a Pulsatilla patientŕbut the overall type

is very similar.

There might well be useful correlation of this work

with Homeopathy. To understand what is meant, two

of his characters will be briefly discussed.

The oral character: Such a person has a great desire to

talk, gets pleasure from talking, likes to talk about

himself and be the centre of attention. He has exaggera-

ted opinions of himself, but can get depressed and can

have a cyclical changeable nature. He has periods of

activity and elation, and periods of depression. His

attitude to life is expressed by: "I don't know what I

want"; he has difficulty in conceiving what his desires

really are. These last two characteristics are not as

easily translated into homeopathic terminology as the

earlier ones are.

He has weak aggressive feelings. He cannot easily

get angry; he may make a noise, and shout and bluster,

but the feeling is not there with the noise. He clings, he

sucks your energy; he wants a lot from other people to

fulfill his own feeling of inner emptiness. He is

envious. He sees other people being more fortunate

than himself. Parsimony, melancholic seriousness,

pessimism, are all characteristics. He will make an

effort to get things he craves. He is restless. He has a

morbid appetite for food, and if you go back to the

Freudian basis for this type, he has oral-sexual

perversions. There is the early basis for this in the oral

stage of development.

Physiologically such people lack energy they have

a low blood pressure and have a low metabolic rate.

They have a characteristic posture which differs from

the normal. They push their heads forward, their pelvis

is tilted forward, and their backs are bent; they stand

with their legs firmly pressed back with their knees

locked, which makes the whole of their lower half stiff.

Their feet are tilted forward. The normal person is more

upright with their feet ready poised to spring forward,

ready for action. A lot of the stress in the oral character

is taken in the spine so that the neck muscles are tense,

but the abdominal muscles are superficially soft. They

have a feeling of inner emptiness, which goes with a

depression in the sternum, and is felt in the epigastrium

and lower chest.

The masochistic character:

The character on which REICH based his

description used to get episodes of paralytic anxiety,

which made him frantic at times. He used to get

backache, and attacks of flu-like illness, and had some

weight loss. He could not work, yet he complained of a

compulsion to be busy. He had little interest in sex; was

inert and sat and brooded. He had negative feelings

toward other people; contempt, resentment and a desire

to belittle them. His hair was dry and began to fall out

and started to get grey. He had varicose veins. In his

early life, toilet training had been a great problem and

he was constipated, and he had had enemas and manual

evacuations. His mother had forced food down him and

he remembered being chased round the kitchen with

spoonfuls of food he did not want to eat. At this

present time he had problems about food, an

understandable dislike of food, and nausea. He deve-

loped terrifying nightmares. He noticed that his penis

was withdrawing into his scrotal sack, and that gave him

a lot of fear and anxiety as well. He had a fear of

physical contact. At school he had been a coward,

although he was well developed muscularly, which is

quite characteristic. He abdicated his rights rather than

fight for them; he was too frightened to compete with

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his contemporaries. He had tremendous anxieties at

puberty and masturbated a lot. He had fears when he

was near a girl about what would happen with these

longings he had, and he never managed to overcome it,

and had continuing sexual problems.

The masochistic personality has a great sense of

suffering, a great sense of complaint, of self-

deprecation, a compulsion to harm or torture other

people. They become very awkward in their

relationships with other people. When they are in a

therapeutic relationship they expect a lot to be done for

them. They "whine" about it, and have anger toward the

person who is trying to help. No one can ever succeed

in helping them because, basically, the person wants to

prove that helping them is impossible.

They brood, yet do not have a real depression. They

have a feeling of despair and hopelessness and

humiliation. Continued failures in life happen, which

justifies the feeling of inadequacy. REICH's character

had the idea of a devil inside him, laughing at him all

the time, and was related to his nightmares and the

chasing by his mother. The therapist related it to the

contortions his face would get into under any sort of

emotional stress.

The physical stature which goes with that

psychological type is of a heavily built person, with a

short, thick neck and good muscular development. Their

thighs and calves are huge by comparison with their

bodies. They tend to be dark in colour with dark hair.

Their muscles are tense and screwed up, especially their

abdominal muscles. They hold their buttocks in a tight

way. Their shoulders are broad, always held tightly.

The legs get so inflexible as to make bending difficult.

They have high foot arches, a contrast to the oral

person, who has flat feet.

The mentals of these personalities sound like one of

our homeopathic remedies. If the mentals correspond

to the physical description, do we in fact use all those

physical "Signals" as much as we could in choosing the

correct remedy? Could we, by taking more note of the

things which REICH and LOWEN have discovered,

increase what we gain from observation? We do gain a

lot from observation. Those of you who were here

yesterday will remember Frank JOHNSON's beautiful

description of the man with the rolled umbrella and

gloves. One of the comments on the paper '

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Subliminal

Body Cues in Homeopathic Prescribing" produced for

the Midland Research Group for consolidation of

comment, is very descriptive. It is a comment by

Dr.Frank BODMAN, and it is probably the last thing

related to Homeopathy that he wrote, because he wrote

it a month before he died in January this year:

"I might offer an analogy; as I walk down the street,

I see ahead of me a figure that reminds me of an old

friend. The tilt of the hat, the carriage of the head, the

hunch of the shoulders, the swing of the arms, the gait,

all these items are not consciously observed, but the

brain computes a gestalt. But I am not sure of

recognition until he performs an entirely individual

action, such as kicking against the pavement an empty

cigarette carton; he never could tolerate any obstruction

in his path. It is this unique action that confirms my

idea that it is my old friend ahead. So it is my feeling

that these body cues, valuable as they are, and often

subconsciously assessed, should be consciously studied

and taught, especially relevant as they are to the

homeopathic picture. I still suspect that the unique

feature belonging to each remedy may escape analysis".

ŕ and he concludes about the proposal: "I would

suggest if such a project were undertaken, a limited

number of remedies should be investigated to begin

with".

We do use a great many body cues already. The

idea arose at the British Homeopathic Congress

Meeting in Norwich last year. Dr. CLOVER was in the

group where the use of these cues was discussed, and it

was thought the information could be used better if it all

became more conscious. Both as a general idea and as a

study, it is possible to use some of the information that

other people find out about psychological typing and the

relation between body types and Psychology.

Using Kent, the masochistic tendencies come

through the Repertory: hatred, malice, misanthropy,

cruelty, criticism, brooding, anxiety with guilt,

contrariness, contempt, the delusional feeling about the

devils, despair, discontent, fear of touch,

quarrelsomeness, sexual excess. The remedies which

come out are: Sulphur, Nux vomica, Anacardium,

Aurum (although LOWEN comments the patient is not

truly depressed, and Aurum is meant to be). Arsenicum,

Lycopodium, Mercury, and Platinum, Lachesis and

Alumina come through with at least nine of the rubrics.

The group of remedies which would come through the

oral personality would include some of the same ones,

but they would also include the Pulsatilla and

Phosphorus types of people.

Should not these remedies be thought of when

seeing patients with the typical postures and their

characteristic mental symptoms? Or when Sulphur, Nux

and Anacardium patients are seen, should one not look

to see if they have that body configuration? Could one,

as is suggested in the "subliminal cues", study, pick out

some people who are typically masochistic, or oral, as

identified by experts in that field, and then see which

remedy fits? Could the remedy chosen have the right set

of symptoms? That is, right in comparison with what the

body language people identified. That is the way we

could each learn from the other discipline.

DISCUSSION

Dr. PINSENT opened the discussion by asking how

many present would be able to recognize their friends

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and their friends' constitutional types when they see

them out shopping, etc.

Dr CAPEL: I wonder if it is relevant that one tends

to see all those characteristics in oneself.

Dr ENGLISH: What is being described in the

textbook is an extreme example, just as we are given

extreme examples of the homeopathic constitutions, for

instance, the Arsenicum person. Surely many of the

patients we see and many of the characteristics LOWEN

has mentioned in his book, fall between the defined

limits. If we set out to divide people into water-tight

compartments without attempt at typology, we would be

disappointed. There are so many variables, we are not

going to succeed: People vary much from one to the

next. We can show which traits exist, and obviously

they combine in different ways in individuals. It would

be useful to see if there is a balance in favour of the

"masochistic" or "oral" type, for instance, just as there

is a balance in favour of our giving Arsenicum at a

particular time.

Dr. LOKARE: When one tries to' describe

characteristics, one has to be very careful. Are we

describing a person when he is ill, with, characteristics

which are the signs and symptoms of the illness, or are

we describing an individual when he is well? If we do

not separate the two, we might end up by having

everyone who looks to be within a given range of

remedies being called invalids. These are organic

characteristics, but the person has many others. It is a

universal problem. The signs and symptoms you

observe in any patient are modified by the way you see

them and your previous experience. You made an

assessment before and you know it works. We must

decide whether the description of types we are trying to

standardize are of basic human characteristics, or are

they part of a human being when he is ill? In

Psychology, people were being looked at and described

when they were ill, and then it was realized that there

were lots of other people who were not ill, with similar

characteristics and they did not need any medical help.

The tendency then was to measure characteristics on an

arbitrary scale, but it could be that we end up

communicating with ourselves, using our own personal

clues. If we are going to standardize information, we

must make some such statement as: is this characteristic

always, sometimes, or never, seen in a patient that is ill?

Dr LEWIS: We should bring in the comparison

between objectivity and subjectivity. The one thing that

has always bothered me about constitutional prescribing

is that one is basing it on the characteristic.of the patient

as they project it. Alastair JACK saw a friend of mine

and his analysis of the person, from my point of view,

missed out one important fact - that she was basically a

very selfish person, and she would be the last person to

actually recognize this, but one saw it in her everyday

behaviour. In a medical consultation she would be a

very sympathetic person. I think it is this inward-person

and outward person, one has to contend with. It

reminds me of that character in Cancer Ward (by

Alexander SOLZHENITSYN, translated 1969), who

was trying to devise a method analysing voices; it seems

to be an endless series of problems.

Dr ENGLISH: You make the point for me. Body

language people tell you that the body does not lie. If

the person says "I'm.not angry", but their body says "I'm

angry", that is, they may have a "put on", smile on their

face but the rest of their body posture will tell if they are

angry or not. Their words are less accurate. The body

language gives you more basic information than the

person will tell you.

Dr LOKARE: When a person comes into your

consulting room and sits down, he demonstrates a

physical habit, which at an earlier stage may have had

some meaning, but later on it is merely an habitual

response. You cannot always say that this characteristic

is a sign of illness, or that it is meaningful in this present

circumstance. If you identify a physical characteristic

with anxiety, you still cannot say that when it is shown

in a person it always denotes an anxious person.

Dr. ENGLISH: Its rather, like when you have an acute

similimum; you must prescribe a remedy which suits the

acute stage the patient is presenting. The Chamomilla

person can be very charming and pleasant, but when

they are in pain it is then they show the changed

personality when they need a dose of Chamomilla. You

are saying that some of the physical characteristics are

deeply ingrained. Whether they are entirely

meaningless, I do not know; but LOWEN says they

have become "second nature". The dog that bit them

may have caused a tic to develop, but it is still present

thirty years later. Life is an onion skin, and if you once

get through the first stage, it may be you can get down

to dealing with that other one later.

Dr. LOKARE: They are sometimes relevant and

sometimes not. People going through the same

experience do not respond in the same way. If you have

learnt a certain behavior response, we can also teach

new ways of responding, and change them without

having to go back to the original experience.

Dr. PINSENT: Can we say with any justification, that

once one has a mature individual, and one ascribes a

constitutional type to that individual, there is no danger

whatever that his constitutional type will change? Can

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one fingerprint people, can one derive a constitutional

type that can be tattoo'd under the arm for the benefit of

clinicians? It made life a lot easier to have blood groups

tattoo'd under the arm during the war.

Dr. ENGLISH: My concept of a constitutional type is

one which covers the body and the way it functions.

There are aspects of the body which are going to be

fairly fixed, like the colour of the eyes, but there are

other aspects of it that are subject to change; even

posture is liable to change and even more so, reactions

and habits, and the metabolic rate. I do not think the

constitution as such is an entity sufficient to describe in

that way. Parts of it will definitely changeŕsome parts

of it will change at greater rates than others.

Dr. BOYD: I do not think that people stay in a mould. I

certainly think the constitutional concept is useful in

selecting remedies at certain periods of life. The total

reaction of man to his environment is changing all the

time, as he grows, gets married and has a career. About

Dr ENGLISH's propositionŕI can understand our

looking more deeply and observing patients, looking for

clues to help us get the remedy, but I cannot see any

relationship between trying to fit remedies to all these

personalities described, and how I treat patients or look

at people. It seems quite irrelevant.

Dr. ENGLISH: It is interesting that some of the

symptomatology you find in a book like LOWEN's is

very much like what we are used to. Some of the

concepts do not fit terribly well and yet they are

valuable ways of looking at people. I think that the

homeopathic tradition, through HAHNEMANN and

KENT, has done tremendously good job in sorting out

what characteristics people can have. I do not think it is

complete, nor does it have an accurate balance, because

it relies on histories people give themselves. The parts

they do not see for themselves get left out. We do not

have a description of all the types of behaviour or

attitudes that are relevant. When you grasp the concepts

in another discipline, it gives you a deeper

understanding and makes you think more about what

people are like. I find it useful. There is this possibility

of enriching one's own conceptual basis of the nature of

people, and therefore the nature of the remedies, in the

end.

Dr. BOYD: I view the classification of LOWEN as a

vaguely interesting observation, but of no real relevance

in therapy. What does identifying a person as a

masochistic do for LOWEN to help that person?

Dr. ENGLISH: It suggests lines of approach for his

form of treatment, bio-energetic treatment. The patient

with anger tied up in his shoulders would be encouraged

to express anger and use the muscles of his shoulder to

do it. Yes, his conceptual framework does tie up with

his form of therapy. One could use other terms such as

"sitting slovenly on a chair" or "sitting upright and

tidying himself".

Dr. CLOVER: We may be getting rather confused by

the terms here. I remember being taught by Dr. BOYD

that we use Staphisagria for suppressed anger. We

accept it in this way. We accept a Calc.carb. pictureŕ

Dr CAMBELL wrote down "Calc.carb. type", although

he has reservations about the validity of types. "When

we talk about the oral and masochistic types, we are in a

particular point of approach and use of language.

Dr. BOYD: Yes, we do use remedies because of

suppressed emotions or attitudes. It does not matter to

me whether you label these with special psychological

terms. I will certainly use the same information, and

observe it.

Dr. PINSENT: Let us forget FREUD and think about

JANNER and all that work on somatotypes: the

extrovert, the introvert, the long and the short, the big

fat one, the little thin oneŕdo you get guidance from

that sort of observation?

Dr. BOYD: Yes, we do consider patient types.

Anthony CAMPBELL has been pointing out we can get

so engrossed in this trying to fit people into the shape

and colour of a remedy... these physical characteristics,

that we completely miss a Pulsatilla that isn't fair, for

example. You can use these things if they go along with

the totality picture of the symptoms, but you should not

be put off if the patient has the totality but does not have

that particular posture.

Dr. JACK: When it comes to prescribing, your patient

may be a clear cut Calc., very chilly, etcŕKENT and

BORLAND say they may change to need Lycopodium

and then Sulphur. You can never say I found that person

was a Pulsatilla a year ago and that is the medicine they

are going to need now. We all have this experience,

circadian rhythms over weeks. You go through phases

when developing a cold; suddenly you become shivery

and want external warmth, but at other times you can't

tolerate heating and need a totally different group of

medicines. Even if you find at the time of consultation

a constitutional medicine, you are not going to find the

solution to that person's problems for the rest of his life.

It is not just growing up, but in the course of a year,

changes do occur.

Dr LOKARE: Whatever method you use you will alter

your prescribing in a year's time.

Dr. JACK: I think the danger that must be avoided is to

say that we are altering constitutional types. Doctors

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coming to our courses get the impression, that we are

doing that, and this is certainly not so.

Dr. DAVIES: The important thing to remember is

Professor KNOX's (Dept. of Gen. Practice, Dundee

University) discussion of your paper, that it would be

very useful educationally, to define what we are looking

for. You are trying to bring to our attention the things

we subliminally observe in a specific clinical situation,

when we choose a remedy. You are not necessarily

defining a rigid concept of Pulsatilla or a personality,

but you are rather looking at things that are not

characteristic. As had been pointed out in the

discussion, the way a homeopath looks at a patient is

different, and this can contribute to our knowledge

about the way to look at people. Homeopathy has

something to contribute to the psychological aspects of

a personality, and it would help us homeopaths to know

what we are looking for in a situation.

Dr. ENGLISH: The trial I designed would actually

make a person go through a formalized series of

movements which were then video-taped. These would

be analysed by people who are body language experts,

who would say the following is likely for this subject.

The homoeopath could then take a history to find the

remedy, and the observations would be correlated.

Dr DAVIES: We should use the video-tape in an actual

clinical situation, pointing out to the student the things

to note. An ordinary doctor might not note the red nose,

or the herpes on the lip, or that the pupils were dilated.

The observations the homoeopath makes in choosing

the remedy are different from those the ordinary doctor

makes in a clinical examination and for diagnosis. You

have pointed out these are the things we should codify,

analyse and record.

Dr. ENGLISH: Yes, and be more conscious of. That

would make us better at our job.

Dr. PINSENT: I think, Dr. DAVIES, you are being a

little hard on the ordinary general practitioner, because

these are the very things he can pick up better than

anyone else.

Dr. SEMPLE: The view that one gets can change

incredibly rapidly, with a minute change of viewpoint,

(if you happen to be standing in a hall of mirrors). At

the core of our discussion we have a relatively constant

body of information; the shape of the chromosomes

(give or take a bit of radiation or drug-induced damage

here and there), coupled up with the enzyme systems of

the body. This then, as a genotype, can be reflected out

into a phenotype, and the phenotype in turn can be

tremendously influenced by the environment in which

the person finds himself. What we are actually seeing at

the superficial clinical presentation level is really

several times mirrored from the deep-down structural

base from which it springs. It does seem to me that

some of the things that we say talking about

constitutions and constitutional types are implying

something of the permanence of the genotype to the

reflections. These are, of course, much more liable to

modification because the mirrors, through which these

things are being transmitted, are slightly curved and are

catching a lot of other aspects as well. We are seeing a

blurred image out of the mirage. Anything that can help

us to clarify our thoughts (a computer processing and a

computer enhancement) of that blurred image so that we

can get nearer to the true picture, is to welcomed.

People find different tricks helpful in this situation.

Body types have not been helpful to me in the past, but

new ideas have been opened up today and I look

forward to exploring them.

Dr. PINSENT: I feel that we cannot close this phase of

the meeting without the observation that Dr.ENGLISH,

in para. 2 of his Summary of the Method he would

follow in recording subliminal body cues, gives a very

good description of what happens every November at

the Miss World Competition on television. I wonder if

next year he could report on the particular constitutional

remedies prescribable to the ladies who will be fulfilling

his instructions precisely on the screen.

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3. Hartlaub & Trinks Pure Materia Medica: to save it

or to lose it?

(IJHDR. 2, 5/2003)

Introduction

Homeopathic Medicine is grounded on the

similarity between provings symptoms and the patientřs

symptoms. Any pathogenetic symptom is always an

empirical fact, not a theoretical postulate. The full set of

symptoms elicited by a remedy in a healthy individual is

called a proving; the collection of provings constitute a

Materia Medica. Hence, Materia Medica preserve

experimental phenomena not only to be applied in

actual practice but a source for a future deeper

understanding of symptoms, especially regarding the

continual advancement of Medicine. Facts survive time

provided they are known.

This is one of the main differences between

Homeopathy and allopathic Medicine. Our pure Materia

Medica always preserves its accuracy, time only helps

us to discover many previously unrealized features.

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If provings survive time provided they are known,

they depend upon publication and use; books not read

tend to vanish into dust.

Hartlaub & Trinks Pure Materia Medica (Reine

Arzneimittellehre)

(5)

is one of the few collections of

provings available to homeopaths. Others are: T. F.

Allenřs, Hahnemannřs, Hughes & Dakeřs, Stapfřs

Archiv and perhaps a couple more. Besides them, there

are collections of the provings of a small number of

remedies, such as Mureřs, Heringřs American Provings,

Vienna Provings Ŕ the latter two, commercially

unavailable Ŕ, J. Sherrřs new remedies and some

isolated publications. All other sources are mere

compilations or clinical Materia Medica.

Hence, the main pathogenetic compilations

available are six, and it is rarely remembered that they

are our main textbooks. To this, we must add the fact

that Stapfřs Archiv and Hartlaub & Trinksř Materia

Medica have not been fully translated into English (and

perhaps, into any other language), which makes them

very little known out of Germany.

What we know about them is merely what

HAHNEMANN and ALLEN included in their

compilations; the former made short versions and

omitted many symptoms, the latter made partial

translations of the symptoms that HAHNEMANN

rejected.

Thus, we may say that one-third of pathogenetic

compilations are available exclusively in their original

German language, which explains the reason why their

contents has not been included in neither repertories nor

other Materia Medica.

The main purpose of the present article is to bare

the tip of the iceberg, through the exposition of a few

mental symptoms mentioned by Carl Georg Christian

Hartlaub and Carl Friedrich Trinks, in order to

understand the importance of these provings and

awaken an interest in their use.

Materials and methods

Research was conducted in the sourcesř original

language

(3, 5)

and their English translation when

available

(1, 4)

. Our main purpose was to get new data

for the construction of our Homeopathic Concordance

(9)

, a task that the author has been developing for the

last 8 years.

Homeopathic concordance involves the comparison

of repertorial rubrics and the pathogenetic texts that

originated them. This supplies the clinician immediate

access to pathogenetic symptoms in the course of the

consultation, without having to conduct a full research

in all sources. After properly describing the patientřs

symptom, it is located in the repertory as a rubric and

the Concordance indicates the remedy that expressed it

in similar terms.

This research acquainted us with many symptoms

in Hartlaub & Trinks Materia Medica that werenřt used

by Hahnemann nor Allen Ŕ partially or fully. We also

found symptoms mistakenly translated.

We divided data into four categories: omission of

modality; partial or full omissions; mistakes in

translation and confirmations. What will be shown is

not the full result of our research but a few examples.

Abbreviations and definitions of terms

A1- Allenřs Encyclopedia

(1)

H2 - Hahnemannřs Chronic Diseases

(3, 4)

HLB2 Hartlaub & Trinks Reine Arzneimittellehre

(5)

We have kept abbreviations used in the original sources

to indicate the source of symptoms:

C: Caspari.

Frz: Franz.

Hb or Htb: Hartlaub.

Htb. U. Tr. : Hartlaub & Trinks.

Ng: Cajetan Nenning.

Terms concerning the times of day have been translated

according to Horst Barthel and Will Klunker

Repertory

(2)

:

Morning (früh, Morgen): 5-9:00 a.m.

Forenoon (Vormittags): 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Afternoon (Nachnittags): 1-6:00 p.m.

Evening (Abends): 6-9:00 p.m.

Omissions of modality

ALUM - H2 - 17 Anxiety and apprehension as if he has

committed a crime. HLB2-3) Great apprehension and

anxiety, as if he had committed a great crime, forenoon.

ALUM -H2-17) Angst und Bangigkeit, als habe er ein

Verbrechen verübt (d. 5. T.). [Ng.] HLB2-3) Grosse

Bangigkeit und Angst, als habe er ein grosses

Verbrechen begangen, Vormittags (d. 5. T.).

CARB-AN -H2-5) Discouraged and sad; everything

seems so lonely and sad that she would like to cry.

HLB2-1)... for 1 hour, afternoon.

CARB-AN -H2-5) Kleinmütig und traurig; es kommt

ihr Alles so einsam und traurig vor, dass sie weinen

möchte (d. 3. T.). [Htb. u. Tr.] HLB2-1) Kleinmütig mit

trauriger Stimmung: Alles kommt ihr so einsam und

traurig vor, dass sie weinen möchte, 1 Stunde lang,

Nachmittags (d. 3. T.).

CARB-AN -A1-40) Confusion in the head in the

morning, she was vexed with everything she looked at.

HLB2-9) In the morning, on waking up, obnubilation in

head...

CARB-AN -H2-33) Gloominess in the head, in the

morning, and everything she looks at vexes her. [Htb. u.

Tr.]. A1-40) Confusion in the head in the morning, and

she was vexed with everything that she looked at, [a3].

CARB-AN -H2-33) Düsterheit im Kopf, früh, und es

verdriesst sie alles, was sie ansieht. [Htb. u. Tr.] HLB2-

9) Früh beim Aufstehen, Düsterheit im Kopfe, und es

verdriesst sie alles, was sie ansieht (d. 2. T.).

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PHOS -H2-17) Apprehension as if she was afflicted by

something, frequently recurring. HLB2-8) Waves of

heat with apprehension, as if she was afflicted by

something, soon passing and frequently recurring,

afternoon, sitting.

PHOS -H2-17) Bangigkeit, als sey ihr leid um Etwas,

öfterer wiederkehrend. [Ng.] HLB2-8) Hitzeaufsteigen

mit Bangigkeit, als wenn ihr um Etwas leid wäre, bald

vorübergehend und öfters wiederkehrend, Nachmittags

im Sitzen (Ng.).

SARS -H2-5) Great anxiety, first in head, then in whole

body, with shaking, mainly in the feet. HLB2-1) ...

forenoon.

SARS -H2-5) Grosse Ängstlichkeit, erst im Kopfe, dann

im ganzen Körper, mit Zittern, am meisten in den

Füssen. [Ng.] HLB2-1) Sehr ängstlich im Kopfe, dann

im ganzen Körper, mit Zittern, am meisten in den

Füssen; Vormittags.

Mistakes in translation

MAG-S -HLB2-9) Morning, on waking, anxiety as from

a bad conscience.

MAG-S -A1-4) Anxious, as if conscious of some evil,

in the morning on waking (thirteenth day), [a1].

MAG-S -HLB2-9) Früh beim erwachen, Angst wie von

bösem Bewusstein (d. 13. T.).

SEC -HLB2-29) Insanity: she understands nothing and

does not answer.

SEC -A1-3) Delirium; he makes no answer (in a child

eight years old), [a42].

SEC -HLB2-29) Wahnsinn: er verstand nichts, und

antwortete nich, bei einem 8jährigen Knaben

(Wichmann, a. a. O.).

VALER -HLB2-6) Remarkable happiness, almost

licentiousness, slight acceleration of the pulse.

VALER -A1-3) Remarkable liveliness with great

courage, with slight acceleration of the pulse, [a23].

VALER -HLB2-6) Ausgezeichnete Lustigkeit, welche

an Muthwillen grenzte, bei etwas schnellerem Pulse

(bald n. d. Einn.).

Partial or full omissions

AM-C -HLB2-1) He does not seem to be in his senses:

suddenly, he begins to tell that the bells are ringing

calling to church, no matter that it is not the [right] time

and it is not true; besides this, he speaks coherently.

(Translated by Tarcízio Freitas Bazílio) H2-31) She

seems besides herself.

AM-C -H2-31) Er scheint nicht recht bei sich zu seyn.

HLB2-1- Er scheint nicht recht bei sich zu seyn: er fängt

auf einmal an zu behaupten, man läute zur Kirche, ob es

gleich ausser der Zeit und nicht wahr ist; sonst redet er

zusammenhängend (d. 35. T.).

ANT-C -H2-18) Continual state of enthusiastic love and

ecstatic hope for an ideal female, who completely filled

his fantasy; more when walking in pure open air than in

the house; it went away after a few days, with an

apparent decrease of the sexual drive. HLB2-15) After a

few days, by the moonlight, it fell upon him a kind of

the most constant condition of ecstasy, yet it was not

fully a pure spirit of love, completely unknown to him,

concerning an ideal female, whose possession he most

ardently desired and he himself very vividly would

present, whose image sometimes would also fill his

fantasy most vividly, spontaneously it was in his mind

and it completely filled it. That state became maximal

by going into pure open air, it was less in the room, and

made him happier and enthusiastically placid.

Sometimes, his fantasy would vanish from his thought,

that he would not possible obtain that being, and this

would tie him to a melancholic disposition, wild, or that

he had to die, and would express it most sadly.

After a few days, it all went away and his sexual drive

became normal again.

ANT-C -H2-18) Anhaltender Zustand schwärmerischer

Liebe und ekstatischer Sehnsucht zu einem idealen

weiblichen Wesen, das seine Phantasie ganz erfüllte;

mehr beim Gehen in freier, reiner Luft, als in der Stube;

nach einigen Tagen, unter scheinbarer Verminderung

des Geschlechtstriebes verschwindend. [C.] HLB2-15)

Nach einigen Tagen, während des Mondscheines,

entstand ein mehre Tage anhaltender Zustand von

ekstatischer, wiewohl nicht ganz rein geistiger Liebe zu

einem ihm ganz unbekannten, blos idealen weiblichen

Wesen, dessen Besitz er sehr sehnlich wünschte und

sich sehr lebhaft vorstellte, deren Bild auch bisweilen

seiner Phantasie äusserst lebhaft selbst geschaffen

vorschwebte und sie ganz erfüllte. Beim gehen in

freier, reiner Luft war dieser Zustand am deutlichsten,

weniger in der Stube, und machte ihn da äusserst heiter

und schwärmerisch sanft. Einmal trat auch seiner

Phantasie der Gedanke entgegen, dass er dieses Wesen

vielleicht nicht erlangen könnte, und versetzte ihn in

eine düstere, wilde Stimmung, oder dass er es durch den

Tod verloren habe, und stimmte ihn höchst wehmüthig.

Nach einigen Tagen vorlor er sich allmählig und schien

eine Verminderung des Geschlechtstriebes

zurückzulassen (C.).

GRAPH -HLB2-187) Dream, that soldiers with their

spades would stick her; she wanted to run away but

couldnřt, hence she woke up with anxiety. 188) She

dreamed someone was making noises over her head,

hence she woke up frightened. 189) Dreamed as if

someone was whispering something in her ear; she

wanted to scream but couldnřt, no matter how much she

strained; she tried to get hold around and thought she

held a hand cold as dead, hence she woke up with

anxiety and perspiration.

GRAPH -HLB2-187) Traum, dass Soldaten mit dem

Säbel nach ihr stiessen; sie wollte ausweichen und

konnte es nicht, worüber sie mit Angst erwachte (n. 11

T.).] 188) Sie träumt, es mach Jemand über ihrem Kopfe

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Geräusch, worüber sie erschrocken erwacht. 189)

Traum, als flüstere ihr Jemand etwas ins Ohr; sie wollte

schrein und konnte es nicht, trotz aller Anstrengung

dazu; sie griff herum, und glaube eine Todtenhand zu

erfassen, worüber sie in Angst und Schweiss erwachte.

LAUR -HLB2-1) Depression and aversion to every

work. 11) He is irritable and little disposed to continual

and mental work. 15) Completely unable to think. 25)

All pain vanishes.

LAUR -HLB2-1) Niedergeschlagenheit und Abneigung

gegen alle Arbeit (Joh. Chr. Gottfr. Jörg, Materialen zu

einer künftigen Heilmittellehre, Leipzig 1825. p. 96.

97). 11) Er ist reizbar und wenig zu anhaltenden und

geistigen Arbeiten aufgelegt (Joh. Chr. Gottfr. Jörg, a. a.

O.). 15) Ganz unfähig zu denken (Hb.). 25)†

Verschwinden alles Schmerzes (Archiv für die Hom.

Heilk. Bd. V. Hft. 1. p. 18).

PHOS -H2-5) Sad and melancholic as if some accident

had fallen over his [family]. 13) Melancholy of spirit

and violent weeping, morning on wakening from a

saddening dream; he couldnřt restrict himself nor ease

his weeping and wailed instead for a quarter of an hour.

HLB2-4) In the morning, he woke up weeping violently

and with melancholy. He still remembered that some

very sad words of his mother affected him so much that

he was so moved that couldnřt stop crying nor soothe

himself, but continued to cry and wailed for a quarter of

an hour; two days later he was still sad and melancholic

and believed that during his absence, something bad had

happened at home (after 2 weeks). Three weeks later,

this fact came back very similarly, but in the morning he

only remembered that he had bitterly wept the night

before owing to something that he couldnřt remember

(Translation by Maren Boveri).

PHOS -H2-5) Traurig und melancholisch, als habe sich

unter den Seinen ein Unglücksfall ereignet. (n. 14 T.)

[Ng.] 13) Gemüthliche Melancholie und heftiges

Weinen, gegen Morgen, beim Erwachen aus einem

Wehmuth erregenden Traume; er konnte das Weinen

nicht stillen, noch sich beruhigen und jammerte noch

über eine Viertelstunde lang. [Htb.] HLB2-4) Gegen

Morgen Erwachen unter heftigem Weinen und

gemüthlicher Melancholie. Er wusste noch, dass ihn

einige Worte von seiner Mutter so wehmüthig gestimmt

und angegriffen hatten, dass er dazu genöthigt wurde: er

war so ergriffen, dass er das Weinen gar nicht stillen,

noch sich beruhigen konnte, sondern noch über eine

Viertelstunde fortweinte und jammerte, und zwei ganze

Tage darnach fortwährend ganz traurig und

melancholisch gestimmt war, und glaubte, es habe sich

in seiner Abwesenheit zu Hause ein Unglücksfall

ereignet (n. 2 Wochen). Drei Wochen später kehrte

dieser Fall ähnlich zurück, doch nur so, dass er sich am

Morgen erinnerte, er habe die vergangene nacht über

etwas Unerinnerliches bitterlich geweint (Hb.).

VALER -HLB2-1) Sensation as if mental functions

were lighter and faster, evening. 3) Unusual vivacity, in

the evening.

VALER -HLB2-1) Gefühl als gingen

Geistesverrichtungen leichter und lebhafter von Statten,

Abends. 3) Ungewöhnliche Munterkeit, in den

Abendstunden.

Confirmations

AM-C -HLB2-439) Dream, that he vomited blood and

flooded the room.

Compare to the symptom in Leila A. Rendell, The

Homeopathic Physician, July, 1881, p. 292. 202) Vivid

dreams; dream having nasal bleeding.

AM-C -HLB2-439) Traum, dass er Blut gebrochen und

dieses in die Stube hinfliesst (d. 54. T.).

ZINC -HLB2-3) Peevish, morose; she answered with

disgust, evening at 9 p.m.

Compare to two other provers that referred similar

symptoms. . A1-53) Answers were slow, and he talked

as if ill-humored [a52]. H2-21) Peevish, ill-humored for

a few days, inclined to internal rancor and vexation; he

is generally silent and becomes vexed when he has to

speak one word. [Frz.]

ZINC -HLB2-3) Mürrisch, ärgerlich: sie antwortet nur

mit Ueberdruss, Abends 9 Uhr (Ng.).

Discussion

In Alumina, Carbo animalis, Phosphorus and

Sarsaparilla, symptoms lack hourly or circumstantial

modalities.

The issue of time of day is questionable because it

may be never ruled out the possibility of chance. But

this doesnřt justify its omission from a pure Materia

Medica, because only time and comparison may

confirm or rule out any modality.

Mistakes in translation must be corrected. They

may be completely irrelevant, as in the case of Secale,

where Ŗinsanityŗ was substituted by Ŗdeliriumŗ. On the

other hand, they may be essential, as in the cases of

Magnesium sulphuricum, where the prover said that he

felt anxious as from a Ŗbad conscienceŗ instead of

Ŗaware of some evilŗ

1

; and Valeriana, where Ŗalmost

1

In German, nouns are written with a capital initial,

hence Bewusstsein may only be the noun

Ŗconsciousnessŗ and bösen, the adjective Ŗbadŗ; as in

VERAT -H1-312) Angst, wie von bösem Gewissen...

translated by Dudgeon as 690) Anxiety as from a bad

conscience...

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licentiousnessŗ was substituted by Ŗwith much

courageŗ

2

.

Omissions of symptoms or parts of them make

impossible their verification in patients and may even

lead to a mistaken choice of the remedy. Examples:

Ammonium carbonicum’s church bells, Graphites and

Ammonium carbonicumřs dreams; the lack of pain of

Laurocerasus and Phosphorus’ delusion that something

wrong happened at home.

Concerning omissions in Ammonium carbonicum,

the original source mentions a modality that proved to

be a characteristic feature of the remedy (aggravation by

moonlight) and explains that the nature of his love for

the ideal woman is of a sexual nature rather than

romantic.

The confirmation of the bleeding symptom of

Ammonium carbonicum brings more reliability to both

provings and allows for its indisputable inclusion under

the rubric Ŗdream of hemorrhageŗ.

In Zincum metallicum, the missing symptom is

important, not only because it allows its inclusion under

the rubric Ŗaversion to answerŗ but also because it has

been confirmed by two additional provers in different

times.

Conclusion

Although in a short article we may not elaborate as

much we would have liked, the examples mentioned

bring enough proof of the importance of Hartlaub &

Trinks Pure Materia Medica, as it contains symptoms

not mentioned by any other source and it allows to make

the proper corrections when symptoms were mistakenly

transcribed.

Further research needs to be conducted upon this

and other lesser known Materia Medica. Such rescue

task is very far from the leisurely research of a

bibliophile, on the opposite, its contribution to the

understanding of patients will allow Homeopathy to

shine in all its timeless beauty and healing ability.

2

This instance may represent a case of confusion

between grenzte (past tense of the verb to border;

figuratively, to verge upon) and great; associated to

Muthwillen (petulance, wantonness) and Mut, mutig

(courage, courageous). The root muthwill appears also

in Baryta carbonica (H2-26), Mercurius (H1-1262) and

Spongia tosta (H1-155, or 390; original version and

Dudgeonřs version, respectively), all meaning

licentiousness.

4. Proving of Golden Pyrite

EPH Experimentation Group

(IJHDR. 2, .5/2003)

The substance

PIRITA DOURADA - Golden pyrite. Proving began in

February, 2002. . Sealed envelope opened September,

17th, 2003

Source: L. P. Minerais do Brasil Ltda.

Trituration: according to Hahnemannřs instructions (3

triturations).

Dynamization: Korsakovian (from the first liquid

dilution).

Potencies: 30 K; 200 K.

All Provers were Physicians and Veterinarians,

postgraduate students at the Escola Paulista de

Homeopatia.

Prover #2 was excluded from the proving as he didnřt

comply with the experimental protocol.

Tabela 1 - Relação experimentador-medicamento

Nº Experimentador 1ª parte - A 2ª parte - B

1 30 K 200 K

2 30 K 30 K

3 30 K 30 K

4 Placebo Placebo

5 Placebo Placebo

6 30 K 200 K

Pyriteřs characteristics

- Chemical Formula: FeS2 (iron sulfide)

- Mineral Group: sulfides

- Luster/Color: metallic/gold or brassy-yellow

- Cleavage: absent

- Hardness: 6 to 6.5

- Streak: Greenish-black

- Refraction of Light: Opaque

Double Refraction: Opaque

- Density: 5,1 g/cm 3

- Chemical Behavior: Soluble in Nitric acid

- Other Characteristics: common cubic crystals.

- Origin: magmatic, sedimentary and metamorphic

environments.

- Commentary: releases sparks when beaten

- Uses: preparation of Sulfuric acid, metallic sulfates

and Sulfur. Traditionally used in the fabrication of steel.

Easy combustion: used in Antiquity to make fire.

During the 16th century it was an essential part of fire

arms. Used by American natives as mirrors. Ornamental

worth. May be used as a source of iron.

- Distribution: many parts of the world, especially

where marble is abundant.

- Popular name: foolřs-gold; witchesř-gold.

- Etymology: from the Greek, pytires - fire.

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- Pyrite and Gold: its color makes inexperienced miners

believe itřs gold. Itřs softer, less dense and more fragile

than gold. Frequently, pyrite is associated with gold and

copper: finding pyrite may indicate that there is gold in

the area.

Folklore:

- good luck in business

- useful in respiratory syndromes, when applied to the

throat. It helps to control bronchitis and allergies.

Blood oxygenation.

- Acts upon the 7th chakra: physical, emotional and

mental well-being. To see beyond the surface and to

know whatřs behind words and deeds.

Matéria Médica

Mind

P1 - K30 -D2 - US-M/NS

2 hrs. after taking the remedy, sadness than increased

until weeping, sadness attended with nostalgia of

endeared person, it improves gradually when distracted

watching a movie on TV. Afterwards, my mood was a

lot better. When I was young I used to cry a lot, later I

couldnřt cry anymore. The remedy enabled me to cry

again, now Iřm able to cry more easily. I never feel

nostalgic: I remember absent people, but without pain.

After the remedy, I missed a person that was very good

to me, I missed her.

P1- K30 -D4 - US-M

The whole day, feeling of lightness, didnřt want to do

anything. I tend to get distracted, not to pay attention to

things, feeling as if I didnřt want to remain on this

world, it was bad, I donřt want to be a part of it, I want

to be disconnected. This feeling was increased by the

remedy.

P1- K30 - D4 - US-M

Evening, anxiety and weeping, relieved by weeping.

Night, same symptom.

P1- K30 - D4 - US-M

Bitten all my nails, but not up to the flesh as I usually

do;it was more moderate. (night, after playing volley-

ball).

P1- K30 - D7- NS

Donřt care about anything around me. Iřm always

concerned with what I have to do, what is

happening;after taking the remedy I would think, ŖTo

hell with it!ŗ

P1- K30 - D8- OSR

Nasty quarrel between my daughters, I ended by joining

it. Usually, I let them quarrel, if I join, it gets worse.

This time I couldnřt help it, I joined it. As a child, I used

to lose self-control, I would attack and strike [people], if

no one would hold me, I would strike. I got so mad by

my daughterřs fight that I spanked my [adult] daughter.

Afterwards, I regretted it. I thought, ŖWhy do they defy

me so much? Why canřt they do what I say? I give them

advice, but they always have to oppose me.ŗ Usually, I

manage to control myself.

P1- K200 - D2 - NS

Emotionally sensitive, ill humor, no jokes. Usually, Iřm

not ill-humored, I like to smile, I never arrive to any

place and donřř say hi to people. Now, I wished there

would be nobody there, wanted nobody to realize I was

there.

P1- K200 - D3 - NS

Woke up without any will to talk. Whole day, wanting

to cry, in a deep sadness; couldnřt be nice to anybody. It

was the previous day symptom continued: didnřt want

to talk, Iřm never like that. I always like to say

something nice to everybody, but couldnřt.

P1- K200 - D12 - NS

Well during the day, we went away for the whole day;

began to feel blue when coming back home, didnřt want

to talk (evening).

P1- K200 - D6 - NS

Anxious the whole day, until very late at night. I never

feel anxiety when I have something to do: I make lists

and do one thing at a time. After taking the remedy,

anxious to do everything at once, wanted to have

something over, but didnřt know what it was; I couldnřt

do anything as I normally do. Wanted to do everything

but couldnřt, awkwardness.

P1- K200 - D6 - NS

No strength to do any physical exercise, it seems Iřm

tired of everything, even of life... (didnřt care for good

or bad things in life). This remained until now (1 year

after the proving). I make plans for myself: first, I go to

work, then I go to the gym. Now, I wanted nothing at

all, nothing had any sense, why would I go places?

Useless, I didnřt want to do anything. And not only bad

things: I didnřt care for good things either, didnřt mind

if I was missing the good things in life.

P1- K200 - D10 - NS

Morning, very discouraged, only improved after lunch. I

always wake up in good spirits, after taking the remedy

I would wake ill-humored, as if the day should have to

begin after noon.

P1 - K200 - D10- NS

Unable to work, seemed I was dull, unable to think, as if

a drug-addict teen.

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P1- K200 - D11- US-M

Unable to work, afternoon. Woke up in the morning

feeling better, yet later it seemed difficult to leave, to

move, didnřt go to work. Usually, itřs the opposite: itřs

difficult to start, but after I begin, I become more

enlivened.

P1- NS

During the proving I kept thinking, ŖWill the remedy be

effective?ŗ, but I was feeling bad, didnřt want to feel

like I was: sadness, weariness, tired body, discouraged,

no will to do anything. I always like to say ŖIřd rather

have the world to end at a precipice in order to die from

inertiaŗ. That became very much worse after taking the

remedy: I just wanted support, to hold on to something

and let it go. I wasnřt able to do anything, very bad. My

daughters thought that I was more irritable, but I didnřt

feel irritated, I was feeling something very bad. Would

answer harshly, irritated, wanted to be left alone, but

they [daughters] kept bothering me.

P6- K30 - OSR

After the proving was over, bad feelings came back:

itchy, overwhelmed, mad at everything and everybody,

old symptoms but not so strong as before.

P6- K30- (D16 to 34) - OSR

While I was taking the remedy, I felt happy. Now get

angry by the least cause, no patience, I donřt know

whatřs the matter, I verbally abuse people around me. I

donřt like this, oversensitive. I need to control myself in

order not to fight with people. Noises from the

neighborřs parrot, the howl of their dog get me mad, I

have to go away in order not to listen. 2 years ago I had

a depression. After stopping the remedy, that feeling

came back, but only for a short time and less strong.

Fear and lack of self-confidence, fear of thieves, mad at

noises, unconfident, didnřt know what to do.

P6- K30 - D34 - NS

Pondering on serious matters: future, family, career,

money. Self-doubts concerning my own and other

peopleřs attitudes. (At the time, I had already decided to

get married).

Vertigo

P3- K30 -D7- NS

8 am, woke up with strong headache, frontal, worse on

the left side, around the eyes, with dizziness, it seemed I

was turning in a circle, dizziness and sleepiness. 3 pm,

unbearable dizziness and sleepiness. Had to stop the

proving because it was getting worse. Dizzy the whole

day. After stopping the proving, dizziness went away,

but headache remained 5 more days.

Head

P3- K30 - D1 -NS

9 am, headache, left side, frontal, around left eye

(slight).

P3- K30 - D1- NS

3 pm, headache, worse on left side, around left eye.

P3- K30 - D2 - NS

3 pm, headache, frontal, as a weight.

P1- K200- D9 Ŕ NS

Slight headache, more as a weight, worse on left side,

frontal and parietal, began at 10:30 am, continual pain.

P6- K30 - D32 -NS

Slight headache, frontal, on the right side; afternoon,

constant pain over right eyebrow. Pain as if a constant

pressure over the eye.

P3- K30 - D5- NS

8 am, woke up with headache, feeling of a weight on

frontal area, unbearable, gradually focalized on the left

side, the whole morning, wanted to take an analgesic,

but didnřt because of the proving.

P3- K30 - D7- NS

8 am, woke up with strong headache, frontal, worse on

the left side, around the eyes, with dizziness, it seemed I

was turning in a circle, dizziness and sleepiness. 3 pm,

unbearable dizziness and sleepiness. Had to stop the

proving because it was getting worse. Dizzy the whole

day. After stopping the proving, dizziness went away,

but headache remained 5 more days.

P1- K30 - D17- NS

Unbearable headache, began after lunch and worsened

until 7 pm, when I couldnřt take it anymore and took 60

drops dipirone and fell asleep. Pain in whole head,

worse on frontal area, throbbing, it seemed it would

burst. Pained lasted 2 days, always at the same time, but

milder, it got better by the third day.

P1- K30 - D24 - NS/US-M

Heaviness in head; burning eyes; aching in whole body

as Iřd been beaten up. Lasted 3 days. On the fourth day,

clear coryza that got thicker, with mild cough lasting 5

days; at the same time, purulent conjunctivitis in both

eyes, feeling as if smoke, much burning. Conjunctivitis

usually comes every summer, it never comes this time

of the year. Never felt heaviness in head before, I

wanted but couldnřt hold my head up. Aching in whole

body as if beaten up: new. Feeling as if smoke: new.

Vision completely blurred, as if sight was hindered, I

rubbed the eyes but didnřt got any better, as if cloudy.

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P6- K30 - D32- OSR

Flat wart on forehead, below an older one that is flat and

smooth. It took 1 week to go away, it became very thin,

as if dry skin. Amazement at the speed of wart

appearance and disappearance.

Eyes

P3- K30 - D30 -NS

3:30 pm, pain deep in left eye.

P1- K30 - D24 - NS/US-M

Heaviness in head; burning eyes; aching in whole body

as Iřd been beaten up. Lasted 3 days. On the fourth day,

clear coryza that got thicker, with mild cough lasting 5

days; at the same time, purulent conjunctivitis in both

eyes, feeling as if smoke, much burning. Conjunctivitis

usually comes every summer, it never comes this time

of the year. Never felt heaviness in head before, I

wanted but couldnřt hold my head up. Aching in whole

body as if beaten up: new. Feeling as if smoke: new.

Vision completely blurred, as if sight was hindered, I

rubbed the eyes but didnřt got any better, as if cloudy.

Nose

P1- K30 - D24 - NS/US-M

Heaviness in head; burning eyes; aching in whole body

as Iřd been beaten up. Lasted 3 days. On the fourth day,

clear coryza that got thicker, with mild cough lasting 5

days; at the same time, purulent conjunctivitis in both

eyes, feeling as if smoke, much burning. Conjunctivitis

usually comes every summer, it never comes this time

of the year. Never felt heaviness in head before, I

wanted but couldnřt hold my head up. Aching in whole

body as if beaten up: new. Feeling as if smoke: new.

Vision completely blurred, as if sight was hindered, I

rubbed the eyes but didnřt got any better, as if cloudy.

Throat

P6- K30 - D32 - NS

Sore throat the last 24 hours, it started yesterday

evening. Seems I wonřt be able to swallow, scraping.

Burning pain when swallowing, even saliva.

P6- K30 - D34- NS

About 6 pm, throat begins scraping, gets dry and aches,

it seems swollen. It remains the whole night. Took

vitamin C and propolis, but didnřt afford relief. Throat

very sore, nothing affords relief, desperate, I canřt stand

swallowing saliva.

P6- K30 - D35- NS

Sore throat, the whole day, aches when swallowing

saliva, burning. I can eat and drink normally. I never

had this before. My tonsils were removed when I was 6.

Very odd, food wouldnřt hurt, only saliva hurt.

P6- K200 - D20-NS

Sore throat began at 1:30 pm, burning, on the right side

of the throat, while speaking or swallowing saliva.

Constant, drinking doesnřt ameliorate. Very

bothersome. Very similar to the sore throat I had when

taking the first vial (K30), but this time is more

focalized, only on the right side. Unbearable, nothing

ameliorates it. No relation with weather: itřs hot.

Stomach

P1- K30 - D11 - OSR

2 pm, nausea and vertigo; at the office, I felt the taste of

meat, sick feeling (took aluminum hydoxide: slight

burning in stomach). Heartburn 10 to 15 years earlier,

then I never felt it again until I took this remedy. No

apparent cause.

P1- K30 - D13- NS/US-M

Feeling very sleepy and very hungry, I want to eat until

feeling sick, until feeling the stomach very distended,

heaviness over whole body. During the proving, sleepy

all the time as when pregnant, I wanted to sleep and

nothing else. Usually, I have to wake up early in order

to drive my daughter to school. After taking the remedy,

I would come back home and go back to bed and sleep 1

- 1 ½ hour, go back to bed as if I hadnřt wake up at all. I

usually eat a lot but not until feeling sick. After taking

the remedy, need to eat until feeling sick.

Abdomen

P1- K200- D2 - NS

Abdominal pain, like a colic, afternoon, 2 pm, lasting

for 2 hours. White, thread-like stools.

P1- K200- D8- NS

5 pm, strong pain in lower part of abdomen, feeling of a

weight, lasting 2 hours, feeling as if thorns, as if

something pressing, thought could be flatulence.

P6- K200 - D12- NS

Itch in abdomen, morning after rising; no skin rash.

Slight itch, itching as if an allergic reaction, but nothing

visible on skin.

Rectum

P1- K30 - D2 - NS

Bowel motions more regular than usual; stools more

often during the day, thicker and easier to evacuate.

Bladder

P1- K30 - D10 Ŕ NS

Constant desire to urinate, copious flow each time

(feeling as if full bladder): clear urine, not burning. It

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seemed as if the bladder could never be fully emptied.

Usually, I urinate very few times a day, after taking the

remedy, I couldnřt retain it, I had to run to the toilet, as

if something was forcing urination.

Female genitals

P3- K30 - D18- NS

Menses 10 days late.

P3- K30 - D55 - NS

Menses 16 days late.

P3- K30 - D18- NS

Lumbar pain during menses.

P3- K30 - D42- NS

Vaginal bleeding as coffee sediment, small volume (13

days before menses).

P3 - K30 - D2- NS

Menses: dark blood, small volume.

P1- K30 - D41- NS

Menses began during the night. This time, without

usual pain and pre-menstrual swelling. Different

because it only lasted 3 days, blood was darker and

volume smaller.

P6- K30 - D12 - OSR

Menses, darker than normal, small volume and blacker

(coffee sediment).

P6- K30 - SN/SUM

Since menses - that were shorter - continual vaginal

secretion of dark brown mucus; as I walk, I feel this

vaginal wetness, bothersome. Itřs not new, but itřs much

more remarkable than usually.

P6- K30 - D10- NS

Itching on genitals all the time, but worse at night. I feel

like those men that are always scratching their crotch.

P6- K30 -D11 - OSR

Iřm about to get my period but not yet. Mild colic pain

on the left side, strong but went away immediately. I

usually feel no menstrual, Iřve already had many years

ago.

P6- K30- D11- NS

8 pm, feeling of lassitude, an openness in the vagina that

connects the uterus straight to the [outside] air, as if

there were no muscles to be contracted. It went away

immediately.

Chest

P1- K30 - D10 - US-M

At night (about 9 pm), pain in right breast: pressing, not

irradiating to anywhere, continual. I usually feel this

pain in the left breast, never in the right.

P1- K30 - D13 - NS

Afternoon, aching in breasts as if pre-menstrual.

P6- K30 - D32- USM

Mammography: cysts persist, small sized but bigger

number: 6 in the left and 2 in the right breast.

Back

P3- K30 - D2 -NS

Pain in the back and lumbar region, irradiating to nated;

deep pain, it seems as if in the bones, feeling as if

formicating.

P3- K30 - D5-NS

9:30 am, stitching pain, as from needles, on left lumbar

region, the leg became stiff, I couldnřt walk, limping

because of the pain. It lasted 3 hours.

P3- K30 - D9- OSR-M

3 pm, pain in right shoulder bone, with severe lumbar

pain, cold sweat over whole body. It made me

remember renal colic I had years ago, but then I didnřt

sweat. It was a cold sweat, over all the body, it made me

feel sick, feeling as if was going to faint. It reminded me

of hypoglicemic attacks I had as a child: they came

whenever I was in a closed, crowded place. I never had

again until now, I was at my office, the air-conditioning

was on, no reason to feel like this.

P1- K30 - D6 - NS

At night I drank a beer and 2 hours later I felt a tensive

pain in shoulders.

Extremities

P1- K30 - D41- US-M

Woke up at 9 am with violent cramps in left leg, lasted

5 minutes. Unbearable, I rubbed and moved the leg, it

got better. I usually do feel cramps at night, after violent

physical exertion of the legs. The remedy altered the

time of day and the modality of amelioration: rubbing,

pressing it. Usually, when I feel the cramps I shout for

something to bring me a pain-killer, as it is the only

thing that affords relief.

P1- K200 - D8 - NS

Feeling of heaviness in lower limbs, as if they were

weak, powerless and needed to be still, immobilized.

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E- - K200 - D8 - SUS-M

11 am, feeling of formication in left leg and foot, for 1

minute. I usually feel formication in the arm and hand,

the remedy changed it to the leg and the foot. After the

proving, it went back to the upper limb.

P6- K200- D6 -US-M

Subcutaneous excrescence on the joint of the right

second finger, internally. I had this before, on the other

hand. Uncomfortable when passing the finger over it. It

came out from nowhere.

P6- K200 - D15 -US-M

Another excrescence on the skin (flat wart), on the right

wrist.

P1- K30 - D3 - NS

Morning, skin rash on the palm of the left hand, wet as

if by sweat, it doesnřt itch, diameter about 1 cm, light

red. It only began to itch , intensely, on the 11th day.

P1- K200 - D5- OSR/NS

Boils on the feet that itch and get dry, after that, they

scale off, leaving the feet looking like unkempt and very

dry.

P1- K200 - D10- NS

Skin on hands and feet ever more dry and thick.

P1- K200 - D15- NS

Skin is better on hands and feet, yet feet remain dry,

skin broken on heels.

P6- K30 - D32-NS

Dark senile spots in arms, hands and legs.

P6- K200- D11 - US-M

Shaking of hands during nervous excitement, I used to

feel this but when the nervous condition was worse.

Sleep

P3- K30 - D3- NS

1 pm, sleepiness after lunch, I need to lie down and

sleep. All along the proving I felt this sleepiness.

P3- K30 - D5- NS

12;30 pm, much sleepiness after lunch.

P3- K30 - D5- NS

11:30 pm, very sleepy but unable to sleep.

P3- K30 - D6- NS

8 am, sleepiness, waking up is very difficult.

P1- K200 - D2 - NS

Very sleepy in the morning.

P1- K30 - D13- NS/US-M

Feeling very sleepy and very hungry, I want to eat until

feeling sick, until feeling the stomach very distended,

heaviness over whole body. During the proving, sleepy

all the time as when pregnant, I wanted to sleep and

nothing else. Usually, I have to wake up early in order

to drive my daughter to school. After taking the remedy,

I would come back home and go back to bed and sleep 1

- 1 ½ hour, go back to bed as if I hadnřt wake up at all. I

usually eat a lot but not until feeling sick. After taking

the remedy, need to eat until feeling sick.

P1- K200 - D13 - NS

Iřve been sleeping too much, always feeling sleepy, ever

more sleepy, I fight against sleepiness because I want to

remain awake to watch TV. This sleepiness began after

starting taking the remedy, although I always fight

against sleepiness. Nonetheless, Iřm able to accomplish

what I have to do.

Dreams

P3- K30 - D5 -NS

Dream: pursued by a snake, I donřt know how I

managed to kill it.

P3- K30 - D18- NS

Dream: pursued by thieves, being threatened to be

murdered. Woke up in fright.

P3- K30 - D22- NS

Dream: At home, I had had a baby and killed it. It was

awful. Woke up sweating and ran to take a shower.

P3- K30 - D28- NS

Dream: I was shot, couldnřt see who shot at me, I died

and met some relatives that are dead. I thought: ŖWhat

am I doing here? I was shot, I must be dead.ŗ

P1- K30 - US-M

Dreamed with a dead aunt, but it wasnřt a nightmare, we

were both happy. I usually do dream of dead relatives,

but they are sad dreams, always in old places, itřs bad.

P3- K30 - NS

The dreams I had during the proving were terrifying. I

never dream with death. Each time I had one of those

death-dreams, I would wake up frightened, thinking

ŖIřll stop taking the remedyŗ, didnřt want to go on

having those dreams. They were very vivid, it seemed

as if I was actually living what I was dreaming.

P1- K30 - US-M

Dream of my family and an old boyfriend, we were at a

different city, beautiful, savoring delicious food, and I

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always want more (dissatisfaction?). When things get

rough, I tend to day-dream, ŖIf I had ...ŗ, for instance,

another husband, etc. What was different is that it same

in the dream, instead of waking-state fancies.

P1- K200 - D8 - NS

Dream of an old house, inhabited by ghosts, I wasnřt

afraid, they were nice, I was able to see them (I didnřt

know them). I slept a little bit more, and dreamed that I

was contradicting my mother-in-law. I was always

afraid of contradicting her, I wasnřt able to do it. In the

dream, I was able to speak my mind, and since then, Iřm

actually able to speak my mind to her, while before I

used to think it was useless.

P1- K200- D9- US-M

Dreamed that I was in a pool, the water was ultra clear

and transparent, public pool with many people, I was

swimming, totally naked and wasnřt ashamed, people

too didnřt mind. I usually have dreams of water, clean

or dirty water, swimming-pool, rivers, etc. I use to

dream that the city streets are full of water, you canřt

walk anymore, you have to swim, as if the city was a

river. But in my dreams, Iřm always wearing

swimming-wear, and when I dream of the [flooded]

city, everybody is fully dressed, I never dreamed before

of being naked.

P1- K200 - D12 - NS

I remember that I dreamed and became sad, but I canřt

remember the dreamřs content.

P1- K200 - D14 - NS

Dreamed once again and as usually, I canřt remember

what I dreamed of; I just remember that I always dream

of closed places: houses, hotels, auditoriums, and with

known people, even relatives, but I canřt remember the

dreamřs content. I dream frequently of my old school,

my schoolmates, but always in open places: backyards,

streets, I never dream of closed places. And I usually

dream of unknown people.

P1- K200 - D16 - US-M/SN

Dream of a house (where I have already lived, thatřs an

usual dream), it was a hunted-house, its objects were

Ŗaliveŗ and felt everything I was doing and what was

the matter with me.

P1- K200 - D16- NS

Dream of a bingo or parade, I canřt remember precisely.

P6- K30 - NS

Strange dream, like science-fiction. I owned a doll that

looked like a space-man, his head was like a helmet. I

was Ŗinvadedŗ and they took the doll with them to steal

its information. I visited 2 women that seemed to be

friends or relatives, their hair was in disarray, they were

wearing nightgowns, they seemed to be seamstresses,

everything was disarrayed at the house and I saw two

other dolls like mine, suddenly they began to pass the

memory of mine to one of them. I woke up.

Generals

P3- K30 - D30 - NS

8:30 pm, Just came from having a massage,

ensitiveness is increased, strong pain on the left side, it

seemed as if I had been beaten up, or fallen, all sore.

P3- K30 - D4- NS

4 pm, after eating at a barbecue, headache as from a

weight, worse on the left side, around the eyes. Very

sleepy. I never eat meat from that day (9 months ago),

because I felt very sick, I related it to the meat I had

eaten.

P1- K30 - D6 - NS

12:00 pm, lunch: nausea caused by the meat I didnřt eat

because it made me sick.

P1- K30 - D7- NS

Donřt want to eat meat.

P1- K30 - D8 - NS

I didnřt eat meat.

P1- K30 - D9 - NS

I didnřt eat meat.

P3- K30 - SNS

After taking the remedy, all symptoms appear on the left

side, when usually I feel symptoms on the right side.

P1- K200 - D1 - NS

Feeling of heaviness on whole body. Feeling of

heaviness on whole body, as if it was difficult to move,

everything is slow, as if a weight was pulling me down,

something drawing me down. I wanted to remain lying,

as if the body was telling me to keep quiet.

Appendix: Protocol

1. Consent Form

I,_______, Identity card # ___________, Social

Security # _________, agree to participate in the

homeopathic proving conducted by the Research Group

of the Scientific Department of the EPH. I am aware

that:

• The substance tested may elicit disturbing symptoms;

• I will be able to stop my participation the moment I

desire;

• It may be interrupted if the proving Directors evaluate

that there is my health is at risk.

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I declare that I am aware of the contents of the trial

protocol and do not hold the proving team liable to

whatever it may happen, as I participate in this proving

of my own free will, in the hope of contributing to the

advance of homeopathic science.

• (signature)- Notarial certification.

• Name

• Place

• Date

Proving Directors:

1) General Director. Medical Identification #

2) Clinical Director. Medical identification #

Having complied with the initial requirements of the

protocol, the proving consists of the following stages:

1. Ascription of provers to the Clinical Directors (CD).

Every pair of prover-CD will discuss the PROVING

DIARY, how it is to be recorded, and need of

permanent availability. The initial auto-observation

period is extremely helpful in this stage.

2. Distribution to provers of numbered vials that will

have to be kept in boxes, protected from

electromagnetic fields, strong odors, etc.

It is not mandatory that all provers test all vials: this will

depend on the schedule set by the General Director

(GD).

3. After the selection of the vial, the prover will drop 5

drops directly below the tongue, once every day,

without ingesting any neither fluid nor solid substances

nor smoking tobacco 30 minutes before and after the

trial substance. The vial must be shaken 10 times before

ingestion.

4. Ingestion will continue until symptoms appear, when

it will be discontinued. If no symptoms appear on the

15th day, ingestion will be also discontinued.

5. If no symptoms appear, after a 30-day resting period,

the next vial will be started.

6. When symptoms appear, ingestion must be

discontinued, symptoms recorded and discussed with

the CD.

7. After the disappearance of symptoms, wait 30 days

before starting the next vial.

8. Women will begin the proving on the first day after

the end of the menses (abiding to the 30-day drug-free

period mentioned above).

9. The same sequence will be repeated with every vial.

The proving may be discontinued at the local level by

the CDs and/or the GD.

3. The proving diary

The proving diary will be elaborated by the Proving

Team or it may follow any model that fulfills the

requirements established by the group.

It ought to contain the truthful record of the prover

symptoms and will be discussed weekly with the CD.

Any severe clinical complication must be immediately

reported to the CD.

The record of symptoms will follow the same pattern

both in the auto-observation diary and the proving diary,

according to:

• Initial circumstances.

• Sensations.

• Time.

• Weather conditions.

• Place.

• Periodicity.

• Rhythm.

• Extensions.

• Alternations.

• Concomitances.

• Modalities of amelioration and aggravation.

• Mood for the duration of the symptom.

• Images and metaphors.

The diary must include all data that reflect a perfect

record concerning the beginning and discontinuation of

the doses.

The prover will only use the front of the page, leaving

the back empty for the DC remarks.

4. Model

A. Identification of the prover (code).

B. Procedure:

1. The prover will legibly write the vial number.

2. Date, month, year; Weather conditions; Place.

3. The prover will permanently carry the diary with

him/her in order to be able to record each symptom,

indicating the time, place, modality, sequence, etc.

4.Symptoms must be recorded in a simple and natural

language. Terms must be subjective-objective, i.e.

provers must express themselves spontaneously,

through the common descriptive language and

employing analogies. It is essential to be true to the flux

of speech, such as it expresses itself, even in the case of

abstract images. Eventual interpretations may be

included between brackets { }.

Medical jargon ought to be omitted, as the record is not

devised to decode medical terms but to achieve the

maximal accuracy of the individualřs reaction. But

whenever this is not possible, the prover may employ

technical terms.

C. Before the proving:

During the 2 weeks before the proving, the prover must

record all symptoms, including those that he/she usually

feels. Avoid every kind of excess.

D. Diet:

1.The prover will not alter his/hers usual diet, which

ought to be as simple as possible.

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2.Those used to regular use of coffee, tobacco,

seasonings, alcohol, etc. may take them with

moderation.

3.Those who only use the substances above occasionally

will abstain from them. If they eventually use them,

they will have to record the occasion.

E. Other remedies:

1.During the proving, the prover will not be able to use

any other kind of remedies, including topical.

2. Avoid camphor, unusual perfumes, medicated lotions

and creams, teas, laxatives, etc.

F. How to take the remedy:

1. See above, ŖDynamics of the provingŗ.

2. It must be kept in mind that a few well described

symptoms are much more valuable than many of them

that do not distinguish characteristic and imaginary

symptoms.

3. The remedy must be discontinued immediately after

symptoms begin to appear and should not be repeated.

G. Recording symptoms:

1. Date, hour and place of dose-intake.

2. Weather conditions.

3. Physical condition.

4. Date and hour of the symptomřs appearance.

5. Disappearance of an old symptom.

6. Reappearance of a new symptom.

7. Aggravation or modification of a usual symptom.

H. Every symptom will be described according to the

following modalities:

1. Chronological order.

2. Localization and Bodily Sides.

3. Sensations as if...

4. Gradual or abrupt appearance and disappearance.

5. Duration.

6. Modalities of amelioration and aggravation:

i. Open air, cold, sun exposure, bathing, crowded room,

narrow places, in the bed, etc.

ii.Before and after storms; change of weather.

iii.Darkness, etc.

iv.Local or general motion.

v.Inspiring, exhaling, coughing, sneezing.

vi.Laughing, screaming, talking.

vii.During exertion; stretching; running; walking;

standing; sitting; rising; bending; laying over

something; resting upon something.

viii.Washing.

ix. Covering; uncovering; undressing.

x. Reading; writing; mental exertion.

xi. Yawning, etc.

xii. By sleep; dreams.

xiii. Before, during or after meals; which meals;

drinking; eating; swallowing.

xiv. Before, during and after menses; sexual intercourse;

passing stools; passing urine.

xv. Vomit; eructation; flatulence.

xvi. Perspiration.

xvii. Smoking; drinking alcohol (and which drinks).

xviii. Thinking on his/her symptoms.

xix. By odors.

xx. By music; noise.

xxi. By touch; hard or strong pressure.

xxii. When alone or in company.

xxiii. By any emotion: sadness, worry, bad news,

reproof, reproach, indignation, contradiction,

humiliation, mortification, disappointment, anger,

happiness, surprises.

xxiv. If symptoms are: constant, continual, periodic,

acute, intermittent, etc.

xxv. Extension and direction of sensations.

xxvi. Other modalities.

I. Laboratory tests:

Lab tests will be ordered before the proving and

whenever necessary according to the CD/GD.

Addendum 1

The proving Group of the Fundação de Estudos

Médicos do Paraná established the following guidelines,

which are attached to the Proving Diary:

• Identify your records with the Prover Code, not with

your name.

• Identify your records with the vial number to which

symptoms correspond.

• Enumerate in ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd) every

day of the proving. The first day is the day when you

began to take the remedy. Begin a new for each vial.

• Identify every day you take the remedy.

• State the duration of each symptom, from date and

hour of appearance to date and hour of disappearance.

• State dates of beginning and end of menses.

• In each symptom, record:

• Adverbs:

Why? Triggers; initial conditions.

Where? Organ; extension; physical environment.

How? Sensations as if...; Rhythm (how it begins,

develops and ends); Alternations; Concomitances,

etc.

•Factors that ameliorate and aggravate.

Emotional state during SYMPTOMS.

•Intensity: (+) Slight; (++) Moderate;(+++) Strong,

intense.

• DC: Check in the repertory if data are sufficiently

clear and precise as to belong in a rubric or sub-

rubric.

• DC: Classify the proverřs symptoms as:

• NS: New symptom.

• USS-UnM: Usual sporadic symptom, unmodified

• USS-M: Usual sporadic symptom, modified

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• OSR: Old symptom returned.

• O: Others.

Addendum 2

The Proving Group of the Escola Paulista de

Homeopatia added:

• Record even the most ephemeral sensations.

If you do not know how to classify a symptom, do not

classify it or rate it NC: no classification.

• In the case of concomitances, state the smallest details;

whenever be case, state the general effect that

symptoms produced to you.

• Dreams: write them down as soon as you wake up; if

possible, tape them.

• Severe symptoms: write them down and immediately

call your CD.

• Pay attention to the spatial and geographical context of

each symptom: when applicable, describe the

environment. State when you are in a journey.

• Pay attention to family and job contexts.

• Record eventual commentaries that friends, relatives,

coworkers may do.

• CD: Do not compare the patientřs symptoms with

symptoms of already known remedies.

Addendum 3

After the experimentation of Golden Pyrita, the group

made the following addendums:

1. Follow patients during 3 months, 6 months and 1

year. Example: patient that noticed - after more than 6

months - that started having aversion to meat.

2. Donřt omit any previous symptoms. This can

inviabilize the proving.

3. Criteria of exclusion - clinics. Maintain some rigor.

Any lesion excludes. Approval from experimenter DC

presents the case to DE = approval or repproval. Obs.

IDA - ask everything at all. Exact place.

4. Instruct the clinical directors about the controls. Itřs

not a strictu sensu homeopathic consultation. Itřs

necessary to know what is better, worse and ask

actively. Pay more attention to the new and old

modified symptoms. How has this changed? What is the

new situation? Take notes of the simultaneous besides

dispositions and indispositions.

5. Make at least three consultations with the DCs.

6. When there is bothering symptoms, suspend

immediately the experimenter (reach emergency phone

of the DC) and, if necessary, notify the DE and

managers. And never take the medicine again while

vigent sympoms persist.

7. Identify the bottle rigorously by codes. Names never

should appear.

8. Chronogram

Never take medicine on vacation or altered routine

periods.

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5. A Case of Suppression: A Commentary

CHINDEMI, J. Wayne (SIM. V, 2/1992)

Preface: The following case is one I have been

working on since 1989. Last remedies prescribed were

Sepia and Pulsatilla nigrans. Her original complaints

were listed as: 1) frequent headaches, 2) significant

depression since age 23 (at age 23 she was devastated

by a romantic disappointment), 3) prone to vaginal

infections, 4) chronic bladder infections. Mary, a 31-

year-old female, has had many male sexual partners,

numerous abortions and many psychotherapy sessions.

Here is her present case:

She is having daily headaches: severe, crushing (2),

pressure sensation (2) over the left temple (2) over the

left temple (2). The headaches are aggravated by

perfumes and cigarette smoke. Mary experienced left-

sided abdominal pain and PMS. Ultrasonic studies

revealed a left ovarian cystic mass (2). Her PMS

symptoms included irritability (2), better alone, breast

soreness, and worse to touch. She was very much

relieved with the menstrual flow (2). Also it was

observed that both ears were very red and were hot to

the touch (1). She is warm blooded (2) and blushes

easily. She has been experiencing heart palpitations for

no apparent reason the past several months. Mary

sleeps on her back, wakes unrefreshed (2) and has

nightmare and vivid dreams. Other data includes

aversion to tight collars (2) and varicose veins of both

extremities.

Mental/emotional symptoms include: jealous of

others (2); vindictive person (2) (wants old boyfriends

to fail in new relationships); suspicious nature (1) e.g. in

a relationship she saw hair on the bed and immediately

suspected that her boyfriend slept with another woman.

She is a pharmacy technician and works very fast (2)

when filling out prescriptions. When asked about fears

she volunteered fear of snakes (3). The final note is a

history of very many sexual partners (over 40 by age of

23) and numerous abortions (seven).

Assessment:

Essence: Lach., Nux-v., Hyos., Stram.

Totality: Lach., Nux-v., Puls., Lyc., Hyos., Sep., Sulph.,

Med.

Keynotes: Lach.

Plan: Lachesis 200c one dose. Return to clinic in

1½months for follow-up visit.

Discussion

Mary, a 31-year-old female was prescribed

Lachesis 200c one dose. I confidently prescribed this

because she confirmed the remedy with her physical and

emotional data. Of particular importance were her

physical and emotional data. Of particular importance

were her severe crushing headaches over the left temple

and her left ovarian cyst.

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A follow-up visit occurred two months later. She

told me her headaches are now gone but she was

distraught in the interview. I asked her what was wrong

and she replied: ŖI feel depressed like I was when I was

23, I hate my job (3). I want to sleep but I wake up

terrible(2). I hate my job, I canřt be who I am. I have

problems with fellow workers, managers, etc. I cannot

express myself at work. Iřm very distressed (2),

irritable (2) and angry (2) at work. I hate my job but I

stay because the money is good. I hate feeling this

way.ŗ

I questioned whether it was true depression. I feel

her problem is genuine unhappiness with herself and

surroundings (job, etc.).

Assessment: Lachesis has brought up many suppressed

emotions.

Her headache symptoms have improved.

Plan: Wait. No prescription was given. Patient to

return in 1½ months.

Discussion

She is avoiding the main issue: dealing with her

job. She would rather reap financial gains than be

happy. In conversation it turned out that this conflict

occurred several years ago but she opted for the money.

The remedy Lachesis has broutht the main issue Ŗback

up to the surface again.ŗ I really feel that, if the timing

is right in her life, she will heed the word and find

another job in a more social/happy atmosphere. This

would be the truly curative direction.

Its amazing that Lachesis has brought up these old

feelings. I feel that if she doesnřt act on it within the

next several weeks she will probably suppress again.

A second follow-up visit occurred 1½ months later.

ŖGetting terrible migraine headaches (2) but my

depression has Řlifted.ř Because the migraines are

occurring daily and are intense, she visited her M.D. and

was prescribed Sibellium allopathic medication. She

states to me that she doesnřt have any problems except

for the headache. She was very abrupt with me and I

knew she did not want to talk with me any further.

Assessment: Migraine headaches came backŕwere

helped originally with Lachesis. She suppressed her

emotional state and her migraines have returned. Now

she is taking daily allopathic meds for the headache.

Plan: Wait. Re-evaluate at a later date. Patient to

return in 3 months.

Discussion

This is a case of suppression of the

mental/emotional state leading to physical pathology.

She is unable to deal with her emotions and is unable to

attain happiness and peace with herself. This case

illustrates that even though Lachesis was the correct

remedy, lack of freedom on the mental and emotional

level has prevented cure.

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

We invited the following homeopaths to comment

on this case. They were asked: what do you think about

this case? Is Lachesis the correct remedy? Is the

assessment correct? Why is she not getting better?

Should she quit her job? What other factors should be

considered in this case?

A CASE OF SUPPRESSION COMMENTARY:

Paul HERSCU

First, I would like to thank Wayne CHINDEMI for

offering the forum for discussion. It promises to be fun

and quite a learning tool. Seven years ago I reviewed

much of the journal literature, reading many many cases

with discussion. George VITHOULKAS was in the

process of writing his Materia Medica and wished to

include cases from the old journals for study purposes.

Since I had read these journals already, he asked if I

would review and collect all the cases that were

interesting, collate them, and categorize them by

remedy. This was the second time I was to read these

cases, the journals spanning 130 years. I learned a great

deal from that exercise. Most of what I did learn came

not from the case presented but from the commentary

that it drew. There one could learn practical

philosophy, technique, living Materia Medica. And so I

am thrilled to see this be offered again.

Now as for the case that Dr CHINDEMI presented.

Reading the case the first time, I wrote down some ideas

which follow. The case stressed that some major

decline in her health occurred at 23 years of age, and

listed a possible etiology. The case continued by

stressing that she had had many lovers by the age of 23.

Next came the physical symptoms followed by mental

symptoms and the remedy selection.

I had a question arise at this point of the case

analysis that was not answered in the paper. Was the

case changed at 23 years old? Was there a change, a

new layer that she entered or was it a worsening within

the same layer? There is no information to differentiate

this point. Without knowing that, it would be difficult

to know which symptoms to include in the analysis of

the current remedy. If it was a new layer, perhaps the

fact that she had had so many lovers would not enter

into the remedy selection for this first remedy. If we

had more information (such as, Ŗshe became celibate

after 23; her physical general symptoms changed at 23;

the abortion period of her life changed her in the

following way; her mental symptoms not only increased

but changed as well at 23, etc.) we would be able to tell

whether it was one layer or two layers, one developing

when she was 23 years old.

The remedy was prescribed and then the follow-up

showed that the headaches went away and that she

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became depressed, as she had been in the past. The

assessment was that the remedy was curative and that

the depression was either suppressed originally or that it

was caused by bad habit. HAHNEMANN goes into

great lengths throughout the Organon to stress that

illness may be caused or may be maintained by harmful

habits. He further maintains that it may not be possible

to cure people if they do not change harmful habits. I

am making an assumption that Dr.CHINDEMI thinks

that a form of greed, inertia, or fear keeps the patient in

a stressful environment and that the depression is an

overwhelming announcement of the organism to get the

heck out of there.

That is possible. I have had quite a few patients

who get better up to a certain point, but because they are

unwilling to make certain changes in their lives they do

not attain the level of health they seek or may relapse

into their original state of health.

The first question to ask in a follow-up is, ŖDid the

remedy that I gave effect the person one way or the

other?ŗ There are many parameters to assess the answer

to that question but we can point some of them out in

this case. Was there a change? Yes. What was the

change? A chief complaint disappeared and an

emotional change occurred. Can the change be directly

attributed to the remedy? Yes possibly, and no. The

answer to this question is somewhat unclear. I could

answer with yes by stating that the symptom that

disappeared, the headache, fits the remedy given. I can

also say yes because there is a return of old symptoms,

following one aspect of Heringřs Law. I could also say

possibly for the same reason, although it is not clear

because of the following points. I could say no because

the patient is in general worse; we do not know what

has happened to the rest of the patient.

The remedy was not chosen based on the headache,

and yet we are trying to decide the reaction to the

remedy based solely on this symptom. That is

impossible. We can never tell fully, unless we look at

the whole case in general. What happened to the other

symptoms of the remedy, the mental, emotional, and

physical symptoms? I do not know, and so assessment

is not really possible.

But if we play with the case a little, if we assume

that the remedy caused this reaction, what possible ways

are there to understand the response of the organism? I

can think of several, beside the ones given above, but

would mention two because they are exactly opposite

each other.

First is the possibility that the remedy acted, that it

was the incorrect remedy, and that the case worsened or

was suppressed by this treatment. After all, if I said that

she took a massive amount of an ergot derivative for her

headaches and that all of a sudden her headaches ceased

but now she is depressed, we would all rally around the

suppression theory.

Second is the possibility that the remedy acted, and

that it was the correct remedy, that the remedy removed

one layer of the case and now we are in a different

layer, dealing with different issues.

The basic difference between the two possibilities

is whether there are one or two layers in the case. If

there is one layer in the case (as in option number one)

than the remedy may be acting suppressively. The

argument would be that after a terrible grief, she became

depressed (though still in the same layer), and that her

organism rallied and managed to throw off the

imbalance partially, now no longer depressed but settled

with headaches (although still in the same layer), and

that her organism rallied and managed to throw off the

imbalance partially, now no longer depressed but settled

with headaches (although still in the same layer).

Getting rid of headaches, with whatever treatment,

forces the organism to an imbalanced state once more

and so the depression again. Once the depression leaves

at the end of the case the headahches returned (again a

better state within the same layer). One way to view

this is to think of one of those slinky toys, with one end

in one hand and the other end in the other hand. As you

move your hands up and down the majority of the slinky

ends up in one hand or the other. Well, one hand is

health and the other is not and the slinky moves some of

itself from one hand into the other with help of shocks,

traumas, drugs, etc. the remedy given hurt the balance,

although not that great, that the patient had achieved.

We can use part of Heringřs law to justify this

viewpoint by showing that physical symptoms were

replaced by emotional symptoms.

The other possibility is that there was a major shift

when this women was 23 years old. She developed a

new layer in which headaches were the major symptom.

Once treated, that layer is replaced by the previous layer

with all its sensitivities. In this layer she experiences

depression, because of the broken love affair, because of

her mis-spent youth, because of the abortions. We do

not really know because we do not have her in front of

us to ask her. We can use part of Heringřs law to justify

this viewpoint by showing that the body never really

forgets, and that symptoms disappear in the reverse

order of appearance.

I am writing in this forum to strengthen my

contention (see any of the other cases that I have

written) that we really cannot pick any of these

possibilities. Would it not make a big difference if we

knew what happened to the jealousy, the left-sided

complaints, the mass, the palpitations, the suspicious

vindictive person, the energy? We can never know

what is happening in a case without looking at the

whole case, vieweing it over time, trying to answer the

most important questions of what is happening to the

rest of the person as she is under treatment.

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A CASE OF SUPPRESSION: COMMENTARY

STEPHEN A. MESSER.

I appreciate participating in this case discussion.

This and future discussions will, no doubt, add to our

experience through interaction. I regret not starting this

process with a cured case. Discussing treatment failures

is difficult because we can only speculate. In addition,

in this case, we lack the particulars of the earlier part of

the case, the symptoms, analysis, and effect of the

previous remedies. This limits our ability to fully

understand the present case. And so, all our opinions

here are, in fact, only conjecture.

Did this woman need Lachesis?

Iřd analyze her case as follows:

1. What are the main problems that this woman

suffers from? The answer will define a set of

remedies that may help her. In her case her

main problems are headaches and PMS. So we

must choose a remedy that is know to cause

and cure headaches and PMS.

2. What are the characteristic symptoms in this

particular case? These are symptoms which

are either: (a) Strange, rare and peculiar,

especially if related to the main problems, or,

(b) STRONG mental/emotional, or STRONG

physical general symptoms.

In this case characteristic symptoms are: left sided

headaches, left ovarian cyst, warm blooded, blushes

easily, wakes unrefreshed, aversion to tight collars,

jealousy, hurry, fear of snakes, maliciousness. These

symptoms narrow down the choice of remedy to the

Lachesis given.

Did the Lachesis act?

At the first follow-up, the patient has responded to

Lachesis in a profound way. Her headaches, the reason

for her seeking treatment, are now gone. In their place,

her underlying emotional difficulties have surfaced. It

is early to conclude that this is a curative change, but

she has certainly responded. My impression is that this

is a positive response.

What went wrong?

The problem in this case is more of inadequate

management than the Ŗsuppressionŗ mentioned in the

title. The plan noted at the first visit is ŖWait. No

prescription given. PATIENT TO RETURN IN 12

MONTHS.ŗ (MY CAPS)

Lack of consistent and frequent follow-up is the

reason, I believe, this has degenerated into a treatment

failure. I would have asked her to return for a next

evaluation 1 month after the first follow-up. At that

point I would question whether the patient was still

making progress. If not, I would retake the case and

represcribe Lachesis in either the same or a higher

potency depending on the circumstances. It is also

likely that a new remedy, if clearly indicated by the

major and characteristic symptoms of the new case,

would be necessary. Represcribing, whenever

necessary, dictated by the particulars of the case,

probably would have brought this case to cure.

Analyzing treatment failures is difficult for any

homeopathic prescriber. Resist the temptation to blame

the patient for a treatment failure. Dr. CHINMDEMI

says, ŖShe is unable to deal with her emotions and is

unable to attain peace and happiness with herself.ŗ We

ought, rather, to closely evaluate our own methods.

In my opinion, this treatment failure is the

consequence of a system of homeopathic case

management that explicitly encourages prescribers to

wait too long before reevaluating and represcribing.

This case is an excellent indictment of the weakness of

that method of prescribing.

A CASE OF SUPPRESSION COMMENTARY:

JEFF BAKER

According to my understanding, this is, indeed, a

very clear Lachesis, case, so thereřs no need to muddy

the waters of discussion with questioning the

correctness of the prescription. However, regarding

potency, I believe I would have given Lachesis 1M or

may be even Lachesis 10M because the organism was

so decisively calling for that particular medicine.

Perhaps a higher potency would have acted more

profoundly, but admittedly this is conjecture.

The crux of the matter here revolves around

interpreting the action of the simiullimum and managing

the case beyond the first prescription. I believe we have

the opportunity to learn a great deal about a particular

organism by what gets better and what comes up after a

correct prescription. Since the headaches abated and

old emotional issues resurfaced, we can rest assured that

the remedy is acting along predictably curative lines.

However, given the level of emotional ferment, as

described on follow-up, there is no way that I would

have rested comfortably for an entire year. To actively

suspend marking patient progress, (or lack thereof) at

this particular point in treatment, was, I feel, regrettable.

Because a full year elapsed and all that we know is that

the patient, at some point, had a relapse of headaches

and took allopathic drugs, leaves us in a void of

understanding and I feel it also sends a wrong message

to the patient, namely, that we are quite comfortable

with the patientřs state, both at present, as well as for

quite a while into the future.

Consequently, we have no tangible understanding

of how the case unfolded over the following year. In

that light, it makes little sense to speculate on what kind

of a symptom picture we might have seen had we been

privy to the patientřs intervening state. Perhaps we

missed the opportunity to repeat Lachesis or to prescribe

one of its complements, say Nitric acid or who knows

what other remedy.

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I believe itřs a bit simplistic to say that Ŗlack of

freedom on the mental and emotional level has

prevented cure,ŗ for surely it is the removal of just such

limitations, with our medicines, that is our ultimate

goal. George VITHOULKAS has emphasized that

when patients receive curative treatment they will tend,

spontaneously, to make those very decisions they most

need to make in order to achieve greater freedom.

Naturally, this is not always the case, since all situations

have their exceptions. But I believe that in this instance,

unless there were mitigating circumstances beyond our

knowledge, continued correct treatment would have

brought about a rather effortless, dispassionate decision,

either to leave the job, if it were the Ŗmaintaining

cause,ŗ or alternately, to say on the job and be relatively

free from its irritations, even in its midst.

A CASE OF SUPPRESSION COMMENTARY:

NEIL TESSLER

There are a number of issues that jump out at me in

this case, though they have little to do with prescribing

and a lot to do with case management.

Maryřs depression, profound discontent, irritability,

and self-reproach after the prescription of Lachesis is

thought by the author to be Ŗgenuine unhappinessŗ

rather than Ŗtrue depression.ŗ Does he not ignore her

powerful symptoms by making these distinctions and

are they in any way relevant to a homeopathic

assessment of the case? When he then says that she is

avoiding the main issue, which he regards as dealing

with her job, I feel convinced that he has missed Mary

entirely, reducing this complex individual to a simple

case of irresolution. When he suggests that she would

prefer to reap financial gain rather than be happy, he is

judging her rather then thinking homeopathically.

If a patient stated that she had many sexual partners

and several abortions before age 23, as well as many

psychotherapy sessions, various red flags would go off

for me, and I would certainly take the time to explore

some of her issues of family and childhood. Why? I

strongly feel that this is part of the Ŗtotalityŗ of

symptoms, frequently revealing information that may be

critical to the fullest understanding of the patient, and

ultimately aiding the task of prescribing.

I might add in passing that it can be very valuable

for the patient to have the opportunity in the course of a

single interview to see their physical and emotional

story as one piece. It is a potent mirror which educates

the patient as to the triviality of one or two word

answers to the question ŖWhat is wrong with me?ŗ

I find it astonishing that Mary is left for two and

then twelve months between evaluations after Lachesis.

How would it be possible to build a supportive and

trusting connection with such enormous gaps between

visits at this stage of treatment, particularly when she is

undergoing considerable distress? I am not surprised

that after having been left to suffer on her own for

twelve months she is abrupt and mistrustful. I am

surprised she came back at all and doubt she will return.

In his final thoughts Dr. CHINDEMI says that even

though Lachesis was (in his view) correct, a lack of

freedom on the mental and emotional level has

prevented cure. This contradictory analysis offers sure

evidence that Lachesis has NOT acted curatively. I am

sure that Dr. CHINDEMI is a conscientious classical

Homeopathic practitioner, and as I read this case my

own many mistakes come before my eyes. However,

unfortunately, I am led to the conclusion that this case

was not well taken, managed, or assessed, resulting in

an impasse.

A CASE OF SUPPRESSIOIN

COMMENTARY: JEREMY SHERR

Thank you for sending this interesting case for

discussion. It is certainly a good idea for us to share our

knowledge and ideas.

At a first glance the case seems simple and straight

forward, and one is tempted to go along with the general

line of thought presented. However, on a closer

examination, there appear to be some issues that should

be discussed. Of course, when reading this case, any

prescriberřs mind would at once turn to Lachesis. This

immediately tends to make me suspicious (2). In my

experience, when a case presents in such a clear manner

for any particular remedy, one should definitely think

twice, if not three times. I often have found that such a

Ŗclearŗ picture really hides a different remedy, as if to

test the homeopathřs prejudices. Also with such a clear

picture, one must wonder if the homeopath wasnřt

questioning along the lines of a particular remedy.

Whatever the case may be, the results are our final

judge. I do agree that Lachesis is one of the possibilities

here, but there are others.

First, as to the case, although it does cover the

major symptomatology, mentals, and particulars, I find

it lacking in fine detail, especially concerning the

mental and emotional state of the patient. In my

experience, it is much easier to understand the case that

is written in the patientřs own words, as recommended

in paraghraph 84 of the Organon.

The other issue is the underlining. Does it really

help us to understand the three dimensions of the case?

In this case we see that 95% of the underlines are (2),

therefore we actually gain nothing from them. I often

find that the key symptoms to the case are not at all

Ŗunderlined,ŗ but seemingly insignificant and

unemphasized symptoms that are just chance remarks,

but give us an insight to the inner nature of the patient.

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Looking at the results of the prescription, although the

remedy might seem well indicated to the practitioner, I

feel that a result such as this should put its validity in

serious doubt.

What seems to have occurred is that the headaches

are better but in herself she is worse, i.e., against the

direction of cure. She is now depressed, angry, irritable,

abrupt, and has lost patience with the practitioner. It is

easy at this stage to blame her misery on external

circumstances, but really we would expect a good

prescription to place the patient in a state of greater

freedom, the aim of all true medicine. What we see

here is that the patient is in fact in a lesser state of

freedom, imprisoned by her job, desires, and pressures.

The fact that the emotional problems she is now

experiencing have occurred before does not necessarily

constitute a curative sign. If they were truly old

symptoms returning, they should also be old symptoms

going. I have often wasted many months deluding

myself that the patient was improving when the patient

has returned saying, ŖI am more aware of my anger,

more aware of my fear; I feel like I was when I was

sixteen,ŗ etc. I find that these Ŗnew age catharsisŗ

symptoms are not necessarily always curative. If the

anger and fear come up, they should also go away. We

would not say it was a curative reaction if the patient

came back and said, ŖHow wonderful Ŕ I am now more

aware of the pain from my ulcer.ŗ In fact, true cure

should lead to a reduced awareness of problems, as in

Ŗwhen the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten.ŗ

Furthermore, we must examine whether or not the

work situation really is a suppression. According to my

understanding this constitutes an obstacle to cure and

not a suppression. What is the difference between an

obstacle to cure and a symptom? An obstacle to cure

can be removed by the patientřs will, and a symptom

cannot. It seems in this case that although the patient is

very much wanting to leave her job, she is not able to,

due to various pressures. Now if she really was

returning to health we would expect a greater ability to

adapt to the environment, either by leaving work or by

staying and feeling better about it. Of course, the

physician can only gently hint about leaving the work in

these situations, since any more pressure would

constitute violence.

Considering this analysis of the first follow-up, I

would not have waited much longer in this case Ŕ

certainly not a year. I would either have changed or

repeated the remedy, or asked her to come back within

two months in order to assess her condition.

On the second follow-up, it seems that the patientřs

state is deteriorating further. The migraines are worse

and she now is not communicating properly with the

homeopath. Her general condition seems to be

worsening. I therefore would not wait in this situation

but definitely act now, for, in all probability, this patient

will soon be lost to Allopathy.

There are now two possibilities in the case: (1) the

remedy was correct and needs to be repeated, either

higher or in LMřs; (2) wrong prescription Ŕ find the

right remedies. Having looked at the result of the case,

I found to be dubious the conclusion that this is a case

of mental emotional suppression leading to physical

pathology. The fact that she is unable to deal with her

emotions and attain happiness and peace with herself

illustrates not that Lachesis is the correct remedy, but

that it is actually a case of a wrong remedy pushing the

external symptoms to the interior. The only action,

therefore, is to re-examine the case and find a better

remedy.

Now to examine the original case. I have taken the

following symptoms:

Menses, before aggravate

Menses, during ameliorate

Ailments from disappointed love

Head, pain pressing

Suspicious

Generalities, side left

On repertorization in the Complete Repertory we

get eight remedies running through: Lachesis, Sulphur,

Sepia, Phosphorus, Belladonna, Cimicifuga, Ignatia,

Veratrum album. Any one of these might be the correct

remedy. It would be interesting to know exactly why

this lady is putting money before happiness. Is it fear of

poverty, avarice, or anxiety about her social position?

Each one of these symptoms would lead to a different

remedy in this case, and these possibilities have to be

investigated more closely. So consider Sepia, Sulphur

and Veratrum album. There are, of course many

possibilities.

We cannot guess. However, if we add the symptom

ŖHead, pain, temple, left,ŗ the only remedy running

through is Cimicifuga, Lachesis does not have this

symptom. Therefore, let us examine Cimicifuga.

First, what is the idea that we actually perceive

running through the case? This is often to be found in

the nature of the physical sensations, in this case a

crushing and pressing headache. We see that this

simple action is also mimicked by the patientřs

continual desire to clutch her throat. A similar pattern

seems to be the pressure she is putting herself under in

her work, i.e. a pressing, crushing situation from which

there is no escape. So we see that the theme running

through the case is Ŗmust put herself under pressure or

must constrict herself.ŗ

Now if we examine Cimicifuga as a remedy we find

this idea running through the whole remedy, as in the

following symptoms:

Delusions, arms bound to her body.

Delusions, black cloud envelops her.

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Delusions, encaged in wires, fear of narrow spaces,

etc.

These are not symptoms the patient has presented,

but they do represent the inherent idea in the case and

remedy. However, the symptom of alternating mental

and physical symptoms in the remedyis interesting

regarding the alternation of depression and headache in

the case. Cimicifuga has depression after suppressed

neuralgia or menses, matching the alternation of

depression with physical symptoms. We find also:

Hurry, in occupation

Hurry, in work

Impatience.

The financial side is also represented in

Business, talks of and

Mania, from business failure

Regarding the headache, Cimicifuga has:

Head, pain, constant

Head, pain, menses, before

Head, pain, violent

Head, pain, nervous

Head, pain, left

Pain, bursting, temple

Head, pain, pressing, as under

Head, pain, Pressing, brain as if bound up

Head, pain, pressing, in temples

Looking at PHATAKřs Materia Medica,

Cimicifuga has:

A great female remedy. Depression and low spirits,

Many complaints dependent on utero-ovarian irritations.

Symptoms irregular or alternating groups, tendency to

abortion. Ill affects of disappointed love, over exertion,

business failures. Depressed, sad, suspicious. Mental

symptoms better during the menses.

From Allenřs Encyclopedia:

Fullness and pressure in the brain, Brain feels too

large for cranium, Brain feels compressed, Headache

better for open air. Oppressive and intolerable head

pain, Headache through temples with pressure as if they

were compressed.

Naturally, I could not be sure that Cimicifuga is the

right remedy without knowing more about the case.

However, it is a definite possibility. As to the Lachesis,

who knows? Repetition may help. However we should

bear in mind paragraph 253 of the Organon: ŖIn the

case of ever so slight an improvement we observe a

greater degree of comfort, increased calmness, freedom

of mind, higher spirits Ŕ a kind of return to the natural

state. Whereas in the case of deterioration we perceive

a constrained, helpless, pitiable state of disposition of

mind of the whole demeanor and of all the gestures,

postures, and actions.ŗ

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6. SOME REMINISCENCES ON MY

INVESTIGATIONS OF HAHNEMANNřs

LIFE AND WORK AND THE DEVELOPMENT

OF HAHNEMANN MUSEUM AT STUTTGART

Richard HAEHL (From Pacific Coast Journal of

Homeopathy, Vol.41.)

Mr.President, members of the American Institute of

Homeopathy, Ladies and Gentlemen! ....

The Hahnemann-Museum of Stuttgart, the largest

collection of this kind in the world, has been the result

of many years of most conscientious collecting.

Being a great enthusiast of Homeopathy, I began to

collect pictures and relics of Hahnemann when I was

but eighteen years of age and I have never stopped up

to the present time.

My interest in Homeopathy and in the life of its

venerable founder, Samuel HAHNEMANN, dates

back almost to my boyhood. Before I went to

Philadelphia as a student of but twenty years of age, I

had felt the serious need of an exhaustive account of

Hahnemann's life and work. The German literature

contained only two small pamphlets dealing with the

life of HAHNEMANN, and both of these publications

were written by laymen, Mr.ALBRECHT and Baron

von BRUNNOW. The only book in those days that

was at all satisfying to the mind of a well-educated

young man was Ameke's "History of Homeopathy",

But this dealt more with the development and struggles

of Homeopathy from its beginning upto the time of

publication of the book. Ameke's "History of

Homeopathy", however, is one of the classics in

homeopathic literature, a work well worthy of study

even at the present day.

Just about the time when I arrived in Philadelphia to

study medicine at the Hahnemann Medical College, in

1894, the HAHNEMANN biography by Dr.

BRADFORD of Philadelphia had been published.

This comprehensive book of some 500 pages

impressed me very much, and I firmly resolved to

translate it into German. But the more engrossed

I became with this work, the more I recognized that

the author had been guilty of serious errors and

inaccuracies in many places, and that the

representations were frequently incomplete.

BRADFORD, the author, had never left his country

of any length of time. He knew very little about

German customs and conditions. He did not master

the German language, and he did not try hard enough

to gain access to the German archives. He was

dependent for his book mainly upon American and

English literature. Furthermore, some of his most

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important chapters on Hahnemann's ideas and teachings

had not been treated in any way exhaustively and could

not impress and satisfy the mind of a scientifically

educated man. If you read for instance, his chapter on

the "Vis medicatrix naturae", and compare it with

the same chapter in my book, I am sure you will come

to the same conclusion.

No one will ever appreciate the great merits of

BRADFORD for his investigations, of Hahnemann's

life more than I do; yet I soon realized that a

translation of his work into German would only be a

waste of time and energy. A life history of

Hahnemann which could not deal with all the contested

points by means of a thorough investigation, and which

was, moreover, unable to fill in adequately the existing

gaps, would never accomplish its purpose. Such a

work must have for its prominent characteristics and

special qualities complete and undoubted reliability.

When I returned to Germany, in 1898, I was more

than ever convinced of the absolute need of a

complete biography of the great medical reformer of

the nineteenth century - of a book which would not only

be of value to homoeopathic physicians, but to every

medical man desiring to make himself acquainted with

the history of Hahnemann and the principles and

development of Homeopathy. I was also convinced

that the time to collect the necessary material for such a

book had now arrived.

I never had the ambition to become the author of a

Hahnemann biography, and I should have been quite

willing at any time to turn over the material I had

collected to any able and experienced writer; but seeing

that no one else was willing to write the book, I

decided to do it myself.

In the fall of 1898 I first began to make a careful

perusal of the entire German homoeopathic literature.

I never depended upon the index of any volumes, but

in order to make quite sure of not missing anything of

importance concerning the life of HAHNEMANN, I

turned over page by page many hundreds of volumes

of homeopathic journals.

There have been very few evenings from - October,

1898, to the publication of the book in August,

1922, of which I d i d not spend at least some

hours on my Hahnemann biography.

Having obtained everything from the homeopathic

journals, I started to look up oldŕschool literature,

especially Hufeland's Journal of Medicine, and

some other leading journals on medicine and

chemistry published during Hahnemann's lifetime. As

a matter of course I studied most carefully all the

original writings and translations of HAHNEMANN.

There is not one of the many books and essays

published by HAHNEMANN of which I did not at least

give a short survey in my book. This was not an

easy task, for Hahnemann used to publish many

essays in a political paper, the Anzeiger der

Beutschen or the Reichsanzeiger, of Gotha. It was

only when I had nearly finished the perusal of a

number of volumes of this journal, page by page,

that I discovered a well-bound book in the library of

the Central Homeopathic Society in Leipsic, which

contained all these publications of HAHNEMANN.

This valuable collection was presented to the library

of leipsic by the editor of the journal,

Hahnemann's life-long friend, Dr.HANNICKE.

Another very important source for my researches has

been the second-hand booksellers and dealers in

antiquities. From the year 1898 until 1914 I was in

Constant communication w i t h dealers in second-

hand books in all the larger cities in Germany.

With their help, I gathered an endless number of old

homeopathic books, original letters, pictures, and

other relics and souvenirs of HAHNEMANN. At

first the harvest was so rich that I was scarcely able

to earn sufficient money for the many HAHNEMANN

letters offered to me. By the year 1911 there was

almost sudden end to the supply, and to-day one may

ask in vain for original letters or any other souvenirs of

HAHNEMANN in Germany. The collection of

pictures for the purpose of illustrating the book seemed

to me of great importance. Here, too, I had been very

successful. I not only obtained, as time went on, a

complete collection of all the drawings, paintings and

sculptures of HAHNEMANN himself, but also of those

of his wives his children, and of most of his medical

friends. The collection of pictures printed almost

a century ago is not an easy task; it takes a great

deal of time, patience and money, and even these

three essentials are not always sufficient.

Let me give you one example. A drawing of

Melanie d'Hervilly, Hahnemann's second wife, had

been reproduced for her friends shortly after her

wedding day. I tried to obtain a copy of t h i s for

my work, but all my efforts were in vain. I wrote to

Berlin, to Leipsic, Dresden and Munich, and as I

did not succeed, I enquired in London and in Paris.

Finally, I applied to New York, Philadelphia and

Chicago. No copy could be found anywhere. A few

months after the publication of my work one of my

relations - a private collector of engravings - went

to a small shop in Stuttgart looking for some copper

engravings, and here, in the very city where I had

been living for more than twenty-five years, he found

the picture of Madame Hahnemann, for which I had

been searching almost all over the world.

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It was also difficult to get hold of prints and

drawings representing the cities, and especially the

smaller towns and villages, at the time of

Hahnemann's ' sojourn in them, and yet I considered

these illustrations would be of great importance.

For instance, on looking at the picture representing

the University of Leipsic at the time of Hahnemann's

student days, when it consisted of one building only,

with no medical institution, no dispensary, or

hospital attached to it, and comparing it with the large

Hospital of Vienna at that time, under the

supervision of Professor von Quarin, it can be readily

understood why Hahnemann did not care to finish his

medical education in Leipsic, but preferred to go to

Vienna to Professor von Quarin. And again, when

one looks at the beautiful and extensive University of

Erlangen, erected shortly before HAHNEMANN

entered it, it can be easily understood why he

preferred this and no other medical institution in

which to complete his studies in medicine.

It was impossible to make all the necessary

investigations from my study in Stuttgart. In the

summer of 1900, when my medical practice had

afforded me the necessary amount of money, I made

my first "HAHNEMANN journey". Instead of

resting in some peaceful spot in the Black-Forest or

Switzerland, I made use of my annual vacations by

calling upon various relatives of HAHNEMANN and

of his second wife, or visiting some of the cities or

villages where the great master of therapeutics had

lived or practised. "And often, very often I returned

home with a rich store of valuable material.

My first visit, in 1900, was made to the son-in-law

of Hahnemann's second wife, Dr.Carl von

BOENNINGHAUSEN. The chief object of my visit

was to negotiate with him over Hahnemann's literary

heritage and to acquire more intimate information

regarding Hahnemann's life in Paris. Dr.Von

BOENNINGHAUSEN was the son of Hahnemann's

most intimate friend. He was married to the foster-

daughter of Madame Melanie HAHNEMANN. I had

previously applied to Madame von

BOENNINGHAUSEN herself, in 1897, as the

actual owner of this precious treasure, and had asked

her not to withhold it any longer from the world.

Unfortunately, Madame von BOENNINGHAUSEN

died shortly before my visit.

In Dr. von Boenninghausenřs residence, a very small

village in Westphalia, named Darup, I made the

acquaintance of a French lady, Mademoisellee Elise

JANIN. She had been educated by Madame

Hahnemann in Paris and became Madame von

Boenninghausen's life long friend and companion.

My acquaintance with this lady proved to be of great

importance to me. She knew a great deal more of

Madame Hahnemann than even Dr. von

BOENNINGHAUSEN, and moreover, she was the

possessor of a great variety of original letters and

valuable relics of HAHNEMANN, all of which are

now incorporated in my Hahnemann Museum.

My visit to Darup was followed by a journey to

Koethen, Meissen and Leipsic.

In 1905 I visited Hahnemann's grandson, Dr. Leopold

Suss Hahnemann. He had retired from practice and

was living at Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight. He

allowed me to inspect all writings and letters of his

grandfather, chiefly of the Koethen period. What

rendered this visit of special value to me was my

conversation with the grandson. He had spent his

early youth - until his ninth year - in the house of his

grandfather, and he was one of the few relatives

present at Hahnemann's funeral. Indeed, he was the

only living person who could tell of Hahnemann from

his own observations. The biographies of

Hahnemann's children are chiefly the result of my

investigations in Ventnor.

Dr.Suss-Hahnemann had such confidence in my

forthcoming work that he came to Stuttgart for several

days to visit me, when he was eighty years of age. I

showed him my manuscript on Hahnemann's life

which then amounted to about 500 pages, and we

discussed many details of the family life of his great

ancestor.

A longer journey took me in the year 1909 to the

United States of America. From there also I brought

home numerous copies of original letters, pictures,

etc. The reproductions of the Hahnemann monument in

Washington have been made from my own photographs.

Needless to say, I have visited places, such as Paris,

Koenigslutter, Gotha, Goettingen, Eilenburg,

Altona, Hamburg, and other towns, where

HAHNEMANN had been living. The thorough

examination of the archives of these cities brought me a

rich harvest. Very valuable and quite unexpected

material for the biography was found in the city

archives of Leipsic, Torgau and Dresden in the

private Archives of the Duke of Anhalt-Koethen at

Zerbst, and in the Brukenthal Museum of

Hermannstadt, in Transylvania. I spent many hours

in these archives, and I was the happiest man on earth

when I discovered some new and unknown document

concerning the life of HAHNEMANN.

Compared with the immense work of collecting the

material, the writing of the book was much less

difficult. The compilation progressed slowly but

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steadily year by year, and at the beginning of the

great war there existed an almost complete manuscript

of approximately 700 pages.

I was constantly urged by my medical friends to

publish it, but I resolved never to put it into print

until I should have had some opportunity of making

use of the many letters, casebooks and other

documents left by Hahnemann when he died at

Paris, in 1843.

It is not my intention to give you in detail all my

efforts and difficulties in obtaining Hahnemann's

literary heritage; suffice it to say that not one

single year passed since my first visit to Dr.von

BOENNINGHAUSEN, in 1900, in which I did not

apply to Darup, begging more deliberately and more

obstinately than ever for the unused literary legacy

of HAHNEMANN to be made available for

publication. Dr.von BOENNINGHAUSEN had died

meanwhile, and the valuable handwritten books and

documents changed hands several times. In

desperation I had almost given up hope when, in

1920, with the help of my good friend William

BOERICKE, of San Francisco, I succeeded in

obtaining the complete literary legacy of our great

master for a reasonable sum. For almost eighty

years the homeopathic profession on both sides of

the Atlantic ocean had tried again and again to secure

it; for this reason I was proud of my final success.

In four large boxes, weighing more than four hundred

pounds, I brought this precious treasure safely to

Stuttgart through t h e Ruhr district, then much

disorganized by revolutionary outbreaks. In Sorting

the different hand-written books and letters, I

found that my suppositions as to its value in

connection with my work were not only confirmed,

but greatly surpassed. Manuscripts left by

HAHNEMANN contained an almost overwhelming

amount of most reliable material for instance: fifty-

four case books containing the records of all cases

ever treated by HAHNEMANN from 1799 to 1843;

four large volumes, of some 1,500 pages each,

alphabetically arranged repertories, none of which

has ever been published; the sixth edition of the

"Organon", completely revised by HAHNEMANN

himself in 1842; some 1300 letters of physicians

from all parts of the world addressed to

HAHNEMANN; letters of patients to

HAHNEMANN from 1830 to 1835, with personal

remarks and marginal notes, weighing about 75

pounds, together with letters from the Duke and

Duchess of Koethen, from the daughter of Queen

Louise of Prussia, from Hahnemann's children and

other relatives, letters from his publishers; records of

the first provings of remedies on HAHNEMANN

and his friends, etc.

These documents shed a completely new light on

Hahnemann's life in Koethen and Paris, and as

they could not merely be inserted between the

chapters, the entire work had to be rewritten before it

could be sent to the printer.

The readers of the biography had to be referred quite

often to the fundamental work of Homeopathy, the

ŖOrganon", which had been out of print in Germany

for many years. I therefore considered it may first

and most important duty to supply the profession

with a new edition, using Hahnemann's revised

manuscript of 1842. It was published as the

"Sixth Edition of Hahnemann's Organon" in 1921.

The year following, 1922, two volumes, of

Hahnemann's life and work had been presented to the

homoeopathic profession and to the general public.

Now the great question arose: What to do with all

these letters, pictures, case-books and other

souvenirs of Hahnemann? I decided not to sell them

again, but to place them in a special room and to

endeavour to enlarge this HAHNEMANN collection

as time went on. Since 1922 the Hahnemann-

Museum has reached atleast three times its original

size. It now contains "not only all t h e printed

books published by HAHNEMANN, but also all his

case-books, his original letters, the paintings by

Hahnemann's second wife and many other relics.

Indeed, the collection has grown so large, that to-

day I am not able to present you everything; a

single room of considerable size being entirely too small

for it. Within a few years from now a new

homeopathic hospital will be erected on one of the

pretty hills surrounding Stuttgart.

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The entire

HAHNEMANN collection is supposed to be

transferred to this new building, in which several

halls are to be reserved for this special purpose.

Having given you a general survey of the development

of the Hahnemann-Museum from the very beginning to

the present day, I now intend to make you acquainted

with its most important objects, illustrating my

words by the use of some lantern-slides.

The home of the Hahnemann-Museum is in my

residence, Obere Birkenwaldstrasse 118.

Entering the door of the HAHNEMANN room, you

will please first turn to the left. Here you will see a

wall covered with different pictures of HAHNEMANN

3

This new hospital, with a capacity of 150 beds,

will be erected summer of 1930 to Spring of 1931.

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and of a large number of towns, villages and

houses, in which HAHNEMANN had resided or

practised. A large and a small glass case containing

many very valuable souvenirs and relics of

HAHNEMANN. Upon a special table you will find the

different busts of HAHNEMANN.

The next picture presents the well known oil painting

of Hahnemann by the celebrated artist SCHEFFER of

Paris. Here # you will also see some of the furniture

of Hahnemann's drawing room in Paris. Everything

in the room has some connection with Hahnemann;

even the curtains, very well preserved, once belonged

to HAHNEMANN. Curtains and furniture are made

of heavy, red silk. Although they appear to be quite

new, I must ask you not to sit on any of the

chairs; the silk being almost a hundred years of age,

may not be able to bear the weight of a grown up

person.

A third wall shows Hahnemann's writing-desk and a

large show case, containing from above down;

Hahnemann's record books, 54 case-books, comprising

the time from 1799 to Hahnemann's death in 1843.

A complete collection of Hahnemann's original writings

and translations, four large repertories in hand writing,

and a great many letters of patients addressed to

Hahnemann and containing many remarks by

HAHNEMANN. A large medicine chest of

HAHNEMANN, and the second edition of the

"Organon" completely rewritten by the author. The

wall again showing many valuable pictures of

HAHNEMANN and of some of his friends.

Compared to the Museum of Stuttgart, there is scarcely

another Hahnemann collection worthy to be mentioned.

The only exception being the homeopathic dispensary

of Leipsic, which contains a room with furniture,

pictures and some original letters of HAHNEMANN,

transferred from Coethen after the death of

Hahnemann's daughters.

There are not many men who have been painted in oil

and reproduced in steel engravings so frequently as was

the case with HAHNEMANN. One of these pictures,

an oil painting in miniature, a steel engraving, has been

reproduced from an oil painting by Schoppe of Berlin.

One of the best, and no doubt one of the finest and most

valuable objects of the Hahnemann Museum, is the

Hahnemann painting by SCHEFFER of Paris. The

original, which you will have a chance to admire

tomorrow, is generally considered to be a perfect

masterpiece. A very good reproduction of this

painting used to decorate the faculty room of the

Hahnemann College of Philadelphia. It has been used

as a frontispiece to the German and English edition of

the Hahnemann biography.

There are two other original paintings of

HAHNEMANN in the museum, by BUTTERWECK of

Paris. The one representing HAHNEMANN on his

death-bed, the other in his coffin, five days after death.

The tremendous change in the body within this short

space of time being due to a very careless embalmment.

Among the busts and reliefs of HAHNEMANN those of

STEINHAUSER, DAVID of Angers and WOLTRECK

of Paris are best known. You will, however, see still

another bronze bust of HAHNEMANN in the museum,

which is considered to be a good likeness of the master.

It has been modelled by one of Hahnemann's patients, a

young sculptor by the name of Straube.

There are but few monuments of HAHNEMANN in

Germany. The best known being the monument

modelled by STEINHAUSER, erected by the German

Central Society of Homoeopathic Physicians at Leipsic

in 1851. The Statuette near Hahnemann's writing desk,

also the work of STEINHAUSER, represents

HAHNEMANN as a teacher, the "Organon" in his left

hand. It is a pity that this model has not been used for

the monument at Leipsic.

A comparatively small monument of HAHNEMANN,

modelled by Woltreck, had been presented to the

Duchess of Anhalt by Hahnemann's second wife. It

decorates the entrance hall of the castle at Dessau.

In Coethen, where HAHNEMANN was practicing from

1821 to 1835, there is still another monument, erected

by Mr.WITTING of Coethen in honour of

HAHNEMANN and LUTZE. The trees back of the

monument belong to the garden of the castle of the

duke at Coethen. In the centre of goddess of Hygea

has been represented, to the right side being a bust of

Hahnemann, to the left one of Lutze, who practiced a

number of years at Coethen as a representative of the

homeopathic school.

In the garden of Dr. LUTZE's residence a small

monument of HAHNEMANN had been unveiled in the

presence of Hahnemann's daughter LOUISE, on the

100

th

birthday anniversary of HAHNEMANN, April

11th, 1855.

HAHNEMANN died in Paris on July 2nd, 1843. His

body had been put into a vault at the cemetery of

Montmartre. In 1899 it was transferred to Pere

Lachaise, where a fine monument, erected by

internationational subscriptions, adorns the final resting

place of the master.

Hahnemann's first wife and three of his daughters have

been buried at the cemetery of Coethen.

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The largest and by far the most impressive monument

of HAHNEMANN is the one erected by the American

Institute of Homeopathy at Washington. You have

every right to be proud of it. The reliefs of this

monuments are exceptionally fine masterpieces,

representing HAHNEMANN in his student days, as a

chemist, as a teacher and a physician.

A compilation of HAHNEMANN and the first provers

of homeopathic medicines, the pioneers of

Homeopathy, shows the faces of such well-known men

as FRANZ, GHRIESSELICH, SCHWEIKERT,

GROSS, TRINKS, MUHLENBEIN, RUMMEL,

HARTLAUB, HARTMANN, RUCKERT, STAPF,

VON BOENNINGHAUSEN, MORITZ .MÜLLER,

HAUBOLD, NOACK, GERSDORFF, CONSTANTIN

HERING, etc.

Our next picture represents Hahnemann's friends,

Dr.AGIDI, Dr. Von BOENNINGHAUSEN, and Dr.

LEHMANN, Hahnemann's assisting physician and

successor in his practice at Coethen. The Museum is

now also in the possession of a fine oil painting of

Dr.von BOENNINGHAUSEN.

The governor of Transylvania, Baron von

BRUKENTHAL, had been one of Hahnemann's

protectors in his early career. He gave him a chance to

earn some money by rearranging his large library and

his collection of coins and enabled him thus to finish his

medical studies. The Duke of Anhalt-Coethen,

Ferdinand, permitted HAHNEMANN not only to treat

patients according to his new method, but he also gave

him permission to dispense his own, medicines to his

patients.

Hahnemann's first wife, the daughter

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of an apothecary

at Dessau, had been his true companion in life until she

died, March 31st, 1830, at the age of 67 years. The

next picture represents six miniature paintings by

SCHOPPE: HAHNEMANN, his first wife, his

daughters AMALIE, ELENORE, FRIEDERIKE and

CHARLOTTEE.

Only one grandson of Hahnemann studied medicine.

He was a son of AMALIE, Dr. LEOPOLD SUSS-

Hahnemann. He practised medicine, in London and

died in September, 1914, in his residence at Ventnor,

I.W., at the age of 88 years.

In 1835, at the age of 80 years, Hahnemann married a

French lady, Mademoiselle Melanie d'Hervilly-Gohier.

She inspired him to remove to Paris, where Hahnemann

practiced almost up to the time of his death. It is

marvellous how many patients he treated in these

eight years.

Mademoiselle d'HERVILLY-GOHIER was 35 years of

age when she married Hahnemann. The original of a

pencil drawing, representing her as a young girl, you

will also find in the Museum. A second picture, a

photograph, shows Madame Hahnemann at the age of

63, and a third one represents her shortly before she

died at the age of 78.

Madame MELANIE Hahnemann was said to be equally

talented in painting as well as in poetry. The

Hahnemann Museum is now in the possession of all her

poems and of most of her oil paintings.

Our first picture is the reproduction of a painting of

Hahnemann by MELANIE, painted in Coethen in

1834, a short time before the wedding day. It shows

HAHNEMANN at the age of 80 years. The original

you will see tomorrow in the Museum.

The next picture, also an original painting of

MELANIE, represents herself and her grand-parents.

Still another painting is that of Melanie's friend,

Monsieur GOHIER, one of the presidents of France.

The drawings are also sketches by Madame

Hahnemann, the originals being now in the Museum.

There are four more oil paintings by Melanie in the

possession of the Museum; they all prove her to be a

real artist.

Hahnemann's second wife had no children of her own.

After the death of her husband she adopted a little

girl; an oil painting of her is now in the Museum. She

was married to the eldest son of Hahnemann's friend,

Dr. Carl von BOENNINGHAUSEN; a large

photograph represents her at the age of 35 years.

There are photos, drawings, and paintings of almost

all the towns and houses related to Hahnemann's life,

in the Museum, as for instance: Meissen at the time

when Hahnemann was born. The house in Meissen in

which Hahnemann was born. The old, original

building had to be removed, a large restaurant taking its

place now; Leipsic at the time of Hahnemann's sojourn;

the University of Leipsic at the time of Hahnemann's

student days; the University of Erlangen at the time

when Hahnemann graduated; the Hospital of Vienna,

where Hahnemann received his first clinical

instructions by Professor von QUARIN, the physician

of the empress of Austria; Coethen, the capital of the

province of Anhalt Coethen, during Hahnemann's

sojourn (1821-1835); the house in Coethen, in which

Hahnemann resided and practised; a view of the house

from the front and from the rear; the little house in

Hahnemann wrote large part of his "Chronic Diseases"

and where he used to receive many of his prominent

guests; the house in Paris on the rue de Milan, in

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which Hahnemann practised and resided until he died

in 1843.

Besides the many objects, books, and pictures which I

have demonstrated to you by the lantern slides to-night,

the Hahnemann Museum contains Hahnemann's

pocket-watches, his inkstand of Meissen porcelain, a

clock in black marble from Hahnemann's drawing room,

with a lion by Canova in white marble; a number of

small medals of Hahnemann in bronze and in a Meissen

porcelain; some twenty-five cameos of Hahnemann;

three medicine chests of Hahnemann, containing more

than 2,000 bottles filled with medicated globules; a

college book of Hahnemann's student days; a book

containing the results of the first provings on the

healthy; a fine playing table, inlaid with the initials of

Hahnemann; Hahnemann's writing desk from Paris;

hair locks of Hahnemann; an immense number of

original letters from 1791 to 1843, a collection of

letters by the daughter of Queen Louise to Hahnemann;

a complete collection of letters by Madame

Hahnemann; the little dog of Melanie Hahnemann and

some 120 case books of Hahnemann's friend, Dr.Von

BOENNINGHAUSEN. All these valuable objects you

will have a chance to see tomorrow, by visiting the

Hahnemann Museum.

[All these collections of Richard HAEHL were later

obtained by Robert BOSCH. These are now in the

Institute for History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch

foundation, Stuttgart. The ŘFoundationř has added to

those of HAEHL. I had the opportunity, thanks to the

grace of HAHNEMANN and God to see all these =

KSS].

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7. Homeopathy: Medicine of Last Resort

Steven MESSER

(NEJH. 7, 2/1998)

It was a typical cool, rainy Eugene afternoon on

January 23rd, 1997, at the end of long week of attending

to the usual retinue of patients with ear infections,

depression, chemical sensitivities, headaches, heart

arrhythmias, etc., that I received a most unusual phone

call. A woman called from the local ICU asking if I

would treat her husband. She explained to me that her

husband was in the hospital following his eleventh

intracranial bleed. He was running a high fever, was

septicemic, breathing with a respirator, feeding through

an nasogastric tube, running a blood pressure above 180

and was expected to stroke again soon. She cried as she

told me that the attending internist suggested that the

most humane thing she could do for her husband was to

allow them to disconnect life support and let him die

peaceful death, that would surely come soon. But she

was a Christian, she told me, and loved her husband

desperately. She assured me that she had a strong faith

regarding the afterlife but that her conscience could not

rest if she Ŗdidnřt do everything possible" to save his

life. If she could feel secure that she had "done

everything possible" for him, she could deal peacefully

with his imminent death.

I explained to her, in as gentle a way as I could,

that her husband's brain had likely been damaged

beyond hope of repair, that the chances of recovery of

any sort were extremely slim. She repeated that she

needed to feel that everything that could be done, had

been and that she had talked to the attending doctor and

convinced him to go along with homeopathic treatment.

I agreed to consider the situation and get back to

her. I asked for the internistřs name so I could consult

with him. When I called, he was cordial but skeptical.

ŖWhat do you possibly think can be done here? This

man is going to die.ŗ I told him that I certainly agreed

that the prognosis looked bleak, and that primarily I

would be treating to help the patient's wife's peace of

mind, but that I never gave up on the possibility of

miracles, that I had seen them occasionally with

homeopathic treatment. He answered ŖYes, miracles are

possible, but this case, I am afraid, is past the point

where a miracle could occur!" He agreed to order

whatever homeopathic medicine I requested and noted it

in the chart to have the nursing staff administer it to the

patient. He would be going on rounds later that evening

and he would write the order then. After I hung up, I

called a few colleagues to ask their opinion about the

ethics of taking on such a case. Was it fair to offer this

grieving woman what might likely be false hope, and

what about charging for it? My colleagues persuaded

me to go ahead and treat, so I left my office and went to

the hospital.

When I arrived, the wife, Jane, was waiting for me.

I told her that considering the circumstances of the case

I'd like to treat her husband for no charge, but she

insisted that she understood that there was little hope

and would feel better paying me.

I entered the ICU room where all the paraphernalia

of modern medicine was on full display. On the bed lay

John, hooked up to IVs and tubes and respirator.

I performed a cursory physical exam:

He had a fixed stare; his eyes did not track. He

seemed non-responsive to tactile stimuli over most of

his body. He moved his fingers a bit. He grasped my

hand when I put my hand in his palm. When I told him

I was going to leave he squeezed my hand harder. It

appeared that he did not want me to leave.

Of course, almost all the symptoms in this case

were common symptoms of the pathological condition

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of this patient, but I was buoyed that I had at least one

possible 'characteristic' symptom to base a prescription

on. So I left Phosphorus 200C with instructions to

administer this once a day and to call me the next day. I

explained to Jane that the internist would be by that

evening and that he would write the order for the

medicine. John would be given the medicine by the

nursing staff. She was to hold onto the vial until then.

She reported by phone the next day:

Temperature 38.6 C. Blood pressure 123/68. He has

been without blood pressure medicine since 6:00 AM.

His pulse is 89. The right side is more active. Labs:

excellent. He looks more peaceful and restful. They are

needing to suction him less.

In addition she told the following interesting story.

John was already improving when the attending

internist arrived for his evening rounds. He said to Jane

"See, he didn't really need that homeopathic medicine

after all.ŗ She replied, "Doctor X, I know I was

supposed to wait for you to order the homeopathic

medicine until tonight but I just couldn't wait and I gave

it to him myself!"

Assessment : Obviously the patient is improving and

instructions were given to simply wait and watch.

In his ftrst prescription I was guided by the

recollection of a case that George VITHOULKAS

presented of a young hospitalized child in a coma from

meningitis. Vithoulkas spoke of how he noticed that

whenever the child's mother would let go of the child's

hand for a short while (to take a walk, for example) the

child's fever would aggravate. He used the symptom

better from and need for company" to successfully

prescribePhosphorus.

My patient, John, squeezing my hand when I said I

had to go, made me think of that case. In addition, the

general pathological state of frequent hemorrhages and

paralysis were consistent with Phosphorus. Is this a

good case and one where we can be confident that the

patient will react to the medicine? Of course not, but

there was nothing to lose by trying.

All the following reports were taken over the phone.

1/28/97: John is off the respirator. Jane thinks he is

more awake. Otherwise no major changes.

Plan: Phosphorus 200C

1/29/97: He is sitting up with the help of the bed but

his right lung is not functioning as it should

be.

They are considering tracheostomy.

1/30/97: John is slipping. He is breathing quickly. If

he slips more they will do a tracheostomy.

Can she give him more Phosphorus?

Plan: Wait

2/5/97: Has been moved out of the ICU into a

regular hospital room. John has a recurrence

of a staphylococcal infection in his lungs. He

is on antibiotics. His breathing is labored at

48-50/min., temp. is 38.7 C. He is less

conscious. His wife inks that this is because

of the infection rather than from a

neurological cause.

2/6/97: John was more alert. His temperature is still

elevated. His breathing is still labored. His

respiratory rate is 44-50. Staphylococcus

still in his lungs. He is not tracking any

longer with his eyes. Today he did say the

word, ŖJaneŗ.

Plan: Phosphorus 200C

2/7/97: His respiratory rate is up to 46 again. His

temperature is more normal. He is definitely

improved in terms of his alertness. He tried

to talk this morning. The internist decided

not to do a tracheotomy. He has foamy white

sputum but no fever.

Plan: Wait

2/8/97: His respiratory rate is down. Temperature is

normal. Neural response is 8-10.

2/10/97: Temperature normal. Tracheostomy was not

needed. Stopped antibiotics. Discharge to

nursing home tomorrow.

2/11/97: Staphylococcal infection has come back.

Jane gave 200c herself at 9:50. He won't be

leaving the hospital. He is on Cefotaxime 1

gram/50 ml.

Plan: Phosphorus 1M

2/12/97: He had Phosphorus 1M today. He is not

better yet. Considering tracheostomy.

2/13/97: I prescribed Antimonium tartaricum based

on the amount of secretions in his lungs. He

had it yesterday 2/12/97 at 9:25PM.

Afterwards, he spoke clearly during oral care

given by his wife. He said "That's a pain in

the ass, why do you do that, etc." Stroked her

hand and then opened his mouth to

cooperate. He is definitely better.

2/14/97: He had a tracheostomy. A lot of secretions.

He is more comfortable. He is doing better.

2/17/97: He is leaving for nursing home today.

2/20/97: He is coughing. His blood pressure is 170/70

He is sitting in a chair now. Respiration 30.

Pulse 90. He has goose pimples when

touched. He kissed Jane. His left leg is

twitching. His face becomes red with

coughing. It is a distressing cough. He

sweats a lot. He is smiling 1-2 times a day

now. He is not distressed. He seems

indifferent to his condition. He seems

affectionate. Jane describes him as childish

(3), as if he were 2-5 years old.

Plan: Baryta carbonica 6c tid.

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Here the symptoms which pointed me to the

remedy were more constitutional in nature,

i.e., the color of the face, his mood and

appearance. Although he certainly improved

after this remedy, I wonder reading over this

case whether he might not have done even

better with Opium. It also has these

characteristic symptoms and covers the

paralytic state better.

2/24/97: Remedy seems to increase his alertness.

Yesterday his head seemed frozen to the left.

Soon after taking the remedy head seemed

normal. Generally more communicative.

The remedy seems to make him bring up

more sputum.

Plan: Continue Baryta carbonica tid.

3/3/97: Fever today. Secretions have increased. He

is off antibiotics. He is less responsive. He

has shallow breathing. His right lung

capacity is diminished. He has cloudy urine.

It is white and puffy and completely

clogging his catheter. Blood pressure was a

bit higher today. We need to treat this acute

urinary tract infection.

Plan: Asparagus 30c tid

3/4/97: Tremendous improvement after Asparagus.

No fever. Sputum turned from yellow-white

to foamy. Sediment in the urine was very

thick. He started swallowing food within 10

seconds after taking the remedy. His color

looks good. He will be going home to

Ashland. He has brownish urine. She will

put Calendula salve on sore places on his

skin.

3/10/97: He is at the hospital again having a PEG tube

put in. Secretions are yellowish. He is out

of the remedy. Blood pressure is fine. He is

resting well. He had a difficult time with the

tube this weekend. He was fed baby food.

Plan: Restart Baryta carbonica 6c tid

3/11/97: He had the PEG put in last night. Entry tube

was removed. It was causing Pneumonia.

He is doing better. He is more alert.

3/13/97: Slow progress. After second surgery he was

sleeping and quiet. His urine is brown and

concentrated. He has oily skin on his head

(2). Sore on his lip. His hands are pale. He

is not as alert now. He is on Cipro. He has

Staphylococcus and Pseudomonas cultured

from his sputum. He has a white film on his

tongue. Sputum is now creamy pale and

yellow. His skin is flaky on his feet and

head.

Plan: Calcarea carbonica 6C tid. Calendula ointment

for lips as needed. Calendula lotion for skin

as needed.

This prescription of Calcarea carbonica was

obvious, but the case was still defective.

3/14/97: Much more alert today. Two hours after

starting Calcarea carbonica, he is looking

and not gazing. His sputum is whitish and

loose. His stools are forming now. (They are

changing his diet.)

At 1:30 AM. Jane fed him an entire jar of baby food

while the tube feeding was going on. This is

a definite improvement.

At this point John was moved out of the nursing

home and back to his home in Ashland (a city some 3

hours distant from me). After this, follow up became

sporadic and although he did well when I was able to

treat him, it seemed difficult for Jane to contact me

except at times of crises.

I treated him with moderate success for another

bout of Pneumonia. The principal remedies were

Hyoscyamus, when he had the peculiar symptom of

hiccough with the coughing, and Antimonium

tartaricum at a later stage when he had profuse

secretions in his lungs.

Later yet he had what appeared to be another

stroke. He responded well to Bufo, Plumbum, and

eventually again Phosphorus. My last chart note was on

8/28/97 when he was doing quite well. At that point

Jane decided to follow my suggestion and she continued

homeopathic care with a local homeopath rather than

rely on intermittent long distance phone visits with me.

I last talked to Jane a few months ago (5/98) and

heard that John has continued to do well with

homeopathic treatment.

This case helped me observe once again the

amazing ability that the living human organism has to

respond, in a healing manner, to stimulation by a

medicine homeopathic to the symptoms of the patientřs

disease. Even cases that appear beyond the limits of

therapy can sometimes respond in Řmiraculousř ' ways.

John never improved to the point of full functioning.

But he did regain functions that seemed at the time of

my first visit with him impossible. This man, who was

expected to die when life support was removed, was

able to leave the ICU, and then the hospital, and then

eventually go home. The psychological benefit to his

wife was inestimable.

To be able to prescribe effectively in these cases it

is important to remember Hahnemann's description in

the Organon about how best to choose a homeopathic

medicine for a given stage of an illness. First, we must

consider ALL the symptoms the disease produces.

§18

ŖIt is an indubitable truth that there is absolutely

nothing else but the totality of symptomsŕ

including the concomitant circumstances of the

case (par. 5) by which a disease can express its

need for help.

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We can categorically declare that the totality of

symptoms and circumstances observed in each

individual case is the one and only indication that

can guide us to the choice of the remedy.ŗ

Then we must try to perceive which symptoms in that

totality are most individualizing in each particular case.

§153

ŖIn this quest for a homeopathically specific

remedy, i.e., in comparing the totality of symptoms

of the natural disease with the symptom lists of

available medicines so as to find a

disease agent similar to the trouble being treated,

the more striking, strange, unusual, peculiar

(characteristic) signs and symptoms in the case are

especially, almost exclusively, the ones to which

close attention should be given, because it is these

above all which must correspond to very similar

symptoms in the symptom list of the medicine being

sought if it is to be the one most suitable for cure.

More general and indefinite symptoms, such as loss

of appetite, headache, weakness, troubled sleep,

discomfort, etc., if not more precisely qualified,

deserve little attention, because one finds

something general of the kind in almost every

disease and almost every medicine.ŗ

This is difficult in these cases at the edge of life.

We must avoid the extremes of basing our prescription

simply by focusing on the pathology or, alternately, on

some insignificant but striking common mechanical

symptom of the disease process. (Of course, the

dysfunctional personality quirks of the patient, which

can sometimes help to find a prescription in earlier

stages of disease, are useless when the disease reaches

this defective stage.) Treatment of these "defective

diseases" are discussed in the Organon 172-184.

It takes a bit of faith to prescribe according to

Hahnemannřs guidelines especially when giving a

medicine one hasn't ever used before. For example, on

March 3rd, I prescribed Asparagus for a febrile urinary

tract infection. This is a remedy I had never used

before, and I was drawn to it based on the one

characteristic symptom in that disease, which was the

very thick white flocculant discharge in the urine

gumming up his catheter! How does one explain using

such a symptom, to decide on a medicine, to the local

urologist? Superficially, it seems absurd, but it is the

logic of Hahnemann. And as we can see from the

result, the remedy helped, not only the urinary tract, but

the whole patient as well.

Finally, it is also interesting to note how well

homeopathic treatment was able to integrate with

conventional care. He may have had a better result had

he relied more on homeopathy and less on conventional

interventions, but that was not what his wife wished nor

were there hospital facilities to accommodate this if it

were. It seems that in spite of recurrent allopathic and

surgical interventions, some of them quite invasive, this

patient was able to respond well to each homeopathic

prescription. It would have been a shame to deny

treatment to this man because of the use of concurrent

allopathic treatment.

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8. Thoughts on the Treatment of Seizure Disorders

with Case Examples

HERSCU Paul (NEJH. 7, 2/1998)

When I first started studying Homeopathy, I

learned about many remedies for the treatment of

seizure disorders and I listened to many people lecture

on the topic. I heard them talk about how Cuprum has

this and Cicuta has that, yet it seemed like the vast

majority of the actual patients were not doing that well.

It wasnřt about knowing the symptoms of the remedy

but rather how to look at the case and see the individual.

Itřs important to know when to look beyond just the

symptoms of the seizures and to focus instead on the

patient.

The classification of seizures by our allopathic

colleagues changes every few years. This has become

very important with regard to the selection, dosing and

combination of allopathic medications. Likewise,

homeopaths need to develop a protocol for the

successful treatment of seizure disorders using

homeopathic medications. In looking though my cases,

Iřve decided to develop a classification system for

seizures which informs homeopathic treatment; I

believe this classification approach will work for some

time to come and should help those treating patients

with seizure disorders.

This classification system involves three categories.

1. Patients who have seizures with an unknown cause.

Idiopathic seizures. CAT scan and EEG are

normal. Many people with seizures fall into this

category.

2. Patients for whom there is a reason for the seizure

activity such as injury, scar tissue or tumor.

3. Patients with seizures where there is an underlying

metabolic or genetic problem and the seizures are

only part of a larger symptom complex.

Thoughts on remedy selection for the different

classifications:

Group 1 Ŕ The symptoms of the seizures are not so

severe, not so striking. For the vast majority of these

patients, their other symptoms are clearly those of a

polychrest. Give the polychrest.

Group 2 Ŕ These patients may also need a polychrest,

the more severe the seizures are, the more likely they

will need a more intense remedy, what I would call a

Phase Four remedy (see pages 15-25, on ŖThe Map of

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Hierarchyŗ in my book Stramonium With an

Introduction to Analysis using Cycles and Segments

for a complete description of this concept). Perhaps

there are some key symptoms of the polychrest missing,

and some good confirming symptoms of a smaller

remedy. Keep in mind, that it is important to base the

prescription on the general state of the patient rather

just the seizure itself. Remedies aimed strictly at the

seizure tend to fail; I know this from personal

experience. If you are giving a nonpolychrest remedy

i.e., a remedy which appears to have a smaller sphere of

influence, one that is geared very specifically to

neurologic complaints, the patient should exhibit

symptoms of that remedy beyond only its seizure

symptoms; you would want to see some confirmatory

symptoms outside the neurological ones. If you find

such symptoms then you can feel confident prescribing

a Řseizure remedyř first such as Cuprum, Stramonium,

etc. Give one dose of a 200c. Donřt worry about drugs

antidoting the remedy.

Group 3 Ŕ In these patients, you will often need a

remedy known for seizures. You may need to go

through a succession of remedies such as Tuberculinum,

Medorrhinum, Stramonium. Donřt be quick to change

the remedy, but donřt be afraid to, either. You may need

to start with polychrest and go to more severe remedies,

or vice versa. At the end of their life they donřt have

many energy resources left. However they will live a

lot longer than other patients with the same diagnosis.

Give the lowest possible potency that will do the trick

so then you wonřt run out of potencies.

Likely Outcomes:

1. People in the first group will get better. All their

symptoms go away and seizures do, too.

2. Some patients in the second group will get better

with the remedy in all regards. In other people,

many of their symptoms may improve but they will

still have seizures. They may have to stay on

seizure medication which does not seem to interfere

with the remedies. Repeat EEGs can show

improvement, yet the remedy may not cure the

seizures. Often the patient will be able to get by on

less medication, thereby suffering fewer side effects

and fewer or no breakthrough seizures.

3. What you see with the third group is that you give a

remedy and they show sudden dramatic

improvement in many areas but then suddenly

relapse. This pattern repeats over and over Ŕ each

time the highs are not as high and the lows are

lower. One day they are doing great and then the

next they day, just as dramatically, symptoms recur.

The treatment is strictly palliative, it will most

likely not cure the patient in a permanent fashion.

Case examples:

Case 1.

The first case is a 35 year-old woman. She came to

see me out of desperation. She has a seizure disorder of

unknown cause that is atypical and uncontrollable. She

has periods of what she calls petit mal seizures, which

are not so bad. They are characterized by Řspacing out.ř

During these seizures she has fits of extreme

coldness(3), and her extremities and face turn a bluish

color(3). This coldness is ameliorated only by getting

into a very hot bath.

She also has Řmajor seizures.ř They begin with

Ŗlosing oxygen to her brainŗ and with intense chills.

She develops a sick feeling in her abdomen, Ŗfeeling of

weakness there, or a feeling as if someone hit me in my

abdomenŗ(3). She shakes internally and externally

before the attack, Ŗlike a sudden shaking anxietyŗ(3).

She begins to act like a drunk. She can hear the sound of

words but cannot understand what others are saying.

She cannot speak, her pupils dilate, and her eyes glaze

over. She then falls to the ground, is sometimes

conscious and sometimes unconscious, and is in a state

of flaccid paralysis in which she is breathing deeply,

almost snoring. After the attack the intense coldness

remains, and she has to take a hot bath.

Attacks can be brougnt on by being in a very cold

or very warm room. She develops insomnia the night

before the attack, sensing an anxiety building in her

abdomen(2). I observed her seizure activity twice in my

office, where I could see the change in color, shaking,

unconsciousness, and the visible weakness after the

attack. The seizures began during her second pregnancy

when she was 23 years old. They used to occur once a

month; now they occur a couple of times a week.

With her first pregnancy she was bedridden with

intense nausea(3) and edema for the full nine months(3).

She gained 70 pounds, losing only 40 pounds afterward.

She is now obese: five feet, one inch; 205 pounds.

During the third month of pregnancy, she developed

terrible migraines located in the right side of her

occiput, which continue to bother her. The headaches

are aggravated by sudden motion and by rising from a

seat. Her health history revealed right-sided Bellřs

Palsy at age 16, which resolved quickly. Over the past

six years she has developed an intense vertigo(3), which

is aggravated upon waking(2), rising from bed(2), and

with the slightest motion. She becomes very nauseated

with it(3). She feels that she has lost a lot of her

memory in the past year.

She has difficulty sleeping 3 days out of each week.

She cannot fall asleep because she feels Ŗ…like sparks

are flying in my brain, like Iřm going to short-out my

brain. Then my mind wonřt quiet down to let me

sleep.ŗ She may also wake from dreams, though she

does not recall them.

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She gas a large appetite(3). She eats a great deal of

food, saying that she is hungry after eating and therefore

continues to eat(2). Food occasionally gets stuck in her

esophagus. She had gallstone colic and had her

gallbladder removed at age 27. She still gets colic in the

region. Since the operation, she gets cramps and

diarrhea alternating with constipation. She craves

sweets(3), milk(2) and meat(2). She is averse to fat(2)

and spicy foods(3). She has had a tendency for irregular

menses her whole life. Before the flow she often shakes

with anxiety and develops seizure activity(2). She also

becomes sad and weepy and retains water in her

abdomen and extremities so much so, that she feels she

looks pregnant. The flow is dark red with no clots and

may be accompanied by cramping.

She tells me that she is basically a positive,

optimistic person and indeed, she seems to be so. She

has belonged to a strict religious movement over the

past two years, and reports that she has Ŗgiven up her

former self.ŗ Because of this affiliation, she denies

having any fears. When I asked her about her former

self she describes the opposite extreme. She was scared

of everything and everybody, and she does not know

how anyone could possibly live without knowing God.

She proceeded to try to convert me!

Analysis and Follow-Up on Case Number 1

I place this case into my first category: patients who

have normal EEG readings, do not have a cause for their

seizures, and are usually not on medication. This

category is the easiest to treat. The remedy is usually

clear, and in most cases there are no masking or

antidotal influences from medications. You may treat

this kind of patient as you would treat any other person

in your practice, while keeping two suggestions in mind.

First, I recommend that the potency be no higher

than 200c. This is because there is a possibility that the

remedy chosen will be incorrect, but close enough to

affect the case. There may be an undetected problem in

the brain, and a strong aggravation is not in the best

interest of the patient. A 200c dosage is strong enough

to do the job for quite a while. If the patient is initially

on medication, I usually begin with a low potency such

as 6c, repeated daily. I then see the patient for a follow

up three to four weeks later.

Second, when a patient is on medication and the

remedy is indeed the simillimum, the patient will

improve. I ask the patient and the doctor in charge of

medication to begin withdrawing the drugs gradually.

In the process, the patient begins to break through the

threshold of medication and remedy, and may then

worsen. Ideally, the symptoms will be on the level of

the general state of the patient, or will be other less

severe symptoms that worsen, so that we can catch the

decline (resulting from decreased medication) before

seizure activity resumes. I then increase the potency to

12c, also repeated daily. This process is continued,

decreasing allopathic medication and increasing

homeopathic dosages, until the patient is off

medication. Then we are ready to prescribe one dose of

a medium to high potency. I have had good results with

people in this category.

HERSCU: Do have any suggestions for Case Number

1?

JULEK MEISSNER: What jumped out at me in this

case was the patientřs coldness with the seizures, so I

immediately consulted that rubric. This suggested

Oenanthe crocata. Iřve never used it before, but

BOERICKE also describes a strong connection between

this remedy and pregnancy. This patientřs seizures

began during her second pregnancy.

LILLY CUNNINGHAM: What struck me in this case

was how it began in her abdomen. The remedy I found

in the repertory was Aranea, the papal cross spider,

which also has the coldness. It powerfully affects the

nervous system and has the periodic attacks. One other

thing I found to support Aranea was the distension of

her abdomen during menses.

DURR ELMORE: You said you were probably not

using small remedies, so that suggests a larger remedy.

If youřve got someone whořs chilly, craves sweets and

salt, and has an aura beginning in the abdominal area,

Calcarea carbonica is a good possibility.

Analysis and Follow-up

If the seizure symptoms in this case are closely

examined, Bufo rana, Cicuta virosa, Causticum,

Cuprum, Camphor, Helleborus, Moschus, Nux vomica

or Oenanthe would come to mind. But, what if I were

to ask for a remedy for a woman who is aggravated by

the cold, has intense vertigo, is sleepless from mental

exertion, and has Gallbladder disease? I think we

would all say Calcarea carbonica. Patients have

seizures of this nature? Yes. It doesnřt matter whether

it is in all the specific rubrics; what counts is that it fits

the patient.

Plan: Calcarea carbonica 200c

Follow-Up

Calcarea carbonica cured this woman of her

seizures. It has been three years since she has had

seizures.

Case Number 2

This patient from the second group is of a 35 year-

old woman who has had grand mal epilepsy with EEG

abnormalities for the last five years.

As a child she had strange indescribable feelings

throughout her body that were diagnosed as petit mal

seizures. By the time she was 16 years old, she was

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having several seizures a day. She was put on Dilantin

for ten years. Seven years ago she took herself off the

medication independently. She then started getting petit

mal seizures, Ŗjust a strange electric feeling in the

head.ŗ During the seizures she would stare. After a few

years they went away, and she began to have grand mal

seizures.

She knows when she is about to get an attack but

cannot describe how she experiences the aura. She tells

us it is like a déjàvu(2), something familiar that she

experiences. Beyond that, she cannot describe it. When

she feels the seizure coming on, she must lie down(2)

because she knows she will lose consciousness. After

the attack she has a migraine headache(2), intense

weakness(3), and fatigue. She is depressed(2) for two

or three days afterward.

Her roommate has seen the seizures and described

them to us. The patient begins to growl and laugh

hideously(3) and has a high-pitched squeak(3). She

then becomes cyanotic and rigid(3). She shakes all

over(2) for a few minutes, with fast, shallow breathing.

She is incoherent afterward and does not recognize her

roommate. She chews her tongue(2) but does not foam

at the mouth. Her eyes roll back, and her teeth are

clenched.

The seizures occur more frequently in the

morning(2), after exercising, and before or with

menses(2). She becomes fearful(2) and anxious(2)

when she gets the déjà vu feeling. In the last few weeks

she has developed twitching of the hand and eyes,

lasting the whole day(2). Her roommate describes her

last attack by saying Ŗ…. Her knees were drawn in, she

clenched her fists, and began to laugh before the attack.

She clenched her jaws and drooled a little. The attack

was of a rigid, tonic and clonic nature. Her eyes rolled

backwards and she was cyanotic with it. She lost

consciousness with it, and when she came to, she was

limp and went to sleep.ŗ

She tells us that she has had a problem with weight

control. When she was five years old, her tonsils were

removed. Then she began to gain weight. She weighed

225 pounds seven years ago. In the last seven years she

has lost 75 pounds.

Her digestion is good; it used to be sluggish. She

has either diarrhea or constipation, and passes a stool

every other day. She has internal hemorrhoids that itch

and are painful if she becomes constipated.

Sugar acts like alcohol in her(2). Her extremities

begin to tingle, and she becomes tired, moody, and

irritable(2).

Craves salt(2), sweets(2), and ice cream(2).

She regurgitates slightly if she eats cold foods. She

burps up milk if she drinks it. She does not digest meat

or fish very well, and does not care for them.

Averse to pork(2).

She is always thirsty, drinking ten glasses of room-

temperature water a day.

As a child she craved burnt food, like burnt toast.

Her menses are sporadic. The time between varies

from 30 to 50 days. They last for seven days and are

very heavy. The discharge varies from bright to dark

and contains dark clots. Before the menses she desires

sweets, gets a backache, her abdomen bloats, and she

gets cramps with occasional breast tenderness.

She is not sexually active; has never been pregnant

or used birth control pills.

She has had many yeast infections in her life. She

has an occasional vaginal itch now.

Her sleep is not very refreshing. She sleeps on her

right or left side, or on her back. She talks in her sleep.

She likes to get warm, using an electric blanket, but will

stick her feet out if she gets very hot.

Her perspiration is normal. If she exerts herself

greatly, her head will perspire especially if warm. She

has had no history of urinary tract infections. She

frequently voids but never feels like she empties her

bladder. She wet the bed until she was 14 years old.

She has had many ear infections in her life. They

stopped several years ago, and then she began to get

them again. She ruptured her eardrum seven years ago.

Her ears itch all day.

She occasionally has postnasal drip.

She had bad Eczema on her scalp in the past. It

was very itchy and would peel in large scales.

She does not like tobacco smoke, which gives her a

headache.

She has no major fears except gaining weight and

possibly snakes.

Analysis and Follow Up on Case Number 2

This second category in the classification includes

people with epilepsy resulting from a brain lesion or

scar. Patients in this second group should never be led

to believe that they will be rid of epilepsy. Many in this

group will, in fact, stop having seizures. Others,

however, will improve from the simillimum in many

ways but will still have seizures. I have found it

difficult to predict ahead of time what will happen, and I

donřt feel it is a function of the degree of clarity of the

remedy picture. It is as if the pathological change,

whatever it may be, sets a barrier that the simillimum

cannot cross.

Generally, I strongly suggest that one begin

treatment with a low-to-moderate potency, rarely giving

above a 200c. My reason for this is that often the

reaction to the remedy is very strong. After all these

years of seizures and medication, the organism is finally

given something that may begin a healing process. The

organism takes that remedy and uses it to open

Pandorařs box. A strong response usually follows, such

as an intense illness. The winter desolation of this

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illness is awakened with the remedy, and so follows the

springtime of hope and growth. But with springtime,

comes a vigorous cleansing of the body.

What seems like a severe acute illness in people in

this category is really part of the curative reaction

brought about by the remedy and should therefore not

be treated simply as an acute illness. It has to be

managed correctly: sometimes not treating it, sometimes

repeating the simillimum. There are many case

management challenges at each of these Řacute illnessř

visits.

Be aware of these reactions as they lurk about.

Treated incorrectly, the reaction goes away and then the

patient may have seizures again, sometimes worse than

before. Can you imagine what it would be like to be in

prison for years, surviving by determination alone, and

then one day you are told that you will be released?

You dress and prepare to go. Then, just as you leave

your cell and get your first taste of freedom, your

keepers change their minds, throw you back into the

cell, and slam the door. That shock to the organism is

immense. And so it is when interfering with an acute,

sudden reaction of the organism to the simillimum. If

this reaction is ruined, it may be a very long time even

with correct homeopathic treatment, before the

organism will again attempt to throw off the yoke of this

illness. Its reactive, curative ability was damaged with

the first interference.

For people in this category, I often begin with a low

potency, 30c or 200c. If given the 30c or 200c, the

reaction often occurs within a few days to a few weeks.

If given a lower potency, the reaction often occurs

within a few days to a few weeks. If given a lower

potency, the reaction takes several weeks, building up

steam before it breaks through with an acute episode.

On a clinical side, with this lower potency group, often

all that is needed is to increase the potency, from 6c to

12c for example, to manage the acute.

If this acute occurs and is handled correctly, the

likelihood of cure is great. If the acute never

materializes or, worse, if it does materialize and is

mismanaged, the likelihood of cure is poor.

Case Number 2 is one in which Causticum and

Cicuta virosa equally cover the symptoms of the

seizures, with laughing before seizures, bladder

insensitivity, Eczema on the scalp, and a desire for burnt

food. Kali bromatum strongly fits the symptom of déjà

vu. At various times, I prescribed the first two

remedies. Neither helped the patient, and, in fact, both

increased the frequency of her seizures.

I asked myself what remedy I would give her if she

did not have epilepsy. What remedy has obesity, a

tendency toward constipation, and a craving for salt,

sweets, ice cream, and burned foods? What remedy

begins the night chilly and then sticks her feet out?

Why did she begin to have ear infections seven years

earlier, just when the seizures began again? The only

remedy and explanation for all these symptoms is

Calcarea carbonica.

Then I returned to the symptoms of the seizures,

with the terrible headaches, weakness, and aggravation

by exertion and before menses Ŕ all of which fit

Calcarea carbonica.

Plan: Calcarea carbonica in 6c doses, repeated two

times daily.

Follow-Up

I began treatment with this patient five years ago.

Eventually, over a period of six months, the grand mal

seizures ended as the petit mal seizures continued. The

little déjà vus and blanking states disappeared as well,

over a period of two years.

JAN RAYMOND: Why does repertorizing the

symptoms of the actual seizures often not reveal the

correct remedy?

HERSCU: It depends on what you think is individual

in the case. If she had acne instead of epilepsy, for

example, would you extensively repertorize the acne?

Sometimes you would, and sometimes you wouldnřt. It

depends on where the individualizing symptoms lie in a

given case. It is easy to get so caught up in the

symptoms of the epilepsy, especially if they are severe,

that we focus only on those symptoms in prescribing.

Yet, these symptoms are just part of the disease.

You are looking for individual symptoms, whether

inside or outside the disease, and then you must relate

the two aspects. Many times the remedy you are going

to give will not have the specific symptoms of the acne

or the epilepsy. Ask yourself, ŘDoes the remedy fit the

general nature of the patient as well as some of the

elements of the chief complaint?ř Play the two aspects

together.

PRAKASH VAKIL: KENT says that you cannot

prescribe for a patient of epilepsy unless you see an

attack. May be that explains the difficulty. Quite often

we have not seen the attack. The seizures are described

by other people who maynot have observed it properly.

Modern technology would make it possible for someone

to videotape the actual seizure.

HERSCU: Yes, video can be very useful in these types

of cases. Four months ago I took a case and couldnřt

find a remedy. At that time I was videotaping many of

my cases, so I played the video back. The person

complained of sadness and depression. In the space of

time that I finished the videotaping and bent down to

turn off the video, he had a petit mal seizure. No one

knew he ever had seizures! He didnřt know,I didnřt

know, no one knew. I became aware of it only because

it was captured on video, and I happened to see it when

reflecting on the case, after the fact.

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Case Number 3

The patient I would like to describe in the third

group is a 10 year-old boy diagnosed with Battenřs

disease, which is a lipid storage disorder similar to Tau-

Sachs.

Amy and I first saw this boy on November 22,

1986. He had been in a wheelchair for years and was

blind since age five. He and his sister were adopted

when he was two years old. When each child turned

five, they started to show signs of the disease. The first

symptom for both was blindness. They they began

slurring words and were unable to learn at school even

though they both had quite high IQs. They started to

lose their ability to walk, and their knees started

knocking together. The disease has progressed steadily

in the last ten years. His sister died this year and the

family physician expects this boy to die this year as

well. By the time he came into our office most of his

nervous system and his brain had degenerated. I would

like to mention a quick word here about his family,

made up of loving, patient people who cared for these

two extremely handicapped children in their own home

and who gave endlessly until the end.

He stares with wide open and tremulous eyes,

which move about from side to side. He has strings of

mucus running down his nose and face, which his

parents wipe frequently.

He does not control urine or stool.

He constantly swallows saliva, bites his lip, rocks

back and forth, sighs, and sucks air through his mouth.

During his grand mal seizures, his eyes roll

around(2), he screams(3), he becomes taut and tense,

and then he begins to shake(2). He falls asleep for a

few hours afterward. He loses urine with the attack. He

does not foam at the mouth. His parents hear strange

noises from him during an attack(3), and he usually

throws his head backward(2). Attacks may occur more

often when he is overheated or tired.

Suddenly in the office he starts to whine, ŖMom, go

home! Mom, go home!ŗ(3). He repeats this over and

over again, faster and faster; the mucus is now really

running from his nose. He has a nasal voice. I tell him

where he is and try to communicate. He just continues

yelling. Now he starts hitting his face with his open

palm of his right hand again and again, rapidly, harder

and harder, ŖHome, home!ŗ His face has turned bright

red.

He seems totally unaware of his surroundings and

mucus is everywhere. His hitting is almost like a spasm

from his elbow. My impression is that this really sweet

child has been suddenly possessed.

I wait until he quiets down. He is silent. I ask him,

ŖYou donřt want to cry do you?ŗ; this sets him off as if I

had turned on a switch. The attack is very intense(3).

Everybody in the room is agitated, and my heart is

pounding.

His parents say he becomes angry if tired or if he

has to do things he doesnřt want to do, such as going to

the doctor. He also gets angry if he is wet. He loves

music, not hard rock, but more of the mellow type. He

doesnřt curse. He loves motion. His parents were

blessed with one biological child, after they adopted this

patient and his sister, and this Řnormalř brother, who is

8, pushes the wheelchair up and down our hallway, as

the patient yells, ŖFaster, faster!ŗ and makes the sound

of a motor with his lips, Ŗbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr,ŗ with

more and more intensity.

He has no finger or toe nails to speak of. He has a

fungal infection on his toes, and he picks and bites at his

nails compulsively.

He has a ravenous appetite (3); he eats and eats and

eats. He is constipated. He has one stool a week, which

is voluminous. There is no evidence of worms.

He can often go without sleep for the night (2).

Sometimes he kicks covers off his feet. He always stays

in the position his mother puts him in.

He loves snakes. When he could still walk, he

would find snakes and stuff them into his shirt.

Analysis and Follow-Up

This final case exemplifies my third category:

seizures that are only one major part of the case. These

patients tend to be children with many genetic or

metabolic problems, one of which may be epilepsy.

Many of the patients in this group are children because

often patients with these sorts of problems do not live

into their teenage years. These are the children with all

those Řorphanř diseases Ŕ illnesses that are not well

known. Because I am young, I cannot yet say if

Homeopathy can stop or eradicate any of these

illnesses. It seems that, at the very least, the pace of

deterioration can be slowed. When I am older, I hope I

can say more.

What I can say is that, if the illness reaches a

certain point, it is irreversible and the patient most likely

will die. Once the simillimum is given, the patients

often improve incredibly, in many ways. Then their

health suddenly deteriorates, and the seizures return.

With good treatment, they will improve again but often

not to the extent that they did the first time. This Řyo-

yoř effect can continue until they die, as if the fabric of

their lives has been worn too thin to be restored.

With very little reservation, I can say that most

patients in this third category respond beautifully to the

simillimum. Some will stop responding, while others

will remain well, at least for a number of years. with

this third category, I tend to begin with a low potency to

buy as much time as possible. The lower potencies will

palliate much longer, and I still have the higher

potencies to use later. The goal is not a cure, it is not

possible for many of these degenerative illnesses. The

goal is palliation, as illustrated by this case.

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HERSCU: What would you prescribe for Case Number

3?

LINDA SHOWLER: How much of this

symptomatology is due to Battenřs disease?

HERSCU: All of it. Basically, the nervous system and

the rest of the body are Řmelting.ř One could think of it

that way.

RICHARD PITCAIRN: I donřt know the pathology

of that disease very well. But I looked up softening of

the brain, and I crossed that with the desire to home.

This suggests Lachesis. Lachesis also has constipation

without desire. And I thought it was quite odd that he

was attracted to snakes.

HERSCU: Yes, and the face getting red would also

support Lachesis. Other remedies?

JENIFER JACOBS: I thought of Tarentula hispanica

because of the frenzied activity you described and the

desire to be pushed fast. He liked music. And

Tarentula can certainly have Neuromuscular conditions,

Multiple Sclerosis, Chorea, and so on.

HERSCU: Tarentula is a very good thought. It is also

listed in the repertory under striking oneself.

NEIL TESSLER: I suggest Medorrhinum because of

the copious discharges, the intensity, and the biting of

his nails.

NICK NOSSAMAN: I am thinking palliatively,

looking at the picture of the seizure. I would consider

Belladonna because of the desire to go home, the

striking himself with his hand, and the red face as

opposed to cyanosis. The boy had such small reserve I

would expect him to be cyanotic.

ANDREW LANGE: Nick just stole my fire. I agree

with him. I chose Belladonna for the rreasons he has

given. I want to also mention a story that may be of

some use. Two nights ago I was on an airplane a woman

was in status epilepticus. I didnřt have any remedies

with me. I resorted to my meager knowledge of

Acupuncture, and pressed on the point, Governing

Vessel 26, right under the nose. Within 15 seconds she

came out of the seizure, after having been in the seizure

for 45 minutes. Each time she relapsed a littler bit into

seizure activity. I would apply pressure to that point,

and she would simply go to sleep. It was like a

knockout drug. I was quite impressed.

HERSCU: Yes, the Řmagic button.ř There are a lot of

kids with epilepsy who refer to their Řmagic button.ř

Anytime they start feeling that Řweird thing,ř they press

on this point. I owe my awareness of this to Ember

Carriana. We were fellow students at NCNM.

STEPHEN KING: Ordinarily I donřt comment on

cases because I know the content ahead of time. But I

didnřt look at this case, so I can give my impressions.

The first thing that strikes me is the miasmatic quality.

The pathology is quite destructive. So, I think of the

Syphilitic or tubercular (Psora plus Syphilis) Miasm.

Heřs very intelligent. The case states that he and his

sister had very high IQs. He is suffering tremendously

because he started with a very acute awareness. There

is a quality of intensity and of precocity. He is striking

himself probably out of a kind of torment.

HERSCU: If I can stop you for a second, I want to

mention something. We have to wonder what we are

doing with these children when we give them the

remedy and prolong their lives. Each time I saw this

boy I would ask him, ŖDo you want to live? Give me

some kind of clue!ŗ We must think about this because

we are perhaps keeping a human being in a state of

considerable suffering.

STEPHEN KING: Yes. Heřs suffering a lot, and heřs

hitting himself and he wants to go fast. Somehow it

reminds me of Kentřs lecture on Tuberculinum in which

he mentions the homeopath, GREGG. GREGG

developed Tuberculosis, and he found no comfort

except when riding in the cold winds along Lake Erie.

This boyřs desire to go fast seems similar. So, I would

suggest the possibility of Tuberculinum.

Case Analysis and Follow-up

This patient illustrates the dilemma of deciding the

basis for the prescription. The child has many

symptoms. Few of these symptoms are characteristic or

individualizing. His illness is quite progressed. Another

homeopath had given him many remedies, to no avail.

He came in and started to have an intense attack. Just

from the intensity of his state, the sheer agitation of the

patient (as well as myself!), redness of the face, and the

striking of his head, I reached for Belladonna 30c and

placed one dose in his mouth.

The attack ended quickly. As the agitation was

subsiding. I took the rest of the case.

Plan: Belladonna 30c to be taken as needed.

I saw the child one month later. The report was

nothing short of a miracle. His teacher said that his

attention span went from less than a minute to 20

minutes. He seems much more alert in the office, has

been more insistent of others, is aware now of who is in

the room, and calls for people.

Follow-Up

Now, when his mother tells him in the morning,

ŖItřs time to get dressed.ŗ He will say, Ŗpants, pants,

pants,ŗ insistently. After his pants are on, he will

sequentially yell out for a shirt, socks, shoes, and so

forth, until he is dressed. He hasnřt been able to do this

in years. When it is time for him to get out of the

bathtub, he reaches out and tries to stand up. His nails

are growing in; he isnřt biting them anymore. He is also

picking his lips less. He is crawling more. He crawls to

the dinner table and all over the house. He hasnřt had

any angry fits or seizures. He smiles more. He sleeps

calmer, still uncovering himself and staying in the same

position he is laid in. His appetite has increased. If he

doesnřt drink distilled water, his urine smells very

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strong. He has had three bowel movements in the past

week.

I would like to mention three points here. First, his

bodyřs incredible response to the simillimum is fairly

common in these kinds of patients, although it does not

indicate the outcome of the case. Second, when a

remedy is correctly chosen, improvement occurs in

every facet of the organism, not just whatever the chief

complaint might have been, in this case, the seizures.

This is a great clue that you have hit upon the

simillimum. Third, the repetition of the 30c dose was

absolutely necessary in this case because the fabric that

the remedy had to act upon was practically nonexistent.

The remedy would constantly act and then stop acting,

so it had to be repeated. This is a very big clue that the

case, although responding well to the simillimum, is

incurable. Amy recently treated a young man with

Frederickřs ataxia who had an initial response to

Mercury which was no less miraculous, but which

didnřt last more than a few months.

The case progressed quite nicely on Belladonna.

Eventually, I changed the potency to 200c and later to

1M. Several months after the first treatment and during

the course of a two year treatment with Belladonna, the

case began exhibiting the Řyo-yoř effect I mentioned

before, where the childřs health was remarkable but

would then drop suddenly. We would repeat the

remedy or go higher in potency, and the child would

respond quickly each time.

Then my wife called while I was away on a trip.

She said that the boy had gone into a collapsed state: no

bowel movement, no sweat, nothing. He just lay there

without moving, not eating or drinking. The parents

were using a turkey baster to squirt some juice or broth

into the back of his throat, but he would just spit it out.

I said to my wife, ŖWell, there must be some other

symptoms, some sort of irregularity in the breathing or

something else,ŗ Her response was, ŖNo, nothing.

Absolutely nothing. He just lies there.ŗ

HERSCU: What would you do? Do you give a

remedy? He may be dying.

JOHN COLLINS: I think homeopathic Opium is a

possibility because Opium is indicated for patients who

are obstructed and comatose, especially if there is a lack

of pain. It is also indicated for patients who tend to get

capillary congestion in the face, a red face, and

perspiration in the coma or during the seizure.

JEFF BAKER: If I were igoing to give any remedy it

probably would be Phosphoric acid, but I donřt think

Iřd give any remedy.

HERSCU: Thatřs a very personal choice. You have to

think about it. What are you going to do in that

situation? You have to think about it before you see a

patient like this for the very first time because sooner or

later youřre going to get to that point. You would just

let him pass? What about the parents? The parents are

very religious. The parents are wonderful people. They

said, ŖHeřs alive because God wants him to be alive.

Heřs going to die when God wants him. Until then,

weřll bring him to you.ŗ I felt I had to try to help him

and them.

At first I thought that this must be Opium. But

further reflection suggested the idea of Calcarea

carbonica. Why? Because of the complementary

nature between Belladonna and Calcarea. Can

Calcarea have a collapsed state, with extreme

constipation? Yes, of course. He had responded very,

very well to Belladonna for years. So, it is necessary to

be flexible and creative. He was given Calcarea

carbonica 200c, and he snapped right out of it.

The boy did very well for several months.

Belladonna and Calcarea were given as needed Ŕ

sometimes one and sometimes the other, depending on

which one he responded to.

Then, at a certain point, he went into another

collapsed state, and neither remedy produced a

beneficial effect. The symptom picture was slightly

different. He lay there, sweating, grinding his teeth, and

banging his head on the floor. Tuberculinum brought

him right out of this state, and he did well for quite a

while until he developed a number of severe Decubitus

Ulcers. His state began to deteriorate once more. It was

as if his soul was stuck in this body, as his body was

disintegrating.

[Editorsř Note: Dr. HERSCU then showed a video

of the patient at this point in the case. There were 20 or

30 Decubitus Ulcers of various sizes, some quite

necrotic. In some places it was possible to see the

underlying bone. Other areas of the body were

edematous with puffy, shiny skin. Dr. HERSCU asked

for remedy suggestions. Secale cornutum, Apis,

Anthracinum, and Arsenicum album were offered as

possibilities.]

Arsenicum album 200c was prescribed. If you look

at the rubrics for swelling of the lower limbs, dropsical,

white, Arsenicum is there, often in bold type. It is

indicated even in the small rubrics, shiny skin and

swelling. And, if you look at the gangrene rubrics,

Arsenicum is in bold type throughout. Many people go

into an Arsenicum album state at the end of life.

Three or four days later the mother said that the

ulcers were healing. No new lesions developed. The

swelling went away. The boy became more active and

alert again. He began once more to hit his head on the

ground, to grind his teeth, and to sweat.

Because he had responded so well to Tuberculinum

previously, this remedy was given again: 12c on a daily

basis. He did well for about two months. There were

no ulcers, no seizures, and no symptoms. And then he

died. This is a typical course for this kind of case. The

patient responds quite well to treatment, then relapses,

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then responds well, then relapses, as the overall

condition inevitably deteriorates.

So, the child progressed from the Belladonna state

to Calcarea carbonica, Tuberculinum, Arsenicum

album, and finally Tuberculinum once more before he

eventually died after four years under our care. This

was the progression of correct prescriptions for the

palliation of this case. He lived much longer than

anyone expected, and I believe he was one of the oldest

surviving persons with this illness.

Concluding Remarks:

It has been ten years since I initially put forth this

basic approach to treating patients with seizure

disorders. Perhaps because of the pediatric book I

wrote, I have developed a practice where a good number

of my patients have problems such as seizure disorders,

genetic problems, Autism, etc. and I have much more

experience to base my thinking on. That said, I would

not change my basic philosophy, as I have had ample

opportunity to work with this population and have found

this framework to be extremely useful. I would be

interested in other peoplesř perspectives on treating

seizure disorders, especially those of you who have seen

many cases over many years.

PAUL HERSCU ND, DHANP is the author of The

Homeopathic Treatment of Children, Pediatric

Constitutional Types and Stramonium, with an

Introduction to Analysis using Cycles and Segments.

He is the co-editor of this journal and practices in

Enfield, Connecticut.

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9. Excerpts From History of Homeopathy And its

Institutions in America

(This Tenth part narrates the impressive manner in

which Homeopathy began taking its roots in

America.)

(HH. 19, 1 - 6/1993)

The Metropolitan Hospital on Blackwellřs Island

dates its history from the year 1894, and is the

outgrowth of the older institution known in history as

the New York Charity Hospital on Wardřs Island. The

latter institution was the result of a movement which

originated as far back as 1857, when the homeopathic

profession in New York was making an earnest and

honest endeavor to introduce its treatment in some of

the great charities of the city. The efforts then made

were well directed but the petition presented to the

authorities seems to have fallen into the hands of the old

allopathic enemy, as the majority report of a select

committee declared Ŗthat it would be both unwise and

inexpedient to change the medical government of

Bellevue Hospital, or place any portion of it in charge of

a board of homeopathic practitioners for the purpose of

experimenting with that system of practice upon its

inmates.ŗ The minority member of the same committee

also made a report, but his declarations availed nothing

against those of the majority. Although the adverse

report of the commissioners had not a disheartening

effect upon the hopes of the homeopathic profession

and its friends in the city, there was no further well

organized attempt to introduce Homeopathy into the

public charitable institutions until the winter of 1874-5,

when the subject of homeopathic success in general

was being discussed in one of the leading clubs by

several men of prominence in professional and official

circles. A narrative of the events of the occasion are not

deemed important here, but the consensus of opinion

inclined to the belief that the homeopathic profession

was entitled to representation in the great charitable

institutions of the city; and out of the opinions then well

voiced there grew a petition which was so strongly

reinforced with names of representative men that the

commissioners of charities could not turn a deaf ear to

its presentations, for it asked only the recognition of a

right, and not a favor. The county homeopathic society

also took an active part in the movement, and as its

result, on August 7, 1875, the commissioners agreed

that a part of the old inebriate asylum on Wardřs Island

should be set apart for a hospital to be under the charge

of homeopathic physicians, subject to such rules as the

charities department might establish.

The story of the origin and marvelous growth of

Homeopathy in the United States had its beginning in

the year 1825 in the city of New York, when Dr. Hans

Burch GRAM, a brilliant surgeon, physician and

scholar, visited that city, where his brother, Neils

B.GRAM, resided. Dr. GRAM, an American by birth,

had recently come from Copenhagen in Denmark,

where he had been educated and where he had become a

believer in the medical doctrines promulgated by

HAHNEMANN the founder. Thus, in America GRAM

was the first exemplar to teach and to practice medicine

according to the law of Homeopathy.

Hans Burch GRAM was the son of Hans GRAM,

whose father was a wealthy Sea captain of Copenhagen.

Hans GRAM when a young man was private secretary

to the Governor of the Danish island of Santa Cruz.

While travelling in the United States in 1782 or 1783 he

became interested in a Miss BURDICK, the daughter of

a hotel keeper in Boston, where GRAM was then living.

He married her and for his action his father disinherited

him, but relenting on his deathbed, left him his fortune.

Mr. GRAM settled permanently in Boston after his

marriage, but the records of his life are meager. At one

time he was living in Cambridge and was an organist.

He afterward lived on Common street, where he died in

1803. Mr. GRAM on hearing of the death of his father

prepared to leave Boston and return to his native land

and receive his patrimony, but the night before he was

to have sailed for Denmark he was taken sick and died

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in a few hours. His widow survived him but two years,

dying in 1805.

Hans Burch GRAM, the son, a year later, in 1806,

at the age of eighteen years, went to Copenhagen to

claim the fortune left by his grandfather. He obtained a

portion of it and was successful in finding friends and

relatives willing to aid him. Prof. FENGER, physician-

in-ordinary to the King, was his uncle, and through his

favor GRAM received a superior education. He was

placed in Royal Medical and Surgical Institution, and

Dr. FENGER gave him every advantage of the other

school and later of the hospitals of Northern Europe.

Within a year after his arrival in Copenhagen he

was appointed by the king assistant surgeon to a

military hospital. This appointment was preceded by a

rigorous examination in Latin, Greek, Philosophy,

Anatomy and minor surgery. He was officially

connected with the hospital as surgeon during the last

seven years of the Napoleonic wars, residing therein

much of the time. In 1814 he resigned his position,

having been advanced to the rank of surgeon, and won

the highest grade of merit in the Royal Academy of

Surgery, with the degree of C.M.L., the highest of three

degrees. He then devoted himself to general practice in

Copenhagen, and so successfully that at the age of forty

years he had acquired a competence for himself and also

was enabled to assist the members of his family, all of

whom had remained in the United States.

During the years 1823 and 1824, GRAM had

become acquainted with the principles of Homeopathy

and had tested the new system very carefully on his own

person and in his extensive practice, and had become

convinced of the truth of the doctrines propounded by

HAHNEMANN. But he longed to see his family in

America, and therefore returned to the land of his birth.

He sailed from Stockholm in the ship ŖWilliam PENN,ŗ

Captain William THOMPSON, and landed with him at

Mount Desert, Maine, where he lived for some time as a

guest of Dr. Kendall KITTRIDGE, the first doctor ever

settled on the island. GRAM afterward took passage

with Captain Thompson for New York, where he landed

some time in 1825 and where his brother, Neils B.

GRAM, was established in business. He lost his fortune

by endorsing notes for this brother, who seems to have

been unfortunate, and was obliged to resume the

practice of medicine.

It is probable that GRAM was induced to return to

America more because he believed he could disseminate

the doctrines of Homeopathy than with any thought of

entering into active practice. He was a ripe scholar and

in Europe had been the associate of many learned men.

However, he opened an office in New York, though on

account of his modesty it was several years before he

became well acquainted with his brothers in the

profession. GRAY says of him: ŖHe was too modest by

far in his intercourse with his fellow men. He was not

diffident nor timid, for no surgeon knew better how to

decide when or how any operation of the art should be

performed, and very few, indeed, could operate with his

skill and adroitness; but in conversing with a fellow

practitioner he very much preferred hearing the

sentiments and opinions of others to delivering his own.

He made it a rule never to express his opinions on

scientific matters until they were sought for in detail.

Yet GRAM was apt and willing to converse and to

teach.ŗ It is thought that he must have been a

homeopathist in Copenhagen for ten or twelve years

previous to his departure, and he claimed to have been

one of the earliest of the European believers. Desiring

to call the attention of the medical profession of New

York to the subject of Homeopathy, a few months after

his settlement he made a translation of Hahnemannřs

ŖGeist der homeopathischen Heil-lehreŗ and published

it in a small pamphlet of twenty-four octavo pages, with

the title ŖThe Character of Homeopathy.ŗ This work

was dedicated to Dr. David HOSACK, at that time

president of the New York College of Physicians and

Surgeons and Professor of theory and practice in that

institution. This essay was first published in a German

newspaper of March, 1813, and afterward in a volume

of the second edition of the ŖMateria Medica Pura.ŗ It

was printed in the form of a letter to HOSACK, and was

gratuitously distributed among the leading members of

the medical profession, and especially to the medical

schools.

GRAM had long been away from the country and

his English was bad. His twenty years in Denmark gave

this little missionary tract such a Danish-German-

English grotesqueness and such complicated

grammatical construction that it was difficult to read

understandingly. GRAY doubted whether any one to

whom it was sent ever did read it. HOSACK said he

had not done so. GRAM was greatly disappointed that

the truth he so firmly believed in should be so coldly

received, and with the exception of certain manuscripts

afterward loaned to Folger, and lost by him, nothing

further was written by him. This pamphlet was the first

ever published in the United States on the subject of

Homeopathy. Only one copy is known to exist, and

that was presented by Mrs. WILSEY to Dr. HENRY M.

SMITH and by him donated to the New York library.

A powerful factor in the introduction of GRAM to

his fellows in New York was that he was an enthusiastic

royal arch mason, and it was through the influence of

the lodge room that he formed several close friendships

with influential persons; he met FOLGER at a Masonic

meeting. It is said that he was an officer in Jerusalem

chapter No.8, and took part in the exaltation of

FOLGER at an extra meeting on May 25, 1826. After

the ceremony GRAM introduced himself to FOLGER

and thus formed an acquaintance that lasted until the

latter left the city, in 1828.

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Robert B. FOLGER, born in Hudson, N.Y. in 1803,

commenced the practice of allopathic medicine in New

York in 1824. For sometime after he met GRAM he

ridiculed the new method of small doses, but in August,

1826, GRAM, at Folgerřs request, treated successfully

several cases that the latter had deemed incurable. He

then became interested and began the study of German

under GRAMřs tuition, reading with him the Organon

and the ŖMateria Medica Pura.ŗ FOLGER began the

practice of Homeopathy in 1827, but having no

confidence in his own knowledge of the system, GRAM

accompanied him when he visited his patients. In 1828,

on account of ill health, he was obliged to visit the

south, and GRAM bade him goodbye at the vessel when

he sailed. During this time FOLGER was Gramřs only

student and assistant. After FOLGER went south his

connection with GRAM ceased and he did not again

practice medicine. He returned to New York in 1835

and gave his attention to mercantile pursuits. During

the first week of their acquaintance, GRAM introduced

the subject of Homeopathy, presented him with his

pamphlet and with a manuscript article on the

pharmacodynamic properties of drugs. While FOLGER

was in North Carolina GRAM determined to go there,

and was to have joined him in Charlotte in 1828 but

reverses in business on Folgerřs part caused the project

to be abandoned.

In November, 1827, GRAM was proposed for

membership in the Medical and Philosophical Society

of New York, and was elected the following February,

initiated in June, and at the general meeting the next

month was elected corresponding secretary. In july,

1830, he was elected president. He had taken a

prominent part in all the proceedings of the society and

in January, 1929, proposed a plan of correspondence

with the fellows soliciting their co-operation in

collecting facts, especially respecting diseases and

remedies, whereby much knowledge could be obtained,

erroneous opinions corrected, and sound doctrines

become better known and appreciated.

In September, 1826, FOLGER introduced to

Ferdinand Little WILSEY, a merchant, who also was a

prominent mason and master of a lodge, in order that

GRAM might instruct him on certain important

Masonic points. Mr. WILSEY was born in 57 Reade

/street, New York, June 23, 1797. Friendship was at

once established between the successful merchant and

the physician, and the former often entertained GRAM

at his house. WILSEY was a sufferer from dyspepsia

and his own physicians, Dr. John F.GRAY, having

failed to relieve him, he was induced to place himself in

his friendřs care, and thus became the first patient who

was treated with homeopathic remedies in the United

States. The success of the treatment was such that

WILSEY, who for sometime had inclined toward the

healing art, began the study of medicine under GRAM

at the same time attending lectures at the College of

Physician and Surgeons. He began practice in private,

acquiring the title of doctor and quite a reputation

among his friends, with whom his medical services

were entirely gratuitous. The panic of 1837 caused him

to give up mercantile pursuits and, being somewhat

reduced in fortune, his friends procured for him a

situation in the custom house, which he accepted, still

continuing his private practice. Dr. WILSEY received

the medical degree from the College of Physicians in

1844. In 1845 he joined a company for mining copper

in Cuba, and sailed for that island to superintend

operations. The project was a failure, his health became

poor, and returning to New York, he at once opened an

office and commenced for the first time the public

practice of medicine. His efforts were successful and he

amassed a considerable fortune. A few years previous

to his death ill health caused him to give up practice and

remove to Bergen, N.J., where he died May 11, 1860.

He was devotedly attached to GRAM and remained so

during his life; was his companion in his last illness, and

the last at his final resting place. He was the first

convert to the doctrines of Homeopathy in the United

States, and also the first American who made any

pretension to practice the same. WILSEY had

frequently urged his old family physician, Dr. JOHN

FRANKLIN GRAY, to be introduced to GRAM, but

GRAY considered him a quack and refused to meet him

until in 1827, when in Wilseyřs store they became

interested in the new theory of cure and permitted

himself to discuss it with GRAM. It was with

reluctance, however, that he consented to Wilseyřs

placing himself under Gramřs treatment for his

dyspepsia.

Dr. GRAY thus told the story of Wilseyřs

conversion to Homeopathy: ŖI had treated WILSEY for

dyspepsia for a long time with such poor success that at

his request I consented with much reluctance and almost

boorishly to place him under Dr. Gramřs care, to test the

value of the improved practice. Under his treatment the

patient experienced early and marked benefits. At that

time I ascribed the change to his improved diet. But as

my training, reading and experience, which had been

unusually extensive for so young man, had failed to

inspire me with confidence in any past or existing plan

of therapeutrics, I was soon ready to put the method of

HAHNEMANN to the test of a fair and rigorous

observation. Moreover, Gramřs inimitable modesty in

debate, and his earnest zeal for the good and the true in

all ways and directions, and his vast culture in science

and art, in history and philosophy, greatly surpassing in

these respects any of the academic or medical professors

I had known, very much shortened my dialectic

opposition to the new system. I selected three cases for

the trial, the first, hemoptysis in a scrofulous girl,

complicated with amenorrhoea; the second, mania

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puerperalis, of three months standing; and the last,

anasarca and ascites in an habitual drunkard. Following

Gramřs instructions, I furnished the proper registry of

the symptoms in each case. He patiently and faithfully

waded through the six volumes of Hahnemannřs

ŖMateria Medicaŗ (luckily we had no manuals then) and

prescribed a single remedy in each case. The first and

third cases were promptly cured by a single dose of the

remedy prescribed and the conditions as to diet and

moral impressions were so arranged by me (GRAM did

not see either of the patients) that, greatly to my surprise

and joy, very little room was left for a doubt as to the

efficacy the specifics applied. The case of mania was

perhaps the stronger testimony of the two. The patient

was placed under the rule of diet for fourteen days

previous to the administration of the remedy chosen by

GRAM. Not the slightest mitigation of the maniacal

suffering occurred in that time. At the time of the

giving of the remedy, which was a single drop of very

dilute tincture of Nux vomica in a drink of sweetened

water, the patient was more furious than usual, tearing

her clothing off, and angrily resisting all attempts to

soothe her. She finally recovered her reason within half

and hour after taking the Nux vomica and never lost it

afterward. I was determined the patient should not have

the advantage of imagination, so I gave her a junk bottle

full of molasses and water during the fourteen days and

made her take a tablespoonful every two hours put the

Nux vomica in molasses and water, so that she did not

know that we had made any change of remedies. The

husband came for me after she had taken the Nux

vomica and said his wife was crying; she had recovered

her reason and begged me to go and see her. I saw the

lady and she thanked me for her restoration; she was

perfectly well. I was her physician for a number of

years afterward. A fourth case was soon treated with

success, which had a worse prognosis, if possible, than

either of the others. It was one of traumatic tetanus.

During the first year of my acquaintance with GRAM I

subjected only my incurables and the least promising

instance of the curable to Dr. Gramřs experiments, but

this was simply because I could not read the language of

the Materia Medica, and it was impossible to do any

more without a knowledge of the German. During that

time I surmounted this difficulty and became a

competent prescriber and full convert to Homeopathy.

The year 1839 witnessed the first break in the circle

of faithful enthusiasts who had dared and suffered so

much for the cause of Homeopathy. GRAM, who had

been the guide, wise and affectionate, was suddenly

stricken with apoplexy. GRAY says: GRAM failed in

health completely just as the new period began to dawn

upon us. Broken in heart by the misfortunes, insanity

and death of his only brother, upon whom he had

lavished all the estate he brought with him from Europe,

he was attacked with apoplexy in May, 1839, from

which he awoke with hemiplegia; after many months of

suffering he passed away on February 13, 1840.

WILSON and I tenderly cared for him, and Curtis

watched him as a faithful son would a beloved father.

He was an earnest Christian of the Swedenborgian faith,

and a man of the most scrupulously pure and charitable

life I have ever known. In the presence of want, sorrow

and disease, secluded from all observation of the world,

he ministered with angelic patience and with divine

earnestness.ŗ

Dr.GRAM was buried in St. Markřs burial ground,

New York, but on September 4, 1862, his old-time

friend and pupil, Dr. GRAY, removed the remains to his

own lot in Greenwood cemetery. In the October

number of the ŖAmerican Homeopathic Reviewŗ is a

long article by Dr.S.B. BARLOW, and another by Dr.

H.M. SMITH, on GRAM. Dr. BARLOW writes: ŖHans

B. GRAM, M.D. died February 13, 1840, aged fifty-

four years. So reads a marble tombstone erected over

his grave in St. Markřs burial ground between Eleventh

and Twelfth streets, on the east side of Second avenue,

in the city of New York. On the fourth day of

September, 1862, the grave of Dr. GRAM was opened

and the remains taken up for removal to the private

ground of Dr. John F. GRAY in Greenwood cemetery,

where in a lovely spot his remains have reached a

permanent resting place. I had requested to be present

at the exhumation, which request was readily and

kindly granted. I estimated his height to have been five

feet ten inches, Gramřs skull was of medium size, with

good breadth of forehead showing that he had possed a

great amount or volume of the perceptive and reflective

faculties.ŗ Dr. BARLOW describes at length in this

article the characteristics of GRAM from the

phrenological examination of his skull at this time, thus:

ŖVeneration, conscientiousness, benevolence,

combativeness, cautiousness, firmness, attachment to

friends, and to whatever was good, true, just and

humane, were all characteristics of GRAM and the

active operations of those sentiments could not but

render their possessor a pleasant companion, a good

man, a kindly physician, the central luminary of

whatever circle he was placed in, not assuming

dictatorial or arrogant in manner. Whatever feelings of

superiority he may have felt toward those by whom he

was surrounded, he could not but endear himself

strongly to his friends and pupils, creating ties, the

severing of which at his departure must have been

painful indeed. Hence I find every person who knew

him well still speaking in terms of the most endearing

tenderness of him as a most estimable friend. Naturally

he was, doubtless, a brilliant, cheerful and happy man;

but had rendered him somewhat morose, taciturn,

suspicious and distrustful Ŕ even of his best friends,

embittering the evening of his days, producing

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infirmities which brought a gloomy obscuration over his

faculties and sentiments and throwing clouds of

disappointment and unhappiness over his fastest friends.

ŖFuture generations of physicians will do honour to

the memory of Hans B. GRAM. The plate of his coffin

bore the following inscription, portions of which were

difficult to decipher, but I am sure it was all finally

made out in perfection: Hans B.GRAM, M.D. a Knight

of the Order of St. John, died Feb. 13, 1840, aged 53

years.ŗ (There is a discrepancy of one year in his age

as given upon the coffin plate and that inscribed on his

tombstone.)

At a meeting on Hahnemannřs birthday, April 10,

1863, the meeting at which GRAY gave his address on

ŖThe Early Annals of Homeopathy in New York,ŗ after

the banquet there were various toasts, and the talk

turned on the early times of Homeopathy in New York

city. Dr. BARLOW was asked to give his opinion of

the character of GRAM, and he said, ŖThe impressions I

received from viewing the craniology of Dr. GRAM

were first, the massiveness of his mind of brain, of his

ability to grapple with whatever subject he undertook.

Secondly, I was impressed with the idea of his courage,

exactly, but courage for all good purposes, courage for a

man who knew no fear except the fear of doing evil,

doing wrong. I was impressed with his ability for

general scholarship. His organ of languages was very

good, his head could be called well balanced.ŗ

This story is told by Dr. MOFFATT of New York,

illustrating the fearlessness of GRAM: ŖI heard it from

his own lips. When he lived in Copenhagen and was a

physician or surgeon in the National Military and Naval

Hospital, a menagerie of wild beasts was there

exhibited, among the animals being a full grown lion.

The keeper entered the cage of the lion intoxicated

which enraged the lion and he attacked the man and

escaped from the case. GRAM was talking with a

friend, and picking a nut with a nut-picker, when there

was a sudden cry and the people ran out shrieking.

Looking, he saw that the lion had escaped. Everybody

fled but himself and he stood in a defiant attitude,

fronting the beast, which came so close that he felt the

heat of his breath, and Gramřs purpose at the time was

to plunge his hand with the instrument into the beastřs

mouth as the only means of staying the destruction that

would follow should he attempt to escape with those

behind him. As the creature crouched to spring, he felt

his hot breath. While he stood fronting him in that

attitude the attendants came with rods and cords and

secured him. When it was over GRAM fainted. He did

not get over the effect for six months .ŗ

The only portrait of Dr. GRAM in existence is a

pencil sketch by Dr. CURTIS, which was lithographed

and published in the ŖUnited States Medical and

Surgical Journalŗ for July, 1867, and is that from which

is produced the portrait in this work. GRAY said the

original was wonderfully accurate. At the 1863 meeting

GRAY mentioned that a cast was taken of Gramřs head,

but did not know if it was then in existence. At the

meeting GRAY, WILSON, and BALL were appointed a

committee to arrange for erecting a monument over the

grave in Greenwood, but nothing seems to have been

done at that time. In 1869 the New York State

Homeopathic Medical Society inaugurated a movement

to invite dollar subscriptions for a monument to GRAM.

At ameeting held September 14, 1869, at Cooper

Institute, the following committee was appointed:

Drs.John F. GRAY, L. HALLOCK, S.B. BARLOW,

B.F. BOWERS, Carroll DUNHAM, H.D. PAINE, of

New York; R.C. MOFFATT, of Brooklyn; I.T.

TALBOT, of Boston; Walter WILLIAMSON, of

Philadelphia; G.E. SHIPMAN, of Chicago, and Wm.H.

HOLCOMBE, of New Orleans. Circulars were issued

and some subscriptions were raised, but the matter was

allowed to drop.

Dr. Grayřs open adoption and profession of

Homeopathy dated from 1828. He was born in

Sherburne, Chenango county, New York, September 24,

1804, and was the fourth of five sons of John GRAY,

first judge of Chenango county. When sixteen years of

age his parents removed to Jamestown, Chautauqua

county. Thrown on his own resources, he devoted

himself to obtaining an education and a profession.

After working for a time at a mechanical employment as

a means of supporting himself, he obtained a situation

as assistant and student with Peter B. HAVENS of

Hamilton, Madison county, where there was an

academy, and where he gave his services for his board

and the opportunity for study and instruction. After two

years he found a position as teacher in a neighboring

district school. With money thus earned he was able to

visit his home, and the journey of two hundred and fifty

miles he accomplished on foot. While teaching and

studying he fitted himself for a medical school. He was

for a time under the tuition of Dr.Ezra WILLIAMS of

Dunkrik. He went to New York in 1824, provided with

letters to members of the college faculty. One from

Governor Clinton to Dr. HOSACK brought him to the

favorable notice of that leading physician, who soon

became attached to him, admitting him to his private

classes and otherwise aiding him. In 1825 he passed an

examination for a license before the county medical

society with a view to taking the position of assistant

surgeon in the navy, but which, by the advice of friends,

he declined. He received his medical degree from the

College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1826.

Dr. HOSACK through his own influence and that

of DeWitt CLINTON and Thomas EDDY, two of the

governors, secured for GRAY a position in the New

York Hospital as assistant physician. His appointment

had been opposed by many who were unfriendly to

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HOSACK and was coupled with the condition that he

should undergo examination by the men who opposed

him. Dr. WATTS, to open an office in the more thinly

settled but rapidly growing ports of the city, had now

formed an attachment with the lady who afterward

became his wife, the daughter of Dr, Amos G. HULL, a

wellknown surgeon of New York, and father of Dr. A.

Gerald HULL. He opened an office in Charlton street

and soon gained considerable practice. At this time he

was regarded by his professional brethren as a young

man of unusual promise and ability. And now, with

everything favorable to him in a professional way,

because of honest conviction he became a devoted

adherent to the medical system which when spoken of at

all, was considered as the latest medical absurdity, not

worthy of serious attention. With his full adoption of

Homeopathy in 1828, the immediate effect was to

alienate his patrons and diminish the number of his

families. Even those who had been cured without

knowing it was with homeopathic medicines, declined,

longer to trust themselves in his hands. His carriage

which for sometime had been a necessity was given up

as a useless extravagance.

In 1829 GRAM and GRAY were alone in the

practice of homeopathy in New York city. GRAY

devoted himself to learning German and soon was able

to read Hahnemannřs work in the original. He also

mastered French, but from 1830 to 1838 he was poor

and had a struggle to support his family. In 1835 his

father-in-law, Dr. HULL, who had been in the truss

business, died, leaving him executor. In attending to the

estate much of his time was taken up, and from 1835 to

1838 he had an office in Vesey street, under the Astor

house, where he could attend both to his profession and

to his duties as executor. In his later years he was very

fond of reading philosophical and medical writings in

Latin. In 1871 he received an honorary degree from

Hamilton College.

It is said of GRAY that he received pupils without

fee, and that he always was ready to aid poor students of

medicine. He died at the Fifth avenue hotel in New

York, June, 5, 1882, after an illness of three weeks.

GRAY was one of the first physicians who advocated a

more extended and thorough system of medical

education, and that the state should grant the license to

practice. At a discussion in 1832 before the

philosophical society he offered a resolution that but

one medical school should exsit in a state; that rival

schools ought not to be approved; that every physician

in the state should be a teacher in such school, and that

there should be one board in each state that should have

the sole power of recommending candidates for license

or degree. In November, 1832, he delivered a lecture on

the policy of chartering medical colleges, the same

being introductory to the course on theory and practice

in the New York School of Medicine.

The next to join the homeopathic ranks was Dr.

Abraham Duryea WILSON. GRAY and WILSON had

been medical friends. In fact the coterie of brilliant

young physicians, students and associates of Hosack,

who one by one accepted the truth of Homeopathy,

were intimates, members of the philosophical society,

and it can readily be understood how they became

acquainted with GRAM. WILSON, who had been in

practice in New York since his graduation in 1822, was

introduced to GRAM by GRAY. At first WILSON was

incredulous, deeming, like his brethren, the new

doctrine simply humbug, but the arguments of GRAM

and the surprising cures accomplished induced

WILSON to make further experiments. These tests

resulted in his conviction of the truth of the

homeopathic law, and in 1829 he publicly adopted that

method in his practice.

Dr. WILSON was born in Columbia College, New

York city, September 20, 1801. His father, Peter

WILSON, was Professor of languages and Greek and

Roman literature in that institution. He was educated in

the college, graduating in 1818, when but seventeen

years of age; but he did not receive his diploma until of

legal age, in 1822. After graduation he at once

commenced the study of medicine under Drs. HOSACK

and FRANCIS, receiving the degree from the College of

Physicians and Surgeons in 1821. He at once settled in

practice locating in Walker street, New York city. In

1824 he married Eliza HOLMES. He died of

pulmonary apoplexy, January 20, 1864, aged sixty three

years.

On Hahnemannřs birthday anniversary, April 10,

1865, Dr. GRAY delivered a eulogy on the life of the

founder, and spoke of the period of Wilsonřs adoption

of Homeopathy as follows: ŖWILSON was already a

conspicuous practitioner of medicine when he adopted

Homeopathy. This change took place in 1829, the

eighth year after his graduation from the College of

Physicians and Surgeons, and the twelfth after receiving

his baccalaureate in Columbia College. His social

status and professional standing were such as to make a

strong sensation respecting the new practice in a wide

circle of the community at the time. His father, an

eminent Scottish scholar, was professor of the Greek

and Latin languages at the time of his sonřs birth, and

for many years after. His brother, the late George

WILSON, an accomplished counselor at law in the city,

who was twenty years his senior, and therefore able to

aid him behalf. Moreover, this brother, as WILSON

told me, earnestly interested himself after the venerable

fatherřs departure, in his culture in ancient and modern

literature and philosophy. Whatsoever the elder brother

could accomplish for him in society and in aid of his

professional career was certainly effected with

gratifying success. Dr. WILSON had also the great

advantages in that day resulting from the personal

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friendship and patronage of his illustrious preceptor in

medicine, the late Dr. David HOSACK, in whose

private classes he was a diligent pupil, HOSACK had

received classical training from Wilsonřs father, to

whose memory he was gratefully attached; and thus it

can be imagined how readily this young manřs studious

qualities were appreciated and his aspirations in the

outset of life fostered by his powerful preceptor. And

that WILSON was a keen and prompt student under

HOSACK, accepting and using all the advantages

afforded by his great masterřs private and public

lectures and by the great Clinique of the New York

hospital in which HOSACK took the leading position

was abundantly demonstrated by him when, in the

capacity of a censor in the county medical society, he

officiated as examiner of candidates for the diploma of

that body. WILSON made the acquaintance of GRAM

and myself (William Harvey KING) and encountered

the great new problem of his life work, Homeopathy.

After a patient study of its principles and a protracted

trial of its art-maxims at the bedside, during all of which

study and trial he refrained from expressing a

judgement, he decided the question firmly and fully for

himself and for all his future patients, in the affirmative;

and thence forward he openly avowed his adherence to

the doctrine and discipline of HAHNEMANN.

WILSON came into our circle with all his stores of

sound culture and with all his indomitable courage in

defence of the right and true. I have said that the

avowal of his change of practice ensued upon a very

mature and thorough examination of the questions

involved in the change; and I may add that this was his

method in all other philosophical and administrative

problems. His powers of analysis were never

embarrassed by the perturbations of his emotional

nature. Though generous, even to a decided fault on

some occasions, and full of sympathy at all times and in

every fibre of his being, yet he could at all times set his

reason to work in the precision and cool steadiness of

mathematical logic; and thus it was his wont so to apply

his happily dormant rational power to the largest

questions of faith and of practice in ethics and

theosophy, as well as in ours of medicine. His

characteristic lay in this rare peculiarity of constitution,

one which belonged to the old time philosophers, that he

could apply his consciously rational test processes over

all the lines sketched by his intuitions; and his merit as a

man consisted in the ever rare quality that he openly

avowed and sustained whatsoever he found to be true by

this his double process of investigation, pocolepsis, and

demonstration. WILSON took this great step,

Homeopathy, with a deliberation and courage

consonant with his training in letters and science and

with his constitution as a man. He was no adventurer in

the community, with nothing to lose by the change, and

perhaps a gain to make by heralding a novelty in

medicine. Nor was he any view of his constitution, an

eager innovator, a reformer of popular mistakes; but

rather from his harmonic tendencies (he loved music)

and his cordial, social rapport with all good meaning

people of his place and time, he was a conservative; was

indulgent to harmless errors and indisposed to violent

uprooting. Nevertheless he went with his conviction of

truth whensoever these were fully ripe in his soul.

ŖBitter were the pangs and sore the costs of this

bold change for the accomplished and successful young

WILSON. In less than two years after the adoption of

the new method, that is to say in 1831, when the birth of

the last of his children had rendered the demands of

family support strongest upon him, his change had

deprived him of all his family practice save one; of that

goodly broad basis founded by his familiar associates

among the Masons in the Dutch church, of which he

was a cherished member, and from among his family

adherents, including those of his brother, the Counsellor

WILSON, only one stood by him, Mr. THOMAS

DUGAN, Sexton of St. George, who happened to be the

mutual friend of WILSON and myself.ŗ

WILSON did not study German, therefore could

not determine the remedy for himself, and as he was

ever anxious to do his utmost for his patients, he was in

the habit of taking them to GRAM for advice; and

WILSON and CHANNING held daily consultations

with GRAM. But long before his professional

reputation was re-established, Wilsonřs careful methods

and cures greatly advanced the system in the

community.

10. Polarity analysis, a new approach to increase the

precision of homeopathic prescriptions

FREI Heiner (HOM. 98, 1/2009)

Introduction: The objective of the Swiss double blind

randomized controlled trial of Homeopathy for

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was to

find evidence of a specific therapeutic effect

attributable to homeopathic treatment of hyperactive

children. Each of the three phases of the trial yielded

positive results. In the open label treatment phase prior

to the double blind trial, a highly significant difference

between the effect of initial suboptimal and the final

optimal prescriptions were observed (p < 0.0001). this

demonstrates that the effect of homeopathic treatment

is causally tied to the choice of an appropriate

homeopathic remedy and not just the result of the

physicianřs attention to the patient.

1

during the double

blind phase the effect of homeopathy was significantly

different from placebo (p = 0.0479).

2

Sixty of 62

participants of the crossover trial were available for a 5-

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year follow-up. Twenty-eight patients (47%) who were

still on homeopathic treatment had a mean longtime-

improvement of the Conners Global Index (CGI)

ratings of 63%, and 25 patients (42%) who had stopped

any treatment at all had a mean persistent improvement

of the CGI of 53%, suggesting a partial healing of

ADHD following homeopathic treatment.

3

The study, being a rigorous clinical test of

Homeopathy, also unmasked weaknesses of the

method. Due to a low percentage of initially correct

prescriptions the suspicion arose, that parents do not

report symptoms precisely. Analysis of 100

unsuccessful prescriptions in children who finally

improved with another homeopathic remedy, enabled

identification of misleading symptoms. Frequently

these were sensations and mind symptoms, while

modalities (especially aggravations) and polar

symptoms usually proved to be reliable information for

repertorisation. The exclusion of unreliable symptoms

led to an improvement of results, but also often resulted

in oligosymptomatic cases, i.e., cases with only few

usable symptoms. This problem was resolved by an

experimental reintroduction of (pathognomonic)

perception symptoms into repertorisation, which again

improved our positive treatment results significantly.

To allow for a precise differential diagnosis of

possible homeopathic medicines, polarity analysis, a

further development of Boenninghausenřs concept of

contraindications, was introduced and tested. It

increased the rate of optimal prescriptions by 20% and

thus turned out to be the most efficient improvement to

our case analysis. The treatment modifications for

ADHD-patients have been reported in an earlier

publication.

4

This paper describes the transfer of

insights gained in the treatment of ADHD into general

case analysis strategies applicable also to other

diseases. The results reached with the new approach

are compared with the effects of a conventional

homeopathic procedure.

Methods

The use of reliable symptoms

The reliability of the observation of symptoms as

found in ADHD-patients can be summarized in a

pyramid with the most reliable symptoms at the top and

the least reliable ones at the bottom (Table 1). This

pyramid was used for designing and testing checklists

for acute diseases and questionnaires for chronic

diseases (see below). As outlined in the publication on

the treatment modifications in ADHD-patients,

4

pathognomonic symptoms are no longer excluded from

repertorisation if they are characteristic, because such an

exclusion violates the Law of Similars. (In ADHD-

patients we found that by the inbtroduction of

perception symptoms Ŕ which are pathognomonic for

the syndrome Ŕ into the repertorisation, the rate of

successful prescriptions increased significantly).

Table 1 Reliability of symptoms

modalities*

polar symptoms

findings

sensations

mind symptoms

*especially aggravations

Most reliable symptoms on top, least reliable at bottom

Polarity analysis

Polarity analysis is the result of the search for a

way to better match the characteristic patient symptoms

with the Ŗgenius symptomsŗ

5

of a homeopathic

medicine (i.e., the most characteristic symptoms, of

high grade), thereby improving the reliability of the

prescriptions. To this end Boenninghausenřs idea of

contraindications was modified: almost every

homeopathic medicine includes a number of polar

symptoms. These are symptoms which also encompass

their opposite, e.g., desire to move/aversion to move;

thirst/thirstless; warmth ameliorates/warmth aggravates;

etc. A medicine may exhibit both poles, usually

indifferent grades. According to

BOENNINGHAUSEN, high grade symptoms (grade

three, four and five) correspond to the characteristics of

the medicine. In choosing the medicine for a patient

we have to find the one, whose characteristics best

corresponds to the characteristic patient symptoms. All

important symptoms of the patient ought to be covered

by the correctly chosen medicine, in as high a grade as

possible. If, in a given polar symptom, the opposite is

covered by a particular medicine in a high grade,

whereas the pole exhibited by the patient occurs only in

a low grade, then this medicine Ŕ according to

BOENNINGHAUSEN Ŕ is contraindicated and will not

cure the patient. Nux vomica, for example, has

aversion to movement in third grade, desire to move,

however, only in first grade. Consequently, Nux-v will

likely not cure a patient who exhibits a strong desire to

move, even though it covers this symptom in principle.

BOENNINGHAUSEN used this method to check his

choice of medicines.

5

Polarity analysis is a further development of this

concept of genius symptoms and contraindications: by

summing the grades of all polar patient symptoms for

each likely medicine and subtracting the grades of the

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corresponding opposite polar symptoms one arrives at

the polarity difference.

4

For example: a patient suffers

from tonsillitis with the following symptoms:

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

>after eating, thirst increased. All these symptoms are

polar and covered by 19 medicines. However, only

three of those are not contraindicated according to

BOENNINGHAUSEN: Natrum carbonicum, Mercurius

solubilis and Magnesium carbonicum. The concept of

polarity difference for these three medicines is

illustrated in Table 2. The polarity difference is the

sum of the grades of polar patient symptoms minus the

sum of the grades of polar opposite symptoms.

The higher the polarity difference, the more likely

the medicine matches the characteristic symptoms of the

patient, provided there are no contraindications. A

negative polarity difference points to remedies which

cover the patient symptoms in an unspecific way, i.e.,

do not cover all patient symptoms with their genius

symptoms. Such remedies have very little chance of

curing the presenting complaint in the patient.

According to our example, Nat-c exhibits the highest

probability to cure, Merc. The second highest. Using

this method, the best suited medicine in a

repertorization containing several medicines, which

cover all the patients symptoms, can be more readily

identified. The algorithm of polarity analysis has been

since integrated in several repertorization programs of

Boenninghausenřs Therapeutic Pocketbook.

6-9

The

case example given below demonstrates the practical

application of polarity analysis.

Checklists for acute diseases and questionnaires for

chronic diseases

After testing reliable symptoms and polarity

analysis in ADHD-patients with good results,

4

we

attempted the transfer of the method into the treatment

of other diseases. To this end checklists and

questionnaires with repertory-specific wordings of

symptoms were created to complete conventional case

histories, emphasizing modalities and polar symptoms.

They were structured as follows: cause of the disease

(free formulation)/general modalities/local modalities,

findings and sensations/mind symptoms /symptoms not

contained on checklist or questionnaire (free

formulation). Eleven checklists for acute diseases and

eleven questionnaires for chronic diseases were outlined

for different main complaints (Table 3). In chronic

illnesses, patients had also to complete a general

questionnaire for additional symptoms not concerning

the main complaint.

Table 2 Polarity analysis showing patient-and

opposite-symptoms and polarity difference for a patient

with tonsillitis.

-----------------------------------------------

Medicine, degree of symptom

____________________________

Nat- Merc Mag-c Rhus- Graph

C tox

Patient

Symptoms

<Swalloing

1

3

2

3

1

<Speaking

4

1

2

4

3

<Cold food

1

2

1

4

3

<After

waking

4

3

4

5

>After eating

4

1

2

Thirst

increased

2

4

1

3

1

Total

16

15

10

20

15

Opposite

symptoms

>Swallowing

1

2

1

2

>Speaking

0

>Cold food

0

2

1

0

>After

waking

1

0

<After eating

3

1

2

4Cl*

3Cl*

Thirstless

1

0

2

0

Total

6

4

8

5

Polarity

difference

10

9

6

12

10

*Cl = Contraindication i.e., patient symptom low grade,

opposite symptom high grade.

Organization of the homeopathic consultation

We organize a consultation for acute disease as

follows: Open case history, physical examination, then

parents or patients work through the specific

questionnaire concerning their complaint and write

down the symptoms observed, discussion of symptoms

followed by repertorisation. Finally, the specific

homeopathic remedy (single dose, 200 C) is given to

the patient. In addition, parents receive a second

possible remedy as a backup, which they can administer

if the patient does not improve at least 50% within two

days.

In chronic diseases the case taking is split into two

consultations. During the first session a short open case

history is recorded, followed by a physical examination.

Then the questionnaire for the specific main complaint

and the general questionnaire are explained. The

patients take them home to give them sufficient time to

answer all questions accurately. In the second session,

the symptoms reported on the questionnaires are

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discussed and the case history is completed by an

additional interview of the patient. The repertorisation

is made in the presence of the patient, and the

differential diagnosis is also discussed with the patient.

Finally, the choice of the patientřs homeopathic remedy

is arrived at after a careful Materia Medica comparison.

Then the patient receives the remedy, usually as a single

dose in the 200 C potency.

Table 3 Checklists for acute disease and questionnaires

for chronic disease

__________________________________________

(A) Checklists

Airways

Allergic rhinitis and conjunctivitis

Disease of infants

Ear-, nose-and throat disease

Epidemic childrens disease

Gastro-intestinal disease

Headache and vertigo

Influenza

Musculo-sceletal disease

Travel sickness

Urinary tract disease

(B) Questionnaires

General questionnaire

ADD/ADHD and sensory disturbances

Allergies

Disease of ear, nose, throat and airways

Gastro-intestinal disease

Gynecologic disease

Heart and circulatory disturbances

Musculo-sceletal disease

Neurologic disease

Psychosomatic disease

Sleep-disturbances

Urinary tract disease

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A case example

A woman, 46 years of age, a secondary school

teacher presented with intense pain in her left shoulder.

The problem began a few months ago with a strain of

the left shoulder after gymnastics, which exacerbated to

a florid acute inflammation. Any movement of her arm

is painful, she is extremely sensitive to touch at the

shoulder, and has a numbness in the fourth and fifth

fingers of her left hand. The pain prevents sleep and is

of such intensity that she cannot work.

The physical examination reveals redness, swelling,

heat and sensitivity to touch anterior to the left humero-

scapular joint. The movement of the left arm is severely

restricted. No other findings in the general physical

examination. The laboratory values show no signs of

inflammation or rheumatic disease. An X-ray of the left

shoulder two days later confirms the diagnosis of a

calcific tendonitis of the rotator cuff tendons.

In the questionnaire for musculo-sceletal disease

the patient underlines the following symptoms:

<touch

<external pressure

<warmth

<warmly wrapping up

<exertion of body

<,motion

<raising affected limb

<sitting

>standing

>letting limb hang down

She returns the general questionnaire without any

symptoms, and further inquiry did not reveal any

additional symptoms.

The repertorisation with the PC-version of the

revised edition of Boenninghausenřs Therapeutic

Pocketbook

6

results in twelve homeopathic remedies

covering all symptoms, but only three have no

contraindications: Ledum, Nitricum acidum and China

(polarity difference of China = cf. Table 4). (See the

Table 4, P.no.101)

The patient received one dose of Ledum 200 C (due

to the totality of characteristic symptoms, highest

polarity difference and confirmation of symptoms in the

Materia Medica).

Her sleep in the following night is undisturbed.

The pain returns two days later after the X-ray

examination, for which she has to stand in an

unfavorable position. Following Ledum 500 C it

improved again, but only for four days. Ledum 1 M acts

for another ten days. Finally Ledum Q3(LM3) daily

over one month improves all symptoms by 80%.

Further Ledum Q-potencies (6, 9, 12, 15, 18, each over

one month) follow. Eight months after the beginning of

treatment the patient is completely cured, i.e., free of

any symptoms, even after vigorous exertion. In the

follow-up X-ray image the calcification of the rotator

cuff tendons has completely disappeared. No relapse up

to the present (observation time 3½ years).

Evaluation of results

Acute diseases: Initially, the results reached with

polarity analysis alone in 100 patients with cough were

compared with the results of an earlier investigation, in

which the cough rubrics of Boenninghausenřs

Characteristics and Repertory

10

were prospectively

tested in 103 patients.

11

All patients with cough who

consulted the paediatric-homeopathic practice within a

given interval of time were included. After four days,

parents reported the results of treatment by phone. A

prescription was counted as a Ŗhitŗ, if the first remedy

was associated with an improvement of symptoms by at

least 50% within two days, or if the backup remedy led

to a total cure within another two days. ŖCureŗ was

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defined as disappearance of all acute symptoms for at

least two months. In a second step, the results of

polarity analysis in combination with the checklist for

airways were evaluated with another 48 cough patients.

And in a third step, all the other checklists were

evaluated in 206 patients with a mixture of

corresponding diseases.

Chronic diseases: 153 patients with a variety of

different diseases were prospectively analysed with

questionnaires and polarity analysis. Their results were

compared with 50 patients of an earlier study which

served to compare with the results of different ranking-

systems of symptoms (as proposed by HAHNEMANN,

BOENNINGHAUSEN, HERING and KENT).

12

From

this study a group of 50 patients, their symptoms for

case analysis ranked according to HAHNEMANN

served as a baseline. In each group all patients with

chronic diseases treated within a given span of time

were included. Two months after receiving a single

dose of the 200 C potency, patients or parents were

asked to rate the subjective improvement of each

reported symptom as well as make an overall rating of

the (subjective) improvement the total of symptoms on a

percentage scale. A total improvement of 50% or more

was counted as a successful prescription (Ŗhitŗ).

Results

Acute diseases: In the reference group with cough

patients treated according to Boenninghausenřs

Characteristics and Repertory, 75 of 103 children

(73%) were cured within four days. In the first group,

polarity analysis alone was applied in 100 patients with

cough: here 81 patients were cured within four days

(81%). In a group, the checklist for airways was added

to the application of polarity analysis: here 40 of 48

patients were cured within four days (83%). The other

checklists were tested in combination with polarity

analysis in 206 patients with a mix of different acute

diseases (Tonsillitis, Sinusitis, Otitis media, Enteritis,

Influenza, Abdominal colic, difficult dentition etc.). of

these patients 175 were cured within four days (85%).

Chronic diseases: In the conventionally treated

reference group 34 of 50 prescriptions in patients with a

mixture of different diseases were Ŗhitsŗ (68%), and the

average subjective improvement rating was 75%. With

the application of questionnarires and polarity analysis

in the test collective, also with a mixture of different

diseases, 128 of 153 patients had an improvement of

50% or more after two months (84% Ŗhitsŗ), and the

average subjective rating of their improvement was

85%.

The results found with each of the different

questionnaires. The lowest number of evaluated

patients was 8 (heart and circulation/gynaecology), the

highest number 20 (neurology).

The application of polarity analysis, checklists and

questionnaires has been published along with case

examples in a book entitled ŖEffiziente Homöopathische

Behandlungŗ (Efficient homeopathic treatment) in

German.

13

DISCUSSION

The introduction of checklists and questionnaires

deviates from the Organon § 82 Ŕ 95 which demand an

open case taking.

14

But questionnaires have a long

historical tradition. HAHNEMANN himself treated

many patients by written correspondence only. To

enhance an exact observation of symptoms he urged

them to read the Organon and pointed out a number of

helpful paragraphs. A first actual questionnaire was

Boenninghausenřs publication Die homöopathische

Diät (The Homeopathic Diet) from 1833.

15

It contains

an extended list of symptoms according to the head-to-

foot scheme, with detailed modalities, serving patients

for the preparation of the homeopathic consultation.

Many later authors, including J.T. KENT, have used

similar tools. Nevertheless, there may be disadvantages

of such a procedure: A structured interview could

prevent a free description of symptoms and force

patients into a certain direction. It is important to point

out, that checklists and questionnaires are mainly used

to complete the patient history with important

symptoms. Beside them there is still room for an open

case interview. New in the approach presented here is

the use of repertory-specific formulations. They have

the advantage, that the patientřs symptoms do not have

to be translated into the language of the repertory, a

process which itself might be a source of

misunderstandings.

Any introduction of new methods into

Homeopathy should be carefully evaluated. Polarity

analysis has been tested in the highly frequented

paediatric practice of the author. Possible consequences

of a new procedure could be (a) that the precision of the

prescriptions suffers, leading to a lower number of

cures, or (b) a restriction of prescribed remedies to

polychrests only. Concerning the rate of cures we

observed an increase of the rate of successful

prescriptions. To get information on the variety of

homeopathic medicines used, the prescriptions in the

conventionally treated reference group were analysed

and compared with the two groups in which polarity

analysis and checklists were applied in acute disease

(checklist for airways and all other checklists). In the

cough reference group 75 patients were cured with 24

different remedies, i.e. a mean of 3.13 patients received

the same remedy. In the test group for acute disease the

215 cured patients needed 65 different remedies, i.e., a

mean of 3.3 patients received the same remedy. This

shows that the individualization of the treatment

remains the same. In addition, we made the experience

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that by using the new method, small remedies not

rarely lead to spectacular results.

Concerning the results in acute diseases, one may

argue that part of the cures is spontaneous. This is

certainly the case, but since each group has been

evaluated the same way, the relative increase of

successful treatments is what matters. Another objection

may be, that polarity analysis is only based on the

symptom grading by BOENNINGHAUSEN as a

possible source of bias. Since Boenninghausenřs

grading is very homogeneous and incorporates the

experience of other physicians of his time including

HAHNEMANN, the problem is presumably small. It

will be resolved by the complete revision of the Materia

Medica being undertaken by the Boenninghausen

Working Group in Germany. First results of this

revision have already been published.

16-21

Basing the

new method on the revised edition of Boenninghausenřs

Therapeutic Pocketbook (published in 2000)

inherently restricts the spectrum of homeopathic

remedies to those 133 remedies contained therein.

Possibly, the 16% treatment failures encountered in the

evaluation of the treatment of chronic diseases are due

to this limitation. With the progress of the complete

revision of the Materia Medica this problem will

hopefully disappear. So far it has to be circumnavigated

by a good personal knowledge of Materia Medica.

Conclusion

Polarity analysis and repertory specific checklists

and questionnaires lead to a higher precision in

homeopathic prescriptions. The awareness of the

individual patient or parent for the observation of their

own relevant symptoms is sharpened, and the

consultation requires less time, which may be a great

advantage in busy homeopathic practice.

Conflicting interests

None declared.

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PART III

(While Part II features articles from other journals, Part III contains the editorřs own contribution and other original

articles.)

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I. An Open Letter

Ref No.213/09-10. Date: 10

th

April. 2010.

To,

Dr. Edzard ERNST,

Professor of Alternative / Complementary Medicine

(CAM),

Exeter University, Exeter,

Exeter, England, U.K.

Dear Dr. Edzard ERNST,

Please do not talk to press and write in Medical and

Non-medical papers and give statement as follows;

“We are happy to confess that our minds have

closed down on Homeopathy (AJM - Nov. 2009).”

Why?

This statement has exposed your ignorance about

real Homeopathy. You claim and you are the Professor

of CAM at the University. There is a doubt among the

public and medical profession. Thc doubt is; in which

system of medicine you are clinically competent -

Conventional medicine - Allopathy. Homeopathy or

any other (CAM) medical systems to teach and preach

for and against as a Professor of CAM at the University

of Exeter? Are you not crossing demarcated boundaries

(Laxman Rekha) of CAM? What is CAM? It does mean

Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Complementary to which system of medicine? Again,

Alternative to which system of medicine? You know

very well the answers better than me. Conventional

Medicine -Allopathy has no treatment for very many

diseases, conditions and syndromes, e.g. Viral

infections, ITP, etc. hence the need of complementary

and alternative medical systems for the suffering

patients, the world over. During discussions with the

Health Secretary; Govt. of USSR in 1960, when I asked

him a direct question - why do you have homeopathic

clinics by your Govt.? His reply was; ŖIf Allopathic

system of treatment fails to give relief or cure to

patients, we have for such patients and others who

prefer - an alternative system of medicine -

Homeopathyŗ. It is all recorded in ŘBlack & Whiteř.

The statement given by you in an article to the

medical journal proves that you have bias and prejudice

against Homeopathy and you are one among the

skeptics to it and skeptics are denialists. Denialists are

not interested in discussion, facts and evidence based

Homeopathy. Hostile attitude towards Homeopathy is

not a new. It started from 1796 and a virtual Ŗwar of

wordsŗ attacks since 1810.

Homeopathy has survived all games and plots

since then and it will survive till the Earth is dissolved

by merciful GOD as HE has gifted Homeopathy to

mankind through HAHNEMANN who was an

instrument to bring forth and develop it on our ŘPlanetř.

I think and feel that you have not read any of the

editions of Organon of Medicine by Dr. Samuel

HAHNEMANN. It is a practical manual on how to use

Homeopathy. You have missed the Řboatř of

Homeopathy hence your mind has been closed down

on Homeopathy. Without reading the subject of

Homeopathy only an ignorant person can give the

above statement. Please open widely your eyes and

mind Ŗto the salutary truth (HAHNEMANN, Preface to

first edition of Organon)ŗ; and do not Řclosedownř your

mind so early. Homeopathy is not „Placebo effect‟.

Dear Dr. ERNST come out with the truth and facts that

once you were/are Homeopath and you had many,

many failures, and unsuccessful practice because you

were not Řcompetentř and Řunableř to understand, learn

and practice the principles and potencies of

Homeopathy which are discovered by HAHNEMANN.

And also I think that you have no idea of difference

between ŘDilutionsř and homeopathic ŘPotencyř of

medicine. Homeopathic Potenciesř will not work in

dead laboratories and give results what you expect but

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will work clinically on the living human sicks - the

patients and give results which are evidence based of

Homeopathy.

Homeopathy is both science and art. You are

probably missing a lot in your life without it when you

have Řdivorcedř Homeopathy from your life. Now you

have become hostile to it. Why?

Homeopathy and its potencies action has been well

proved by Řclinical trialsř on live patients in

homeopathic clinics and hospitals the world over. Dear

Dr. ERNST do I have to challenge you by words,

writing in newspapers, on street walls, and distribute

leaflets and, potency pills in the streets of London to a

mass of public without knowing each of them what their

constitutions, emotions and suffering are? No. Instead;

I am inviting you to visit India - the super power of

Homeopathy in the community of Nations - the world

and visit Government and private clinics and hospitals

to see by yourself ŘClinically and Practicallyř how

Homeopathy works.

My homeopathic Cancer Clinics are Řopenř for you

to see with your open mind. You can see live cancer

patients, not one, two or fifty (50) but hundreds if you

stay and attend clinics for only one month with me.

These cases are Řevidence based Homeopathyř. You

can look at written histories of patients and all relevant

reports by Conventional Medicine. You can take notes

for or against Homeopathy and Conventional

Medicines as these cases are referred cases after failures

of Conventional Medicine and very many cases are

Řvirginř cases treated purely with Homeopathy.

I am sending you ŖTHE 50 MILLESIMAL

JOURNALŗ on Cancer Cases Part I; Breast Cancer, Part

II; Leukaemia, Part Ill; Prostate Ca. & PSA levels and

Part IV; Ovarian Cancer and The 50 Millesimal

souvenir issue which contains Protocols for Cancer and

Bronchial Asthma for the research works - trials.

Please go through them carefully . These cases are

treated with Homeopathy and its potencies after the

failures of Conventional Medicine - so-called

Allopathy, a modem medicine. Can these cases live

painless and productive life for 3, 5, 10, 20,45 yrs. with

ŖPlacebo effectsŗ? I am going to publish 2000 (two

thousand) cases of cancer or malignant tumours, treated

with evidence based Homeopathy.

If you have Řopen mindř and not Řclosed mindř or

Řskeptic mindř or Řblindř to the truth, I invite you to

visit India and I will bear all your economy class travel

expenses from London to Mumbai and return from

Mumbai to London. For travelling expenses within

India you and your sponsors have to bear as you by a

chance had become Řskeptic toward Homeopathyř.

Also you have to find out how Homeopathy works in

India and why it cannot work in U.K., U.S.A., Europe,

Russia and the world around for rich and poor patients?

Hahnemannřs Homeopathy is one everywhere. I will

receive you at Mumbai with Ŗopen armsŗ and also with

Ŗopen mindŗ.

Are you, Dear, Dr. ERNST accepting my

challenge and invitation? Do not give up a given

opportunity. You may regret later.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely in Homeopathy,

Dr. R. P. Patel

P.S. Please do reply as it is an Open Letter and it will be

released to public and press in the interest of

Homeopathy. I am 84 years and 60 years in

Homeopathy which has saved my life from deadly

spindle cells Sarcoma with metastasis in the right lung;

that happened in 1960-1966.

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II. BOOK SHELF

I. Lesser Writings, Dr. P.S. KRISHNAMURTY; 3-

4-497, Barkatpura, Hyderabad Ŕ 500 027, India.

67 pages Rs.100/-.

Dr. P.S. Krishnamurthy, is one of the well-known

(both within India and abroad) Homeopathy

Physicians. He has taught Homeopathy to several

Physicians and still he is teaching abroad, in his

eighties.

We have a very very small number of Řold

homeopathsř who have crossed their 80

th

year and still

actively occupied with Classical Homeopathy.

The ŘLesser Writingsř of Dr. KRISHNAMURTY

contains brief articles of great value for example: (1)

Exteriorization, (2) Potency selection, (3) Use and

misuse of the Foot Note to §60, (4) Direction of cure (5)

Symptom totality prescription vs Miasmatic

prescription, etc. etc.

There are very valuable hints Ŕ for example, what

to do when the patient does not respond to the well-

selected remedy.

Dr. KRISHNAMURTY says that most of the acute

condition like Measles in Hahnemannřs time are now

potential Chronic illnesses like sub-acute form of Pan-

Encephalitis which is a complication of Measles [How

many of us have thought this? = KSS]

Here is another very interesting observation which I

have also observed: p.49 ŖUsually the doctors are

satisfied with one or two or three characteristic

symptoms of the patient to tally with the remedy and

give it. In spite of it, it still works because post

Hahnemannian Classical authors observed this

therapeutic of these characteristic symptoms which are

required to three legged stool to stand on the anti

gravitational effort. There is no harm in this but

unfortunately the direction of cure will stay at the point

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of remission…ŗ What an observation! A genuine

homeopathic cure is scarcer than a blue moon, indeed.

There is an Appendix on ŘPranař and ŘPrana and

Kundalini!ř

There are few printing errors but they do not in

anyway interfere with the understanding of what author

meant.

K.S.SRINIVASAN.

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II. The supreme value of Single Remedy Rubrics,

Dr. P.S. KRISHNAMURTY, 3-4-497,

Barkatpura, Hyderabad Ŕ 500 027. India. Pages

47. Rs.100/-.

This booklet contains 50 Case Reports, very briefly

and succinctly given. The beauty is that he has picked

up such cases where the curative remedy was the only

one in that rubric (in Kent Repertory).

It is very interesting to me to note that in several of

his cases the ŘDirection of Cureř (Heringsř

Hahnemannřs Law) is manifest. For example in the

very first case of a woman who was sterile for several

years was given Oxalic acid 50M one dose, and she

broke out with eruptions all over and became pregnant

and delivered a child full term! Homeopathyřs action

beautifully demonstrated.

The booklet is filled with such cases. This

impresses the reader that the single remedy rubrics have

their value even if they are only with 1 mark and/or

clinical symptom only.

Many of us would have had some such experiences

but how many of us note them down and ponder over it?

At the end of the book Dr. KRISHNAMURTY has

given an Ŗunforgettableŗ case of his. For information of

colleagues who may not be knowing it,

KRISHNAMURTY has contributed more cases under

the title,ŗMy most unforgettable Caseŗ in the famous

Indian journal The Hahnemannian Gleanings (1933-

1986). I am fortunate to have read all of them.

Enjoyable and instructive.

K.S.SRINIVASAN.

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III. Materia Medica Revisa Homeopathicae,

Drosera, von Daris BARZEN, (Sammlung

homeopathiae Arzneimittel in meherern

Bänden) Klaus-Henning GYPSER (Hrsg.),

Wunnibald GYPSER Verlag, Glees. 2008.

ISBN-978-3-940940-03-2.

In this Monograph on Drosera, we find 545

symptoms as against 287 symptoms only in the Materia

Medica Pura In his Introduction to this remedy in his

Materia Medica Pura HAHNEMANN has said that

Drosera has to be proved further. Unfortunately there

seems to have been no further Proving as such.

The present Monograph has drawn from reliable

clinical Reports from such sources a Dorothy

SHEPERD Margaret TYLER, KELLER and

KLUNKER amongst others. Attention is drawn to

TYLERřs Drug Pictures wherein she has delineated the

great role of Drosera in Tuberculosis.

A careful study of the Materia Medica would reveal

that Drosera can be applied in more ailments other than

respiratory. It is upto the colleagues to prescribe the

remedy in suitable cases and communicate the results to

the Materia Medica Revisa Arbeitsgruppe.

K.S.SRINIVASAN.

IV. Materia Medica Revisa Homeopathicae,

Gelsemium sempervirens, von Daris BARZEN,

(Sammlung homeopathiae Arzneimittel in mehruln

Bänden) Klaus-Henning GYPSER (Hrsg.),

Wunnibald GYPSER Verlag, Glees. 2009. ISBN-

978-3-940940-03-2.

Gelsemium sempervirens, (yellow Jasmine) is a

remedy very frequently used in the day today practice,

mostly for Flu type fevers including Dengue, anxiety

before an event, vertigo etc.

In his classical and brief manner Dr. BOGER, has

put the characteristics so succinctly e.g. ŖDull, drowsy

and dizzyŗ; Ŗaching, tired, heavy, weak and soreŗ;

ŖConfused, dazed, apathetic, torpidŗ and so on.

Keeping these in memory, never to be forgotten, has

helped in several cases. Now with the help of this

Monograph by Robert GOLDMANN we can study the

Materia Medica and apply it in more cases where it is

the remedy; example: the typical headache from back of

the head extending to the front. It is quite fascinating to

study in this manner; we will not feel that the study of

the Provings as Řdryř or boringř, rather become Řaliveř

and Řinterestingř.

This Monograph has 1640 symptom is from a large

number of sources.

These Monographs must be in every Homeopathy

practitionerřs library; of course it will be much more of

service if these are carefully translated into English by

competent person.

K.S.SRINIVASAN.

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Repertorisation

Homoeopathic

remedy

led

Rhus

Bry

Nux-v

Calc

Phos

Nit-ac

Borx

Number of

symptoms

10

Sum of grades

24

22

21

20

19

18

16

Polarity difference

18

3

7

4

1

3

12

7

Patient symptoms

<Touch

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4

1

3

2

<Pressure external

2

1

3

2

3

1

<Warmth

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<Wrapping up

1

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2

1

3

<Exertion of body

1

4

3

2

1

<Motion

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1

4

2

3

2

<Raising affected

limb

3

2

1

<Sitting

1

4

1

2

1

2

>Standing

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1

2

3

2

4

1

2

>Hang down affected

limb

3

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Opposite symptoms

>Touch

0

2

0

4Cl

3Cl

0

>Pressure external

1

3Cl

2

1

0

3Cl

>Warmth

1

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2

4Cl

1

2

1

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>Wrapping up

1

4Cl

1

3Cl

0

1

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>Motion

0

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1

0

1

0

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limb

0

1

4

2

0

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1

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2

1

2

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2

1

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<Hang down affected

limb

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How-to for Flu: Healing homoeopathy Remedies by MIRANDA CASTRO

Before the flu Ŕ or for the very first symptom

Oscillococcinum

For prevention of flu or atf first sign of

getting sick

Influenzinum

For prevention of flu

Aconite

At the first sign of a flu with sudden onset with no clear

symptom, i.e., within the few hours

Ferrum phos

At the first or second sign of a flu(i.e., after

the first few hours) with no clear symptom yet

FLU REMEDIES

Remedy

Onset

Fever

Pain

Cough/Coryza

Head/Eyes

Thirst

<Worse for

>Better for

Miscella

-neous

Arsenicum

Chilly

Profuse, acrid

discharge from eyes

and nose

Thirsty for sips

frequently

Cold

Warmth except the

headache

Irritable and

anxious

Great

prostration

Baptisia

Sudden

High fever with

prostration with profuse

sweat

Sore/ bruised feeling or

all in bits, scattered

Face is dull/red

Intense thirst

With gastric

symptom

i.e.

vomiting/

diarrhea

Stuporous

Bryonia

Slow

Very hot and dry

Aches all over

Painful cough (causes

headache)

Large quantities

infrequent (for cold)

Least movement

Pressure

With chest

symptoms

Wants to be

still & left

alone

Eupatorium

Perfoliatum

Shivering/ chills of back

Severe pains in limbs

and back. Bones feel

broken

Bursting Headache

Eyeballs are sore

Thirst for cold drinks

Least movement

Gelse-

mium

(No.1 flu

remedy)

Slow

Heat alternating with

chills. Shivers/chills run

up & down spine. No

sweat

Aches all over Muscles

ache Heavy and weak

Sneezing Dull

headache Eyes/head

heavy Double vision

Thirstless

Urinating, Open air,

Sweating

Apathetic,

drowsy,

,

benumbed

,

Limbs

tremble

Stiffness of

cervical

region

Mercurius

solubilis

Creeping chilliness

Thick, acrid, smelly,

yellow/green

discharges. Nose is

swollen, Shiny and

sore. Cold ascends to

eyes

Intense thirst

Constant hunger

Heat and Cold, i.e.,

extremes of

temperature

Moderate temperatures

Rest

With sore

throat

Salivation,

bad taste in

mouth &

bad breath

Restless

Nux vomica

Chilly with shivering (esp.

after drinking)

Limbs and backache

Nose stopped up at

night

Thirst for hot drinks

Least movement,

Cold

Warmth

With gastric

symptoms,

Extremely

irritable

Pyrogen

Creeping chills

&thumping heart Rapid

pulse & low temp or vice

versa. Chills in back/limbs

Severe pains in back

and limbs. Feels beaten

and bruised all over

(bed feels hard)

Bursting headache

Thirstless

Intensely

restless with

the pains

&the chills

Rhus

toxicoden-

dron

Chilly

Aches and pains in

joints/bones

Tip of tongue is red

(triangle)

Thirsty

Keeping still

motion

Gentle motion warmth

Restless &

confused,

fear

Of being

poisoned

After the flu

China

More of a physical weakness after

a flu with a lot of sweating (and

possible dehydration)

Kali phosphoricum

Mildly depressed after a flu.

Gelsemium

Weakness after a flu with heaviness that

won

,

t go away .

Influenzinum

Feels that he or she has

never recovered from the

flu has never been well

since