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Lead me from Untruth to Truth

Lead me from Darkness to Light
Lead me from Death to Immortality
Adyaya I Brahmana 3 Mantra 28

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Part I. – Current Literature Listing

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Part I of the journal lists the current literature in Homœopathy drawn from the well-known homœopathic journals
published world-over – India, England, Germany, France, Brazil, USA, etc. , - displine-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 essays/articles /extracts of more
importance, while Part III carries Book Reviews, etc.
illnesses towards resolution. example: Some
1. PHILOSOPHY infectious diseases, severe mental or emotional
shock, or in physical injury. The Vital Force is still
1. The Principles of Homœopathic Philosophy the source of the symptoms – it is still expressing its
OSAWA Barbara (SIM, 1/2001) mistunement in the image of the ailment – but the
mistunement has shifted just far enough that it does
This article gives some interesting glimpses into the not respond the remedy to which it responded in the
depths of our principles. All the topics are greatly past. Now a different remedy is needed, one that
expanded and explained in greater detail in the following covers the entire current symptom picture in order to
well known classics on Homœopathic philosophy address the Vital Force in its current condition. If
1. J.T. Kent, Lectures on Homœopathic this is a true acute, the person will most likely return
Philosophy to his previous state after it is resolved, and his
2. H.A.Roberts, Principles and Art of Cure by constitutional remedy will remain the same as it was
Homœopathy before.
3. S.Close, The Genius of Homoeopathy “Acute and constitutional are more complicated
4. C.M.Boger, Studies in the philosophy of than they seem at first glance, but they become
Healing clearer with an understanding of disease as a deep-
5. G.Boericke, A compendium of the Principles seated mistunement that expresses itself in
of Homœopathy. symptoms. Our health really is not a series of
All Organon references in this article are from isolated episodes of “health” and “illness” but a
Boericke’s translation of the sixth edition. continuous expression of our deepest level of
existence and individuality, our Vital Force.
2. Acute or Constitutional?
CROCE A J (HT, 21, 2/2001) 3. Similars, Stimulants, and Cure
LUNSTROTH John (HT, 21, 3/2001)
The author discusses about the conditions like
acute, constitutional, and their corresponding The author has wonderfully explained the
meanings in allopathy where they see them as acute and mechanism of cure in Homœopathy. He has made
chronic. clear that the use of the word “stimulant” to describe
When a patient comes in with what seems like an Homœopathic action blurs the distinction between
acute illness. Many times what they really need is a Homœopathy and allopathy and clarifies nothing.
redosing of their constitutional remedy. For example, a If Homœopathy allows itself to be distinguished
patient who was under constitutional care had severely simply by the use of immaterial medicines, then it is
infected bunion, a acute condition and attributed to a abandoning the standard of Homœopathy, the law of
physical cause and upon looking at it without asking any Similars. But what does it tell someone when they ask
questions, one would think of remedies like Belladonna, how Homœopathy works to say that
Lachesis, Vipera or Apis. But there were no new key 1. Homœopathy stimulate the immnune system,
notes or physical general symptoms and there were no or
concomitant symptoms. Found a rubric that described 2. Homœopathy stimulates the natural healing
the infection and contained the patient’s constitutional power of the body?
remedy. Do remedies “Stimulate” the immune system?
The first phrase is misleading. There are atleast
In some acute illnesses the constitutional remedy nine systems in living organisms, not just one, that are
itself may be the acute only. However even repeat generally recognised by medical science: the endocrine,
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cardio-vascular, urogenital, respiratory and lymphatic 4. The remedial disease fades on its own (§ 29, 148)
systems, and remedies given Homœopathically cure in – the Vital Force plays no role in this.
all of them. In addition to this, remedies are well 5. The entire action/reaction (primary/secondary
known to have contradictory symptoms, and for good action) explanation of symptoms is not reflected
reason. The same remedy may in one case cause an in the symptoms recorded in the materia medica.
increase in fucntion of a system, and in another case The explanation that the remedy stimulates the
cause a decrease in function in the same system. In body’s healing power is as meaningless as the
fact, it is well known that remedies can cause statement that is stimulates the immune system. It
contradictory symptoms in the same case. Thus, to say does not convey information about the way the
the remedy given homoepathically stimulates the remedy given Homœopathically works, about the
immune system is meaningless. It does not convey Homœopathic cure. These explanations, of remedy
what is unique to Homœopathy, nor does it reference as stimulant to the immune system or Vital Force,
the breath and depth of its curative power. It makes it have been easy to use because, well, they are easy to
sound as though Homœopathy is a therapeutic science conceptualize. But they are not, in fact,
of stimulants. Homœopathic explanations. They are age old
Do remedies “Stimulate” the Vital Force? explanations coming down from HIPPOCRATES,
The second statement, that the remedy given through GALEN and others, based on the apriori
Homœopathically stimulates the body’s healing powers assumption that it is the Vital Force, the “body’s
(the Vital Force) to overcome the disease, also has its natural healing power,” that is the real healer. They
problems. HAHNEMANN, in introduction to the are allopathic explanations of the mechanism of cure.
Organon written for the fourth edition (1829), and A logical train of thought concerning the
retained for the 5th and 6th editions, and in the mechanism of cure, we must start with the application
aphorisms themselves, soundly and explicitly rejects of the similia in remedy choice, and then look for an
the view that the Vital Force can remove the disease. explanation of how it works based on the symptom
He labels as allopathic, all therapeutics based on aiding, similarity. HAHNEMANN provides us with that in
stimulating, altering or imitating the Vital Force to Aphorism 45 and elsewhere.
remove the disease. (§ 52). (All § references are to the § 45: “…two diseases, differing, it is true, in kind but
sixth edition of the Organon) very similar in their phenomena and effects and in the
Much confusion has been caused in this area by sufferings and symptoms they severally produce,
HAHNEMANN’s attempt to explain why using the law invariably annihiliate one another whenever they meet
of similars is better than using the law of contraries to together in the organism; the stronger disease namely,
pick medicines (§ 52 – 69). His explanation depends annihiliates the weaker, and for this simple reason,
on what he calls the secondary action of the Vital because the stronger morbific power when it invades
Force. This secondary action supposed to be a reaction the system, by reason of its similarity of action involves
by the Vital Force to the remedy. He says both the precisely the same part of the organism that were
secondary action causes symptoms and that it is previously affected by the weaker morbid irritation,
curative. He offers no explanation of how it is which, consequently can no longer act on these parts,
supposed to be curative. These aphosisms were written but is extinguished. …The life principle henceforth is
early and fall in the class of aphorisms that were affected only and this but temporarily by the new,
removed or revised (in fact, in practice or by custom), similar but stronger morbific potency.”
but not modified in the Organon. So at first glance HAHNEMANN says that substances cause
there is stimulation model found in the Organon that diseases. When a substance that causes a certain
has been used as a basis for the statement that the symptom picture (the remedial disease) is given to a
remedy cures by stimulating the Vital Force. living organism with a very similar symptom picture
There are five insurmountable problems though, (the natural disease), then the remdial disease occuppies
with reliance on these aphorisms for the stimulation the same place as the natural disease. Since two things
model: cannot occupy the same place at the same time, and the
1. There is no significant reaction by the Vital Force remedial disease is a little stronger, the natural disease
to the Homœopathic quantity (§ 66, 114), which is eradicated or annihiliated. The remedial disease then
is a primary reason it is better than an allopathic fades (§ 29). Only after the natural disease is removed
remedy; by the remedial disease, and the remedial disease fades,
2. The Vital Force cannot heal itself of a natural is theVital Force freed to regulate the body. This is
disease (Introduction, § 22); how the law of similars works. This is the defining
3. The natural disease eradicated by the remedial explanation of Homœopathy and it should always be
disease (§ 45) – the Vital Force plays no role in kept in mind when explaining Homœopathy to the
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uninitiated. It provides the elegance and uniqueness of • How much does it limit the person in their life?
Homœopathy. It is the essence of similia. Intense anger is much more serious than simple
irritability; suicidal grief is more important than
5. Notes on the Mental and Emotional intense anger. A hierarchical model and also in a
Symptoms form that is specific for each person.
PITT Richard (SIM, XIV, 2/2001) • How much do the symptoms maintain a level of
delusion in the person of their true state? How
This article, based on a lecture given to aware is the patient? The scale ranges from a
Homœopathic students, explores some issues related to gross level of delusion, to very subtle levels,
our use of mental and emotional symptoms in when we treat someone to refine their
prescribing. Practical aspects of how to use mental psychological evolution. Considerable
symptoms are discussed, as well as the potential pitfalls compensation of avoidance of the fundamental
of over emphasizing them. state may reflect a greater lack of integration and
Begins with a summary of the process of case self-awareness. Such cases can be very difficult
taking, and considers at which point one should explore to treat.
the patient’s psychological condition. • Are the symptoms predominantly emotional or
Case analysis, particularly the mental symptom intellectual in nature? If the symptoms are
analysis is discussed. intense (see a. above) and mostly affect the
When analyzing mental symptoms, distinguish intellectual level, the condition is that much
between what is normal for the person, and what is more serious.
abnormal and causing suffering. • How antagonistic are the symptoms to social
Comments on the Significance of the well-being? Here, we are talking of more intense
emotional/mental state. and serious conditions: suicidal states, violent
The functions of the intellect and the symptoms destructive impulses, and severe difficulties with
of the intellectual level are summarised. socialization and maintaining basic relationships
Functions of Intellect:. with others.
a. Perception of the environment – This includes • How are the miasms involved in the case? An
sensory perception and that of discrimination integration of miasmatic knowledge can help in
and interpretation. determining the hierarchy, e.g., the knowledge
b. Formulation of ideas, thoughts, concepts, that the case has a strong syphilitic component
systems. can help in assessing the prognosis, as well as in
c. Discrimination – the freedom of choice indicates remedy choice, and puts the individual
the ability to distinguish between right and symptoms into a larger perspective.
wrong. When dealing with mental/emotional states,
d. Action – volition in the direction of choice. distinguish between direct expressions of the
Symptoms of Intellectual level: emotional state, and those that are suppressed
e. Aberations of perception and disturbances of or compensated.
formulation: hallucination, illusions, delusions, Often, suppression of an emotional state may bring
ideas, thoughts, confession etc. on a physical condition. This may occur over a period
f. Disturbances of memory. of time and could be seen as restlessness, pain in
g. Disturbances of discrimination and volition: various parts of the body, stomach ulcer, Crohn’s
confusion, indecision, impulses – destructive, disease, Arthritis, Asthma, Multiple Sclerosis, Cancer,
suicidal, homicidal, guilt complexes, etc. and other syndromes. The intensity and depth of
At the highest level of evolution the intellect pathology that develops depends on various factors.
controls the emotions, allowing full discrimination,
self-knowledge and other higher attributes to be II. MATERIA MEDICA
realized. DHAWALE distinguishes between Eastern
thinking that seeks to control the emotions, and 1. Tuberculinum
Western thinking that generally allows for much freer TARKAS P I & KULKARNI Ajit (NJH, 5,
expression of these qualities. A balance between 2/2000)
unhealthy suppression and inappropriate expression
is obviously the healthiest state. The peculiar features of the remedy, tissues
Understanding what is truly important on the affected by it and the select particulars with relationship
mental level requires us to create an accurate of the remedy are discussed.
hierarchical model. The criteria can be used:
• How intense is the symptom for the person? 2. Hippozaenium

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CREASY Sheilagh, GRIMMER, CHOUDHURI cough with much dyspnoea lead to Viola odrata.
(SIM, XIV, 1/2001) Viola odorata 30 in water relieved.

Each author has given his/her own account of this 4. Pyrus communis
remedy. The common element found in their Arzneimittelselselbsterfahrung mit der
descriptions is that the remedy is useful in Lung Sauerbirne (Pyrus communis – Drug Proving)
diseases and Cancerous conditions. A Nosode prepared SCHMUTZER, Ulrike (DH, 19/1999)
from Bacillus Malleni, the microorganism of Glanders.
Proved by Garth WILKINSON. Drugs of the Rosaceae family are listed. This is
followed by a detailed drug proving of Pyrus
3. Viola odorata communis.
TAYLOR Will (SIM, XIV, 1/2001) In November 1997 with 11 provers. Trituration
of the entire plant done upto C4 from which C30
Viola odorata was proved, in tincture of the dilution potency was made and taken.
whole plant in flower, by STAPF, GROSS, and In February 1999 with 10 Provers and a suckling
HAHNEMANN, and published in STAPF’s Archives. baby. Trituration of the bud upto C3 and then C30
It is considered as “small remedy” due to our neglect in dilution potency and taken. C200 made with the root,
having studied them sufficiently. The pathogenesis of leaf and fruit.
Viola odorata strongly suggests that this remedy is an Mind, Head – Foot Schema and lastly a brief
important antitubercular remedy, and can play an collection of the ‘rare’ symptoms.
important role in treating many of the disease
expressions we see that result from latent or suppressed 5. Piper methysticum
tubercular disease. Illustrated by few cases. EICHLER Wolfgang, MOSER Barbara,
Case 1: A 13 year-old boy had chronic recurrent SCHILD Gerhard (DH, 19/1999)
sinusitis. Had past history of ear infections,
frequent epusides of strep-throat, and his tonsils and This is a Proving carried out in 1988 of Piper
adenoids were removed. Following this he methysticum was brought from South Pacific island.
developed severe headaches, occasionally lasting The dry powder from the wood and root of Kava-kava
upto 10 days. Diagnosed to have classical migraine was used and potency by hand succussion was made
and was given Amitryptilline and Imatrex. upto C30. Six provers (2 women and 4 men) took part.
Underwent Sinus surgery which had not given any The symptoms obtainable from sources already
benefit. Conventional treatment did not improve his there are given briefly, after which the proving data in
condition. detail in Schema form.
Pressing pain in malar bones. Pain head At the end a small number of ‘peculiar’
extended to cervical region. Very acute sense of symptoms are listed. Some of them already in the
smell even with sinus infections. Desires meat. earlier source books, repertory, have been confirmed in
Viola odorata 30 in aqueous solution: two pellets in this proving, e.g. “Vertigo better on closing the eyes”
eight ounces of distilled water; succuss six times reported by a prover, in this Proving is seen in a small
before each dose; take a half teaspoon once, three rubric in the repertory with two marks. New, valuable
doses within the first two weeks helped greatly. symptoms have also been obtained.
Case 2: A 20-month-old boy had chronic ear
infections. Was on Keflex and was suggested either 6. Kalium sulphuricum
long-term antibiotics, or tubes, after a short-term Arzneimittelselbsterfahrung (A Proving of
antibiotic trial. Had ten ear infections and twice had Kalium sulphuricum) FLICK Reinhard,
tubes. Complaints started after vaccination. ABRAHAMIAN Heidemarie (DH, 19/1999)
Restlessness, “desire for travel” and obstinacy,
the desire for extremes (spicy), and the 13 Provers, 12 women and 1 man took part in the
lymphadenopathy suggested tubercular Provings carried out in 1997, in C12 and C30 potencies.
characterisitics. Viola odorata improved. One group took 3X while the other 2X, until symptoms
Case 3: A 14 year-old girl presented acute pertussis. appeared.
Cough aggravated during daytime, not able to speak. Until now there has been no ‘proving’ of Kalium
Several episodes of retching to vomiting a day; much sulphuricum’. ALLEN’s Encyclopaedia contains only
phlegm in vomit. Corallium rubrum reduced the 18 toxicological symptoms.
phlegm but the cough remained same. Cough Based on the 11 case reports published by
daytime only, long lasting spells, dry short violent SCHLEGELMANN and WESSELHÖFT according to
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Guiding Symptoms, has given six pages of clinically great help in the treatment of individual patient. The
verified symptoms most of which contain catarrhal clinical drug picture of bacillus Sycococcus (Syc-co.)
symptoms and two cases of cured Epithelioma. What is described.
KENT has given in his Materia Medica is a synthetic The main feature of Syc-co. is irritability. The
picture constructed out of two components which was symptoms are composed from the catarrhal
much criticised in those days. These were uncertain eliminations from the mucous membranes.
symptoms. Appearance: The patient is always anaemic,
The present ‘proving’ presented here is therefore with puffed face, thick and flabby with dull look,
the first proving of this medicine. with twitching of facial muscles and blinkings of the
eyelids.
7. Ranunculaceae. Die Familie der Mind: The mental symptoms are very
Hahnenfußgerwächse (The Family impressive – with nervous stresses and much
Ranunculaceae) irritability. Mischievous children with fear of
DIEZ Susanne, DREXLER, Leopold, SCHMID darkness and being alone.
Bernhard, ZILLER Hans (DH, 19/1999) This reminds of a “Lycopodium child”. It is
intelligent, with sharp, penetrating glance as also lean
The authors have taken up for consideration all face and throat.
the plants in the Ranunculaeceae family used in A “Gärtner child” full of fear, the child suffers
homœopathic therapeutics abd have drawn the common from undernourishment, is thin and underdeveloped
‘theme’ among them. and also intellectually very lively and intelligent.
The plants considered are: The “Dysenteriae child” is nervously tense,
1. Hepatica triloba oversensitive, has a pale face and easily reddens, suffers
2. Pulsatilla pratensis from presentiments and from explosive-like vomiting
3. Caltha palustris. Trituration methodicals due to fever cramps.
are discussed. Head: Recurring headaches in children must
4. Nigella sativa; a proving with 7 women and make us think of this Nososde before it develops into
2 men. symptoms of meningeal irritation. Syc-co. is obtained
5. Paeonia; a proving with 6 women and one from organisms which are closely related to
man. Meningococci. Headache during sleep.
Another proving with 5 women and 13 men. Respiratory: An irritation of the respiratory
The trituration methodicals and the substance passage leads to nose and bronchial catarrh, humid
triturated in both the provings are discussed. Asthma and crampy cough at 0200 hours mornings,
Three cases out of which one is from Jan which became worse during change of weather and
SCHOLTEN are also discussed. humidity and is better at sea side (Medorrhinum).
6. Ranunculus bulbosus: begins with case Throat: Swelling of tonsils and polyps with
reports. A proving of Ranunculus bulbosus enlargement of cervical glands.
with 6 women provers. This is followed Urogenital system: The urogenital tract has
by a case report. many symptoms mainly of acute states. Acute and
7. Clematis erecta: This is a remedy proved by chronic irritative states, Bed-wetting, Vulvo-vaginitis,
HAHNEMANN himself and may be seen in Slapingitis, Leucorrhoea, also Fig warts. Likewise
his Chronic Diseases. kidneys with typical Albuminuria.
8. Aconitum napellus: Drug picture is given. Digestive system: Irritation of the digestive
The ‘themes’ of Ranunculacea are given. canal with diarrhoea, loose offensive smelling stool
which is worse mornings and after eating, mucous
from the rectum, peri-anal warts.
8. Die Darmnosoden (The Bowel Nosodes) Locomotion organs: Acute rheumatic disease of
RANDERIA, J. P. (ZKH, 45, 2/2001) the joints. Worse in rest and during beginning of
movement, cold and dampness. Better by warmth and
An increasing number of diseases are attributed to movement (Rhus-t). Pains in the soles of the feet, as if
the “immunodeficiency syndrome”. The gastro- was walking on cobbled pavement.
intestinal system is the largest immune system. If the Skin: Cysts, Warts, and blisters on the tongue, in
intestinal wall is damaged, there will be leaking spots the angle of the mouth and in other muco-cutaneous
which lead to the leaking intestinal syndrome. As a areas. In many cases after prescription of Syc-co. a
result, the healthy intestinal flora can be transformed pox like eruption appeared. Cracks in the fingertips
into pathogenic organism. The intestinal Nosodes, and heels. Illnesses of foot and mouth.
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Modalities: Aggravation from cold and Radiating pains. Symptom of lump appearing in
dampness, amelioration from warmth, continued quite a few different parts of the body.
movement, at the sea. - Curious feeling as if water was lapping against his
Complementary: Ant-t., Bac., Ferr., Lyc., Nit- internal organs.
ac., Nat-s., Rhus-t., Thuj. Head: Headaches may well be referred pain or due
A Case: 7 year-old girl. Ranula. Cyst under the somehow to the problems in the back and spine;
tongue as large as a marble, left sided, since atleast 3 Pressing pain; Band around the head; < physical
months. A physician in the USA recommended an exertion and cold wind and bending head forward.
operation but the parents did not agree and consulted a >from pressing the head with hands.
Homœopath who gave Apis mellifica 30, 200, Sulphur Eyes: Feel as though they are being pressed or
200 without any relief. The cyst became larger. pulled into head, pressed from outside or pulled from
She consulted over telephone: The cyst was inside.
painless, but the child had difficulty in eating. Nose: Cold and Flu. Sneezing, blocked nose, watery
Mental: irritable, hot-tempered, very rebellious, neat discharge, burning in the nostrils. Feeling as if
and tidy, cleaned her room always, fear of darkness, tickled by a feather; Frequent sneezing and itching of
wanted night lamp on in her room. Not easily weepy, the nose; nose block alternating sides; dryness and
but was sensitive to music. Affectionate and liked to numbness of nose; strong sensitivity to smells.
be cuddled. Felt chilly especially during nights. Face: Flushes of heat and redness; skin feels dry and
Much vaccinations given. tight, and one prover said that his skin felt very thin.
Thuja C6 for 3 weeks without any change. Syc- Mouth: Full of saliva; as if it was running out when
co. C30 4 December 1999, and on 9 December within he talked. Soreness of oral mucosa and the tongue.
5 days a thick, white discharge came out and then the Feeling as the tongue was burnt. Foul taste in mouth.
cyst disappeared. Throat: Great deal of roughness and soreness in
throat. Difficulty in swallowing, having to clear his
9. Lachesis mutus throat a lot. The mucous is difficult to hawk up.
TAYLOR Will (HT, 21, 3/2001) Marked > from hot drinks. Wave of pressure coming
The author says that the pathogenesis of from abdomen to throat.
Lachesis seems to be the simillimum for the entire Stomach: Insatiable hunger or hunger with no
tragedy of Shakespear’s Julius caeser. He has appetite. Strong aversion to fat and also to beer and
repertorised the entire play in which all of the an < from beer and wine. Lot of nausea. Desire for
selected rubrics indicate Lachesis. wine, cheese, for spicy food; to smoke. Desire for
Following this he has given a small note about stimulants in general.
the snake, its habitats etc. Some of the physical and Abdomen: Lot of wind. ‘Feeling as though a big
general charcteristics of the remedy is enlisted. bubble in the navel was moving around. ‘Couldn’t
bear the pressure of her waistband’. Pains > by hot
10. A Reading of Bamboo (Extract from the water bottle. Tenderness in gall bladder region and
Seminar to Czech Homœopathic Society in bilious complaints.
March 2000) Diarrhoea, coming out ‘like a fire hydrant, like a
Nick CHURCHILL (HOM., 78/2000) gush of water’. An imperative urge. Bad smelling
flatulence & constipation. Stool – Greasy and fatty.
Bambusa arundinacea: Chest: Stitching, burning pain and stiffness; a
Sphere of action : dragging in heart region and a feeling of lump near
Neck Gall bladder the sternum.
Back Sleep: Sleeplessness, restlessness, tossing and
Extremities - particularly left knee turning. Seems to wake between 3.30 and 4.30 a.m.
Sciatic nerve, Nose, Throat, URT. Dreams: are strongly about water. Particularly about
Digestive tract, Sleep. disasters with water, floods of water, accidents.
Left side Neck, Back and Extremities.
Great stiffness of neck. Very difficult to turn the
Generalities neck. There is tension and stiffness in the back and
Many of the symptoms are < in Morning on waking. neck. The muscles have seized up and this is worse
Strong > by hot bath and rest. from damp, cold weather and from being out doors.
Strong < from cold & damp. The stiffness and tension can radiate into arms.
Chilly remedy. Cramping aching and dragging pains. They tend to
Characteristic quality of pains is that they are radiate downwards into extremities – down the arm
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All these pains are better for rest and for heat. General feeling of betrayal and desertion.
There is a weakness of hand, difficulty in Desire for close relation but a problem with it at the
writing. There are problems all down the back, all the same time.
way to the buttocks and lumbar and sacral region. A ‘I find too much closeness in the relationship
knotted feeling. suffocating’. Separation between emotion and
Back symptoms have a lesser > from coughing intellect.
and defecation, though it’s not as marked. This seems to be a deeper aspect of the mental state.
A feeling of burning along the spine and the heat A sense of not having any emotional attachment
comes in waves. Numbness and tingling starting in to certain things. It is as if there is something
the back and spreading down into the extremities. A missing.
feeling of right hand thicker than the left. Strong I couldn’t careless about anything. All I could
feeling of weakness and heaviness of limbs. Icy cold do was laze about in bed. Don’t want to get up.
hands and feet. An extreme feeling of coldness Great deal of irritability
starting from the shoulders and radiating downwards. Nothing pleases me
Burning in the soles of feet. Feeling of heat in
the feet although she was objectively cold. Constantly arguing about trivial things.
Clumsiness and awkwardness. Everything seems too noisy for me.
Dropping things and bumping into things when Irritability in company
walking. Sluggishness in thinking
Twitching in the extremities, swelling of ankles Confusion of mind
Feeling of foreign body in shoe. Difficult concentration
Itching in various parts of legs, also in groin, the Cannot even remember friends’ names’
top of the legs and the shoulders at the top of the Utterly forgetful - Spelling mistkes of various kinds
arms. Strong symptoms of sciatica. Totally incapable of concentration
Painful electric currents running down the sciatic Feel as if there is no separation between the dream
nerve to the hollow of the knee. So intense that the world and real world
body trembles & shivers. A strong sense that life was going by and theyhad not
Concomitant: At the sametime, a feeling of coldness fulfilled what they wanted to do.
in her face and nausea, which led to a state of Discontented with my condition, totally dissatisfied
complete collapse and had to be helped into bed. with myself.
Could hardly walk in the morning walking One male prover shaved off the beard he had for 30
stooped, bent over. years. He even shaved the hair under his armpits. So
Weakness from the hip down to the knee as if he must have been feeling pretty bad.
beaten. My brain is entirely empty and hollow. I meditated
Pains are < motion and > pressure. in the morning which made me very sad and cry a lot
Pains come in around 7 a.m. < 7-9 p.m. because my will is subject to higher forces.
Concomittant: Sudden sharp stitching pains in Despair at night that death will separate me from my
different parts of extremities. Especially in the knee children. Grief and rejection when thinking about
or foot, but also fingers, arms, forearms and also in past life.
legs. Clinical : Rheumatism, Gout
Pains also as if dislocated or beaten or like from Comp: Rhus-t., Eupat-perf in flu. better for cold
over exertion. drinks.
Mind Themes: Wanting peace and quiet; closing down, a
Depression; Apathy; Restlessness; Despair; Anxiety lack of activity; Feeling of depression and
Depressed with no real interest in life. Don’t want to dissatisfaction; Remedy for people in evening of life.
go out, want to be left alone. Situation: Old age retirement; Romantic jealously
Depression with strong fear of poverty. and erotic dreams; Reconcilation and coming
Depression with a feeling that the prover would never together.
get well again.
Depressed when there is no work.
Helpless feeling, tearful, depressed black despair 11. Ambra grisea
Anxiety about future but in its financial aspects. Edward Shalts, MD (NEJH, VOL.10, 1/2001)
Anxiety about not being able to deal with what is in
store for me over the heart few years. The remedy is studied in the light of Paul
Sadness with weeping. HERSCU’s ‘Cycles and Segments’ manner. The
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Materia Medicas – HAHNEMANN to Throat: Sensation as if of plug in the throat with

VITHOULKAS – and the Repertories. Two cases difficulty swallowing.
are presented. Stomach: Emptiness at the pit of the stomach
The ‘scheme’ is given as below: after stool, better lying down. Heartburn after milk.
Generalities: Indigestion after warm drinks. Desire for salt is
Although the majority of authors, including increased (Vithoulkas). Pain at midnight, worse
Vithoulkas , talk about being prematurely old, lying on abdomen.
emaciated, etc. I have never seen in my, certainly Abdomen: Sensation of coldness, sometimes on
limited, practice. one side only. Perspiration on abdomen and thighs
But I saw people who are worn out, tired. during exercise. Colitis is one of the most common
Frequently suffering from vertigo with hypertension, pathologies encountered in Ambra grisea
headaches or colitis. (Vithoulkas).
One can see various kinds of nervous discharges: Rectum: Constipation during pregnancy.
twitches and jerks. Haemorrhage from anus during stool. Itching of the
Aggravation: Morning, from five to nine a.m., anus.
presence of others, music, springtime. Warm milk Urinary organs: A famous “can not pass urine
aggravates. Complaints aggravated by presence of in front of others.” Voluptuous itching. Brown
other people in the room. sediment in urine or bloody urine with red sediment.
Amelioration: cold drinks, cold water. The Increased urination at night.
weakness is better after having a dinner. Male genitalia: Can present with intense
Perspiration: one sided perspiration, numbness masturbation and violent morning erections, but
in different parts of the body. frequently unable to maintain erections during actual
Vertigo: Ambra grisea is almost a specific sex (when they have to “perform” with another
remedy for the nondescript dizziness in old people person).
(Vithoulkas). The vertigo worse after sleeping. Female genitalia: Very high sex drive,
Head: A famous keynote: “heat of the head while nymphomania, but resort to masturbation. In
listening to music”. Headache in the morning after interpersonal sexual situations frequently loose the
sleep. Dryness and falling out of hair. Numerous Desire. Metorrhagia after exertion, spotting ,
pains. Trembling sensation in the head after talking. between menses, at every little accident.
Eye: Dimness of vision. Chest: Music aggravates cough and asthma. Can
Ear: Hearing is diminished without underlying have an asthmatic attack after eructations
pathology. (embarrassment, remember). Prone to palpitations.
Nose: Copious epistaxis. Frequently in a.m. Palpitations when listening to music, when walking
while still lying in bed. .
Face: Convulsions, spasms of lips. Twitchings,
tinglings.
Mouth: Ranula (sublingual cysts). Nodosities
under the tongue.
Heaviness with numbness in upper limbs. Cramps
In thighs, in calves or feet at night.
Sleep: Sleeplessness after a conversation, from
Business, from excitement. Older people who
Can not sleep from sad thoughts (Natrum muria .
Ticum)
Fever: Chill is better by eating. Chill of single parts.
Creeping chill after stool.
In the open air.
Back: Stiffness in back from rising from a seat;
After sitting. Pain from music.
Extremities: Numbness and pains. Pain as if
Sprained. Heaviness and paralytic weakness
Skin: Anesthesia in the morning on waking
12. The Widow Spider Lactrodectus tredecimguttans
tredecimguttans
Cal texts, as well as homœopathic materia medica,
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widow spider Lactrodectus tredecimguttus, thus CHIMTHANAWALA Adil (NJH, 5, 2/2000)

warranting a re-evalution of pharmacological
preparation. 32 year-old male was diagnosed to have Pulmonary
Tuberculosis. Had fever with chills, night sweats, and
III. THERAPEUTICS scanty thirst. Pain in chest – stabbing, radiating to the
1. My Early Experiences in TB front, worse with each breath. Dyspnoea worse while
JYOTHI U (NJH, 5/2000) ascending stairs with palpitations. AKT started but
within 2 weeks after starting developed erythematous,
18 year-old girl had frequent attacks of fever and macular, itchy rash on both the lower extremities and
weakness. Diagnosed to have Typhoid Fever trunk. Steroids and anti-histamins did not relieve. On
and treated with allopathic medicines, yet the fever stopping the treatment the rash subsided after 10 days.
continues. Fever 100-101°F frequently since 4-5 On further investigation he was diagnosed to have
months. Fever continues for 6-7 days , feels better for Tuberculous Pericardial Effusion and restarted AKT.
2-3 days and then again fever for 6-7 days. Generalised This was the time when the patient was brought to
weakness and no interest to work and studies during Homœopathy.
fever. Past history of frequent colds and cough. Family Had fever worse in the evening. Left pulmonary
history of Tuberculosis. Tuberculinum 10M/2 doses. effusion. Slight burning and increase of urination. Thirst
After a week there was small orange sized swelling on less. Loose stools before going to bed and after tea.
both sides ofneck. Both cervial nodes enlarged for the Pulsatilla 200/tds for 10 days and Pulsatilla M/3 doses
first time. After few months the enlargement subsided with Avena sativa Q. Fever ameliorated but there was
and attacks of fever. dyspnoea and cough with left Pleural effusion and
(The author is doubtful whether the appearance of Pulmonary effusion. Kali iodatum 30 for 3 days
the cervical glands is a good sign or this is a medicinal followed by 200/3 doses.
aggravation or the potency is too high) Aurum metallicum M was given based on the
totality of symptoms: Chilly, generally aggravated after
cold and winter season. Capable of doing much hard
2. A Case of Koch’s Abdomen work. Rigid on himself but soft on others. Feeling of
SHAH P M & SHEETAL (NJH, 5/2000) self-condemnation, worthlessness, loathing of life,
dreams of robbers, palpitations, past history of ottorrhea
An article which deals with the Tuberculosis of and strong sense of duty.
Abdomen. Abdominal Tuberculosis is generally a Tuberculinum has been as the indicated nosode on
disease of the adult population, occurs more often in the basis of pathological changes and family history of
females, with equal frequency in rural and urban Ulcerative colitis and Hemiplegia.
population.
The ileocaecal region is involved in nearly half to 2. Approach to Treating TB Cases
two thirds of cases, colon and jejunum also being JAIN C B & JAIN BIPIN (NJH, 5, 2/2000)
frequently involved. Approximately two thirds of cases
are “primary” without evidence of any active or inactive Case 1: 29 year-old female had low grade fever and
pulmonary lesion. cough with white expectoration. Felt weak, thirstless
Common clinical features and physical signs are and bitter taste in the mouth. Gelsemium 200 4 hourly
discussed. for 2 days. X-ray showed mild infiltration in both
56 year-old woman had chronic diarrhoea with apices. Gelsemium was continued for another 4 days.
weight loss. Barium meal study showed changes of But the tissue level disease was progressing which was
malabsortion pattern in small bowels extending up to showed by the infiltration cavity. Chilly patient. Desire
the terminal ileum, secondary to Koch’s infection. for salty food and aversion to spicy food and sweets.
Distal colon is inflamed and tender appendix. Took Dreams of black snake and friend commiting suicide in
AKT treatment, yet the complaints persisted. An front of him, playing cricket and someone behind him,
irritable, impulsive, reserved and Sentimental person. trying to catch him, all doors closed. Anxiety about the
Had fear of death. Perspiration scanty. Burning pain in family. Kali carbonicum 30 repeated doses helped in
anus before stool. Natrum muriaticum selected based resolving the cavity with fibro-nodular shadows with
on these symptoms and was given in 200 for few days calcifications at left lung apex.
followed by M which did not produce the expected Case 2: A young boy of 21 years had fever with mild
response. Tuberculinum was given as intercurrent chest pain, right sided pleural effusion and fibro-nodualr
remedy and it helped. infiltration. X-ray showed an early tubercular lesion.
Arsenicum album 200 was selected based on the toality
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everything. Case 3: 25 year-old had the mind of Arsenicum album and Hepar sulphuricum
respiratory complaints of cold, stringy white are also discussed.
expectoration, sticking in throat. Breathing difficult.
Complaints aggravated during winter and cold season.
Distension of abdomen with pain shifting all over 4. Cases of Ambra grisea
abdomen. Continuous dull pain, nausea and KASI VISWANATHAN (NJH, 5/2000)
regurgitation. Stool unsatisfactory, usually before going
out. Skin affection in buttocks. Tall, thin, dark The introduction in this article discusses the various
complexion, long eyelashes. Craves highly seasoned ways to study a remedy.
food. Tongue clean, moist imprints present. The Case 1: 32 year-old male was diagnosed to have
totality pointed towards Phosphorus and given in 30 Crohn’s disease at the age of 15. Had a bowel resection
potency followed by 200 with careful monitoring and immediately. Presently he presented with acute
the patient improved. exacerbation of the same problem. Had abdominal pain.
Case 4: 48 year-old man presented with chill, fever, Loss of weight, bleeding stool, enormous flatulence
weakness and haemoptysis. Diagnosed to have with rumbling and 4-5 stools per day. Ailments from
Pneumonia. Quiet and nervous person fever without embarrassment, mental, business, cares and worries, bad
thirst, weakness and painless diarrohea concomittant to news etc. Timid, bashful. Angered easily and throws
the respiratory complaints. Phosphoricum acidum things. Fear of poverty and thoughts persistent.
200/4 hourly which helped the presenting phase. On Complaints from change of whether. Unable to pass
further analysis it is found that the patient has sinusitis stools in presence of others. On repertorisation the
and dyspesia since 15 years. Skin involved since 2 –3 remedies which came up were: Sulphur, China,
years. The pain of marital disharmony is lasting ever Lycopodium, Silicea and Ambra grisea.
since he is married. Sentimental, anxious and weak Silicea, Sulphur, China and Lycopodium was
person can’t resist or can’t fight back, but a hard prescribed on the basis of the symptoms and responded
working individual, sticking to his commitments. Hot fairly well. After an year he got worse and was
thermal state and recent shift to chilly with pnemonia hospitalized and underwent colostomy. Lost both
episode, sticky, stringy discharges skin summer grandparents shortly after.
aggravation. All these symptoms lead to prescribe Kali Still he had some disease in his bowel and so tye
bichromicum. Kali bichromicum 30, 200 were given for reversal of colostomy was delayed. Angered with
over a period of 5 – 6 months but symptoms persisted himself for having this disease. He was in debt and this
despite treatment. Hence the patient was put under embarrased him much. Ambra grisea was prescribed in
placebo for about two months and all his complaints 30 and later raised to 50C, at periodical intervals which
settled. relieved.
Case 2: A young boy had constipation at 9 months.
3. Hepar sulph – How I Perceive While he responded well for other complaints to
KHAN L M (NJH, 5/2000) Calcarea and Belladonna his constipation persisted
even after years. Bowel movement were only once or
18 year-old girl extremely fair with fine delicate twice in a week. Gets cross and embarrassed if he gets
skin, brown eyes and hair had breathlessness and dry stool at school as classmates tease and talk about it.
cough with wheezing. Had sneezings since many years. Restless but determined. Ambra grisea 30 for 3 days
Worse morning, dust, smole, odor etc. Suffocation relieved.
aggravation in the evening and cannot cover the face. Later he had convulsions and responded to Cuprum
Breathlessness worse night, 10 pm, spring, dust, smoke, metallicum. His bowel problems re-surfaced with
perfumes etc. Amelioration sitting bent forward. sweating around anus and Ambra grisea 200/2 doses a
Desires sour, butter, fatty food, rice and roasted chicken. week relieved.
Aversion to milk and sweets. Frightening dreams. Case 3: 53 year-old woman had menopausal complaints
Perspiration especially around lips. Tongue red tipped, and responded well to Natrum muriaticum in a range of
clean edges, white coated. Likes freaking out, fear of potencies but was not cured of her constipation and
dark, of being alone, of animals, gets scared very easily, rhinitis.
mercurial temperament, shouts easily when annoyed Heat flushes worse during night. Obstruction of the
and then cools down quickly. Hurried and wants nose with thick discharge. Obstruction ameliorated in
everything quickly and instantly. When hungry cannot open air. Bowels constipated. Weeping, tearful when
wait for food. Wants to do everything fast. Hepar alone, grief. Fear of poverty and failure. Anxiety about
sulphur LM/tds helped. the conscience. Ailments from business failure and
Following the case there is discussion with regard embarrassment. Her mother died when she was quite
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handicapped, died at a very young age of 3, her father muriaticum selected based on above symptoms and
died a year later, death of close friends daughter brought given in 200 potency on alternate days for 2 weeks.
back these black memories. Ambra grisea 30 cleared Complaints slightly better but persisted and hence
her bowel symptoms and nasal block. Natrum muriaticum M given. Amelioration followed by
Case 4: 55 year-old female had constipation with recurrence. Repetition of the same remedy in same
bloody stools. Cortisones and enema relieved potency. Slight improvement with certain symptoms
temporarily. 3-4 episodes of mucus discharge from persisting. Potency is increased to 10M and good
rectum with flatus and later blood. Chronic leucoplakia improvement followed.
on the roof of her mouth since many years. Shy,
extremely sympathetic, cannot hurt or criticize anyone. 6. The Potency Issue
Fastidious. Domineering husband and got divorced JAIN R (NJH, 6/2000)
after some years. Apart from an unsuccessful marriage,
she had many emotional upsets like her mother died of In this article the author has put forward the
stroke and father came to live with her. One of her son observations with regard to the selection of potency
had serious behavioral problems and committed suicide after treating 20,000 cases in the span of 20 years using
in one of the rehabilitation centre. During her sons different potencies on the basis of PERIODIC TABLE.
illness she met a man who became close to her but this Preparation of potencies in different scales are
relation broke after the son’s death. Though Natrum discussed and the comparison between Decimal,
muriaticum and Ambra grisea seemed to be indicated Centesimal and 50 Millesimal scales are given in tabular
Ambra grisea tipped the scale and it had been given in column. Also the author has highlighted certain spheres
200 and it was repeated 2 or 3 times and it helped. like Speed of action, Depth of action, Duration of action
Case 5: 35 year-old man had breathlessness which got and Repetition of doses etc. Rules for repetition of
worse while reading, relaxing or generally being idle doses, indications and contra-indications for the high,
and when he encounters any unknown person. medium and low potencies are laid down. Application
Reserved conscientious man who takes his work of potency in acute and chronic diseases are discussed at
seriously. Had financial loss and worry. Fear of the end.
poverty, anxiety when thinking about it. His mental and
physical symptoms are well addressed by Ambra grisea 7. High Potency Disease
and it was given in M and later 10M which relieved. DIGBY Berkeley (NJH, 54, 6/2000)
Case 6: A 65 year-old lady had breathlessness, worse
while climbing, on walking, when tense and in strong A very brief article on certain mental and emotional
odours. Also had arthritis, spondylosis and flatulence. disorders and their treatment with high potency.
After the death of her mother she developed anxiety The author says that Schizophrenia and severe
state and was tense whenever she goes out, to mental illnesses does not respond well to Homœopathic
condolences, approaching persons etc. Her complaints treatment unless we use the appropriate methods.
caused embarrassment to her. Loquacious changing Mental pathology should be regarded in the same way
from one subject to another, forgetful, weakness of as physical pathology. If a disease is deep and
memory and confusion persisted. Ambra grisea M, entrenched in the physical, we can give repeated doses
single relieved. of remedies in low or middle potencies to slowly
reverse the pathology. Similarly mind and emotions
5. Potency and its Implication may have scars and irreversible lesions, which need life
LOBO Anita (NJH, 6/2000) long prescriptions.
Children usually need few repetitions for
Different views on selection of potency by the miraculous changes of their emotional state. It all
pioneers like Stuart CLOSE, W I PIERCE, N depends on how deep the ‘disease groove’ is.
PUDDEPHAT, Garth BOERICKE, Constatine A female with manic and murderous state needed
HERING, Elizabeth W HUBBARD. The Degree of daily dose Stramonium in high potency for several
susceptibility is also discussed followed by an months after which the state of Pulsatilla emerged and
illustration of a case. one dose of Pulsatilla 10M daily for about 18 months
31 year-old lady had redness of face, pimples, helped.
greasing and secretion. Complaints worse in sun, The author has also mentioned some similar cases
amelioration in cold wether. Associated with this there where repetition of remedies in high potency helped.
is dandruff with itching. Craves mutton, chicken, fish.
Aversion to vegetables. Increased perspiration in face 8. Potency dilemma: Tailoring the Prescription to
and scalp. Irritable, anxious, brooding, doesn’t share Patient
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a) Disgrunted syndrome
In this article the components of potency selection, b) Panic attacks
guidelines for potency selection, When to use high c) Depressive states
potency, medium potency and low potency and 4. Disturbances of Personality
Comments on the use of LM scale of potencies are all a) Delirious attacks
discussed. b) Disassociative pathologies or Psychotic breakdown
c) Clinical states
9. Das Abenteuer Addeszenz – Eine Annäherung in 5. Disturbances of Social behaviour
Anlehnung an Jacqueline Barbancey (The a) Aggressiveness and Criminality
Adventure of Adolescence – an approach on the b) Marginalisation (run away, homelessness,
lines of Jacqueline Barbancey) prostitution)
HALLER Bernadette, LASSACHER Martina (DH, Each of the above are further discussed in detail
19/1999) and cases illustrated.
An educative article.
This article is with reference to the Social and
Home environment of the Western Europe and North 10. Weitere Nosoden für die Praxis (More Nosodes for
America only. the Practice)
The environment at the turn of the 20th Century and PTOK, M. (AHZ, 246, 1/2001)
at the end of the Century is discussed. Unlike the earlier
Century puberty has now come on about 20 months Nosodes have been in use since HAHNEMANN’s
earlier, and statistically quicker growth in stature. days. The Homœopathic Materia Medica has a treasury
Today many children – at least in the urban and semi- of many Nosodes, some of them not ‘proved’ but found
urban ares – spend much of their time of their early to be of great value in therapeutics.
years in Kindergarten, Schools, Nurseries, most often The author gives further Nosodes with their clinical
upto ten hours daily, while their time with their family indications in brief.
is hardly two to three hours, and the week ends are also 1. Actionobacillus actinomycetemcomitans:
abridged. Mme BARBANCEY is very much concerned Gum ulcer, pain teeth worse by cold as well as by
with this state of affairs and its effect on the warmth.
adolescence. She works not only in elite circumstances 2. Actinomyces israeli:
but also in a much wider area with growing boys and Gum ulcer
girls. She herself has three children. Streptococcal dermatosis.
The Adolescence is divided into three phases: 3. Aerobacter aerogenes:
1. the para-adolescent phase (“puberty Nightly cough between 0.30 and 2.00 hours,
adolescence”) which is impressed more on the tightness and also hoarseness.
physical changes 4. Arachidon acid
2. the true phase of adolescence in which the Ring pain around the chest in Encephalomyelitis,
family bondages are to be loosened and find also partly pain as of constriction by a steel
other dear and objects of interests are found. armor
3. The post-adolescence phase in which young 5. Bacillus thuringiensis:
person has found a stable identity which Irritable bowel with urge for stool with
expresses a coherent personality and encloses excitement
sexual orientation. Non stop cough between 2 and 4 hours.
What is meant by Adolescence: the risks and 6. Bronchopneumonia bovinum:
possible Homœopathic aids? Is the next Chapter. In this Mild cough; from inspiration worse, in cold
transition from childhood to adolescence the individual better, without expectoration, every change of air
thinks that everything is possible. Mme. Aggravates with headache, worse lying.
BARBANCEY lists briefly the areas of sickness and 7. Campylobacter:
Homœopathic healing, as follows: Pressure in stomach with burning in throat, worse
1. Disturbances of the intellectual sphere: on waking, sensation of stomach status with loud
a) Let up from school “16 year-olds” noises and pains in left upper abdomen, burning
b) Disturbances of flow of thought tongue, stomach pains, pressure aggravates.
c) Constraining disturbances Knee pain left, worse by movement.
2. Troubles from the physical and sexuality areas Waking 4 – 5 hours.
a) Dysmorphi phobias 8. Cladosporium:
b) Neurotic narcissism
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Eczema on finger, partly blisterlike, palpitation Swelling of the lymphnodes of the groin in a
only during daytime, Acne face, copper coloured child
Eczema on the arm. Buckling of the knee while walking in
9. Clostridium cadaveris: Encephalomyelitis
Nausea for over a week with vomiting before it, Stuttering in exertion of concentration,
sour taste in mouth. Prickling of the hands, arms , knee electric-like
10. Clostridium difficile: in the same patient.
Since years recurring loose, bright colored stool, 26. Uncaria tormentosa:
With intolerance of vegetables, also yellowish- Herpes below the palate, Eczema of the hands,
diarrhoeic stools since years with severe craving recurring inflammatory in both mammae in a
for sweets. nursing mother.
Abdominal pain left side, near the umbilicus, Swelling of the lymphnodes, both the cervical as
warmth and lying on the abdomen ameliorates as also the inguinal
also pressure. Crooked neck in a child
11. Clostridium innocuum: Increased efficiency in a child
Thin-pappy, dark colored stool 27. Yersinia enterocolica:
12. Clostridium paraputrificum: Pressure in the upper abdomen with fullness
Diarrhoea 2 – 5 times a day, watery-dark. feeling
13. Clostridium tentium: Cramps of the stomach as from a fist, loss of
Offensive flatus with bright stool. appetite in the mornings.
14. Corallium album:
Throat pain with lump feeling, expectoration 13. Dario SPINEDI: der Gemütszustand als Hilfe bei
bright-yellow. der Arzneimittel findung nach Paragraph 211 und
15. Geotrichum candidum: 212 des “Organon”; ein Interview geführt von
Eczema of finger under the ring and also the Christoph THOMAS am 13.10.2000 (Dario
whole finger, SPINEDI: The mental state as an aid to the remedy
Hoarseness and dry mucous membranes of the choice in accordance with paragraphs 211 and 212
throat with radiating to the upper throat of the “Organon”: an Interview held by von
sometime. Christoph THOMAS on 13 Oct 2000) (ZKH, 45,
16. Haemopinus pedalis: 1/2001)
Hepatitis with increase of Bilirubin to 3.4mg%
17. Immunoglobulin M: For about a decade or so Dr Rajan SANKARAN
Nasal flow with itching eyes, obstructed nasal has been teaching the importance of the mental state
breathing and snorting. which is apart from the mental and emotional
18. Oestrogen/Gestagen combination: symptoms, for the choice of the Homœopathic remedy.
Acne on face of adolescents. The source for this are the paragraphs 211 and 212.
5 weeks of non stop bleeding in a 13 year-old girl There has been much discussion on this.
19. Pityriasis: In this interview Dr SPINEDI distinguishes the
Skin around the mouth is cracked, bloody spot. ‘mental state’ from the mental ‘symptoms’. A systemic
20. Rhinotracheitis bovinum: study of the Homœopathic Materia Medica with
Infection with temporal headaches, expectoration reference to mental symptoms in accordance with the
clear-glassy, with pain of the thigh in a child ideas of Rajan SANKARAN and Carl Gustav JUNG
along with thirst for large gulps, cough between helps to comprehend the archetypal mental basic forms
9 – 10 hours with clearing of throat while talking, and the specific state of mind of the remedies. This can
Expectoration yellowish-green, clumpy, salty. help significantly, to make a differential diagnosis in the
21. Rickettsia MS: individual patient between several possible
Smelling of lymphnodes of the axilla Homœopathic remedies. The significance of dreams for
22. Salmonella typhymurium: comprehending the state of mind is shown. Experience
Stool half brown – pappy. in the case of the in-patient treatment of patients
23. Salmonella virchow: suffering from Cancer and open questions for further
Stool at first formed, then flowy, bright-yellow. Homœopathic research are discussed.
24. Stomatitis vesicularis:
Apthae of mouth in Aplastic Anaemia, 14. 1. Erfahrungen mit der Sehgal Methode
Apthae of uvula and vagina in a child. (Experiences with the Sehgal-method)
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2. Objektivität und Subjectivität in der 6. Symptoms of Physical (Chronic Diseases)

Homöopathie am Beispiel der Sehgal Methode In a periodic analysis of the outcome the parents
(Objectivity and Subjectivity in Homœopathy with had to rate the progress of the healing process of the
examples of the Sehgal-method) main illness in percentage.
LANG, G. (AHZ, 246, 2/2001) Results:
1. The outcome-analysis of the group (without drop-
Both these articles are on the practical application outs) yielded after two months an amelioration of
of the SEHGAL-method in which only the mental 52%, after 12 months 78% and after 24 months
symptoms alone are used in diagnosing the 93%.
Homœopathic remedy. In the first article the analogue 2. The drop-out rate after 12 months was 10%, after
way in which the Mind chapter of the Repertory is used 24 months 16%.
is explained. For this the two rubrics ‘Fear of 3. In the end evaluation of satisfaction – 64% of
extravagance’ and Desire to be carried fast’ are detailed patients/parents reported to be very much satisfied,
as examples. Several cases also have been given. 18% were satisfied, and 2% were moderately
In the second article the importance of subjectivity satisfied. The remaining 16% were drop-outs.
of patient as well as in practice of Homœopathy. 4. The mean duration of treatment was 13.9 months.
The mean consultation time required for a patient in
15. Langzeituerlauf chronischer Erkraukungen unter two years was 165 minutes. They received an
Homöopathischer Behandlung: Eine prospektive average of four different Homœopathic remedies in
outcome – studie über zwei Jahre (Longterm course a total of 7.4 applications, of which 4.5 were single
of chronic diseases under Homœopathic treatment: doses of high potencies and 2.9 were Q (50
a prospective outcome-study over a period of two millesimal) potencies.
years) 5. An average of 1.6 acute diseases interrupted the
FREI, H. (ZKH, 45, 2/2001) treatment of the chronic disease during the
observed time.
Following an earlier study on evaluation of the Conclusion: BOENNINGHAUSEN’s working method
different ranking symptoms by HAHNEMANN, reveals itself as a time-saving and efficient therapy with
BOENNINGHAUSEN, HERING and KENT, a very satisfactory results.
predominantly paediatric cohort (ZKH, 43, 4/1999), 50
patients were followed up perspectively over a period of 16. A Dental or Surgical Appointment… Can
two years. The purpose of this study was to find answer Homœopathy Help?
to the following: HOOVER Todd (HT, 20, 4/2000)
1. What extent of amelioration of a chronic disease is
to be expected in a cohort of patients under The effect of Homœopathic remedies in managing
Homœopathic treatment after 2, 12 and 24 months? the discomforts associated with dental and surgical
2. How high is the drop out rate? procedures are discussed. Many people experience
3. Satisfaction of the patients/parents at the end of the significant anxiety when anticipating a trip to the
treatment. dentist. The four most useful remedies for this type of
4. How much time is required for the Homœopathic anticipatory anxiety are Calcarea carbonica, Arsenicum
physician and how many medicaments are required album, Gelsemium, and Argentum nitricum.
to obtain the amelioration? After the dental or other procedure, the most
5. How many additional acute diseases occur in the common complaint is pain. Arnica for bruising and
cohort? soreness of the area involved, Hypericum perforatum
Methods: This group was treated exclusively according for nerve type of pains are more indicated.
to the ranking of symptoms by HAHNEMANN and the
working method of BOENNINGHAUSEN, so that the 17. Routine Caulophyllum in Pregnancy?
results could be compared with other methods if TAYLOR Will (HT, 20, 4/2000)
wanted.
The ranking of the symptoms by HAHNEMANN is In this article the author explains about some
in the following order: ridiculous things done with Homœopathically prepared
1. Peculiar, queer, unusual Symptoms (§153) remedies in labor and birth when not prescribed on
2. Mental Symptoms (§ 210) Homœopathic indications – routine alternation of
3. Modalities (§ 133) Caulophyllum 200 and Cimicifuga 200 during labor,
4. Gynaecologic Symptoms (§ 94) routine administration of Lac caninum after birth to
5. Symptoms of inner (Vital) Organs (Chronic “prevent engorgement,” routine administration of
Diseases) Aconite M to the newborn “for birth trauma.” Most

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strong constitutions – folks of high vitality/low

moderate sensitivity – can endure this silliness without A very brief article which discusses about the
problem (and without benefit). It’s the more unusual importance of concomitants, Dictionary meaning of the
patient, of high sensitivity and /or low vitality – the one word is given.
you’d worry about anyway - who can get into trouble. The concomitant can individualize a patient.
A mother/infant pair who who both presented with a Strange, rare and peculiar (SRP) symptoms can be a
Cimicifuga proving (after the routine above), and the concomitant sometime; and the concomitant form the
cases have been difficult to treat. complete totality.
Remedies commonly seen indicated in The real purpose of paying attention to
dysfunctional pre-labor are: Caulophyllum, Cimicifuga, concomittant symptom is, to understand the totality of
Mitchella repens, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Ipecacuanha, and the disease, the entire picture by which the mistuned
many more. Vital Force describes its state. When we put
concomitant symptoms into their proper context, they
18. Simple Solutions for Common Complaints help to complete the unique and unmistakeable overall
DOOLEY Timothy (HT, 21, 2/2001) picture of the patient.

The author discusses some of the remedies for flu 21. Help for restless Leg Syndrome
and in particular about Anas barbariae hepatis et cordis DOOLEY Timothy (HT, 21, 3/2001)
extractum. It is Homœopathic preparation of an extract
of the liver and heart of a Duck. [Ducks are known to This article gives an account of Restless leg
be carriers of flu viruses]. Its proprietary names are syndrome, its probable causes and its treatment.
Oscillococcinum® or Flu solutionTM. A disorder in which the patient feels an urge to
In Anas barbariae there are no characterisitic move the legs, due to an uncomfortable sensation in the
symptoms known. It is prescribed on the common legs as crawling, or creeping. The known causes
symptoms which almost everyone with the flu will have outlined in the Journal American Family Physician are
such as aching, fever, headache, stiffness, shivers, uraemia, iron deficiency, pregnancy and drug side
cough, runny nose etc. effects.
Inspite of lack of symptom specificity, most of the Various treatment which helped are:
time Anas Barbariae helps the patients with flu. But Physical: massage, important exercise, spinal
not everyone. Anas barbariae is sold in “unit dose” manipulation, yoga postures, acupuncture.
vials. A small number (3-5) of the little pellets under Nutritional: Supplements of specific minerals,
the tongue or in water, 15 minutes to 2 hours depending avoidance of food which aggravate the problem.
on the patients response. Herbal: Nutritional, oriental, cleansing, and organ
Few other remedies for flu with their characteristic specific remedies.
indications are given. Homœopathy:
By considering the whole patients instead just the
19. A Child with Hepatitis single symptom or disorder, an individual treatment
WOLF M M (HT, 21, 3/2001) which acts by stimulating the body to heal the
underlying disorder.
3 year-old ETHAN had hepatitis. Blond with blue Few important remedies are mentioned with
sclera, full of energy and had terrible temper tantrums. characteristic features: Arsenicum album, Causticum,
Defiant, opiniated, didn’t like wearing shoes or going to Ferrum metallicum, Lycopodium, Magnesium
bed. Very moody and awakes with irrtability. Very carbonicum, Rhus toxicodendron, Tarentula hispanica
smart and orderly. Desires ice cream, chocolate, eggs, and Zincum metallicum.
chicken, peanut, butter, yoghurt, fruit, bacon, macroni
and cheese. Tuberculinum 200. After a week had 22. A Case of Chronic Rhinitis and Bronchitis
normal liver profile. Two weeks after stopping CREASY Sheilagh (SIM, XIV, 1/2001)
interferon which was given when he was under
conventional treatment, blood tests revealed the A 13 year-old boy had catarrh especially on one
presence of antibodies – indicates the cure of hepatitis. side or the other. Greenish, offensive and thick
Later he received Belladonna 200 for he was discharge. The catarrh went down to the chest and
breaking and tearing things apart, slapping and hitting. caused rattling followed by cough. Aggravation in the
morning. Had family history of Tuberculosis and
20. “Concomitant Symptoms” – How Important Are respiratory problem.
They? Rebellious, hated to be restricted, and a loner. A lot
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Lycopodium 30, Sulphur 30, 200, M, Tuberculinum 30 A 38 year-old female. Fibroid tumours after the
and 200, Kali bichromicum 30 and 200 given with no loss of a loved one who got married to another woman
improvement. who was ten years older than her. Felt humiliated,
From Kent’s Repertory: “Nose; discharge, one side: ashamed, angry, desperate and rejected. Suicidal
Calcarea sulphuricum, Hippozaeninum, crossed with thoughts persisted. Anxious and felt lonely.
“Nose; discharge green, thick”, “Chest, expectoration, Workaholic, perfectionist, high level of
copious,” “Chest; inflammation, lungs,” “Chest achievement, hard to get into the relationship. Absence
rattling,” and “Mind; company, aversion to” only brings of nurturing and love in childhood. High expectations
down to Hippozaeninum. Started with 6x and gradually of her from family, parents fighting with each other,
ascended to 10M. Then Tuberculinum M and 10M threat of divorce. Fear of heights, of falling, of not
helped. being accepted. Alcoholism in the family. Hot.
Constipated, retains fluid.
23. The Genus Epidemicus Remedies Repertorization brought Aurum muriaticum in the
LITTLE David (SIM, XIV, 1/2001) first place and Natrum muriaticum in the third place.
Repertorization by small remedies brought Aurum
In this article the author explains briefly about muriaticum natronatum in the fifth place. Aurum
group anamnesis for diseases of common cause and muriaticum natronatum LM 1, succuss the bottle five
similar symptoms which affect a homogeneous group. times. Stir one teaspoon of the remedy in four ounces
Best examples of group anamnesis can be found in “The of water. To take one teaspoon swish and swallow once
Cure and Prevention of Scarlet Fever,” in in 3 days. Took the remedy for about a month which
Hahnemann’s Lesser writings and “Typhoid Fever helped.
and High Potencies” in BOENNINGHAUSEN’s
Lesser writings. 25. Pemphigus Vulgaris
The purpose of the genus epidemicus is not to find MIGLANI Anjali (SIM, XIV, 1/2001)
one single remedy. It is to find a homogeneous group of
remedies which will cover the disease in most A female aged 39 had recurrent aphthae.
constitutions. See “Typhoid and High Potencies:” Antibiotics and antiseptic mouthwash did not relieve.
“Although a greater number of cases with their Hb: 9.2gm%; TLC: 11,500 cu.mm.; DLC:
symptoms were reflected in Bryonia alba, and found in P54L39B2E5; VDRL: negative. Throat swab for
this their remedy, there were yet many other persons Cornyebacterium diptheriae: negative. Tzank test:
who either at once or in the course of their disease Positive. Nikolsky’s sign: positive. Large flacid bullae
required also other remedies such as Pulsatilla, Rhus bilaterally, grayish black in colour, started on left side
toxicodendron, Nux vomica, Kali carbonicum, and then on right side. Lateral borders of tongue black.
Arsenicum album, Phosphoricum acidum, Belladonna, Pain and burning in mouth. Salivation increased and
Hyoscyamus, Muriatic acid, Taraxacum and where the breath offensive. Kali chloricum 6C, three times daily
relation was defective, Sulphur and Carbo-vegetabilis. for seven days relieved acute symptoms.
The group genus case offers the Homœopath more A lean, thin built female, hot patient. Premenstrual
information about the nature of a disease and its syndrome – better by flow. Sweat increased in axilla
symptomatology that can be found in any pathology and offensive. Desired farinaceous foods. Sleep
book. Unknown to many modern Homœopaths, the disturbed because of dreams. Dreams of being tortured
group anamnesis may be used to treat virulent miasms, or murdered; of some conspiracy against her. Smart,
endemic environmental and nutritional disorders, and outgoing person. Increased sexual desire. Lachesis
toxic diseases presenting a strong urinary syndrome. 200, 2 doses followed by M after 15 days relieved.
When Homœopaths construct a group anamnesis, they
are forming the basis for a specific repertorium amd 26. Potenzierte Karzinogene im der homöopathischen
materia medica of the target disease. Then the group Krebsbehandlung (Potentized Carcinogens in
anamnesis can be used as therapeutic guide for finding Homœopathic Cancer Therapy)
both curative and prophylactic remedies. FRIEDRICH, V. (ZKH, 45, 2/2001)
[This work, and related titles like “Prophylaxis in
Homœopathy,” are part of the extensive classical Potentized carcinogens like Arsenicum album,
Homœopathic library to be found on David LITTLE’s Carbo animalis or Petroleum have all been
website: www.simillimum.com] established well in Homœopathic treatment of Cancer.
While their selection is always based upon the symptom
24. A Case of Uterine Fibroid similarity obtained by Provings and the clinically
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the patient’s characteristic symptoms, the remedies are Single dose of Silicea XM gave an aggravation
chosen on any specific carcinogenic quality. initially and then improvement set in. There was
In the BHJ 89/2000 H.MONTFORT’s proposals for however a mild recurrence and the child was now given
the therapeutic application of specific Carcinogens, has Silicea Q potency. There was improvement as was
been published. evidenced by the EEG.
The author obtained two Carcinogenes,
Benzoanthracene D11 and Fluorenilacetamide D15 28. Herpes come as recidivans
from MONTFORT and used it in 4 cases of Mamma (Chronic corneal Herpes)
carcinoma. Nevertheless all the four Mamma KLUNKER,W.(ZKH, 45, 2/2001)
carcinoma. Nevertheless all the four Mamma
Carcinoma patients expired even with Chemotherapy. 40 year-old woman with recurring attacks of herpes
It is argued that in these cases the peculiar opthalmins since 14 years ending in corneal opacity. A
symptoms indicating the appropriate Homœopathic transplant of cornea was proposed, but it would be
remedies are not manifest. possible only if the herpes does not recur. The patient
therefore consulted Homœopathy.
27. Absencen – Silicea (Epileptic seizures – Silicea) The totality pointed to Natrum muriaticum
RICHTER, O., HADULLA, M. (ZKH, 45, 2/2001) The ‘Minimum symptoms of maximum value’
adopted by Sir John WEIR was appplied in this case.
A six-year old girl with epilepsy. The parents did Natrum muriaticum in 30, 200, M with
not want anti-epileptic medication, and intervening dose of Herpes 30 was given and she was
Sought Homœopathic treatment. free from the recurring corneal Herpes.

28. Die parenterale Ameisensäme therapie – ein - Fear of failure and doubt their own ability
medikamentöses Therapieverfahreb der - To escape from emotional turmoil they
kanoplementaneMedizin (Parenteral desire excitement and thrill – bunger
Administration of Formic Acid in Alternative jumping, fast driving etc.
Medicine) - Too dypendent and crave attention and
HELMSTÄDTER Axel (Med GG, 20/2001) important physical symptoms affections are
also listed out.
Treatment of rheumatic and other diseases through Aurum sulphuratum..
immersion in an anthill is reported in - Lack of love during childhood leads to a
General Folk Medicine. In the first half of the 20th feeling of abandonment.
Century, the physicians Edward and Egon krull (1842 - Have a tremendous need to feel loved and
– 1914 and 1879 – 1936, respectively) as well as hence very easily feel unappreciated.
Albrecht Reuter (1863-1937) recommended injections - Very ambitious.
of diluted Formic acid to treat tuberculosis, Gout, - They are leaders, dictatorial and proud and
Arthritis, Renal disorders and other complaints. are very bad losers.
Between 1930 and 1960, more than 15 different - Egoistic to the point of haughty. See
commercial preparations were marketed, and Egon themselves as a savious and often go and tell
Krull invented a drug series called “Myamekan”. people how they should lead their lives.
Formic acid inhalations were recommended by Thus the lack of love perceived in childhood
Sigmund von Kapff (1864-1946) at a time when the results in excessive need in adults for
acid was rarely used in Homœopathy. In the 1950s the fame,recognition and appreciation, so that his sense
injection of Formic acid was regarded as one of the of worth is confirmed.
most important procedures in alternative medicine. Important physical generals are listed.

30. All that Gliters

KHAMBATTA Sherezade (HH, 25, 1/2000) 31. A Fussy child.
BHAGAT Yamini (HH, 21, 1/2000)
A short summary of two important polychrests salt
of gold are given A 4 year-old girl had recurrent upper respiratory
Aurum muriaticum natronatrum. infections during summer and on exposure to sun. X-
- Feels rejected by someone he depends on ray showed marked congestion in both iliac regions
emotionally. and left base. Obstinate, head strong child, curious,
- Forsaken feeling – because of relative lack restless and fastidious. Likes to travel and attention
of love in childhood. seeking always. Very fussy to eat. Desires

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cheese++, bananas ++, and cucumbers. Very physically obesive and her husband also used to
sensitive to ryprimands premature decay of teeth with abuse her physically, often drunk and has muthrill
cavities in them. Over a period of 5 years months she extra marital affairs. She made fun of these things
received 5 doses of Sulphur 200 and the acutes were while narrating. Rubrics were: Cheerful, gaiety,
met with Coccus cacti 200, M on and off. mirth, simulates helarity while, she feels wretched.
Laughing, misfortune at, Affability, Laughing,
32. A case of Breast Abscess serious matters over. Ailments from grief. Apis
SONI J. Girish (HH, 21, 1/2000) mellifica come out. Apis mellifica M relieved.

A 20 year-old girl had pain in left breast with 35. Temper Tantrums
redness and swelling. Pricking and stinging < SUCHAK Dimple (HH, 21, 1/2000)
touch, jar, Slightest motion and hot fermentation. On
examination it appeared dark-bluish red. Tarentula . 5½year-old boy, refused to go to school after
cubensis 200 was repeated with very little holidays. On forming, start crying, cling to his
improvement. Then the constitutional remedy mother, stamps feet, cries loudly. Sprite etc. Very
Phosphorus also did very little. Now the pain is talkative, restless, boosting and imagines himself to
“current-like pain”, with bluish-red appearance and be a big man like super man or spider man etc. Lives
the upper quadrant indicated Phytolacca. Phytolacca in his own world and lacks concentration. Has the
was given in increasing potency (30, 200, M) in habit of waving his hand in the air and numbling.
repeated doses for 2 days. But the pain increased, Fear of darkness, ghosts, horror movies, of robbers,
with throbbing pain in right temple, fever and fear of water, fear of injections etc. Started from
burning present. Belladonna 10M followed by 50M loud noises sleeps with eyes half open. Stramonium
made the abscess to open and discharged copious M repeated one after 2 months; improved.
amount of pus.
Then calcarea sulphuricum 200 for discharge of
abscess along with Calcarea sulphuricum 6x for 36. A case of Aterio-venom Malformation
hastening the healing. Dressing done with Echinacea producing coma and left-sided Hemiplegia
Q. MASTER, F.J., DABU, F.B. (HH, 21, 1/2000)

33. A case of Insomnia and Decreased Libido. A middle aged women became unconscious and
SHAH R.Naini (HH, 21, 1/2000) fell in the toilet which caused head injury. Admitted
in the hospital and treated without much
A 30 year old male had psychological problem improvement. CT scan showed a right sided
manifested in the form of insomnia. paraganglionic and tharamie haemorrhage which
Sleeplessness due to constant thoughts. Very shy, extended into Ventricular systems Carotid angiogram
reserved person, not mixing and not making new showed a midline AVM in the posterior thalamic
friends. Had lack of self -confidence, low self- area being fed mainly by the base and partly by both
esteem, indecisive, fear of failure and post-pones his carotids. C.S.F. examination showed presence of
works. Refused to get married as he had no sexual blood. Globulin ++++.
desire. Felt he was so ugly looking, no girl would Deeply unconscious, not responding to painful
get attracted towards him. Baryta carbonicum was stimuli, convergent squint, pupils constricted,
given for a period of 6 months which helped him in Central neurogenic hyperventilation type of
all ways. respiration, involuntary movement of both upper
Other drugs which have low self-esteeem like extremities, febrile, a contused lacerated wound
Ambra grasia, Lac caninum, Bambusa observed on the forehead, violent hiccoughs.
arundinasea,Geraninum met etc. are discussed. 1. Arnica 10M by inhalation method was repeated.
Her life situation was good from childhood. But
34. A case of Apis mellifica her marriage was cancelled due to parental disputes.
JAIN Ajay (HH, 21, 1/2000) A moody person and avoids social functions. Prefers
to stay alone. Had breast trouble during menses,
27 year-old female had cervical spondylosis. constipated had craving for indigestible things and
Neck movement painful and restricted. Pain aversion to meat.
radiating till the tip of fingers alongwith numbness. While she was under Arnica 10M she developed
Very cheerful, talkative, constantly cracking jokes severe chills. Cold perspiration all over the body.
and laughing. Never expresses her sufferings to Eye turned upward. Face deathy pale. Passed
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slow. Went in peripheral circulatory failure. return them to full health after treatments, to prolong
Veratrum album 50M by inhalation every 15 minutes life or even to cure despite a poor prognosis.
later every 3 hours. Showed signs of improvement In some respects, this innate feeling that healing is
by evening. possible is a wonderfully optimistic aspect of human
The anti-convulsive drugs, anti-diothis and nature. Working in the cancer field we see patients
Decadron are stopped and was given Hyoscyamus who are misled both by conventional and
10M, by inhalation every 2 hours based on strong complementary approaches. Highly toxic chemo-
history of grief, resentment towards relations, deep therapeutic regimes that leave the patient debilitated
unconsciousness, left sided paralysis, constricted with progressive disease, gentler approaches given
pupils, cerebral haemorrhage, squint, violent with misplaced optimism which leave a family
hiccoughs, paralysis on one side and involuntary unprepared for death.
movements on the other, head injury, aversion to Many of us prescribing Homœopathy in the cancer
company. Showed signs of improvement and hence setting can recount anecdotes of remarkable
Hyoscyamus 50M, 6 times a day for a week. responses when the constitutional similimum was
A repeat scan showed hydrocephalus with prescribed. Our experience suggests that when the
ventricular dilatation. Right lateral ventricle is full of remedy most closely resembles the symptom picture,
blood. more reliable responses are seen.
Bothrops 200, four times a day for a week was The increased confidence and dialogue with
given purely on pathological basis of cerebral colleagues may be due in part to an realistic approach
haemorrage and aphasia. to the role of Homœopathy in cancer management.
As there was improvement Bothrops M, and 10M The area of symptom management is one where
was continued for a fortnight. Homœopathy may offer a gentler approach to
Patient developed conciousness, overfed alleviate symptoms. For the effects of radiotherapy
commands, answered intelligently. But had on skin, Radium bromide is more commonly used in
intermittent drowsiness. Calcarea flouricum was Britain. Cantharis & Fluoric acid are suggested by
selected based on history of ailments from Grimmer.
disappointed love, craving for indigestible things,
aversion to meat, breast symptoms during menses, 39. Inter rater reliability of symptom repertorisation: a
vascular malformation in the brain, cerebral progmatic empirical study.
haemorrhage etc. A.J. VICKERS, R.A. van HASELEN, L. PANG
Calcarea flouricum 30, 200, M, 10M was given at & S. BERKOVITZ (BHJ, 89, 4/2000)
necessary intervals for more than 2 years which
helped remarkably. The objective is to determine the extent to which
two Homœopaths agree on whether
37. ‘Only Connected’: A Case symptoms reported by patients in a proving are
HOHNSTON Linda (HOM, 78/2000) possibly associated with Mercurius solubilis.
During consultations, a Homœopath tries to
This is a very interesting case of 10 year-old match a Homœopathic medicine to the overall picture
woman, housewife and artist with asthma. Her long of symptoms described by the patient. Part of this
case history revealed that she grew up in a most process may involve thinking about certain
unusual and insidiously abusive household. Brother symptoms and deciding whether these indicate a
Schizophrenic, mother institutionalized and receiving particular medicine. Conceptually this is analogous
shock treatments for depression father an odd blend to conventional diagnosis. There has been little
of sadistic cruelty and religious fervor. She felt she research on Homœopathic diagnosis to evaluate
had no privacy had no identity, felt disconnected into whether different Homœopaths prescribe the same
pieces. medication when given similar information. The
Baptisia M put her on the road to recovery. only study published presents a low agreement
which suggests a poor reliability of Homœopathic
38. Homœopathy in Cancer Care diagnosis.
E.THOMPSON & S.KASSAB (BHJ, 89, 2/2000) The proving included 104 healthy subjects aged
18-65 who were unfamiliar with Homœopathy. Each
The number of people using Complementary and day they completed a questionnaire asking whether
Alternative Medicine (CAM) for the treatment of they had experienced any one of ten predefined
Cancer is increasing. The reasons are complex. symptoms on a checklist. Five of these were typical
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The study Homœopaths worked independently Dr. A.S. MANN (JH., Vol.5, 1/2001)
and blind to allocation and with no specific advice or
decision rules. Lady aged 42 years consulted for problem of fear
Results: Initially there was only moderate that whenever she is alone, she has the fear thatsome
interrates agreement of 70.2% between the two study thieves/robbers will come in house.
Homœopaths, because of some disagreements. After Rubric: Delusion rowdies (disorderly) persons
resolving these misunderstanding the agreement would break in if she were alone.
increased to 76.5% Elaps corrollinus was given and she no longer
The main reason given by the study homœopths had those fears.
for their disagreements was their use of different
sources of data. 43. Homœopathic Posology
DR. KOPPIKAR (NJH, 1/2001)
40. Reflections on a Research Project into Glue Ear
FIXSEN Alison (HOM, 78/2000) Next to the selection of the right remedy, no
problem so plagues the Homœopath as the
This article is about a pilot study on the selection of the right potency- its repetition and dose.
effectiveness of Homœopathy and standard care in For best results, we must use the full range of
the treatment of glue ear, which took place between potencies from mother tincture to the highest ones.
1996-8. 18 cases by eminent Homœopaths are presented and
Glue Ear is a chronic illness affecting a high discussed to illustrate this.
proportion of children in the Western world Richard The author concludes that higher potency for
MOSCOWITZ is quoted “Otitis media has become primary effects and larger doses than which are given
the commonest paediatric diagnosis made by usually for the secondary effects, has always
physicians who care for children in the United States, succeeded in his hands.
its annual budget reaching two billion dollars in
1982”. About 5% of children aged two to four years 44. HIV Counselling: Its nature & purpose
are likely to have a bilateral hearing loss due to Otitis Compiled by Dr.RAJNI K.GWALANI & DR.
media with effusion (Glue Ear) for more than three CAROL D’SOUZA. (NJH, 5/2001)
months, and many cases may go undiagnosed.
Antibiotic is the common treatment followed by In counselling , two people, not related to each
surgery. other, meet to resolve a crisis, solve a
Many first episodes of Otitis media could be problems or make decisions involving highly
traced to DPT, MMR or other vaccines. personal and intimate matters. The counsellor must
Further detailed study of the treatment in vogue find the correct balance between detachment and
and advantages of Homœopathic treatment are closeness.
discussed. The two general objectives are
1. to provide psychological and social support to
41. The Fallacies of Families those already affected and
ADAMS Peter (HOM, 78/2000) 2. to prevent HIV infection by changing life styles
and life style behaviour.
“In Homœopathy, as in any discipline, new ideas Counselling is one of the principle means of helping
come and go. Each one adds something, people understand why they resist changing their
but equally each one can become a fashion and we behaviour and to promote and sustain the
can let it go to our heads. We can become over behavioural changes needed to prevent transmission.
zealous in prescribing by the latest ideas, forgetting Four stages of counselling
the indispensable guidance of the solid and 1. Forming rapport and gaining the client’s trust
dependable principles that have been built up since 2. Definition and understanding of roles,
the beginning of Homœopathy. We can get over boundaries and needs.
excited about the latest thing and lose contact with 3. Process of ongoing, supportive counselling.
common sense. 4. Closure or ending the counselling relationship
The limitation of thinking in terms of families is
that it excludes other possible remedies from our Pre-test Counselling should
consideration, and it is not ‘clear and unprejudiced • Determine what the person understands
observation’. It can work to reinforce our prejudices. about HIV & AIDS
• Provide factual information as needed
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• Discuss potential implications of a positive In this article, dedicated to the memory of

and negative test result. Dr.MÜLLER who passed away on 23 October 2000,
• Explain and obtain informed consent. the author presents a case of Basedow’s disease in a
• Review the test procedure. female in which Opium was the curative remedy.
• Assess the person’s ability to cope with The indication was confirmed by the favourite color
positive result. bright yellow and the handwriting.
• Establish a relationship as a basis for post-
test counselling. 47. An encounter with a Moose.
Post test counselling after a positive result Carleen JOHNSON (NEJH, VOL., 10, 1/2001)
should
• Ensure that the person understands what it Tom, 48 year old had a head on collision with an
means with the positive test result. adult moose; was unconscious and bleeding
when found. He regained consciousness and became
• Discuss how they feel about being infected.
belligerent and it took four men to restrain him
• Provide support to help the person deal with
enough to put him into the helicopter where he was
these feelings
sedated and transported to the closest trauma unit.
• Discuss their plans for the immediate future
Multiple facial fractures and neurosurgeon said that it
• Schedule appointments for medical was the worst head trauma case he had ever seen.
evaluation and follow-up counselling. When first seen in the Intensive Care Unit he was
• Counsel partner(s) if possible. motionless. The machines had taken over all bodily
functions. Arnica 200 was put in his armpit and
45. A case of Kali iodide. moistened with some water, as tubes prevented
MAYUR, H.TOLAT (NJH, 6/2001) access to mouth. The arm immediately twitched,
subsequently squeezing of the monitor for his pulse.
A month old infant, started crying during and I was silently encouraged with his response and
after stool for 2-3 days. Careful examination of anus suggested his wife to give another dose that night.
found a small fissure. On referring Phatak’s repertory Fluid was being drained from his brain every hour. 2
p.13 there was a rubric, Anus fissure, infants in: Kali- days after another dose Arnica 200 given and
iod. (only remedy) and was given 30c tds. for 2 days. watched as the ICP decreased. Then Arnica 1M was
He stopped crying and the fissure healed completely. given and the numbers continued to come down. The
A case of Radium bromatum: A 18 year old frequency of draining decreased.
Parsi girl with pimples on her face for 2 years, with Next day Arnica10M was given and then the
oily face, had aversion to ice-cream & sweet. In Homœopathic treatment was discontinued. He did
Synthetic Repertory, vol.2: Food, Ice-cream aversion not come out of coma.
to on p.249, only Radium bromatum was given. Two days after, he was anasthetised for the
After Radium bromatum 30c tds for 3 days, there was operations needed to repair facial fractures, wire his
not a single pimple on her face. jaw and examine his eyes.
There were encouraging signs a week after this.
His eyes were opening, his legs and arms were
46. Die Lieblingsfarbe und die Handschrift als Mittel moving even though he was sedated.
zum Finder des Simillimum Next day, he was waking up with a trachetomy
(The favourite colour and the handwriting as a and his mouth wired, communication was difficult.
means for finding the Simillimum) He was able to mouth names and motion enough that
PTOK, M. (AHZ, 246, 3/2001) the medical staff knew that he recognised his family
and understood commands. He was able to stand and
The favourite color and handwriting are doubtless take a few small steps.
characteristics of every person. The foundation of Eight days after, again Homœopathic treatment.
Homœopathy is on the postulates of the individual’s Now he was attentive but orientation was off. The
symptoms, constitution and reaction for finding the total confusion implied that everything had still to be
simillimum and the handwriting and the favourite reorganised. Helleborus 200.
color come up for consideration. Quick progress with his rehabilitation team.
With systematic and intensive work Mentally, he accomplished all tasks put before him.
Dr.H.V.MÜLLER (1921-2000) found this He was discharged 15 days later with the hospital
relationship of 300 Homœopathic remedies. He has staff claiming that he was a miracle. He continued
published many cases in the journals to support this. with different out patient therapies for brief periods
of time. He never regained complete hearing in his

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right ear other than not remembering the accident he The second day, marked reduction of muscle
suffered no loss in memory or in his cognitive spasm and his eyes focussed on mother for the first
abilities. time since accident.
Pupils reacted to light.
48. Back to Life A week later Opium 10M. He was now
Susan SLESINGER (NEJH, VOL.10, 1/2001) responding to speech and verbal stimuli. Sound
sleep. Fist clenching lessened.
A nine-day old infant was diagnosed with urinary Three days later Opium 50M.
tract infection. He was unresponsive, did He recovered gradually. Opium 1M to 50M
not move, and could not be awakened. Fever 104.8º assisted from coma to alert awakened state in ten
F. Bad smelling urine. He screamed every 45 days.
minutes at night. His face was bright red and nothing
would calm him down; neither interested nor 50. A quick case of colic.
comforted by nursing. Had several rounds of Michelle ROSE (NEJH, VOL. 10, 1/2001)
antibiotics and was released.
Relapse at 2 months. Pale skin with dry and A two month old child had been uncomfortable
flaking rash all over his face oozing yellow and crying in colicky pain for weeks. She
discharge. Dry chapped lips. Skin was cold to touch would squint even under relatively low lighting. She
though it was quite warm in the house. His legs seemed to wince at the slightest things. She would
seemed to shake. Complaints as before and the become very irritable during nursing especially when
stream was slow and dribbling. There was a spot of interrupted by her siblings.
blood in his diaper. - Digestive upset
Leucocyte levels were high and evidence of - Sensitivity to light and stimulation
protein blood and mucous in urine. Started easily in - Irritability from interruption of nursing
sleep and scream uncontrollably. (work).
He was unresponsive to pinches Opium 200 was One dose of Nux vomica 200c and within a few
prescribed on the keynotes of ‘painlessness of painful hours, she was fine. The next day, for the first time
things’ and the rest of symptoms. in weeks, she did not scream during a diaper change.
He immediately fell asleep, woke up a few hours A few weeks later she started to slip back into an
later and started shaking for a few minutes. Once it irritable, uncomfortable state. She was given a
stopped he wanted to nurse. His urine became clear. second dose of Nux vomica 200c and was fine again.
The bad smell went away alongwith the high
leukocyte and protein in the urine levels. 51. A one sided case.
One month later he had mild relapse. The Jonice OWEN (NEJH, VOL.10, 1/2001)
remedy was repeated and everything resolved pretty
quickly. 31 year old, in her 30th week of her first
pregnancy had swelling of feet of two week duration.
49. Awakening She had no apparent difficulties with the pregnancy.
Ann RAVEN, R.N. (NEJH, VOL. 10, 1/2001) In kent’s repertory, under EXTREMITIES,
SWELLING, FOOT[oedematous] pregnancy two
Six year old boy was unconscious due to cerebral remedies Merc-c and Zinc were given. Based on
swelling from an accident and had fractured limited ‘sum of symptoms” available to me,
his tibia and fibula and was on heavy sedation. Mercurius 30c was given and the feet returned to
Arnica 10M had no effect. normal.
He was thrashing about bed, violently , moving
everything constantly, clenched fists, no eye
movement. Violent physical disturbance 52. Timing is everything.
excacerbated when he was touched. Face pale with ALEXANDRA RICCIO
red blotches. (NEJH, VOL.10, 1/2001)
Rubric Mind, rage, renewed by touch:
Belladonna, Lachesis, Opium, Stramonium. In the field of physiology, there is a mechanism in the
CLARKE: on Opium: Involuntary movement of body known as the biological timing system. The
head and arms with fists closed. Excessive irritability most widely studied rhythm is the circadian rhythm.
of voluntary muscles and diminished irritability of all Understanding of this is highly relevant and
others. applicable to our patients and cases.
Plan: Opium 1M at half hrly intervals – 3 doses.

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People who work late into the night or do shift capsici compositus FNA (CCC) in patients with acute
work, experience a higher degree and occurrence of low back pain.
illness, because of the disruption of the circadian The composition of the gel is:
sleep-wake cycle. Symphytum officinale tincture
The term ‘chronotherapy’ is now used in For external use (10g)
medicine for treatment of certain diseases and Rhus toxicodendron tincture
conditions at the most effective time of the day. For external use (5g)
Ledum palustre tincture
53. 1. A case of Multiple Sclerosis For external use (5g)
MARCHAND Jonathan (NEJH, 10, 1/2001) Aqua Hamamelidis
2. Progressing Multiple Sclerosis Oleum Pini pumillionis
SHEPHERD Birgit (NEJH, 10, 1/2001) Carbopol 980
Triethanolamine
In the first article the case of 53 year-old woman Sodiumedetate.
with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) under conventional The study concluded that SRL and CCC are
treatment (Steroids and Interferon). She was given equally effective in the treatment of acute low back
Conium maculatum, as she continued the pain, however SRL has a better safety profile.
conventional medicine and naturopathic assistance.
The patient improves and holding her own. How 55. Clinical verification of symptom pictures of
much of this improvement is due to Homœopathy Homœopathic medicines.
and the ongoing Betaferon use! S.FAYETON, M.van WASSENHOVEN (BHJ,
In the second which seems to be a more advanced 90, 1/2000)
MS in which too Conium maculatum gave palliation.
In both the cases the authors used paul Purpose is data collection for clinical verification
HERSCU’s ‘Cycles and Segments’ technique of Case of Homœopathic proving and a collection of clinical
analysis. symptoms, which have not been observed in
[We have a 45 year-old woman with MS who is Homœopathic pathogenetic trials (HPT)
on conventional treatment since years. She has also Phase I - Collection of the existing knowledge
been taking Homœopathic treatment whenever she of one Homœopathic medicine
has more distressing symptoms. Unfortunately Phase II - Clinical data collection
patients do not venture to take only Homœopathic Phase III - Analysis of data
treatment. For evaluation of progress we need the Finally a new presentation of the remedy under
cooperation of the ‘Specialists’ which we do not get. analysis will be proposed to the Homœopathic
-- K.S.S.] community.

53. The Homœopathic Treatment of Macular 56. Cushing Disease: a new approach to therapy in
Degeneration equine and canine patients.
KONDROT Edward (NEJH, 10, 1/2001) M.ELLIOTT (BHJ, 90, 1/2001)

The author writes of his experience in treating, The aim of this study was to define whether a
‘Age Related Macular Degeneration’ (ARMD). standardised approach, using Homœopathically
The disease is discussed briefly. Three cases in prepared remedies, was a valid system of therapy for
which clear improvement came on with this disease and if so, whether results were repeatable
Homœopathic treatment are reported. between species.
41 cases were selected of which 18 were dogs
54. The efficacy and safety of a homœopathic gel in and 23 were horses.
the treatment of acute low back pain: a Many horses were diagnosed on hirsuitism and
multicentre, randomised, double-blind blood glucose alone while 12 of the 18 dogs were
comparative clinical trial confirmed on ACTH stimulation test. Cases have
C.STAM, M.S.BONNET & R.A. van been monitored over periods ranging from 2 months
HASELEN (BHJ, 90, 1/2001) to 6years.
Each case was given a combination of ACTH and
The aim of this study was to investigate whether Quercus rubor in 30c potency dosage was twice
the Homœopathic gel spiroflor SRL gel (SRL) is daily.
equally effective and better tolerated than cremor Clinical responses were assessed as excellent
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completely, poor when some symptoms remained of smell of tar ….” – KSS). The sub rubric in the KR
even if the animal appeared to improve in health and should be struck off. Similarly in the GS the
a failure if there was no response at all. symptom “Boring in nostrils; smell of animals in the
80% of cases responded excellently in achieving back part of the nose” is wrong.
remission from clinical symptoms, four cases
responded only poorly and four cases failed to Confusion of Cod. and Con.:
respond at all. Face, color, pale, morning : Cod. (K.360, CR. 794.
CR gives Cod. as well as Con. As from
IV. REPERTORY HAHNEMANN)
Cod.: Source, verification in the EN as well as in the
1. Mittel verwechslungen und Fehleintragungen im GS – negative: Con. CD: “Much paleness of the face,
Repertorium in the morning” Symptom No.208.
(Medicine confusions and erroreous entries in Cod. may be corrected as Con.
the Repertories) Confusion of Cor-r. – Cori-r.: Fear, suffering of:
ANDERSCH-HARTNER, P. (ZKH, 45, 2/2001) Cor-r. (source Kent), Cori-r.(source EN) (SR. Vol. I,
p.525, CR.p.202. K.47.
Confusion of Carb-ac. – Carb-an. Fever, Fear, pain of: Cori-r. (SR I, p.516, CR.199. SR gives
evenings, in bed, after lying down EN as the source).
in bed: Carb-ac. (K.1279,CR, 2304). Source verification:
Source search in EN, GS,: negative. Cori-r.: Source verification under “Fear of suffering”
Carb-an.: “evening 9 o’clock chill entire body; then in EN negative.
after lying down, heat in which he sleeps, however Source positive under :Fear of pain” (EN, Vol.XII,
waking often with thirst; towards morning p.445).
perspiration” (Chronic Diseases, Symptom No.713, In EN Vol.3 and 10 there is no confirmation of Cori-
from Hartlaub and Trinks). r.
“evening 9 o’clock, chill entire body which passes off Cor-r.: “Complaining very much of pain, he curses
on lying down followed by heat in which he sleeps, and escapes away from pain (Stapf’s Archiv, Vol.I,
however wakes up often with thirst; towards Symptom No.89.)
morning, perspiration” (Hartlanb and Trinks, p.1014, “Very complaining; he dreads and worries about the
Symptom No.248). pains” (EN, Vol.3. Symptom No.1. p.561, Source
Confusion of Com. And Con. ATTOMYR in Stapf’s Archiv)
Extremities, twitching, littlefinger: Com. (KR.1217, GS.: “Peevish and ill-humored, very complaining;
CR. 2032). scolds and swears at the pains” (GS, Vol.IV, p.457)
Com.: Source search in EN and GS negative. An error in the EN Index, is Cori-r instead of Cor-r.,
Con.: “Twitching of the muscles of the ball of the from the EN this error has been carried over ith
left little finger” (EN.Vol. 3, p.541, Symptom SR and CR. Therefore the Cori-r. should be struck off
No.967) from the Rubrics “Fear of suffering” and “Fear of
Erroneous entries of Con.: pain”.
Lead, numbness, sensation as if, after eating:: Con., Erroneous entry Cor-r.
(K.107, CR.397) Sleep, falling asleep, while standing: Cor-r. (SR. III,
Source verification: p.44 (CR p.2232, K.1245)
Con. “Drawing in the head with the brain asleep, Sources:
which is diminished after eating” (CD Symptom EN: “Very great sleepiness and irresistable desire to
No.92). The rubric may also be corrected in the sleep, so that she fell asleep standing (EN, Vol. III,
Repertory as “amel. after eating”. p.563 – as source ATTOMYR is given)
Nose, Odours, animals in the back part of the nose: STAPF’s Archiv/AMP. Cor-r. from ATTOMYR.
Con. (K.341, CR.781) “Very great sleepiness and irresistable disposition to
Source verification: sleep, that she could sleep standing” (Stapf’s Archiv,
Con.: “A kind of smell of tar in the back part of the Vol.I, p.825. Symptom No.80).
nose which he also seems to taste” (The GS: “Very sleepy; falls asleep while standing” (GS,
Symptom No.204 in Chronic Diseases Vol.III p.185 Vol. IV. p.460)
– in original is: “Eine Art Theer-geruch hinten in der Due to an erroneous translation a ‘sleepiness’ has
Nase, den er auch zu schmecken wähnt.” “Theer- been rendered as ‘falling asleep’. This has to be
geruch” tar smell has been mistakenly taken in as struck off.
“Thiere-geruch” animal smell. In the DUDGEON
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Some corrections to the Materia Medica: Carb-ac. Con.: In GS, Vol.IV, p.435 chapter ‘Temperature’ is
: In the Materia Medica of CLARKE, under ‘upper given: “open air: …, hot spots on back of head
limbs’ a carbolic acid symptom is given as follows: >”(i.e.amel.)
“Unable to raise right arm”. Verification of the This is in accordance with the symptom GS, p.410
source, GS, shows that the entry by CLARKE is “Scorching on top of head; hot spots on top of head,
wrong GS says: “Severe rheumatic pains in right > by going out into open air, and by cold water” (i.e.
shoulder, feeling as though it would be impossible to amel).
raise arm, but when effort was made, it aggravated As against this in p.435 GS under: “Temperature”:
pain but very little ØRheumatism” (GS. III, p.390) “Cold water; hot spots on back of head < …” (i.e.
“Pains in right shoulder without suffering from agg.). A corresponding is not available in the
moving arm (GS, III, p.390). What has been given in Materia Medica Pura and CD and EN. The correct
the CLARKE is an as-if-symptom, the prover could modality should therefore be – p.435 “Cold water:
raise the arm. hot spots on back of head >” (i.e. amel.). May be
corrected in individual copies of GS

And yet these experiences and others like them are

common place in Homœopathy.
They happen because the potentized remedy
speaks the same language as the Vital Force. Instead
of acting directly on the material body as material
medicines do, potentized medicines stimulate the Vital
V. PHARMACOLOGY Force to create material results. Measurable changes
such as normalized white cell count, improved
1. Potency: What it is and what it means hormone levels, and shrinking cysts may follow the
CROCE A J (HT, 20, 4/2000) administration of a remedy, but not because the
remedy has produced them directly. The remedy
The article clearly explains how the potency – addresses the Vital Force, which is the power that
centesimal and decimal is being made. Today, animates the whole organism and which is more
Homœopathic pharmaceutical companies produce “material” than the remedy itself.
potentized remedies under FDA supervision and
according to the Homœopathic Pharmacopoeia of 1. Samuel Hahnemanns “mysteriöse Q –potenzen
the United States, which sets the standards for their (Samuel Hahnemann’s mysterious Q-potencies)
manufacture. Some Homœopathic pharmacies employ KUNKLE Luise (Med GG, 20/2001)
machinery and some still create remedies by hand as
HAHNEMANN did, but the process of serial dilution This paper deals with the so-called “mysterious”
and succussion remains the same. Q-potencies, the dilution of a substance according to
The process of potentization is compared with particular augmentation methods, dating back to
distillation. Sometimes the analogy of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homœopathy.
electricity or resonance are used to explain its action, Hahnemann’s method consists of a step by step
that the remedy works by “conveying a charge” to the dilution of substances. Until 1837 he only used the C-
patient or by matching the patient’s “resonance potency (dilution on the basis 1:100); beginning in
frequency.” Partly because of this analogy, 1837-8, he experimented with the Q-potency, or
Homœopathy has come to be known as “energy quinquagenimillesimal scale. (Potency on this scale is
medicine.” denoted by 0/1, 0/2, 0/5, 0/10, etc. and generically
Ever since DESCARTES, Western culture referred to as ‘LM’ potencies). The new method was
accepted the idea of dualism, that mind and body – or only documented decades after Hahnemann’s death,
spirit and matter – are two separate things, that they but without explicit references to his techniques of
operate by different rules and mechanisms and that notation. This is the reason why the Q-potency is still
they have entirely different properties. By this a mystery in Hahnemann’s Case books. This article
reasoning, it seems preposterous that a non-material examines the hidden references to the notations
entity such as a potentized remedy could have any referring to the Q-potency and presents preliminary
effect on the material body. How can a medicine with results.
no detectable molecules of anything but water cause
swelling to recede, bleeding to stop, high blood 2. Nux vomica 30 prepared with and without
pressure to come down, and depression to vanish? succussion shows antialcoholic effect on toads
and distinctive molecular association

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NC SUKUL, R.DUTTA, A. SUKUL, & neutropenia, and increased lymphocytes. Nux vomica
S.P. SINHABABU (BHJ, 90, 2/2001) 30 given based on her history of diarrhoea with
dietery indiscretion, cystitis, and trembling with
Adult toads, Bufo melanostictus, were ataxia. Along with that a course of black walnut
administered Nux vomica (Nux v) 30 prepared with tincture, two drops twice a day, and 500 mg of
and without succussion on the tongue. The drug was vitamin C once a day, which kills heartworms.
mixed with sterile distilled water at the rate 0.05 ml/ml Heartworms negative within a month.
water and given orally 0.05 ml/individual. The control Continued to have occasional diarrhoea attacks,
consisted of blank ethanol solution. Seeds of straining after stool, diarrhoea at the end of a normal
Strychnos nuxvomica were ground and extracted with stool, and occasional flatus. Thirsty. Fear of people in
90% ethanol in the laboratory. Nux v 30 was prepared dark clothes. Calcarea carbonicum, Phosphorus,
by successive dilution and succussion in 30 steps, Nux Sulphur, Silica, Arsenicum album and Lycopodium
v 30 was prepared by successive dilution only. Four all offered little or only temporary relief.
hours after treatment, toads were given 25% ethanol Argentum nitricum 200 administered, no further
i.p. at 8g/kg body weight. The duration of ethanol diarrhoea attacks.
induced sleep time was recorded for each toad. Both
Nux v 30 u significantly reduced ethanol induced sleep 2. A Limping Horse
time in toads as compared to their respective controls. WALDECK Nancy (HT, 21, 3/2001)
Electronic, infrared and nuclear magnetic
resonance spectra of Nux v 30, Nux v 30 u and their NAKON was limping badly and painful to bear
diluent medium (90% ethanol) show marked any weight on the left front leg. Though Ruta and
differences from each other. These dilutions and Bryonia were considered, Ruta was given because
ethanol 30 and ehtanol 30u show marked differences motion doesn’t hurt her much. Ruta 30/3 doses on
from each other with respect to spin-lattice relaxation first day, 2 doses on 2nd day and a dose on the third
time (T1) and chemical shift. The difference has been day relieved.
attributed to the variation in intra and inter-molecular
association of ethanol and water. VII. EDUCATION
Conclusion: Succussion is not an essential factor
in producing an effective Homœopathic potency like 1. Den Horizont erweitern (To extend the
Nux v 30. Horizon)
The ethanol-water mixture has the capability to SWAYNE, J. (AHZ, 246, 3/2001)
imbibe some specific properties of drug molecules or
particles during the process of dynamization. It can In the U.K. and elsewhere any introduction
also produce specific biological effects. which medical studies receive to Homœopathic
medicine is likely to be in the form of a ‘special
VI. VETERINARY study module’, usually optional, ancillary to the core
curriculum. This paper argues that Homœopathy has
1. A Case Of Heartworm Infection a more fundamentally important contribution to make
JENSEN Wendy (HT, 20, 4/2000) to the core curriculum of medical education, and that
we should make the case for this in our dialogue with
KATIE, a 7 year-old dog showed positive for universities and medical schools. [In India
heartworm antigen in spite of heartworm preventive Homœopathy is taught in Medical colleges
medication. exclusively leading to Homœopathic Medical Degree
Heartworm is a parasite, carried by mosquitoes, = KSS]
that matures in a dog’s bloodstream into a long, thin
worm which lives in the heart. If the infection is small
(1 – 3 worms), then the dog might not have symptoms. VIII. RESEARCH
If there are a large number of worms, the dog usually
presents with heart failure symptoms (coughing, heart 1. Evidenz statt Scholastik (Evidence instead of
murmur, exercise intolerance, etc.) Scholastics)
KATIE had two grand mal seizures and frequent WISCHNER, M. (AHZ, 246, 1/2001)
periods of ataxia. Fearful of people in dark clothes.
Echocardiogram showed small pulmonary artery In Homœopathy data are obtained mainly from
changes consistent with heartworm disease, along two sources: On the one hand the study of the
with increased right-sided pressure. Elevated total writings of HAHNEMANN or his pupils (the
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of one’s own experience or the experience of a The argument that randomized placebo –
teacher. The epistemological concept of experience controlled trials of Homœopathy might usefully
is naive. In clinical trials there is always the be replaced
implication of statistical assumption. Therefore in by observational studies, audit and quality of life
Homœopathy clinical trials should be strived for. [It (QOL) assessment is considered.
is possible to collect much clinical evidences if The assessment of QOL is desirable in clinical
practitioners report cases properly in an international evaluation as it helps the Homœopaths to quantify
homœopathic journal of high standard. Case reports something that they have used intuitively for 200 y as
must withstand unprejudiced scrutiny. It is by such an index of progress of treatment in chronic illness.
collection of cured cases that HERING could publish Placebos have been oversold in clinical research
his 10 volumes of Guiding Symptoms. and are simply unethical in many contexts. In
BÖNNINGHAUSEN has advised that one should protracted trials patients cannot be denied a different
wait for two years if not more as follow-up before treatment known to be effective just to suit the
reporting cure of a case. We feel that now-a-days that interests of the researchers.
most cases will fail this criteria. How much can one A randomised three – armed trial with the
therefore take it as a sure cure due to the inclusion of standard treatment will raise the
homœopathic prescription? = KSS.] information value of trial and such findings are
relevant whether the evaluation concerns
2. Wirksamkeitnachweis in der Homöopathie Homœopathy vs placebo, adverse effects, QOL, or
(Proving the Efficacy of Homœopathy) costs.
GLASBRENNER, M., GEBHARDT, K–H., Randomized pragmatic trials, incorporating
KRON, M., GAUS, W. (AHZ, 246, /2001) patient preferences where possible, are a way of
satisfying scientific and Homœopathic claims to
The authors argue that ‘controlled randomized knowledge without compromising the values of
trials’ are necessary for proving the efficacy of either.
Homœopathy. Since many homœopaths believe that
controlled randomised trials impair the success of 4. On the investigation of Homœopathic potencies
homœopathic therapy a design is proposed that is using low resolution NMR T2 relaxation times:
able to investigate this statement. Next to controlled an experimental and critical survey of the work
randomised trials, some more study designs suitable of Roland Conte et al.
for research in clinical Homœopathy are presented LR MILGROM, KR.KING, J. LEE and A.S.
and the validity of their results is discussed. These PINKUS (BHJ, 90, 1/2001)
studies are, in order of their value:
• Controlled randomised study They have attempted to reproduce differences in
• Change-to-open-label design low resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) T2
• Cohort study with randomisation option. Spin-spin relaxation nuclear times between
• Controlled not randomised study Homœopathically potentised and unpotentised Nitric
• Observations Study acid(nit-ac) solutions previously reported by Conte,
• Single cases analysis et al. Using similar instrumentation and experimental
The results of these studies are less valid protocols, they have shown that it is likely that
compared to controlled randomised trials, but still Conte’s original results are attributable to
more valid than the information of case reports which experimental artifact iriginating in the glassware used
are often used in Homœopathy. [For decades several for the manufacture of the NMR tubes.
homœopaths have been trying to ‘prove’ to the
‘scientific’ world the efficacy of Homœopathy. We 5. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies of
can never satisfy them, since it is not possible to Homœopathic solutions
produce the proofs in the manner they want. Like the S. AABEL, S. FOSSHEIM and F.RISE (BHJ,
‘Flat Earth Society’ people they do not want to see 90, 1/2001)
the evidence available in the day-to-day lives =
KSS.] The efficacy of Homœopathy is controversial.
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has been used to
3. More trials, Fever placebos, please study Homœopathic solutions, showing provocative
M.E.DEAN (BHJ, 89, 4/2000) results. We examined the reproducibility of one of
the all of the allegedly positive studies.
1
H NMR spectra were recorded for Sulphur D4,
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potentization) at two different frequencies (300 and One became more flexible in her verbal usage
500 MHz). The Sulphur solution had been and thought content with greater social imagination
potentiated according to Homœopathic principles and less integrity.
with deionized water and alcohol. Water proton T1 One had the most dramatic response to secretin of
relaxation measurements were performed also at 20 all patients in the study. He was more
MHz for the different potentiated Sulphur solutions. communicative with more spontaneous speech,
Furthermore, the Homœopathic remedy Betula alba occasional complete sentences, human and lauthter.
30c (birch pollen extract) and appropriate control Less rigid thinking.
solution (deionized water, unsuccussed solutions and These responses were unexpected, unexplained
placebo globules) were measured analogously, both by outside factors and never previously observed in
with frequencies giving spectra and T1 relaxometry. the patients.
The Sulphur remedies showed identical one
dimensional proton spectra (1H NMR) at 300 and 500
MHZ , regardless of dilution/succussion stage, from IX. HISTORY
D4 to D30. Furthermore, Betula 30c as a potentiated
solution and its controls (ethanol dilutions and Betula 1. Die Wiener Homöopathie 1842 – 1849. Einer
diluted but not succussed) showed identical spectra. Dissertation Vierter Teil (Homœopathy in
Nor were there any statistically significant Vienna 1842 – 1849 A dissertation – Part Four)
differences in longitudinal (T1) relaxation times PETRY Hannelore (DH, 19/1999)
between deionized water and Sulphur D10 to D30
preparations. The shorter T1 of the Sulphur D4 In this essay are discussed: FLEISCHMANN’s
preparation could be ascribed to the higher report about Homœopathic hospital in Gumpendorf –
microviscosity within the sample matrix caused by the tremendous success in the treatment of the
the high concentration of dissolved material. Also, Cholera epidemic of 1836 which FLEISCHMANN
the T1 values of the Betula alba 30c preparation (in reported in the Austrian Journal for Homœopathy;
globular form) and control placebo globules were while FLEISCHMANN lost only 1/3 of his Cholera
identical. cases; the other doctor who treated allopathically lost
In conclusion, published results from NMR almost half. When report was sent to the
research on Homœopathy indicating differences Government, the ban on self-dispensation was
between Homœopathic solutions and control samples removed. Gumpendorf was the Centre for
could not be reproduced. Homœopathic Studies in Austria. The number of
Similar studies have been reported in Journal of patients in the hospital increased, more hospitals and
American Institute of Homœopathy 1966; 59(263- chain came on, Journal founded, etc. The treatment
280) and 1968; 61(197-211). of Typhus, Pneumonio’s etc are also discussed.
In the next chapter the arguments about the
6. Homœopathic Secretin in autism: a clinical pilot doses low-high potencies – are discussed. SEGIN
study seems to be the first Homœopath to use the
T.W. ROBINSON (BHJ, 90, 2/2001) microscope in 1838 in ascertaining the medicine
content in the potencies. There were successfully
Secretin is a duodenal enzyme. Homœopathic treated cases reported in the Journal both with the
secretin produces symptoms similar to that of high and low potencies.
autism. Next Chapter is on the ‘Itch’; there was much
A pilot study was undertaken with weekly discussed, about the itch mite whether it is a ‘local’
assessment for 12 weeks by patient’s care workers. ailment, whether the suppression of the ‘itch’ would
Statistical analysis suggested a worsening in the lead to severe internal ailments etc. The ‘Psora’ also
autistic symptoms during treatment. Discussion with comes into consideration. These were in the 1840s
the care workers revealed changes and some Austria.
improvements that were not recordable on the
scoring system like. 2. Erinnerung an Adolph zur Lippe (In memory of
One patient who had frequent outbursts preceded Adolph LIPPE) RIEDEL, A. and ROHWER, J.
by ‘signing’. This was less severe and shorter (AHZ, 246, 1/2001)
lasting outbursts with a shorter recovery phase.
One was more communicative, vocal and The importance of Adolph LIPPE and his
demanding while taking Secretin. literary legacy has mostly fallen into oblivion and is
One was more relaxed and calm, certainly less almost unknown, to the modern Homœopaths. André
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LIPPE.Exemplary for LIPPE’s work are the lecture only what it meant to suffer from Venereal disease,
“Illustration of the Homœopathic Principles – but also what motivated people to seek Homœopathy
Eupatorium perfoliatum in Intermittent Fever” and in general and this healer in particular.
the article “Contra Dr. SCHÜSSLERS Theory of the
12 Tissue-Remedies”, as a testimony of his 5. Die Bedentung der Fragmenta de viribus
engagement for pure Homœopathy. medicamentorum in Hahnemannes früher
Praxis anhand einer Patientengeschichte aus den
3. Krankheit und Heilung nach dem Alten Krankenjournalen
Testament (The importance of the Fragmenta de viribus
(Disease and Treatment in the Old Testament) medicamentorum in Hahnemann’s early
KAISER, Otto (MedGG, 20/2001) Practice on the basis of his Case Registers)
WETTEMANN Marion (Med GG, 20/2001)
Throughout the Ancient Near East, supernatural
forces were considered the cause of illness, and Published in two volumes in 1805 – Materia
Treatments were based on a collaboration between Medica, Vol. I and an Index to the Materia Medica,
seers, doctors and exorcists. On the other hand, the Repertory Vol.II – Hahnemann’s Latin work
health care system reflected in the Old Testament is Fragmenta de viribus Medicamentorum is the first
remarkably different – replacing the various mystics Materia Medica in the history of Homœopathy. This
with a single doctor, often a Levitical singer who also article examines Hahnemann’s use of his own
prayed for the sick. published works in his early medical practice, by
This development is rooted in the fundamental focussing on a single patient file from the medical
monotheism postulated in Deuteronomy, and the case books.
prohibition of every kind of mantic or magic practice
other than Jahwistic prophecy. The Old Testament 6. Homœopathy in the USA
reflects a change in the basic conceptualization of P. THOMAS (BHJ, 90, 2/2001)
illness: rather than an expression of divine wrath, it is
seen as the outcome of human sin. Certain Homœopathy was introduced in to the USA by
theological problems arose from this ideology, Hans Burch Gram in 1825. It developed largely
including the need to explain the infant and child through immigration of German Homœopaths. The
mortality that was so common during this period. first Homœopathic medical college was established
Such questions were partly answered centuries later, in Allentown, PA in 1835. The American Institute of
by the Hellenistic belief in an after-life. Yet the Homœopathy (AIH) was founded in 1844. The
Greek period brought with it another set of questions, American Medical association was founded in 1847
such as whether a patient should consult a doctor or and pursued policies hostile to Homœopathy from the
only pray to the Lord. In the early part of the second outset. Eclectic medicine was widespread in
century, Ben Sira offered an answer which has been nineteenth century medicine, one of the greatest
normative for religious people up to the present day – Homœopaths, JT Kent had originally been an
to consult the one without neglecting the other. eclectic. The International Hahnemannian
Association split from the AIH in 1880. The Flexner
4. ‘J’ai ver une femme publique’. Sexuality, Report of 1910 resulted in many Homœopathic
Venereal Disease and Homœopathy in medical colleges being closed down. Homœopathy
Nineteenth-century Ghent: The Tale of the in the USA was in steep decline from the 1920s to
Patient the 1960s but has had a strong recovery since the
van BAAL, Anne Hilda (MedGG, 20/2001) 1970s.

Using the casebooks of the Ghent Homœopathic X. GENERAL

physician Gustave van den Berghe (born
Zwevegem,1836; died Ghent, 1902), this essay 1. Homeopatia em unidade básica de sañde (UBS):
reconstructs patients’ experience with sexuality and Um espaçopossivel (Homœopathy in a Basic
venereal disease during the late 19th Century. Van Health Center: A possible place)
den Berghe’s records are uncharacteristic in that they NETO Gil Moreira (RH, 66, 1/2001)
do not translate the patient’s descriptions into
medical terms. The Casebooks therefore represent an This study describes the results of the
opportunity to hear about the disease and its social Homœopathic service accomplished by the
context in the patient’s own words. Reading these researcher in the period November 1994 and
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Health Center “Geraldo Paula Sonza”, localised in an Homœopathic remedies are prepared by serial
urban area of a great metropolis, São Paulo. During dilutions of certain substances – or ultradilutions –
this period, 165 had at least one medicla consult, with which, sometimes, exceed the critical concentration
a total of 635 consults. The clinical study was of 10-23 (Avagadro’s number). It means the presence
accomplished with a group of clients that had at least of just one molecule of the solute into the solvent.
3 medical consults,bringing up to a total of 532 The very small probability of finding active
consults. principles inside some Homœopathic preparations
Quantitative and qualitative methodologies were gives room to controversy to this therapeutic method
used. The quantitative data were attained through the about its efficacy. Would the curative action of the
Clinical Homœopathic File Card used in the service. Homœopathic medicine only a placebo effect?
The quantitative data, though of quiz “half Recently, several experiemental studies showing
structured” applied in a intentional sample of 9 biological effects (not placebo-related) from
fellows. Homœopathic remedies have been published.
The data show a predominace of the female sex However, just the presentation of such results do not
with 66%, the edge until 19 years old with 45.8%. minimize the main difficulty in accepting it as
According the indications, 54.3% of them were done scientific: the incompatibility between them and the
servants of the CS and FSP. The reasons of more philosophical basis of Science represented by the
claims were relative to respiratory system complaints Cartesian-mechanistic paradigm. Herein is proposed
with 33%, and general and non specific disorders some non-mechanistic theoretical proportions of the
with 25.5% both adding to 58.5%. The more contemporaneous science (i.e. Chaos theory and
frequent diagnosis was related to respiratory system Complex System theory) applied to the
ailments with 47.8%, general problems and comprehension of homoepathic phenomen, allowing
nonspecific disorders with 10.6%, and mental a new clinical and scientific view about the validity
disturbance with 10.6%, bring up to a total 79.7%. of these remedies or not. We conclude that, under
Clinical resolution was achieved with a low the highlight of the new scientific theories, the use
number of deliverance to other services (1 to each 41 and efficacy of Homœopathic preparations in medical
medical consults accomplished). The costs of practice becomes plausible and scientifically
implantation, of medicine and laboratories are acceptable.
adequate to the socio-economic reality of the
Country. 3. O medicamento homeopático nos serviços de
The more used medicines were the Saride (The Homœopathic medicine in health
“Polychrests”, obtained through repertorization, and services)
with one medicine only each time. CÉSAR Amarilys De Toledo (RH, 66, 1/2001)
The reasons that for the clients to choose this
UBS were localisation, economic and trust in the The aim of this study is to investigate and to
doctor and in the service. The opinion about the describe experiments of medicine supplies to
treatment was positive and associated with the theme health care
trust. services, to offer subsidies to the formulation of
The clients perceived that Homœopathic politics, preventing possible difficulties that may
medicine has an integral and holistic view of the prejudice the implantation or the maintenance of the
human beings. Homœopathic medical care in these services, and to
In relation to the allopathic medicine it is provide elements to develop the implantation of
different, the medicines are different, the Homœopathy, by means offering proposals for the
consultations are different, and there is a bigger medicine, that make it easier and more possible the
dialogue between the medical doctor and the client. development of the programmes. Test study was
The result of the treatment was felt not only in a developed which showed a wide diversity of
better health, but in changing behavior and more prescriptions. Other services, with distinct
consciousness about their own cure process. characteristics were selected and studied for the
frequency and presentation of Homœopathic
2. A homeopatia sob a ötica dos novos paradigmas medicines, by means of visits, interviews, copy of
da ciëncia: Revisão biliográfica (Homœopathy prescriptions and analysis of clinical files. The
under the new paradigms of Science: A review) fitness of Homœopathy for the requirement to the
BONAMIN, Profa. Dra. Leoni Villano (RH, 66, inclusion of the remedies in an essential remedy list
1/2001) was discussed, as aspects that became more difficult
in implementations. It was concluded that
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adoption by the public system; the supplying of the properties of others? How is the jealousy
Homœopathic remedy should be financed by a expressed?
collective disbursement, from a stock, establishment 13. When do you become angry? How do you
of a local pharmacy, or settled by correction, near to express rage and anger? By curse, strike, throw
the service; it is possible to determine a basic relation things away, wish to kill? Or do you hold the
with a limited number of medicines, with defined anger within yourself?
potency, scales, pharmaceutical form and posology to 14. How do you bear contradiction? Are you
attend several pathologies, including the chronic inclined intuitively the contradiction coming out
ones; available information coming from well of your abdomen? Do you criticise others or
elaborated clinical files are an important tool for have reproaches? In which situations?
research; the comprovation of clinical efficacy must 15. Have you experienced hatred or revenge
be improved. feelings? Can you forgive quickly, how is it
with grudge, reconciliation? Who among you
3. Fragebogen zur Psychoanamnese two, your partner or you decide to first make
(Questionnaire for Psychoanamnesis) partner or you decide to first make peace when
SPINEDI, D. (ZKH, 45, 1/2001) there is a quarrel between you?
16. How is your religious perception? Religious
A model questionnaire form used by the author practice, Prayer, Confession? Sexuality and
in the Homœopathic ward of Clinica St. Croce, Religion What is your opinion about the next
Orselina/Tessin, is presented. This questionnaire is world?
to draw the psychoanamnesis portrait. The author 17. What do you feel about need for harmony? How
presents it as a small extension and supplement to is your relationship with your partner, with your
KENT’s Interrogations. family, neighbours, colleagues in your work
1. How are you with reference to Company and place? With your fellowmen in general? How is
being alone? Do you know of loneliness or your relationship with your mother and father?
feeling of solitude? How is your connection with animals?
2. What do you do when you are sad or have a 18. How is your connection with your body? Have
problem? you special perceptions or feelings, with
3. Does it happen that you are sad? Is that a reference to your body, which are peculiar to
sadness without any reason, which comes from you?
within or is it bound with any situations? 19. As a child or later did you have any kind of
4. What was the most painful, the most sad and fear/anxiety? For example,
the most happiest in your life? • Fear of being alone
5. Do you weep or not? In which situations? • In darkness
What effect does weeping have upon you? • Of robbers
6. When do you laugh? In what situations? • Of others, of the children, of the family,
7. What effect does consolation and devotion, and • Something may happen to your near ones ?
physical touch have upon you? How would you • Of sharp objects,
react to consolation? From whom?
• Of animals,
8. Sympathy? Please give some examples from
• Of walking in the open air,
your life. Is it rather sympathy or worry?
• Of future
9. How is homesickness with you, with the pangs
of separation? • Of death
10. What wishes would you have, if you had a • Of disease, etc.
Magic Wand for use? As much wishes as you 20. How is your sense of orderliness and your need
would like to wash yourself?
to. 21. How is your connection with money?
11. Do you have characterisitic traits in you which 22. How are you with your job? Do you have desire
you would like to be got over? Or are they a for honour? How is your sense of
part of your character and you are contented with responsibility? Are there situations when you
them? What are the situations when you feel felt competition?
most unwell? 23. Is there situations when you feel uncertain or
12. Do you become jealous or you have never wanting in self confidence? What situations?
experienced that emotion? Against whom do 24. How is your tempo while walking, while
you get jealousy, against your partner, against working,while eating?
friends, against the family? With reference to

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25. Some people think sometimes that they would Sheilagh’s grandmother was a Homœopath who
better go out of this world, better die. What do brought her family in the same way and that is how
you think of such thoughts? In which situations? she happened to become a Homœopath.
26. What dreams occur to you? What dreams have Her initial teachers were the books, the original
impressed you much? What were your feelings sources, particularly the Philadelphians, and the
experienced in your dreams? What do you think Organon. Later she read by correspondence under
of these dreams? Is there any connection to Noel PUDDEPHATT – a student of Dr. CLARKE.
reality? She travelled to different countries and happened to
27. How are you with music and dance? For which see various diseases in each country which helped in
music are you very sensitive specially? What improving her.
emotions do music arouse in you? According to her the most challenging thing in
clinical practice is unraveling of the case
5. The Unbearable Heaviness of Imponderabilia: miasmatically. In Homœopathy one should not aim
Connfessions of a confused Conference goer to become a healer but should aim to be a detective.
WRIGHT Peter (SIM, XIV, 1/2001) It becomes a bit metaphysical if he tries to becomea
healer. Recognising the individuals Vital Force is the
The author makes comments about the flash and most important shown by their statements and
dazzle that is been carried out in the conferences reactions to situations.
conducted by HANP (Homœopathic Academy of While distinguishing cure and recovery she says,
Naturopathic Physicians) and requests them to whether we are trained or not, we can assist in
improve on and work more closely so that these recovery. But cure means going back to the
things will be eliminated. hereditary weakness, to the origins of the illness of
The more confusing things as said by him are: the patient, back to the fundamental cause. With
information overload (too many stories, cure, in time you achieve balance, mental, emotional
concepts, people) and physical balance.
sensory deprivation of a sort (too many hours Gives a brief description about the small
sitting still in a room). remedies and polychrests, also about the acute and
Infinite expansion of the scope of materia chronic state. The small remedies help in acute
medica study. attacks and the polychrests are ones to treat the
With regard to Case presentation he suggests that constitution. While advising to students, she asks to
a case would be presented by the prescriber, perhaps read the ones that are polychrests, the ones that are
followed by a bit of extra discussion of the person’s very constitutional.
story or diagnosis to provide some additional context. Her idea of learning a remedy is to focus on the
The cardinal points of the case might be selected, fundamental, maintaining and exciting causes for
through a group discussion, and more discussion each remedy, not on the mentals. This she explains
follows to pick characteristic repertory rubrics. The with reference to aphorism 5 and 7 of the Organon.
group members are then asked to choose a remedy With regard to potency, she says that there are
for the patient. no fixed rules but we have certain guidelines. In
This is not the only good way to share cases and deep pathology, we should use a potency that we are
learn from each other at conferences, but it is often able to control. She advocates that LM potency
stimulating, and at best can lead to a liberating sense would be a suitable one for deep pathology.
of transparency about the process. Even if one Her comment on HERING’s law of cure is that
doesn’t “pick the right remedy,” there is a chance to she doesn’t agree with the disappearance of
get inside the clinical reasoning of other symptoms from above downwards. The shortest
Homœopaths in a way which is often highly distance may not be up or down, it could be from one
instructive. The differential diagnosis among the system to another. For Eg.: If a person has
remdies proposed by audience members often something in his intestine and a discharge comes
provides revealing contrasts and connections between higher up in the throat.
remedies. The exchange remains grounded in an The reverse order of appearance of symptoms is
actual case, and in data from repertories and other more logical for her.
widely accepted texts. She says that the relationship of remedies is very
important whlie learning a remedy and illustrates
6. One Should Aim To Be a Detective certain examples for it.
Interview with CREASY Sheilagh (SIM, XIV, Dismissing miasm as pure theory and
1/2001) speculation is deplorable, it speaks of ignorance. As
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as “inherited constitutional predisposition”, philosophy. Better getting excited about

“tendency toward weakness” etc. HAHNEMANN; reading the Organon; joining
Other modalities that can be used alongside NASH, NCH, writing articles for Homœopathic
Homœopathy are Massage, Shiatsu, Cranial sacral magazines and paragraph 9 “ …so that our
work and if they are neck problems due to indwelling, reason-gifted mind can freely employ this
mechanical injury such as working in computer and living, healthy instrument for the higher purposes of
riding in vehicle etc., can be done with chiropractor our existence.”
or osteopath.
While discussing about Psychotherapy, she says 8. Homœopathy and General practice: an Urban
we’ve gone off the rails on this… She includes, in perspective
the Organon there are six places where R.PERRY & C. DOWRICK (BHJ, 89, 1/2000)
HAHNEMANN warns of interpretations, and
metaphysical speculations. The objectives were to ascertain the use of and
According to her, therapists are who work on attitudes towards Homœopathy amongst GPs
exciting cause or maintaining cause and they have no working in a socio-economically deprived urban area
way to work on the fundamental cause. such as Liverpool.
Coffee and mint doesn’t have any antidotal The study involved Homœopathy among 8
effect. There is no medicinal value left after common complementary therapies (acupuncture,
insecticide sprays, roasting, vaccum packing etc. aromotherapy chiropractic hypnotherapy, medical
Her view about HIV is that HIV-related illness is herbalism, osteopathy and reflexology).
progression.. years of supression, sinus problems, Results: 56% of the respondents had either
hepatitis all the treatments for suppressing the treated referred or recommended complementary
immune system, ends up with HIV. therapy and 28% of them have been involved with
For her the most disturbing thing in Homœopathy in some form. (48.7% reported the
Homœopathy today is the number of books produced efficacy of Homœopathy).
by people, who are theorizing with very little
practical experience. 9. Animal experiments and the British
Anthroposophy and Swedenborgian philosophy Homœopathic Journal.
doesn’t have any relation to Homœopathy. P.FISHER (BHJ, 89, 1/2000)

The use of animals in experiments in

7. The Dangers of Homœopathy Homœopathy is controversial. The policy of B.H.J.
MOWER A Linda (SIM, XIV, 1/2001) for some years has been to publish experiments
involving animals when: the importance of the
A very brief article where the author has wittingly Scientific question and the lack of an alternative
expressed the after effects of reading Organon, at the method justifies it; and high standards of animal
same time also stressed the importance of reading the welfare, which are among the strictest in the world,
Organon once a year. As she read it many times she have been observed. One thing is certain: we will not
says that she started proving it and she named it as make progress on this cententious issue unless it is
Organonium. discussed. So the Editorial Committee welcomes the
Proving of Organonium views of the readers.
Organonium first starts in the Extremities: 10. An Interview with Paul HERSCU
Fingers, dial, wanting to, Homœopathic bookstores, CHURCHILL Nick (HOM, 78/2000)
to order the Dudgeon, Boericke, Kunzli, Wesselhoft,
O’Reilly or even the Joseph Reves editions of In this Interview Paul HERSCU discusses
Organon. about his idea of ‘cycles and segments’ in regard to
Organonium is a tri-miasmatic and needs to be case analysis and remedy selection; he also discusses
repeated often. It is very deep remedy and the Vital the general ‘teachings’ of Homœopathy.
Force gladly takes many years to express the full [Paul HERSCU was Editor of the New England
symptom picture. Only 294 symptoms have been Journal of Homœopathy which has suddenly been
documented. There is no way to antidote wound up half-way during 2001! = KSS.]
Organonium but reading Chronic Diseases seems to
provide some amelioration. 11. Biolumanetics and Classical Homœopathy
Modalities: Worse, not reading the Organon, trying WANSBORUGH Charles (HOM, 78/ 2000)
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Luminator is a machine designed by Patrick certain remedy pictures are right. Only a cure with
RICHARDS to ‘balance air temperatures for efficient a remedy can be the proof whether our speculative
heat energy management. Accidentally it was found discussions are correct and has legitimacy.
that the Luminator not only created a uniform He also questions the corrections of attempting
temperature gradient but unexpectedly seemed to to delimit 1500 medicines to 15 colors.
improve the health of those individuals working in its The Editor comments (since Dr.MÜLLER had
environment. Over a period of 18 years RICHARDS since expired) that certain well-known authors
found that the Luminator had created an unusual have written similarly into ‘typing’ certain
electro magnetic field whose main effects, de historical personalities into certain homœopathic
deduced were not easily explained using present remedies; it is only ofdidactic value and helps to
scientific paradigms. This electromagnetic field ‘build’ the remedy picture.
seemed to isolate individuals from those of a normal [‘Typing’ the remedies is not ‘Hahnemannian’.
environment, creating a type of ‘work field’. Nobody May be one would have ‘succeeded’ in some cases,
has been able to explain this phenomena but it can never be the rule. The ‘individual’ with
scientifically. Photographs taken in the altered field his/her peculiar, strange ‘altered symptom’ – (altered
produced anomalous images. It was observed that from his/her previous healthy state) – this alone is
photographs of people suffering health challenges ‘Hahnemannian’. Many of us might have found our
were vague and distorted; photographs of healthy own short cuts; we must use them with much
people were clear and crisp. A correct prescription circumspection and not ‘as a rule’. We must be
changed the photographic image to that of a clear careful not to be lured. = K.S.S.]
picture, which always restored vitality and health to 13. On the Scientific status of Homœopathy
that individual. S.S. CHIBENI (BHJ, 90, 2/2001)
A research centre treating patients using
Homœopathy and Patrick RICHARD’s ‘chelated Critics of Homœopathy often claim that it is
medicines’ has been set up at The Centre for non-scientific. By offering adequate tools for the
Bioliminal Homœopathy, 133, Disraeti Road, Putney, analysis of the foundations, structure and
London SW 15 2DZ. Clinic Phone No. 0208 870 implications of scientific theories, philosophy of
1808 Patrick RICHARDS’ Website: http:// science can help to clarify this medical controversy.
www.biolumanetics.net However, Homœopathy has not yet attracted the
attention of philosophers of science to any noticeable
12. Strontium bromatum – Anzneistudie über Van extent. Among the many topics to which philosophy
BEETHOVEN (Study of Strontium bromatum with of science could contribute, this paper selects two,
reference to van BEETHOVEN) not only for their intrinsic importance, but also
MÜLLER, H.V. (AHZ, 245, 6/2000) because they are essential for any fruitful discussion
of the rest. It is shown, first, that in Homœopathy, as
Dr.H.V.MÜLLER studies in detail the life, developed by HAHNEMANN, two related, but
character etc. of the famous musical genius distinct theoretical levels can be identified. Then it is
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN(1770-1827) and indicated that at least one of them—the
concludes that the constitutional medicine of van phenomenological level—can be seen as embodying
BEETHOVAN is Strontium bromatum a largely autonomous research programme, on which
Dr. Ekkehard DAHM writes in the ‘Letters’ homœopathic medical practice can rest. Finally, it is
(AHZ, 246, 3/2001) that analysis of the hair argued that this programme displays the basic
revealed that BEETHOVEN died of Lead theoretical and methodological traits of a genuine
intoxication (Plumbum ) amd there was no hint of science, according to an influential contemporary
use of Quicksilver (Mercurius) for Syphilis. approach in philosophy of science. Some
Dr.DAHM therefore raises the valid argument misunderstandings involved in the debate are pointed
whether the fixing of well known personalities into out.

for Physicians, Pharmacists and other natural

XI. BOOKS scientists” with the theme of St. John’s wort and
contains adequate reference material on Botany,
1. Johanniskraut, (St. John’s wort), KAUL, R. substance, quality control, Pharmacology,
187 S., 38 Tab., geb., wissenschaftliche Toxicology and clinical application.
Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart 2000, DM 58, - ….New pharmacological and clinical researchers
review by WOLF (German) (AHZ, 246, 1/2001): have corroborated the fact, that Hyperforin a good
“The book is further in the last series of Handbook part of antidepressive action is contained in St.

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John’s wort…… That from the homœopathic view the differences and problems between the so-called
Hypericum is for example an excellent medicine in classical and clinical Homœopathy which
injuries of body parts rich in sensible nerve ends, has STIEGELE represented…. The book contains
not been mentioned....." unfortunately many printing errors…. The book of
course contains interesting citations about
2. Mandragora officinarum, MÜLLER, K. J., STIEGELE and the personalities of his times as also
HgS., Eigenverlag Karl-Josef Müller, important biographied informations…”
Zweibrücken 2000, DM 19, 95. (German) review
FERKMANN-NITSCHILE (AHZ, 246, 1/2001): “In 5. Homöopathie für Apotheker und Ärzte –
the course of his annual contribution to collection of Wirkungsprofile homöopathische Arzneimittel
Clinical material, which Karl-Joseph MÜLLER has (Homœopathy for Pharmacists and Physicians –
been regularly publishing since 1993, this volume on Action profile of Homœopathic medicines),
Mandragora officinalis has been published. WIESANAUER, W., I.Ergänzungslieferung, Dt.
MÜLLER presents five well documented cases. The Apotheker Verlag, Stutgart 1998, DM 98, -
words of the patients are presented verbatim, their (German) review WOLF (AHZ, 246, 2/2001): “ The
state is not summarised but a total anamnesis is Ringbook in two volumes is – as the title says – is
presented, as also sufficient follow up visits. The mainly for the Pharmacists and secondly for the
course runs to several years…. On the basis of the interested Physicians who do not apply constitutional
cases and their course a drug picture crystalizes with Homœopathy but for those who apply an indication
clear symptoms which is depicted at the end of the directed Homœopathy… The Ringbook is
book. ….One of the main themes of Mandragora is recommended for every Pharmacist as a standard
being “between life and death.” …The cases work in Homœopathy.”
presented by MÜLLER contains rich material for the
Homœopaths. Here the good and experienced 6. Thematic Repertory and Materia Medica of the
Homœopaths thoughts are transparent….” Mind Symptoms, MIRILLI, J.A.; 1138 S.
paperback, IRHIS, Leidschendam 1998, NLG 180.
3. Homöopathie für Frauenàrzte (Homœopathy – review APPEL (AHZ, 246, 2/2001): “ Considering
for Gynaecologists and Obstetricians), the continuously growing number of homœopathic
RICHTER, H., HAIDVOGL, M., 120 S., medicines it is becoming more and more difficult to
brosch., Hippokrates, Stuttgart 2000, DM 49, comprehend the genius of the remedy. The
90. (German) review WOLF (AHZ, 246, relationship of Materia Medica knowledge and
1/2001): “The book fulfills the undoubted need repertory rubrics are in inverse ratio and the spread of
for a homœopath on Gynaecology and computers taking on more additions of rubrics
Obstetritics not available in Homœopathy, and obstructs the view of the whole. Further more, the
also the well observed indications in the gravid, alphabetic order of rubics and the splitting of
in childbed and in gynaecological diseases. different synonyms with different weightage makes it
Brief and succint handling of Hyperemesis, Pre- more difficult to grasp. However that is not to
eclampsia, Mastitis, Nursing problems, undervalue the attempts of the Brazilian Homœopath
Climacteric ailments and many others fill the José Antonio MIRRILLI DE OLIVERA to take up
book…… The chapter on mental symptoms of 300 theme complexes in
4. different themes with implied rubrics and the relevant
5. Carcinoma therapy is appropriately directed…. medicines….”
The 120 page book comes from the pen of a
student of Prof. DORSCI. It has high practical 7. Die Homöopathie und ihre religïosen Gegner
value…” – In Blickwinkel medizinischen Wissens und
Christlichen Glaubens (Homœopathy and its
4. Alfons Stiegele – Ein Leben für die religious opponents – in the view of medical
Homöopathie (Alfons STIEGELE – A Life for knowledge and Christian faith),
Homœopathy), PATSCHENKO, B., 176 S., geb., KLEINSCHMIDT, K., FRICK, H., 2 Aufl., 126 S.,
Verlag Grundlagen und Praxis, Leer 2000, DM brosch., Ernst Franz Verlag, Metzingen 1999, DM
38, - (German) review GEBHARDT/APPEL (AHZ, 15, 80. (German) review APPELL (AHZ, 246,
246, 2/2001): “ The author is Russian. He details, 3/2001): In the first part Karl KLENSCHMIDT
first, the significance of Homœopathy in our times discusses the grasp of Homœopathy by religious
and also its rise in Russia. Then follows the circle particularly those influenced by piety…. In
biography of STIEGELE and the times of the second part of the book Hermann FRICK
STIEGELE and his family. He discusses thoroughly discusses with reference to the works of

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HAHNEMANN and makes clear the rational basis of Cure of diseases in the modern life situations.
Homœopathy. ….The well written book with much New Homœopathic remedies I), EBERLE,H.,
interesting contents is suited to weaken the RITZER, F., 402 S., geb., Müller and Steinicke,
arguments of religious zealots…” Mùncehn 1999, DM 118, - (German) review by
APPELL (AHZ, 246, 3/2001): “ New Homœopathic
8. Der Fligenpilz, Traumkult, Märchenzauber, medicines for “Cure of diseases in modern life
Mythemausch (The fly agaric, dream worship, situations” promises Materia Medica by EBERLE
fable charm, mythical ecstacy), BAUER, W., and RITZER of symptoms collection, essential
KLAPP, E., ROSENBOHM, A. (Hrsg.): 208 S., basics, mythological references and cases of
geb., AT Verlag, Aanau 2000, DM 49, 90 – Uranium metallicum, Plutonium, Excrementum
(German) review by APPELL (AHZ, 246, 3/2001): caninum, Aqua hochstein, Scorpio europaeum and
“There are many ways of studying the Materia Placenta, are presented. The symptoms come from
Medica, grasp the genius of a medicine. Not the Provings of the appropriate substances with C200. In
most difficult is it by study of the history of a plant, the mental region a core characteristic is revealed
an animal, a mineral through its myth and impressive which leads to clinical prescription, out of which
forms in cult, folk beliefs, and draw inspiration from again basic rules, typology and leading symptoms as
these. For example is this book on Agaricus selected clinical confirmations, have been deduced.
muscarius, the fly agaric …Inspiration from Authors …..The significance of contemporary history and life
like Lewis CAROLL, H. G. WELLS and Gustan situation is preferred by the authors in respect of
MEYRINK among others have drawn…” these remedies, which are “with their peculiar
symptoms became important path markers in a
jungle”, whereby “the smaller medicine is only a
9. Documenta Homœopathica Band 19, 337., special variant of the greater Theme”! By these
geb., Verlag Wilhelm Mandrich, Wien. 1999, DM. criterion the authors justify the prescriptions of a
98, - (German) review by APPELL (AHZ, 246, large number of medicines, which otherwise will not
3/2001): “Vol. 19 of the much readable Documenta be understood. For example Uranium metallicum
Homœopathica begins with the fourth in the series with 217 documented cases, 87 cures, Excrementum
of an almost endless dissertation by H. PETRY on caninum with 273 documented cases with 118
the history of Homœopathy in Vienna. …In a cures….”
valuable article “The Adventure of Adolescence” B.
WALLER and M. LASSACHER discuss the 12. Nature and Human Personality:
problems and disturbances arising in physical and Homœopathic Archetypes by Catherine
sexuality of adolescents, and the possible COULTER. Quality Medical Publishing, Inc.:
Homœopathic intervention according to Jacquline St.Louis, MO, 2000, softback, 210 pages, $ 22.50.
BARBANCEY….. On medicinal provings artiles by ISBN 1 – 57626 – 117 – 4. Reviewed by WINSTON
U. SCHMUTZER, W. EICHLER, B. MÖSER and G. Julian (HT, 21, 2/2001): “In her latest work,
SCHILD, follow. The proving Kalium sulphuricum Catherine R. COULTER has done an impossible task
and the Provings of many drugs in the Ranunculaceae and has abridged her “portraits” of 12 of the most
competes this valuable book…” common remedies she has written about in her 3 –
volume Portraits of Homoepathic Medicines. These
10. Homöopathische Miasmen: Die Psora. condensations retain the essential flavor of her
Einlern – und Praxisbuch (Homœopathic miasms: previous works including her magnificient narrative
Psora, Book for learning and Practice), GIENOW, style and the use of literary and historic figures to
P. 220 S. geb., Sonntag Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, bring the remedies to life.”
DM 69,80 (German) review by MICHELS (AHZ, The remedies covered in this work are:
246, 3/2001): “To the many books on miasms that Phosphorus, Calcarea, Lycopodium, Sepia, Sulphur,
have been coming, the author adds one. He follows Pulsatilla, Arsenicum, Lachesis, Silica, Nux vomica.,
the teachings of HAHNEMANN and ALLEN… The Natrum muriaticum, and Thuja.
book has been written in an absorbing manner; with The book could be very useful as a guide, but
many examples. GIENOW points how miasmatic the information within should not be taken as whole
states change. …..There is a bibliography which cloth – a well taken case, referenced to materia
seems to be rather insufficient.” medica study is of primary importance, and the
information in this book is but a piece of the larger
11. Arzneimittlelehre. Heilung von Kraukheiten puzzle – but perhaps the piece, in some cases, that
in modernen Lebeussthrationen. Neue may complete it.
homöopathische Arzneien I. (Materia Medica. 13. The International Dictionary of

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Homœopathy, Jeremy SWAYNE, Editor. …..a bibliography for today must also and above all
ChurchillLivingstone: London, 2000, hardback, be useful, not only to students and practitioners, who
251 pages, $ 29.95. ISBN 0-443-06009-6. bear the responsibility of applying the words to their
Reviewed by WINSTON Julian (HT, 21, 2/2001): Hahnemannian task of curing and healing the sick.
“This small, pocket-sized book has ben assembled by …we are all most deeply indebted to Julian, who in
an international team of Homœopaths. It is the addition to his many other talents is a splendid
outgrowth of an effort on the part of the archivist, scholar, and librarian, in that his
Homœopathic Medicine Research Group (HMRG), omnivorous appetite for all things Homœopathic
an expert group supported by the European extends not only to hunting, gathering, preparing, and
Commision. The dictionary was just one of the serving up all this stuff, but also to tasting,
Commision’s efforts to lay a solid foundation for devouring, and digesting it for our benefit, quite
their inquiry into Homœopathy. The definitions have possibly even more than his own. While he stops
been arrived at by a panel of experts, including well short of including every last domestic manual,
Homœopaths from most of the European countries, for example, there are more than enough here to
and an international editorial committee. The satisfy every conceivable taste, and he’s earned my
purpose of the book is to define the conceptual thanks for leaving the rest out.
framework of Homœopathy, and by doing so, allow The result is a leisurely guided tour down the
for precision in discussing the subject.” main highways and through many forgotten back
alleys of our literature, according to the inclinations
14. Integrated Homœopathic Repertory. of his fancy, the mature likes and dislikes of a
Dr.Jugal Kishore. Kishore cards publications, 86, conoisseur, and his own unashamedly personal
Golf Links, New Delhi. Price Rs.450. 585 pages. opinions about everything and everyone you can
Review by T.K.Kasi Viswanathan. (NJH, 1/2001). think of, as well as quite a few you will discover for
Dr.Kishore says that the need for the integrated the first time. The travelogue is a perfect companion
repertory arose because Kent’s Repertory as well as piece to The Faces of Homœopathy, his equally
BOENNINGHAUSEN’s Therapeutic Pocket Book idiosyncratic ramble through our history, and it
are not complete. In compiling this repertory he deserves to be savored just as he wrote it, with each
sought to rectify the shortcomings and drew section in more or less chronological order, as well as
extensively on his clinical practice. Original sources by sampling assorted titbits, as in a book of
have been consulted while correcting some rubrics reference. ….the bibliography proper is divided into
and remedies. fifteen sections (The Organon, Materia Medica,
The repertory is in 2 columns and with good Repertory, Therapeutics, etc.), plus three appendices
font and space between rubrics for additions and (all books arranged by date, by author, and
comments of the practitioner if any. The printing is Woodbury’s “five-foot shelf” of indispensable books,
easy on the eye and 3 gradations of remedies are published in 1931). I can’t begin to enumerate even
maintained. The get up is good and binding solid and a small fraction of the wonderful snippets, tangents,
size comfortable to handle. anecdotes, and curmudgeonly rants contained in
these pages. But I’ll mention a few surprises that
15, The Heritage of Homœopathic Literature, An caught my eye and made me want to read them, in
abbreviated Bibliography and Commentary, by some cases for the first time.
Julian WINSTON, great auk Publishing, Box 51- Several were in the section on Therapeutics, that
156, Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand ISBN # 0- neglected and despised bastard child of pure
473-07996-8 review Richard MOSKOWITZ Homœopathy and pathological diagnosis, which still
(NEJH, 10, 1/2001) : “Julian Winston is to be does useful service in many more cases than most
thanked and commended yet again for taking such purists would care to admit. The crowning
pains to compile this monumental bibliography of achievement of a long and illustrious career, Jahr’s
our Homœopathic literature, which spans its entire Therapeutic Guide, also known as Forty Years’
history from Hahnemann to the present. …..Our Practice, was the digest of his clinical experience,
Homœopathic literature is thus no mere repository of and contains a lot of useful information that is still
information, but also the communal efforts of flawed relevant today. It is the mature and perfected version
human writers to approach the Divine, such that each of his earlier Clinical Guide (1850), used by Mary
book, even one that is no longer used, becomes a Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, who
kind of historical monument to the Word, which if was quite a skillful prescriber and had Homœopathic
not quite immutable at least doesn’t change every physicians visit her, by the back door of course, when
year or two, as the concepts and methods of modern she herself was ill. …In the Philosophy section, A
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Evia (1942), was a cutting-edge essay into

Homœopathic research that prophesied and actually
began the development of kinesiology, made original XII. NEWS & NOTES
contributions to radionics, and dared to sketch out a
philosophy of these still esoteric frontiers of I. ICR Symposia – September 2000, Reported by
Homœopathy at a time when such matters were a lot THAKKAR D N (NJH, 5/2000): “Six cases
further beyond the pale of respectable science even circulated in advance and worked out by many.”
than they are today. I’ve already bitten off a lot more Case 1: 46 year-old man pain in at lower angle of
than I’ll most likely be able to chew, and these are scapula along with hypertension and past history of
only the beginning. IHD. He had breaking of relations, shades of ego,
….Though they may infuriate some, his sexual desire, massive suppression of emotions,
broadsides against Sankaran and other “illuminists” impulsiveness, verbosity, grief and religiosity.
are often witty, always thought – provoking, and do Lachesis and Natrum muriaticum came to the picture
make some attempt to give credit where it is due. but Lachesis was selected based on these symptoms
But don’t expect a neutral, detached attitude. He’s of: Hot patient, concomitant of heat in body and
passionate about Homœopathy, he has a point of location of heart. After 4 months backache relieved
view, and isn’t afraid to play favorites and advocate and the blood pressure remained stable even after
for what he believes. That is precisely what makes withdrawal of Allopathic drugs.
this collection so valuable. Like any good librarian, Case 2: 29 year-old man had asthma. Wept while
he has included virtually everything of importance; narrating the situation at home. “I love my parents…
like every discerning critic, he displays our subject wife is deadly against it. …I want someone to
through the medium of his own sensibility, and in mediate in these conditions so as to maintain peace”.
doing so he reveals us to ourselves. Performance, image conciousness and anxiety led to
When all is said and done, I suppose that my Calcarea silicata which gave very good result.
friend and colleague was right to the extent that the Case 3: 44 year-old female had respiratory
new software does in fact contain the best of the old complaints along with a concomitant symptom of a
volumes, such that the originals are best preserved sensation as if ball in abdomen. Husband taunts her
and stored for posterity in some museum where those for getting less dowry from her father and also had
of us who simply like the look and feel of them can trauma of leaving her 2 month-old baby in relatives
kvell to our hearts’ content. The obvious bridge for house as she was working. Sepia emerged and
keeping the old world of bound volumes connected helped.
with the new world of computer software would be Case 4: 10 year-old girl had epileptic attacks after
the modern research library, equipped with the most first birthday. Cries even if somebody praises her.
up-to-date technology, and a well-trained Sensitive, sentimental, aversion to sweet, chilly,
professional staff to locate, reprint, and reproduce paralysis of knee. Shade of sadness, likes to dance,
selected items from the literature for the benefit of make-up. Causticum was given. Posology and
scholars and practitioners alike, so the Word may withdrawal of anti-epileptics discussed well.
continue to be made flesh as of old. If we ever get Case 5: A stubborn lady had acidity and rheumatoid
our act together to create such an institution, Julian arthritis. Very obstinate and will not listen to
should logically be its first librarian. …” anybody. Dominative husband. Had frustration,
bitterness and vexation as they did not have child and
16. The Homœopathy Workshop. Trevor COOK. when her husband accepted for adoption it was too
The Crowood Press Ltd., Marlborough, late. Natrum muriaticum given with no improvement
Wiltshire, United Kingdom; 2000. Price: £14.99, and in view of rheumatoid arthritis Calcarea
ISBN 1 86126 2469. Reviewed by T.GIBBS. fluoricum given with good improvement.
(BHJ, 90, 1/2001) The book begins with logical
progression from the history and origins of II. Seminar, Arefa Trust, October 2000. Reported
Homœopathy, through to the basic principles and by SYED A (NJH, 5/2000): Dr Farokh MASTER
philosophies supporting the subject. The next spoke on Constitutional prescribing. Illustrative
chapter describes the sources and preparation of cases are given.
Homœopathic remedies. The application of Case 1: A child had convulsions and opisthotonus
Homœopathy takes up the next few chapters. Each after head injury. Worse from emotional excitement
chapter ends with a self-assessment questionnaire. and touch. Cicuta covered the aetiology and the
Unlike author’s previous books, this one will modality.
remain on the shelves of the bookshop, and not in the Case 2: A middle aged man had recurrent malaria
libraries of Homœopaths. and the first episode started after an anger episode.

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He has the habit of taking afternoon nap and if Case 12: A 40 year-old male had allergic rhinitis,
disturbed in between he becomes irritated. During chronic otitis media of the right ear with pustular
this instanace, wife woke him and got violent angry discharge and fever. Complaints worse from
but soon repented for it as it was to inform him about exertion, amelioration rest. Sleeps only after 3 a.m.
an important matter from his partner. Anger Constipated offensive odour of the body. Premature
followed by repentence: Lyssin, Nux vomica, ejaculation and constant thoughts of sex. Developed
Sulphur. Sulphur relieved. a guilt feeling after he sweared on Holy Quaran to
Case 3: A patient had childhood deafness after prove himself otherwise when he had a fight with his
suppressed eruptions. The eruptions were similar to brother-in-law. Developed delirium – tears his
that of Mezereum, which cured. clothes, talks to himself, bites his nails and cannot
Case 4: Patient had past history of recurrent trust anybody. Angry and violent, irritable, abusive
tonsillitis for which he was operated. Had a right and threatens to commit suicide. Fear of black dog,
sided tonsils enlarged, worse from change of dark and murder. Very jealous and possesive about
weather, amelioration from cold drinks. Phytolacca his wife. Loquacious and constantly talks on
relieved. different topics. Dreams of killing, quarrels, fight,
Case 5: 24 year-old male had vertigo, tinnitus, worse snake. Desires sweet, fish, meat, brinjal. Aversion to
morning, turning head with cervical stiffness. Eyes milk, fruits, spinach. Stramonium M and 10M in
red, anxious. Craves fish. Eats fast. Cannot pass infrequent dose relieved.
urine in front of others. Had bottled up anger since Case 13: A male of 32 years had pelviureteric
childhood, hence isolated himself from society. obstruction and the pain goes from left to right
Dreams of home, fatherland, death of mother, kidney. Acidity, heartburn worse from tobacco,
embarrassment, shameful events. Muriaticum bhang. Craves tobacco and bhang. Infection
acidum relieved. progressed to kidneys from sexual abuse – had been
Case 6: 25 year-old man had irritable bowel to prostitutes. Anxiety about health and disease.
syndrome with 3 – 4 foul smelling stools, flatus, Cannot sleep alone, suspicious, fear of ghost, dark, of
alternate constipation and diarrohea. Pustular acne being attacked. Cannabis indica gave good results.
type eruptions on face and backache. Anxiety, lack
of self-confidence, mild, reserved. History of III. Homœopathic Malaria Prophylaxis appears
embarrassment during his college days. Ambra ineffective by DELAUNAY, P. et al: A 40 year-old
grisea 200 relieved. woman who could bear the conventional Malaria
Case 7: A female aged 46 had chronic abdominal prophylaxis, took according to the advice of a
complaint. Cramps in abdominal region with Homœopath, Ledum 5CH (Boiron) daily and Malaria
distended abdomen, amelioration pressure and officianalis 4CH (Schmidt Nagel) as a single dose
passing flatus. Had change of job and found herself before her journey. On return she had fever 30°C
idle in the new environment due to less work load. and consulted her Homœopath. Blood smear did not
Stannum metallicum helped. show any Malarial content. She took therefore,
Case 8: A 48 year-old female had Cancer of ovary, Homœopathic medicines with Vitamins and few days
with constipation, heaviness of epigastrium, dizziness later antibiotic teatment was begun. Ten days later
worse from getting up from bed, motion. Angered after the first consultation her condition became
easily, talks of business constantly. Very hard worse. The temperature rose to 41°C, the
working. Desires soft rice and liquid food. Had past haemoglobin sank and Thrombocytes were low. In
history of chest pain while coughing. Tongue coated hospital a bacterial injection was first considered, but
white and dry mouth. Bryonia album helped. not Malaria. Four days later because of neurological
Case 9: A psoriatic patient developed fever and symptoms she was in intensive care. In blood smear
inspite of the anti-biotics the fever and constipation Plasmodium was observed. Because of breakdown
persisted. Did not want to move. Tongue coated of many organs she was in intensive care for two
white. X ray showed patchy pneumonitis. Bryonia months. The authors say that Homœopathic
200 relieved. prophylaxis was ineffective and recommended
Case 10: A patient with breathlessness and feeling of tourists to take conventional medicines (BMJ, 221
coldness in the head, with numbness in the arms with (2000) 1288) (AHZ, 246, 1/2001)
pricking sensation and the B P 200/100. Agaricus
muscarius relieved. IV. Is a Homœopathic “Immunotherapy”
Case 11: A male patient with anxiety and chronic effective? A double-blind placebo controlled study
laryngitis. Loquacious. Wants to earn more and for with the isopathic medicine Betula C30 in patients
that can lie, cheat. Ambitious, optimistic. Desires with Birch pollen allergy by AABEL, S.,
salty, sour, ice. Veratrum album helped. LAERTUM, E., DOLVIK, S., DJUPESLAND, P.:

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The efficacy of the Homœopathic medicine Betula also the right place and time to hold the
C30 versus Placebo (N=34) was proved with Birch subcommittees of the European committee for
pollen allergy. Tablets were given during the Birch- Homœopathy. And most important old and new
pollen season. Between both groups during the first members from all over the world meet each other,
and last May period there was no statistical activists for Homœopathy.
difference, while during the period 8 16 May in the Some extracts:
Group Betula C30, less and not so many symptoms Jeremy SWAYNE (U. K.)
came up. However there was high primary Widening the horizon: The contribution of
aggravation in these verum group. Betula C30 Homœopathy to the undergraduate curriculum: A
should be proved further during the pollen season. precise view of an important lecture for the training
(AHZ, 246, 1/2001) of all physicians. All medical students must know:
In the Obstetric ward of the hospital at Lainz, thorough case picture; the understanding of disease
results of 100 women who were treated and illness, particularly about chronic diseases; the
Homœopathically was compared with a group 100 multifactorial aetiology; self-regulation instead of
women who were in the same Obstetric ward. The manipulation; the patient as individaul and as Whole.
result pointed out the significant difference in favour Wolfgang SPRINGER (Germany)
of Homœopathy group (BMJ, 89 (2000) – 161 – 168) Main features of Calcarea silicata, was depicted
(M.ZORZIE et al in Homöopathie in Öbsterreich, with clarity and brief video cases. In the nature
11, 4/2000, in AHZ, 246, 2/2001) Calcarea silicata comes as Gyrolith or Wollastonit.
Externally slim stature. Sensitive to cold, also heat
V.An International Research and Documentation and humidity could aggravate. Further
Institute for Homœopathy, The European characteristics: ailments from suppression of sweat
Institute for Homœopathy (In Hom) is to be and draft. Would not like to be spoken to, answers
founded in Coethen for deepening the scientific basis reluctantly, fears to be touched, doubtful of his
for Homœopathy, for sifting and take advantage of recovery. Discouraged, full of fears, without
the knowledge and research results of 200 years, for ambition, irresolute, peevish, hasty, laughs or weeps
further research of known and new Homœopathic in all occasions. Anxiety about his family, his health,
medicines, for scientific processing of Homœopathic money matters. Sad for no reason. Suicidal
practice, for linking practice, theory and teaching. disposition, thinks of falling through the window.
The Institute will be managed by scientific Excessive fantasy. Talks with the dead, has a
physicians of the German Association of particular and intimate bonding with them. Dreams
Homœopathic Physicians (DZVhA) and the Austrian of sick people, sickness, corpses, death, murder.
Society for Homœopathic Medicine (ÖGHM). The Clinical: recurring infections, hay fever, severe acne
Institute will be constructed partwise. Beginning with pustules and comedones, cold bluish skin.
with Friedrich DELLMOUR, a complete catalogue of Swellings of face and lymph glands. Hyperactive
homœopathic medicines, a Pharmacology-Data Bank bronchial system. Crohn’s diseases, Ulcers of Vulva,
and electronic documentation of all publications in Vagina, Arthrosis of finger joints, Atheroma, large,
Homœopathy, with the cooperation, of course, of the hard warts.
existing libraries and national and international Freidrich DELLMAR (Austria)
Institutes. Homœopathic pharmacy today. The speaker has
Coethen is the place where HAHNEMANN been working with the knowledge and facts of source
lived longest and is ideal in every way for the and extraction of our drug, the absurdities and lack of
Institute. knowledge and exhorts revision of nomenclature and
For financing the Institute the “Homœopathic rules of manufacturing. Immensely relevant for our
Foundation of the German Central Association of daily practice.
Homœopathic Physicians with Chair in Coethen” has Examples of vagueness: Petroleum was purified
been established. (AHZ, 246, 2/2001) (rectified) by HAHNEMANN and used, the Indian
Pharmacopaeia writes as raw Petrol (Petroleum
VI Report from Budapest of the 55th Liga crudum) which is to be purified with Sulphuric acid,
Congress by BLEUL (AHZ, 246, 3/2001): the USA – Pharmacopaeia denominates Kerosene as
Budapest alone is reason good enough for making the Petroleum. The Radar, Commission D, and
Journey. The scientific programmes of the Liga Synthesis mention Medus as the north atlantic
every year is a good overview of all activity in all Aurelia aurita, the US – pharmacopaeia gives it as the
Lands which promotes Homœopathy. On History, Portuguese Physalia physalis. [We already know that
Pharmacy, new drug provings, Clinical studies, whereas it was Bryonia alba that was proved, it is
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BARTHEL in British Homœopathic Journal., that family, Sisi as suicide of Lovers); the suppression of
Sanicula aqua source has been permanently sealed feeling (for “I Love You” there is no equivalent
(personal communication of Peter BARTHEL) and Japanese expression), the great significance of art of
that the Helios Pharmacy was supplying Sanicula war and vindication, gardens from stones, empty
europaea – a plant remedy – instead of Sanicula living room, streets without names, no life in the
aqua. Who regulates? = KSS] inner towns, etc. Didactically not a poor method, but
Cees BASS (Netherlands) clinically irrelevant.
Themes of remedies as diagnostic tools in Dietmar PAYRHUBER (Austria).
Homœopathy: An epidemiological approach to Life themes as a leading Element in Case
sensitivity and specificity. A fundamental and Aanalysis – according to Jan SCHOLTEN’s method
precise experimentation of the Principles of – Video presentation. 4 cases – Muriaticum acidum,
progressive practice and observation of cases. Cuprum metallicum, Beryllium, Osmium – were
The questions about the Homœopathic detailed in terms of their psychic dynamics, the
researchers are: Is a Homœopathic prescription remedies were arrived at on Jan SCHOLTEN’s
exact? How can we better our work? What signifies method of Element and Group Analysis and
Science for us? What are our diagnostic instruments? prescribed with apparent success. A presentation that
In what circumstances can the outcome of the can be followed, however, certain questions remain.
treatment foretold? Patrick Maximilian JENNY (Germany).
Cees BASS is the imitator of the Delphi – The New Repertory with Clinical confirmation.
Project, a collection of structured cases which will be A computer programme which the author prepared
started on a broader basis from the next year. according to the teaching of George VITHOULKAS.
David SPENCE (Great Britain) Cases can be fed into the Internet for documenting
Outcome assessment Study: A study of verified symptoms. A good beginning with much
Observation of the Bristo Homœopathic Hospital relevance for discussion and further development.
which points out with statistical method an Another report by ZEEDEN, H.: The Plenum
outstanding efficacy of Homœopathic treatment. Lecture by MASTER from Bombay was outstanding.
Since the autumn 1997 every patient of the His lively and clear diction, empathetic picturisation
clinic has been reckoned in this open study, their and good understandable choice of words were all
ailment measured in a 7 – point – scale and the enjoyable. One could experience a live
therapy success is evaluated after taking into account Homœopathic Materia Medica.
the later consultations. It shows a very impressive Sanjeev GARS from India with excellent
amelioration in almost all the diseases undertaken in documentation about Hepatitis. It was a very
all age group. impressive documentation, lucid and easily
Sonja AEVERMANN (Germany) understandable.
Apis mellifica: What can we learn from it? Case Christoph THOMAS presented a Colitis case
report of a Sterility after ammniocentesis and which reflected the difficulty in long-term follow up.
convincing exposition of the remedy picture with The paediatrician Herbert PEEIFFER
unusual aspects. demonstrated in large frame work Children drawings
Dario SPINEDI (Switzerland) through which he could arrive at the pathologies.
Cancer treatment in Homœopathy: The founder Sexual pathology was discussed and Bufo rana was
and Head of the Homœopathic Clinic Santa Croce in prescribed. The next drawing by the child showed a
Tessin spoke impressively of some Cancer patients normalisation tendency in many respects. A creative
who had been “treated out” by the dominant school lecture.
but subsequently recovered with Homœopathic Jacques MILEMANN (France) spoke on Vipera
treatment. Berus and Bungarus fasciatus with excellent pictures
Evangelos ZAFIRION (Greece) and lively words.
Japanese National Pathology: Its similarity to Tatjana TIMOFEVA spoke on Curdlipid C6 a
Aurum metallicum. Interesting from an exotic fat preparation. It is useful in vascular diseases of
perspective. Peculiarities of the Japanese culture brain. An interesting and careful proving and clinical
were shown and compared with symptoms of Aurum. testing was also demonstrated. The presentation of
Typical of Japan (and for Homœopathic this new remedy was a bright point of this Liga
medicine Aurum) were indicated: The stress of Congress.
material values, of honor and reliability; the high JENNY presented four interesting cases from her
value for suicide, for which there are many rehabilitation Clinic. All patients could be helped.
conceptions (Harakiri when honour is lost, Kamikaze In a difficult case of Tinnitus long term success was
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demonstrated. (AHZ, 246, 3/2001). conference, Boston, April 19 – 24. Report by

WARKENTIN D K (HT, 21, 2/2001): The article
VII. The 4th Annual Southwest Conference in rather being a report of the Seminar speaks much
Classical Homœopathy, an NCH Regional about Massimo’s earlier seminars which gave a
Conference,was held at the Southwest College of revelation to the author. From his seminars the
Naturopathic Medicine, Tempe, AZ, October 2 – author had learnt a great deal about remedies from
3, 1999. (HT, 20, 4/2000): Three programm tracks spiders, snakes, Umbelliferae, Loganaceae,
were presented: Introductory, Intermediate, and Liliaflorae, Compositae, Arsenicums, Sulphurs,
Advanced. The theme for the Advanced program Natrums and Sea creatures.
was “The Mammal Remedies,” focusing on those Further few points about remedies and materia
Homœopathic remedies derived from mammal medica.
sources, and it included presentations on Lac 1. People respond to a range of remedies.
caninum, Lac felinum, Lac humanum, Moschus, Lac Prescribing the exact “Simillimum” is rare
defloratum, and Sanguis soricis. because many thousands of substances haven’t
Dr. Todd ROWE presented six mammal been studied yet, but it is not necessary as we
remedies – Castor equi, Castoreum, Cervus can still help our patients with “Similar”
campestris, Fel tauri, Lac caprinum, Mephites - prescriptions.
stressing their keynote symptoms. 2. Every remedy has the ability to cure. A well
Paul MITTMAN presented a lecture on Lac prescribed rare remedy is just as likely to act
caninum. He has highlighted some of the important deeply as well prescribed polychrest.
symptoms of the remedy. Mental symptoms include 3. Massimo successfully prescribes the patients
very low self-esteem; feeling put down and walked constitutional remedy in acute situations even
upon, lack of self-confidence, absent-minded, where the chronic remedy was not known for the
confused and forgetful, rages, mistakes in writings, acute symptoms. Unless the chronic prescription
forgetfulness, learning/attention defecit disorders, always cures the persons acute’s it is not a truly
fear of spiders and snakes. A keynote symptom is deep-acting remedy.
not being afraid of the dark. 4. Massimo has used information from
Craves salt, pepper, and whiskey; aversion to pharmacology, mythology, herbalism and
sweets. Several symptoms of Otitis media, pain traditional medicine to dramatically increase the
occurs at night and cause the child to cry and scream. depth of understanding of the remedies.
A remedy for Mastitis, Fibrocystic breasts, and 5. Remedies naturally have relationships. For
Dysmenorrhoea. Sore throats occur with menses, example, once we know that the Compositae
pre-menstrual mastalgia. family of remedies has relationship to injury, we
can understand remedies like Arnica,
VIII. A New Method for Finding the Simillimum, Millefolium, Bellis perennis and Calendula more
a special seminar presented by Paul HERSCU on deeply.
June 19 – 20, 1999, at the NCH Summer School in 6. Massimo says that cured pateints are more exact
Baltimore. (HT, 20, 4/2000): Paul HERSCU has and precise than any other source. One deeply
described his method for finding the simillimum. He cured case can teach more than any book.
refers to the “cycle” as the following process: The 7. Case taking becomes simpler when one trusts
Vital Force of an individual is stressed. The Vital that the main expressions of the patient will be
Force reacts (strains) to correct the imbalance. The the main expressions of our materia medica. If
strain shows itself as signs and symptoms, and the we delve too deeply we will, of course, get
signs and symptoms grow stronger as the Vital Force symptoms, but will become unable to match
over compensates. Then the body tries to correct the what we get to the materia medica and get
over compensation to maintain balance, and the confused.
person is brought back to near where he/she started. 8. Use the physicals as mentals. “It feels broken”
However, each time around this loop she/he returns etc., can be very eloquent and is usually more
less and less healthy, and the cylce becomes a well represented in our books than the equivalent
downward spiral. This cycle is the disease, and it “mental” symptom.
keeps repeating itself over and over. 9. Select rubrics that fit the story. Once we have a
He has described how he evaluates each case sense of the general approach to life of the
with the help of Cycles and Segments. patient choosing rubrics that correspond to that
approach is usually more successful than simply
IX. Master Italian Homœopath Massimo using the strongest rubrics. For example, if you
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will find the remedy more easily if when you are 5. Certain patients may not respond to a remedy
choosing the stomach symptoms, you select because of allopathic medicines, and it may be
“Stomach, pain; piercing” (since it corresponds difficult to tell if the correct remedy has been
to the patient’s life story) than you will with selected.
“Stomach, pain; 2 a. m.” The Clean (or Radical) Approach
To stop all allopathic medications and waiting
X. Prescribing Homœopathic Medicines for one to five weeks before taking the case. This allows
Patients on Conventional Drugs. NCH Annual time for the medications to completely clear out of
Conference, April 7 – 11, San Francisco. Report the system and for suppressed symptoms to resurface.
by McMICKLE Allen (HT, 21, 2/2001): The article Recommended especially in skin conditions,
is a report on a presentation by Roger MORRISON. mentrual disorders, nasal pathology, and milder
A brief but informative article for the beginners. mental and emotional problems.
Roger MORRISON presented the statistic that over Pros and Cons
80% of new homoepathic patients are taking 1. Allopathic medications are not distorting the
significant allopathic medications. From this statistic symptom picture.
it is clear that homœopathic practitioners have to 2. The patient can see the true extent of their
contend with difficult cases which may have been condition (which may give them patience in the
confused, compromised or suppressed by these healing process).
medications. 3. It gets the homœopath “out of hot soup” because
1. Allopathic drugs interfere with homoepathic when the remedies are stopped prior to
treatment (although not in all instances or in all homoepathic treatment, the condition naturally
patients) becomes worse. If a remedy, had been
2. Often allopathic drugs mask symptoms introduced beforehand, it could appear that
3. Allopathic drugs may also lower the vitality, so Homœopathy had created the severity of the
response may be slow, or negligible, even when condition.
correct remedy is administered. 4. Some patients (especially with skin symptoms)
And there are medical/legal considerations may not wish to have all of their symptoms
which complicate working with a patient who is return before commencing treatment.
taking medications prescribed by another health 5. A month before taking the case may create an
professional . unpleasant waiting period for the patient.
MORRISON outlined four basic strategies for The Simultaneous Approach
managing these cases: Take the case, have the patient stop all
a) The Cautious Approach allopathic medications, and introduce a homœopathic
b) The Clean (or Radical) Approach remedy all on the same day.
c) The Simultaneous Approach Works best with complaints like Chronic
d) The Never Taper Approach headaches and Migraines, joint pain, and minor GI
The Cautious Approach pain.
Allopathic drugs which are controlling a serious Pros and Cons
illness are continued until there is absolute certainity 1. Pain medications, being short lived, do not
that the homoepathic remedy is correcting the interfere with homœopathic remedies and there
underlying condition. Used for serious illnesses is a no month long waiting before treatment.
which are not immediately life threatening, such as 2. However, if the pain is severe, the patient might
Asthma, Rheumatoid arthritis, Epilepsy, heart disease not tolerate it very well. Also, if a worsening of
and certain other mental conditions. symptoms occurs, it might be difficult to tell
Pros and Cons whether it’s a homoepathic aggravation or
1. The patient’s condition is never compromised. withdrawal symptoms from the drugs.
2. A negative patient response to tapering The Never Taper Approach
allopathic medications can reflect back on There are diseases where it is not appropriate for
homœopath. the patient to discontinue the allopathic medications.
3. The symptom picture can be easily obscured, Although this tends to complicate homœopathic
because the case is taken while the patient is on treatment, the overall condition of the patient is more
allopathic drugs. important.
4. Characterisitc symptoms become suppressed. In cases such as thyroid removal, Type I
The emotional reaction to the symptom may also Diabetes, artificial heart valves, or kidney transplant,
be suppressed. removing medications would compromise the life of
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Homœopathy significantly helps in increasing “When I look at chronic disease, I think of

the vitality and perhaps allows a reduction in the use physical inactivity,” said Dr. STUBOTNICK along
of medications. with stress and poor nutrition, poor sleep,
Pros and Cons environmental toxins, being out of balance, etc. One
1. There is no disruption in the patient’s current of the causes of chronic disease is an imbalance of
level of health. the spirit as well as the physical – of the whole being.
2. No medical/legal issues for the practitioner. He advocates exercise, but doing it so you don’t
3. It may not be possible to tell if the correct hurt yourself. He suggests aerobic exercise 30 – 45
remedy has been selected, because of the minutes per day, with your pulse reaching 60% over
possible interference of the allopathic your resting pulse. With a little exercise, couch
medications. potatoes can reduce their chances of heart attack by
4. A deeper disorder may be cured but the 50%. A healthy 50 year-old with 1 hour per day of
homœopathwould never know this because the moderate to heavy exercise has a 1in a million
allopathic medicines might have masked the chance for a heart attack, whereas a sedentary 50
symptoms which have now been cured. year-old has a 1 in 10,000 chance. Dr.
In working with The Cautious Approach, if the STUBOTNICK concludes that one of the reasons
patient has too quick of a taper, they could people are sick is because of inactivity. The
experience a strong resurgence of their symptoms, treatment for someone who is inactive is to get them
return to their allopathic treatment and drop active, not just to give them a homœopathic remedy.
Homœopathy. “You do not need to be a runner to stay in shape.
To prevent this MORRISON recommends Walking does just fine. In running, your foot is on
maintaining a “least worse” regimen: get the patient the ground for ¼ second, and the impact may be
to a point where the drugs used are minimal and the about 700 lbs. When walking, about 250 pounds of
strongest drugs have been reduced, replaced or weight go through your foot and last ¾ of a second.
removed. He points out that it is important to taper When you are walking, one foot is always on the
drugs in stages, allowing the patient time to stabilize ground. When running, one foot may be on the
at each level before proceeding. For example, he ground or you may be levitating. Walking is so
recommends going from 80 mg of prednisone to 60 much safer than running. You don’t get hurt. Run
mg and waiting one to two weeks. Then proceed only if it is something you like to do.” If you just
down to 40 mg and so on. As the drug is tapered, the walk fast every day, your metabolism will be seven
jumps becomes smaller and smaller, so that tapering times more efficient and you will detoxify seven
off the last 10mg may take several months itself. times more efficinetly than others.
It is also important not to taper off during times Something to remember when treating people
of stress for the patient, whether the stress is physical with sports injuries is that someone who cannot
or emotional. The practitioner needs to look at the continue to exercise is going to get out of shape three
quality of life the patient has attained, instead of times faster than they got into shape. So you need to
getting the patient totally off allopathic medications find a way to help them to continue to be active.
as a measure of success. For any acute injury, along with Arnica, you
need to use RICE – Rest, Ice, Compression and
XI. Homœopathy for Sports and Exercise Elevation.
Injuries. NCH Annual Conference, April 7 – 11, Chronic injuries are acute injuries that don’t go
San Francisco. Report by HOAGLAND Jean (HT, away. The body has decided not to get well. At this
21, 2/2001): Report on a presentation by Stephen point, Dr. STUBOTNICK tries to make the injuries
STUBOTNICK. A very brief article where the use of acute again, because the body knows how to heal
homœopathic drugs in sports and exercise and the acute injuires. He may use injections to bring the
importance of removing the obstacles to cure is injury back to an acute state, since there is no healing
stressed. going on in chronic state. It is pragmatic approach.
Dr. STUBOTNICK – a podiatric doctor took Other factors in sports injuries include gear,
Homœopathic study under Bill GRAY after his son shoes worn unevenly, surfaces, the amount of force
got cured of his recurrent earaches which ended in used, the body build, and different leg lengths. You
bronchitis and asthma. can treat their injuries (often to knees and hips) with
DR. STUBOTNICK explains that an homœopathic remedies and not make much progress,
understanding of total person and constitutional because they may really need a quarter-inch lift in
prescribing is also important apart from prescribing their shoe. In the Organon, HAHNEMANN said
for acute complaints. that the most important thing in homœopathic
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A young girl with hip pain had knock knees. In so decisive in signaling out the remedy. ….It hardly
walking, she needed to swing her foot around, occurs to them to believe that these accompanying
because she could not put it straight forward – the leg symptoms, these smaller or greater deviations from
would hit the other knee – so this movement caused the healthy state, could have a connection with their
bursitis in the hip. Her treatment was not Ruta – she main malady.”
needed a pair of supports so the knees would not And he stresses the importance of “main
knock anymore. In addition she received Calcarea symptoms” and “side symptoms”. DIMITRIADIS
phosphoricum constitutionally, and it is expected that pointed out that a complete Case has four
this will take care of the problem. characteristic: “Sensation, Location, Modality and
Concomitant”. A complete symptom has only the
“Sensation, Location and Modality. A concomitant
XII. Seminar review: The BOENNINGHAUSEN will have all three as well, and it becomes a
Method with Goerge DIMITRIADIS. September concomitant by its nature of being another symptom
16 – 17, 2000. Auckland New Zealand. Report by in the case, even though it may appear unrelated to
Julian WINSTON (HT, 21, 3/2001): The works of the main complaint.
BOENNINGHAUSEN and his methodology are DIMITRIADIS has cited two cases worked in
discussed which are worth reading. BOENNINGHAUSEN’s Methodology which are
Works of BOENNINGHAUSEN: taken from the “Introduction to the Method of
Unfortunately, much of BOENNINGHAUSEN’s BOENNINGHAUSEN” from page 13 and 16 of the
work is unavailable in English. His Lesser Writings new repertory.
were printed in Enlish 1908, but there were several DIMITRIADIS reinforced what GYPSER said
things he wrote that did not appear in this compiled about BOENNINGHAUSEN’s actual practice that
work. His largest work, The Aphorisms of BOENNINGHAUSEN understood the relationships
Hippocrates, with the Glosses of a Homœopathist of the remedies so well that when he had a patient
was due to be published in the U.S. in 1863 but the from a distance and found a remedy that covered the
American Civil War intervened in the printing, and side symptoms that was not the same as that covered
then BOENNINGHAUSEN died. Although extracts by main symptoms, he did this:
were printed in some English language journals about On the first day he gave the remedy for the main
25 years ago, the book, in its totality remains only in symptoms.
German, and it is filled with insights into A few days later he gave the remedy for side
BOENNINGHAUSEN’s method. The final source symptoms.
of information is found, of course in A few days later, he repeated the remedy for the main
BOENNINGHAUSEN’s case books which are symptom.
preserved at the Bosch institute in Stuttgart, A few days later he gave a fourth dose – placebo.
Germany.
The BOENNINGHAUSEN Therapeutic Pocket XIII. Treating Cancer with Homœopathy, by
Book was first printed in 1846, fourteen years after Farokh MASTER, November 4 – 6, 2000. San
BOENNINGHAUSEN compiled the first repertory. Francisco CA. Report by RIDLEY S K (HT, 21,
It is a book, over the years, through poor translations 3/2001): In taking the case of a cancer patient
and lack of understanding, has ceased to be Dr.MASTER emphasized several points: Cancer is
considered useful. multimiasmatic. Syphilis and Tuberculosis are more
But buried within the book is the gem of a heavily involved than other miasms.
wonderful methodology. Extremely important to get the patient’s family
A committee of six people, including both history, miasmatic load, and all past traumas when
GYPSER and DIMITRIADIS, have worked to revise treating Cancer. Severe traumas and severe
the Therapeutic Pocket Book – and to re-introduce emotional turmoil are often seen before the onset of
the method. cancer.
The German edition of the book was printed in He also discussed about small remedies. Ex:
May 2000. The English edition was printed in Toxoplasma gondii: An infection with this organism
Australia in August 2000. is responsible for spontaneous abortions, still-births,
While discussing about the methodology repeated abortions or a child that is severely
DIMITRIADIS quotes from Paragraph 95 in the handicapped mentally and/or physically and Cervical
Organon (O’Reilly edition): “Chronically ill patients Cancer.
become so accustomed to their long sufferings that Gave a detailed account of the importance of
they pay little or no attention to the smaller, often regimen in cancer patients. Talked about diet and
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to alleviate pain and other discomforts of terminal 20 Jan. 1999: Conium 30 not so good. One dose
illness. of Conium M
Some examples are: 4 Feb. 1999: Very good improvement. Can get
Cranberry juice improves appetite. up easily. Working long hours as a taxi driver.
Grape juice and Spinach juice builds blood in Eczema slightly better, knee better.
anaemia. 17 June 1999: Overall 50-70% better. Can get up
Severe back pain due to metastsis chew alfa alfa from chair without help. To continue Conium 6 and if
seeds and dill seeds in large quantities. needed Conium M.
Low blood pressure, drink a lot of freshly squeezed 2. Boy with hyperactivity and clumsiness. Case
lemon juice. presented by Dr.Mitchell CANNELL: 6 year-old
Severe headache from brain tumor, apply tofu to the male, hyperactivity and clumsiness. Was very good
head, bandaged tightly, when it turns yellow throw in school. Language development seemed ahead but
it. speech behind, motor skills poor. Runs and zooms
To save eyesight in diabetes, use paprika abundantly off everywhere, physically restless. Has Dyspraxia.
for its zinc content. Good for cataract too. Generally ‘clumsy’ and is very ‘strong’ – so strong
Grapes give instantaneous energy. that he breaks everything. Lashes out when angry –
For chronic tinnitus, put drops of cabbage juice kicks and screams. Seems obsessively focussed.
regularly into the affected ear. Obsessive about ‘certain order’ of doing things.
To alleviate night sweats, drink dandelion tea. Loves playing in the bath. Likes music with fast
rhythm. Poor attention at school but has good
XIV. Case Reports presented at the Faculty of memory.
Homœopathy Case Conference, Oxford, 13 March Since birth has leg deformity with feet being
1999 (BHJ, 89, 1/2000) turned in (pigeon toes) and knees turned out (femoral
anteversion). Very observant, impulsive in some
1. Idiopathic demyelinating Neuropathy - Case respects. Reserveded in other ways. Likes
presented by Dr.Michael CANNELL: 61 year company.
oldmale, taxidriver with chronic idiopathic < heat; hot feet, perspires in bed, also on vertex;
demyelinating neuropathy. Has been examined by thirst ice cold water.
neurologists and told that there was no treatment for Bufo 30, 200, one dose each on 17 March 1998 and
his condition. He began to develop complaints after began to improve.
44 years of age. His wife died of malignant Review 6 May 1998: Bufo M further improved.
Melanoma 2 years before. Progressive weakness of 19 Feb. 1999: Still better Sulphur M.
legs, can’t get up from a crouching position, weakness 3. Carcinoma of breast cancer and panic attacks.
when he goes upstairs. In more recent years the Case presented by Dr.Prunella MARK: 42 year old
weakness has extended to his upper arms. Has been female. Diagnosed Carcinoma of breast in 1996.
impotent for the last 6 to 7 years. This problem hurts Lumpectomy, three weeks radiotherapy, has been
his ego clear since. Still has breast cancer gene with 80%
In the last six years eczema over legs. chance of recurrence. Also at risk of ovarian cancer,
Perspiration: In the last 4 to 5 years, sweats +++ night advised to have Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy.
on pillow; sweat is sticky ++, smelly ++, Had the operation and started on Tamoxifen and
Sleep, restless. hormone replacement therapy. Panic attack which
Grief was a strong feature which developed after the began after breast cancer diagnosed.
death of his wife. On 9 July 1998 he was given Her mother had ovarian cancer and Lymphoma,
Conium 6 twice daily on 3 Sep. 1998, review: He sister, breast cancer, grandfather, cancer of the colon,
could now stand up unaided and has continued to aunt, breast cancer.
show muscle strength. Repeat nerve conduction tests Hot sweats, throws off covers at night.
and EMG which showed a remarkable improvement Sunshine ameliorates, likes seaside, uneasy to
by at least 50%. thunder. Loves exercise.
Still has sweat on his pillow at nights. 6 Aug. 1997: Carcinosin 30, one tds; monthly.
To continue Conium 6 b.d. 9 Sept. 1997: Apparent agg. from Carcinosin.
12 Nov. 1998: Can stand up without help. Not To stop it. Leg pain and back pain at night, warm
sweating so much at night. New symptom: some shower helps, feels agitated. Ignatia 6x tds. as
pain right knee, occasionally stiff at night > required.
limbering. To continue Conium 6 b.d. To try 11 Nov. 1997: Ignatia regular dose helps; to
Conium 30 weekly. continue if needed. Aggravation after Rhus
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1 May 1998: Generally feeling much better; Anacardium restored him to normality. A very
stopped Tamoxifen. interesting case.
4 Aug. 1998: Since stopping Tamoxifen panic 6. Veterinary case presented by Claire DAVIES:
attacks have become much worse. Terrible moves of 14-year-old pony female. Reputedly a child’s
anxiety when her husband was to go away. Terrible pony.
overwhelming fear of being left alone, worse at night Easy to handle and a reliable responsive gymkhana
would rather die than be left alone to cope. and jumper. Suffered from skin allergy to the biting
Mancinella 30 single split dose. fly, Culicoides.
11 August 1998: Very much better, cannot Had been treated with steroid injections,
believe how much better she feels. Husband is away topical fly repellants, herbal shampoo baths.
and “Extremely grumpy and quick to turn on you;
she can talk to the doctor rationally. Later she unprovoked, will attack horse in adjacent stable.
needed a repetition of Mancinella. Not heard from Very bossy, herds other horses and ponies about;
the patient since. quick to turn and kick out at them when in field.
4. Baby with Eczema and behavior problems. Impatient, stamps her feet and fidgets in aggitated
Case presented by Dr.Prunella MARK: 7 months- way when waiting for food to go out. Neat and tidy.
old male. Dry skin, scratches all the time, on areas Always wants to be outside. Appears more miserable
which have no eruptions, draws blood, scratches in in the evening than any other time of the day no
sleep, scratches eczematous areas too. Had cradle thirst.”
cap from birth, very thick, crusty, large yellowish Most of her skin covered in grey scale and flakes.
scales, dry, peel off easily with normal skin beneath, Around the saddle area and also face she had large
cleared with cradle cap shampoo. open wounds upto 7-8 cm. Diameter. both noise; and
Has now been well since he had an ear infection oozing, crushed over. Itching, worse evening, worse
a month ago. heat.
Always had terrible temper; must have his way, Lycopodium 30 b.d. for 10 days restored.
impatient, won’t wait. Loves attention, LovesTV, [ BHJ, 89/2000].
Loves
music especially if it has a beat, it quieters him
immediately. XV. A correspondant, Nick Higgins writes about
Birth was painful: head out and shoulders vaccinosis – particularly the severe adverse effects
stuck, fructured his clavicle, eventually delivered Meningitis-C. The doctors repeatedly assured that
battered, bruised and FURIOUS, he just yelled and the reaction to the vaccine and only happen 2 to 3
yelled, punctuated by feeds. days after dose. However, the nurses said that they
Tarentula hispanica 30 cured. had seen ‘lots’ of case (With ‘vaccine’ reaction)
5. The case of the ultimate pessimist. Presented which seemed to arise aound 3 to 4 weks after
by Dr.Anne PETTIGREW: 51-year-old male: vaccination. In the experience of the correspondent
When whose child came down with adverse effects of the
the patient was brought he was unshaven, scruffy, vaccination it was after nearly two weeks.
grey, puffy bags under eyes. Slumped. Burping. Further on: “On 12 June, the Daily Express
Looked to far corner of room. Brief eye contact carried a statistic of 4, 764 being the number of
revealed chilling despair. Looks older than 51. cases of vaccination of Meningitis C reported to the
Slow, weary answers. Medicines Control Agency by GPs since its
Diagnosis by Psychiatrist. “Paranoid introduction. Now this is a very interesting figure to
Schizophrenia or extreme eccentricity in schizoid contemplate, as it represents unsolicited
personality”. He was given up by the conventional information. In a climate in which people are
medicine. generally reluctant to report such information, this
The patient felt “everything is corrupt; we live in number is certainly the tip of an enormous iceberg,
an addictive society, money geared; they want us to and is now the subject of ‘questions in Parliament”
buy material things and make money from us. (for what good that will do). …..” (Letters’, The
Religion is a farce. They don’t want us to top into Homœopath, 78/2000) [Here in India the climate of
the universal intelligence. … I cannot make reluctance to report adverse effects is all-pervading;
decisions, always there is the duality. The right and in fact practically no one reports of either adverse
wrongs, the good and bad. I have the burden of the effects or surgical bungling, howsooever serious it
world’s stupidity. … My body is n’t important to might be. Very recently here at Chennai, India, we
me, it’s a shell. It’s my soul that is sick…” have a below 40-year-old man, who was diagnosed
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implant of ‘foldable lens’, developed ‘infection’ of collaboration between the Homœopaths, the
the posterior chamber and other complications and pharmaceutical industry and the Health public
ultimately has gone blind! And the patient has spent services.
large amount of money for losing his eye! He does L’Homéopathie Europénne 1999; 1:22-24.
not want to report. I can cite more cases. = KSS.] (BHJ, 89, 1/2000)

XVI. A Thyroidinum case: A 40 year old woman XIX. Eupatorium perfoliatum short
was abandoned by her lover. After the failure of experimentation: By Pierre LENTHERIC: This
medicines such as Natrum muriaticum, Ignatia, Experimentation aimed to determine whether there
Staphysagria, this woman was cured by Thyroidinum is any differences between Eupatorium perfoliatum
15d 18CH. The main symptoms which led to the 12CH, neutral globules which have been brought
prescription were: tears, inner violence, suicidal into contact with Eupatorium perfoliatum 12 CH,
tendencies, strong palpitations, tremor, diarrhoea, hot and globules which have had no contact with
face, intense thirst, perspiration, arorexia, loss of Eupatorium perfoliatum. An important symptom of
weight and hyperactivity. Eupatorium perfoliatum was encountered in an
It is emphasised that this patient did not suffer experimenter who had taken neutral globules which
from biological or clinical thyroid pathology. were in contact with Eupatorium perfoliatum,
Les Echos du Centre Liegeois namely deep pains as if one had influenza.
d’Homéopathie 1999. 69: 31-33 and 43-45 (BHJ, This placebo controlled trial sets the problem of
89, 1/2000). transmission of information in a dynamized
substance to another neutral substance. This trial
XVII. Behavioural problems in children: was carried out with only six provers and should
DESWARTE, FOURNIER, DESMET deserve new protocols with more numerous provers
The child’s behaviour is influenced from the to determine the reality of this phenomenon (Revue
very beginning of the pregnancy, and a deficiency of Belge 1999; 1: 40-45) (BHJ, 89, 1/2000)
stimulation of the newborn child can have serious
consequences for its later development. The oral XX. Infra red charges in potentised solutions:
stage corresponds to Calcarea carbonica, the R.P. CASAROLI-MARANO, J.ALEGRE & B.
remedy of the adult who hoards money. The stage of COMPOS :
ambivalence, when the newborn child is learning to This is a comparative, multivariate, blind study
cope with the good and the bad leads to Anacardium. using infrared spectroscopy with Fourier
A period of depression between 6 and 9 months may Transform(IRTF) to determine if there are any
correspond to Lycopodium, Sepia, or Baryta changes in a series of alcohol-water solutions as a
carbonica, and the difficulties of separation between result of potentisation.
the mother and the child must make us think of An analysis was made of the spectral profiles of
Pulsatilla or Natrum muriaticum. The stage from 6 70% alcohol-water solutions serially diluted to 1,
months to one year fits vegetable remedies, as 1/100, and 1/10030, with and without succussion at
Ignatia, Chamomilla, or Nux vomica, whereas the each step, and with and without acetone as a solute
cortical stage leads to metal or metalloid remedies, in each case.
such as Argentum nitricum. In the 70% alcohol solutions which did not have
- Homœopathy can be very effective in acetone, those that were not succussed showed no
problems of this sort. significant differences in the wave numbers of their
Homéopathie Européane 1999; 1: 13-14 BHJ, 89, spectral profiles, but in those which were succussed
1/2000. there were significant changes (P < 0.05). In the
acetone solutions, there were significant changes (P
XVIII. Five nosodes banned in France – ALAIN < 0.05) in the spectral profiles of all the solutions,
SARAMBAULT. The French Health Public Services particularly evident in those which were succussed.
have forbidden the production and the use of This study demonstrates significant molecular
Leusinum (Leuticum), Medorrhinum, Morbillinum, changes in the internal structure of the solvent
Pertussinum and Psorinum because of ‘the risk of highly diluted solutions, especially –CH2 and –CH3
transmission of conventional virus and non- radicals as well as –OH bonds in water.
conventional agents. Revista Homeopática 1998; 38: 5-12. (BHJ, 89,
The ‘Syndicat National des Medecins 1/2000)
Homéopathies Francais’ emphasizes the lack of side XXI. ‘Irreversible cases cured’ CN Cámpora
effects of these medicines after more than 100 years This describes two case presentations of patients
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Case 1: 69-year-old woman with severe spinal Homœopathy may be useful in such degenerative
stenosis. Wheelchair bound, unable to remain upright diseases.
for more than five minutes due to pain. MRI scan Cahiers du Groupement Hahnemannien 1999;
showed narrowing of the spinal canal due to 9: 324-325. (BHJ, 89, 2/2000)
degenerative changes from L3 to S1, predominantly
at L4-5. Surgical decompression procedures have a XXIII. Allergy and Aversion to water: Jean-
high recurrence rate in this type of case, so Philippe DUPRÉ: The author describes the
Homœopathic treatment was sought. Started on remedies which have an aversion to water: the well-
Phosphorus 200 one to four times daily, based on known Sulphur, Psorinum, and Antimonium
separate repertorisations of the totality and of the crudum. Ammonium carbonicum neglects to wash.
local symptoms, both of which concurred. Gradual Pulsatilla and Phosphorus do not like hot drinks,
improvement, pain-free at four months. At present, while Stramonium, Physostigma and Caladium do
symptom-free after three and a half years, and taking not like cold drinks. The author goes on to consider
Phos 1MM once daily. Interestingly, repeat MRI the disease linked to water: Antimonium crudum is
scan shows the same structural lesions without suitable for eczema triggered by water, Psorinum
progression, but the spine seems to have readapted. and Histaminum are appropriate for urticaria
Case 2: 31-year-old woman with infertility after triggered by cold water. Drainage may be useful,
trying to conceive for five years. Laparoscopy and with the help of remedies like Solidago, Urtica
hysterosalpingogram showed complete (100%) urens, and Dulcamara.
bilateral tubal obstruction, unrelieved by pressure Finally the author quotes Cimicifuga (Actea
insuflation, and biopsies contained scar and racemosa) (urticaria from water during menses),
endometriotic tissue. Thiosinaminum was prescribed Bovista (dermographism alternating with urticaria)
based on its keynote of dissolving scar tissue, and Aqua marina (urticaria from water when an
strictures or adhesions, starting with 4x twice daily, aggravation with Natrum muriaticum is feared).
increasing to 6x and then 8x, each for two months. The utility of urinary isopathy is emphasized, as the
Conceived shortly after, and delivered a healthy baby importance of Natrum muriaticum, Sulphur and
at full term. The hysterosalpingogram, repeated after Silicea (suppression of rhinorrhea by
six months, showed total tubal obstruction on the left, antihistamines).
but only partial obstruction on the right, with contrast L’Homéenne 1999; 5: 139-141. (BHJ, 89, 2/2000)
passing through with difficulty.
Both cases illustrate the fine balance between XXIV. International Integrative Primary Care
structure and function. Homeopatia 1998; 63: 362- outcomes study (IIPCOS –2): an international
369. (BHJ, 89, 1/2000) research project of Homœopathy in primary
care.
XXII. Syringomyelia: Jacques PIARRAT. A Primary objective is to evaluate the
patient suffered from a weird symptom: when he effectiveness of Homœopathic treatment compared
drank something warm, he felt as if he swallowed a to conventional treatment for respiratory and ear
cold drink. This symptom can be found in Kent’s complaints commonly seen in the primary care
repertory: ‘throat, coldness sensation, warm drinks setting: runny nose, sore throat, ear pain, sinus pain
seem cold’: Natrum muriaticum. This patient had and cough.
other symptoms of Natrum muriaticum and received Secondary objective:
this remedy for several years, without presenting • Relationship between response to treatment and
other neurological symptoms. This symptom is confidence is prescription.
important to know, because it should make us think • Relationship between satisfaction with
of syringomyelia: this is the sole disease in which treatment and adverse events.
dissociation of sensations occurs: preservation of • Cost benefit effect of Homœopathy compared
tactile and deep sensitivity, and abolition of to conventional medicine.
sensitivity to pain (coldness, warmth, sting …). • The study sites are located in the United States,
This disease is not mentioned in the repertories. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The
However we can find other rubrics: insensibility to Netherlands, UK, Spain, Russia and Ukraine.
burning (Plumbum), sensation of coldness, although The investigations will be divided into 3 groups:
not cold (Colocynthis), paralysis with insensibility, one providing ‘Homœopathic treatment’ one
anaesthesia of nerves, of skin (Arsenicum album, providing Homœopathic or conventional treatment
Oxalicum acidum, Secale cornutum, Plumbum, according to patient’s preference either randomised
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Consecutive patients, age of one month or older, pathology(ies), reported symptoms, general
without regard to gender, race and socio economic reaction expressed by the doctor.
group, presenting with one of the five chief With WinCHIP search tool, any kind of
complaints and onset of symptoms within 7 days will correlation can be made.
be included in the study with prior written consent
and completing a questionnair. XXVII. The effect of Ecbalhm Elatherium juice
On day 7, 14 and 28, each patient will be and its Homœopathic dilutions on oxidative bursts
telephoned by an independent interviewer to assess of humpolymorph neurophils M.Chirila and A
the outcome. Olinescu.
IIPCOS –2 is designed to confirm at least one The aim of this study was evaluation of the
sided equivalence, i.e. to demanstrate that effect of juice obtained from Ecballum elatherium
Homœopathic treatment is not worse than on the formation and release of the reactive oxygen
conventional treatmen intermediates (ROI) in uitro by stimulated human
Results: Preliminary interim results will be presented polymorph neutrophils measured using luninal
Conclusions: Lessons learned from the study will dependent chemiluminiscence.
be discussed. Conclusion: The juice has the same strong
antiinflammatory action for all sunjects whereas
XXV. Data collection in Homœopathic practice: theHomœopathicdilution stimulates phagocytosis:
A suggestion for an International Standard A only in the cases, which imply a large quantity of
Steinsbekk and the Data collection Group. BHJ ROI products. Homœopathic dilutions act as
S/39, 89/2000 immuno-modulators in the human body, a fact
Objectives are to : design a ‘draft’ for an which makes Homœopathy a possible therapeutic
International Standard on data collection in method in immunology. (BHJ, 89, SUPPLEMENT
Homœopathicpractice for discussion, 1).
- design a ‘final’ document, and update this,
whenever necessary and to act as co- XXVIII. Proving of Quercus robur: AG
ordinator for new data collection Sarulescu, S.Crump, C.Jacob, S.Gheerghiv.
projects, if the resources allow it. A Objective: To realise a proving with this new
core data set was set to meet the needs remedy, proposed by BURNETT as a
of different, more extensive, types of RADEMACHAR’s remedy without having a
data collection quality assurance, proving.
treatment outcome and economic Three different tinctures were prepared and
outcome one was chosen and a dilution was made.
The proving began on 6 May 1996 and lasted
XXVI:WinCHIP:ComputerisedHomœopathic 30 days with 8 male and 8 female provers. Each
Investigation Program: a data collection tool to supervisor and prover had a book to write down
help the doctor in daily practice to prove and symptoms and everything else that happened
improve Homœopathy. during the proving.
- CM Rezzani: Via regina 89, carate Urio Results: Several important symptoms which
Como 2201, Italy. had not previously been reported including acne in
The objective is to computerise and analyse children and stress related symptoms in adults.
our daily clinical practice.
To compare cases collected from different XXIX. Psorinum in paediatrics P.Popowski: In
countries a ‘pick list’ is created to overcome many a special issue of the ‘Cahiers de Biothérapie’
of the language problems, about Psorinum, one of the most interesting
identification/standardisation of data and user articles relates to the prescription of Psorinum to
friendliness. children.
WinCHIP records administrative data, past The main symptoms of the new-born who needs
history and physiological history wherein an Psorinum are; lack of reaction to medicines,
archive is implemented to vaccinations and their ailments from vaccinations, from acute diseases,
associated problems. family history of psora, dermatosis, thrush. The
All patient information can be accessed using main symptoms of the child are: infectious diseases
pick list or typing in free text. The remedy recurring every winter, every cold turns into
reaction can be verified by checking the data of bronchitis; ailments from frustration, separation,
previous consultation, by the parameters: sorrow; eczema, warts, apthae; great chilliness;
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days; exhaustion after an acute disease. Psorinum Four key rubrics: ailments from scorn,
may be prescribed when well-indicated medicines suppuration of tonsils, restless feet and peeling
do not work, or in a systematic way, as leader of lips, led to the prescription of Chamomilla, with a
psora, in a pluralist treatment. Cahiers de resolution of all symptoms in 24 h, the tonsils
Biothérapie; 2000; 162: 33-36. (BHJ, 4/2000) became normal after 72h. Her constitutional
remedy was Pulsatilla, which is complementary to
XXX. What to do during the 13th consultation, Chamomilla.
D.Scimema: Clinical cases often consist of a small Dr.Minotti’s hierarchy of symptoms for acute
number (three or four) of consultations; longer case analysis is of interest:
observations should be published more often. 1. aetiology;
The author asks whether the word cure has a 2. diagnosis translated into repertory rubrics;
meaning; our task consists in bringing harmony to 3. as above, but with modalities considered;
the patient. But our fight is always lost in advance, 4. new mental symptoms (exclude chronic
because this leads always to the death … ones);
After 13 consultations (or after the 6th or the 5. chronic mental symptoms which are acutely
th
28 consultation …), we can distinguish several exacerbated;
types of patients: 6. new general symptoms (exclude chronic
• The ‘consulting type’ has confidence in his ones);
Homœopathic doctor, but he follows his own 7. chronic general symptoms which are acutely
way outside the patient-doctor relationship. exacerbated;
• The ‘questioner type’ uses Homœopathy in a 8. chronic local symptoms which are acutely
quest for himself. exacerbated.
• The ‘predictive type’ is worried about his Homeopatia 1999; 64: 233-240. (BHJ, 89,
current health and is afraid of possible future 4/2000)
consequences, for example serious illnesses.
• The ‘chronobiological’ type is attracted by the XXXII. Anxiety or Anguish F.Goldstein
rhythm of the day or of the seasons; he Herman: This article aims to clarify the
consults for preventive treatments. difference between these terms, which are often
Each type of patient has a very different behaviour confused. The DSM-IV of the American
and a very different objective towards his own Psychiatric Association defines anxiety only,
illness: anguish is ignored. The distinction, which is
• The questioner wants to know why he is ill. arrived at by an analysis of patients’ language and
• The predictive wants to know how he will be the structure of rubrics, is important for remedy
ill. selection. Both states share restlessness and
agitation in common.
• The chronobiological wants to know when he
Anxiety is characterized by an apparent
will be ill.
aetiological certainty (which might be a
• The consulting wants to know nothing, but he
compensatory mechanism in a person who is full
wants the disappearance of his illness …
of doubts), eg as if guilty of a crime, from
Cahiers de Biothérapie; 2000; 161: 49-54. (BHJ,
masturbation, etc. By contrast, in patients with
4/2000)
anguish there is uncertainty, and ‘they don’t know
what is happening to them’. In anxiety there is
XXXI. Case of MRSA tonsillitis F. Goldstein
expectation, eg anticipatory, about the future, if a
Herman: This article describes a severe case of
time is set, etc. Anguish is unpredictable, the
suppurative tonsillitis in the daughter of a
onset is sudden and surprising. The emotional
Homœopathic colleague. Despite numerous
state of anxiety is discontinuous, eg in bed, at
remedies and careful repertorization, the case was
night, when alone, with alternations, and many
becoming progressively worse after 15 days. The
modalities. Anguish is uninterrupted, but can
causative organism was a multiple antibiotic-
intensify, eg during menses.
resistant Staphyloccocus aureus. The case was
In Herman’s view, anxiety does not produce
retaken for the fifth time, but on this occasion
somatization, but anguish does, often
without the parents being present, and finally the
characterized by spasms eg chest oppression,
aetiology was uncovered. The girl had been
muscular tension, sensation of clothes too tight,
scorned by her boyfriend, but was too shy to talk
etc. The word anguish is derived from the Latin
about this in front of her parents.
‘angustus’ meaning narrow.Homeopatia 1999;
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bedded hospital and necessary staff. This would

XXXIII. 4th National Homœopathic allow centers of Post-graduate Excellence to be
ConferenceMarch 2001, BANGALORE. established and evolve and Homœopaths would
Handling acute emergencies homœopathically by have something to be proud of.
Dr.C.S. SHARADA.
Case 1: A lady in ICV sinking with post-partum XXXV. Dr. Ralf-alexander SCHÖN, in
haemorrage +++ after caesarean section. B.P. ‘Letter’ to Editor (AHZ, 244, 6/1999) write about
60/40. From her emergency kit she gave some Idiosyncrasies. He attended a three month
Adrenalin 6 tsp in water every ½ hr. to the course in which a speaker said that a well-known
surprise of all by next morning the B.P. had Homœopath in the Southern Germany gave to
stabilised as also the haemorrhage almost all cases only of the three medicines:
Case 2: A 49 year old lady, fell unconscious with Sulph., Lyc., Sep. Surely Homœopathy cannot be
cold sweat all over, tachycardia B.P. 220/140. so difficult to be learnt that one could master only
Amyl nit.6 1tsp. Every 5 mins. Revived her in 15 three remedies. Years later in another workshop
mins. the learned speaker gave a written case, in great
Case 3: Male 60 years, who had cardiac bypass detail, and asked the participants to work it out.
surgery 2 years ago, had anuria for 7 hrs. Looked The 18 “old hands” spent a good ¾ hour and the
uneasy with fear of death, wanted to call his NRI result was: two who agreed, and the remaining all
children. Acon. Ferox was given on the basis of gave different ones’. When discussed with the
sudden starting with sighing, hyperventillation and main speaker he said that perhaps if the
dyspnoea, after which he passed 3-4 litres of urine. participants had more time to work out, might have
Case 4: Thin middle aged woman, with rheumatic come out with more agreeable choices.
pains and severe jerks of body in winter. Dr.SCHÖN says that there are some
Diagnosis: Epileptic fainting. During an episode practitioners with their favourite remedies, e.g.
of jerking, the patient moaned ‘can’t bear ice on more Palladium patients, although we find in the
my back’ O/E- normal back. Touching her pulse BOERICKE only a brief write-up, but there are
brought on a jerk. Sudden neck stiffness and fell monographs for some particular remedies, which
unconscious. Strychninum 6, 2 doses. She are so large and if one finds the time to study these
regained consciousness and jerking stopped. monographs, he begins to starightaway prescribe it
Case 5: A case of renal colic in a fat, fair, sweaty more often.
person who was holding his abdomen tight. These are also, Dr.SCHÖN observer, many
Calcarea 30 was given. In 15 minutes he passed inconsistancies in the KENT Repertory.
2 large stones containing Oxalic acid. The conclusion therefore arrived at by
Case 6: A case of rectal prolapse with severe pain Dr.SCHÖN is:
since 15 nights. No sleep with itching +++. 1. Homœopathy is a subjective therapeutic and
Jumping from itching. Indigo 200 – in 3 days the the medicine selection is therefore dependent
prolapse had regressed and the itching was upon the practitioner.
tolerable. (NJH, 1/2001). 2. There is no objective choice of the medicine.
3. Since there is undoubtedly success, there must
XXXIV. M.D. in 4 more subjects introduced. be something more than the ‘normal placebo
M.D. Homœopathy courses in four more subjects effect’, a ‘Homœopath effect’.
namely Practice of Medicine, Homœopathic With reference to the above Dr.K.H.ILLING
Pharmacy, Paediatrics and Psychiatry in addition writes (AHZ, 244, 2/2000): After 39 years’ practice
to already existing 3 subjects i.e. Organon, as general practitioner and treating about 15,000
Repertory and Homœopathic Materia Medica. patients with single medicines (about 95% of my
Clause for external candidates is extended upto patients, the rest like Insulin dependent Diabetes
2009, but they shall be eligible to do only from the patients, with ‘Allopathy’), I come to different
three old subjects. Such candidates should hold conclusions.
degree/diploma not less than 4 years and should If as a physician one follows HAHNEMANN’s
have teaching experience in recognised HMC for 7 Organon(VI Edition), §3, one reaches the right
years or should have full time regular post not remedy choice with reference to the warning of
below the rank of Asst. Professor or have 10 years HAHNEMANN in Vol. III of his Pure Materia
professional practice. Medica (Nota Bene for my Reviewers, Leipzig
CCH has also permitted those Institutions which 1817) “If you really wish to do as well, imitate the
do not have undergraduate college to commence Homœopathic practice rationally and honestly!"”
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extent of his drawal of the correct anamnesis, heap; a peculiar symptom was the bluish colour of its
comprehension of the individual symptoms and tongue. Muriaticum acidum 30k was given every hour
knowledge of Materia Medica. The choice of the from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. then one more time in the
remedy by comparring the remedy symptoms and middle of the night. The next morning, the calf was
proving symptoms are often difficult. There is standing and suckling its mother. Les echos du CLH
therefore the chance of selection of the wrong 2000: 76. (BHJ, 90, 1/2001).
remedy.
The opinion that there cannot be an objective XXXVII. The Meaning of disease—and the disease
choice is also not right. There is always the chance of meaning: K.A.JOBST,D.SHOSTAK,
that the patient may not have, due to various reason, PJ.WHITEHOUSE: Disease and health are
told the symptoms correctly, or the physician commonly thought of as distinct opposites. In this
himself has not interrogated properly, etc. on the Editorial the authors propose a different view in which
comparison of the large number of proving both may be seen to be the facets of health
symptoms (e.g. 4084 symptoms of Sulphur) in the functioning, each necessary for the other, indeed each
Encyclopaedia of ALLEN with the patient’s giving rise to the other. Thus, disease may be thought
symptoms may go wrong. of as being a manifestation of health. Dr.Jobst and his
About the ‘placebo effect’ and the ‘Homœopath colleagues state that disease is not necessarily to be
effect’ mentioned by Dr.SCHÖN: The allopaths avoided, blocked or suppressed but rather it should be
may be annoyed that the Homœopaths obtain far understood to become a process of transformation.
better than the normal placebo effect”. Under this new paradigm people’s problems become
Dr.ILLING says that in his experience the ‘diseases of meaning’ enabling them to see that things
correctly chosen medicine given in the appropriate are not necessarily ‘going wrong’ but are, in fact,
high potency produces the required effect. With helping them become stronger, to live more fully and
more experience, it is observed that it is difficult to with more understanding.
find the simillimum every time; it is possible to find The concept that diseases are actually a
the similar remedy, many times, only during the manifestation of health—a call to a different
second or third consultation. Someone said, relationship with ourselves and our animate and
probably Dr.H.SCHOELER, that “only the right inanimate environment—constitutes a different
placebo acts.” approach. Programmes for care and education based
Apart from all these, it remains unexplained how upon it would have immediate applications in
“Homœopathic effect” successfully treat following medicine and industry. The authors believe that this
diseases which allopathic school had unsuccessfully positive model of disease would have far-reaching
treated: a Lobar Pneumonia, Post amputation stump consequences for understanding treatment and
neuritis, Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative colitis, prevention of diseases and behaviours that lead to
Diabetic gangrene. Intermittent claudication, the violence and environmental destruction.
host of different rheumatic complaints, They provide some examples of the application of
Neurodermatitis, Bronchial Asthma, Cystopyelitis, their ideas to the treatment of depression and go on to
Herpes zoster and its consequences, septic Fistulae, pose the question ‘Why in the most affluent educated
after injuries or operations, or in singultus or a and liberal era of history are people so ill with chronic
obstipation post operative; some holds good for the and largely incurable diseases?’ The answer to this is
treatment of infants, small children, of animals and complex; ageing and increased longevity are only part
many other diseases in which Homœotherapy has of the story. J. Alt Comp Med 1999; 6: 495-502
helped. Indeed in these often chronic diseases of 10 (BHJ, 90, 1/2001)
or more years of anamnesis come to the
Homœopathic physician and remedy selection is XXXVIII. Homœopathy for pigs: H. ALBRECHT,
difficult in those cases in which both patient and A. SCHÜTE: The paper refers to a study carried out
physician must have patience. [In the light of 40 with a sample of 1440 piglets. The sample was
years’ practice, I agree entirely with Dr.K.- randomised into three groups receiving either a
H.ILLING. I would add to the impressive by combination of three antibiotics, a combination of five
Dr.ILLING, mental disorders like Schizophrenia Homœopathic remedies in low decimal potencies, or
wherever homoeotherapy has had successes. = placebo. The Homœopathic intervention was found to
KSS.] be the most effective of the three treatments. The
authors state that independent replication is necessary
XXXVI. Veterinary Acute Case: M. BRUNSON: A to confirm the results. (Alt Ther Health Med 1999;
young calf suffering from diarrhoea with considerable 5: 64-68) (BHJ 90, 1/2001).
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XXIX. Effectiveness of nosodes: WB JONAS: An Nitricum acidum, Calcarea carbonica are the main
interesting randomised study by the American medicines of Phimosis.
Homœopath Dr.Wayne Jonas has demonstrated that a Prostatic hypertrophy suggests Baryta carbonica,
nosode made from infected tissue could confer some Conium, Digitalis, Sabal serrulata, Populus
protection on laboratory mice subjected to bacterial tremoides, etc.
challenges. High potency remedies prepared from Prostatitis may be treated by Pulsatilla,
tissue infected with Franciscella tularensis were Chimaphilla, Mercurius, Sulphur.
administered to the test animals. It was found that Impotence may be treated by constitutional
75% of the untreated controls died while only 53% of remedies. Otherwise, Psychotherapy is more
the isopathically treated group succumbed. (Alt Ther important than remedies of local action.
Health Med 1999; 5: 36-40) (BHJ 90, 1/2001) The author stresses on the necessity of
prescribing, initially constitutional remedies. (CGH
XL. Cuprum metallicum (B.LONG) According to 1999; 7: 249-251) (BHJ 90, 2/2001)
the author, Cuprum metallicum looks like Marylin
Monroe, who wanted to please and charm. Cuprum is XLIII. Special issue of L´ Homéopathie
afraid to disturb the others and tries not to displease. Européenne: allergology and homœopathy: The
After a review of hysteria, Dr.Long quotes Kent, who possibilities of the homœopathic treatment are
wrote that Cuprum suits girls who were never covered in a special issue, from a congress which
thwarted when they were children, and have cramps or took place in Arcachon, near Bordeaux, in June 1998,
fits of madness later on, during puberty. Les Echos du organised by the ‘Société Médicale Homéopathique
Cebtre Liegeois d’Homœopathie 1999; 72: 16-29 d’Aquitaine’.
(BHJ, 90, 2/2001) Dr.Mireille de Feytaud emphasised the importance
of the anamnesis in an allergy consultation of:
XLI. Inter-human relations: H.GAERTNER previous history, distinctive signs of the illness, way
Practitioner’s feelings towards a patient can affect the of life of the patient, previous treatments,
type of treatment chosen. The author gives 3 common psychological factors which can bring about or
examples of inter-relations. worsen the allergic disease (pp 103-104).
1. Antipathy implies a display of ‘cold’ feelings: Dr.Jacques Daviaud described the clinical ENT
dislike and aversion can be associated with examination: allergic Rhinitis, vasomotor Rhinitis,
verbal or acute and chronic Sinusitis are differentiated (p 105-
physical hostility. 106).
2. More frequent phenomenon is indifference. Dr.Mireille de Feutaud described the main
3. Sympathy - warm, positive inter-relationship the homœopathic medicines of allergic Rhinitis:
extreme form of which may involve personal medicines of local indication, as Arundo donax or
sacrifice. Natrum muriaticum or Isotherapy (pp 109-110).
Such an approach is praised and recommended Dr.Jacques Daviaud and Dr. Bernard Poitevin
asnecessaryqualityformedicapractitioners.Empat discuss the homœopathic treatment of Asthma.
hy is the capacity to understand another person’s Constitutional treatment is emphasised with, for
feelings, thoughts and whole-life situation. It example, Arsenicum album, Sulphur, Sepia or Natrum
may be more appropriate to the practice of muriaticum. The main medicines of the asthmatic
Homœopathy. cough are described, in particular Ipecac, Antimonium
Hamard Medicus 1999; 17: 20-23 (BHJ, 90, tartaricum, Cuprum, etc.
2/2001) Dr. Jean-Philippe Dupré tackles the problem of food
allergy: Aethusa cynapium, Silicea, Cadmium
XLII. Andrology: J. PIARRAT The different sulfuricum are the main medicines in the infant.
diseases of the male genital apparatus are briefly Abrotanum, Staphysagria, Phosphoricum acidum and
described and their Homœopathic treatment Calcarea carbonica are often prescribed in allergic
described. children. The adolescent may be treated for instance
Orchitis may be treated by Pulsatilla, by Ferrum metallicum (egg allergy), Calcarea
Rhododendron, Spongia, Iodum, Clematis erecta. phosphorica (crustacean allergy, with Astacus,
Testicular atrophy may make us think of Aurum, Homarus, Histaminum), or Solanum Lycopersicum
Iodum, Kali Iodatum. (tomato and latex allergy) (pp 118—119). Speical
Male sterility may be treated by Conium, or issue of L´Homéopathie Européenne 1999; 4,
Iodum. French-language journals reviewed by P.COLIN
Hydrocele should make us think of Pulsatilla, (BHJ, 90, 2/2001)
Apis, Rhododendron, Digitalis, Phosphorus.

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XLIV. The relationship between in vivo and in The drug would reduce fractures and colorectal
vitro studies, G.HARISCH, J.DITTMANNN: There Cancer to some extent. The risks of the drug far
has been much vigorous discussion as to whether in outweighed the benefits thus transgressing a cardinal
vitro studies can be used to accurately predict events rule of medical ethics: “Primum non nocere” i.e.
in the living cell. In vivo studies involve “First, do not harm the patient”.
administering the test substance orally or parenterally The stories are still running in print, electronic
to a suitable intact organism. In vitro studies involve and visual media, so great has the global impact
adding a test substance directly to a cell culture been.
medium. There are 17 million women in the U.S. taking
The authors present a new experimental design, the some form of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
so called ‘cell-free system’ that seeks to overcome this with a reported six million women who are on a
problem. In this particular in vitro approach the test combination of estrogen and progesterone. Many are
substance is brought into direct contact with an Prempro, manufactured by Wyeth Ayerst.
enzyme system. It is claimed that any change in the Prempro is one of the most popular HRT
catalytic activity of the enzyme system in comparison prescriptions by U.S. doctors. 22.3 million
to a control, can be directly related to the test prescriptions were issued last year alone.
substance. Last year Premarin (a conjugated estrogen
In the study detailed in this report it was derived from the urine of pregnant mares) sales
demonstrated that Homœopathic preparations of amounted to one billion dollars. The mares used for
Arsenicum album, Kalium cyanatum, and cyclic this are farmed with an unacceptable degree of cruelty.
adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in 6x, 8x and 12x The repercussions of the WHI study has gone beyond
could significantly influence the catalytic activity of Atlantic and Pacific. Doctors and Lawyers in the U.S.
urate oxidase and glutathione S-transferases. The two have initiated class action against Wyeth. Wyeth had
enzyme systems were also used to determine whether to set $13.2 billion to settle lawsuits.
there were any differences between the effects of In the 1960s Wyeth Ayerst supported a New
potentised and conventionally diluted forms of these York physician Robert A.Wilson to write a book
chemicals. Using urate oxidase it was possible to Feminine Forever which was promoted around the
demonstrate differences between the effects of Kali U.S. Dr.Wilson’s contention was menopause was “a
cyan at 6x and a simple 10—6 dilution. Differences state of decay” with women reduced to a “cow-like
between camp 8x and a simple 10—8 dilution were passivity” leading to their taking refuge in alcohol,
also seen. Using the other enzyme, glutathione S- sleeping pills and suicide. U.S. and Western Europe
transferases different effects were detected between viewed menopause as a disease affecting the mind,
Kali cyan 6x and a simple 10—6 dilution and between body and spirit to be treated by HRT rather than as a
Arsen alb 6x and 10—6 dilution. Biomedical Therapy natural phase of life.
1999; 17: 45-49. (BHJ, 90, 2/2001) The sales of HRT soared by aggressive marketing
and sales promotion by pharmaceutical companies
XLIV. Debate: Hormone replacement Therapy: which adapted a strategy of selling direct to women
End of an Era. Dr.Uma Krishnamurthy. Between through vivid imaginery or glossy advertisements in
1993, 1998, the WHI (Women’s Health Initiative) magazines and T.V.
recruited 16,608 healthy, menopausal women with an Was the medical profession unaware of the risks
intact uterus between the ages of 50-79 to participate in the long-term use of HRT. Observational study
in a double blind, controlled trial. Located in 40 have alerted doctors to the increased risks of Coronary
clinical centres in the U.S., 8,506 women were given Heart disease, potential risk of breast Cancer with
prempro (conjugated estrogens + medroxy estrogen and progesterone.
progesterone acetate) provided by Wyeth Ayerst The view is that HRT debacle arose from a
Research and 8,102 women, a placebo. “triumph of marketing and advertising over science”.
5.2 years later, a small but definite increase in Others hint darkly of the influence wielded by the
the incidence of breast Cancer, Stroke, Coronary Heart pharmaceutical industry over medical education,
disease and blood clots in the women taking Prempro research and clinical practice. (The Hindu, 11th
set alarm bells ringing loudly enough for the study to August 2002, Sunday).
be stopped by the Data Safety and Monitoring Board
of the WHI.

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LIST OF JOURNALS
Full addresses of the Journals covered by this Quarterly
Homœopathic Digest are given below.
1. AHZ - Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung, 9. JH – Homœopathic Community Journal, For
Karl F. Haug Verlag, Hüthig GmbH, im Weiher Association for Scientific Research In Homœopathy
10, 69121, HEIDELBERG, Germany. (ASRH), 108, Street No. 1, Mubarik Kothi Area,
6. BHJ - British Homœopathic Journal, 2, Powis Sangrur (PB) 148 001, INDIA.
Place, Great Ormond Street, LONDON, WCIN 10 Med GG – Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte,
3HT, U.K. Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch
3.CCR - Homœopathic Clinical Case Recorder, Stiftung, Strenßweg 17, Germany.
Phule Road, Maliwada, AHMEDNAGAR – 11. NEJH - New England Journal of Homœopathy,
414001, INDIA. 356, Middle Street, AMHERST, MA 01 002 USA.
4. HH – The Homœopathic Heritage, B.Jain 12. NJH - National Journal of Homœpathy, Milan
Publishers, 1921 Chuna Mandi, Pahargani, New Clinic, Saraswathi Road, Santa Cruz(w), MUMBAI -
Delhi – 110 055. 400 054.
5 HL-Homœopathic Links, Homœopathic Research 13. SIM - Simillimum, The Journal of the
and Charities, “Dinar”, 20 Station Road, Santa Homœopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians
Cruz(w), MUMBAI - 400 054. 11231 SE Market Street, PORTLAND, OR, 97216,
6.HT - Homœopathy Today, National Center for USA.
Homœopathy, 801, North Fairfax Street, Suite 306, 14. ZKH - Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie, Karl
ALEXANDRIA, VA. 22314, USA. F. Haug Verlag, 6900 HEIDELBERG 1, Germany.
7.HOM - The Homœopath, Journal of the Society of
Homœopaths, 2, Artizan Road, NORTHAMPTON N,
4HU, U.

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PART II

(This section contains condensations/extracts/whole of selected important articles)

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given do not act quickly enough to ameliorate their
1. Rapid Dose (R.D.) Techniques sufferings.
Treating a Case of Life-Threatenning As a result of my dissatisfaction, I began to search
Hydrothorax for a better posologic method administering
CHAN Isaac (SIM. XIII, 3/2000) Homœopathic remedies. It was not until the fall of
1992, while treating a patient suffering from a life-
Introduction threatening hydrothorax, that I discovered a more
It is not uncommon to hear from patients, and effective means to administer remedies. Subsequent to
sometimes practitioners, comments such as: “Although this experience, I began to use this method in clinical
Homœopathy is effective in treating chronic diseases, trials and improved it further. After using the
and sometimes it can do wonders for acute diseases, its techniques on thousands of patients with various
therapeutic effect is not consistent, and it does not act as complaints, I have found that these new posologic
quickly to relieve pain and suffering as allopathic drugs. methods, especially the latest version, are consistently
Therefore, allopathic drugs are still the treatment of effective and efficient in triggering immediate
choice for quick symptomatic relief and for crisis amelioration in both chronic and acute diseases,
situations.” This kind of critique indicates that our according to the principles of “the higest ideal of
conventions; Homœopathic treatment methods are far therapy” described in the second paragraph of the
from being Organon of Medicine and Hering’s Law of Cure.
optimally effective, and there is plenty of room for Subsequent to my discoveries, I named the original
improvement. posologic method as the “Rapid dose” (R.D.) technique
When I began to practice Homœopathy in the early and the improved versions as the “Ascending Rapid
eighties, sticking faithfully to the straight Kentian Dose” (A.R.D.) technique and the “Cyclic Ascending
method of prescribing (the “one dose, wait and watch” Rapid Dose” (C.A.R.D.) technique respectively. The
method), I often found myself unfulfilled and frustrated story of my discovery follows.
to see my patients needing to take allopathic drugs Case
while undergoing Homœopathic treatment. This On July 23, 1992, a 43 year-old female, Mrs. C,
occurred mainly when the Homœopathic remedies I had came to my clinic because she was suffering from

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Carcinoma in both lungs. Prior to identifying the nature Physical examination

of her problem, she had suffered from a chronic Percussion of Mrs. C’s chest revealed marked
persistent cough, which was misdiagnosed and treated dullness. Auscultation of her thorax revealed marked
as allergic bronchitis by her family physician for a coarse rales and absence of vocal fremitus. The
period of more than a year. By the time Carcinoma was frequency of her respiration was greater than 50 times
clinically confirmed, the Cancer had already occupied per minute and her pulse was rapidly accelerated to 120
both lungs. Mrs. C’s past medical history included a beats per minute.
mastectomy in 1987 due to Carcinoma of the right Rubrics
breast. Generalities; Abuse of, poisoning with medicaments
Mrs. C’s intention in coming to see me was to “try Chest; Cancer; mammae
out” Homœopathy because she was afraid of going Generalities; Metastasis
through the sufferings associated with the side-effects of Chest; Dropsy
chemotherapy. After consulting me three times, she Respiration; Difficult; impossible while lying
decided to stop Homœopathic treatment and to undergo Respiration; Difficult; sitting upright ameliorates
chemotherapy instead. She made such an abrupt Respiration; Difficult; talking; aggravates; during and
decision because she did not find the homœopathic after
treatment acting quickly enough and she was afraid that Respiration; Difficult; air; cold aggravates
the treatment I gave her could stop her cancer from Respiration; Difficult; in a warm room
spreading. Respiration; Difficult; after exertion
As a result of the side-effects of Chemotherapy, Respiration; Difficult; with perspiration
after taking her fifth injection of the anticancer drug, Cough; Expectoration ameliorates
Mrs. C developed fluid in both pleural cavities, causing Expectoration; Frothy
her severe dyspnoea and increased cough. After that, Expectoration; Profuse; after each paroxysmal cough
her condition deteriorated rapidly. On Wednesday, Expectoration; Bloody, spitting of blood; streaked
October 7, 1992, she was admitted to the hospital. By Generalities;Weakness,enervation,exhaustion,
Saturday, October 10, her condition was getting out of prostration, infirmity; from talking
hand. Since she was not responding to any of the Respiration, Loud.
conventional treatments prescribed by the hospital staff,
the lung specialist and oncologist thought that she Outcome of Treatment
would die within a day or two. That evening, Mrs. C’s Based on the above analysis, I gave Mrs.C Sulphur
sister contacted me and begged me to go to hospital to 200. A few seconds after taking Sulphur, Mrs. C
do something to save her dying sister. I told her that I experienced mild improvement in her breathing, and she
would go to see her sister and try my best to help her, ceased to perspire after approximately two minutes.
but could not promise that I would save her life. However, the ameliorating effect of the first dose of
When I came into Mrs. C’s sickroom, I saw a very Sulphur 200 was very short-lived. It lasted for
exhausted and sick-looking lady sitting on her sickbed approximately three minutes. Other than the
supported by four pillows stacked behind her back. perspiration, the majority of her symptoms began to
Mrs. C’s husband told me that his wife had not had any relapse. Subsequently, I gave Mrs. C the same remedy
sleep for the past three days because every time she a few more times, and each dose of the remedy
tried to lie down on her back, her dyspnoea became produced the same kind of short response, an
much worse. Since her breathing was so accelerated, amelioration lasting no longer than three minutes. After
she was having great difficulty trying to talk, eat or giving Mrs. C Sulphur 200 ten times in 30 minutes, I
drink properly. She was breathing so hard that the stopped treating her, because based on my previous
clothing on her upper body was completely soaked by clinical experience and what I had learned from
profuse perspiration. The sound of her breath was so previous homœopathic training, I felt that I had
loud that it could be heard from the hallway outside her encountered an incurable case of terminal lung Cancer
sickroom. From time to time she coughed violently, complicated by Hydrothorax.
and after each spell of coughs, she spat out copious I took Mrs. C’s husband to the hallway outside the
amounts of frothy white mucus. The fluid draining sickroom and told him that he should prepare for the
from her pleural cavities into the plastic tube was worst, as I had done everything I could help his wife but
covered with streaks of blood. At this point, I realized I she was not responding well enough to recover. Before
was facing a grave case of Hydrothorax with a grim leaving Mrs. C, I put a few grains of powdered Sulphur
prognosis. Bearing that in my mind, I sat down beside 200 into a glass of warm water and advised her to sip
Mrs. C and tried my very best to examine her and to the medicated water every one to two minutes. I did
repertorize her case. that because I felt that it was a logical thing to do.
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some relief. The next day Mrs. C’s sister came early to intervals of a truly matching remedy will not cause any
my office, and informed me gaily that sister’s condition aggravation.
was much improved. Surprisingly, after sipping the The Rapid Dose Technique and improved versions of
medicated water as instructed for two hours, Mrs. C’s the techniques
condition was much ameliorated. She was able to lie Rapid Dose (R.D.)
down and fall asleep on her back for three hours for the Following this clinical experience, I began testing
first time since she had been admitted to the hospital. this new technique in clinical situations, and tried
I gave Mrs. C’s sister more Sulphur 200 and told altering part of the procedure. There are two parts of
her to instruct Mrs. C to take one granule of the the technique. The first part of the treatment is
medicine every hour until all symptoms disappeared. I performed in the office. The doctor will help to remove
also advised her that Mrs. C should return to my clinic part of the patient’s sufferings while treating him or her
to continue her Homœopathic treatment as soon as she in the office. The second part is home treatment, in
was released from the hospital. Mrs. C took the remedy which the patient continues taking the remedy for the
as instructed. Her hydrothorax was completely cleared remaining symptoms after leaving the doctor’s office.
after taking the remedy for three days, and she was In the office, the doctor gives the patient 10 or 15
released from the hospital four days after her recovery. size 10 pellets or powders of the same potency, using
After being released from the hospital, Mrs. C went 200, M or 10M of the iondicated remedy, repeated at
to see a Chinese herbalist instead of coming to see me. approximately 30 second intervals for a period of five to
She was not fully convinced that homœopathic 20 minutes until 30% or more of the suffering is
treatment could cure her Cancer, in spite of the fact that reduced.
she had been saved from a life-threatening Hydrothorax Subsequent to the R.D. treatment in the office, the
episode by the homœopathic treatment. Furthermore, patient will be sent home with size 30 to 40 granules of
her herbalist told her that the “Western medicine” (the the indicated remedy of the same or a lower potency.
homœopathic remedy I had given her) could either He or she will continue the treatment by repeatedly
antidote his herbal treatment or interact with the herbs taking the dry medicated pellets or sipping the remedy
and produce unfavorable side effects. in aqueous solution every half-hour to two hours,
After taking Chinese herbs for two months, Mrs. C depending on the severity of symptoms. The medicated
decided to go back to the hospital for radigraphic aqueous solution is made by putting one granule of the
examination. The minute she walked into the indicated remedy into a glass of water.
oncologist’s office, he criticized her harshly for When treating disease with very acute and severe
terminating Chemotherapy without his consent. He told sufferings such as those suffered by Mrs. C, the remedy
her that her condition had been worsened by the should be repeated as frequently as possible in both the
Chinese herbal treatments, and threatened to refuse to first and second parts of R.D treatment, the majority of
treat her subsequently if she did not resume patients with acute conditions that I have treated
Chemotherapy right away. Mrs. C resumed experienced 30-40%, and occasionally 50%, reductions
Chemotherapy unwillingly, prompted by fear, anxiety of their symptoms before leaving my office.
and anger with indignation. She died in the hospital Ascending Rapid Dose (A.R.D.)
after two weeks of Chemotherapy. As I was not fully satisfied with the result from the
Discussion initial R.D. technique, after working with this method
The tragic ending of this case is mentioned in this for two years, I tried using R.D. in ascending potencies,
report, not because it has any direct bearing on the and called it the Ascending Rapid Dose or A.R.D.
discovery of the subsequent versions of R.D. technique. Again, this technique is divided into two
techniques, but rather, because it shows us the parts. The first part of treatment is to give 10 to 15
importance of consistently obtaining rapid, gentle and grains of size 10 30 pellets of the indicated remedy two
permanent cures. This is the only, and overridingly or three times at 30 second intervals before moving onto
improtant factor for us to gain the confidence of our the next or higher potency, for example, starting with 30
patients and the scientific community at large. Mrs. C’s and then progressing to 200, M, 10M, 50M, etc. The
incident has become one of the improtant driving forces second part of A.R.D. treatment or home treatment for
behind my R.D. research. acute conditions is similar to the second part of R.D.
From treating Mrs. C, I have learned the important treatment as described above. Again, the decision on
lesson that, in order to allow recuperation to take place potency and frequency for home treatment will depend
rapidly and smoothly, the remedy must be repeated greatly on the percentage of symptoms removed after
frequently, at a rate such that each dose of remedy is the first part of A.R.D. treatment, the severity of disease
given well before the effect of the previous dose is and recuperative ability of the patient, etc.
finished, especially during acute and crisis situations. On the other hand, the home treatment for chronic
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As there is no urgency involved, the patient does not flus, injuries, acute pains etc. After switching to
need to take the remedy as frequently as acute A.R.D., I began to experiment using A.R.D. to treat
sufferings. Usually, he or she will be asked to take a 6 both acute and chronic problems. After testing R.D. for
or 30 dose of the indicated remedy four or five times per seven consecutive years, and seeing thousands of
day, with potency adjusted everytwo or three weeks, patients recuperating at remarkable rates, I feel that I
similar to the “ascending scale method” advocated by have an obligation to announce this method to the
Dr. EIZAYAGA. world. Prior to writing this report, and how to present
With this improved version of R.D. (A.R.D.), I it, I struggled to decide whether or not I should write
found that approximately half of the patients with acute this report, and how to present it, as C.A.R.D. is such a
and chronic conditions that I have treated experienced revolutionary concept that my announcement may
50-70% reductions in their symptoms, and the other half inflame some of the “authorities” and their followers.
experienced 30-40% reductions within five to 20 After much consideration, I feel that if I can answer
minutes of the first part of A.R.D. treatment. Although questions regarding the validity, effectiveness, safety
the clinical results from A.R.D. appeared to be more and repeatability of this method, I can probably avoid
effective than the original R.D., there is one drawback stirring up strife among colleagues and battles over
to this technique. The percentage of suffering reduced Homœopathic orthodoxy. Here are my answers.
in the first part of treatment will depend greatly on the Validity
number of potencies that the doctor has on hand. For In the beginning of his research, HAHNEMANN
example, if the doctor has three different potencies, and demanded that his followers practice precisely the way
only 30% of the suffering is reduced after using all three he did, and he considered those who diverged from his
different potencies, and only 30% of the suffering is original method as apostates and traitors. Contrary to
reduced after using all three potencies with the A.R.D. his obstinate and dominating behaviour,
method, the initial reduction in symptoms will be less HAHNEMANN did make many changes throughout his
than it might have been if more potencies were given. 60 years of clinical research in Homœopathy. The
Cyclic Ascending Rapid Dose (C.A.R.D) major areas of change were frequency of doses,
To resolve this technical difficulty, after using potency, and method of preparing remedies.
A.R.D. for a short period of time I began to experiment Coincidentally, the two major areas of difference among
with using ascending potencies in a cyclic manner. I different schools of thought in Homœopathy are
called this new version of R.D. posology the “Cyclic frequency of doses, potency. It is very likely that these
Ascending Rapid Dose” or C.A.R.D. technique. Again, differences are dogmas based on clinical observations
this technique is divided into two parts. For example, in announced by HAHNEMANN at different periods of
the first part of treatment, if the doctor has 30, 200, M, time.
and 10M, he would begin treating by giving 30 twice,
each dose 30 seconds apart, followed by 200, M, 10M,
twice respectively. After treating with 10M twice, he
would go right back to 30 and begin the cycle again
until at least 50% of suffering is reduced.
The second part of C.A.R.D. in home treatment for
acute sufferings is similar to the second parts of R.D.
and A.R.D. as described above. And the second part of
C.A.R.D. in home treatment for chronic problems is
same as the second part of A.R.D. treatment described
above. The patient repeatedly takes the dry medicated
pellets or sips the remedy in aqueous solution, every
half-hour to two hours, depending on the severity of the
symptoms remaining.
One of the biggest advantages of C.A.R.D. is that it
can be used continuously until the maximum reduction
of suffering is achieved. With C.A.R.D.. one can
consistently reduce the majority of patients’ symptoms,
both acute and chronic, by 50-70% within five to 20
minutes in the first part of C.A.R.D. treatment.
Occasionally the reduction can reach 90-100%.
Summary
For the first two years of R.D. research, I have been
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Frequency of doses HAHNEMANN used the 30th centesimal for many

In his 60 years of clinical research, HAHNEMANN years and criticised his students harshly for using
changed his thinking on how to administer doses at least anything higher. However, in his later years he
five to six times. For example, in his early writings accepted high potencies and began using 200 and higher
(1798), HAHNEMANN indicated that the remedy potencies.
should be repeated once, in accordance with the Law of In the sixth edition, he advocated a new method to
Similars. prepare medicine, and called it the 50 millesimal scale
In the first edition of the Organon of Medicine or LM potency. At the same time he also advocated
(1810), HAHNEMANN stated that a patient’s increasing the potency with every new dose of remedy
improvement migh continue after the remedy had taken.
ceased to act, and suggested that one should not repeat a Summary
remedy until the improvement ceases. He felt that the For a very long period of time, the correct
effect of remedy could persist for days instead of hours. posologic method in homœopathic treatment has been
If the dose is repeated within this time, it will produce one of the most disputed subjects among homœopaths.
an aggravation. In the fifth edition of the Organon In fact, this disagreement is considered by one
(1833), HAHNEMANN claimed that in acute prominent author as one of the major indirect factors
diseases,the remedy may be repeated once every one to leading to the decline of Homœopathy in the beginning
24 hours, while in chronic diseases repetition should be of the twentieth century. Looking at all of the above
every seven to 14 days. alterations made by HAHNEMANN throughout his 60
In 1838, HAHNEMANN changed once more, years of clinical testing, we may conclude that
stating that in acute diseases, medicine should be given HAHNEMANN was consistently looking for a better
every two to six hours depending on the severity of and safer way to administer doses and to prepare
disease, and in chronic diseases usually every day, or remedies so that he could reduce the amount of
atleast on alternate days. aggravation during treatment and achieve what he
In his sixth and final edition of the Organon (1839 proclaimed as a rapid, gentle and permanent cure. Thus,
– 1842), he advocated the “plus” method or the “split it is obvious that even in the eyes of HAHNEMANN
dose”, i.e. frequent repetition of doses with increased there is no such thing as a single “orthodox” or
potency on each repetition of the remedy. In paragraphs ‘unorthodox” posology. There are only more or less
246 and 248, he writes “..As the most recent and effective means to administer homœopathic medicines,
frequently verified experiments have taught me, this can as long as the method used is guided by the Law of
be accomplished very felicitously if the following Similars and Hering’s Law in a sound and safe manner.
conditions are fulfilled: firstly, if the medicine is very Ultimatley, what influences the outcomes of treatment
carefully selected so that it is accurately homœopathic; are the correctness of the diagnosis and the remedy
secondly, if it is highly potentized, dissolved in water, given, and the posologic method used.
and given in suitably small doses at intervals that The research on R.D. posologic methods is an
experience has shown to be the most appropriate for the attempt to continue HAHNEMANN’s work in looking
speediest cure. But the degree of potency of each dose for a rapid, gentle and permanent way to cure diseases.
must be somewhat different from that previous and that As the R.D. posologic methods have gone through
of the following doses, so that the Vital Principle, which seven years of clinical testing, and proven to be safe,
is to be diverted to a similar medicinal disease, is never efficient and effective, they should be considered as
roused and incited to untoward reactions, as always valid alternatives to conventional Homœopathic
happens when unmodified doses are repeated, especially posologies.
at short intervals.” (§ 246) Effectiveness. How Effective? It
“For this purpose of the medicinal solution is is extremely effective. As described above, the majority
potenised anew each time before it is taken (with about of patients suffering from acute or chronic diseases can
eight, ten, or twelve succussions of the bottle). The experience a 50–70% reduction of symptoms after five
patient should take one or ( increasing progressively) to 20 minutes of the first part of C.A.R.D. treatment. To
more coffee spoons or teaspoons of this as follows: in give a few examples:
chronic diseases, daily or every other day; and in the One bed ridden patient suffering compound rib
most urgent cases every hour or more frequently still. fractures in 13 different places from an automobile
In chronic disease every correctly chosen homœopathic accident experienced a 70% reduction in pain after five
medicine, even one of a long-acting nature, can be minutes of R.D. and obtained a 100% cure in 13 days.
repeated daily for months in this way with ever- The next example is a very personal and emotional
increasing benefit…” (§ 248) case, as the patient happened to be my beloved
Potency and method of remedy preparation daughter. Two years ago, she was suffering from severe
second and third degree burns from boiling water on

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70% of her face and part of her body. I was fortunate “background cause” for the lung carcinoma because the
enough to have developed my C.A.R.D. technique by operation had resulted the cancer to move inward, i.e.
that time. Basically, the treatment worked so effectively causing suppression of the breast cancer. Secondly, the
that it arrested all of the pain after one hour, withered all lung carcinoma or the metastasis of the cancer from
blisters (initially one to three inches in diameter) in two breast to lungs is considered as the “background cause”
hours, and cured the majority (90-95%) of the lesions on of the hydrothorax. The toxic chemotherapy had led to
her face in seven days. The remaining 5 – 10% resolved scar formation on the pleural membranes, and
in 15 days without even a trace of scarring. I will write subsequently to fluid retention in the pleural cavities.
up a report on this case with pictures taken daily The first rubric, “Generalities; Abuse of, poisoning
showing the progress from C.A.R.D. treatment. with medicaments” is used as the direct cause leading to
In suicidal depression, most patients experienced formation of the hydrothorax. The second, “Chest;
marked decrease of their depression within five to 20 Cancer; Mammae” and the rubric “Generalities,
minutes, and were completely without sucicidal Metastasis,” are used as a combined rubric for the two
thoughts after a month or two. “background cause” mentioned above, namely the
A long jump athlete suffering from a severe suppression of the breast cancer and the metastasis of
anterior cruciate ligament tear experienced a 100% the cancer from breast to lungs. A combined rubric is
recovery in 10 days. used because there are no such rubrics as “metastasis
An 82 year-old patient suffering from carcinoma on cancer,” “carcinoma of the lungs,” or “suppression of
her left breast, with multiple ulcers and gangrenous cancer” in the repertory. Rubrics four through 17 are
formations on the breast induced by eight courses of reactions to the causes.
radiation treatments, experienced peace of mind after an In general, symptoms from the causes and effects of
initial C.A.R.D. treatment. The ulcers and gangrenous a disease should include all of the appropriate mental,
formations were completely removed after one month, emotional symptoms did not appear to play important
and completely disappeared after three months. roles because the focus of the patient’s suffering was on
A 40 year-old female, who had suffered lower back her breathing. Therefore, mental and emotional
pain for a period of more than 20 years, experienced an symptoms were not included. Furthermore, the patient
80% reduction of her pain after 15 minutes of C.A.R.D. was having great difficulty in trying to talk properly to
treatment. express how she felt during interrogation.
A Word of Caution How to determine the correct remedy?
Although C.A.R.D. treatment can bring miracle- After finding the etiologies of the disease and
like cures, its effectiveness will rely on accurate getting all necessary symptoms of the case, the next
diagnosis and giving a correctly matching remedy. improtant thing is to determine the correct remedy. In
Needless to say, proper diagnosis and giving correctly this case, we have four closely matching remedies:
matching remedy. Needless to say, proper diagnosis is Sulphur covers 16 rubrics, Arsenicum 15, Lachesis 13
a major step toward cure. And proper homœopathic and Lycopodium 12, respectively. How can one tell
diagnosis will require will require good homœopathic which is the appropriate remedy to give?
diagnostic skill (including sound interrogation skills), Firstly, the remedy chosen must cover all of the
good basic diagnostic skills, thorough understanding of etiologies of the disease, and secondly, the remedy
the principles of Homœopathy, etiology of disease, given must be able to demonstrate cure according to
knowledge of the repertory etc. All of these play Hering’s Law of Cure. In this case, only Sulphur and
important roles in achieving a cure. The role of Arsenicum cover all of the etiologies; therefore
C.A.R.D. is to trigger an immediate healing response Lachesis and Lycopodium are out of the picture. With
from the patient being treated and to speed up the cure. closely matching remedies, like Sulphur and Arsenicum
Without proper diagnosis and the right remedy, in this case, one of the ways to find the correct remedy
C.A.R.D. will not work. is by giving these remedies one at a time, to see which
What is proper diagnosis? one can trigger a healing response. As a general rule,
Briefly, proper diagnosis means obtaining the entire when a correct remedy is given, one can usually trigger
picture of the disease and the diseased person, the approximately 30% amelioration after repeatedly giving
“totality”. A properly diagnosed “totality” should the remedy one to four times using R.D., A.R.D. or
include two categories of symptoms: the cause or C.A.R.D. However, very severe acute conditions, as in
causes, and the effects. The cause is the etiology or Mrs. C’s case, and slow-reacting patients are exceptions
triggering factor of the disease and the effects are the to achieve the same level of amelioration.
reaction to the cause. For example, with respect to Mrs. Once the remdy begins to take effect, the patient
C’s case, there was a series of etiologies which led to will experience amelioration according to Hering’s Law
her developing hydrothorax and pleural effusion. First of Cure. Hering’s Law of Cure states that: “Cure takes
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organ to the less important organ, and the symptoms complex diseases, etc. This category of patients often
disappear in the reverse order of their appearance.” can obtain as much as 70% reduction in symptoms fom
With respect to the case of Mrs. C, the most the first part of treatment, but may experience
important suffering was dyspnea, expectoration, retrogression to 30% improvement in one to two days
coughing or carcinoma of the lungs, because dyspnea after the initial R.D. treatment. When this happens, it is
was making the patient unable to lie down, sleep, eat or usually benign, as the patient will experience
talk properly. Since dyspnea was endangering the improvement again when given further treatment,
survival of the patient, therefore dyspnea should be the starting from the 30% reduction level.
first symptom to be removed. And indeed, perspiration The third kind of retrogression happens when an
was the first symptom cured and dyspnea was the first 80-90% matching remedy is given. The patient will
symptom reduced. expperience various amounts of retrogression with or
Apart from making an accurate diagnosis and giving a without formation of new symptoms. This kind of
“correct” remedy, there are two other factors which can retrogression happens usually an hour to a day after
affect the success and progress of all three “rapid dose” amelioration in acute conditions, and a few days to a
treatments, and need to be addressed here. They are few weeks after amelioration in chronic sufferings. The
frequency of remedy intake during home treatment and other thing that needs to be addressed is when an 80-
relapse or retrogression of reduced symptoms. 90% matching remedy is given, the amelioration
Frequency of remedy intake for home treatment obtained does not follow Hering’s Law of Cure.
With respect to the first factor, it is critical for the The fourth kind of retrogression happens in the
patient to take the remedy frequently enough to trigger a elderly and emaciated patients who are terminally ill
continual and smooth amelioration. Generally speaking, and have been intoxicated by many courses of
the more acute the problem, the greater the frequency of Chemotherapy or irradiation therapy. The percentage of
remedy intake is needed. regression of this category of patient is always 100%
Retrogression of reduced symptoms and the ameliorating effect of each dose of remedy
With respect to the second factor, there are four given will last for a shorter and shorter period of time.
kinds of situations that can lead to retrogression of When this happens, the prognosis is grim because it is
symptoms or sufferings previously reduced. usually an indication of an irreversible problem. With
First, if the patient does not follow the prescribed this kind of patients, the decision is mixed. On the good
home treatment, the second part of R.D. treatment, as side, Homœopathic treatment using R.D. or otherwise
instructed, or allows too much time lag between the first can reduce the intensity of suffering through palliation.
and second part of treatment, retrogression will take On the other hand, treatment can shorten these patients’
place. In general, the seond part of the treatment should lives, as the detoxification and healing processes
be performed as soon as possible, within 30 to 60 triggered by the treatment demand large amount of
minutes after the first part of treatment for acute energy, which is something these patients lack. Trying
problems, and within few hours for chronic problems. to “ squeeze” energy out from a body whose reserves
Secondly, a partial retrogression of reduced are already critically low can greatly reduce its vitality.
symptoms may occur in severe acute diseases and some Summary
chronic problems. Mrs. C’s case represents the extreme Other than for terminally ill patients, the Rapid
end of this kind of regression in acute diseases. The fact Dose techniques, especially the C.A.R.D. technique,
that Mrs. C ceased to perspire after taking the first dose have been repeatedly demonstrated to be efficient and
of the remedy indicates that she was using less effort to effective posologic methods for treating the majority of
breathe although she was experiencing the same degree acute and chronic conditions. The success of R.D.
of difficulty in breathing when the effect of each dose of treatments will rely on a proper diagnosis of the causes
remedy given expired. and effects of the disease and prescribing a correct
Generally speaking, partial relapses of severe acute remedy that can trigger amelioration according to
diseases can be overcome by giving rapid doses of the Hering’s Law of Cure.
remedy at close intervals, shorter than the amelioration Frequency of remedy intake and regression of
period produced by each dose. On the other hand, partial symptoms are factors affecting the progress and results
symptomatic regression from severe acute diseases has of R.D. treatments. The second and fourth types of
been greatly reduced by the C.A.R.D. posologic method relapses described above reflect the health status of a
because the technique can trigger a far greater level of patient, and can be used as indicators for prognosis.
amelioration than the original R.D. method, given the Safety
same period of time for treatment. Aggravation
Partial relapse of chronic diseases can happen in a One of the major concerns and obstacles to
patient suffering a very chronic problem, experiencing a homœopathic treatment experienced by most
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is known as the “aggravation.” An aggravation can But in his later work, HAHNEMANN changed his
cause a great deal of discomfort to the patient and view. In the fifth and sixth editions, he advocated the
endanger his or her life. Therefore, in his 60 years of use of aqueous solutions with potency increased every
clinical research, HAHNEMANN made many changes time before taking the solution. He felt that this “split
in treatment frequency, dosage and potency, not only dose” or “plus” method was far more effective and
seeking a way to speed up cure, but more importantly caused a lot less aggravation than the dry pellets, single
also to find a way to reduce the aggravation produced dose method. Based on his new clinical observations,
during homœopathic treatment. he strongly condemned using the same or unmodified
In his clinical observations, HAHNEMANN potency. In paragraph 247 of the sixth edition,
noticed that all medicines produce primary and HAHNEMANN wrote: “…It is inadmissible to repeat,
secondary actions on healthy subjects. The primary even once, exactly the same dose of medicine without
action is the initial changes which take place in a human modifying it… The Vital Principle does not accept such
body when a medicine is given, and the secondary identical doses with opposition, i. e. without bringing
action is the life-preserving reaction produced by the out other symptoms of the medicine, symptoms not
body’s Vital Force against the primary action of the similar to those of the disease being treated….”
medicine. In paragraph 65 of the sixth edition of the In the last few years of clinical research, he
Organon, he cited some examples of primary and developed the LM potencies. In paragraph 270 of the
secondary actions: “Excessive vivacity follows the use sixth edition, HAHNEMANN claimed: “…But my new
of strong coffee (primary action), but sluggishness and method produces medicines of the highest power and
drowsiness remain for a long time afterwards (reaction, the mildest action which if well chosen, heal all the sick
secondary action), if this be not always again removed parts of the oragnism…” Although by combining the
for a short time by imbibing fresh supplies of coffee LM potency with the “split dose” method
(palliative). After the profound stupefied sleep caused HAHENMANN did not find the same kind of violent
by opium (primary action), the following night will be aggravation produced by the dry pellet single dose
all the more sleepless (reaction, secondary action). method, he observed another form of aggravation:
After the constipation produced by opium (primary “…when the cure is complete or near complete” as
action), diarrhea ensues (secondary action)…” stated in paragraph 161 of the sixth edition.
HAHNEMANN argued that the remedy Contrary to HAHNEMANN’s findings, my clinical
aggravation of disease symptoms from a homoepathic findings show that when a correctly matching remedy is
remedy results from the primary action of the medicine, given, and the recovery triggered by the remedy given is
indicating that an accurate homœopathic prescription in line with Hering’s Law of Cure, the original and
has been given. In order to reduce the intensity of improved versions of R.D. posologic methods do not
aggravation, in the beginning of his clinical research, cause any aggravation, even when the same or
HAHNEMANN advocated the “single dose, wait and unmodified potency is given repeatedly, either in dry
watch” method and the use of potencies no higher than pellets or in aqueous solution. After seven years of
30. Based on his clinical experience, he felt that if a clinical testing and confirmation from treating
remedy is repeated too frequently it will cause thousands of patients with acute and chronic diseases,
aggravation of symptoms and delay cure. In paragraph the R.D. posologic methods have been proven to be safe
242 of the fourth edition of the Organon, he wrote: “As and effective.
long, therefore, as the progressive improvement In my last two decades of homœopathic practice, I
continues from the medicine administered, so long we have observed five common causes of homœopathic
can take for granted that the duration of the action of the aggravations, and none of them are related to posology
helpful medicine, in this case at least, continues, and used or frequency of remedy given. The five causes of
hence all repetition of any dose of medicine is aggravation are:
forbidden.” Treating the underlying instead of the top or recent
The same point was stressed again in paragraph layer,
245: “Even one dose of the same medicine which has up Treating the totality, without etiology or etiologies to
to now proved beneficial, if repeated before the match with the totality,
improvement has began to stand still in every direction, Treating the totality of either physical or
will, like an untimely interference, only aggravated the mental/emotional symptoms, instead of the totality
state… In one word, we disturb the amelioration covering mental, emotional and physical symptoms,
affected, and still to be expected from the first dose, if Treating with a remedy which is only a 80-90% match
we give a second dose of the same originally well to the case, instead of treating with a 100% matching
chosen remedy before the expiry of the period of action remedy,
of the first; at all events, we thereby delay the Treating a patient who happens to be extremely
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Aggravations from causes 1, 2 and 3 will result and up-to-date repertory is needed. Trying to make an
when the “wrong” remedy given is allowed an interval of accurate diagnosis with an 80 year-old KENT repertory
time in which to act, as often seen in “single dose, high will be an impossible task. To give an example, there
potency, wait and watch” method of prescribing, or when are only 8,755 rubrics with Sulphur found in the old
a low potency of the wrong remedy is given repeatedly KENT repertory, but there are well over 15,000 rubrics
for a period of days or longer. An aggravation from 1 with Sulphur in any recent and updated repertory.
usually could last for a long time with no associated Therefore, it is not hard to see that in order to diagnose
amelioration. Aggravations from 2 and 3 could last for a properly and accurately, an up-to-date repertory is a
variable duration, with or without the development of must for any reasonable Homœopath to possess.
new symptoms. Conclusion
On the other hand, an aggravation from 4 could The discovery of R.D. techniques has opened up a
accompany partial or temporary amelioration of the chief new horizon in homœopathic treatment methods. Cures
complaint, and often enchants the inexperienced triggered by the R.D. treatments demonstrate the
practitioners as signaling the “correct” remedy. principle of “the highest ideal of therapy” laid out by
Aggravation 5 is the most violent form of aggravation Dr. HAHNEMANN in the second paragraph of the
even when a correct remedy is given, but fortunately, Organon of Medicine. Other than producing quick,
only a small portion of patients have this kind of safe and effective amelioration of acute and chronic
sensitivity. When treating extremely hypersentive sufferings, the instant healing response according to
patients, one should exercise the utmost care to choose Hering’s Law of Cure triggered by the R.D. allows the
the remedy, dosage and frequency of repetitions so as to doctor to determine right away whether the correct
minimize the intensity of an aggravation. remedy has been administered. As a result of procuing
General rules such an immediate healing response, using any of the
When a correctly matching remedy is given during three posologic techniques described in this report can
the first part of R.D., A.R.D. or C.A.R.D. treatments, help to reduce many unnecessary aggravations.
usually the patient can experience 30% or greater Among the three R.D. techniques, the original R.D.,
reduction of symptoms after taking one to four doses of A.R.D., C.A.R.D. has been proven to be more effective.
the indicated remedy. If the doctor expriences difficulty It has been demonstrated more repeatedly and
in the first part of R.D., A.R.D. or C.A.R.D. treatments consistently to be able to induce remarkably quick cures
and gives a few incorrect remedies prior to giving the of acute and chronic diseases. Does this mean that
correctly matching remedy, apart from the very C.A.R.D. is the final version of R.D. treatment, and the
hypersensitive patients, the majority of the patients R.D. research era has come to an end? No, and
treated will not experience any aggravations or suffer any definitely not. On the contrary, this is just the beginning
residual effects, side-effects or provings from the wrong of a new era, as there are still many questions
remedies given. In general, the patient will either show unanswered. What exactly is going on behind this R.D.
no response to the wrong remedy, or slow or minor phenomena? Why R.D. can trigger such a quick healing
improvement, usually no more than 10-20%. response? What will it be like when LM potencies are
Summary used in R.D. treatment? And on and on…
The R.D.., A.R.D. or C.A.R.D. treatments are safe Let me quote you the definition of science given in
and effective means to administer remedies. The safety DORLAND’s Illustrated Medicinal Dictionary, “1.
valves for these posologic methods lie in proper The systemic observation of natural phenomena for the
diagnosis and giving the correct remedy which can purpose of discovering laws governing those
trigger a healing response according to Hering’s Law of phenomena. 2. The body of knowledge accumulated
Cure. by such means.” This definition has summed up my
Repeatability thinking about R.D. research. I look forward to seeing
Repeatability is one of the most important aspects more and more homoeopths willing to take the
of any scientific procedures. In order to reproduce the challenge to try out this method, and to give me their
same kind of results that I have described in this report, feedback afterwards. Remember, “Aude Sapere” –
the most important things, as I have previously stressed, “Dare to try” – is the essence of Homœopathy, which
are making an accurate diagnosis, which will cover both has kept it alive despite the opposition of allopathic
the etiology and the reaction to the etiology, and giving medicine.
the correct remedy, which will trigger recovery
according to Hering’s Law of Cure. 7. New Discoveries
Accurate homœopathic diagnosis is not only a LIPPE Adolph (SIM, XIV, 1/2001)
science; it is also an art, which requires careful
interrogation, observation, examination and The following article appeared in the
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presents the information as it appeared in the Advance, going to bed if she did not feel better. The next week
then evaluates the merits of the “new” method according she called. ‘I am all right. I took a powder at 2 PM and
to the principles. at 6 PM I found I was all over in a warm, gentle
The October number of the ever welcome Advance perspiration, and my feet and legs were moist and warm
(page 227) brought us an earnest plea for progress and – you know I told you how cold they were – and my
investigation. Physicians are asked to consider and mouth was moist and the bad taste gone, and I had a real
reflect on the statements made, and do as good appetite for supper. I slept well, and felt first-rate
HAHNEMANN asked his contemporaries, viz: when I got up, and at breakfast my husband said I was
experiment and try for themselves. We are further told making up for lost time, I was eating so much. No, I did
(page 229): “It is not what the immediate effects of my not take an enema, as you said I had better wait, and the
discoveries are, but their possibilities, that I am anxious day after I had a nice, moist, soft, natural movement,
to have investigated. As an illustration of my course of and it has been regular since. The fact is, Doctor, I have
reasoning and my conclusions and results I give the not felt so well since we moved into that old house, and
following: that was three years ago. Oh! no, I did not take the
“A year ago Dr.H kindly sent me a two-ounce vial second powder. I am going to keep that in case I get
of pus, ‘from the worst septic abscess I ever saw.’ The bad again.’ “I will add here that patient’s
patient was moribund at the time the abscess was opened. pulse was 8, temperature 101. I have found this
I prepared and potentized it, and then reflected. If my temperature in several cases that did not complain of
theory of morbific products containing the poison that fever, and Pyrogen relieved each case. Now, is there
caused the disease which produced them, and as I had not in this case food for reflection? What remedy in the
proved with Variolinum that such was the case, might not materia medicawould cover the totality of its
this septic pus be a remedy for blood poisoning in all symptoms?”
cases? For in all such diseases as Typhus, Yellow fever, LIPPE’s Commentary: There is in this case food for
and Sewer-gas poisoning there is purulent contamination reflection, and we now shal indulge in some of our
of the blood; perhaps that is the case, in a less degree, in individual reflections. A brand-new discovery has been
that universal condition called Malaria. made; we are introduced to an entirely new and novel
“Mrs. H. declares she has had Malaria for six system in the medical art. When HAHNEMANN asked
months; at least, nothing else will account for her his contemporaries to experiment and try for themselves
condition to her satisfaction. I give her words: ‘Well, he laid before them a very elaborate argument, showing
Doctor, I am sleepy all the time; I could lay down on this first that the law of the similars known to and advocated
floor and go to sleep now, I am so tired and weary. I by thinking medical men from HIPPOCRATES down to
sleep all night, but am no more rested and refreshed in his own days, was the only possible Law of Cure, and
the morning than if I had not slept at all. I cannot take he further showed how this law was to be applied for
the least exercise without being tired out and my limbs the certain and mild cure of the sick (ignoring thereby
ache as if they had been pounded. I have no appetite, and all previously held hypotheses as to the material causes
I only drink because my mouth is so dry. Why, of diseases); he showed the absolute necessity of first
sometimes my tongue sticks so tightly to the roof of my ascertaining the sick-making properties of drugs, and
mouth, and food won’t go down, the throat is so how to obtain a correct picture of the condition of the
dry,unless I drink something. Yes, the rectum is also dry, sick, laying great stress on mental symptoms. By his
I can’t have a movement without an injection; I have not unerring inductive method he showed clearly how he
for a year, and the stool is hard; and when the water used had arrived at the conclusions which enabled him to
comes first it is so hard and dry that it scrapes the rectum demonstrate the laws governing the healing-art. Later,
and makes it burn. No, I have no chills; now and then he demonstrated the necessity of diminishing more and
there is a shiver runs over me for an instant, and more the dose of the drug applied under the infallible
sometimes I feel sort of hot, but no fever. No, my skin is law of cure. After he had so placed his method before
as dry as everything else, and I never perspire. Well, I the profession, and after he had practically found them
don’t know what the cause is, but I have not been real correct, he asked the profession to try the experiment for
well since we moved in our old house, which we left last themselves. When the experiment was tried honestly,
May. Oh! No; where we are now there is no bad smell, for the purpose of combating his method, with the
in fact, no smells of any kind, and it is well ventilated intention of annihilating them, the experimenters were
and we have plenty of fresh air where we live now. I compelled to accept his methods and became converts
don’t care nuch about anything.’ to Homœopathy; for instance, the late Dr.HERING was
“Here was a picture and an opportunity. Was it gas to write a book denouncing HAHNEMANN and his
poisoning or blood poisoning? I gave Pyrogen CMM – methods; he first tried the experiments, and did not
the name I gave the preparation – two powders, one on write that book
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In this instance we are informed that a new Law of Yellow fever, Sewer-gas poisoning, and Malaria there
Cure has been discovered, viz: that morbific products of had been “discovered” purulent contamination, and
disease, when highly potentized, will cure the same therefore on strict logical inductions it has been
disease in others. This is the proposition on which rests discovered in “Gotham” that Pyrogen is the remedy in
the new discovery. We will now follow the discoverer the CMM potency made and sold by the discoverer. As
in his logic, when he asks the profession, as did the newly discovered law must be applicable in all
HAHNEMANN, to experiment and try for themselves. cases, we feel that we may in future dispense with
The first proposition is, Variolinum cures variola, almost all collateral branches of the medical science,
therefore septic pus may be a remedy for blood save probably Anatomy and Chemistry.
posioning in all cases; for as in such diseases as Typhus This model case upsets HAHNEMANN, his labors,
and Yellow fever there is purulent contamination of the his toils, his following, and all else that has ever been
blood, perhaps that is the case in a less degree in that proposed in the healing-art. It is not Homœopathy –
universal condition called Malaria. As a proof of the nothing resembling it. Homœopaths have always treated
correctness of these logical propositions one case is symptoms, and not an
related. That case is also food for reflection. hypothesis of septic poisoning, and they imagined that
HAHNEMANN and his followers will have to take the results of their strict practice could not be better
back seats. No physician ever before has had such a under any other mode of treatment. Now all our
brilliant success. In the course of say seven hours, a boasted successes appear as nothing compared with that
disease which had developed itself slowly and had one solitary case, which is held up to us as a proof, of
tormented the patient for months was cured as if by the infallibility and correctness of this new discovery!
magic. The medicine, Pyrogen CMM was administered And why should we not, in our humiliated condition,
at 2 PM, and not a vestige of the disorder remains after “investigate” a far superior system of the healing art?
retiring for the night. The effect of this single dose of And who will investigate in these perverse times?
an entirely unproved remedy in CMM was astonishing; There are 99 out of every hundred of the more than
the drug was prescribed on an hypothesis; it was either 5000 Homœopaths in these United States who never go
gas poisoning or blood poisoning, and this miraculous past the newly proposed limitation of drug action, viz.,
healer by way of strict logic found that sewer-gas the 10th potency as we were told by the late President of
poisoning or blood poisoning was always cured by the American Institute, and if it were not so the one
Pyrogen. For the benefit of the Bureau of Materia percent who go beyond the 10th potency, the members
Medica, of the American Institute, who are preparing a of the International Hahnemann Association, would
boiled down materia medica, we might say that Pyrogen have found, long before this, a contradiction of this
should not be left out, as we have been presented by this assertion by the executive committee of said IHA. No
modern discoverer with keynotes for its administration. doubt said executive committee, so watchful over the
Dry mouth, dry skin, dry rectum, temperature 101, and interests of the IHA and of pure and unadulterated
no fever – will they note this, that there was no fever Homœopathy, will express an opinion on the duty of the
with this case of blood poisoning or sewer-gas members of the Association respecting the asked-for
poisoning? progress and investigation. The facts established and
But what further food for reflection! The patient not officially contradicted by the late President of the
related a set of symptoms found easily under Nux Institute reduces the possible investigators to exactly
moschata, which really covers the totality of symptoms, one per cent of all homœopathic physicians in the
but as Nux moschata is not one of the reminiscences of United States. An individual who contends that there is
the herb doctors and of the late Thomsonians in the no medicinal virtue ina potency above the tenth, who
new-old remedies, and the discoverer appears by his also vociferously demands absolute liberty of medical
paper to be great admirer of HALE’s works and opinion and action, is not likely to contaminate himself
collections of unproved drugs, it is not to be supposed by using the CMM potency.
that he is familiar with an old remedy so masterly All great discoveries had to wait for recognition.
arranged by the late Dr. HERING. Our new discoverer will find that recognition, after the
After all, what use would Nux moschata have been? experiment, will follow very rapidly – after an
We all acknowledge that the discoverer has dusted us in experiment which will undoubtedly result in the full
that Nux moshcata case, a recovery such as no medical conviction that the new discoveries are fraught with
man ever heard of before, and the laws by him unprecedented results. All that is wanting are
discovered are so easily understood there is no necessity illustrations, and if some over conscientious journalists
of following HAHNEMANN through his tedious, strict, should refuse to publish cures with unproved but highly
inductive methods; there is no necessity for wading potentized nosodes, under the plea that Homœopathy
through the many volumes of materia medica to to find uses only proved drugs, then it would be the wisest
the similar, the homœopathic remedy. In Typhus,

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course the discoverer could pursue to publish a journal ONE case will make all medical men “reflect”. This
of his own and give his discoveries a name. ONE case will stand there before the medical world
The discoverer says: “It is not what the immediate unsurpassed in the novelty of therapeutics until even
effects of my discoveries are, but their possibilities, that this celebrated case has been surpassed by still more
I am anxious to have investigated.” The immediate rapid cures with much smaller quantities of more
effects of the discoveries are certainly apparent to the intensely potentized, unproved drug. Reflect, that every
liberal discoverer. Is the letter-carrier’s pouch large great thing once accomplished must be accomplished
enough for all the letters and orders the dicoverer again, and the reflecting reader will ultimately, if not at
receives daily, ordering supplies of “Pyrogen,” sending once, see the deep philosophy, the profound reasoning,
him the innumerable reports of speedy and miraculous, the extraordinary skill brought to bear on this celebrated
we might say to the common mind almost incredible, age. By all means let us progress and investigate.
cures with “Pyrogen” and other morbific products? –
how speedily, for instance, dysmenorrhea yielded to one 3. Vitalism and The Law of Cure
dose of Dysmenorrhinum CMM – also of long standing, PASCHERO T.P. (SIM, XIV, 1/2001)
no matter from what causes induced, whether from anti The article is a reprint from Dr. PASCHERO’s
- or retroversion of the uterus, or from cold or from recent book Homœopathy.
tubercles developing themselves, or from fright, or from Before undertaking clinical practice, it is of the
pregnancy, or from a thickening of the hymen, or from utmost importance to acquire firm philosophical
any unknown cause whatsoever? All such foundations as well as faith in homœopathic doctrine.
communications should be published at once. We come Many homœopaths have failed because they thought
now to investigate (as desired) the possible future clinical practice to be more important than an
effects of these discoveries. We must look to “Gotham” understanding of the basic principles.
for the solution of this question; to “Gotham”, of late so In the United States, birth place of many great
prolific in medical discoveries. masters of Homœopathy, Hahnemannian medicine
What are, then, the future possibilities after this declined when these masters began placing too much
certainly secured success? The newly discovered laws emphasis on the successes and failures of treated cases in
and the practice based on them will prevail, their teachings, while neglecting to instill an
HAHNEMANN will be forgotten, a new school will understanding of the law of cure at work in each patient.
rise, and people will recover so rapidly that the sick will Constantine HERING was perhaps the best prescriber in
require but very little medical advice. Homœopathy and the United States, but of the hundreds of physicians who
Allopathy will he forsaken alike, and an enterprising attended his lectures, very few could follow in his
“Gothamite” will take out a patent for speedily footsteps. Most of them lacked his clinical perspective
potentizing any and every morbific or other unproved and thus were not as successful in their prescribing.
substance; every one of the few remaining doctors will Calvin KNERR – HERING’s foremost student, who later
run his own “potentizer” day and night; all pharmacies became his son-in-law and the author of the well known
will be immortalized! Such are the possibilities of the Guiding Symptoms told me personally that he had never
future; not only the possibilities but the certainities in known anyone with so remarkable an intuition for
the near future, provided the practical results of prescribing it as HERING. But at the same time,
applying the new method warrant it. KNERR said, no one was as meager in explaining how
For ourselves, we can only say to the discoverer he had made his diagnosis. HERING’s intuition, based
that we will be happy to make the experiment just as on his knowledge of homœopathic philisophy, enabled
soon as Homœopathy, such as its founder taught us, him to quickly perceive the essential symptom picture of
ceases to show us the best and only means to cure the each patient.
curable sick and relieve the incurables better than any In the art of clinical diagnosis, as in any other
other system in vogue. And if that time has come, and applied art, there is an untransferable personal and
if by the subsequent practical experiments we become psychological process. Science is analytical and
convinced of the great superiority of successes under discriminating insofar as the facts of nature are
these new discoveries, our first duty will be to denounce concerned, but the synthesis that links those facts
Homœopathy, cease our connection with all and every depends on the researcher’s ability to perceive the unity
so-called homœopathic Society or Association, and that particularizes all organized beings.
become a member of a society of men who have learned This awareness allows the homœopath to
to cure the sick so very rapidly with so little waste of comprehend the patient’s whole personality.
time both to the doctor and to the sick. That ONE case It is the result of subconscious workings where
has given us food for reflection; that ONE case deserves reason and emotion come into play, yielding what has
a prominent place in every homœopathic journal – in been called the clinical eye, which every practitioner with
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general agreement on following the HIPPOCRATIC Paradoxically, death is the most positive aspect of
Vitalist tradition. The intelligent force that coordinates life, and metaphysically necessary, because dispersion is
vital activity and repairs damaged structures was called essential for the continuity of vital motion. What dies is
enormon by HIPPOCRATES and elan vital by the illusion of autonomy of the being that lives as an
BERGSON (1859 – 1941). HAHNEMANN fathered the individual, without having gained awareness of his
law that describes its workings and the Montpellier place in the totality of existence. Surely, any atom in
school developed this concept philosophically, coining the body has lived in another being, animal, plant,
the term “Vital Force.” mineral or star and will continue to live in another
The Galenic school (GALEN AD? 131 – 201) has individual after the dispersion of the body. Our death as
received the seal of approval of Pasteurian dogma. individuals will be inevitable if we fail to fulfil the
Seeing the germ as the essential cause of disease, the highest purpose of existence, which is to come to the
Galenic school produced several several generations of realization of cosmic unity, from which new synthesis
materialistically minded physicians, trained to be of ever-changing forms and structures come forth. As
exclusively concerned with finding and eliminating the PARACELSUS (1493 – 1541) said, there is a complete
germ, virus, or toxin as the visible and specific cause of correspondence between the microcosm and the
disease. What they ignored was the importance of the macrocosm.
dynamic response of the organism in its attempt to These speculations lead one to conclude that life
resolve the morbid process. Unfortunately, the has a meaning that can be understood by those who can
backward thinking that led to the rejection of the vitalist perceive the law that rules the motion of cosmic energy.
concept of disease ignored the fact that disease is not the The law of cure that gives meaning to biological
product of some external influence or agent, but the phenomena is the same law of contraction and dispersion
activation of the organism’s adaptive response. that rules the movement of earth and the stars and gives
Life consists of unceasing dynamic activity; that is meaning to cosmic order. Without this absolute law in
why human beings maintain their organic and personal the whole of creation, there would be chaos no less in the
integrity. When faced with environmental factors such life of a flower than in the life of a star.
as heat, cold or humidity, or with emotional factors that The human being is creation’s most perfect
threaten its integrity, the organism strives to maintain its synthesis. A few months after birth, a human being
mental and physical homeostasis, that is to say, its materializes a congenital dynamic disposition which,
wholeness as a living unit. This dynamic equilibrium is according to HAHNEMANN, is of miasmatic origin.
unstable, giving rise to anabolic and metabolic currents This miasm is a morbid constitutional tendency
that cause the constant destruction and regeneration of predisposing the human being to a particular pathological
cellular tissues in an endless and irreversible process. destiny, as yet without emotional imprints, but inevitably
Thus, molecular changes occur in the whole organism in tending towards final dispersion or death. As humans,
such a way that an individual is not the same as he was we grow from childhood self-centeredness to the
a few days ago. An ocean wave that we see coming psychological maturity that permits our connection with
towards us twenty meters away is not the same wave the whole and with the death of our egoistic
that drenches us moments later on the beach. The water individuality.
molecules have transmitted motion from one to another This progression from center to periphery, that is,
in succession, thus forming that particular shape which from embodiment in a living unit towards dispersion or
we call a wave. However, milimeter by millimeter, death, is what we call the law of cure. We are born to
every molecule changes on the journey. The wave has die. Day by day, hour by hour, we use up the potential
been transformed, leaving behind only a form that for vital energy that we bring with us at birth, as if an
identifies it as such and which makes up its electricity battery were being discharged. Catabolism
individuality. wins over anabolism. Tissues regenerate but
It is the same with human beings. Human nevertheless harden and dry up; atheroma and
individuality has less to do with atoms, molecules, cells conjunctive tissues replace healthy cells; skin – a kidney
and tissues than with the activity of a structure created spread out on the body’s surface – ages while
with a sense of life identical to the law that rules motion eliminating waste. Like a current of energy that
in the universe. Human individuality has a purpose, a discharges itself from the center, our life cycle ends
vital sense that moves towards metaphysical unity. This with the dispersion of the elements that make up our
is what makes an individual a person – not the peculiar physical body.
synergy of organic functions. Nature is the perpetual Even though the organism tries to counteract this
transformation of never-lost electrons in cycles of disintegration, it never succeeds completely in
contraction and dispersion that form an indistinct part neutralizing our final deterioration or in restoring tissues
of a mineral, a plant, an animal or a human being. to their previous state. There is never a restoration
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deterioration that ends in a descent into old age and disease seeks outward release. What materialist
death. The purpose of the law of cure is not to prevent medicine calls disease is no more than the pathological
death, but to allow death to come smoothly and residue of a morbid dynamism whose first expressions
normally, thus allowing the individual to fulfil the were suppressed with local treatments, failing to
highest purpose of existence – to become aware of his understand that what had to be cured was that very
metaphysical relationship with the whole of existence. dynamic disposition.
And here we enter a philosophical terrain which is It is in this deranged, hereditary, dynamic
closed to science, but which must concern the disposition that it is necessary to solve the problem of
physician. Does human life have a meaning, a purpose, the miasm, that is, a vis medicatrix that relates to a
or a knowable goal? structure damaged by past transgressions of the Law of
Yes, it does, and moreover it cannot help but have Cure, and therefore insufficient in its tendency to heal.
one. The moral implications of the problem of chronic As HAHNEMANN pointed out, suppressing the
disease cannot be overlooked by medicine, now forced outward releases which reflect the workings of the Law
to revise the mechanistic thinking thatthat led it to of Cure will have blocked the vital flow in the internal
pathological dogma. The human being is not separate organs, thus predisposing the whole individual to
and autonomous, but an entity that depends on a premature decay. When the organism expels metabolic
transcedental spiritual self with a role to play in the toxins in the form of eruptions, suppurations, diarrhoea
universe. The human being develops a moral and colds, which the liver, kidneys and glandular system
consciousness, connecting him with other human beings have been unable to metabolize due to a diminished
and with the essence of all things. functional resistance, such outward releases must be
This process of personal growth takes place under respected because they indicate an attempt to protect the
the same law that regulates adaptation to the vital organs.
environment, organic equilibrium, inflammatory The basic problem in medicine is that of
reactions and disease. The whole human being, body suppression – that is, blocking the fulfillment of the law
and mind, acts as a unit in every case of disease, of cure. All that art and science can do is rectify the
coordinating the effort to restore the defenses so that the Vital Force, so that it can cure the dynamic origin of the
individual may freely fulfil his cycle. morbid process. Only the homoepathic remedies can do
For example, when we have an inflammation, the this, provided they are prescribed according to the
congestion, local hypothermia, immobilizing pain, similarity between a curative reaction experimentally
diapedesis, phagocytosis and abscesses, together with produced in a healthy individual, and the natural
the fever, fear of death, accelerated heartbeat, reaction of a diseased individual, both being vital
perspiration and digestive and urinary, all entail a total processes and expressions of the same law of cure. The
participation of the organism under the direction of the fact that suppression inhibits the Vital Force is clear in
spontaneous law of cure – leading to the outward neurotic cases, where emotional factors play an essential
elimination of morbid energy by expelling waste role.
products through the skin, mucous membranes and other The word “emotion” means a moving outwards, a
excretory organs. Fever is a stimulation of the liberation of feelings. When emotion is repressed or
processes brought into play by the organism to solve, sidetracked from normal consciousness, that is, from the
with the appropriate temperature, any physical or discharge of its psychic energy, it is transformed into
emotional crisis. physical disturbances. Pathological symptoms are
Thus, in normal life as in illness, the organism surrogate expressions of repressed emotions. Any
employs the same resources to maintain its homeostasis physician who has reflected on the problem of human
or determine its cure. These resources differ only disease will agree that all pathological phenomena have
quantitatively – in their physiological rhythm – but not a meaning – referring, in the last analysis, to impulses to
in their nature. They are part of the same process, the action that have been repressed in either a remote or a
HIPPOCRATIC vis medicatrix naturae, or healing recent past due to moral conscience.
power of nature. Everything happens as if an ordering It has been said that our civilization’s culture in
intelligence acted unconsciously in the organism, to regard to sex has created a punitive moral conscience
preserve it from premature dissolution as a bilogical provoking exaggerated depressions which can lead the
unit. human being to serious neurosis, from which he may be
Medicine must develop this concept of life in order liberated by social movements such a existentialism,
to find that therapeutic law which also rules the motion new wave, and others. I do not personally believe that
of vital energy. When medicine considers disease to such as disturbance exists in moral conscience, which I
have a mere physicochemical substratum, this inevitably consider to be the healthiest psychological resource that
leads to the degeneration of the human being, by the the human being has. It is to moral conscience that
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of transcedence, as well as the development of religion, may be argued that in many ways HAHNEMANN has
art, ethics and law. also spanned this spectrum of causes in his writings,
What happens is that human instincts and impulses referring to the role of the latent, and many would say
have been deranged in their dynamic origin – they have hereditary, trait that he termed “Psora”, as well as to its
been disturbed by a miasmatic affection which provocation by contemporary irritants of various forms.
compromises their functional tendency towards As in so many other situations, the role of distinct
transforming the individual into a mature person. The physical factors is more easily considered than that of
cell-destroying tendencies of syphilis and sycosis make psychological energies. But if we pursue
demands on the psyche which moral conscience cannot HAHNEMANN’s approach we will look as closely as
accept, thus causing it to fail. FREUD maintained that possible at all aspects of the relevant processes.
this is due to an individual disposition, probably HAHNEMANN is by no means one of the first to
organically conditioned. Clearly, the formidable express insights concerning subtle determinants of
resistance of many neurotics undergoing tumours. As early as the second century GALEN
psychoanalysis, as well as the prolonged cures expressed the opinion that women of a “melancholic”
necessary in most of these cases, is due to this temperament were more likely to develop breast cancer
imponderable factor which FREUD called individual than those described as “sanguine”. This might suggest
disposition, whose previous correction is essential. The that those who suffered such problems passively were
conscious and mature repression of sexual and more liable to tumour development than those who
aggressive instincts produces sublimation – that is, the readily expressed their emotions. Such references to an
transformation of selfish energy into impulses towards association between breast cancer and psychological
knowledge and personal development. disorders increased in the 18th and 19th centuries, and
On the other hand, instinctive suppression due to even more so in the present era. Recent examples have
punitive coercion, not allowing emotional frustrations to included a study published by GREEN and MILLER in
be processed, determines the neurosis that FREUD 1958 reporting an association between cancer and
described as the result of the failure of repression. The preceeding personal loss,1 and by GREEN and
correctly chosen homœopathic simillimum will provoke SWISHER in the 1969 on three sets of monozygotic
a deep curative reaction, unblocking suppressed twins discordant for leukaemia with prior major personal
unconscious contents and restoring the Law of Cure, psychological stress in the affected twin.2 Other studies
allowing a healthy emotional concentration of psychic published in the 1960s showed a correlation between
energy onto a single goal. A mere external treatment of prior depressive illness and subsequent cancer
symptom pictures and the elimination of crises will lead development. Since then further studies of such an inter-
only to suppression - that is, as we have said before, to a relation between malignant disease and prior
severe transgression of the law of cure. psychological stress have appeared to give contradictory
The physician, no matter what therapeutics he results. But many workers in this field still argue firmly
employs, must be aware that every symptom is a part of in support of the association from their personal
the patient’s life context. experience of patients’ reports, whilst also pointing out
Each symptom has a meaning to be unlocked, once the difficulty of adequately assaying the frequency or
a complete understanding has been gained of the role of such effects.
pathological expressions and behaviour of a unique and But as HAHNEMANN reminds us many times,
untold human life. empirical experience is on its own not enough to
formulate or dismiss a theory. Rational deduction,
4. A theory of Tumour Development particularly when applied to careful observation of
CLOVER Anne (BHJ, 73, 4/1984) patient's reports, is a more reliable guide.
Today, science has clearly shown that all matter is
This paper is the first of a trilogy relating to the energy behaving in an apparently substantial manner.
place of homœopathic concepts in the understanding The idea of solid entities or uncuttable atoms has long
and therapy of Cancer. The aim in the first part is to been exploded. It is only inertic thought that holds to an
review some of HAHNEMANN’s theories relevant to erroneous dualism between supposed immaterial forces
carcinogenesis. It will consider the way in which he and so-called material atoms. We are now in an era
assesses the contribution of factors as various as chronic when thought is having to catch up with science and
poisoning, subtle psychological determinants and dynamize its interpretations. Since the physical body is
hereditary traits. Today there are increasing references a dynamic form it follows logically that the energies of
to a wide range of factors said to be causes of Cancer. thought and feeling are in continuous kinetic interaction
Physical carcinogens as well as emotional, ideological with the apparently physcial aspects of beings.
and other similarly subtle factors and hereditary patterns FREUD and JUNG are well known exponents of
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interaction had been stated long before them by Samuel terminology as referring to emotional imprinting and
HAHNEMANN. intellectual conditioning.
HAHNEMANN’s many writings show a Today it is widely acknowledged that the physical
progressive understanding on his part of a hierarchy of organism holds dynamic imprints of prior experience,
causes of chronic diseases, one form of which he says is such as perceived sensations, emotional reactions and
Cancer. He currently emphasized the need to look at all ideological training. Clearly these serve a useful
aspects in a spectrum of causes and warned against a purpose when they facilitate useful training, but become
blind prejudice on one hand, or empty speculation on a problem when they strongly bias a person to repeat
the other.3 Blind prejudice, he says, is opinion-based experience remembered by them as pleasurable and
according to a person’s particular training. In other restrictively to avoid pain or threat. Such restriction can
words, someone who is inappropriately tied down to easily conflict with personal creativity and become a
their previous experience and ideas. Empty speculation factor in the development of disease. Summarizing his
is an opposite type of error, that is, hypothesis hierarchy so far, HAHNEMANN has referred to the role
inadequately tested in experience. In collateral terms, in tumour development of three modalities that today
one is seeing no further than the end of a nose, the other could be termed physical, emotional and ideological.
is flight of fancy or phantasy. The way to avoid these But this hierarchy of factors contributing to chronic
errors, according to HAHNEMANN, is through careful disease such as Cancer does not stop here. He also
scrutiny of all relevant factors. refers to even more subtle vectors when he writes of
This hierarchy of causes described by spiritual essences and the higher mind.6
HAHNEMANN ranges from spiritual, or initiatory He appears to imply that the higher mind is an
forms, to diet and dampness. Although he was writing understanding that extends beyond the individual
long before public health was a common concern, he empirical training and intellect to include an awareness
firmly argued theneed for care in this dimension. Today that might be described as cosmic.7,8 Many
it is easy to take such measures for granted. But in his philosophers and other thinkers have referred to an
day, HAHNEMANN was again showing a pioneer inherent intelligence and ultimate order in the universe.
attitude when he emphasized their importance to health Various religious, philosophical or psychological terms
or disease. His advice on diet is similarly practical. He have been pursued for this, examples are the Christian
advocated a fresh, well balanced diet, avoiding excesses Logos, the Buddhist field of formal voidity, the Platonic
or substances difficult to assimilate. In a similar vein he realm of ideas, and the Jungian collective unconscious.
argues against the abuse of drugs and for appropriate They all imply an immediate, innate consciousness with
regimes of exercise. All such obvious physical factors, creative power of its own processes. HAHNEMANN
he argues, can play a fundamental role in determining appears to refer to such an awareness and the possibility
human health or disease. They are the basic modalities of it informing the individual thinker when he writes of
in his hierarchy of causes of chronic disease in general, the higher mind or the reason-gifted consciousness. It
or tumour in particular.4 implies an understanding reaching far beyond the limits
All through his writings HAHNEMANN of ordinary egoic training. He then appears to develop
consistently argues the similar importance of and apply this awareness in relation to chronic disease
psychological factors for health or disease. Clearly to when he implies that personal disregard of its
him the physical performance was a type of end product information accompanies empirical bias and contributes
revealing the effect of progressively finer influences. to interpersonal conflict.
His assessment is constantly non-dualistic, emphasizing Closely associated with such concepts are
the interaction of the subtle and gross determinants. references to spiritual or initiatory essences.7,8
Amongst such subtle factors he differentiates HAHNEMANN’s writings imply his progressive
emotions, selective or trained thoughts, a higher mind or understanding of an informed initiation, a term also
understanding and ultimately the volition or will. Often translated as a spiritual essence, that is, the prime mover
such modalities appear to be considered together when of any creative process. It could be called an ultimate
he refers to the “Vital Force”. This term, though cause, answerable only to itself. Logical deduction
unfamiliar today, was widely used in the time of implies that such an initiation would be a primary cause
HAHNEMANN for factors that would now be termed of an act, the free will referred to in various ways by
psychological. In expanding his understanding of this philosophers, psychologists, religious thinkers or similar
aspect of human function, HAHNEMANN researchers in all ages. In other words HAHNEMANN
differentiates such factors that in his opinion contribute appears to be saying, like many other thinkers have
to malignant disease. Examples that he lists are training done, that the primary cause appears qualitatively in its
in formative years, moral conflict, sexual difficulties, effect. HAHNEMANN’s use of the term “initiatory
family problems, jealousy, resentment and fear.5. His essence” implies this. It denotes a quality essential to
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illustrating such concepts is to liken the initiatory CLARKE when he emphasizes that “Homœopathy is the
essence to the pattern in an acorn that determines its art of individualizing”.
development, given appropriate resources, into an oak HAHNEMANN’s theories therefore imply a
tree. The term “conceptual essence” is a very thoroughly dynamic understanding of tumour
interesting one, implying the dual aspects of the will to development.
act in this way and the form expressing it. In all his writings HAHNEMANN consistently
HAHNEMANN argues that such a subtle form is the deduced a theory first, then applied this in a rational
prime mover of any extant structure and deduces that therapy. The second paper in this series will discuss how
just as such influences can sustain health, their these insights can be applied today in the treatment of
imbalance can contribute to disease. Such initiatory malignant disease.
derangements, he argues, need a similar form of
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HAHNEMANN argues that such influences accrue
during the lifetime of an individual, then interact with a Therapeutic implications of Hahnemann’s Theories
latent trait. Many have interpreted his writings on psora on tumour development (BHJ 74, 1/1985)
as implying a hereditary trait that is vulnerable to The first paper of this trilogy1 looked at
reactivation by contemporary effects. HAHNEMANN HAHNEMANN’s views on the hierarchy of casual
relates the origins of psora to a chronic irritation factors that contribute to tumour development. The aim
developed in the dawn of civilization and of which now is to discuss their implications concerning available
Leprosy may be a long-standing sign, contemporary VD therapies.
a more recent manifestation.9 But whatever its origins Before pursuing this I will briefly summarize the
he argues that this trait is liable to reactivation by the hierarchy of causes of tumour development evident in
other factors named as contributing to chronic disease.10 HAHNEMANN’s writings. At the most obvious
He is therefore describing a dual action of the latent physical level he refers to the influence of poor or
trait and a stimulus that provokes its activation. It is inappropriate diet, inadequate drainage and chronic
theory that bears close comparison with contemporary poisoning. Next he discusses the effect of processes
expressions of the combined effects of hereditary factors that today would be described as repressed emotions or
as well as personal psychology or exposure to repressive ideas. Finally, his hierarchy refers to the role
carcinogens which in combination can produce a of a comprehensive understanding and volition or
malignant disease. initiation. In other words, he surveys a spectrum of
Although HAHNEMANN firmly argues that such a causes ranging from basic physical determinants,
latent trait is the common property of mankind, he still through psychological vectors to subtle and not easily
emphasizes the individuality of diseases with which it is understood levels of consciousness today sometimes
associated. The basic trait may be shared but the described by such terms as collective understanding and
provoking factors are unique. Hence he says we need to free will. All these aspects, he argues, can contribute to
remember that in each patient we are seing not “cancer” the development of chronic diseases in general and
but a “type of cancer”.11 It is appoint taken up again by tumours in particular. Similarly each aspect has a

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related therapeutic application. This paper will look at The need for appropriate care of tumour sites and
these concepts and related therapies in three stages. general good hygiene, rest and adequate mobilization is
First, those with a physical emphasis, second those obvious and does not need development here.
related particularly to psychological factors and, third, In practice, many of these types of therapy with a
the ways in which therapy can emphasize the role of physical emphasis can be used together, as well as in
volition. Since it may be argued that a correct use of combination with psychological orientated treatments.
Homœopathic remedies and Iscador is relevant to all Therapies with a psychological emphasis
these aspects, they will be considered in a fourth and The many lines of therapy offered for treatment of
final section. Cancer that may be considered under this heading are
Therapies with a physical emphasis aiming at a release of negative processes contributing to
In relation to an emphasis on physical factors the disease and re-integration of a positive opposite to it.
contributing to tumour development, we may consider These two apparently opposing approaches, in practice
therapies as various as Chemotherapy, Surgery, work together. A rationale for their use is easier to
Radiotherapy, Diet, general care and personal hygiene, understand when we remember that all aspects of the
local applications to tumour sites and relaxation human body are forms of energy co-operating to
techniques. A detailed discussion of the first three on produce the tangible result. Such energic forms can
this list is not the subject of this review, but they are therefore be manipulated by a release of repressed
mentioned as they warrant inclusion here. emotion as well as by clarification of new ideas to
HAHNEMANN acknowledged that Surgery may have inform the substance. The repressed emotions are
an important part to play in therapy but at the same time repressive ideas that can conflict with the creative
warned against its inappropriate use. Decisions impetus of an individual and provoke irritation and
concerning radical surgery, intensive Chemotherapy or disease can be of distant or recent origin. It has often
wide field Radiotherapy can be difficult. Every patient been observed by workers in this field that a major
has the right to like or dislike his therapy, and detailed psychological trauma has occurred a few months before
discussion may well be required concerning the possible the primary development of a tumour or its sudden
use of such procedures. spread of metastases. The abreactive type of therapies
Various diets have at times been suggested as assisting are aimed at releasing imprinted emotions not
Cancer therapy. In recent months many patients adequately integrated or discharged at the time of their
requesting treatment at the Royal London initial provocation. Closely associated with this can be
Homœopathic Hospital for Cancer have already an attempt to help a patient clarify ideas on which they
contacted the Bristol Cancer Help Centre and received wish to act now, and others retained from early years
their advice on diet. We have at times seen patients so but which they now seek to understand and change.
concerned by what they have read or heard that they Understanding is the key here. When insight developed,
believe a lapse from a predominantly raw food, high an individual is in a better position to change or restate
caroteen diet will aggravate their disease. This is them as he will. That is, he takes charge of them instead
unfortunate. No dietary advice can be that rigid. As of being ruled by them without his recognition.
HAHNEMANN and many other therapists have It is an important way of helping an individual take
recurrently argued, the disease any patient shows is increasing charge of his own directive energies, and
unique to them. Hence dietary advice will similarly reducing inner conflicts that otherwise may contribute
need adjusting to individual requirements. Having said to tumour development or other disease. Such conflicts
this, it still appears reasonable in general to advise, as can be compared to splinters. Once seen they are easily
HAHNEMANN did, the use as far as is practicable of removed, but if not traced will continue to cause
fresh, simple, easily assimilated food without chemical irritation and disease.
additives. Many workers in this field advise excluding The pursuit of insight into such factors not only
red meat from the diet, if that is acceptable to the facilitates a change in emotional and ideological
patient. imprints, it also helps an individual increase their own
In relation to relaxation techniques, their conscious direction of their inner processes, which
importance can be argued as an adjunct to any therapy. brings us to the third section in this review.
In any disease, healing is facilitated by good relaxation Therapies with an emphasis on volition
and hampered by high levels of anxiety and muscle It has often been observed that patients who show
tension. A small example of the use of relaxation has an active interest in their therapy and do all they can to
occurred with some of the patients at the Royal London assist it, fare better than those who adopt a resigned
Homœopathic Hospital where we have heard them fatalism. It is reasonable to expect this. When a
report a reduced need for night sedation after learning person’s interests, ideas and emotions are supporting
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course. It is like swimming with a current, not against provoke a suitable counter-reaction to the latent trait or
it. miasm which he argues is activated to produce gross
The will, or volition, is a term widely used to imply symptoms as well as those appropriate to the
the prime mover of human activity. It is not easily precipitating factors. He argues both that a correct
understood. Emotional pressure or miasmatic remedy can help provoke an appropriate
ideological inclination can easily be misinterpreted as response to the latent trait involved and that a correct
free will. The term “Will” implies an original choice of contemporary simillimum helps counter the trauma that
action coming from a level of consciousness operant in activated it. Hence it can be said that a correct
all of us which is freely choosing without bias from Homœopathic treatment can be relevant to all aspects
previous experience. There have been occasions when contributing to tumour development.
patients with major organic disease such as malignancy Iscador, a mistletoe preparation, is also widely used
have realized that their personal choices have by many homœopathic doctors in the treatment of solid
determined their life situation and contributed to their tumours. The use of this medicine has been developed
vulnerability to disease. Such insight is rare, but when mainly by anthroposophical doctors since it was first
expressed has helped patients realize the way in which recommended by Dr. STEINER. This, too, is said to
individual choice can similarly re-orientate towards relate to the subtle forms that produce cancer as well as
health. It is an insight that can help a patient take to their gross expression.
increase of charge of their personal energy. All such Both homœopathic remedies and Iscador are
factors serve to help an individual discover their own therefore alike in that they are both said to act against
capacity of Self direction and with that attain a malignant tumours by provoking subtle as well as gross
reduction of their previously unrecognised resistance to it. They can be described as having a type
psychological conflicts. of rear-guard action, provoking the subtle resistance to a
HAHNEMANN’s later expressions concerning tumour process and undermining its base rather than
initiaitory essences appear to refer to such a capacity for merely adjusting its façade.
Self direction. In the sixth edition of Organon he These are interesting theories carefully reasoned by
recurrently refers to spiritual or initiatory essences as HAHNEMANN that appeal to the intuitive sensitivity
the primary determinants of gross forms seen in the of many people. Although at first they may appear to
time-matter world. His terminology implies an ultimate imply an onerous Self responsibility, their other aspect
Self direction of all gross forms. It is a concept not is the realization of a true inner determination that is
easily discussed, but if pursued implies an essential essential to Self respect, and many would argue an
dignity and capacity for true Self respect. When applied ultimate aim of therapy.
to human development it means an essential Self The third and final paper in this series will be a
responsibility; that being is its own cause. At first such discussion of some of the experiences in applying such
concepts may appear onerous, but that is only one theories in seeking to help patients with solid tumours.
aspect of them. The other is the implication of authentic
Self direction that gives true status to an individual. REFERENCE
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“essential” to being. He takes his discussion further J 1984; 73: 187.
when he argues that potentization reveals a similar
initiatory level in the medicinal agent and that this can Some Experiences in the Treatment of Cancer by
then re-inforce the corresponding quality and its re- Homœopathy
orientation in the recipient (Org. para 11, 12). Hence In this third paper of a trilogy relating to
his assertion that a correct homœopathic medicine HAHNEMANN’s theories relevant to tumour
relates to the cause of a disease as well as to its development and therapy, I will outline three illustrative
symptomatic effects, which brings us to the fourth case histories and then discuss them.
section. Mrs A
The role of Homœopathic treatment and Iscador in She was 73 years old and had an anaplastic
the treatment of Cancer Carcinoma of the oesophagus. At diagnosis in
HAHNEMANN’s deductions imply that a correct February’81 the tumour was said to be in the lower level
homœopathic therapy relates to all aspects of the cause of the oesophagus. She was treated by radiotherapy and
and subsequent course of tumours. He relates this, not also in the following months she had regular
only to contemporary physical, psychological and prescriptions of Iscador and Vitis Co, Phosphorus 30
volitional factors but also to inherited traits or miasms, and Condurango Q. Although throughout the radiation
vulnerable to re-activation and expression in overt treatment she appeared to show a good tolerance, she
diseases. His theories on treatment of chronic disease later developed Radiation Pneumonitis. This was
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treated by a combination of steriods: Radium bromatum was that close observation of its effect and her
200 and Causticum 200. maintenance of personal control through it, would
In October’81 she complained of dyspnoea and suitably conclude this life time and prepare her for her
chest pain, and was found to have symptoms and signs next incarnation. She therefore refused further
of lung metastases and a pericardial effusion. This was conventional treatment. She also refused to accept
confirmed radiologically, and she was seen by a Iscador. However, she
cardiologist who advised her transfer to a cardiac unit welcomed homœopathic treatment. Even in the latter
for pericardial tapping. weeks of her life she declined conventional medication.
Mrs A insisted that Homœopathy She regularly practised meditation, and the use of visual
and Acupuncture were all she needed for this additional imagery. At times she appeared to welcome an
development. Whilst awaiting transfer from the Royal opportunity to discuss her past conflicts, her ideology
London Homœopathic Hospital (RLHH) the and hopes. She kept in regular contact with her friends
homœopathic remedy was Bryonia in varying potencies. from the religious movement of which she was a
When seen in the cardiology unit a few days later, no member.
sign of any significant Pericardial Effusion was found. Various homœopathic medicines were prescribed,
In January ’82 she was seen in outpatients, reported including Aurum, Arsenicum album, Kali sulphuricum,
that she could eat anything she wanted and could do a 2 Phosphoricum acidum and Kreosotum were given
mile walk. She remained fairly well until April ’82. orally, and Hydrastis and Calendula applied to the
In the last five months prior to her death Mrs A tumour. Throughout the 7 months that she remained in
experienced recurrent diaphragmatic spasms with severe the RLHH, she consistently held to her stated ideals and
hiccupping and retching. Although Ignatia 6 and died peacefully at 31 years in Feb’83.
Cuprum aceticum 6 eased these symptoms, they did not Mr C
clear them. Mrs A frequently and firmly stated her wish He was first seen at the Tunbridge Wells
to have as few analgesics as possible as she wished to Homœopathic Hospital (TWHH) in November ’80,
be alert and closely observe her own death process. She when he was 33 years of age. He had a colorectal
had little pain and required only Panadol or Distalgesic Carcinoma which had been diagnosed in June ’79, when
for analgesia. In the minutes prior to her death she was a resection of an anular sigmoid Carcinoma was
calm and peaceful although experiencing another performed. He had remained well until August ’80
diaphragmatic spasm. She recurrently said to the when he began passing blood and mucous PR.
doctors with her “If only I could communicate to you Laparotomy at the Royal Marsden Hospital in August
the beauty of this experience”. ’80 showed a recurrence of the tumour invading the
Miss B bladder, plus mesentric and hepatic metastases. His
Miss B was a young North African woman aged 30 wife reported that she had been told that her husband
years when first seen at the RLHH in July’82. She was not expected to survive to the end of the year. She
already had extensive Hodgkin’s disease, including a had discussed this with her husband, neither of them
3"diameter fungating tumour in her left supraclavicular accepted this gloomy prognosis, and both sought to add
region extending onto the anterior chest wall. She had homœopathic treatment to the therapy already being
first developed signs of the disease at age 13 years, and prescribed. The main complaint on presentation was
had received extensive Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy frequent loose bloody stools. In Sept.’80 the patient’s
in other hospitals. When seen in the RLHH, she firmly father died with lung Carcinoma.
stated her decision not to have any repeat courses of Throughout the next two years Mr C received
such treatment. Briefly summarized, her history began regular Iscador Qu cum Hg, a split dose of Carcinosin
in a wealthy North African home. When about 10 years 12 and frequent Mercurius corrosivus 6, Natrum
old, her previously allegedly tranquil homelife was sulphuricum 6, or China 6. He also continued with
disrupted by sudden and continuing major parental regular Chemotherapy as advised at the Marsden. In
strife. She left her family in her early teens and joined June ’81 ultrasound examination showed disappearance
an Eastern religious movement. She lived in England of previously detectable hepatic metastases and a fall in
from age 15 years. By the time she was admitted to the the CEA to normal levels. The pelvic mass appeared
RLHH, contact with her parents was minimal, but she stationary.
corresponded regularly with her sister living in USA. In 1981 his second child was born. He remained
She remained committed member of the religious generally well, continued his fulltime work as sales
movement she had joined as a teenager and most of her manager for a printing firm, but continued most of the
friends came from this group. She frequently and time to pass frequent bloody stools. He appeared at
firmly, but not agressively, stated her conviction that her least to be avoiding any deterioration, unitl his brother
disease was part of her Karma, that it was a way for her was killed in a road accident in Nov.’82. After this Mr
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These three case histories illustrate three of the Iscador, homœopathic remedies of a constitutional and
main reasons for which many patients have requested pathological emphasis, Radiotherapy and conventional
Homœopathy as an adjunct to other therapy for medication. Miss B had only homœopathic
neoplastic disease. Mrs A had a life-long interest in prescriptions. Mr C had frequent Chemotherapy as well
Homœopathy, Miss B was committed to a philosophy as homoepathic remedies and regular Iscador injections.
which supported it, and Mr C turned to it when other The homœopathic remedies used came from groups
treatment appeared inadequate for his needs. All three regularly used at the RLHH and TWHH in cancer
also reflect the hierarchy of factors described by therapy. These are nosodes such as Carcinosin
HAHNEMANN in relation to the development of prescribed for Mr C. We also used antisycotic
chronic diseases including tumours. We may first note remedies, particularly Thuja for Miss B, on account of
the volitional factor, the “essential” that HAHNEMANN her soft discharging tumour. Constitutional remedies
implies is the primary directive of being-energies. All were assessed and prescribed for all three. Pathological
three showed clear evidence of an intent to learn as much type prescriptions were widely used for instance in an
as they could through the illness they were experiencing. attempt to ease the copious bloody stools of Mr C and
Paradoxically they all accepted it, clearly discussed the the diaphragmatic spasms of Mrs A.
diagnosis with its apparent implications, yet at the same It was frequently observed by the nursing staff that
time sought to oppose it with the help they believed the patients described here were remarkably positive and
appropriate to their life style and concepts. Their quiet calm despite their gross disease. Naturally they all had
and persistent determination was clearly evident. The some phases of depression and negative type questioning,
ideas they expressed and sought further to clarify but opportunities to discuss their reactions, the
concerning their particular situation appeared to have an prescriptions of constitutional remedies, and the
important stabilizing effect for them. Mrs A referred to continued support of friends, relatives and other
Christian concepts and Miss B to Eastern philosophy. therapists usually helped them through this in a matter of
Although Mr and Mrs C showed no particular religious a few days.
or philosophical affiliation, in their own way they All three patients described here took an active
discussed and pursued their concern for quality of life interest in their therapy from the start. Its application
and not, as they put it, mere longevity. All three was recurrently discussed as fully as possible with them.
consistently showed their intent to progress through the Similarly as far as possible we attempted to listen and
disease towards more Self understanding. Arguably this help them clarify their ideas concerning their
contributed to the calmness they usually showed and experiences, using their preferred terminology.
remarkably low need for analgesics. One of the few facts that is clear about Cancer
As well as referring to the fundamental role of development is that it is far from understood. Arguably
volition and ideology in the development and treatment HAHNEMANN’s theories on chronic disease give many
of tumours, HAHNEMANN also emphasizes the part useful leads on how to pursue an insight into this
played by emotional trauma. Many other writers have condition and then evolve, together with the patients
referred to this in the last two centuries. Again this is experiencing it, a rational therapy appropriate to its many
evident in all three cases reported here. Mrs A had a facets.
long history of family problems which escalated in her
later years. In addition her sister died with breast Cancer
in 1976. Miss B, as has already been noted, developed 5. ALOE SOCOTRINA: A Most Valuable Remedy in
Hodgkin’s disease shortly after major family conflicts Need of Rediscovery Part 1
and breaking her previous close involvement with her Andre SAINE ND, DHANP
family. Mr C only showed a steady deterioration in his (SIM, Vol.XIV, 2/2001)
disease after his brother’s sudden death. In discussing
the nature of their disease, all three patients readily At the annual meeting of the International
associated their personal emotional traumas with the Hahnenemannian Association in 1888, William P.
disease development. WESSELHOEFT presented a paper entitled Aloe
In relation to gross physical factors relevant to Socotrina an Anti-psoric Remedy. This paper, which is
Cancer therapy, HAHNEMANN refers to such basics as recommended reading, can be found in the Homœopathic
diet, drainage and general care. In recent years various Physician section of Reference Works and starts with the
diets have been suggested as being important aids in following sentence from HERING: “Aloes has many
Cancer therapy. Of the three patients reported here, all symptoms like Sulphur and is equally important in
three chose predominantly simple wholefood diets, Miss chronic diseases with abdominal plethora.” In it
B was vegetarian. WESSELHOEFT reports the cure of a number of patients
The medication prescribed has already been with chronic diseases following the administration of
summarized in the individual histories. Mrs A had Aloe, which was selected on account of the chronic

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intestinal or haemorrhoidal complaints. The interesting “Perhaps I could not better illustrate the matter than
aspect of these cases is the reappearance of a previously to give a few of the cases that have come into my hands
suppressed skin eruption. Despite being relatively well for treatment.”
proven, WESSELHOEFT NOTICED THAT Aloe will JEKYLL goes on to describe three instances where
“clear away a number of other psoric symptoms not yet Aloe cleared up the case for another remedy. To quote
contained in its pathogenesis.” one of his cases:
Two years later there appeared another most “Some 10 years ago, Mr.__ came to me; he was
interesting paper on Aloe by Dr.JEKYLL entitled Aloes. about 20 years of age, rather tall and slim, light
To quote: complexion, light brown hair; had an old look; poor and
“For a long time I have considered that Aloes was scrawny; was cross and snappish; complained of great
the most valuable remedy in the whole Materia Medica lassitude, hard work to move; ill humoured, dissatisfied
with which to commence the treatment of most of the with himself and everything around him; vertigo,
Chronic Diseases that come into our hands, and especially when looking up, as if everything was in a
especially those that came from the hands of the whirl; dull, heavy, stupid headache, more in the
‘regulars,’ where a wholesale drugging had taken place forehead and over the eyes; dimness and flittering
and the symptoms were so obscured that it was before the eyes; very sensitive to any noise, the hearing
impossible to separate the disease symptoms from those of music, the play of children, the talking of persons
of the drugs that had been already administered; or in would almost set him wild; very gloomy and
those cases, where the disease had been suppressed by despondent, thought that life was hardly worth living;
improper doses, or by the profuse use of external metallic, sticky taste in the mouth; yellowish ulcers on
applications. the tongue and in bucal cavity; no appetite except for
“Some 30 years since in a conversation with several fruits or knick-knacks, which caused an oppression of
physicians, whose names I cannot now recall (and the stomach, with acrid, bitter belching of gas from the
perhaps it would be improper to give them if I could), I stomach, loose acrid stool with the passage of large
made the above remarks, and I well remember that my quantity of gas soon after eating, with urging; restless
assertions were well poohed at by them and that I held sleep with vivid, frightful dreams; offensive swet under
my peace for the time being; but I still continued to the arms, in the groins and about the genitals; a hoarse,
watch the action of the drug, and let me here say that it husky voice; chilly feeling in the open air; cutting pains
has seldom disappointed me when administered in any in the upper portion of the right lung and in the lower
of such of the above cases. portion of the left, with a gripping sensation in the
“If you will carefully go over the symptoms of region of the spleen; enlargement of the joints, very
Aloes you will find that it has a vast number of painful at the change of the weather, especially if damp,
symptoms in common with almost every drug in the which made him very despondent and gloomy; said that
Materia Medica; besides many that it has cured that are he felt that he was certain to hear some bad news; scary
not recorded in any Materia Medica that I have seen, and fearful, did not like to be left alone for fear that
and I have examined everyone that has been published something dreadful would happen to him; skin was dry
in the English language; or at least have tried to do so. and harsh; a slight bruise or scratch would take a long
“Where or when this idea fastened itself upon me is time to heal, and if of any size was sure to ulcerate, with
more than I can now tell, and it has been acted upon fearful itching and burning; lips, face and hands chap
accordingly, to the best of my ability. and the skin cracks as soon as cold weather sets in, with
“In the examination of cases where eruptions have fearful smarting and burning-a sensation which covered
been suppressed or driven from the surface by improper all of the exposed parts of the body.
dosing or the use of external dosing or the use of “I gave him seven doses of Aloes 1M, to be taken
external applications, you will find many Aloes one dose just before bedtime, and to report as soon as
symptoms are produced, and if Aloes be administered, it the powders were all used. He returned in a week.
will cause to assume, more or less, its original form and There was but very little change except that his mother
can then be treated as the original; or it will relieve the said that she believed that he had a little better appetite.
oppressed vital organs, so that they can rally and throw He got seven doses of Sacarrhum lactis and to report
off, to a certain extent, the oppression, which had taken when used. At the third call there were symptoms of the
possession of the vitality of the patient, together with eruption making its appearance.
the drug symptoms, and clear up the case, so that the “Another seven powders of Saccharum lactis were
proper simillimum may be selected for the complete given, and upon the fourth call he had as nice a case of
cure of the case, which would have been impossible to itch as you would wish to see; he said that he itched
have done in the first place, on account of the then from head to foot; that he could not keep still one
muddled up condition of the drug and disease symptoms moment, and the more he scratched the worse he was.
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appetite; did not feel so gloomy; felt more like living if The stools are very urgent, often nothing but a little
he could get rid of that infernal itching. sputter with much flatus; is obliged to run to the closet
“He now got one dose of Sulphur 1M, and as soon as he feels the desire, as he has but little power
Saccharum lactis to last him for one month. Before to retain stool.
that time the eruption had all disappeared. He then got “Much rumbling of wind in abdomen after going to
one dose of Sulphur 10M and Saccharum lactis for bed. Usually awakens an hour after going to bed with
another month. This was all the medicine he got, and in palpitation of heart; after passing flatus goes to sleep
about one year he had entirely recovered his health, and and rests easily the remainder of the night. At night he
has remained well from that time to this.” can pass flatus with confidence, which he could not do
Dr.JEKYLL proceeds with two similar cases, and during the day. All the flatus he passes is hot.
ends his articles by saying, “I think that these cases are “Free discharge of prostatic fluid after stool.
sufficient to establish the values of Aloes; if not, I can Constant sensation of soreness in lower abdomen, over
give any number of a like character.” The main os pubis, not sensitive to pressure. Tongue clean,
difference between the cases of Drs. WESSELHOEFT appetite very good.
and JEKYLL is that JEKYLL completed the cure of “He affirms that he has been well all his life up to a
his patients by prescribing another remedy after the year ago. When a boy he had tinea ciliaris.
appearance of the skin eruptions. It was Sulphur in the “Now, what bothered this young man more than
first case and Pulsatilla and Nitricum acidum for his anything was the discharge of prostatic fluid after the
second and third cases, respectively. On the other hand, stool, and that is what he came to be ‘doctored for’. We
WESSELHOEFT often noticed that no other remedy all know that such a solitary symptom will give us no
than Aloe was necessary to complete the cure even after indication for a remedy, and if I had known as much as I
the appearance of the previously suppressed skin do now about this symptoms 30 years ago it would have
eruptions. A case by Dr.L.WHITING illustrates saved me much trouble and often anxiety. In every
WESSELHOEFT’s the point, that when Aloe is instance I should have made this symptom a secondary
indicated in an acute or subacute complaint, which often and not a primary indication, no matter what the wishes
happens to be diarrhoea, it will often also be the chronic of my patients might have been. Instead of trying all the
remedy. remedies enumerated under the head of discharge of
“Mrs._____, age 40. Morning diarrhea for many prostatic fluid during stool, I should have work3ed at
years past, comes on every morning after arising and other more important featuresw of the case. But how
continuing till 10 AM. Stools yellowish, thin, fecal, often is the young physician misled by the patient’s
accompained by much flatus, and an immediate mind, and especially if he comes with a diagnosis
irrepressible desire for stool; can not delay one minute. already concocted by some celebrity which aids and
Aloe 30 was prescribed for the case, a powder dry on abets the fears of the patient?
tongue night and morning. Having taken only four “The diarrhea with the characteristic weakness of
doses of the Aloe, the stool became of normal the sphincter, which would not allow him at any time,
consistency, and the case became one of scabies over except in the night, to pass flatus, the flatus always
the entire body. Upon enquiry it was ascertained that being hot when passed; the clean tongue and good
she had the itch when about 10 years of age, and that it appetite led me to give him a dose of Aloes CM.
was treated by inunction of Sulphur and lard, and she “In a fortnight he came back with the following
was of the opinion that the diarrhea had been her story:
constant companion since about that time, a period of 30 “One formed stool a day for the last 10 days. No
years. She received no further medicine and in three urgency. Passes flatus with confidence and is not hot.
days time the power of the drug that had produced the Has slept well every night, no palpitation. Very little
scabies had also effected a cure of the same, with no prostatic fluid has passed.
return of diarrhea.” “Reappearance of sick headaches, of which he had
However, no routine assumption should replace two violent ones during the fortnight. These have been
careful observation and strict individualization. absent for over a year and were treated by Bromo-
Whether the case should be cured with Aloe alone, or caffeine.
with the helkp of a complementary remedy, cannot be a “Now consider for a moment my astonishment
routine decision, as illustrated in the following case of when my patient told me that he has always suffered
WESSELHOEFT presented two years after his original from sick headaches up to the time his other troubles
paper: commenced! I gave Sacharrum lactis.
H.B.A., aged 27. Blonde, thin, active. For a year “A fortnight later came the following report:
troubled with diarrhea. Always has a loose, watery “Stools have remained perfectly normal. No
stool at 7 AM. A second stool may follow any time discharge of prostatic fluid for two weeks. Soreness in
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During the fortnight has had four severe headaches with weeks. He often became dehydrated. The diarrhea was
nausea but no vomiting. Gets very faint at stomach only by day, worse from 11 AM to 3 PM(1), and
every morning about 10:00—another old symptom especially worse between 12.30 PM and 1:45 PM (2). It
which accompanied his former sick headaches. Just 40 was always the same: a watery, yellow brown, offensive
days after the dose of Aloes he received a dose of diarrhea followed by albuminous mucous like the white
Sulphur CM. of an egg. It sputtered out with little shots of gas. Just
“Three weeks later he reports: prior to an episode he became totally distended (3) “like
“No headache to speak of. One or two attempts at a child with marasmus” with a round hard abdomen and
one, but not severe enough to keep him from work. His gurgling (2). He had to be in diapers as he had
stools remain normal. Is troubled a little with flatulence involuntary stools on a daily basis. It was a very
that has easy and confident egress [exit]. Has gained offensive diarrhea (3). There seemed to be no other
four pounds during the last three weeks. Is discharged circumstances that would trigger the diarrhea except
cured.” stress.
Now let’s examine a few more cases. His parents separated in July of 1994 due to the
An Autistic Child with Recurrent Diarrhea father’s extramarital affair. M.D. didn’t show any
I will present this case in full detail and with most reaction to the separation. From December of 1994
of the follow-up visits, as the evolution of its cure is a until March of 1995, the father threatened the family
very interesting one. This is the case of M. D., a and pursued them “like in the movies,” which ended
mentally retarded nine-and –a half-year-old boy, whom with the intervention of police who arrested him in
I first saw on May 14, 1997. The chief complaint was March of 1995. The entire family lived in fear for their
chronic diarrhea. M.D. was born with complete lives; policemen would accompany them on outings.
agenesis of the corpus callosum, one of only two cases M.D. developed diarrhea in April of 1995, which was
ever diagnosed in Canada. There was no prognosis worse on school days and much woirse during hot
given. He also had severe dysmorphic myopia (-21 weather (3). He had had diarrhea during hot weather
diopters), strabismus, hyperflexibility of his ligaments, since birth. The diarrhea was also worse after corn(3),
cryptorchidism and cardiac malformation with aortic wheat (2) and broccoli (1). It was unknown whether the
regurgitation. The latter condition, Marfan’s syndrome, diarhea was painful.
is also very rare; he was one of two cases with this typ M.D. had no physical or mental endurance. He
of cardiac anomaly to be diagrnosed in Canada. He was became tired very easily from slight physical exertion
completely limp at birth. such as walking. He was often found resting, lying on
M.D. had been completely absorbed within himself. his abdomen with his two hands between his thighs; in
He never answered any questions. It was impossible to the last six months, he preferred to lieon his back with
know anything such as emotions, feelings or what he his hands under his head and his knees bent. He was
experienced, except for the basic needs of life. He restless while sitting. He preferred to raise his legs if
showed almost complete lack of reaction to his sitting, or even to kneel on the chair if he could, which
surroundings, including situations that would cause calmed him down. When tired, he became pale and
pain. He had cried fewer than 20 times in his life, and rubbed his forehead. He also became very tired with
only in situations where there was an incredible amount any mental effort (3).
of pain. He blocked his ears and closed his eyes when M.D. had many peculiar idiosyncrasies. He always
spoken to. He always spoke with a very low voice, wanted to be first: to enter the car, to climb the stairs, to
almost like whispering. He was totally obstinate. He enter school. He had an aversion to having his head
would do nothing unless it was what he wanted to do. washed. In fact, he would not let his head be washed.
He was mentally retarded except for auditory and He also had a great fear of having his hair cut.
visual memory, for which he was two years ahead of his Eventually, when his hair really needed to be cut, he
age group. He learned how to read and calculate in a would develop diarrhea. For the past two years, he
few days when he was nine years old. He stopped couldn’t have his penis touched, even by himself. He
growing on three different occasions. He had not grown didn’t laugh until he was about six years old. From
in one and a half years when I saw him, and was three infancy, the palms of his hands would peel for a period
years behind on the growth chart. of two weeks, then there would be a pause of one or two
He had been having six to eight episodes of weeks, then the peeling would start again. He had an
diarrhea per day. The diarrhea started 10 months after aversion to round foods, grapes, round candies, etc. He
the parents separated two years ago. It was more severe rolled paper a lot. He had been falling asleep with the
at first, with 12-14 episodes per day. He tested negative blanket over his head for the last year.
for celiac disease and for the presence of blood. He loved animals. He startled easily (2), and
Psychiatrists treated him to no avail. Dietary changes appeared to be sensitive to sharp and low noises. If he
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in his life, he would grind his teeth and pinch, but he Objective symptoms: M.D. was completely different
could not express a word. He rarely experienced pain. from any child I had ever seen. He walked, moved, and
He very much needed routine (3), e.g., if a toy was used, acted as if from another world. He wore thick glasses.
it needed to go back to where it belonged, or if a little He acted as if I was not present. He repeated “Go!”
box was used to put horses in, it could not be used for many times during the interview. His mother would
other animals. For general orderliness, however, he was say, “When the doctor is finished asking questions, we
normal. On the other hand, he was very meticulous will go home.” He would again say, “Go!”
about many things. For example, he had difficulty He was lean and had a very enlarged, round and
writing anything, and then erased it 10-20 times; if one hard abdomen like a balloon (3). He couldn’t protrude
of his socks fell down, he had to lift it to where it his tongue, and couldn’t lick. Every four to six months,
belonged; he had to wear a T-shirt under his shirt. plugs of wax had to be removed from his ears.
He had a history of nightmares that were always He was 130.5 centimeters (51.5 inches) tall and
related to the ocean and waves. He had never had a weiighed 26.3 kilos (57.75 pounds). He was very hairy,
cold, flue or any other common infection except for one especially on his back. On auscultation of his heart, we
episode of otitis media two years ago. When pregnant could hear a distinct double S2 every fourth beat.
with him, his mother was sure that something was not Current medication: M.D. had been slightly better
normal in his head. since taking China 30CH once a day for the last month,
The family’s life was completely compromised. prescribed by another practitioner.
Because of M.D.’s diarrhea, the family could not leave Case analysis: We had a nine-and-a-half-year-old boy
the house for common outings. born with many congenital anomalies and a type of
Temperature: If he overdressed in the morning and the autism with many idiosyncrasies. What was most
day became warm, he would not remove his clothes. He characteristic was the recurrent diarrhea that he had
couldn’t breathe in cold air (2) or if there was wind (3), since birth, and that was much worse during hot
even in summer. He got frosbite easily. He did not weather. Other characteristic symptoms were the
react to hot and cold water when being washed. He had perspiration of the cervical area and head all night,
an aversion to the sun (2), which tired him. He always every night of his life, and his difficulty breathing in the
sought the shade. He had an aversion to the heat of the wind-which I somewhat downplayed, as it could have
summer, when he spent his time in the basement. His been related to his physical anomalies. Other peculiar
neck and head perspired during the entire night, but he symptoms that he had were the grinding teeth in sleep,
never perspired while awake, even if it was very hot. amelioration from raising his legs, his weak and
Only his ears became red. cautious nature, fear in high places, emaciation with an
Energy: He was more tired after lunch, around 1-2 PM enlarged abdomen, his stubbornness, and his food
(2). desires for ice cream and cheese. All these add up to
Sleep: He went to bed at 7.30 PM and slept until 5.45 very good indications for Calcarea carbonica—better
AM. He was very restless in his sleep, and had ground than any other remedy as the simillimum.
his teeth almost every night for the last four or five Plan: As the child had been under the care of another
years. He never uncovered himself in sleep. practitioner prior to our visit, and had been taking China
Appetite: He had a poor appetite. There were only a 30C once a day, I decided first to stop the China and
few foods that he would eat: pasta, chocolate, sweets, wait until there was no further change. The mother
icecream, and cheese. Other foods he liked a lot were would then give him one dose of Calcarea carbonica
eggs, cucumber, and soups. 10M (Hahnemann Pharmacy).
Thirst: He used to be a big drinker before the diarhea. Follow-up, June 2, 1997: He took the remedy at 8 AM
He preferred his drinks at rook temperture. on May 24. By 2 PM he had an aggravation of the
Personality: He feared wolves and heights (3); after diarrhea. He was passing transparent gelatinous stool
going up three steps he would panic. He feared going with much white froth (an old symptom returning) for
downhill (2). He was claustrophobic (2). He had an the first three days, followed by his typical diarrhea.
aversion to being touched (1), to being caressed (1), to The following four days he woke at 5:15AM with
being massaged (1), to being buckled in the car (1), and abdominal pain, urging for stool and passing only gas.
of crowds. He was very sensitive to admonition. If On the third day after the remedy he became more
scolded, he would punish his mother by saying “no.” affectionate; he started inquiring about the well-being of
If he was sad he would not accept consolation. He was others for the first time in his life. The day before, he
mildly jealous. He had never been violent or developed a coryza for the first time of his life. A
destructive. He was sympathetic (2): he seemed to colleague at the office saw him and on examination
suffer more than the ones that were hurt. He was very found bilateral otitis media. He had the exact same
sensitive to the emotions of others (2). manifestation of otitis media two years ago. During the
exam of his ears he said “Ouch!” (Such a reaction to

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this level of pain was new.) He also cooperated during especially on the mental/emotional level, but also with
the exam, which was new. He had a 99.6ºF the return of old conditions (the white frothy mucus and
temperature. His forehead was warm with cold hands the ear infection), and increased stature, to warrant
and feet. His face was red and congested. His eyes another dose of the remedy. One thing was clear: M.D.
were half closed and injected. He was very quiet. was sensitive to remedies. So far he had received three
Assessment: The initial reaction to the remedy seemed different remedies (China, Calcarea carbonica and
favorable, as there was an aggravation of the diarrhea, a Belladonna) and had responded positively to all three of
return of old symptoms, an improvement in his general them. This enhanced his prognosis but was also a signal
disposition and the appearance of a first coryza. The that he would likely respond to any remedy with a
picture of the acute condition was a clearly indicating certain degree of similarity to his case. Therefore, one
Belladonna, with the characteristic symptoms of a had to pay great attention to the direction of cure to
congested face, hot head and cold extremities, quiet assure that the remedy to which he was responding had
disposition with the eyes half open and injected. a high degree of similarity.
Plan: My colleague prescribed Belladonna 200D Plan: Another dose of Calcarea carbonica 10M was
(Dunham); two doses, one now and one at bedtime. prescribed.
Follow-up, June 4, 1997: By the next morning he was Follow-up, August 5, 1997: The diarrhea got worse
mostly recovered. His ears, appetite, energy and color after the remedy like after the first dose, but it was a bit
were back to normal. different: “It comes out in one shot, like a cork.” Since
Assessment: Favourable reaction to Belladonna. July 23, he asked for the first time to take a bath, and let
Plan: Wait. his hair be washed. He stopped inquiring about death.
Follow-up, July 2, 1997: On June 5, the coryza For the first time in his life he was willful. Since the
returned without any fever and lasted for four or five very hot weather the diarrhea had been much worse. He
days. The diarrhea and bloating disappeared completely still had loud rumbling bef0re stool. The sneezing,
from June 7-17, and then relapsed, exactly like before. peeling of the hands, and perfectionism were gone. The
He had changed overall. After Calcarea carbonica, he grinding of the teeth was worse. The headaches,
improved mentally until about two weeks ago. He was perspiration at night, itching nose, startling easily,were
now stable. He was “quite remarkably” calmer and unchanged. He cried loudly for the first time in his life.
happier. He inquired about death every day in the last Assessment: Calcarea carbonica was not the best
week for the first time in his life. He developed remedy in this case even though the child made some
growing pains in the last week(his sister was also progress on the mental level. The fact that the diarrhea
subject to growing pains). For the last three weeks, he in hot weather not only did not improve, but got worse
complained of headaches for the first time in his life, as under Calcarea carbonica, was a sign that its degree of
the temperature had been warmer – in the mid-80s. The similarity was not high enough. I started to look for a
most we could get from him was that he felt them in his remedy with a higher level of similarity and studied the
forehead and they were worse from light. case anew.
Since Calcarea carbonica he had started to bend While taking the initial case I had considered Aloe,
double while pasing stools, moaning, with both hands as it coovered so well the picture of the diarrhea, but
on the floor. The incontinence of stool happened about dropped it as it didn’t cover the rest of the case—
three times a day. Since one week he had been hiding especially some of the very peculiar symptoms
from strangers. Since Calcarea carbonica his nose was mentioned earlier, which indicated Calcarea carbonica.
itchy up to 25-30 times per day, and he was sneezing for But, as the diarrhea was now clearly worse, and
the first time in his life, around 3:30-4 PM every day. aggravated in hot weather, and characterized by this
He insisted that all windows and doors be closed, and loud rumbling prior to the stool, I again strongly
panicked with open windows in the car. He wanted to considered Aloe. Moreover, after the first dose of
hide more. He covered his head more, for example, if Calcarea carbonica there was a return of the transparent
he went to the pool he put a towel over his head. He let gelatinous stool with much white froth, very similar to
other people touch him (new). The peeling of his hands, frog spawn, which is found under Aloe. At that point,
perspiration at night, stubbornness, low voice, being two prior cases of Aloe which I had successfully treated
startled at noise, teeth grinding in sleep, and came to mind, and I became convinced that Aloe had to
perfectionism were unchanged. A few days before he be the simillimum for the case. To illustrate, I will
got his hand caught in a door and didn'’ complain of any temporarily interrupt M.D.’s case to present these two
pain, although he should have. He grew more than half other cases.
an inch since the first visit, which was the first sign of The first one is not complete in all its detail, as the
growth in more than 18 months. patient’s file could not be retrieved. It was the case of
Assessment: The reaction to the remedy was good, not young man about 18 years old, whom I saw about 10
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and came to me after having been treated about 18 thick white coating. He had had no appetite for four
months previously with surgery and chemotherapy for days. His skin was sore (2). He was cool to the touch
testicular carcinoma. He had had diarrhea ever since with the fever (2), and his face was cold and clammy
chemotherapy. He presented the typical diarrhea of (2). He was hypersensitive to jar (2) and to noise (2),
Aloe, which resolved it quickly. Following Aloe, I which created “an electric shock” throughout his body.
treated him successfully with Argentum nitricum for his In general, he felt better in the morning and after 10:30-
chronic state. But the most interesting aspect of this 11 PM (1). He felt worse from 4-11 PM (2). He was
case, which I recalled when considering a better remedy intolerant of people, especially if they made noise or
for M.D., was that this patient had a long history of jarred his bed. He never wanted any visitors, although
great need for routine with aversion to change, as well previously he was very gregarious. He turned his head
as cycles of fixations. For instance, when he was a away when his girl-friend picked up his hand, or if his
child, he ate the same food three times per day for long mother wanted to kiss him.
periods of time and nothingelse. Then, he would switch His oncologist and gastroenterologist thought that
to another food three times per day and leave aside he had developed an intestinal infection, but all the
completely the previous one. If he had a project, he cultures had been negative. T.P.’s mother had typhoid
would focus obsessively on it to the exclusion of almost fever when she was eight months pregnant, and T.P.
everything else, until it would be replaced by another was treated for active typhoid soon after birth with the
project. He was also overly meticulous in every minute antibiotic Chloromycetin. He had developed mycotic
aspect of his projects. infections everywhere on his skin, mouth and throat.
The second case which came to mind when I was Analysis: T.P. was presenting a perfect picture of Aloe
considering a better remedy for M.D. follows in greater with heat and gurgling before stool, sputtering of the
detail. In August of 1993, a homœopath called me from flatus, unconscious passing of stool, ball sensation in the
a hospital where T.P., her 20-year-old son, was being rectum, and especially his tendency to “repel everyone.”
treated with chemotherapy for testicular carcinoma. Her Two hours after the remedy, T.P. felt better. He
son had been very sick since receiving chemotherapy, experienced a sense of well-being very soon after taking
and after trying different remedies, she was seeking my the remedy that descended from above down. Since the
help. remedy, T.P. had one small semi-solid stool and no
Five weeks earlier, T.P. started experiencing pain in diarrhea. The cramps were much less. He was very
his left testicle and kidney area. In the second week of hungry. He was irritable and had a headache from
July he noticed that left testicle was enlarged and had hunger, which was common for him. His energy was
hardened. T.P. also had a history of cryptorchidism. better. He was not permitted to eat.
On July 27 he was operated on and was diagnosed with Assessment: He had a very good reaction to Aloe. The
embryonic testcicular carcinoma, which had already new symptoms of irritability and headache with hunger
spread to the abdominal lymph nodes and the lungs. He are characteristic of Sulphur, the only remedy known to
started to receive chemotherapy on August 4. He got be complementary to Aloe.
progressively sicker after the first chemotherapy, Plan: Sulphur 200C.
experiencing nausea, vomiting, weakness, diarrhea, Follow-up, August 12, 1993: His headache and the
faintness, and abdominal cramping. burning in the abdomen got worse immediately after the
The presenting symptoms were burning and heat remedy. Then he felt better. The headache disappeared.
from the mouth to the rectum. His mouth was His energy was up, from 1-2 on a 10-point scale to 5.
completely covered with Candida albicans. He had a He had not eaten yet. He had four small stools since the
fever of 101.7ºF (38.7ºC) and a pulse rate of 100. He remedy. The gurgling and the flatus were much less.
experienced great weakness. He was not thirsty The burning from the mouth to the rectum was reduced
(usually he was very thirsty). He had been having by 20%. The abdomen was not hot anymore. He had
diarrhea every 30 to 60 minutes. His abdomen became been very thirsty since the Sulphur. The hemorhoid was
hot and gurgled with cramps before each stool, which better.
was a watery, yellow brown, lienteric diarrhea with “a Assessment: He had a favorable reaction to Sulphur,
sweet and sour smell, like a baby diarrhea.” The with an immediate aggravation followed by a good
cramps, heat and gurgling in the abdomen were relieved improvement.
by stool or flatus. He passed a great quantity of Plan: Wait.
sputtering gas during each stool, and felt weak Follow-up, August 12, 1993, 7 PM: He had four large,
afterwards. Sometimes he did not recognize that he was watery stools in two hours. He was weak again, down
passing a stool. He constantly felt a small ball in the to 2 out of 10. There was a lot of gas. The hunger
rectum, and had a small hemorrhoid. disappeared. His palate and throat were dry without
He was chilly (1), his lips were chapped (2) and his thirst (2). The hemorrhoid began to bleed.
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Plan: Aloe 200C. felt that Aloe was the most similar remedy and that I
Follow-up, August 12, 1993, 9 PM: He fell asleep needed to persist.
soon after taking the remedy and had no stool Plan: Repeat Aloe 1M up to three times within the next
afterwards. 24 hours . If there is an obvious reaction to the first or
Assessment: Good reaction to the remedy. second dose, do not give the subsequent dose(s).
Plan: Wait, and repeat the remedy at the first sign of Follow-up, August 26, 1997: Three doses of the
relapse. remedy were given. Hebecame very tired for the first
Follow-up, August 13, 1993, 10.30 AM: During the six days after the last dose. The mother said that she
night he experienced diarrhea at 2:30 AM and had forgotten to mention that at least once a day the
threemore times after waking up at 7:30 AM. He took gurgling prior to stools was so intense that it made a
one dose of the remedy after each occurrence of the sound similar to the draining of a very noisy toilet bowl,
diarrhea. He had almost no pain or gurgling. He felt and since the first dose of Aloe it had happened only
quite well. three times. He was even happier than before. His
Follow-up, August 13, 1993: The Candida albicans energy returned to his usual low normal. He stopped
came back right away after the chemotherapy (part of it being startled at noise. He felt pain and really cried on
was Bleomycin, a powerful antibiotic). He had a fever one occasion.
of 100.8º F (38.2º C). His eyes burned (2) each time he Assessment: A clear aggravation, followed by an
experienced the fever. He had no diarrhea but passed a improvement on the mental/emotional level, was a good
formed stool about every six hours. He was very sign.
thirsty for cold drinks. Before the fever he experienced Plan: Wait.
chills going down his back. His energy was good (6-7) Follow-up, September 16, 1997: He did very well
but he became very weak within a minute after standing until six days ago when school started; he refused to go,
up (3). and once he cried in his mother’s arms. The diarrhea
Assessment: The burning eyes with thye fever, with the bloating, involuntary stools and abdominal pain
weakness worse standing, return of the thirst, and completely relapsed. He did not want to get dressed
descending chills, indicated Sulphur. anymore.
Plan: Sulphur 200C. Assessment: Relapse with the stress of returning to
T.P. responded well to Sulphur, and continued to school.
do so for several months afterwards. Plan: Repeat Aloe 1M now, and at the first sign of
The interesting aspect of these two Aloe cases is relapse.
that both of them had a history of crytorchidism and Follow-up, September 24, 1997: He was dramatically
testicular carcinoma, and both had developed a similar better. The diarrhea stopped right away. His energy was
severe diarrheal reaction to chemotherapy, which much better after September 17. On September 18, he
clearly indicated Aloe. Now, when looking at M.D.’s developed another cold with much discharge and
case and acknowledging that Calcarea carbonica was sneezing, day and night. The foam reappeared again for
not his remedy, I wondered, could this be a case of one day. Emotionally, he had opened up. He began
Aloe? addressing others spontaneously. He was less self-
With M.D.’s history of cryptorchidism, typical Aloe absorbed. He was more demanding about his needs. He
diarrhea, and the need for routine, I sensed that Aloe was more present. He stopped grinding his teeth and
was not only the acute but also the chronic remedy for sweating at night for the first time. The bloating was
M.D. I therefore prescribed Aloe 1M (Boreneman) to gone.
M.D. ON August 5, 1997, and was looking forward to Assessment: Excellent reaction to the remedy.
his reaction to the remedy. Plan: Wait.
Follow-up, August 13, 1997: After the remedy he was Follow-up, November 19, 1997: On October 1, he had
happier. The stool became dramatically better the next a relapse of the diarrhea, self-absorbed personality,
day for three days. Then he developed a flu for the first bloating, peeling of the hands, covering his head,
time in his life. He had a relpase of the diarrhea and grinding his teeth, loud gurgling before stools, refusal to
another dose of the remedy was given on August 9 dress or go to school. He became silent. He didn’t want
which had no effect, except for a large evacuation of to talk or eat.
white froth. The remedy was repeated on October 3. The next
Assessment: The fact that he relapsed so quickly and day he developed a cold with much discharge and
that there were no changes with the second dose would sneezing which lasted only 24 hours. Again, he had the
typically not be seen as a favorable response. However, white frothy mucus in his stool on the first day. Then
remembering the cases where Jekyll repeated Aloe 1M he was much better. The stool became formed and only
several times before eliciting a strong response, I still once a day. His appetite returned. He was able to eat
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He was much more expressive and was 50% less gave him Calcarea 10M by mistake. It was interesting
self-absorbed. He asked to go play outside for the first to note that there was absolutely no reaction or change
time, and laughed regularly with other kids also a first. following the Calcarea carbonica with the exception of
His self-confidence was much better. He was crying chewing in his sleep, a new symptom. She waited one
two or three times a week. It was only since the week, repeated Aloe 1M, and he was better again. His
summer that he had really started to cry. He was fine in personaity and intellectual skills improved further. He
crowds. The fear of going downhill was gone. His hair did not cry much anymore but became angry instead
could be cut without any fuss. He could be touched and expressed it spontaneously.
except in the genital area. He stopped being willful.. Assessment: Chewing in sleep is a symptom of
He had no headaches. He had the coryza with Calcarea carbonica. Despite continued improvement
sneezing at least once per week. He wrote better, but with Aloe 1M, I wanted to see if he would make a
reading was still difficult. He still had poor stamina and quantum leap with a higher potency.
resistance. He was stressed the week of November 8 at Plan: Aloe 10M (Boiron) as needed for the diarrhea.
school and relapsed. He started again to sleep on his Follow-up, May 11, 1998: He received one dose of the
abdomen with his hands between his thighs. remedy. He started kissing his mother spontaneously.
Assessment: The fact that the response to the same He was very polite and considerate of others. He played
potency is better with each subsequent dose is a sign like a normal child. He was less self-absorbed.
that the degree of similarity is high. Routine was not important anymore. He chewed less in
Plan: Aloe 1M now, and repeat after three or four days sleep. He was stronger physically. He appeared like a
of relapse, or if he is stable for one or two weeks. normal boy of his age. He had more self-confidence.
Follow-up, January 19, 1998: He received six more The perspiration on his head and cervical region at night
doses of Aloe 1M. He developed a cold and passed had returned in the last two weeks. He had a mild
white foam for one day after each dose. Within 12 relapse in the last three days. His hair became fuller-it
hours his stools became normal, his energy picked up used to be very thin and fine. Weight: 62 pounds.
and he became more like a normal child, e.g., wanting Height: 53.8 inches.
to play outside. If stressed, he regressed, and if the Assessment: The fact that he reacted so well and so
mother waited before repeating the remedy, he long to the higher potency was another sign that Aloe
continued to regress further. In general, he was much had a high degree of similarity.
happier. He slept well from 8:30 PM until 8:30 AM, Plan: One dose of Aloe 10M.
instead of 7:30 PM-5:45 AM. Summary of the case from May 1998 until March
He became more independent. For the first time in his 2000: This summary was obtained by phone from the
life, he used a public washroom by himself. He had mother on March 28, 2000. She reported that M.D. was
only one normally formed stool per day, unless he had a given three more doses of Aloe 10M, followed by about
relapse. He accomplished all his chores perfectly. He eight doses of Aloe 10M potency (Homeoden) from the
never complained of headaches. He had coryza, which end of 1998 until September 1999. At this time he
excoriated his lips, even more often than before. He changed schools and started to relapse. He was given
touched his penis after a bath the day after a dose on four doses of the CM potency (Homeoden), in
November 19. His mother still could not touch him September, October, and December, 1999, and the last
there. The peeling of his hands relapsed only with the dose on January 23, 2000. The remedy was given at the
diarrhea. The white foam was present only if he took first sign of relapse, which was the reappearance of
the remedy. He had no sweat at night. He slept again flatulence, abdominal pain and incontinence of mucus
on his back with his hands under his head, knees flexed. from the rectum.
He wept and laughed loudly quite often. Routine He had been very good over this period. His
was less important. His lack of stamina was gone and mother noticed that with the first sign of a relapse he
he had the energy of a normal child. He spoke in asked for pasta, cereals, sweets, milk, or chocolate. In
sentences. During the year prior to the treatment, he 1998 he cried a lot, but starting in the summer of 1999,
would say “that” or “milk”; after the treatment he would he was always happy, rarely sad, played outside like
say, “Can I have some milk, please?” He was 70% less other kids, was more present with other people, e.g.,
self-absorbed. He was reading and writing better. He inquiring about others. Overall, his mother said that he
did not grind his teeth anymore. He reacted normally to was developing normally.
hot and cold. Follow-up, June 12, 2000: I saw him in the office for
Assessment: Same. the first time since May 1998. This time he shook my
Plan: Continue with previous plan. hand when I greeted them in the waiting room. He
Follow-up, March 16, 1998: On February 3 he had a walked into my office asking me questions about
relapse. He took the remedy. He had the coryza, then myself.
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I found out that with no apparent stress he had stool one bout of diarrhea. On August 9, he was better in
incontinence on March 30. He received another dose of general but had one episode of involuntary urination.
Aloe CM and recovered the next day. On April 11, he From then on, he started to improve.
was stressed. He became tired, developed a coryza and The perfectionism regarding chairs and doors was
redness around the lips. His mother gave him another much reduced, down to approximately 10 from 100
dose of CM. He recovered again within a day. On May times each day. He had two nights, August 14 and 28,
30 he was greatly stressed. He immediately developed with no sleep (return of an old symptom). The most
frothy stools, with much crying and coryza. He dramatic improvement with this dose was the change in
received another dose of CM. He cried for three more his speech. He spoke much more. For the first time he
days and his stools returned to normal within three days. called his mother “Mama.” His voice was warmer and
He was now back to normal, according to his mother. more emotional, which was new. His energy was much
I reviewed the case with the mother. The ability to better. His lethargy was gone. His stols were normal
touch his penis was mostly normal. The need for with the exception of that one occasion. His jealousy
routine was gone, except for breakfast, when he wanted and possessiveness stopped about two weeks after the
the TV on. He was more talkative. He slept from 7:30 remedy. He had had a bicycle for three years, but never
PM until 5:30-6:00 AM. She said that his energy was wanted to ride it. For the first time, he spontaneously
better but still not as much as his peers. She put it at 6 decided to ride it. Also, two weeks after the remedy, he
on a scale of 10. The mother noticed that as soon as he became much more cooperative. And for the first time
relapsed, he would sleep on his abdomen with his hands he looked forward to going to school in September. He
between his thighs, or on his back with his hands under had developed a new behavior, refusing to wear
or above his head, and with his head covered. Before pajamas to sleep.
homœopathic treatment he was at about a 2. He still Assessment: Excellent reaction, an aggravation
tended to be lethargic, but had more stamina. He could followed by great improvement.
walk up to 10-15 minutes before needing to sit. His Plan: Wait, and repeat only with a clear and prolonged
abdomen was not enlarged unless he was stressed. He relapse.
was doing very well in school. Follow-up, December 20, 2000: He had not needed
He recently developed a new symptom. He had any more of the remedy. Around November 20, he had
become a perfectionist in making sure that chairs and a bad cold and a mini-relapse of his symptoms, but
other such pieces of furniture were in their place, or that recovered quickly without a dose of the remedy. He
doors of closets, cabinets, or rooms were closed. had no diarrhea despite a major stress during the
Assessment: He was much better but his energy was previous two weeks; his brother had been hospitalized,
still too low. He would likely benefit from the DM which created a lot of change in the family routine.
potency. As we did not have it, I decided to continue He became much more social. He went to a winter
with the CM potency. camp, which went very well. He made a friend for the
Plan: Aloe CM at the first signs of relapse, such as first time, and they played together on a regular basis.
fatigue with the return of the above food cravings, or He had a period in November where he was stammering
changes in sleep position. but it had disappeared. The perfectionism with furniture
Follow-up, August 2, 2000: He took three more doses and doors was almost all gone. He agreed to wear his
of Aloe CM, June 12, and July 7 and 14. His stools pajamas to sleep. However, he had had five nights
remained normal and never relapsed. He stayed up without sleep since the last visit.
longer and slept more normal hours, 8:45 PM-6:45AM. He had not been lethargic. He could walk for two
For the first time he had started to be jealous and hours. His bedtime hours remained normal. He
possessive. For instance, he refused to share his toys, continued bicycling. For years he had craved pasta; the
and would cry if asked to. His energy was the same at 6 craving was now gone for the first time, for a month.
out of 10, but his stamina was better as he could walk He had no skin peeling of his extremities.
for 25-30 minutes. He was still lethargic. He was less His teachers were very positive about his progress
cooperative. The perfectionism had become much in school. They said that he had improved in
worse. Instead of closing doors and replacing chairs 25 mathematics. In October he developed a new behavior;
times a day, it was up to 100 times a day. when disappointed, he pulled on others’ clothes.
Assessment: He stopped progressing with the CM. He was checked three times that year for his cardiac
Plan: Aloe DM (Homeoden) now, and no repetition. anomaly (Marfan’s syndrome). The cardiologists were
Follow-up, August 30, 2000: There were no apparent surprised at how stable he was, and how much the
changes until August 7 though August 9. During these progress of the heart deterioration had slowed.
three days he had an aversion to water. He craved milk A psychiatrist who specialized in autiiism evaluated
“all day” and drank up to two liters per day. On August him; M.D. was definitively diagnosed as being autistic.
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memory. He was slow in certain faculties, but faster in The first one is the case of S.P., a 22 –year-old
others. She was told that he was highly skilled in woman, suffering from many complaints including
drawing and painting, in spite of his visual handicap. severe allergies since the age of 10, and depression.
He was scheduled to receive a more complete evalution S.P.had also been diagnosed with chronic fatigue
the next summer. syndrome and attention deficit disorder. I saw S.P. on
I reviewed some of the original symptoms with the July 4, 1998.
mother. The shortness of breath when walking in the She reacted to many foods such as dairy, wheat,
wind had been gone for at least one year. The corn, rice, shellfish and eggs, and to preservatives and
nightmares of water and waves had not returned since dyes. Within half an hour after eating an allergen she
the first year of treatment; however, M.D. had a great would become physically tired, very lethargic, irritable,
fear of drowning (3) while taking swimming lessons. and sleepy. She would develop a headache and her nose
The tendency towards frostbite had been gone for about became obstructed and would run. An allergic reaction
two years. The fear of heights had been gone for about would last about 24 hours. Soon after eating the
nine months. His aversion to being touched or allergen she felt so sleepy that she had to go to sleep.
massaged was less. She then slept easily 12 hours straight, woke up and felt
His sensitivity to the sun had been gone since at tired for another half day. These allergic reactions were
least the previous summer. He was still sensitive to the worse in rainy weather (1) and much worse if exposed
heat of the summer, but much less so than before. He to molds (2) during fall and spring.
still had headaches on hot summer days, but fewer and Since 1993, she had hay fever with asthma, worse
less troublesome than before. He would still rub his from spring to fall. Her nose was obstructed especially
forehead and become lethargic, and could not do much on waking (2), with coryza, and her eyes were red,
intellectual work with these headaches. swollen and watery. The allergies were worse if she did
He had been accepting consolation for over one not receive her desensitizing injections on a weekly to
year, but recently cried when consoled. He had had no biweekly basis.
problem using public washrooms for at least one year. She felt depleted of energy in the morning upon
His sympathy for the suffering of others was waking, and then she had low periods at 12 PM (1), 4
unchanged. The wax in his ears had been much less. PM (3), AND 7 pm (1). She got a “second wind”
Objective symptoms: Height: 58 inches (147.5 between 8:30 PM and bedtime. When tired she had to
centimeters). Weight: 81.8 pounds. (37.2 kilos). take a two-hour nap, and would wake up still tired.
During these three and a half years, he grew 6.5 inches In 1995, she was doing poorly in college. A peer
(16 centimeters), and gained 24 pounds (10.9 kilos). gave her some Ritalin and she improved dramatically.
Assessment: He was still improving. She took Ritalin (20mg per day) on school days ever
Plan: Wait,and repeat the remedy only if there is a since. Without Ritalin, she was more loquacious, mor
clear and prolonged relapse, or if he stops improving for nervous, more irritable (“really impatient: I can’t wait at
two or three weeks in a row. a red light”), more tired, more lethargic, with a poor
Overall assessment: From the use of Aloe over a attention span, and more hyperactive.
period of about three and a half years, this boy has “I lose interest very easily because of my
developed into a new state of health in all respects. This impatience. I have played piano for 18 years but I can’t
case confirms the “deep action” of Aloe, as mentioned sit down to practice more than 45 minutes. On the other
earlier by Hering, Wesselhoeft and Jekyll. Even though hand, I tend to be very patient with people and children.
some cases of Aloe need to be followed by a I can also be very intolerant of certain people.” She did
complementary remedy, as in my previous cases, or in everything fast. “I walk fast, I drive fast. I talk fast(2),
the cases of Dr.Jekyll, with a better understanding of the worse without Ritalin. I stutter when tired.”
chronic and often more obscure symptoms of Aloe, one She had been very depressed for a long time, but it
comes to know when Aloe would indeed cover the had been much worse in the last two ears. “I just sit by
entire case. myself and I don’t want to do anything or see anyone. I
Regarding the acute bilateral ear infection he am not thinking about anything. I just shut down as if
developed after the first dose of Calcarea carbonica, in asleep, but I am aware.” The depression came
hindsight, it is very likely that it also would have been periodically, about every other month, and lasted about
cured by Aloe. In the provings, we find all the three weeks. Whether she took Ritalin or not made no
symptoms of acute otitis media. I have since seen a few difference.
more cases where Aloe has demonstrated the same depth She didn’t like changes. “I feel more comfortable
of action, and I will summarize two of these cases to when things don’t change. At 10 years old I didn’t want
help solidify the picture of Aloe in the mind of the to move. I was adamant about not moving. For
reader. example, now I don’t want to go home from college
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scared of new things. I can obsess about things. I can movie. As a kid I used to memorize commercials on
listen to the same movie (The Sound of Music) or read TV. I also remember license plates without trying.
the same book (Little Women) 15 to 30 times. I go “I am a control freak. I don’t go on roller coasters
through phases where I love to read books. Then I will because I am not in control. For the same reason, I don’t
switch to watching movies all day.” rollerblade. I would never eat anything from a street
For many years, she had the tendency to eat the vendor.”
same food two or three times a day for three consecutive She was afraid of the dark until she was 18 years
weeks, then she would switch to another food, and so old. “I must sleep with the closets closed. I can’t
on. For instance, she would eat only Chinese food for watch anything scary (2).” She was afraid of germs (2).
three weeks, then she would only eat chicken wings for “I can’t share an apartment because roommates are not
three weeks, then switch to deli, then to hot dogs, etc. careful. When I leave home I always bring my own
“I do the same thing with my friends. I hang out blankets. I hate sleeping in hotels because of the
with a certain girl every day for three weeks, then I dirtiness of the blankets. It used to be worse.” She had
change to someone else. I also like to wear the same never slept outside in a tent. She had never had a baby
clothes everyday for a long time. I have been wearing doll.
black clothes all the time for the last 10 years. I can do She like to take pictures. She liked to cook. She
research, or play on the computer, or search the Internet, played with her hair or her mother’s hair since
for hours on end. I am very particular about TV childhood. She tended to overpack when she left the
programs; I just like certain ones. I still suck my thumb. house. “I bring something for every type of weather,
“I don’t like reality very much. I don’t like yet I wear the same thing when I go away.”
confrontation. I can’t deal with it. I would rather walk Temperature: She felt hot all the time. She was hot
away than argue. I am very irresponsible about bills. I and sweaty when nobody else was. She felt better in
am too lazy to balance my checkbook. I want instant colder weather and worse in warm, wet weather (2).
gratification. I enjoy food, cars, clothes, and vacations. When hot, her forehead and feet would sweat, but
“I am stressed all the time. I am very tense about nothing in between. She had more difficulty waking up
being clean, with my hands, with my apartment. I take in the morning if it was cloudy outside. She loved the
a shower twice a day. I vacuum my apartment, once sun. If she was not too impatient she could sit in it for a
during the day and once at night at 3 AM before going long time, even all day long, especially with music, but
to bed. I can’t stand looking at a mess. I can’t study in only if she was on vacation.
a room that is not perfectly clean. Inside the drawers it Energy: 3-4 on a scale of 10. Her energy increased
is a mess but I am too lazy to deal with that. When the after 8:30 PM.
place is a mess, it makes me feel not clean and the Sleep: She could only sleep in a very cold room, with a
apartment not clean. I always lived in very clean places. lot of blankets. She would sleep a long time, from 3
“I tend to be very lazy. I tend to procrastinate, and AM until 4 PM. If she was a passenger in a car, she
lie about it. It is easier to say that I have already done it, always slept from the moment she got in. She tended to
and not do it. When I play tennis I don’t run for the talk and grind her teeth in sleep (2). She would sweat
ball, I let the ball come to me. I like to put things off till on her neck and whole head every time she took a nap.
the last minute. I am always late. I work better under She slept with lots of covers. Her dreams continued
the crunch. I can only do things under pressure. The from one night to the next.
only reason I do things is because I am pushed todo Appetite: She could eat constantly or not eat at all. It
things.” Indolence (3). went in cycles. The craving for food also came in
She also complained about having a problem with cycles. When she craved a certain food, she would
money. “If I want something I just buy it. I have no wake up in the morning wanting that food, and she
self-control.” would eat it at every meal for the next two or three
In general, she enjoyed her friends, but when she weeks. The food cravings always changed.
experienced bad moods she preferred to avoid them. “I She was worse from beer (2). She became full and
don’t want to interact with others. It is rude.” She did bloated and had eructations from it. She was usually
not trust people easily. “I was told that I was a snob.” constipated unless she took Ritalin. But if she ate dairy
She liked to talk on the phone. She liked gadgets, such or fast foods she developed a liquid diarrhea within 30-
as computers. 60 minutes. It first started as a pain in the right side,
“I like to know about everything, for instance, what and was quickly followed by a watery, yellow brown
is a good play in New York City.” She had a very good diarrhea. At home she got it about once or twice per
memory. “I can remember in detail, like I can picture week, and about four times per week in college.
circumstances that happened when I was five years old. Thirst: She was always thirsty. As a teenager she
I also remember a lot of stupid facts, for example, a drank only Coke, then for years she switched to Sprite.
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needed to drink. She drank three or four glasses of school, until the age of 10. She was a very happy child
liquid with each meal or snack. until she was 10 years old, when her mother started to
Menses: Her menses were regular, every five weeks, work at her father’s office. She was transferred to a
with cramps the first day only. She described herself as private school, which was full of mold. That was when
being prudish in terms of sexual behavior as compared she developed the allergies and her many other
to her friends. symptoms started.
Sensitivities: She loved all types of music, from opera Her sleep had always been very light. Before
to rap. She said she was not “touchy” in her feelings falling asleep she would twirl her hair and before she
like her friends. She did not cry at movies when others would twirl her mother’s hair. She still sucked her
cried. She felt indifferent when someone suffered, thumb in sleep. She often complained of headaches,
except those close to her. She hated horror movies. which grew worse from strong odors and tobacco. She
Fears and anxieties: She said that she had a lot of was indecisive; she wanted others to make decisions for
fears and phobias. She said that she was very attached her. All her fears were minimized when her parents
to her parents. “I cry every time my parents travel were nearby. Insect bites produced great swelling and
because I have fear of the plane. I always have the inflammation for many days. Since infancy, she would
feeling I am going to die in the plane. I have a lot of fall asleep while riding in a car. She had frequent
fears.” She was afraid of heights (2), even of climbing a nosebleeds. She had diarrhea when she started eating
small ladder. After cutting herself at 11 years of age, solid food at seven months old.
she had a fear of knives for the following six years. She Assessment: This case was not difficult to diagnose,
worried a lot about the future (3). “I feel very insecure. with the great number of characteristic symptoms
I always worry about what people think of me. I don’t pointing to Aloe. We had a hot patient who was
want to do things because I don’t want to fail.” Her aggravated from heat and preferred cold weather; with
self-confidence went up and down. great laziness, alternating with activity; aversion to
She had to sleep with the doors locked. She feared change; fiixations in cycles; watery, yellow-brownish
that the stove was not off if she was the last one to leave diarrhea; great thirst during meals; and who was worse
the house. When she left the house she would unplug from beer and from cloudy weather.
every apparatus, check that all doors and windows were Plan: Aloe 200C (Borneman).
closed, that the stove was off, and that the garage door She took seven doses of Aloe 200C (Borneman),
was locked. She feared that the house would burn when six doses of 10M, one dose of 50M, and two doses of
she left. At 3 PM she would get up and check again that CM, over a period of about a year and a half. She
everything was locked. “I check that the car is locked. would first experience an aggravation of most of her
It is always locked. I have to check, otherwise I can’t symptoms after a dose, especially at first, which was
sleep. I need to be in control.” She would not swim in followed by an improvement. Her energy became
the ocean, as she feared the fish in it. “I think it is normal, at a steady 9 all day. The anxiety, depression,
dirty.” She feared losing her parents. “They have cared and ADD disappeared very quickly, as did the food
for me.” cravings, asthma, epistaxis, headaches, warm hands,
Trauma: The most traumatic event in her life was feeling too hot, procrastination and fixations. The
moving at 10 years of age. “Ever since, I have done difficulty waking on cloudy days disappeared. The
poorly. I was used to certain things, and everything bowel movements became normal. Only the allergies
changed.” did not resolve.
Stress: As college was about to finish and she had The patient stopped her homœopathic treatment
only one semester to complete, she needed to find a job with me after postponing her scheduled appointment on
and an apartment, but felt too lazy to do it. three different occasions. She said that she was doing
Medications: She took claritin and weekly well, and would eventually come for an appointment.
desensitizing injections for her allergies, Ritalin while in Her father was an allergist who was practicing
school, and Motrin for menstrual cramps. Homœopathy. She would also consult him. What is
Objective symptoms: Her skin was slightly oily. She important to note in this case is that the rare, peculiar
had acne along the jaw line, which was worse before her and unusual symptoms of the aversion to change, with
menses and after eating sweets. Her hands were hot to cycles of fixations, the great laziness alternating with
the touch. She said that they were swollen in the activity, and the heat, are again confirmed under Aloe.
morning. Her eyes were injected. [See editor’s note below.]
Her parents described her as introverted. She Now let’s look at the case of B.M., a seven-year-
avoided emotional communication even with her old boy with Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, whom I
mother. She tended to be addicted to a certain saw on May 3, 2000. B.M.’s most peculiar symptom
stereotypic repetition of activity. They said that S. was was a great aversion to change and the desire for
a very bright person and used to earn high grades in routine. Things always had to be done in the same

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order. For instance, activities during the day had to has taught Homœopathy extensively in North America
follow the same order. If he undressed, clothes always for over 15 years. His new book on the work of Adolph
had to be removed in the same order. Foods always had Lippe, Lessons in pure Homœopathy, will be available
to be presented in the same way, for instance, if the in Fall, 2001.
cheese was not cut in a certain way, he would have a fit. This concludes Part 1 of this article. Part 2, “The
Other characteristic symptoms were perfectionism, Materia Medica of Aloe” will be published in the Fall
e.g., he explained everything in the most minute detail; 2001 issue.
great tiredness and lethargy from waking until 11 AM, Editor’s note: In reading this case, I had a couple of
but increased energy in the evening; sighing all the time, questions for Dr.Saine. Due to time constraints, he was
as if everything was an effort; great iirresolution about unable to reply, but requested that I print the questions.
trifles; great heat with aversion to and aggravation from His response will appear in the next issue.
heat; aversion to bathing; great desire for fruits and My questions:
apple juice; daily loose diarrhea; stubbornness; offended “Based on the other cases presented, I can see why
easily; overly sensitive to pain; tendency to be too you were led to think of Aloe in S.P.’s case. However,
affectionate; sensitivity sensitivity to admonition; and there are some characteristic symptoms in the case, not
the desire to be fanned. necessarily characteristic of Aloe, that did not feature
In a period of 10 months, B.M. received three doses in your evaluation. I am curious as what you felt about
of Aloe 200C (Borneman), four doses of Aloe 1M these symptoms, and what other remedies you may have
(Standard), and seven doses of Aloe 10M (Standard). considered.
The aversion to change, perfectionism, lethargy, fatigue • Childish: sucking the thumb at 22, too lazy to
in the morning, diarrhea, sighing, aversion to bathing, balance checkbook, wants instant gratification.
irresolution, heat, being too affectionate and desire for • Contrary: impatient yet patient, hurried yet
fruits all disappeared. He eventually stopped falling, lethargic, lazy yet fastidious
when previously he would fall two or three times per • Fear of the dark until age 18
week. He walked and ran better and longer, and • Fear of contagion, many examples
climbed stairs better. The aversion to change, lethargy, • Fear of undertaking new things: I don’t want to go
and heat were again confirmation for and characteristic home from college because I don’t want to deal
indications of Aloe. with new things; at 10 I didn’t want to move; I am
References scared of new things.
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• Perspiration: head and neck during sleep
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• Constipated except for diarrhea from milk
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Regarding the reaction: her whole state changed at
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age 10 when her family moved, which she has
3. WHITING L. “Cases from note book.”
never gotten over. Her mental state and severe
Proceedings of the International Hahnemannian
allergies began at that time and have persisted to the
Association. 1890:365.
time of the case-taking. After Aloe was given in
4. WESSELHOEFT W. “A case read at the meeting
ascending potencies, the mental/emotional state was
of the Organon Society of Boston, December 28th.”
much improved, but the allergy symptoms didn’t change
Homœopathic Physician 1890: 10: 10-13
at all over the treatment period. To me, this seems to
André Saine ND, DHANP is a graduate of the National
indicate the remedy may not have been sufficiently
College of Naturopathic Medicine and has been Dean of
similar. I look forward to your comments.”
the Canadian Academy of Homœopathy since 1986. He

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PART III

(While Part II features articles from other journals, Part III contains the editor’s own contributions and other original
articles.)
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BOOK SHELF Cancer of our immune system. A big question therefore

1. Book 1: Myths and Reality about AIDS. is whether HIV is the cause or effect. As both T cells
Author: Dr. Mirza Anwar BAIG, Publishers: and the virus are dependent on a certain hormone called
Mafkhar Publications, Bombay. Price $ 8. 00 cytokinese – lymphokinese, deficiency of which can
Rs. 200/- Year of Publication – 1998. cause a decrease immune response, because both T cells
2. Book 2: Homoeo-Immunization, Aids vs Cancer, and the HIV are dependent on this hormone for survival.
Price $ 10, Rs. 250/- Author – Dr. Mirza Anwar Other paradoxes exist which confuse our interpretation
BAIG, Publishers – Mafkhar Publications, of serological test for HIV infection says the author eg.
Bombay. Year of Publication 2000. patients with T helper cells below 200 were quiet well
The first book written by the author deals with the with no signs of immune deficiency while other patients
definition of AIDS as per CDC classification of USA where the T cell immunity marker was in normal range
and describes the natural history and pathogenesis of developed AIDS. There is also a debate whether HIV
AIDS plus its etiology and immunology. Some of the was born after routine inoculation with Hepatitis ‘B’
questions which the author has addressed to the readers vaccination. Could it not be that HIV is basically
is whether AIDS like TB is not primarily a disease of strongly an iatrogenic disease in addition to various
infection but of reactivation and he has also extensively other factors.
mentioned various inconsistencies and scientific Dr. BAIG in the book goes on to describe the
paradoxes in the viral theory of AIDS. cellular and humoral aspect of the immune system with
Quoting Dr. Peter DUESBERG of California the different types of antibodies made by humoral cells
University who has emphatically argued that from the like IgA, IgG etc and then, the author goes on to add
evolutionary point of view it makes no sense for the that AIDS and Cancer have many things in common,
virus to kill – the very cell in which it lives. both are incurable allopathically, both have a variety of
Furthermore, experimentally this doctor observed “T symptoms, according to which system is involved, both
cells grow very nicely in test tube full of virus” Dr. metastise and finally both are linked to certain genetic
BAIG has postulated whether the HIV really damages factors. Its also known that the patients who are
the immune system or our immune system is prior susceptible to Cancer are also susceptible to AIDS.
damaged due to our behaviour and life style patterns or Another aspect of AIDS is whether Syphilis that
frequent ingestion of toxic drugs. has been suppressed with modern medicines after a time
A British Doctor has postulated in his book that develops into an AIDS picture.
AIDS is very close to Cancer and both almost seem to After this the author describes the various co-
have similar causes. Actually it seems AIDS is a factors in the development of AIDS and has quoted

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various case reports from his clinic to support this Carcinosin of 7 full blown AIDS patients with their
contention. One of the statements he has made in this complaints before treatment and the table four gives the
book is that AIDS is a psychosomatic illness like same situation after treatment. Page 51 deals with the
Cancer, where human psyche is traumatized first then Nosode of HIV called as Virionum, which is the
the body and Syphilis continues to play an important author’s own remarkable discovery. While trying to
role in flourishing it. potentise the blood of an HIV patient who had been
Other chapter deal with symptoms and signs of benefited by his previous medication, the author was
AIDS, the basic four groups according to the CDC – himself making two sets of potencies one of live virus
classification. The oppurtunistic bacteria, fungi and and the other in its dynamic form. While doing so he
protozoa that are seen in AIDS patients in the west had realised that he had inhaled sufficient strength of
which differs from those in India. viruses that had reached his system through inhalation,
One chapter is devoted to the therapeutic aspect of and through spilling over his hands. He started noticing
AIDS through allopathic drugs AZT, with various toxic the energy of the virus through the symptoms of itching,
and side effects of the same drug. crawling and floating sensation, inside his blood with
The role of naturopathy in AIDS is also mentioned, strong tremors in his hand, dry mouth and fear of death.
plus various physiotherapeutic therapies and nutritional So he isolated himself, did not go home and kept a diary
dietic vitamins, herbs, vibration and meditation and of his symptoms in detail for four days. This was an
other aspects of treatment. accidental proving to which later on he deliberately took
Theoritical ground work of healing through a few drops of Virionum 1X dilution and rubbed it on
Homœopathy has been mentioned along with his hands for a few seconds, again the same symptoms
complementary medicines like Bach flower remedies occurred and the fear of death was so strong so as to
and Biochemic salts. make him take Aconite 200, sleep normalcy was
One chapter also deals with Unani and Ayurvedic restored only after he took a dose of Carcinosin. He has
philosophy for HIV and AIDS. given an excellent case report of the donar from whom
The concluding chapter deals with the basic he took the blood to prepare Virionum. Subsequently
conclusions of the author and there is an extensive on 15 provers the same drug was tested in 6X and 200
bibliography at the end of this book. In a short span of potency for their proving symptoms have been tabulated
88 pages the reader is given a good over all view about in a proper format from mind onwards from pages 62 to
the truth and untruth reality about AIDS. 68. The same chapter also contains clinical provings of
The Authors second book has interested me more cases with multidrug resistance Tuberculosis. His
because it deals with his own discovery and research conclusions are given from pages 78 to 80 and the
work for AIDS and Cancer. He has discovered a immunization therapy is used by him in both molecular
method which he calls Homo-Immunization by means and what he calls as ultra molecular or super ultra
of which if one goes to see the record of his cases, many molecular dilutions.
AIDS patients and Cancer cases have become healthy. This is a very interesting book whose practical use
He first describes Carcinosin the nosode of Cancer, can be found out by anybody who utilizes the nososdes
mentioning the writings of BURNETT and prepared by Dr. BAIG in the manner that he has
FOUBISTER which first made Carcinosin a very advocated. The cures that are given in his book are
important therapeutic tool for modern day diseases. Dr. astonishing and I see no reason why others cannot
BAIG gives 3 or 4 cases of his cured by Carcinosin and follow in their own clinical practice the beneficial
mentions his cases of renal failure, hepato- results that Dr. BAIG has himself experienced.
splenomegaly, respiratory allergies, various tumours Excepting for many errors in printing in both the
and mainly HIV – AIDS cases including a strange case books the type script is easily readable and the price
of white matter disease all of which were cured totally reasonable. – Dr.D.E.MISTRY.
by Carcinosin. A brief table on page 44 gives the
reader a full idea of the 10 most difficult conditions 3. BOENNINGHAUSENs Therapeutisches
treated by him with Carcinosin in addition to giving Taschenbuch, (BOENNINGHAUSEN’s Therapeutic
constitutional remedy which was mainly Calcarea Pocket Book) hrsg. Klaus-Henning GYPSER,
carbonica specific remedies which were remedies like Johannes Sonntag, Stuttgart, 2000. S.502. DM
Lachesis, Pulsatilla, China etc. and remedies which 198. (German).
were miasmatic which was mainly Thuja in addition to This is a completely revised German edition of
carcinosin. Table – 2 on page 45 very clearly compares BOENNINGHAUSEN’s Therapeutic Pocket Book
the Carcinosin drug picture with the signs and (PB).
symptoms of AIDS showing the almost close similarity The PB was first published in 1846 (German). In
between the two. Readers should look to this table for the experience of the users of the PB several
their benefit. Table 3 gives a clinical proving of inaccuracies and defects have been observed over these

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150 years. In the course of a Seminar which the Editor (‘Versuch einer homöopathische Therapie der
of this book Dr.Klaus-Henning GYPSER held in Wechselfieber’ 1864), the revision of the PB was
Sydney, Australia in 1995 the BOENNINGHAUSEN’s carried out.
Method and its practical use was discussed. Since the BOENNINGHAUSEN’s Foreword of 1845 is
PB is as much useful in the practice today as it was in retained. An ‘Introduction’ by Dr.GYPSER in four
1846, the idea of a revision was then decided upon in parts is given: (i) The basic principles of the so-called
consultation with G.DIMITRIADIS of Australia. BOENNINGHAUSEN Method; (ii) Examples of
From time to time over the years deficiencies in the practical application; Dr.GYPSER has presented two
PB have been pointed out (as indeed one could point out cases in this to show how the Pocket-Book may be used
in every other Repertory that has appeared so far), and profitably; (iii) Contents of the Revision; (iv) the
after the advent of Kent’s Repertory, use of the PB supplements/additions in BOENNINGHAUSEN’s hand.
became less and less. The Boger This is followed by the main part of the book – the
BOENNINGHAUSEN’s Repertory which came long Repertory, in 428 pages.
after the PB also became less and less used. The paper, printing, binding are excellent.
However, since sometime past there has been a Although it is in German it can be used by one without
revival of interest in BOENNINGHAUSEN Method knowledge of German language if the ‘rubrics’ are
particularly in Germany. This is an indication of a translated and kept as ‘Glossary’, for ready reference
‘return to Hahnemann’. In the name of ‘Classical and picking up of the appropriate rubrics.
Homœopathy’ Homœopaths have moved away from Seven Homœopaths including Dr. GYPSER have
Hahnemann and into much speculative, wanderings. put their heads together and worked with great care over
‘Back to basics’ call has been heard from many quarters a period of about 5 years. We are grateful to them.
and in this scenario recall of BOENNINGHAUSEN The book can be warmly recommended for day-
augurs well. today practice. –K.S.S.
While the Pb was published in 1846 from which
latter English editions (T.F.ALLEN) were made, 4. Hormonmangel – Theorie und Praxis der
whatever additions, corrections, deletions, alteration of pflanzlichen Stimulation des Hormonsystems –
remedy gradations etc. were made by (Hormone deficiency – Theory and Practice of
BOENNINGHAUSEN were not carried out in the stimulation of the hormone system by plant
English edition of the PB. remedies) F.RIEDEG , 3. Überarbeitete und
BOENNINGHAUSEN used his PB in his daily ergänzte Auflage, Sonntag Verlag, Stuttgart, S.128
practice and made many annotations additions, DM. 39.90: (German)
corrections, etc. in his copy, as he continued to apply This book is on phytotherapy in hormone
the PB in his daily practice upto 1864. Caroll deficiencies in regard to various diseases, including
DUNHAM (1828-1877) got all the corrections etc. AIDS, Alzheimer’s, Asthma bronchial, Ulcerative
made by BOENNINGHAUSEN copied in his own copy colitis, Diabetes, Cancer, Leukaemia, Migraine,
of the PB, and these were further copied in HERING’s Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson, Polyneuvitis,
own copy of the PB; it appears that there were 2-3 more Schizophrenia, Scleroderma, Duodenal ulcer, cysts, and
copies of the PB incorporating DUNHAM’s notings. many others.
There is also in the Robert Bosch Institute of In an interesting ‘Introductions’ the author says that
History of Medicine a two volume Manuscript of from researches in their Endocrine Research Centre it
BOENNINGHAUSEN which appears to be an updated has been observed that hormone insufficiencies can be
PB which was not published. set aright and in the forefront of their work was their
The editor of the book under review now, Dr.K.-H. contact with physicists particularly the Quantum
GYPSER, has in his possession a ‘Dunham’ copy. physics. Introducing the ideas of Quantum physics in
With the ‘Dunham’ and a careful study of the many Medicines will be fruitful. The name of Werner
other works of BOENNINGHAUSEN, viz. the many HEISENBERG (1901-1976) who received the Nobel
collected articles that are there in the ‘Lesser Writings Prize in 1932 for Physics, leads in this. We are to think
of BOENNINGHAUSEN’ (Kleine Medizinische in terms of the “Formative structures” and not in
Schriften’), ‘The Homœopathic Domestic Physician “particles” if we are to find some answers regarding
(Die Homœopathische Hausarzt – 1853), ‘Sides of the adjuvant therapies in malignancy. Here comes the
Body and Relationship’ (Die Körperseiten und hormone system which plays a dominant role of
Verwandschaften’ – 1853) ‘The Homœopathic Formative Structure. We know that the plants fit very
treatment of Whooping Cough’ (The homöopathische well in this and not chemical-synthetic hormones. The
Behandlung des Keuchhustens’ 1860), “The Aphorisms hormone deficiency is not a “particle problem” but is
of Hippocrates’ (‘Die Aphorismen des Hippokrates’, more an insuffiiciency in structural formatives. It is
1863), ‘Homœopathie treatment of Intermittent Fever” therefore necessary to stimulate the insufficiently active

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hormone glands; this is done better by substances which addresses, various websites where further information
act on structures formatively. may be obtained, are given.
This application of plant substances is supplement The next chapter is Biological-totality alternative
to the conventional medicine. procedures; Here too the diagnostic procedures and then
The Phytotherapy has developed for the pituitary Immune regulation including Organ therapy, Ozone
the medicines “phyto-Hypophyson” and for the therapy, Ayurvedic therapy, etc., Plants that enhance the
suprarenal the “Phytocortal”. resistance and fight against the disease-viz. Mistletoe,
After this Introduction are the Chapter on the Echinacea, Ginseng, Chinese Phyto therapy, St.John’s
theoretical aspects – the modern Physics, Biology, wort, Green Tea, Lapacho Tea, Rooibes Tea, Essiac Tea,
Medicine. Flor-Essence Cannabis etc. – Nutrition, during radiation
The next part contains the therapeutics – practice of and Chemotherapy Microbiological Therapy, Beta-
stimulating of hormone glands by plants. Karotin/Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium,
The dosages, the contents of the preparation, Zinc. etc. etc. Next chapter tells of the unity of body and
indications with A-Z pathological conditions, are given spirit under which head comes: Walking, Meditation,
with diagram. The remedies are those which are very Yoga, Qi Gong and Taiji, Massage and Reflexzones
well-known in Homœopathy, viz. Ruta graveolens, work on the foot, Lymph drainage, Kinesiology, etc.
Bellis perennis, Hamamelis, Millefolium, Symphytum Next is supportive to the senses like Visualisation, NLP,
officinalis, Chelidonium, Ledum, etc. Family support; Laughter, Music and Dance Poetry and
The book is quite interesting and informative; brief Bibliotherapy, Homoeopathy, Bach Flowers, Color
and clear. The book is in its third edition and will be therapy, etc.
useful for every practitioner. Rich with information and reference to sources
–DR.K.S.SRINIVASAN. from which one can get more information, the various
societies, Associations, self-help, etc.
5. 110 Wirksame Behandlungsmöglichkeiten bei Certainly a very useful book. Unfortunately
Krebs, (110 effective treatment possibilities of Homœopathy has been mentioned in a passing manner.
Cancer) Dr.med.György Irmey, Dr.Phil. Anna-Luise Homœopathy is a Medicine complete in itself and cases
Jordan, Robert Norton, Haug, Heidelberg. S.196, of Cancer cures by Homœopathy are plenty. The learned
DM 39. 90. (German). authors would, it is hoped, give more information of
Homœopathy.
As will be obvious from the title of this book, it -Dr.K.S.SRINIVASAN.
gives brief information about the many different
treatments available as exclusive or as complementary,
therapy in regard to Cancer treatment. The patient may 5. Homöopathische Behandlung Symptomarmer
be able to discuss with his physician and choose Fälle; (Homœopathie Treatment of Cases with
whatever will be most suitable to his ailment. To that Paucity of Symptoms) A. REHMAN, Johannes
extent this book will be of good help. Sonntag Verlag, Stuttgart, 2001 S.164. DM
It has now been realised that mere treatment of the 64.90, - (German).
part affected is not sufficient but the whole patient in
his/her totality, including mind and soul needs to be ‘Homœopathic treatment of cases with paucity of
treated appropriately. symptoms: We all have experienced situations like this
The first essay tells briefly the basics in regard to in our day to day practice. What should one do in such
Cancer: the questions before one diagnosed to be cases, which are otherwise known as one sided diseases
afflicted with Cancer and what are the answers. “While or as Pierre SCHMIDT called ‘Defective Illness’? Of we
accepting the diagnosis, one should not accept the have, in such cases, a clear diagnosis, a remedy chosen
prognosis.” One should take up initiative, responsibility on that basis may trigger the individual to throw up
on oneself, less anxiety and fear, obtain relevant symptoms that would help one to prescribe more closely.
information from reliable sources, keep up hopes and Homœopathic literature contains lot of hints about
believe in the healing powers within one’s own inner remedies which could well suit a very small, but clear
self, etc. This essay is quite well written and worth symptoms especially objective symptoms. Dr.Abdur
careful reading. REHMAN has collected over the years many such
The next chapter is ‘Conventional Medicine’ in symptoms/syndromes and the remedy for them alongwith
which are discussed the Diagnosis, operation the sources from which he had collected these, put them
(Cryotherapy, Laser therapy), Radiation, the side in order and presented in this book for the benefit of the
effects, Chemo therapy, Hormone therapy. Brief but profession.
complete information with the sources including This handy book is in three parts: 1. Indicated
medicine and its alternative e.g.: ‘Appendicitis’, the

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‘indicated’ medicines are Acon., Bell. And the Well printed, bound, and handy. A must for every
‘alternative medicine’ is Ferr-p., the source P.C. practitioner. I am sure that this book will run into
Majumdar .2. Abscess, the ‘indicated’ is Hep., the further editions soon.
‘alternative’ is Calc.s., the source N.M.Choudhry. A translation into English will be most welcome.
The second part of this chapter has three columns: the - DR.K.S.SRINIVASAN.
indicated remedy, the alternative remedy, the author.
E.g. col.1: Acon., Col.2: Sulph., Col.3:R.F.Rabe; Col.1:
Aloe., Col.2: Sulph., Col.3: H.Farrington.
The Family history and its indicated medicines:
e.g.: Col.1: Family history, abortion. Col.2: Carc.,
Syph., Col.1: hereditary alcohol craving; Col.2: Carc.,
Syph.
Singular anamnesis and indicated medicine: e.g.
Col.1: abdominal ailments; Col.2: Thuja., Col.1:
abortion, without organic pathology, Col.2: Pyrog
Part II. Reactions and intercurrent medicines. These
are extracted from Homœopathic Materia Medica. E.g.
Col.1: Reactive medicine in patients

Part II. Reactions and intercurrent medicines. These

are extracted from Homœopathic Materia Medica. E.g.
Col.1: Ambra grisea, Col.2: Reactive medicine in
patients with weak nervous system; Insufficient reaction
in nervous affections; etc. etc.
Part III: Contains names of remedies and their
abbreviations, and a list of literature (115 in number)
that have been consulted in preparing this book.
The book has a Preface by Dr.K.- H. GEBHARDT, a
foreward by Dr.K.- H. GYPSER and an introduction by
the author Dr.A. REHMAN.
The book would easily become a daily reference work
in day-to day practice. The sources are mentioned and
one can read, for any clarification, in them. There are
authentic and reliable to that extent.

COMING EVENTS:

1. A Two Day International Conference, 3 –4

April 2003, London, U.K. Royal London Homœopathic 2. DELPHI Case Conference: DELPHI project will be
Hospital. Improving the Success of Homœopathy: held prior to the conference, on Wednesday 2nd April.
BRIDGING THE CREDIBILITY GAP. The The DELPHI project aims to identify the most reliable
Conference will highlight the rigorous evaluation of criteria for the successful prescription of Homœopathic
Homœopathy in ‘real world’ settings including primary remedies by building a database of case histories and by
care, secondary care and retail pharmacy and also to developing methodologies for, and support of systemic
bridge the gap between theory and clinical practice, case study. ALL enquiries regarding this meeting should
drawing particularly on the emergent ‘Science of be directed to Dr BAAS Cees. E – mail
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1. Empowering the patient
2. Theories supporting the plausibility of Homœopathy 3. 2nd Dr. M.L.Agrawal Memorial Lecture on Sunday,
3. Integration of Homœopathy in existing 6th October 2002. Venue: Dr.Yudhvir Singh
healthcare settings. Auditorium, Nehru Homœopathic Medical College &
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Education and Research. For further Details Secretarial The Ailment

Office: 429, Sector-14, Gurgaon – 122001, Ph.: 0124- Lung Shu said to the physician Wen Chi, “Your art
6323478 is subtle. I have an ailment, can you cure it?
The physician said, “I will do as you say, but first
4. 12th National Homœopathic Conference 2003, Agra on tell me all your symptoms.”
8th and 9th February, 2003 organised by Research Society Lung Shu said, “I am not honored when the whole
of Homœopathy India. Venue: Hotel Jay Pee Palace, village praises me, nor am I ashamed when the whole
Fatehabad Road, Agra. country criticizes me. Gain does not make me happy,
Registration Fees:Upto 30th Dec. 2002 for Doctors loss does not grieve me. I look upon life as like death,
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Foreign delegates fees like a foreign country. With these affections, reward
Rs. 5000 US $100. No Spot Registration. cannot encourage me, punishments cannot threaten me, I
cannot be changed by flourishing or decline, gain or loss,
I cannot be moved by sorrow or happiness. Then I
cannot serve the Government, associate with friends, run
my household, or control my servants. What sickness is
this? Is there any way to cure it?
The physician had Lung Shu stand with his back to
the light while he looked into his chest. After a while he
said “Aha! I see your heart; it is empty! You are nearly
a sage. Six of the apertures in your heart are open, one
of them is closed. This may be why you think the
wisdom of a sage is an ailment. It cannot be stopped by
CORRECTION: my shallow art.”
In QHD Vol. XVIII, 3 & 4/2001, in p.4 instead of [From ‘Tales of Inner Meaning’, in Vitality,
‘insulin’ please read ‘inulin’. Energy, Spirit, a Taoist Sourcebook, Translated and
edited by Thomas cleary, Shambhala 1991]

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2. QHD, VOL. XIX, 3 & 4, 2002

Part I. – Current Literature Listing
Part I of the journal lists the current literature in Homœopathy drawn from the well-known homœopathic
journals published world-over – India, England, Germany, France, Brazil, USA, etc., - discipline-wise, with
brief abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to the original articles for detailed study. The full names and
addresses of the journals covered by this compilation are given at the end.
Barbara OSAWA’s following suggestions =
I. PHILOSOPHY K.S.S.]

1. O Cancererinismo no contexto das Doenças To remedy this situation we should:

Crônicas (Cancerinism in the context of • Ensure that all homœopathic education
Chronic Diseases) includes a solid foundation in the Organon
De OLIVEIRA, Welington Saraiva and homœopathic principle.
(RH, 66, 2/2001) • Present new clinical material from reliably
cured cases.
The purpose of this paper is to understand • Add material to the Repertory and Materia
Cancerinism in its conception, to discuss if it is or Medica which distinguishes verified proving
not a new Miasm (Oncotic miasm) and to verify if symptoms from those which have not been
its utilization would reduce the risks of Cancer confirmed, and from clinically cured
development. symptoms.
Several classic works are studied: • Reject provings which do not follow the
HAHNEMANN, KENT and VANNIER, scientific procedures outlined by
essentially; José Laercio do EGITO and JULIAN, HAHNEMANN.
among others complementarily. • Steer clear of “theoritically” interpreted
Recognition of signs and symptoms of a Materia Medica, and get back to Materia
Cancerinic state, by individualization in each case, Medica Pura.
may act in Cancer prevention. • Define clear standards by which the profession
can be recognized [HAHNEMANN has
2. Responsibility and Reliability written in unambiguous words as to who is a
OSAWA Barbara (SIM, XIV, 3/2001) “true homœopathic physician” – “Wahre
homöopathische Arzt” (see ‘Ein Manuscript
The author, Executive Editor of Simillimum, HAHNEMANNs aus seiner Pariser Zeit’ von
discusses briefly the modern trend of K.-H. GYPSER in the ZKH, 31, 2/1987). We
‘speculations’ far and deep in the field of Materia must simply follow it = K.S.S.]
Medica, Repertory and resultant prescriptions. The
methodology of ‘provings’ have been the hardest 3. Homœopathy versus Speculative Medicine: A
hit by the ‘urge by some contemporary call to Action
practitioners and teachers who fly high in André SAINE (SIM. XIV, 3/2001)
imagination and spin fascinating pictures’:
Barbara OSAWA refers to Jan SCHOLTEN’s
‘proving’ of Albatroes in this connection. On the subject of speculative
[In the recent times we have seen many - and new trends in Homœopathy
remedies which have ‘themes’ instead of what as against the basic tenets of
HAHNEMANN, BOENNINGHAUSEN, Stuart
CLOSE, BOGER and such ‘beacons’ of Homœopathy (vide article of
Homœopathy called ‘characteristic’ symptoms, or Barbara OSAWA at No.2 above)
‘genius’ of the remedy. During the years 2000 –
2002 there have been hard (and sometimes harsh) André SAINE has written an
extensive and authoritative article
exchange of articles in the homœopathic journals quoting profusely from
which sometimes became ‘personal’. We with our
four decades of ‘practice’ firmly agree with HAHNEMANN, LIPPE and many
other stalwarts.
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André SAINE sounds a grim warning which DURER) MÜLLER, H.V. (AHZ, 246, 4/2001)
we all better heed: “The pioneers were well aware Dr.MÜLLER (1921-2001) has
of the danger various departures represented for the developed a technique of diagnosing the
recognition and survival of their profession. In
spite of such measures, the AIH, as well as most of
homœopathic remedy with the aid of the
the other homœopathic institutions, became favorite color of the patient and the
infiltrated and controlled by the ones who had not handwriting. He has worked on this
studied Homœopathy “in a careful and skillful technique and has classified about 300
manner.” The abandonment of principles yielded remedies and their favourite color and
very bitter fruits for Homœopathy in the nineteenth
Century, when most of our institutions departed
handwriting.
from HAHNEMANN’s method, leading to their The present article is on Cicuta virosa whose
eventual disappearance. Likely Homœopathy favorite color is black. The life and handwriting of
would have been remembered as medical folklore the artist, Albrecht DÜRER (15th - 16th Century),
like Hydropathy, Eclecticism, etc. if it had not been are studied and compared with other similar
for the Old Guard.” handwritings.
André SAINE further warns “By not learning The picture of Cicuta virosa (refer – I Edition
from the mistakes of our past, we condemn of the SR. I):
ourselves to relive them. As a profession, we must 1. Arrogant – one mark
clearly take a stance and convey to the public that a 2 Censorious, critical – one mark
homœopathic physician is one who understands the Reproaches others – one mark
method of HAHNEMANN, and practices 3. Contemptuous – one mark
accordingly. In 1835, shortly after his arrival in 4. Thoughtful about the errors of others – one
Paris, HAHNEMANN clearly stated in an address mark
to a French Homœopathic Society that he 5. Contented with himself – one mark
recognized as his disciples only the ones who 6. Introspection – one mark
practice pure Homœopathy.” [The ‘address’ 7. Monomania – one mark
mentioned here has already been referred to in 8. Mild – one mark
bracket at the end of 2 above. = K.S.S.] 9. Sympathy, compassion – one mark
It would be worthwhile to read the whole 10. Impulsive – two marks.
article and some more papers on this matter.
2. Carcinosinum – Eine Arzneimittel Prüfung
4. The Centesimal and LM potencies: A aus Mexico (Carcinosinum – A remedy
comparison from the 5th and 6th Editions of the proving from Mexico)
Organon CABALLERO Rosario Sánchez,
LITTLE David (SIM, XIII, 4/2001) CABALLERO Edwiges Sánchez &
ESPINOZA de Los Riba, M. (DH, 20/2001)
In this long and very instructive article David
LITTLE traces the history and circumstances of the This drug proving of Carcinosinum was
development of the 50 millesimal potencies by presented to the 50th Liga Congress in Oxaca,
HAHNEMANN and the administration of these Mexico in 1995 and published in the journal “La
potencies. The new potencies, the 50 millesimal - Homeopatia en el Mundo” in 1997.
the LM potency - was to “to speed the cure”. The Except the well-known drug picture of
lofty aims of the LM potency is: Carcinosinum which has been on the basis of
clinical experiences, there has been poor drug
• No aggravation
provings. However, the proving done in March
• Enduring, gentle secondary effect
1993 by Mattisch and Haslinger– Prüger
• Complete return of health and full vitality. (published in the Documenta Homœopathica
-------------------------------------------- Vol.14) may be recalled as a “systematically”
------------------ proved record of Carcinosinum.
The proving now reported was done with 40
II. MATERIA doctors who were in different stages of study of
Homœopathy with the Homeopatia de México.
MEDICA The provers were between ages 21 and 45 years,
1. Cicuta virosa – Eine Studie über Albrecht 45% women and 55% men.
DÜRER (Cicuta virosa – A study of Albrecht

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C30, LM6 and LM30 were the potencies Distracted

proved. While reading
Detailed recording of the results have been Great need for affection
provided. A summary of the symptoms more Peculiar general and local Symptoms
intensively aroused in at least two provers which Emaciation
could be verified in clinical practise are given here Better from cold
below: Better during the course of the day
Peculiar Mind and Emotional Symptoms: Better from a short sleep
Anxiety Much fatigue with marked weakness
About future worse in
Tears off the skin around the finger nail mornings on rising
Old anxieties and fears Weakness, sensation as if he has been
Anxious, afraid beaten
Apathy Symptoms alternate from one side to the
Lack of interest in things which were other
not important before Aggravation mornings
Occupation amel. Aggravation evenings
Discouraged Aggravation from cold-humid air
Without pleasure to take up something Aggravation from heat
and Aggravation after eating
with desire to remain lying Much sensitivity to cold air
Sensation as if something terrifying or very Burning pains, general
sad Pains which appear in bouts
would befall. Abdomen pains which are better from
Irritation pressure
In lively places Pressive pains in the chest, left to right
During pains Headache stitching right-sided
Indifference Purulent, greenish secretions from tonsils
Concentration difficult Purulent expectoration
Resentment, hatred about events Ejaculation during sleep
happened in the Appetite increased
past with desire for revenge With desire to eat often
Restlessness, mental With avidity to eat
Bad humour, with disposition to become Muscular jerkings of Extremities and the
annoyed. back
Very sensitive to reproof Scanty and dark menstrual bleedings
Sadness
With tendency to weep Desire for sweets
Taciturnity Boils on the back
From hearing Music Sensation as if a drop runs over the skin
Ennui Fever with prostration
Oversensitivity to Music Genearalised adenopathy with fever
With tendency to weep Full ‘Encyclopaedia’ proving data with prover
With marked feeling of rhythm identity, exact words, time, etc. are given.
Impatience
Restlessness, does not feel comfortable in 3. Galeocerdo cuvier hepar - Shark Liver
any GRIMES Melanie J. (AH, 7/2001)
place
Despair
During pains This is said to be a ‘Proving’ of a Shark’s
Rage cartilage. There is no indication how long the
From contradiction ‘proving’ was made, how many ‘provers’ how
From disgust many men/women, took part, how soon/late
The rage remains for long time. symptoms came, what potencies were used in the
Aggressive, ‘proving’, symptoms in the exact words of the
insulting, ironic and sarcastic prover etc. and yet this is claimed to be a

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‘homœopathic’ proving. The author has given Some symptoms or conditions can be a
some rubrics and ‘themes’, ‘dreams’ etc. For those combination of elements.
of us who have read the Materia Medica Pura, Thrombosis can be seen as earth in fire/water,
Guiding Symptoms, the Encyclopaedia and in cystitis as fire in water.
that lineage, this report of Melanie GRIMES is We find that all the symptoms a patient has,
totally confusing. If this is the manner in which the language he uses, the way in thich he
modern so-called Classical Homœopathy is approaches life, can all be fitted into a synthetic
moving along, we don’t know whether it will whole, and a picture will be revealed showing the
remain what HAHNEMANN and his faithful principal imbalance of the patient – that is the
followers intended it to be. The ‘half homœopaths’ direction in which he or she is moving, towards
of Leipzig whom HAHNEMANN admonished death and away from health.
were far better. Colleagues may judge for
themselves and appreciate. I have given in Part II Through the employment of Mappa Mundi we
of this Quarterly homœopathic Digest (QHD) the gradually gain a deepening sense of fundamental
‘Proving’ as reported by Melanie GRIMES in the processes underpinning life and we cease to see
American Homœopath 2001. symptoms as isolated phenomena, rather learning
4. Origins of the MAPPA MUNDI to view them as interrelated symbols of a unity is
NORLAND Misha (AH, 7/2001) distress (as is appropriate to homœopathic
practice).
Mappa Mundi (the map of the world) is
a system for understanding processes in terms of 5. Musca domestica: a proving
elemental energies – earth, water, fire, and air – STEWART Robert & SONZ Susan
and the associated temperaments – Melancholic, (AH, 7/2001)
Phlegmatic, Choleric and Sanguine, respectively. Musca domestica belongs to the family
It is a method of analysing the totality by Muscoidea, the order diptera, the class insecta and
subdivision, whereby we come to perceive a state the phylum arthropoda.
of dynamic balance in terms of action and reaction. We must always collaborate intuition with
The four elements have an evolutionary reliable symptomology from the provings.
relationship to one another. [HAHNEMANN warned us exactly against this =
1. Fire, essentially heat, is an energy and without KSS.] There are few characteristics of the life
substance. habits of the fly that have been confirmed by the
2. Air, being vapour is almost immaterial. proving and by (a limited) clinical experience.
3. Water is fluid, not yet formed 1. wherever you find animal moisture, you will
4. Earth is dense and represents the ultimate find flies. They seem to have an insatiable
stage in process of solidification. thirst as they are unable to eat food - must
The essential philosophy is of balance of four drink it. Many provers had dreams of water.
elements and humours in health and imbalance in 2. Flies are attracted towards sweets. Over five
disease. provers had a craving for sweets.
All manner of diseases can be explained by 3. Flies are sensitive to cold. Almost all provers
Mappa Mundi. e.g. a patient with fever – has an experienced an increased sensitivity to the
excess of fire; with edema, an excess of water; cold.
with obesity, an excess of earth; with bloatedness 4. Filth, trash, decomposing flesh, garbage and
an excess of air. fecal matter are areas of special interest to the
We can be quick-tempered, foreceful and fly. So too with provers. One prover thought
excitable (choleric); suspicious, brooding and he was being followed by garbage. There was
pessimistic (Melancholic); optimistic, lively, a theme of corruption and decay. Many were
impulsive and hopeful (sanguine); sluggish, slow disgusted with their surroundings. [Does it not
and yielding (Phlegmatic). remind one of Sulphur? = KSS]
The four psychological functions described by 5. Flies are incredibly prolific. Many provers
C.G.JUNG namely intuition, thinking, sensation experienced an increased libido.
and feeling, correspond to fire, air, earth and water. Medicine was proved on 10 provers in 30c
Our bodies process elemental energies. The potency. Proving was done according to the
heart and nervous system process elemental fire; instructions laid out in Jeremy SHERR’s ‘The
the digestive system, earth; the kidneys and dynamics and methodology of homœopathic
bladder water; the respiratory system, air. Provings’. [not as laid down by HAHNEMANN?
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Some of the Abdominal pain and thirst.

Blatta orientalis:
general reactions: Asthma and obesity.
Irritability was a strong factor for everyone. Borax:
There were many dreams of water. There were Sensitivity to noise and any herpetic or aphthous
many sexual dreams. Some had recurring dreams condition.
of gay men or homosexual issues. Confusion of Cactus:
sexual identity. Heart disease and hemorrhage.
There was an unusual fatidiousness, they Caladium:
could not stop cleaning until everything was in its Impotence and craving for tobacco or cigarettes.
place. Another strong symptom was a sensation of Calcarea arsenica:
isolation. Kidney disease and heart disease.
Physical: Heaviness, in limbs; in some Epilepsy and cardiac disease or Arrhythmia.
alternating with lightness. Caulophyllum:
Many skin eruptions. Every prover who had Joint pains and menstrual disorders or
ever had herpectic eruptions, had an outbreak miscarriages.
during the proving. Cimicifuga:
Lack of vital heat, desire for chocolate. Rheumatism and loquacity.
In line with the modern trend, lot of mental Rheumatism and Dymsmenorrhea.
symptoms and dreams have been given but only a Hysteria and back or neck spasm.
few scattered symptoms in other schema. Lot of Clematis:
repertory additions for Musca domestica have been Orchitis and skin symptoms.
suggested! [Already the repertories are bursting Cobaltum:
with entries. What are the criteriae for ‘addition’ Low back pain or Sciatica and nocturnal
to repertory? Where are the case reports using this emissions.
remedy? What is the period of follow-up? Who Collinsonia:
has vouched for the correctness of the additions? = Alternation or combination of heart symptoms or
K.S.S]. palpitations and Hemorrhoids (Lycopodium).
Corallium rubrum:
6. Combined symptoms from MORRISON’s Craving for sour and allergy or coryza.
Desk top Guide to Keynotes and Crocus sativus:
confirmatory symptoms Hemorrhage and Hysteria or twitches.
YASGUR Jay (AH, 7/2001) Cuprum:
The section ‘Combined Symptoms’ indicates Asthma and seizure disorder.
common doublets or triplets of symptoms which Diarrhea and cramps in the extremities.
can be considered strong indications for the Digitalis:
remedy, even when the remedy is not famous for Liver and heart problems
either of the component symptoms. Graphites:
Abrotanum: Aversion to meat, salt and sweets
Failure to thrive or emaciation with umbilical
eruptions or discharge.
as a combination.
Gratiola:
Aesculus:
Sexual pathology and gastrointestinal disorders.
Back pain or Sciatica and Hamamelis:
Hemorrhoids. Epistaxis and Hemorrhoids or varicosities.
Ammonium carbonicum: Hamamelis:
Heart disease with thyroid problems (Lycopodium) Epistaxis and Hemorrhoids or varicosities.
Argentum nitricum: Helonias:
Intense craving for both salty and sweets. Fatigue or Hysteria combined with prolapse or
Arum triphyllum: other uterine complaints.
Cracks of lips and hoarseness. Ipecacuanha:
Benzoic acid: Nausea and hemorrhagic tendency.
Rheumatism and offensive urine (Colchicum, Iris versicolar:
Berberis). Psoriasis or herpes with migraines.
Bismuth: Lactic acid
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Lithium carbonicum Tuberculinum:

Hip pain and heart disease. Respiratory troubles and rheumatism.
Rheumatism and valvular heart disease.
Natrum sulphuricum: 7. Restless Legs
Asthma and diabetes. ZORZI Michaele (DH, 20/2001)
Asthma and depression
Asthma and colitis or colorectal polyps or Stories of some patients may open up a
malignancies. new horizon and we would be enabled to have a
Petroleum: peep at a hitherto unknown angle of a medicine.
Eczema and Herpes. Restless is a theme, which plays a role in
Motion sickness and eczema. different levels in Neurology and Psychiatry,
Phytolacca: restlessness in the form of internal and external
Psoriasis and bone pains. agitation is an indication of our fast lives. The fast
Rheumatism and cervical or parotid adnopathy life has created a vacuum within us which cries for
Picricum acidum: being filled.
Spinal disorders and priapism. This story is in an Obstetrical Gynaecological
Dull headache and mental exhaustion. department of a hospital in Lainz.
An attractive 30 year-old woman;
Plumbum:
her movements were fidgety, eyes were restless
Weak memory and Atherosclerotic disease.
and lively. In her 33rd week of first pregnancy.
Her husband appeared serious, careful.
Podophyllum:
She began to narrate rapidly and in an angular
Colitis and rheumatism.
speech that she was suffering since many years
Psorinum: Depression with suicidal thoughts and
from a so-called “restless-leg”
offensive odors.
syndrome. Restless legs since 10 years which
Great chilliness with frequent acute illness.
makes her walk for hours up and down in her room
Radium bromatum:
during nights. In bed while lying she has
Skin problems and arthritic complaints.
overpowering energy which she must shake off
Sabina:
until early morning until she became tired, then she
Uterine disorders and epistaxis.
will fall into a heavy sleep.
Sambucus nigra:
All possible therapies of the Scientific School
Asthma and heavy perspiration.
with different medicines and psycho therapy, did
Sanguinaria:
not give the relief required.
Asthma and heartburn.
Sanicula: She is an air
Calcarea but with hot feet. hostess which involves long travel,
Sarsaparilla: moving up and down the length of
Skin and urinary symptoms.
Spongia tosta: the aircraft. Her ailment came at
Asthma and thyroid conditions. the sametime she went on flight.
Respiratory conditions and testicular pains.
Stramonium:
She loved long flights to different
Any two of these fears: Dark, countries. Her life was restless
Death, Being alone. Animals. from the beginning. She grew up
Water. in different places as the third
Temper problems and fears or nightmares. child of five children. There were
Convulsions and fears. no sickness and she was healthy
Sulphuricum acidum:
Hurriedness and complaints of exhaustion. otherwise with abundant energy.
Tarentula hispanica: Because of her occupation, the anamnesis was
Heart and ovarian disease. restricted to the most important. Peculiar was the
Hurriedness and genital itching. love for sour. As a young child she drank glassful
Theridion: of vinegar, now lemon juice. She also has a
Sensitiviity to noise and vertigo. passionate love of dancing.
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The rubrics “Extremities, restlessness, legs in The Sumerians

the evening, in bed”. “Generalities, food, desires
lemons”, “Mind, dancing” gave Tarentula began to grow roses because of its
hispanica. fragrance. Rosa damanscene is
As the patient was told about the remedy
prescribed for her, she said “as a child in Mexico
the first hybrid grown variety.
with bare feet stepped on a Tarantula. Only my Rosa canina, the Dog rose, is the
quickness and the fine sensitivity of my feet made Wild rose. The blossoms are
me withdraw my feet quickly.” She has an
aversion to and fear of spiders – and we find small, unfilled and blossom only
Tarantula in this rubric. short time in the Spring,
The patient was given a dose of Tarantula M. There are four subfamilies:
two weeks later even as she came into the 1. Spiraeoide: Sanquisonba
consultation room, it was evident that she has had Sorbus ancuparia
good improvement alround. Sorbus domestica
She told that the next night after taking the Agrimonia
medicine she was worse as never before and she 2. Rosoidae: Rosa canine
was on the fringe of madness. But soon
amelioration came on night by night. She needed Fragaria
Tarantula XM. Alchemilla
Six weeks later in her 37 week of pregnancy Potentilla acnea
she said that she felt so healthy and well as it never Geuns urbaccum
was for a long time. 3. Maloidae: Crataegus
Three weeks later she delivered a healthy son. Pyrus com.
Six months later 4. Prunoidae: Prunus spinosa
Prunus baurocerarus
she came with her child. She said The medicine Rosa canina is prepared
that much had changed in her life differently by different pharmacies; from the fruit
but she felt she needed the or form fresh bloomed petals. CLARKE has
mentioned Rosa canina as remedy for urinary
medicine again; she broke down ailments. BURNETTE made a proving and
and with tears narrated a life mentioned increased urination as the only singular
symptom.
story which revealed that the The hip and root of a Rosa canina
restlessness ran like a red thread was triturated upto C4. Two weeks later this was
through generations. succussed to C30. During the trituration all
The author recalls the Greek mythology with the eight Provers felt extreme weakness with
regard to Arachne. shaking chill. Itching, creeping and burning in
8. Rosa canina – Die Hundrose (Rosa canina – mucous membranes of nose, throat, trachea, itching
Dog rose) and burning in the eyes and cold feeling in the
SCHMUTZER Ulrike (DH, 20/2001) back.
Prover 9 did not smoke after the trituration
Jan SCHOLTEN spoke in a Seminar in although he had never in mind to give up smoking.
Vienna in May 2000 about the theme ‘Roses’: Three weeks later proving with C30
globules began, three times a day 5 globules until
• Disappointed Love between husband and wife
symptoms came on, three days at the most.
• Anxiety to give too much
There were 9 provers – 3 men and 6 women in age
• Thorns, to keep off 30 to 60 years.
This should bring things as Rosa canina nearer to Symptoms in Schema form follow. Clinical
understanding as homœopathic medicine. In cases and the ‘theme’ are also given.
association with Dr.Helmar FEIGL a proving was
done and also clinically applied in some cases with 9. Arzneimittelprüfung von Raphanus sativus
which the totality of the remedy is approached and (Medicinal Proving of Raphanus sativus)
also activate use of the remedy on some cases. CURIE, E. (ZKH, 45, 4/2001)

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been documented from two sources Dr.NUSSER, There is only a small number of proving of
from more cases of acute ailments from eating the Strophanthus. However J.H.CLARKE and
vegetable in 20s of the 19th century; Raphanus C2 J.MEZGER give a good drug picture.
was given with good results. His article has There are many Strophanthuses but in
poisonings and case studies also contributions from Homœopathy it is Strophanthus hispidus from
Folk Medicine. The homœopath Eugène CURIE West Africa that is used.
(the father of the famous co-discoverer of Radium,
Pierre CURIE) was inspired by NUSSER’s article, 11. Sulphur: Beyond the characteristics
to prove Raphanus in C15 and C30 on an OSAWA Barbara (SIM, XIV, 3/2001)
apparently healthy but in reality a woman who was
however suffering from latent organ disease and The author quotes cases and comments from
disposed towards psychogenic symptoms LIPPE, FARRINGTON, STONEHAM,
(NUSSER’s article appeared in Hygea 1842, 14, 5: BOERICKE, BOGER, Erastus CASE, KENT,
435-453. CURIE’s in the Journal de la Société Sheilagh CREASY, NASH to show the wide range
Gallicane de la Mat. Méd. Hom. 1854-55; of action of Sulphur and understanding the
5:289-298 and 682-690; ALLEN’s Encyclopaedia miasmatic aspects of Sulphur.
of Pure Materia Medica; Vol. 8, p.277-290). In
recent times Massimo MANGIALAVORI has 12. Adrenalinum
verified the hysterical symptoms. The symptoms WULFSBERG Terfe (SIM, XIV, 4/2001)
of Raphanus have been well verified clinically.
The Proving symptoms of Raphanus have hitherto This remedy is very rarely used. Yet, as
been given only in an incomplete manner, and WULFSBERG mentions Hans SELYE (1907-
important symptoms are thus left out. 1982) who pioneered researches on the effects of
The Proving symptoms of Eugéne CURIE are ‘stress’ has studied the effects of Adrenalin on
given in full. human organism in great detail. Although there
are many stress-related causes but Adrenalin is not
10. Strophanthus – ein seltene Indikation included in them. The author says that the main
(Strophanthus – a rare symptom) focus for Adrenalinum is the Cardio-vascular
ILLING, K.H. (ZKH, 45, 6/2001) system. All the patients he had seen who did well
on this remedy had palpitations, sometimes also
62-year-old female consulted in 1961; she has paroxysmal tachycardia. Other cardiovascular
failed 25 times in the theoretical examination for symptoms these patients can have are pulsations
driving test while she had passed the practical and irregular heartbeat. After Adrenalinum the
examination. While she knew all the traffic rules blood pressure went down, and their sensitivity
and regulations required to pass the examination, towards stress decreased. They also noticed a
she was very nervous that she would give wrong general improvement, getting more energy, better
answers. Otherwise she was healthy in all ways. moods, feeling more at ease and more able to relax.
In my early days of practice, in an introduction With Adrenalin long term damage to the
course I had heard from a colleague that in such cardiovascular system caused by hypertension,
cases Strophanthus helped. Reference to Julius such as arteriosclerosis and apoplexy may perhaps
MEZGER and K. STAUFFER, this remedy was be prevented.
found recommended for examination fear and Cases are given and discussed .
stagefright. Since she did not complain of any --------------------------------------------------------------
other symptoms except this one, remedies like
Argentum nitricum and Gelsemium or other did
not come in for consideration. III. THERAPEUTICS
Strophanthus 3x was prescribed to be taken
the evening before the examination and on the next 1. Die Bedeutung der objektiven Symptome in
day morning before going to the test. The result der Zahnheilkunde (The significance of the
was very satisfactory. objective symptoms in Dental Therapeutics)
In few more similar cases Strophanthus 3x has KREBS, J. (AHZ, 246, 4/2001)
been helpful. Besides ‘stagefright’ Strophanthus In this brief and useful article the author, a
has been successful in early stage of cardiac Dentist, discusses the value of objective symptoms
insufficiency. in the selection of appropriate homœopathic
remedy in dental treatment.
The ‘objective’, for example, are:

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• Visual: color, form, appearance Sulphur-Ideal-

Smell: sweat, foetor oris, urine, stool, etc.
Documentation (SID) is
•
• Hearing: respiration, heart, peristalsis, etc.
• Taste/touch: skin, temperature, etc. introduced as an objective method
• Reaction of the patient to diagnostic of measurement when different
manipulations: sensitivity to percussion, touch,
bleeding, sensitivity to cold/warmth, etc. homœopathic remedies have to be
In the light of his experience in Gingivitis and compared.
Stomatitis, the author has given the differential
diagnosis of some leading remedies in dental 4. Vitiligo
therapeutics. BUDDEBERG, U. (AHZ, 246, 5/2001)

2. Grippesymptomatik – Verdacht auf 9-year-old boy. White discolored skin on the

Denguefieber (Grippe Symptoms – suspected forehead. The Vitiligo was from inner corner of the
Dengue Fever) left eye-lid over the root of the nose and mid
STAHL, E. (AHZ, 246, 4/2001) forehead, extending over the eyebrow and upto the
left parietal region. The eyebrow and eyelash hairs
50 year-old female with violent bone-breaking had albino color and hair over the left ear also had
pains, chilly and nauseated. Nausea on sight or white discoloration. All these came on after a
smell of food. Pain in back of neck, intense fright on Christmas 1986, as the parents had
backache as if beaten, periodically at 8 A.M., brought back the boy and his brother from their
suspected to be Dengue. grand parents in Turkey.
Eupatorium perfoliatum 30, 5 pills in a Aconitum 30D did not give any result. The
solution, one teaspoonful every 2-3 hours. Next boy’s mother said that the boy became easily
day much better. Now 200 given. Fully restored. furious and was quarrelsome; he was very restless.
Follow-up ten months. Remains well. After a dose of Luesinum 200D on 6 August 1987,
Another brief case is appended: by October 1989 small specks of pigments were
“I have a fearful Grippe …. terrible cough and seen. Luesinum 200D repeated at 6-8 week
sneezing … the patients avoid me and do not give intervals and slowly more pigments came on.
their hand. .. feel beaten down and today morning, Luesinum at infrequent intervals continued and
as the nurse brought in a hot coffee, I grasped improvement proceded. In October 1993 a single
straightaway with both my cold hands the hot cup. dose of Medorrhinum 30D was prescribed and
Not only the hands trembled but the doctor totally. every six weeks Luesinum 200D upto 1997.
Belladonna and Spongia have not been helpful.”
Eupatorium perfoliatum helped promptly. 5. Die Bedeutung der Zeichen in der
Homöopathie (The significance of Signs in
3. Subjektivität und Objektivität in der Homœopathy)
homöopathischen Kasuistik (Subjectivity and APPELL, R.G. (AHZ, 246, 6/2001)
Objectivity in the homœopathic Case Reports)
MÜLLER, H. (AHZ, 246, 5/2001) The signs in Homœopathy give no objective
data. They are social texts arising from the
Interaction between doctors and patients is encounter of patient and homœopathic doctor.
described. Then these structures are explained in a They should be scrutinized from both sides. The
case of throat Papilloma and shown how the importance of transference and counter
subjective parameters lead to the diagnosis of the transference therefore is stressed as well as the
homœopathic prescription. The parameters of necessary sensitization of our perception and other
objectivity show us how we can control the ways of seeing.
reaction to the remedy. In this case the
prescription of Sulphur leads to the reversal of the 6. Connections to the Source: The use of
tumor pathology according to the Rule of Dreams and Symbolism in homœopathic
Constantin HERING and it shows us that in an Practice.
ideally typical manner the healing took month’s CICCHETTI Jane (AH, 7/2001)
time for a pathology that took years to develop.
The method of Goal Attainment Scaling is One of the major ways to understand
recommended for the treatment of Chronic enough about an individual to perceive what needs
diseases.

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to be healed in the short time allotted to the anamnesis, find the remedy that can allow that
homœopathic interview is through our potential to unfold.
understanding of dreams and symbols. However Recurring dreams can also be a source of rich
there are other ways that the remedy may reveal symbolic information. It is inportant to understand
itself to the homœopath and these methods must be that the individual’s association to the dream is
mastered before any attempt is made to move into more important than our interpretation of the
the use of symptoms from the symbolic realm. dream.
The former is a complement to the latter A true symbol, as opposed to a sign, has no
methods of case analysis, helping us more from the fixed meaning and can never be entirely
more rational ‘knowing’ approach to the realm of understood by the rational mind. It is the
‘unknowing’ where connections and synchronicity articulation of an inner and unconscious experience
abound. that activates and groups material so that it can be
Dreams and expressed. The symbol remains alive as long as it
is filled with meaning. Once it is seen only
symbols are connections to the through its historical or rational significance, it has
ancient realm of the collective died as a symbol and becomes sign.
The problem with the dream interpretation
unconscious and must be linked books is that they reduce the symbolic content of
with more conscious information dreams to signs, that is to something that can be
in a case in order to be useful, for known in a literal way and whose meaning is
basically the same for everyone. Using symbols
no dream or symbol has meaning and dreams in this way is not at all helpful for the
outside of the context of homœopath and can be compared to keynote
prescribing in the worst sense of word.
anamnesis. The Dreaming body
Working with dreams takes both the Dreams lie outside our ability to manipulate them,
practitioner and the client out of the realm of ego so we cannot create a false reality in our dreams or
and into the symbolic realm to an arena that is influence them by our will. Mental states, that are
bigger than each of them. The symbolic realm hidden from consciousness, and physical
connects the individual or ego self with a more symptoms, suppressed through medication or in a
universal and timeless reality. Dream analysis, very early stage, are frequently expressed through
when done in a way that allows for intimate and dream state. Because the dream is an attempt on
personal exploration of the symbolic content, the part of the organism to heal itself, its accurate
creates a broadening and deepening of the analysis can lead to some of the most reliable
conscious mind which lets us think outside the box. symptoms in case. Actually dreams are objective
In this expanded awareness, connections that can’t facts about a person’s mental and physical state.
be seen with our literal minds become obvious. Carl JUNG said that the most likely reality is that
Often in dream analysis, another level of the there is no such thing as body and mind but rather
individual’s reality emerges. A symbolic but that they are the same life, subject to the same
parallel universe in a fourth dimension is revealed laws, and that what the body does, happens in the
that fleshes out the first part of the case taking. mind. We need techniques that will help us to use
After letting a dream, a person may begin to relate dreams in a way in which they enrich what JUNG
on a level that is much more personal and intimate. called the “red thread that runs throughout the
It is here that they may tell their deepest desires, case.” When the dreamer’s associations to her
especially if the dream has been remembered from dreams are seen as an integral part of the whole
childhood. case, it is possible to see a symbolic representation
Dreams and visions remembered from of pathology on the physical as well as the mental
childhood often contain some of the most useful and emotional levels.
symbolic information. Associations to these Dreams can also be a rich source of
symbols may lead us to the remedy or to information for prognosis. At some point during
understand the individual more deeply after the therapy what JUNG referred to as an “initial
first interview. Such symbolism, may actually be a dream” may appear, so-called because it indicates
blue-print for the unfolding of an individual’s life. the beginning of deep change within the individual.
In it, we can possibly see the unfulfilled potential It predicts a change that may come at any point
that has been blocked by the miasm and in during therapy: after a week, or five weeks, or
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initial dream indicates the beginning of deep general state of the patient
healing and can be very helpful in determining
that the correct remedy was given. becomes better rapidly and the
The more the homœopath is in tune healing is faster than the
with dreams and symbols, the more likely that
the client will share their most intimate dreams
antibiotics. Attention is drawn to
during the interview. §253.
7. Homöopathie bei akuten Krankheiten – Several cases from the author’s practice are
Beispiele aus der Praxis (Homœopathy in given.
acute diseases – Examples from Practice)
RÖHRER Anton (DH, 20/2000) 8. Anhalonium – Eine Art Hausstauballergie
(A kind of House dust allergy)
In our homœopathic training we lay much ANDERSCH-HARTNER Peter
value on the learning of treating chronic diseases. (DH, 20/2001)
There is, therefore, an impression that
Homœopathy is more suitable for chronic diseases 31 year-old Jurist comes in 1994 for first
and least for acute ones. We know that the consultation. Complaint of Allergy since many
allopathic medicine is very good in life-threatening years, worse since three, four years worse at night
conditions and with intensive therapeutic measures Mornings on waking he has sneezing bouts worse
can compensate well cases of diverse organ between 8 to 10 per bout. Reminds of housedust
functions. allergy. Nose stopped; lachrymation; much itching
The combination of the allopathic medicinal in the nose. Has had much allopathic medication.
intensive therapy with the homœopathic regulation He also has Psoriasis since 18 year age
Medicine can optimise the chances of curability. apparently constant, on the scalp, elbows on the
Attention is buttocks, fingers, chest, perineum.
Further investigations brought out many
drawn to §§150, 151& 152. These mental idiosyncracies, e.g. mistakes in time,
are corroborated in daily practice. absorbed, loses himself into while conversing,
dreams of his childhood, while talking something
As much more the suffering of the outwardly internally another thought goes on,
patient so much strong are the seems to be living in a separate world,
symptoms and so much easier it is contradictory state (frequently in his talk he says
“one on side …- on the other side” – all these on
to find the suitable remedy. What repertorisation indicates Anhalonium. On referring
is needed by the homœopathic to MEZGER’s Materia Medica this was verified.
The remedy brought about the result wished
physician in such cases is for. Follow-up six years later and the patient
appropriate knowledge of remained well.
Homœopathy and patience and
9. Selected Aphorisms of Hippocrates with
good nerves! Also trust in the comments by Dr. von BOENNINGHAUSEN
methods, trust and certainty that Translated by S.W.S. (AH 7/2001)
Homœopathy can really help and Every work of von BOENNINGHAUSEN
is in fact not a placebo. When one deserves careful study and
believes this from one’s personal application in practice.
homœopathic medical experience He has left us a great legacy in his writings. His
one will then need no more last work – the most mature of all – is the
‘Aphorisms of Hippocrates with Glosses of a
antibiotics for septic processes, homœopath’. This work is of great importance
and there is no need for since HAHNEMANN himself held
HIPPOCRATES in very high esteem;
combining Homœopathy with HAHNEMANN also had great regard to von
Allopathy. When a homœopathic BOENNINGHAUSEN.
remedy acts one can see that the
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von BOENNINGHAUSEN’s work is in remedy. Here the remedy is taken four times
German language. To the best of our knowledge during the course of a day (usually on a weekly,
no translation of this has been made into English. semi monthly or monthly basis) once the Cancer is
However, it appears that one ‘S.W.S.’ did translate under control.
some of the Aphorisms. These too were The Cancer remedies: Can be divided into three
unavailable so far. Julian WINSTON accessed this groups.
work (from the homœopathic Recorder 1943) and 1. the Cancer nosodes
has provided it to us. 2. the wide spectrum Cancer specifics and
In the German work of von 3. the organ specific remedies.
BOENNINGHAUSEN (published in 1863) there 1. Cancer nosodes: Carcinosin, is preferred
are totally 421 Aphorisms spread over 8 Books. when there is a family history of Cancer.
Out of these 115 Aphorisms have been Scirrhinum is used, when the affected gland,
translated with comments by ‘S.W.S.’. Even these Lump or tumor is stony, hard.
Aphorisms have not been translated fully but the
essentials have been given. S.W.S. says that “these One can switch to the other
excerpts contain practically all the homœopathic nosode when one is not working
“gold nuggets” .
These “excerpts” cover 115 Aphorisms in
sufficiently well.
Book II, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII. 2. Wide spectrum Cancer specific
remedies:
10. A homœopathic approach to Conium, Thuja and Arsenicum
Cancer. album, figure prominently in a
Dr. A.U. RAMAKRISHNAN & Catherine large number of Cancer cases.
R.COULTER (AH, 7/2001)
Conium – presents the picture of
Dr. Ramakrishnan’s Specific Method that stony hard tumor or gland and
Involves:
has proven of inestimable value in
1. more frequent administrations Cancers of the oesophagus, breast,
of a remedy on a regulated (not stomach, liver and prostate. In
‘as needed’) basis. this last, if the PSA count is high
2. Prescribing a second remedy in alternation (above 7), then Conium plays the
with the first, on a regular (usually weekly)
basis. The justification for this last is
role of a specific organ remedy.
threefold. Also plays an important role in
a. a patient’s body can tire of a remedy and metastasized Cancer to bones.
after a while cease to respond to it.
b. Too frequent repetition of a single remedy Thuja: Has proven to be of great
can cause aggravations (these risks are benefit in Cancerous growths –
obviated by the alternating method).
c. Addressing the disease on two different
particularly those of the stomach,
levels constitutes a stronger method of colon, rectum, bladder, ovaries,
attack. uterus and once again prostate,
3. Administering a remedy by the plussing
method – at 15 minute intervals, ten times a when the PSA count is moderately
day, for a week, before changing remedies. high. (between 4 and 7).
This procedure not only minimizes . the risk of
aggravation but also ensures a medicine’s
Arsenicum album: Maintains the
more powerful impact, whether reducing the system under the stress of
size of the tumor or the accompanying malignancy regardless of location.
discomfort.
Additionally, again for stronger impact, Indeed, apart from its healing
Dr.Ramakrishnan often employs a split dose properties during the earlier
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stages, the majority of advanced Plumbum

cases of Cancer, will, at some iodatum and Plumbum metallicum:
point, require Arsenicum album for Cancers of brain.
for relief of pain or discomfort Method of administration: The
especially during the terminal Ramakrishnan Method varies
stage. somewhat according to the stage
3. Organ specific remedies: have and nature of the disease but can
been arrived be broken down into the following
through clinical experience and steps.
the homœopathic provings which 1. The first prescription should
have a strong affinity with some be a medicine
particular organ or with the site known to possess an affinity with
of the primary tumor. Few the primary organ or
examples: to the organ at present affected -
Aurum muriaticum natronatum for in other words, an organ-specific
Cancer of the uterus, ovaries and remedy or one of the wide-
cervix. spectrum Cancer specifics.
Hekla lava and Symphytum for 2. The second prescription
bone and blood Cancers. Hekla should be the
lava is the principal remedy for appropriate Cancer nosode, which
Cancers (both primary and is prescribed alternately (usually
secondary) of the bones: on alternate weeks)
Sarcomas, Osteoclastomas, with the organ-specific remedy.
Myelomas, Ewing’s Sarcomas and
other bony growths. Also 3. Thereafter, and for as
invaluable in both acute and long as there is
chronic myelogenous leukemias. improvement, these two remedies
are continued in weekly
Symphytum is alternation.
employed more specifically for
secondary Cancer deposits in the 4. Once the Cancer is
bones and tumors related to the stabilized or to all
periosteum. It has also proved of appearances has healed, then the
value in acute Leukemia and is two remedies can be prescribed
particularly indicated when there less frequently - alternating on a
has been a history of joint pain semimonthly, monthly, two
and inflammation. monthly, or three monthly basis.
Hydrastis: 5. Sometimes a constitutional
Cancer of stomach, Pancreas and remedy will be
upper intestinal tract. prescribed either to assist the
Cancer nosode or organ specific
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remedy or to take over a case once The revised

the Cancer is contained or German edition of the Therapeutic
controlled and the patient’s need Pocket Book was printed in May
for individualized constitutional 2000 and the English edition in
treatment is perceived. August 2000.
Four cases are The entrance
discussed. point into the
11.The BOENNINGHAUSEN BOENNINGHAUSEN Method is
Method simply stated in §95 of Organon.
WINSTON Julian (AH, 7/2001) This describes
two natures of a case: The main
If you want symptoms and the side symptoms
philosophy, look to (that apparently are unconnected
HAHNEMANN. But if you want to the main ones).
to see the method in practice look A symptom
to BOENNINGHAUSEN – K.H. becomes concomitant by its
GYPSER. nature of being another symptom
Unfortunately, in the case and it is the
much of BOENNINGHAUSEN’s combination of that point to the
work is unavailable in English. remedy.
The The Complete
BOENNINGHAUSEN Therapeutic Symptom means sensation,
Pocket Book was the ultimate location, modality and a
expression of concomitant symptom (which too
BOENNINGHAUSEN’s thoughts will have a sensation, location and
but to use it effectively, you had to a modality)
understand how to sort the case as What
BOENNINGHAUSEN did – and DIMITRIADIS did point out is
not many did. that the uniqueness in a case is
In April 1995, often seen as the combination of
K.H.GYPSER presented a two or three (or more) very
seminar in Sydney, Australia, common symptoms.
during which he discussed the GYPSER found
methodology of the Pocket Book. it best to select symptoms that
Since then a committee GYPSER have polarity. If you find that the
in Germany and DIMITRIADIS remedy you have selected for a
in Australia worked to revise the case has the opposite polarity
Therapeutic Pocket Book and to re- symptom in grade 3 or 4, then - in
introduce the method. GYPSER’s experience, - that
remedy is not going to be curative.

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You must find a remedy that

exists in a rubric that is capable of 11.The Homœopathic treatment
having polarity but of eating disorders and the case
does not have one. of a starving child.
GYPSER MASLAN Allison (AH, 7/2001)
stressed that the rubric used to
look for a polarity should not be An eating disorder
one used to select reflects a complete
the remedy, but rather one which obsession with body image and
exists in a side food. This compulsion can be so
symptom and is not used in the severe that it becomes the focus of
repertorisation. a person’s entire existence and
In cripples them from functioning
BOENNINGHAUSEN’s actual day to day in the real world.
practice, several remedies were Children whose
often given. previous attempts to receive love
BOENNINGHAUSEN understood and attention have brought
the relationship of remedies so disappointment, frustration or
well that when he found a remedy even abuse, turn to eating
that covered the side symptoms, disorders as a substitute. They
which was different than the deal with indigestible facts and
remedy that covered the main feelings by eating or not eating,
symptoms, he did this: soothing their hurt by eating or
• On the first day, he gave the not eating food and gathering self-
remedy for main symptom esteem in accordance with their
• A few days later, he gave the ability to control their intake of
remedy for the side symptom food.
• Few days later, he repeated If they fail at
the remedy for main symptom this control, they follow by
• Few days later, he gave a abusing their bodies with
fourth dose – a placebo. starvation or purging.
The BOENNINGHAUSEN To successfully
methodology treat this obsession, we need to
needs the newly revised Pocket address the underlying disordered
Book, and you will have to have belief or trauma.
cases suitable to the method. For A case of 21
those who use the Synthesis or the year old female with anorexia and
Complete Repertory or KENT the bulimia is anlaysed by Scholten’s
BOENNINGHAUSEN’s Pocket method.
Book is actually different one.
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Her need for acidum 200c (for nourishment she

acceptance from her mother, the lacked from mother and from
starving for the motherly bond is food)
the theme repeating throughout 2 months later: She gained more
the case. The separation is weight than ever. Able to get in
expressed in the form of touch with reality.
premature birth, as an elder At 6 months later: Not worried or
daughter with 3 siblings and then nervous as before feeling peaceful.
parents getting divorced at the age Sniff remedy as
of 10. needed.
She grows up One year later: Learning to live
never leaving the child-like state her life separate from mother.
of an infant needing love and Muriaticum acidum 200c.
nourishment from her mother.
The hydrogen 12.Case by Chris KURZ
series of the periodic table is (AH, 7/2001)
about the development of life and
the period of the unborn child – A five year old boy was
the very beginning of life and the prescribed Borax Q1
decision to be of not to be in this on the basis of ‘themes’ of
world and they express a insecurity, fear of disease,
profound love for and connection hypersexuality cautiousness about
with the entire universe and all its new things and fear of
inhabitants. Once the unity is thunderstorms.
severed, they experience a deep The follow-up
sense of ioslation from the rest of at 2,4,5,& 20 weeks 8 months and
the world. 2 years showed very good
Column 17 of improvement.
third row is chlorum, which is Situation in
about the splitting up of which his mother conceived him
relationships or the desperate was very revealing. She was
need to hold on to relationships, afraid that she will be losing her
especially the relationship of mother. In addition she had grave
mother and child. money problems and was left to
When chlorine deal with everything all by herself.
is combined with the hydrogen, it The author
forms the basis of hydrochloric justifice the selection on following
acid (Muriatic acid), which surmise, “This is a situation where
includes longing for mother and things seem to be hanging by a
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everything suspended from it will Attention Deficit Disorder.

fall down. This is very closely Squints and blinks spasmodically.
related to the fear of downward Kleptomania. Mandragara 200.
motion”. [Can speculation and Six weeks later
weirdest imagination in a science – Blinking stopped immediately.
which wants only facts, can go She seems less guarded.
further? I hear the bones of Repeated three months later 1M
HAHNEMANN, and repeated four months later.
BOENNINGHAUSEN, HERING, Two years later – maintaining
LIPPE et al. rattling loudly in well.
their graves: K.S.S.]
14.A case of Heloderma suspectum
13.Mandragora – The darker side – MANGIALAVORI Massimo
of Belladonna – Emily’s case (AH, 7/2001)
HERON Krista
(AH, 7/2001) Tommaso, 13 year old boy,
chubby with a
Emily, 4 year frown on his face, slow in his
old, had recurrent right ear movements and seemingly very
infection with fever with intense suspicious, has a strange kind of
pain. Flushed face during fever speech disorder, missing out
and dark circles under her eyes. verbs. Crazy about eggs. He
She is active with slightly doesn’t like cold at all and had to
destructive behavior. She is dress up very warmly. Scared of
curious about death and asks lot darkness. Very stubborn.
of questions about it. Fascinated It all began 3
by graveyards and darker side of years ago, when his little sister
life. Hates dark, has nightmares was born. He was terribly jealous
three to four times a week of her.
between 1 – 4.30 a.m. dreams of He is rather a
skeletons wild animals and owls. lazy boy and does not like to do
Almost impossible to wake her. sports or move around.
She is guarded about what is Often rubs his
going on in her heart. She has legs with hand.
masturbated since 1½ years old. Heloderma
Tuberculinum, 200c.
Belladonna, and Stramonium were Few days later,
prescribed with no effect. sore throat, swelling of both
Six years after tonsils. Painless enlarged
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dirty and breath foetid. A normal hole through the wood. At the
reaction. Wait. end while boring he put in so
Three months much of power that the very
after: He has begun to talk to us sharp chisel not only forced
and uses verb now and then. Not through the wood but also his left
so stubborn. Speech more palm. An hour later when the
expressive - Heloderma 10 M. physician saw the patient the left
hand was swollen almost double.
Four months No bleeding and when there is,
later: Much better. Making big dark and trickle only. He did not
leaps forward. Food cravings also complain of bleeding after the
changed. No need of light to sleep. injury. Pain was so severe that he
Using more verbs. Getting along had palpitations and circulatory
well with his little sister. Sac lac. disturbance. Hanging the arm
Two years later: down worsened.
His vocabulary is rich and not A dose of Arnica
missing a single verb. was given for the night. Next
morning the swelling had not
16.Bagatelleverletzungen – Carbo come down in any way; no
vegetabilis (Deep penetrating indication of inflammations, but
wounds – Carbo vegetabilis) pain not relieved yet. Arnica was
FUCKERT, M. (ZKH, 45, wrong. So reanalysis. Injury,-
4/2001) punctured,-bleedings passive,-
FUCKERT blood, dark, -hanging the limb < =
draws attention to § 186. Carbo vegetabilis.
41 year-old male, who was When at least
under treatment for one or two of the characteristics of
digestive troubles, congestion of the remedy is not perceived, the
blood in different parts of body ‘established’ indication (e.g.
(head, haemorrhoids), Sensitivity Ledum for punctured wound,
to moon, fearful nightmares. Hypericum for nerve injury, etc.)
Phosphorus, Sulphur did not help. for these remedies in case of
Mandragona made a turning injuries, should not be given in a
point. This patient was an artist routine manner.
and sculptor, a wood carver. The result of
Whoever sees his paintings and Carbo vegetabilis M in water
sculptures immediately solution and given frequently
appreciates his deep creative confirmed the correctness of the
ability. When he was sculpting prescription in this case.
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Another problems since many years. Since

example: A patient had just left his 30th year has been on Isoptin
my clinic and got her finger hurt regularly. A cyst has been
badly when her car door was shut removed from epididymis. He
harshly by her angry husband; had a Fibroma on the nate, and a
her finger was just at the lipoma of 2 x 2 cm. in the back left
doorhinge. She had to lie down of the vertebra. Childhood
immediately in faint. Arnica and diarrhoea with examination fears,
Hypericum were used in vain. She sense of insecurity (until now),
seemed restless and anxious when extensive eczema in youth which
lying and attempted to rise up was treated for two years with
erect since she felt again faint salves. Oily face and oily hair
when lying and became pale and which have turned gray from his
her whole body trembled. A clear 20th year. Very often colds,
shock situation of Aconitum which infections. Sleep disturbances
promptly helped. since 5 years. Can’t tolerate fat.
Abdomen always rumbling and
17.Rezidivierende growling. Worse in spring and
Stimmbandpolypen – Thuja autumn. Thunder and storm agg.
occidentalis (Recurrent polyps In the family history there was
of Vocal card – Thuja depression, heart infarct /Cancer
occidentalis) of chest and Nephritis. Caries of
BORMANN, M. (ZKH, 45, teeth since childhood. Liver spots,
5/2001) brittle finger nails. Thuja M, XM,
CM at appropriate intervals
58 year-old man with recurring (from 23.8.1995 to 26.1.1996)
polyps inVocal brought about alround
Cord since years. These have improvement. No occurrence of
been surgically the polyp. Relieved of tendency to
removed five times. Underwent catch colds, infections, etc.
prednisolon therapy for nine
months which besides many side 18.Homöopathische
effects did not help permanent Unterstützung einer
cure. A recurrent was known Hausgeburt oder: Es geht auch
every time with sudden anders (Homœopathic care of a
hoarseness, and cracking voice home birth)
with need to clear the throat often. BÜNDNER, M. (ZKH, 45,
He had many 5/2001)
childhood diseases which were
without complications. Heart

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Detailed case report of a vomica. Reference to the Materia

‘homebirth’ of a Medica Pura, Guiding Symptoms
‘primipara’, 27 year-old woman. confirmed the remedy. Nux
Most of the 0symptoms on which vomica 0/6 was given by olfaction.
the remedies were selected were The remedy potency was raised to
objective symptoms. Cervical 0/7 later. The cure followed.
laceration and other sufferings, The author
chemical drugs etc. were avoided discusses von
due to homœopathic handling. BOENNINGHAUSEN; it is the
The author has applied H.N. characteristic (peculiar, rare
GUERNSEY’s ‘Gynaecology and symptom, § 153) symptoms of the
obstetrics’ and LILIENTHAL’s remedy that is of value. (see von
Therapeutics for remedy BOENNINGHAUSEN’s
selection. ‘Quelques mots sur le chirx des
medicaments (1859)’ “La masse
19.M.Raynaud der Mammille – (l’ensemble) des symptómes
Nux vomica (Raynaud’s disease caractérisques, non de la maladie,
of the nipple – Nux vomica) mais plutôt du remède, est la chose
HOLZAPFEL, K. (ZKH, 45, principale, oui presque la secule
5/2001) chose sur laquelle it fant fixer le
regard le plus attentif;”
34 year-old woman, with a
nursing (4 months 20.Cerebrales Anfalsleiden –
old) healthy, infant boy. Since Absencen: Psorinum – Sulphur
long Mastopathie both breasts (Cerebral seizures – Absences:
with cyst in the right; under Psorinum – Sulphur)
progesteron gel. and drugs. RICHTER, O., HADULLA,
Gynaecologist diagnosed M.M.
Raynaud’s disease. The patient (ZKH, 45, 6/2001)
suffered from severe pains. A
thorough anamnesis was drawn. This is a case
Therapeutic Pocket Book of von of an 18-year-old male with
BOENNINGHAUSEN was epileptic seizures (Dyknolepsia in
consulted, which pointed to Nux his 3rd year age and suspected
vomica. The complaints of the grand mal seizures in 17th year
nursing infant (stinking flatus, age) Psorinum 200 x and Sulphur
painful flatulence, < afternoon, in LM potencies in ascending
evenings, > from being carried order made him free from
concomitant: crease, deep, in the seizures and the EEG became
forehead) also pointed to Nux normal.

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The history of Vital Force. It would seem

suppressed eruptions leading to necessary to verify certain
convulsions and other ‘generals’, theories of Homœopathy.
were the indications (Psorinum
200 one dose and then Sulphur 22.85 years of Homœopathy: Eva
LM 1 to 12). Engle and the Sixth edition of
the Organon – An Interview
21.Arztpatietnenbeziehung und Frances KALFUS (SIM. XIV,
medizinische Vorstellungen 3/2001)
von patienten im 18. und 19.
Jahrhundert (Doctor-Patient This is a very interesting
relationship and medicinal piece of history of
ideas of patients in the 18th and Homœopathy which many may
19th centuries) GEHRKE, C. not be aware of.
(ZKH, 45, 6/2001) Where was the
HAHNEMANN manuscript copy
On the basis letters written of Organon VI edition until it was
by patients to brought out as a ‘text critical’
HAHNEMANN, the relation edition by Josef M.SCHMIDT of
between the physician and Munich, Germany? It was known
patients is studied. These letters to some that the manuscript, at
are during HAHNEMANN’s the time when Dr.Josef
Koethen period. The SCHMIDT took up the task of
practitioners were dependent preparing a ‘text critical edition’
upon the upper classes, who could from the manuscript itself was
afford medical treatment. The safely in the School of Medicine,
practitioners had to suit their University of California in the
theories to meet the expectations custody of Prof. Dr. Otto
and requirements of their clients. GUTTENTAG. However, hardly
Predominant medical concepts anyone knew of the adventurous
were the ancient humoral model travel of the manuscript from
of classical medicine and the HAHNEMANN’s legatees to
model of neural diseases. Parts of James WARD/William
these are found in BOERICKE at the sametime
HAHNEMANN’s concept of when Richard HAEHL obtained
Homœopathy. It is probable, that all the literary legacies of the
patients influenced the process of Master, into the custody of the
innovation in HAHNEMANN’s Homœopathic Foundation of
theory, which is based on California, then in the personal
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ENGLE; after Dr.Howard perfoliatum 6x and in five days all

ENGLE’s death, the valuable of them were practically well.
book was safely kept by Ms. Elsa John
ENGLE in a bank vault rented by D.ROCKFELLLER Sr. who was
her at her expense, for nearly 17 personally benefited by
years until it was handed over to Homœopathy gave a large amount
the University of California. of money for research and
But for the establish Homœopathy but
personal care, at her own expense, because of jealousies (between
of Ms.Elsa ENGLE, the homœopaths?) it got nowhere and
manuscript of the Organon VI ultimately ROCKFELLER
edition could have been lost and withdrew the money and put it in
verification of the additions, the Rockfeller Foundation.
deletions, corrections wouldn’t Similarly about KETTERING
have been possible. With this and SLOAN.
manuscript, the doubters could be Ms.ENGLE also
silenced permanently. recalled Dr.RENNER’s persisting
attempts to make her follow low
The potencies, which she didn’t.
homœopathic world owes a great However, the most successful
debt of gratitude to Ms.Elsa practitioners then used the low
ENGLE for her great loyalty and potencies – 3x, 6x, 12x and 30.
service to Homœopathy.
Ms.ENGLE was 97 years age in 23.All paths lead to Platina
1992 when this interview was SMITH Malcolm (SIM, XIV,
taken. 3/2001)
Ms. ENGLE
spoke on certain other matters This is the case of a 45-year-old
relating to Homœopathy, the busy woman whose
practice of her brother-in-law valuble story clearly revealed
Dr.Howard ENGLE (she was his Platina, which was given in LM
Secretary). During the ‘Flu first, then C potency which
epidemic in 1918 while there were relieved.
fatalities with the Allopaths, the
homœopaths of the 24.A Case History of Sycosis
HAHNEMANN Hospital didn’t LITTLE David (SIM. XIV,
lose any. For this epidemic the 3/2001)
remedies were Gelsemium 6x
followed by Eupatorium This is a case of
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that was activated by the and contaminated. The smell of

suppression of a Chlamydia his own body upset him.
infection, rather than by a new The symptoms
Gonococcus. continued to increase over a
He was an period of around eight months,
Irishman studying with a Yogi in until he was in pretty bad shape.
India. Was strong, well built, The totality of his symptoms were
rather coarse and sometimes had around Sycotic miasm, at the
to be told things a few times present moment.
before he could understand; Sulphur, a
appeared dishevelled, wore half multi-miasmatic remedy was
Indian and half Western clothes. prescribed in LM 3, and he began
Many of his habits were Psoric to improve soon. Within few
but his psychology demonstrated days, after an initial aggravation,
predominantly Sycotic miasm. he discharged four ounces in one
Suspicious, questioned the motives surge of flow, a putrid greenish-
of others, and sometimes had yellow pus-like discharge, in less
fixed opinions; was truly religious than a minute!
fanatic, lived in a cave, with few David LITTLE
belongings, in far-off India. These observes: “When someone passes
pointed to inherited Sycosis. a discharge like this, the question
He also had comes to mind, where did it all
some dullness, genius and come from? This is one of the
madness associated with Syphilitic mysteries of Homœopathy. How
miasm. does the Vital Force do this? The
He visited answer to this question lies outside
England and contracted a severe of our normal understanding of
case of Chlamydia; a greenish, pathology.”
dirty discharge, as well as much [Let all homœopaths understand
local irritation of the penis. this well.= K.S.S.]
As a result of The remedy
suppressive treatment his prostate repetition was slowed down to
gland began to swell and become once every three days, and all of
painful, with concomitant pains his symptoms peeled off, layer by
underneath and rectum. After this layer, in the reverse order in
a loss of memory and dulling of which they had developed. His
the intellect. His extremities were temperament improved, his
beginning to become arthritic and memory came back, he lost the
painful. Began to feel guilty, dirty feeling of being dirty and
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further slowed down as he At 65 year age she was pensioned

improved and finally stopped. He off. She suffered from
was a changed man who later left Waterbrash, inclined to retch,
for England, where he studied stomach gurgled embarrassingly.
Homœopathy and was awarded a Fatty food did not agree with her.
certificate. Menyanthes LM 1 to 12
improved her much. But as she
25.Menyanthes-Psorinum – A Case felt low energy and her depression
using the had returned, despaired about her
LM Potency health although her headaches
CREASY and stomach troubles had gone,
Sheilagh she felt much anxious about
(SIM, XIV, 4/2001) everything past, present and
future. Felt that she did not
A 71 year-old belong to anywhere, never been
woman, tiny build, quick in her shared or loved; cold and
movements. Complained of a lot miserable feeling, gloomy.
of head pains. A “tightness as if Psorinum LM 1
held in” around her head, better and then 2 she became normal.
from pressure. During these 26. Footnote 121: A Case Illustration
CREASY Sheilagh (SIM, XIV, 4/2001)
pains her feet became completely
cold. Facial twitches. She was Attention FN 121 to § 210. The case of a 27-
year-old female with lachrymation, sneezing, with
brought up in a house full of allergy to many fruits or products containing
terror. Father was a violent man Gluten. The remedies given to her brought about
and whenever he was at home be relief in due course. At one stage of her curative
phase she manifested mental symptoms which
was beating someone. Our were predominant during her mid 20s which was a
patient ran away from the home life of movement, music, dancing and stripping.
Tarentula hispanica brought peace and she became
as soon as it was possible. At 16 calm and talked sanely. Lastly she was given
year age she married only to find Phosphorus in ascending potencies and she
that she was in situation similar to proceeded to improve steadily.

the one at her home from she had --------------------------------------------------------------

escaped. She ran away to
another town, found a job and IV. REPERTORY
began to lead a comparatively
1. Die Sicherheit der Methode des
happy life. Therapeutischen Taschenbuchs von
She carried the feeling of Bonninghausen (The reliability of
Boenninghausen’s Therapeutic Pocket Book)
homelessness and loneliness; was DIMITRIADIS, G. (ZKH, 45, 3/2001)
always timid and fearful, with
long periods of depression. K.HOLZAPFEL, in his article in the ZKH, 44,

Nervous and developed twitches.

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4/2000 analysing the revised edition of the Pocket A doubt is raised about the ‘Dunham-copy’
Book (PB), has suggested the following so that the which carries lot of (so-called)
PB becomes more reliable. BOENNINGHAUSEN’s additions, etc.; it has been
• To make known in the text of the PB wrong repeatedly said that DUNHAM copied out in his
generalisations as also theoretic conversions. copy of Therapeutic Pocket Book the additions etc.
• Correction of the printing errors in the entire from BOENNINGHAUSEN’s personal copy.
PB,pointing out those that do not agree with However, no evidence to the above effect has been
the two volume manuscript of found in any correspondance between DUNHAM
BOENNINGHAUSEN in the Robert Bosch and BOENNINGHAUSEN, nor has DUNHAM
Institute (TT) and carry out necessary seems to have so said clearly any where.
revisions. The incongruences and deviations
In his response to the article of DIMITRIADIS
have been pointed out in the article in ZKH,
HOLZAPFEL has carefully again verified the
44, 5/2000.
sources and agrees with DIMITRIADIS on most of
• Verification of all additions from the the aspects.
DUNHAM-copy in the light of the BOGER-
BOENNINGHAUSEN’s Repertory (BB) 4. Betrachtungen über die Erstellung der
and the Systematic Alphabetic Repertorium revidierten Fassung des “Therapeutischen
of homœopathic Medicines, Part 1, Taschenbuches” von Clemans von
containing the Antipsoric, antisyphilitic and Bönninghausen (consideration of the
antisycotic remedies, 2 edition 1833. publication of the revised version of the
Interleaved copy with handwritten additions of “Therapeutic Pocket Book by Clemens von
his son Carl Anton WALBURGIS v. BOENNINGHAUSEN)
BOENNINGHAUSEN (in the posession of HEINRICH, H. (ZKH, 45, 3/2001)
Foundation Pierre SCHMIDT) [SRA
I]/Systematic Alphabetic Repertory of The new edition (2001) is compared with the
homœopathic remedies, second part original 1846 edition. In cases with paucity of
containing the (so-called) not-antipsoric symptoms this repertory will be of great help.
remedies, I edition 1835. Inter-leaved copy
with handwritten additions of the son Carl 5. Mittelverwechslungen und Fehleintragungen
Anton v. BOENNINGAHUSEN (in im Repertorium (Medicine alterations and
possession of the Foundation Pierre erroneous entries in the Repertory)
SCHMIDT) [SRN.1]/Systematic alphabetic ANDERSCH-HARTNER, P.
Repertory of the homœopathic remedies. (ZKH, 45, 4/2001)
II part containing the (so-called)
not-antipsoric remedies. I edition 1835. Cocc. – Coc-c
Copy with separate sheets bound together Chill, drinking aggr.: Cocc. (K.1266,CR.2287)
and with handwritten additions verified Source verification:
by the originator (In the Institute of History Cocc.: Proof of appropriate symptoms in the
of Medicine) [SRN 2]. To this is relevant the MMP, EN, GS, etc. are all negative.
BOENNINGHAUSEN original handwritten Coc.-c.: “Great thirst after eating; a large quantity
copy in the possession of Dr.GYPSER which of cold water caused unusual chilliness." ”EN,
should be brought to light. Vol.3, p.410. Symptom No.343)
• Drop the entry of Psorinum or the tentative In the above rubric therefore Cocc. may be
gradation as in HERING’s “Guiding corrected as Coc-c.
Symptoms”. Rectum, pain, stitching; extending to urethra:
DIMITRIADIS in his article provides Cocc. (K. 629, CR.1287)
evidence for the clarification of a number of Search in the MMP, EN, GS, etc. did not confirm
questions raised by HOLZAPFEL, many of which this.
had to be adequately answered in the course of the Coc-c.: “Violent jerking and boring stitches in the
English Language Publication of the Therapeutic rectum, constantly jumping to the neck of the
Pocket Book by DIMITRIADIS (TBR) (see Sec. bladder and along the ureters to the kidneys, and at
IV, 6, p.119 of in this QHD = KSS). Extracts from last disappearing.” (EN, Vol.3, p.413, Symptom
the Preface in the TBR are used to highlight No.460).
similar questions as raised by HOLZAPFEL and Indeed the pains extend in this Coc-c.
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the urinary tract, the further similarity gives the Urethra, discharge, bloody, chronic diarrhoea, in:
suggestion that in the above rubric it should be euph. (K.699, CR,1358).
Coc-c. and not Cocc. Source: “Male sexual organs: chronic gonorrhoea
Eye, pain, tearing, evening, after lying down: when the discharge is mixed with blood” (GS,
Cocc. (K.260, CR. 637) Vol.5, p.248).
Search in the sources: Repertory to the GS: “Male Sexual Organs:
Cocc.: “Tearing, throbbing headache in the Chronic Gonorrhoea” Chronic: … ; discharge
forehead from 7 to 9 p.m. (EN. Vol.3, p.389, mixed with blood, ; Euphor.; …” (Knerr p.619)
Symptom No.72).
“Tearing pains in eyebrows and left side of head < It is evidently an error; instead of
in evening and at night. “gonorrhoea”, “diarrhoea” has been given.
“Rheumatic ophthalmia” (GS, Vol.4, P.263, Should be corrected.
Chapter “Upper Face”) Delusion, walking, the same one is walking after
The pain is worse in the evenings, not however in him that is walking before him: euph. (K 35, SR I
the evening in bed and a reference relevant to this 380, CR. 123)
formulation is not there in the above source in GS, Source: “Seeing double, when he sees a man
Vol.4, p.276, Chapter: Position: “After lying down walking, it seems to him as if the same man was
in bed”. walking close behind the first”. (CD, Sy. No.42).
Coc-c.: “In evening after lying down tearing in left “Double vision; on looking at anyone walking,
eye up into forehead; …” (GS, Vol.4, p.300, it seems as though a second person were walking
Chapter “Time”) just behind him” (EN, Vol.4, p.248, Sy. No.48 –
“Tearing pain extending from left eye up into source HAHNEMANN)
forehead, in evening after lying down.” (GS, Vol.4, In chapter “Mind” of EN there is no symptom
p.292, Chapter “Inner Head”; EN, Vol.3, p.404, to match the entry in the Repertory but in Chapter
Symptom No.62). “Mind” of GS:
“Rest. Position. Motion: After lying down: tearing “Imagines he sees the same man walking after
from 1. Eye up into forehead; …” (GS, Vol.4, him that he sees walking before him” (GS, Vol. 5,
p.299). p.245). As against this however “Diplopia; seeing
Therefore it will be right to correct Cocc. as a person walk before him he imagines he sees the
Cocc-c. As against this Cocc. is in the right place same man walking after him” (GS, Vol. 5, p.246 in
in the rubric. “Eye, pain, tearing” – without further chapter “Sight and Eyes”).
modifications – appropriate to the Symptom In the English
“Headache, as if the eyes would be torn away”
(MMP, Symptom No.38). version the Double vision as per
the Proving has been translated as
Euphr. – euph.
Face, swelling, cheeks: euphr. (K. 393, CR,856)
“imagines” and out of that a Mind
CR has both euph. and euphr. symptom in the GS which in turn
Sources: without further reference has
Euphr.: No symptom in agreement in the MMP,
EN, GS. entered into the Repertory as a
Euph.: “Red, enormous swelling of the cheek, with ‘Delusion’. This rubric with this
many yellowish blistering thereon, which break
open, exuding a yellowish humor (caused by
only remedy should therefore be
rubbing the juice on it). (CD. Symptom No.55). struck off.
“White swelling of the cheeks oedematius to the Euph.: is found in its appropriate place in the
touch for four days (CD. Symptom No. 59) Repertory under “Vision, diplopia”.
“Red, inflammatory swelling of the cheek, with
sensation of burning heat” (GS, Vol.5, p.246) 6. Bönninghausens Thèrapeutisches
“White, oedema-like swelling of the cheeks (GS, Taschenbuch – Eine Fundgrube seiner
Vol.5, p.6) klinischen Erfahrungen (Boenninghausen’s
Evidently there is a confusion and the remedy Therapeutic Pocket Book – A rich source of
should be actually euph. and not euphr. (and not his clinical experiences).
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The resurgence of interest in a thorough V. PHARMACOLOGY

examination of BOENNINGHAUSEN’s work
within this journal, have, as is usual with any 1. Very high dilutions of dexamethasone inhibit
properly conducted scientific research, served to its pharmacological effects in vivo
generate even more questions. In his response to BONAMIN, LV., MARTINHO, KS.,
our previous article, K.HOLZAPFEL has again NINA,AL, CAVIGLIA, F.& DO RIO, RGW.
raised some interesting points which we have (BHJ, 90, 4/2001)
herein considered. This present article presents
evidence that BOENNINGHAUSEN was indeed a We evaluated the interaction of
careful and methodical worker, from beginning to dexamethasone 10-17and 10-33M (equivalent to 7cH
end. We show the First Repertory of and 15cH) with dexamethasone in pharmacological
BOENNINGHAUSEN (SRA/SRN) was largely concentrations, using as experimental models:
influenced by the experience of others in the acute inflammation induced by carrageenan,
determination of remedy grades, providing Ehrlich ascitic tumour, and migration of tumour
evidence that the TT represented the clinical infiltrating leukocytes (TIL). Male adult BALB/c
experience of BOENNINGHAUSEN himself, mice (n =7 per group) were used in all
whilst maintaining a similar 4-tier grading system; experiments. Carrageenan (1%) was injected into
and that discrepancies existing between similar the footpad for oedema evaluation and into the
entries within the SRA and TT must be judged in peritoneal cavity (i.p.), for differential counting of
favour of the latter. inflammatory cells. Ehrlich ascitic tumour cells
We herein address the erroneous criticisms of (107 viable cells/ml) were injected i.p. and tumour
HERING and others regarding the abstraction cells were counted after 6 days, by the Trypan blue
(separation) of characteristics of exclusion method. The differential TIL was
BOENNINGHAUSEN’s method, which criticisms counted using smears stained by hematoxylin-
resulted from their failure to comprehend the eosin. Treatments were made immediately after
applicability of the method in its representation of carrageenan inoculation or once a day, during
Materia Medica. Practical examples are provided Ehrlich tumour development, until the animals
in support of our position that this abstraction of were killed. Animals were treated with the
characteristics, which is central to the construction following preparations: (1)Phosphate buffer saline
of the TT, not only allows a full reconstruction of (PBS) solution; (2) dexamethasone (0.5mg/kg for
original symptom meanings, but also provides a inflammation model or 4mg/kg for tumour model)
unique mechanism for recombining the mixed with dexamethasone 7cH or 15cH; (3)
characteristics of a medicine to match those of a dexamethasone (same doses) mixed in PBS.
presenting illness. Lastly, we introduce the homœopathic dexamethasone partially blocked the
concept of “characteristics mapping” in our anti-inflammatory effect of pharmacological
account of BOENNINGHAUSEN’s process of dexamethasone with regard to paw oedema (two-
conception and construction of the TT, and discuss way ANOVA, P<0.0008) and polymorphonuclear
its ramifications. cell migration (x2, P = 0.0001). No important
7. Repertorium: Natrum sulfuratum differences were observed between experimental
ZAUNER, B. (ZKH, 45, 5/2001) and control groups, in relation to Ehrlich tumour
cells viability or count, or bodyweight, but
Natrum sulphuratum (Hepar sulphuris potentised dexamethasone restored control levels
natronatum, natrum sulphide, Na2S) was proved, at of TIL viability, compared to mice treated with
HAHNEMANN’s suggestion, in 1838 by pharmacological doses of dexamethasone (X2, P <
CROSERIO and published in Stapf’s Archiv 16, 0.0001). The results demonstrate that a potentised
(1838) 164-172; this was a defective translation. A substance may change its own pharmacological
correct version on the basis of the original material effects and suggest that ultradilutions effects act
by Dr.Will KLUNKER published in the ZKH, 39, mostly on host response.
2 & 4/1995. Later Dr.ZAUNER made this into a
‘schema’ and Materia Medica form in the ZKH, 2. Validação da Técnica de impregnação de
43, 5/1999. Now, this is given in repertorial glóbulos Homeopáticos (Validation of
rubrics incorporating in the relevant pages of homœopathic globules impregnation
KENT’s Repertory. technique)
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Compared to the centesimal scale, the LM

This work compares the results among four potency seem to be low potencies but actually they
different techniques of globule impregnations with are not. The LM has a much larger dilution ratio
a dye solution. Simple imregnations were tested and 10 times more succussions per potency
for each technique (2% v/w to 5% v/w and triple increment. These characteristics greatly transform
impregnation 10% v/w). with the purpose to the medicinal qualities of the LM remedies.
demonstrate the need of validation of the adopted The curative reaction of the Vital Force is not
technique, the globules were analysed concerning disrupted by the repetition of the minimal size dose
their impregnation homogeneity, by color of the medicinal solution of the remedy, as may be
visualization. caused by the repetition of the dry dose.
Cycle of healing with the LM remedies:
3. The Centesimal and LM Potencies: A • Small liquid dose
comparison from the 5th and 6th Edition of The • No aggravation
Organon • Enduring, gentle secondary effect
LITTLE David (SIM, XIII, 4/2001) • Removal of the remedial disease
• Cessation of remedy duration
The LM potency method is the result of • Complete return of health and full vitality.
HAHNEMANN’s over 40 years experience. This This demonstrates the important use that
new potentisation technique was to “speed the HAHNEMANN gave to the Lebenskraft (Vital
cure”. Force) in the 6th Organon. The goal of the LM
The 3c is the strategy is a smooth, continuous, graduated ascent
mother of all homœopathic to health and vitality through 30 microtonal
potencies, without aggravations.
potencies. HAHNEMANN found The microtonal series of 30 graduated LM
that the medicine in solution had potencies is much more similar to development of
degenerative chronic diseases and miasms than the
greatly improved the treatment of radical jumps of the centesimals.
irrulent acute illness, and of many --------------------------------------------------------------
chronic diseases, but the weak, the
elderly, those suffering with VI. VETERINARY
considerable pathology and 1. Die Bedeutung der Zeichen in der
degenerative chronic miasmatic Veterinärmedizin (the significance of signs in
Veterinary Medicine)
diseases still presented a SEYFRIED, A.L. (AHZ, 246, 4/2001)
particular dilemma. After
countless experiments, The Anamnesis is the basis for a successful
homœopathic treatment. In Veterinary Medicine
HAHNEMANN settled on the it is an indirect Anamnesis as in the case of
1/50,000 dilution ratio and created humans for example in case of infants or in
case of unconscious patients. A thorough physical
the 50 millesimal potency. examination of the animal is necessary, in addition
The LM potency is succussed 100 times while to what the owner of the animal reveals.
the centesimals were given only 10 succussions. In The behaviour of the animal in the Surgery will
the LM method the size of the dose is greatly give good indications.
reduced as the potency is gradually increased, so
that the Vital Fiorce never receives the same exact Model cases of a
dose twice in succession. In this way, the Vital
Force can receive the single dose on a series of rabbit, a pony, a bitch are given.
doses in medicinal solution without the
aggravations witnessed in the dry or unmodified 2. The homöopathische
liquid dose. In this way, we can speed the cure to Behandlung eines Pferdes (The
one half, one fourth, or ten times, compared to the
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4/2001) VII. RESEARCH
The 1. Die Förderung von Wissenschaft und
homœopathic treatment of a 12 Forschung zur Homöopathie
(The furtherance of Science and Research in
year-old Homœopathy)
horse in which the treatment was ALBRECHT, H. (AHZ, 246,
successful by following the 5/2001)
instructions in §153 of the
Organon. The Karl und Veronica Carstens Stiftung is
currently the leading Foundation in funding
The horse was Science and Research in Complementary and
suffering from chronic cough Alternative Medicines as well as Homœopathy in
Europe. It relies mainly on public support. The
since years and had tendency to emphasis is on scientific evaluation of
catch cold. The ailments began Homœopathy. Between 1983 and 2000 the
after a protracted cold for which Foundation spent more than 12 Mio. DM for 120
projects in this field. The major part, i.e. more
Veterinary treatment (allopathic) than 10 Mio.DM was invested in fundamental and
was given. clinical research. The second focus of activities
lies in supporting continued medical education and
The remedy a new generation of academics (scholarhips,
that was indicated by applying the student initiatives). Thus, the Carstens
Therapeutic Pocket Book – Carbo Foundation has set milestones for the integration
of Homœopathy in Science and Research in
vegetabilis – was studied in German Universities.
ALLEN, CLARKE,
2. Treatment for hyperactive children:
HAHNEMANN, HERING, Homeopathy and Methylphenidate compared
JAHR but the peculiar symptom in a family setting
in this case was not found in these FREI, H. & THURNEYSEN
(BHJ, 90, 4/2001)
works. On consulting
BOENNINGHAUSEN’s work The sharp increase of the prescription of
Methylphenidate (MPD) in hyperactive children in
“The homœopathic treatment of recent years is a matter of increasing uneasiness
whooping cough in its varied forms” among professionals, parents and politicians.
the exact symptom was found. A There is little awareness of treatment alternatives.
The purpose of this prospective trial was to assess
single dose of 3 globules Carbo the efficacy of Homœopathy in hyperactive
vegetabilis 30 given on 2 Oct. 1999 patients and to compare it with MPD. The study
was performed in a paediatric practice with
brought about speedy relief. In conventional and homœopathic backgrounds.
end of Nov. 1999 it was reported Children aged 3-17 years, conforming to the DSM-
that the cough had begun again. IV criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder (APHD) with a Conners Global Index
On 1 December 1999 Carbo (CGI) of 14 or higher were eligible for the study.
vegetabilis 50M was given which All of them received an individual homœopathic
treatment. When clinical improvement reached
cured. The horse remains well till 50%, the parents were asked to reevaluate the
date. symptoms. Those who did not improve sufficiently
-------------------------------------------- on Homœopathy were changed to MPD, and again
evaluated after 3 months. One hundred and fifteen
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years at diagnosis were included in the study. 4. Homœopathy in acute Otitis Media in
Prior to treatment the mean CGI was 20.63 (14- children: Treatment effect or spontaneous
30), the mean index of the Homœopathy group resolution? FREI, H., THURNEYSEN, A.
20.52 and of the MPD-group 20.94. After an (BHJ, 90, 4/2001)
average treatment time of 3.5 months 86 children
(75%) had responded to Homœopathy, reaching a Acute Otitis Media (AOM) is a very common
clinical improvement rating of 73% and an illness in infants and toddlers. According to the
amelioration of the CGI of 55%. Twenty-five Greater Boston Study 80% of 3-year-old children
children (22%) needed MPD; the average duration have had one, and 40% of them have had three a
of homœopathic (pre-) treatment in this group was more episodes of AOM [In our experience AOM is
22 months. Clinical improvement under MPD not so common in India. Instead it is URI = KSS.]
reached 65%, the lowering of the CGI 48%. Three The conventional antibiotic treatment faces a
children did not respond to Homœopathy nor to number of problems, including antibiotic
MPD, and one left the study. In cases where resistance. Homœopathy has been shown to be
treatment of a hyperactive child is not urgent, capable of treating AOM successfully. As AOM
Homœopathy is a valuable alternative to MPD. has a high rate of spontaneous resolution, a trial to
The reported results of homœopathic treatment prove any treatment-effect has to demonstrate very
appear to be similar to the effects of MPD. Only fast resolution of symptoms. The purpose of this
children who did not reach the high level of study was to find out how many children with
sensory integration for school had to be changed to AOM are relieved of pain within 12 hours after the
MPD. In preschoolers, Homœopathy appears a beginning of homœopathic treatment, making
particularly useful treatment for ADHD. additional measure unnecessary. 250 children
with AOM received a first individualised
3. Observational study of quality of life in homœopathic medicine in the paediatric office.. if
patients with headache, receiving pain-reduction was not sufficient after 6 hours, a
homœopathic treatment second (different) homœopathic medicine was
MUSCARI-TOMAIOLI, G. , ALLEGRI, F. & given. After a further 6 hour, children who had not
MIALI, E., POMPOSELLI, R. , TUBIA, P., reached pain control were started on antibiotics.
TARGHETTA, A., & CASTELLINI, M., Pain control was achieved in 39% of the patients
BELLAVITE, P. (BHJ, 90, 4/2001) after 6 hours another 33% after 12 hours. This
resolution rate is 2.4 times faster than in placebo
This study describes the results obtained from controls. There were no complications observed in
a prospective observational research of the study group and compared to conventional
homœopathic treatment for patients suffering from treatment the approach was 14% cheaper. [What
headache (migraine with-and without aura and would have been the result if the children who had
tension – type headache). Fifty-three patients were not improved even after 12 hours (28%) had been
asked to complete the SF-36 questionnaire at the given a more precise homœopathic remedy? =
beginning of the treatment and after 4-6 months. K.S.S.]
The homœopathic medicine and potency were not
pre-defined, but were adapted to each single 5. Pesquisa básica em homeopatia: revisão
patient according to individualised homœopathic bibliográfica (Basic research on Homœopathy:
prescription. Most patients (73.6%) completed the a bibliographic review)
study. There was heterogeneity in the answers TEIXEIRA, Marcus Zulian (RH, 66, 2/2001)
(patients in very poor health as well as those with
only slight disorders). Analysis of the data Homœopathy is based on principles much
according to the concept of ‘intention-to-treat’ different from the classic scientific model. It is
showed that after therapy, the mean and median therefore difficult to be understood, and also
scores of all life quality dimensions rose. More appears unacceptable to the traditional academic
than 60% of the cases experienced an improvement stream based on the Cartesian paradigm. To
in pain and the limitations caused by pain, as well legitimise Homœopathy by modern
as in limitations in social activities and health in epistemiological research studies on its basic
general. All the differences between pre/post principles of similitude, provings on healthy
treatment were statistically highly significant, with humans, infinitesimal doses – are essential. While
the strongest results in the ‘bodily pain’ and clinical trials confirm the efficacy of homœopathic
‘vitality’ parameters (P < 0.0001). treatment in diseases, experiments in basic areas of
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foundations. In this review, the author presents the Koethen was the Master of the
main studies accomplished in several areas of
modern experimental research that endorse the lodge “Zur Säule” in Breslau.
homœopathic pillars, throwing light on the idea of We find the influence of freemasonry in
the path followed until now, so aiding the HAHNEMANN’s writing – Organon. In FN to
followers of Homœopathy who have the intention §12 Organon he speaks of God as “The Lord of
to process with these researches which would Life”. Homœopathy and Freemasonry have
satisfy those who wish for proofs of the commonality. Both began as minority and
homœopathic model. continues to remain despite their opponents’
A very impressive long list of 259 references attempts to annihilate them. Both have a goal in
have been given in the ‘bibliographic references’. view and pursue their ways quietly.
-------------------------------------------------------------- From the beginning HAHNEMANN’s path
was accompanied by Freemason Brothers: for
example Georg FORSTER Professor of National
VIII. HISTORY History in Wilna or Karl Theodor von
DULLBERG.
1. Hahnemann et les Francs- Two of the four Professors with whom
HAHNEMANN studied were Freemasons: Jakob
Maçons (HAHNEMANN and Friedrich ISENFLAM and Johann Christian Daniel
the Freemasons) WEDEPOHL, SCHREBER, Rudolf Zacharias BECKER who
assembled in his house in Gotha the Brothers of the
W. (CGH,38,1/2001) Lodge “Zum Kompaß”. BECKER published a
proclamation in which he supported
HAHNEMANN HAHNEMANN. Through him HAHNEMANN
succeeded to go to Gotha; the Duke of Gotha was
’s first contact with Freemasonry also a Brother of the Lodge. In 1810
was during his studentship as his HAHNEMANN wrote to Dr.BILLIG in Altenburg
“where, moreover, I can still meet with true
teacher Professor von QUARIN of Masons”.
Vienna recommended him to the In a Foreword
Baron Samuel von to the article the Editor (of CGH)
BRUKENTHAL who belonged to Dr.Jacques BAUR discusses the
a Freemason Lodge in possibility of HAHNEMANN’s
Hermannstadt. A new Lodge was contact with Freemasons in
founded in Hermannstadt named France during his days in Paris.
“Sankt Andreas zu den drei He finds it noteworthy that a
Seeblätter” and HAHNEMANN foreign doctor despite much
was admitted to it on 16 October opposition from the Academy of
1777. Evidently it was von Medicine ventured to practice in
BRUKENTHAL who paid the France a Medicine considered as
high fees for membership. heretic. BAUR points out the far
Between 1817 and 1820 reaching connections of
HAHNEMANN was a member in MELANIE HAHNEMANN with
the Leipsic Lodge “Minerva of the the French Court as also with
Three Palms”. In Koethen he was different political and literary
not member of any lodge. The circles. These circles were clearly
Duke FERDINAND of Anhalt- influenced by Freemasonry.
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find over his grave in the Père This article is about the
Lachaise Cemetery was made by erosion of identity of
DAVID d’ANGERS, a American Homœopathy from
Freemason. 1865-1900 because of its quest for
No direct modernity.
Freemasonry connections of On the first day
HAHNEMANN in France could of Summer of 1900 a monument
be found. However, in a to Dr.Samuel HAHNEMANN was
Freemason Lexicon we read: “The dedicated at Scott Circle,
Freemason ‘Brothers’ of Samuel Washington D.C. with President
HAHNEMANN have played an of USA, William McKINLEY and
important role in his Quest and other dignitaries. It was the first
Success of his work. It appeared monument to be erected in the
to be the source of his efforts and nation’s capital in honor of
his perseverance of an ideal to be someone who had never set foot
followed in an epoch in which the on American soil.
sick were poisoned with Arsenic. It was spread
The brotherly and cordial climate through Dr. Hans Burch GRAM
which he had in the Lodge gave and Henry DETWILLER, in the
him the courage and protection at 1820’s. HERING opened the
a very difficult time he had to pass Allentown Academy in 1835.
through particularly while he was American Institute of Homœopathy
in Leipsic. Every initiation (AIH) was founded in 1844, and in
contained in its ritual more 1848, homœopathic Medical
journeys and Provings. The College of Pennsylvania. The
Odyssey of HAHNEMANN foundation of AIH marked the
through Germany, Austria, his division between the purists and
advent in Paris at the end of a the practitioners who
tremendous and painful journey compromised the Hahnemannian
in the search for inner peace and fundamentals.
highest fulfilment of the Dr.Carrol
obligations he set for himself DUNHAM’s liberal minded
about, - all these are a fine efforts to reform affected
illustration of important symbols Homœopathy and its institutions
of Freemasonry. for decades to come.
In 1867, the
2. On the cutting edge of homœopathic Medical College of
Extinction Pennsylvania was ripped apart
REPASZ Craig (AH, 7/2001) over the issue of whether or not
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with Homœopathy. Dr. HERING in Science. ….” “be it the

of Dr.RAUE left the College over Founder of the Science himself!”
the above dispute with Dr.LIPPE. This is exactly what some of the
During the modern trend-setters are doing.
Summer of 1881, the International See Jan SCHOLTEN’s letter in
Hahnemannian Association (IHA) the Homœopathic Links Vol.15,
was formed by the conservative No.3/2002 p.16. However, genuine
homœopaths as the AIH had Homœopathy will always prevail.
rejected everything that was The new trends are a passing
homœopathic. Though the IHA phenomenon = K.S.S.].
re-established all of
HAHNEMANN’s laws as pure 3. Homœopathy in France
Homœopathy, the System as a Jean Claude RAVALARD
distinct form of medicine was (AH, 7/2001)
showing signs of extinction. The
most affected were the medical France had the exceptional
students because of the relaxed opportunity of
standards (of Homœopathy). sheltering Samuel HAHNEMANN
By 1901 during the last years of his life,
Homœopathy had become more from 1835 until 1843.
or less extinct; there were no HAHNEMANN has since
strong voices for remained, buried with MÉLANIE
Homœopathy. [Since last two- in the cemetry of the Pierre
three decades of last LACHAISE in the XI district of
century Homœopathy has been Paris. His monument there in
revived very much all over the pink marble remained unharmed
world including and survived two very violent
the USA. However, as is not storms in Dec. 1999 while most
unusual, Hahnemannian around HAHNEMANN’s grave
Homœopathy is being polluted monument were destroyed!
with lot of speculative and In the 1830s &
fantasy ideas which are 1840s, there were a number of
antithetic to genuine good homœopathic doctors in
Homœopathy. HAHNEMANN’s Paris who pursued
‘A word to the half-homœopaths HAHNEMANN’s work.
of Leipsic’ which was published Regrettably, classical
on Nov. 3, 1832 may be Homœopathy was distorted bit by
recalled. The ‘half-homœopaths’ bit and replaced by French
replied that “they do not recognise Homœopathy, a form of
any absolute authority therapeutics using diluted and
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succussed remedies aimed GEVORGYAN Ruzanna (AH,

especially at symptoms and using 7/2001)
several remedies in combination The Association of
or on the same day, etc. Armenian homœopaths
At present, established in 1997 has 100
pluralist homeopaths are a members. Half of them has a
majority in France about 4500, conventional medical education.
but the number of classical 30 members
homœopaths is much smaller were trained in classical
about 200. Homœopathy from 1995 – 1997 by
Homœopathic the Swiss organisation ‘Noraluys’.
doctors have to sign an agreement The course consisted of 700
with the French system of social theortical and 100 practical
security which decides how much teaching hours, training exams
can be charged, and what amount and certificates.
is to be reimbursed by the
Government. In addition to
the association there is an
“Classical organisation of professional
Homœopathy will not thrive physicians practising classical
unless there is a widespread Homœopathy, established by one
change of attitude of the largest medical centres in
and a real recognition of Armenia and is in active co-
Homœopathy by the operation with German
French Government, and specialists.
establish a specific status for the
homœopathic doctor”. The main
It seems that problem is the absence of a
once again pure specialized center, where teaching
HAHNEMANNian Homœopathy and treatment of patients can be
has a future in France, done through the method of
through the national Classical Homœopathy and
homœopathic school, headed by another is insufficient supply of
Dr.Edouard BROUSSALIAN and remedies.
other Homœopathy groups, 5. Homœopathy in the Czech
working towards the same goal. Republic
DRABKOVA Jitka (AH,
4. Development of Classical 7/2001)
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The Czech Republic is a Czech and Slovakia – for

small country in Homœopathy it is still one
Central Europe formerly country.
belonging to the so-called.
Eastern Soviet Bloc. 6. HAHNEMANN and the
Homœopathy has had a long inquiry into similarity: Study
tradition here. The real tragedy of his contemporary sources
started after the take over by the RABANES, O.
Communists in 1948. (CGH, 38, 5/2001)
Homœopathy was suppressed and When
only survived in very dark, hidden HAHNEMANN published in 1796
and forbidden underground. his work “A New Principle for
Only with the fall of Communism Ascertaining the Curative Powers
in 1989, Homœopathy started to of Medicinal Substances” he
raise its head and to begin its new introduced a new line of
life. reasoning:
Last year, the • He criticised the treatment of
Czech Chamber of Classical general disease signs and called
Homœopathy started to act on its for an individual therapy
officially stated position. This • He systematised the
chamber is a member of European observation that active
Council for Classical Homœopathy. substances arouse in living
Currently there organism a primary action and
are more Homœopathic Societies a secondary action and
organising seminars for both integrated these in his concept
doctors or non-doctors, publishing • He explained the curative
literature and magazines. The action of remedies by their
Czech edition of Homœopathic power to arouse in a living
Links is published here. organism an artificial disease
similar to the disease already
Practically
in that organism.
every piece of information has to Later he integrated other ideas in his concept
be translated and this costs high in his famous report on the Cinchona self
experiment, the ideas that a medicine can arouse an
and is time consuming as well as artificial fever; then he explained the action of the
poor knowledge of English, hinder medicines as a medium between the sensitive
many from sharing the rich, on Nerves structure and the Life Force.
line information in general. RABANES
raises the question whether by
Although the
these theories a fortuitous
former Czechoslovakia has been
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HAHNEMANN. He examines experiment did signify the birth of

various contemporary works, Homœopathy= K.S.S.]
among which of special value the HAHNEMANN developed upon
works of BOSSIER DE the knowledge of his
SAUVAGE, WHYTT, STÖRCK contemporaries. “No discovery
and HUNTER are reckoned. comes out of Nothing.” It remains
BOSSIER DE SAUVAGE who to draw to attention that the
adopted the botanical theory of similarity may be in our
classification for a model and tradition, culture since over
described diseases, each one as thousand years. Great
specially big. ROBERT WYATT Philosophers and Physicians have
comprehended with sensitive occupied themselves with it, and
structures in organisms which for HAHNEMANN who spoke of the
him were the Nerves and the “older ones” was most of the
sentient souls. HAHNEMANN times in his long life actively
related himself more with the involved in different
work of STÖRCK who had ways with the Freemasons Lodges.
caused many experiments with These ideas could have been
small and large medicinal doses widened there.
to ascertain the action of the [Heinz HENNE observes in “
drugs. He related himself with HAHNEMANN – A Physician at
HUNTER who worked in London the Dawn of a New Era”,
and is wellknown for his research Hippokrates Verlag, Stuttgart,
and analysis of venereal disease. 1977. “… shortly after
The author his arrival in Hermannstadt (in
arrives at the conclusion that 1777) “he was admitted to the
HAHNEMANN’s theories were all Freemason’s Lodge at von
already set forth by his BRUCKENTHAL’s initiative. In
contemporaries. For him the this circle of congenial, free-
Cinchona bark experiment did thinking men whom the
not signify the birth of Freemason von BRUCKENTHAL
Homœopathy. [Attention is drawn had assembled,
to the FN by HAHNEMANN to HAHNEMANN must have had
‘Chira’ in the Materia Medica Pura the opportunity to discuss the
wherein he says that with his fundamental, scientific and
Cinchona experiment upon in philosophical thoughts held by the
himself came “the dawn that has German men of the Enlightment
since brightened into the most and the French
brilliant day of the medical art; encyclopaedists. It was here that
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or less final formulation of his model of neural diseases. Parts of

enlightened Weltanschauung and these are found in
philosophy of life. In the HAHNEMANN’s concept of
contemporary literature of the Homœopathy. It is probable, that
Freemasons it was written that it patients influenced the process of
was “folly” to want to determine innovation in HAHNEMANN’s
the cause of a disease with the sole theory which is based on
help of anatomy. The “inner contemporary ideas such as the
feeling of the soul Vital Force. It would seem
had the greatest influence on the necessary to rework and verify
body’s illness or health.” = certain theories of Homœopathy.
K.S.S].
8. Homeopathy in Cuba
S.KAYNE, GLASGOW, Scotland,
7. Arzt- G.GUAJARDO-BERNAL, Mexico.
(BHJ, 89, 2/2000)
Patientenbeziehung und Brazilian Homœopathy offered the first formal
medizinische training in medical Homœopathy in Cuba in 1993.
Vorstellungen von Patienten There are 922 homeopaths in Cuba of whom 305
have successfully completed a one year diploma
im 18 und 19. Jahrhundert course in Homœopathy.
(Doctor-patient relationship All municipalities of Havana offer
homœopathic treatment through family doctors and
and medicinal ideas of patients other centres. 37 of 55 polyclinics offer
in the 18th and 19th Centuries) Homœopathy other specialities. 667 teeth
GEHRKE, C. (ZKH, 45, extractions with the aid of ‘homœopathic
anaesthesia’ have been performed by 48 dentists
6/2001) with oral Hypericum 200c.
The International conference on Homeopathic
Pharmacological Research, Havana and the Second
On the basis of Cuban homœopathic Congress attracted a total of
letters written by patients to 250 Cuban delegates and 48 foreign delegates from
HAHNEMANN, the relation South America, USA and Europe. Interesting
collection of papers were presented. Among
between the physician and posters on display was one relating to the
patients is studied. These letters emergency homœopathic treatment at Havana’s
International Airport, where almost all the 200
are during HAHNEMANN’s patients attended were clinically better within 20
Koethen period. The minutes. The Congress was closed by an address
practitioners were dependent from the Cuban Minister of Health.
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upon the upper classes, who could
afford medical treatment. The IX. GENERAL
practitioners had to suit their
theories to meet the expectations 1. Homöopathie im Krankenhaus – eine Idee mit
Tradition (Homœopathy in Hospitals – an Idea
and requirements of their clients. with a Tradition)
Predominant medical concepts HANSEL, J. (AHZ, 245, 5/2001)
were the ancient humoral model
For 150 years the institution of a
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supported by an Association founded for this

purpose. From a small clinic in the 19th Century X. BOOKS
this institution developed into a modern hospital of
Internal Medicine using Homœopathy and 1. Auf den Spuren des späten HAHNEMANN,
Naturopathy as methods of treatment by (German translation of the English “In Search
preference. The history of the Munich of the Later Hahnemann”) HANDLEY Rima,
homœopathic hospitals and their supporting ubers v.W.BÜHLER, 137 S. Sonntag Verlag,
association is outlined on the occasion of the Stuttgart 2001, DM 59 - review WOLF (AHZ,
Jubilee. 246, 4/2001): “The book by HANDLEY is on
HAHNEMANN’s Years 1835-1843 in Paris and
2. Standort und Aufgabe der deutschen indicates the continuous creative power of the
Homöoppathie (The position and duty of genial Master in the remaining years of his life. …
German Homœopathy) how during these years HAHNEMANN treated
GYPSER, K.-H. (AHZ, 246, 6/2001) more on the miasmatic aspects, for example to
eradicate the psoric miasm before giving an
The lack of Orientation of contemporary individual remedy. It is also shown how doses
Homœopathy in the German speaking countries were repeated in fluid form. ….. The sub title “ As
facing changing authorities is discussed. Arising reflected in Hahnemann’s Case Records” promises
from the question with regard to the basis of much since only some cases have been analysed in
Homœopathy, the apriori certainty of healing, the detail. …. an insight of HAHNEMANN’s
duty of the hour results, that is the fundamental thoughts may be had, also how he gave the LM
revision of the instruments to make sure a certain potencies in rising potencies. Also about the use of
and predictable cure. In this way this orientation placebo by HAHNEMANN. … The book is
returns. logically divided and the reader learns not only the
3. Blackie Memorial Lecture 2001 – many facets like how HAHNEMANN came to
Homœopathy: Progress and Promise a critical Paris but also his Practice which he did with the
perspective assistance of his second wife MELANIE, his
BORNEMANN, J.P. (BHJ, 90, 4/2001) treatment strategies in acute and chronic diseases.
…. The book is a mine for lovers of homœopathic
This lecture attempts to analyse the progress books ….”
made by Homœopathy in recent years, by
analysing consumer awareness, sales and 2. Prüfungen und Klinische Symptome neuer,
distribution trends of homœopthic products, and alter and vergessener Mittel (Provings and
research publications. Sales of homœopathic Clinical Symptoms of new, old and forgotten
medicines are growing rapidly (1982-1997 sales in Medicines), VAKK, P., 121 S., kart., Verlag
France rose 3.7 fold, 1987-1999, sales in USA Grundlagen und Praxis, Leer 2000, DM 28, -
grew about 5.7 fold, in the last 5 years (German) – review GEBHARDT (AHZ, 246,
substantially). However it remains a very small 4/2001): “The author reports his provings of
fraction of the total pharmaceutical market. The Citrullus lanatus, Sumbul, Parthenium, Musa
proportion of combination to single medicines sapientum, Teucrium marum verum, Tamarindus,
varies widely between countries. The market is Chlorum, Tuberculinum bovinum, Mangifera
concentrated in a relatively small number of the indica, Leprominium and Streptomycin sulphate.
available medicines. Regulation of Homœopathic …. A repertory of the remedies is given at the end.
Practitioner and medicines is problematic, the legal Then follows a bibliography whose quality is
position varies between countries. The volume of however, of much variation. Against some names
research is growing steadily. there is only the book title, with another after the
A series of recommendations are made, publishers name the year of publication but the
including modernisation of the terminology of place of publication is not given. With most
Homœopathy, training of more practitioners, a authors the first name is missing. The text is brief
defined research agenda and integration into the and clear, particularly the Nosode Leprominium is
medical system. [Integration is dangerous. If interesting …..”
integrated the big brother would swollow the
minority and it will lose its identity. As long as 3. Macht’s nach, aber Macht es Genau und
Homœopathy remains a minority it will retain its Sorgfältig nach, GAWLIK, W., 198 S.,
quality and status = K.S.S.] Hippokrates, Stuttgart 2001, DM 58,90 –
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28 letters read as continuing education which show carefully collected. The author mentions at first the
the inspiration as also the concern for indications and syndromes alphabetically arranged
Homœopathy GAWLIK writes on complex and the main indicated remedies with their
remedies, the individual in Homœopathy, the alternative remedies. This is followed by a table
question of the high potencies and the concept of giving the remedies indicated by the family
classical Homœopathy, the hindrances to cure and history. …. The very clear and easily readable
Bach Flowers, Training, on Science and Humanity, book can be a valuable help in finding remedy for
to arguments of therapeutics, as some of the cases with poor symptoms and can be
important themes. ….. If one did not know the recommended. ….”
immense vitality, mental vigilance and the
unlimited productiivity of Willibald GAWLIK, one 6. Das große Lexikon der Homöopathie –
could consider the ideas put down in these pages as Wirkstoffe und Heilmethoden (The large
a testament. Instead we are eager to know what he Lexikon of Homœopathy – Active agents and
would say next.” treatment methods), by LOCKIE, A. 288 S.,
geb., Donling Kindersley, London 2000, DM 59,
4. A Homœopathic Approach to Cancer, 90 (German). Review by GEBHARDT. (AHZ,
RAMAKRISHNAN, A.U., COULTER, 246, 5/2001): “The author is a wellknown
C.R. 198 S. Quality Medical Publishing, Inc., homœopathic physician in England. His book is
St. Louis, USA 2001. (English) review not only for colleagues but also for laymen with
GEBHARDT (AHZ, 246, 6/2001): “The book the strict condition that they know their own
written by COULTER of the experiences of limitations in applying Homœopathy. First the
RAMAKRISHNAN in Cancer treatment explains history and Nature of Homœopthy are explained.
two new ideas on the foundation: This is followed by a Materia Medica of the
1. He applies the high potency important homœopathic remedies and the many
plant remedies are depicted in colour pictures. …
more often than usually done. The next part deals with serious diseases. …. Each
2. He applies chosen homœopathic single disease is given with instructive case reports which
medicine in specific tumors together with speaks for the therapeutic competence of the
tumor nosodes. learned author. The next part is on homœopathic
…..RAMAKRISHNAN gives in a familiar Cancer self-help. …… The book is excellently endowed
case, Carcinosinum 200 to be given in alternation and fluently written. Even the experienced
with an organ specific remedy. Conium for stone homœopathic doctor would find some “gold
hard tumors, Thuja mostly in spongy and skin nuggets”.
Cancers, Arsenicum album particularly for
minimising pain. These three remedies are specific 7. Heiliger Weihrauch, Olibanum sacrum
for him with a wide spectrum. Then there are (Healing Incense, Olibanum sacrum),
organ specific remedies, e.g. Aloe for rectum and WACHSMUTH, C.u.J. 290 S., Hahnemann
colon carcinoma, Aurum muriaticum for Cancer of Institut, Greifenberg 2001, DM.69, - (German)
the oral cavity, Aurum muriaticum natronatum for review by APPELL (AHZ, 246, 6/2001): “A many
those of uterus, ovaries and cervix, Cadmium layered homœopathic remedy self-experiment with
sulphuricum for stomach and pancreas Cancers, case examples and dreams. There are different
Chelidonium for Cancer of the Liver and possibilities, to experience the genius of a
Gallbladder, etc. … The book contains many remedy as patient, as homœopathic prover in a
interesting cases with very astounding results. All proving or medicinal self experience, from
cases are histologically verified. ……..this book is trituration, from intensive working with the plant,
a milestone for modern Homœopathy…..” mineral or animal whose life style and history,
application in cult worship and through an
5. Homöopathische Behandlung initiation. The last one was experienced
Symptomarmer Fälle, (Homœopathic treatment in the beginning by CARMEN and JÖRG
of cases with paucity of symptoms) REHMAN, WACHSMUTH which produced in them a
A. ,164 s., geb., Sonntag Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, blending of perception, transcendantal ecstasy
DM64, 90-(German) review by GEBHARDT which enables to track the nature of this ancient
(AHZ, 246, 6/2001): “The homœopath faces culture plant and the possibilities of its
frequently patients who come to him without-or homœopathic application. …. In the beginning is
with very scanty characteristic symptoms. In these mentioned a cultural historical retrospective view:
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ancient Egypt, in Babylon, by the Jews and in pleads for an inner clarification process. And who
ancient South Arabia. ….. After historical does not need it?”
reminiscences the readers come to valuable
information about the botany of Boswellia sacra 8. Homœopathy in General Practice, R.A.F.
Flueck and one may ask the authors how is such a JACK, Beaconsfield Publishers, Beaconsfield
tree achieves to survive in an exclusively arid and 2001, Price £20/-ISBN 0906584515. Review
poorly vegetative region and produce a resin which M.CANNELL (BHJ, 90, 4/2001): “There are other
was reckoned as tears of God and worth its value books on Homœopathy and General Practice such
in Gold. A glance of the chemistry shows the as DOWNEY’s and LOCKRIDGE’s
relationship of the organic acids to Thuja and ‘Homœopathy and Primary Care’ but Alistair
Camphor. Medico-historical information about its JACK’s new book really fills a gap. It focusses on
use from antiquity to now is given, beginning from management of complex cases and is filled with
the Papyrus EBERS about HIPPOCRATES, very challenging patient histories as well as
GALEN, CELSIUS and others upto the Yemenic compilation of Dr.JACK’s life’s work. It is a
Folk Medicine now. The verification of the significant contribution to the growing
trituration and provings can be verified from these. homœopathic literature. …. I believe that all those
Thereby the following ‘themes’ of Olib-sac: practising Homœopathy would find this book
Yearning – seeking – Desire, especially the useful as it contains a remarkable distillation of a
yearning for clarity and the need that something unique career. … It features a wonderful
more needs to be clarified. With this is associated collection of 129 cases organised by systems of the
the desire for truth – understanding – body, illustrating Dr.JACK’s method of using
comprehension- awareness in theorizing – Homœopathy in General Practice. It shows “good
philosophyzing- loquaciousness, also in religious old fashioned Classical Homœopathy” at its best,
ideas – prophesying – can express clearly. which appears effortless when a prescriber has the
Can plunge into pictures time and again – indepth knowledge of homœopathic Materia
visions – fantasying can differentiate the sub- Medica and Repertory of Dr.JACK. … JACK’s
rubrics in repertory “Delusions”. To the fantasying treatment strategies are very flexible; he changes
belong the love for fantasying a fancied love, easily from Miasms and Bowel Nosodes,
however fateful encounter of souls with the love – constitutional and local remedies and Isopathy
birth – death, the deep feeling of security – is in within the cases he describes and from high
good hands, protection and healing state. On the potencies to pathological prescribing of low
other hand are Hurt – Sadness – Despair Weeping potencies. …. The whole book is a challenge to all
– Restlessness – Fear. Fear of punishment, at the homœopathic doctors. ….”
most. These experiences are removed by calmness
of the soul – Imperturbability – Contentment 9. Homœopathy, T.P.PASCHERO,
Tranquility. Different provers reported: Feeling: I Beaconsfield Publishers Ltd., Beaconsfield,
wish and I must be myself; Thoughts: Care for U.K.; 2000. Price £25, ISBN: 099906584 41.
your problems first before you do for others; or Review N.A. GEDDES (BHJ, 90, 4/2001): “Amid
further determination: me and my life should be the ongoing explorations of remedy families,
taken in my own hands. themes and systems, this collection of writings
The antique use, the toxicological recipe from the 1950 is a lucid and elegant exposition of
confirm so that Olib-sac is with regard to Kentian Homœopathy, emphasising in no uncertain
decontamination, close to Nux vomica, Sulphur and terms the insight, dedication and humility required
Okoubaka and share the same place. to truly spiritualise the practice of Homœopathy.
Not to be forgotten is the eroticising, In the first section, entitled ‘Doctrine’ PASCHERO
aphrodisiacal action, the connection to sensuality. stresses the need for each homœopath to develop
Hints regarding the dark sister of the Healing self-awareness, understanding, empathy and love
Incense, the myrrh. It is indeed not an accident in order to gain the intimate knowledge of each
the healing Incense as against the Myrrh does not patient’s life. … In the chapter entitled ‘Mental
have thorns. Myrrh has much to do with wrongs, Symptoms in Homœopathy’, PASCHERO warns
pain, separation, detachment, dirt and squalor and of the difficulties experienced by the homœopath
has much to do with Hope. in learning and ‘seeing’ the patient’s true mental
…The book on Healing Incense is one which symptoms concealed to a greater or lesser extent
many have been wishing for. It conveys the spirit by a variety of defence mechanisms serving to
of a remedy which many need, a medicine which protect the individual from his basic impulses. ….
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espouces the Hahnemannian view that Chimapluta, Inula, Onosmodium and Salix nigra.
polypharmacy cannot serve the goal of true cure Large part of the book clarified the well-known but
although the patient may gratefully applaud not used frequently by every practitioner – like
temporary resolution of mental or physical Berberis, Arum triphyllum, Valeraina and
symptoms. … In ‘Curing the Constitutional Verbascum. …. This book is genuine gem in the
Disease’ he provides clear authoritative many secondary and tertiary literature in
interpretations of miasmatic disturbance, .….. Homœopathy now. It would be more useful if in
Section I concludes with a strong reminder that the next edition the source of the proving symptom
illness is one part of a dynamic unit and no cure is is given as also the author’s line of thought for
possible unless harmony is restored in the choosing the medicine are given.”
individual as a whole. …. In ‘Selecting the
Remedy’ he talks of finding the ‘minimum 11. George McLeod’s Homöopathische
syndrome of maximum value’ i.e. that handful of Behandlung der Schweinenkrankheiten
mental and general symptoms which individualise Prophylaxe und Therapie (George McLEOD’s
the patient and should activate the Law of Cure. homœopathic treatment of diseases of Swine.
…. In ‘Finding the Simillimum’ PASCHERO Prophylaxis and Therapy), ANDRESEN, E.P.
illustrates the skill of repertorisation in a further 195 S., geb. Sonntag Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, DM
nine cases, demonstrating the unmasking of the 54, 90. (German) review BÜNDNER (ZKH, 45,
constitutional picture by astute interim acute 4/2001): “George McLEOD was a leading
prescribing and clearing of a case clouded by homœopathic Veterinarian doctor renown
orthodox drug treatment. ……. In the next two worldwide and exclusively used homœopathic
chapters entitled ‘Practice of Homœopathy’ he medicine. This, his last major publication
again stresses the need for objectivity and restraint appeared shortly before his death. The book has
in avoiding the pitfalls of palliative prescribing and been enlarged in many aspects by the translator
seeking nothing less than the elusive thread of who too is a Veterinary doctor, which are quite
continuity which characteristises each individual’s useful for the practitioner. ……”
dynamic disturbance. ….In ‘Child psychology in
Homœopathy’, the describes the psoric separation 12. Homœopathie in der Tiermedizin. Groß-
anxiety of the infant and the ongoing conflict und Kleintiere (Homœopathy in Veterinary
between his anxiety and aggression resulting in Medicine. Large and Small animals).
maladaptive behaviour and organic disease….. RAKOW, B., RAKOW, M., 400 S. geb., Aude
The final section, devoted to Materia Medica, is Sapere Verlag, Karlsbad 1999, DM. 99.75
very readable with elucidation of each remedy (German) review BÜNDER (ZKH, 45, 4/2001):
theme and many remedy comparisons and “In this book are given homœopathic single
differentiations. …. PASCHERO’s impassioned medicines and their aplication in different
mission to impress upon the reader the indications in Veterinary Medicine. The
homœopath’s one and only goal – to cure the foundations of Homœopathy like the basic rules,
patient’s unique reactive ‘maladjustment’. This is the potentisation, the remedy proving and the
elegantly expressed and illustrated and probably individualisation are explained. …. This special
the distinguishing appeal of this book…….” book is a reference work of great actuality,
excellent applicability, logical chapters and
10. Erlebte Homöopathie; Fälle aus 60 thorough instructions for treatment of large and
Jährigen Praxis (Homœopathy in Practical small animals. Conceptually it is for the
Experience; cases from 60 years practice), experienced veterinary homœopath as a reference
Georg von KELLER, 1455, Einband geb., book but is also of help for the less experienced.
Sonntag Verlag, Regensburg 2001 Euro 24.96 ….”
(German) review Hella HEINRICH (ZKH, 46,
6/2002): “The author presents a collection of more 13. Homöopathische Materia Medica für
than 250 cases covering 95 remedies over 60 years Veterinärmediziner, (Homœopathic Materia
of his Practice. The book is in alphabetical order - Medica for the Veterinary Practitioner),
Aconitum to Zincum. Only those cases which were STEINGASSNER, H.M., 2, neuarb. und
clearly and well responsive to the remedy given erg..Aufl., 403 S., Wilhelm Maudrich, Wien
have been presented. We find case histories for the 2001, DM 128 – (German) review KRÜGER,
major remedies like Sulphur, Lycopodium, Sepia, C.P. (ZKH, 45, 4/2001): The review of this
Rhus toxicondendron and also the lesser used hitherto complete homœopathic Veterinary Materia
remedies like Asparagus, Brachyglottis, Medica is preceded by a brief review of the scale

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of Veterinary Homœopathy. While human homœopath who prescribes the single medicine
Homœopathy has in the ca. 30 years has developed and who keeps off prescription based on clinical
to a great extent, the Veterinary Homœopathy at diagnosis and clearly defines these. The author has
least in so far as German speaking world, has been picked out 53 cases and presented the acute ones
mostly on Organotropic lines with presriptions from out of his practice. …. The practitioner must
mostly on well proved symptomatic prescriptions. in these cases which are mostly epidemic diseases
…. So much happy it is to have a Materia Medica prescribe rapidly and precisely and render optimal
book by STEINGASSNER which gives remedy help. …. We have here a book from a sincere
differential. In about 400 pages, 174 homœopathic author with twenty years experience in single
remedies are detailed and thorough symptom remedy Homœopathy, can be recommended
register is also given. …. To summarise, this book without any reservation.”
indicates great progress: The “STEINGASSNER”
will be for Veterinary Homœopathy like a Julius 17. The
MEZGER” Homœopathy Materia Medica to
human in German! BOENNINGHAUSEN
Repertory:
14. Taschen-Repertorium der homöopathischen Therapeutic Pocket Book Method edited by
Tiermedizin (Pocket-Repertory of homœopathic George DIMITRIADIS HAHNEMANN
Veterinary Medicine), DEISER, R., 2045., geb., Institute. Sydney 2000. Hardback 289 pages
Sonntag Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, D4 54, 90 – ISBN-0-39694-3. AU$190. Reviewed by Julian
(German), review BÜNDNER (ZKH, 45, 4/2001): WINSTON (AH, 7/2001). “After years of disuse,
“….. A quick reference book at busy hours for the The BOENNINGHAUSEN Therapeutic Pocket
Classical Veterinary Homœopathy practitioner was Book has finally been resurrected. This edition is
lacking as against Homœopathy in human the work of a group of six homœopaths and has
medicine. ….. The author developed his pocket taken more than five years to come to fruition.
book for his personal use in the first place. As The only additions which have been made
basis are his own experience as also the literature were gleaned directly from
in the KENT and Synthesis. …. The book fills a BOENNINGHAUSEN’s later writings and from
gap in Veterinary homœopathic practice and is additions he made to his repertory as reportedly
relevant to the animal keeper as well as the collected by CARROL DUNHAM. All the
Veterinary doctor. …..” additions made by ALLEN have been removed
from this edition.
15. Leitfaden zu Kents Repertorium, (Guide to In May 2000, Dr.Klaus-Henning GYPSER
Kent’s Repertory), ENSINGER, T., 7. published the German edition of the revised
neuarb.Aufl., 288 S., Kart., Haug Verlag, Therapeutic Pocket Book.
Heidelberg 1998, DM 64, 90 (German) review In October 2000, the English version, The
FEIGL (ZKH, 45, 6/2001): “…. For making it BOENNINGHAUSEN Repertory: The Pocket
easy to use the three volume translation of KENT’s Book method (TBR), edited by George
Repertory Haug Verlag brought out the first edition DIMITRIADIS was released. This is a major
of Theodor ENSINGER: “Guide to Kent’s work.
Repertory”, in 1975. The “Guide” was conceived A major change is that the rubrics have been
as repertorial help to the beginners and the busy re-translated from the German. There is a 69 page
pactitioner. This has already gone through five section of ‘Endnotes’ that defines each rubric and
editions. Now the revised new 7th edition by how (and why) it was translated as such.
Ulrich ENSINGER has been brought out by the The layout has been changed to make it easier
same publisher. to locate rubrics in the order needed for the taking
of a case.
16. Die Grundlagen der akuten Behandlung in The book is 250mm long and 150mm wide
der Klassischen Homöopathie (The Foundations and 20mm thick. The pages have two columns of
of treatment of acute cases in Homœopathy), rubrics. No rubrics are carried from left to right
MÜLLER-THEDERAN, B., 238 S., geb., Erich column or from one page to the next.
P.H. Müller Verlag, Adelshofen 1999, DM 119, - The book then departs again from the
(German), review GUTGE-WICKERT (ZKH, 45, traditional order of the parts and divided into
6/2001): “An important chapter in Classical following sections.
Homœopathy is the treatment of acute diseases. It 1. Symptomata Regional:
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2. Symptomata Systemic: a left ventricular dysfunction. An

Grouping according to function of
body systems. year later the patient complained
3. Symptomata General: of a heavy dyspnoea.
Those symptoms that do not The authors
relate to one region over another. The Mind
section is here.
suggest that the effects of Cocain
4. Symptomata Modalities: on the heart in drug dependant
5. Concordances: Remedy relationships. has not been well known till now.
Every rubric is numbered and there are a total
of 2695 rubrics. Myocardial infarction and sudden
The book death of the heart were to be
contains a very good Preface considered. ß. Blockers are
explaining the developmental contraindicated in Cocain induced
process, a section explaining how cardiac ailments.
The observation of the authors with reference
to use the book, a translation of to the Cardiac toxicity of Cocain agreeswith the
GYPSER’s introduction to the homœopathic Materia Medica well. While in
German edition and a translation Cocain dyspnoea intensive chest oppressive,
sudden spasms in chest, palpitation with heat
of BOENNINGHAUSEN’s flushes, Angina pectoris from mountain climbing,
original introduction to the 1846 among others have been mentioned, such
symptoms are not observed in the drug picture of
edition. Cocain should however be added to the Materia
The book contains only 135 remedies – 125 Medica.
that appeared in the original and 10 added based on
other Works of BOENNINGHAUSEN. II. Increasing quality of eggshell (THE HINDU,
The book is available from homœopathic Chennai December 5, 2002) A study by biologists
booksellers or from: and earth scientists at Glasgow University’s
[email protected]. Veterinary School, Scotland has shown that stress
-------------------------------------------------------------- in poultry can disrupt carefully programmed
XI. NEWS & NOTES insertion of proteins into an eggshell, resulting in
poor shell quality and reduced egg value.
This emerged when the morphology and
I. Cocain use and acute left mechanical properties of egg shells of breeder hens
ventricular were explored, which were kept under good,
dysfunction by C.MISSOURIS et al relatively stress free conditions.
Under stress, the secretions of the cells of the
(Lancet 357 (201) 586 in the AHZ, shell can become acidic and can be destroyed or
246, 4/2001): a 36 year old female damaged.
In extreme cases, this results in egg shells with
complained pericardial pains, excessive deposits of calcium leading to misshapen
sweat and trembling. A coronary and hence unsaleable eggs.
Angiography did not reveal III. The broken image of the father by P.LOUIS.
anything particular, an ECG The author describes several remedies which
correspond to the problem of relationships between
showed an intensive left fathers and children. Graphites has an absent
ventricular hypokinesia with an father, or is afraid or fears separation. Scholten’s
works are recalled: carbon means work, dignity,
estimated ejection of circa 40%. father. Calcarea carbonica lacks the protection of
In urine a Cocain metalite was his father, and is aftaid that others will not bring
found. Two months after this protection. Magnesia carbonica was forsaken
by his father, or is afraid of being forsaken by him.
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and resignation. Baryta carbonica is ashamed of and Apis mellifica. (L’Homéopathie Européenne
having a father who is physically or mentally 6/2000; in BHJ, 90, 4/2001).
weak. Baryta carbonica wants to lean on someone.
The main theme of Ammonium carbonicum is the VI. Action of Sulphur pollution on the dry eye
resentment against the father. Silicea allows by C-F.BISCH. In the first part, the importance of
restoration of the balance between harshness and air pollution is underlined, and the causes of this
indulgence. The father of Silicea will want above pollution are quoted: urban heating systems,
all to preserve the good reputation of the family. industry and car traffic. The chemical structure of
(RBH, 4/2000 in BHJ, 4/2001). this pollution is complex, but is particularly made
up of Sulphur dioxide which reacts with water to
IV. Cahiers de Biothérapie: special issue on form Sulphurous acid (Sulfurosum acidum).
Geriatrics. This special issue tackles the GUTMAN (New York, 1968) prescribed
problems of geriatrics. Max Tetau stresses on the Sulfurosum acidum 30 CH in some cases of asthma
importance of Sulphur and Psorinum in the elderly and emphysema. The French homœopaths,
(pp 6-10). Jean-Pierre Elbaz describes the
particularities of the medical examination of the ROBERT, JULIAN and ZISSU, also used it in the
elderly. He tells us that homœopathic treatment is same type of disease, and in some digestive, ear,
very important, because it allows older people to nose and throat (ENT), and dermatological
grow old gracefully. Also because it may alleviate diseases. The author, who is an ophthalmologist,
the effects of excessively aggressive conventional uses it regularly and successfully in dry eye
treatment (pp 12-18_. Didier Rougemont quotes syndrome, and in keratitis, when they are caused
the main neurological problems of the elderly: by pollution.
Thrombosis, Alzheimer’s disease: Arsenicum In concluding the author describes
album, Aurum metallicum, Causticum, dermatological symptoms (phlyctenulae with
Haloperidol, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Lachesis,
Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Staphysagria, oedema) and digestive symptoms (sialorrhoea with
Tarentula, Veratrum album. This issue ends with gingivitis. And acid dyspepsia). (L’Homéopathie
dermatological clinical cases (Patrick Piton), Européenne 6/2000; in BHJ, 90, 4/2001).
cardio-vascular clinical cases (Gerard Henri),
digestive (Patrice Petit) and rheumatological
clinical cases (Francisco Trapani and Filippo VII. Petroleum for knee meniscus problems
Ricciotti). (Cahiers de Biothérapie 167; December by Dr.SEROR. The author suffered from a knee
2000-January 2001 in BHJ, 90, 4/2001) meniscus lesion, which was discovered after
episodes of locking of the knee. This lesion has
V. When homœopathic medicines are also developed into a disabling arthrosis, surgery had
allergens by B.POITEVIN. The homœopathic been advised.
Materia Medica contains medicines which are used Symptoms of meniscus lesion can be found in
in the treatment of allergic syndromes and of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica of TF
conditions likely to produce allergies. It also ALLEN (Petroleum: Symptom No. 707 ‘cracking
contains medicines which are allergens: Phleum in the knee, as if a cartilage slipped, with pain on
pratense for example. Can we improve their moving it’,and Symptom No. 710 ‘tearing in the
homœopathic use by integrating data which were left knee, in the evening;: she could not stretch it
unknown at the time of their pathogenesis? Not out’). The author took Petroleum 4 CH , two pills
only a clinical similarity but also a similarity of every morning and every evening for 20 days.
biological mechanism might be found. Thirteen years later, the author continues to
Homœopathic medicines contain allergens practise his favourite sports and does not suffer
which give allergic reactions of different types, but from his knee anymore.
some substances do not cause allergic reactions An allopathic rheumatologist reports 70% of
(Rhus toxicodendron for example) and this fact excellent results with Petroleum, which was
should incite us to challenge their effectiveness in prescribed systematically in all cases of painful
allergic diseases. A better knowledge of the knees, regardless of meniscus symptoms. This
composition of some plants (Magnolia grandiflora article ends with another clinical case, published
for example) would allow us to introduce new by HORVILLEUR, who confirm the specificity
homœopathic medicines, and would allow us to and the eficacy of Petroleum in the cases of
update the homœopathic Materia Medica. meniscus lesions. (Cahiers du Groupement
In conclusion the author recalls the Hahnemannien 9/2000; in BHJ, 90, 4/2001)
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VIII. Murex purpurea van Den EYNDE Murex couldn’t swallow it’ recalls to the author a clinical
purpurea is an aquatic gastropod; the source case of staphylococal sore throat following an
of the crimson dye which was used in the Greek humiliation and cured by Staphysagria.
and Roman antiquity. When Lachesis says ‘I am suffocating’, she (or
he) implies that she suffocates her social or family
The symbolism of this crimson colour is circle, and that she feels suffocated by her circle.
connected with the mental pathogenetic symptoms: The different parts of our body have their own
refusal to be under control of someone, or desire to meaning: the head commands, the nape of the neck
exercise the supreme power. Crimson was the expresses the desire, the upper limbs mean action,
colour of patricians and emperors, and the wrist brings flexibility and firmness, the hands
consequently the symbol of conquest, of power and bring skill. The vertebral column allows us to stand
of justice. up and face life. The lower limbs allow us to go
A comparison is made with two other sea towards others. The liver wants to posses, the
medicines: Calcarea carbonica and Sepia. colon eliminates and makes us to renounce the
past. The skin not only means to beome aware of
Calcarea carbonica looks for security, the contacts with others, but also is what we would
solidity, reliability, wants to foresee like to hide and what we display not without
everything, and needs to respect the rules. Sepia shame.
acts on the digestive organs, whereas Murex acts Our whole body speaks to us, and it is a
on the sexual organs, with an excitation not found wonderful story. (Cahiers du Groupement
with Sepia. (Revue Belge 4/2000; in BHJ, Hahnemannien 8/2000; in BHJ, 90, 4/2001)
90, 4/2001) XI. Dengue (RL Diaz CAMPOS, SB ORIOLI):
This febrile disease is caused by a Flavivirus, and
IX. Contribution of Homœopathy to the physio- the Aedes mosquito acts as a vector. The article
psychological unity of the human being presents an overview of the subject, dealing with
MARCHAT, P. The author, who is a homœopath clinical aspects and epidemiology obtained from
and a philosopher, tackles the question of the the Internet, classical features and conventional
connections between Homœopathy, conventional treatemt, traditional homœopathic treatment, and
search for the genus epidemicus.
medicine, and psychosomatics, from an analysis of The symptoms of the disease as described in
the following book: Impertinence the conventional and homœopathic literature were
psychosomatique, by Serge BONFILS. taken, and both were repertorised to give nat-m,
The human has three poles: the physical pole, ars, puls, lyc, eup-per, rhus-t, bell, nux-v, bry and
the psychological pole and personality. These ign as the top 10 remedies. Nat-m and puls are not
three poles are interdependent and the influence of listed as being indicated in dengue in classical
one pole on the other two varies according to homœopathic texts, and this may reflect a pitfall in
the individual. this approach, which does not consider the totality.
The physical pole is studied by conventional Other remedies used by a variety of authors are
discussed, and include the following:
medicine, the psychological pole by For the initial stages: acon. Bry, ipec, ars.
psychoanalysis. The third pole corresponds to the Prostration prominent: gels. For persistent fever
homœopathic notion of disease. The mistake of and eruption: bry, rhus-t. For gastric upset with
conventional medicine is to believe that its nausea or flatulence: coloc, nux-v. Jaundice
approach of the body exhausts the possible prominent: merc, chin,nux-v. Haemorrhages: sul-
knowledge of the ill subject . Homœopathy allows ac, ars, sec, chin, followed by ferr-c. Renal
us to go beyond the body-spirit duality, by haemorrhage: canth, bell, ars. (Homeopatia
studying this third pole, which is named by the 65/2000; in BHJ, 90, 4/2001)
author the ‘real-life body’. What is primordial is XII. Hypertension Trial (JL CAMPISTROUS-
how the patient lives, how he reacts to LAVAUT et al)) This is an early phase II,
himself, to his environment, and to other human randomised, double-blind controlled clinical trial
beings. These reactions explain the onset of homœopathic treatment in essential
of the disease. Homœopathy permits a more hypertension. The trial took place in Cuba in
complex and global approach than 1996-1997 and involved 68 cases with mild to
psychological or conventional approach. moderate hypertension, and selected by defined
inclusion and exclusion criteria.
(L’Homéopathie Européenne 1/2001; in BHJ, 90,
Before the trial started, 72% of all cases did
4/2001)
not have adequate blood pressure control. Both
X. The body as metaphor (P.DRANSART) groups continued with their antihypertensive
Our patients often use metaphors to express their medication at the start of the trial. Blood pressure
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group during the first week of the trial (26.7% in She gradually improved over months with
the placebo group), and 89.4% during the whole increasing doses of Calc, and despite the steady
trial (73.4% in the placebo group). The results reduction in Steroids. The fears disappeared and
were analysed using the X2 method, and were her appearance improved. She re-experienced the
significant. In the verum group 63.2% of patients nightmare she had as a child and the catharsis it
were able to significantly reduce their hypertensive produced was pivotal in her recovery. Two years
medication. The overall success rate at the end of later she is asymptomatic and with normal exercise
the trial was 82.2% in the homœopathically treated capacity. (Homeopatia 65/2000; in BHJ, 4/2001)
group (68.4% controlled, 15.8% improved),
compared with 56.7% for the placebo group (these XIV. A case of Kartagener’s Syndrome
had their blood pressure controlled, but none (C.Mendiola-Caballero) This article describes
improved). the case of an 8-year-old girl who presented with
The top ten remedies used were: nat-m an acute exacerbation of chronic sinusitis and
(18.4%), lach (13.1%), sulph (10.5%), lyc (13.1%), bronchitis. On examination she was found to have
bar-c (10.5%), ars, psor, ign, sil, thuj, nux-v, gels, Dextrocardia, and further investigations revealed
sep. The results suggest that homœopathic situs inversus. She was treated with ars-i, and then
treatment was superior to placebo in the treatment with ipec, and two non-homœopathic preparations,
of hypertension in this experimental setting. Mitotane and Marmoreck over the course of 7
(Boletin Mexicano 32/1999; in BHJ, 90, 4/2001) months. She became clinically asymptomatic. The
picture suggests Kartagener’s Syndrome. It
XIII. A Case of Myasthenia gravis (M.
occurs as a result of a disorder of the movement of
MÜLLER): The touching case of a 22-years-old
cilia in the cells lining the respiratory tract and in
woman, with myasthenia gravis for 10 years is
sperm. It leads to sinusitis, bronchiectasis, and
described. She had been treated with high doses of
infertility in males due to non-motile sperm.
corticosteroids. She had had a thymectomy. She
Bronchiectasis had not yet developed in this case.
was also in long-term psychotherapy. None of
What is remarkable is that there should have
these interventions seemed to have a significant
been such a good response, as the syndrome is due
effect. Her symptoms worsened at 5 pm, and like
to a genetic defect in the production of a protein
an ‘afternoon Cinderella’ had to rush home at that
called dynein, which is crucial in microtubule
time, otherwise she would end up exhausted and
functioning and consequently ciliary movement
stranded. However, she had adapted well to the
and normal cell function. (Boletin Mexicano de
limitations of her illness, and the reason for
Homeopatia 33/2000; in BHJ 90, 4/2001).
consultation was the anguish caused by her
Cushingoid appearance. XV. Homœopathic treatment of acute otitis
At the initial consultation she described (as media in children: a preliminary randomised
had been explained to her) the events which took placebo-controlled trial (J.JACOBS,
place during the dictatorship in Argentina. She DA.SPRINGER, D.CROTHERS) The use of
was 18 months old and the police had broken down antibiotics in the initial treatment of acute Otitis
the front door of their home during a dawn raid, Media is currently being questioned. Homœopathy
beaten up both parents in front of her and has been used historically to treat this illness, but
kidnapped them. The patient was handed to her there have been no methodologically rigorous trials
maternal grandmother 6 months later to be cared to determine whether there is a positive treatment
for. The mother was released 2 years later, a efect. A randomised double-blind placebo-
broken woman, after being tortured and raped, but controlled pilot study was conducted in a private
still wanted to look after her daughter. What upset pediatric practice in Seattle, WA. Seventy-five
the patient most was to be separated from her children, aged 18 months to 6 year with middle ear
grandmother when her mother (by then a complete effusion and ear pain and/or fever for no more than
stranger) returned. She described these experiences 36h were entered into the study. Children received
with indifference, and the only outstanding either an individualised homœopathic medicine or
symptom which could be related to them were the a placebo administered orally three times daily for
nightmares which she had in childhood, from 5 days, or until symptoms subsided, whichever
which she would wake shouting and crying but occurred first. Outcome measures included the
which she could never remember. Based on the number of treatment failures after 5 days, 2
following symptoms: fear of contagious diseases, weeks and 6 weeks. Diary symptom scores during
poverty, and insanity, cold clammy extremities, the first 3 days and middle ear effusion at 2 and 6
and profuse sweat on the head, she was prescribed weeks after treatment were also evaluated.
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There were fewer treatment failures in the such clinical settings, it is important for such
group receiving Homœopathy after 5 days, 2 clinical niches to be explored. David REILLY
weeks and 6 weeks, with differences of 11.4, 18.4 emphasised the need not only to foster the scientist
and 19.9%, respectively, but these differences were in ourselves, but also the artist. The first day’s
presentations were rounded off by Jay
not statistically significant. Diary scores showed a BORNEMAN with the Blackie Memorial
significant decrease in symptoms at 24 and 64h Lecture entitled ‘Homœopathy, Progress and
after treatment in favour of Homœopathy Promise; a critical Perspective’.
(P<0.05). Sample size calculations indicate that The plenary sessions of the second morning
243 children in each of two groups would be were dedicated to basic research and its
needed for significant results, based on 5-day relationship to clinical research. In the first lecture
failure rates. of the day, Daniel ESKINAZI (Center for the
These results suggest that a positive treatment Science of Life, U.S.A.) spoke of the tension
effect of Homœopathy when compared with between ‘individuality’ and ‘reproducibility’. For
instance, even in genetically identical animals
placebo in acute Otitis Media cannot be excluded living in the same environment there is a
and that a larger study is justified. (Pediatr Infect variability in lifespan. These diifferences are likely
Dis J 20/2001; in BHJ, 90, 4/2001). to depend on variability in the sensitivity to weak
XVI. “Starting from the January stimuli. The less strong the stimulus, the less
2002 reproducible the results. Conversely, with strong
stimuli there is greater reproducibility but at the
issue, the ‘British homœopathic Journal’ has cost of greater toxicity. Lionel MILGROM
been retitled ‘Homœopathy’. The format, discussed his Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
content and philosophy of the Journal studies of homœopathic potencies. Work by
remains unchanged. The changed title will CONTE et al suggested the presence of irregular
more accurately reflect what the Journal is. differences between homœopathically potentised
It will be more easily located by Internet solutions and simple dilutions. MILGROM’s
search engines and other electronic search group showed that the difference disappeared when
methods, which are growing rapidly in the correct type of glass tube was used.
importance as means of accessing the Trevor THOMPSON illustrated the use of
qualitative methods in case study design and
Journal. At the same time, they are moving reporting. He argued that qualitative methods are
to a new publisher, Churchill Livingstone” essential tools if we are to move beyond rhetoric,
(BHJ, 90, 4/2001). towards real integration of the art and science of
XVI. International Conference: Reuniting homœopathic medicine.
Art with Science; London, 22-23 February 2001. Martien BRANDS spoke of the integration of
The third international research conference in the qualitative and quantitative research in validating
series ‘Improving the Success of Homœopathy’, the homœopathic Materia Medica. David LILLEY
organised by the Royal London homœopathic spoke about the role of archetypes which are
Hospital was held at the Royal Pharmaceutical represented in some of the main homœopathic
Society London on 22-23 February. The theme remedies such as Calcarea carbonica, Sulphur, etc.
was ‘Reuniting Art with Science’, and the main We believe that the Conference illustrated that
themes explored were ‘Art and Science in the art and science of Homœopathy not only can,
Homœopathy’, ‘Harvesting the richness of but should be reunited. (BHJ, 90, 4/2001).
Clinical Experience’, and ‘Implications of basic XVII. Homeopathy vs. Speculative Medicine:
research for Clinical Practice’. Parallel sessions Much discussion has been going on in the ‘World
covered a range of topics including, ‘Artistic of Homœopathy’ about ‘trendy’ ‘insights’, ‘ideas’,
approaches to Homœopathy’, ‘Prospective Data ‘perceptions’. Sometimes the discussions have
collection’, ‘Constitutional Types’, rather raised the ire of some. There seems to be
‘Homœopathic Provings’. The conference was clearly two “sides” – those who would like to stick
attended by 123 people from 17 countries. faithfully to HAHNEMANN and the basics which
The Conference theme was introduced by identify Homeopathy distinctively; on the other
Peter FISHER and Robert VAN HASELEN. Prof. side are those who want to go beyond
Gene FEDER illustrated that Evidence Based HAHNEMANN and accept such ideas as ‘themes’,
Medicine does not exclude the ‘art’ of Medicine. ‘signatures’, ‘periodic table’, classification of
Marianne HEGER demonstrated the huge potential remedies into ‘kingdoms’. These discussions have
of Internet ‘data warehousing’ for harvesting the been held in the European Jl. Of Classical
richness of clinical experience. Marie France Homeopathy (wound up already), Homeopathy
BORDET and Jean-lovies MASSON described Today (Jl. of the National Centre for Homeopathy,
their application of Homœopathy in patients with USA), Simillimum (Jl. of the Homeopathic
HIV and Hepatitis C infections in a specialist Academy of Naturopathic Physicians, USA). The
hospital setting. Homœopathy is not often used in 21 signatories to the ‘protest’ to Julian

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WINSTON’s editorial in the Homœopathy nothing wanting in the methodology laid down by
Today, which indeed triggered the storm, HAHNEMANN and his genuine successors. What
threatened to resign from the National mainstream is required is what HAHNEMANN asked us to,
[but do not seem to have done so, and that’s good i.e. ‘machts genau nach’ – ‘follow me exactly’ .
= K.S.S.], and quite a few of the readers of As for the ‘trendy’ I will implore HAHNEMANN
Simillimum threatened to similarly boycott the to forgive them “for they know not what they are
journal unless the Editorial Board of the journal doing” =KSS]
allow neo-trends. The Simillimum in its issue --------------------------------------------------------------
No.XIV,4/2001 carries an interesting letter by LIST OF JOURNALS:
Brent MATHIEU requesting “tolerance in the 1. AH: American Homeopath, North American Society of
Homœopaths, 1122 East Pike Street, # 1122, Seattle, WA
search for truth needs to balance the vigilance 98122 USA.
required to preserve liberty and science” and Peter 2. AHZ: Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung, Karl F.Haug
WRIGHT, Managing Editor of the journal Verlag in MVH Medizinverlage, HEIDELBERG, GmbH
responds in detail for what is called ‘pure & Co., KG 70469, STUTTGART, GERMANY.
Homœopathy’ and he ends his reply “But let those 3. BHJ: British Homœopathic Journal, 2, Powis Place,
Great Ormond Street, LONDON, WC1N 3HT, U.K.
who part ways with HAHNEMANN be honest 4. CGH: Cahiers du Groupment Hahnemanien du Docteur
enough to call their work something else— P.Schmidt, Médecin et Hygiene, 78, avenue de la Roseraie,
naturopathy, energy healing, archetype therapy— Case 456, CH – 1211, GENEVA 4.
any term that doesn’t already have a distinct 5. DH: Documenta Homœopathica, Herausgeben; Ludwig-
meaning assigned to it. I believe that it’s entirely Boltzmann Institute für Homöopathie, Mariahilferstraße 110.
A-1070, WIEN. (VIENNA).
fair to reserve the term Homœopathy for the 6. HT: Homœopathy Today, National Center for Homœopathy,
methods of HAHNEMANN and his direct 801, North Fairfax Street, Suite 306, ALEXANDRIA, VA,
successors, . . .”. However the Board of 22314, USA.
Simillimum decided to change the Editors and 7. RBH: Revue Belge Homéopathie, Dr. J.Alaerts, Av., Cardinal
make peace. [Personally I whole-heartedly agree Micara, 7, B-160, Bruxelles, BELGIUM.
8. RH: Revista De Homeopatia, Rua Estado de Israel, 639-SÃO
with ‘Hahnemannians’ and reject the ‘neo-trend’ PAULO-SP-CEP: 04022-001 BRAZIL.
although the trend-setters claim good results with 9. SIM: Simillimum, The Journal of the homœopathic
their philosophies. There are very good healing Physicians, 12132 SE Foster Place, Portland OR 97266,
methods other than Homœopathy, for that matter USA.
can we let them into Homœopathy? Why 10. ZKH: Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie, Karl F.Haug
Verlag, HEIDELBERG, GERMANY.
knowingly drag in a Trojan horse? With over four
decades of ‘homœopathic’ practice I have found -------------------------------------------------------------

PART II
(This section contains condensations/extracts/whole of selected important articles)
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various forms. As in so many other situations, the
1. A theory of Tumour Development role of distinct physical factors is more easily
CLOVER Anne (BHJ, 73, 4/1984) considered than that of psychological energies.
But if we pursue HAHNEMANN’s approach we
This paper is the first of a trilogy relating to will look as closely as possible at all aspects of the
the place of homœopathic concepts in the relevant processes.
understanding and therapy of Cancer. The aim in HAHNEMANN is by no means one of the
the first part is to review some of first to express insights concerning subtle
HAHNEMANN’s theories relevant carcinogenesis. determinants of tumours. As early as the second
It wil consider the way in which he assesses the century GALEN expressed the opinion that women
contribution of factors as various as chronic of a “melancholic” temperament were more likely
poisoning, subtle psychological determinants and to develop breast Cancer than those described as
hereditary traits. Today there are increasing “sanguine”. This might suggest that those who
references to a wide range of factors said to be suffered such problems passively were more liable
causes of Cancer. Physical carcinogens as well as to tumour development than those who readily
emotional, ideological and other similarly subtle expressed their emotions. Such references to an
factors and hereditary patterns relevant to tumour association between breast Cancer and
developmant are being researched. It may be psychological disorders increased in the 18th and
argued that in many ways HAHNEMANN has also 19th centuries, and even more so in the present era.
spanned this spectrum of causes in his writings, Recent examples have included a study published
referring to the role of the latent, and many would by GREEN and MILLER in 1958 reporting an
say hereditary, trait that he termed “psora”, as well association between Cancer and preceeding
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the 1969 on three sets of monozygotic twins HAHNEMANN, is through careful scrutiny of all
discordant for Leukaemia with prior major relevant factors.
personal psychological stress in the affected twin.2 This hierarchy of causes described by
Other studies published in the 1960s showed a HAHNEMANN ranges from spiritual, or initiatory
correlation between prior depressive illness and forms, to diet and dampness. Although he was
writing long before public health was a common
subsequent Cancer development. Since then concern, he firmly argued the need for care in this
further studies of such an inter-relation between dimension. Today it is easy to take such measures
malignant disease and prior psychological stress for granted. But in his day, HAHNEMANN was
have appeared to give contradictory results. But again showing a pioneer attitude when he
many workers in this field still argue firmly in emphasized their importance to health or disease.
support of the association from their personal His advice on diet is smiliarly practical. He
experience of patients’ reports, whilst also pointing advocated a fresh, well balanced diet, avoiding
out the difficulty of adequately assaying the excesses or substances difficult to assimilate. In a
frequency or role of such effects. similar vein he argues against the abuse of drugs
But as HAHNEMANN reminds us many and for appropriate regimes of exercise. All such
times, empirical experience is on its own not obvious physical factors, he argues, can play a
enough to formulate or dismiss a theory. Rational fundamental role in determining human health or
deduction, particularly when applied to careful disease. They are the basic modalities in his
observation of patient's reports, is a more reliable hierarchy of causes of chronic disease in general,
guide. or tumour in particular.4
Today, science has clearly shown that all All through his writings HAHNEMANN
matter is energy behaving in an apparently consistently argues the similar importance of
substantial manner. The idea of solid entities or psychological factors for health or disease. Clearly
uncuttable atoms has long been exploded. It is to him the physical performance was a type of end
only inertic thought that holds to an erroneous product revealing the effect of progressively finer
dualism between supposed immaterial forces and influences. His assessment is constantly non-
so-called material atoms. We are now in an era dualistic, emphasizing the interaction of the subtle
when thought is having to catch up with science and gross determinants.
and dynamize its interpretations. Since the Amongst such subtle factors he differentiates
physical body is a dynamic form it follows emotions, selective or trained thoughts, a higher
logically that the energies of thought and feeling mind or understanding and ultimately the volition
are in continuous kinetic interaction with the or will. Often such modalities appear to be
apparently physcial aspects of beings. considered together when he refers to the “Vital
FREUD and JUNG are well known exponents Force”. This term, though unfamiliar today, was
of such theories. It is less often acknowledged that widely used in the time of HAHNEMANN for
the interaction had been stated long before them by factors that would now be termed psychological.
Samuel HAHNEMANN. In expanding his understanding of this aspect of
HAHNEMANN’s many writings show a human function, HAHNEMANN differentiates
progressive understanding on his part of a such factors that in his opinion contribute to
hierarchy of causes of chronic diseases, one malignant disease. Examples that he lists are
form of which he says is Cancer. He currently training in formative years, moral conflict, sexual
emphasized the need to look at all aspects in a difficulties, family problems, jealousy, resentment
spectrum of causes and warned against a and fear.5. His list is wide-ranging, but can be
blind prejudice on one hand, or empty speculation summarized in today’s terminology as referring to
on the other.3 Blind prejudice, he says, is emotional imprinting and intellectual conditioning.
opinion-based according to a person’s Today it is widely acknowledged that the
particular training. In other words, someone who physical organism holds dynamic imprints of prior
is inappropriately tied down to their previous experience, such as perceived sensations,
experience and ideas. Empty speculation is an emotional reactions and ideological training.
opposite type of error, that is, hypothesis Clearly these serve a useful purpose when they
inadequately tested in experience. In collateral facilitate useful training, but become a problem
terms, one is seeing no further than the end of a when they strongly bias a person to repeat
nose, the other is flight of fancy or phantasy. The experience remembered by them as pleasurable
way to avoid these errors, according to and restrictively to avoid pain or threat. Such
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creativity and become a factor in the development form expressing it. HAHNEMANN argues that
of disease. Summarizing his hierarchy so far, such a subtle form is the prime mover of any extant
HAHNEMANN has referred to the role in tumour structure and deduces that just as such influences
development of three modalities that today could can sustain health, their imbalance can contribute
be termed physical, emotional and ideological. But to disease. Such initiatory derangements, he
this hierarchy of factors contributing to chronic argues, need a similar form of corrective. That is,
disease such as Cancer does not stop here. He also an initiatory imbalance needs a change of initiative
refers to even more subtle vectors when he write of for its correction. In relation to these concepts he
spiritual essences and the higher mind.6 argues that potentization gradually releases such
He appears to imply that the higher mind is an initiatory forms and presents them in a manner that
understanding that extends beyond the individual can facilitate an appropriate re-orientation in a
empirical training and intellect to include an disturbed energy field.
awareness that might be described as cosmic.7,8 Here then are two more aspects, which, added
Many philosophers and other thinkers have to the three of thought, feeling and drive previously
referred to an inherent intelligence and ultimate described, make a five-fold hierarchy. It begins
order in the universe. Various religious, with the will, or essential initiation, moves to
philosophical or psychological terms have been comprehensive understanding or higher mind, then
pursued for this, examples are the Christian Logos, refers to conditioned temporalized thought or
the Buddhist field of formal voidity, the Platonic opinion, after this to emotional conditioning and
realm of ideas, and the Jungian collective finally to diet, damp, drugs or other similarly gross
unconscious. They all imply an immediate, innate physical factors. The activity of all these aspects,
consciousness with creative power of its own HAHNEMANN argues, is revealed in the gross
processes. HAHNEMANN appears to refer to physical form, a dynamic construct that reflects the
such an awareness and the possibility of it whole series. All aspects, he says, are in continual
informing the individual thinker when he writes of interfunction and all therefore contribute all the
the higher mind or the reason-gifted consciousness. time to health or disease.
It implies an understanding reaching far beyond the In relation to chronic disease, including
limits of ordinary egoic training. He then appears tumours, HAHNEMANN argues that such
to develop and apply this awareness in relation to influences accrue during the lifetime of an
chronic disease when he implies that personal individual, then interact with a latent trait. Many
disregard of its information accompanies empirical have interpreted his writings on Psora as implying
bias and contributes to interpersonal conflict. a hereditary trait that is vulnerable to reactivation
Closely associated with such concepts are by contemporary effects. HAHNEMANN relates
references to spiritual or initiatory essences.7,8 the origins of Psora to a chronic irritation
HAHNEMANN’s writings imply his progressive developed in the dawn of civilization and of which
understanding of an informed initiation, a term also Leprosy may be a long-standing sign,
translated as a spiritual essence, that is, the prime contemporary VD a more recent manifestation.9
mover of any creative process. It could be called But whatever its origins he argues that this trait is
an ultimate cause, answerable only to itself. liable to reactivation by the other factors named as
Logical deduction implies that such an initiation contributing to chronic disease.10
would be a primary cause of an act, the free will He is therefore describing a dual action of the
referred to in various ways by philosophers, latent trait and a stimulus that provokes its
psychologists, religious thinkers or similar activation. It is a theory that bears close
researchers in all ages. In other words comparison with contemporary expressions of the
HAHNEMANN appears to be saying, like many combined effects of hereditary factors as well as
other thinkers have done, that the primary cause personal psychology or exposure to carcinogens
appears qualitatively in its effect. which in combination can produce a malignant
HAHNEMANN’s use of the term “initiatory disease.
essence” implies this. It denotes a quality essential Although HAHNEMANN firmly argues that
to the form and not an imposed directive. One way such a latent trait is the common property of
of illustrating such concepts is to liken the mankind, he still emphasizes the individuality of
initiatory essence to the pattern in an acorn that diseases with which it is associated. The basic trait
determines its development, given appropriate may be shared but the provoking factors are
resources, into an oak tree. The term “conceptual unique. Hence he says we need to remember that
essence” is a very interesting one, implying the in each patient we are seeing not “Cancer” but a
dual aspects of the will to act in this way and the “type of Cancer”.11 It is a point taken up again by

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CLARKE when he emphasizes that “Homœopathy argues, can contribute to the development of
is the art of individualizing”. chronic diseases in general and tumours in
HAHNEMANN’s theories therefore imply a particular. Similarly each aspect has a related
thoroughly dynamic understanding of tumour therapeutic application. This paper will look at
development. these concepts and related therapies in three stages.
In all his writings HAHNEMANN First, those with a physical emphasis, second those
consistently deduced a theory first, then applied related particularly to psychological factors and,
this in a rational therapy. The second paper in this third, the ways in which therapy can emphasize the
series will discuss how these insights can be role of volition. Since it may be argued that a
applied today in the treatment of malignant correct use of homœopathic remedies and Iscador
disease. is relevant to all these aspects, they will be
considered in a fourth and final section.
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12. Greeve WA, Miller. Psychological factors and Therapies with a physical emphasis
reticulo-endothelial disease. Psychosom Med In relation to an emphasis on physical factors
1958; 20: 124 – 44. contributing to tumour development, we may
13. Greeve WA, Swisher SN. Psychological and consider therapies as various as Chemotherapy,
somatic variables associated with the Surgery, Radiotherapy, diet, general care and
development and course of monozygotic twins personal hygiene, local applications to tumour sites
discordant for leukaemia. Ann NY Acad Sci and relaxation techniques. A detailed discussion of
1969; 164: 394 – 408. the first three on this list is not the subject of this
14. HAHNEMANN S. Organon. Preface 2nd ed. review, but they are mentioned as they warrant
15. Ibid., Paragraph 77. 6th ed. inclusion here. HAHNEMANN acknowledged
16. Ibid., Paragraph 81A, 93. 6th ed. that surgery may have an important part to play in
17. Ibid., Introduction and paragraphs 62, 63. 6th therapy but at the same time warned against its
ed. Trans. Dudgeon. RPH 1961. inappropriate use. Decisions concerning radical
18. Ibid., Paragraphs 15 – 20 and 269, 270. 6th ed. Surgery, intensive Chemotherapy or wide field
19. HAHNEMANN S. Chronic Diseases. Radiotherapy can be difficult. Every patient has
Prefaces to vol. IV and V. Delhi: Jain. the right to like or dislike his therapy, and detailed
20. Ibid:, p. 48. discussion may well be required concerning the
21. Ibid., p. 10. possible use of such procedures.
22. HAHNEMANN S. Organon. Paragraph 81. Various diets have at times been suggested as
6th ed. assisting Cancer therapy. In recent months many
Therapeutic implications of Hahnemann’s patients requesting treatment at the Royal London
theories on tumour development Homœopathic Hospital for Cancer have already
The first paper of this trilogy1 looked at contacted the Bristol Cancer Help Centre and
HAHNEMANN’s views on the hierarchy of causal received their advice on diet. We have at times
factors that contribute to tumour developemnt. seen patients so concerned by what thay have read
The aim now is to discuss their implications or heard that they believe a lapse from a
concerning available therapies. predominantly raw food, high caroteen diet will
Before pursuing this I will briefly summarize aggravate their disease. This is unfortunate. No
the hierarchy of causes of tumour development dietary advice can be that rigid. As
evident in HAHNEMANN’s writings. At the most HAHNEMANN and many other therapists have
obvious physical level he refers to the influence of recurrently argued, the disease any patient shows is
poor or inappropriate diet, inadequate drainage and unique to them. Hence dietary advice will
chronic poisoning. Next he discusses the effect of similarly need adjusting to inidvidual
processes that today would be described as requirements. Having said this, it still appears
repressed emotions or repressive ideas. Finally, his reasonable in general to advise, as HAHNEMANN
hierarchy refers to the role of a comprehensive did, the use as far as is practicable of fresh, simple,
understanding and volition or initiation. In other easily assimilated food without chemical additives.
words, he surveys a spectrum of causes ranging Many workers in this field advise excluding red
from basic physical determinants, through meat from the diet, if that is acceptable to the
psychological vectors to subtle and not easily patient.
understood levels of consciousness today In relation to relaxation techniques, their
sometimes described by such terms as collective importance can be argued as an adjunct to any
understanding and Free Will. All these aspects, he therapy. In any disease, healing is facilitated by

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good relaxation and hampered by high levels of removed, but if not traced will continue to cause
anxiety and muscle tension. A small example of irritation and disease.
the use of relaxation has occurred with some The pursuit of insight into such factors not
of the patients at the Royal London only facilitates a change in emotional and
Homœopathic Hospital where we have heard ideological imprints, it also helps an individual
them report a reduced need for night sedation after increase their own conscious direction of their
learning simple relaxation techniques. inner processes, which brings us to the third
The need for appropriate care of tumour sites section in this review.
and general good hygiene, rest and adequate Therapies with an emphasis on volition
mobilization is obvious and does not need It has often been observed that patients who
development here. show an active interest in their therapy and do all
In practice, many of these types of therapy they can to assist it, fare better than those who
with a physical emphasis can be used together, as adopt a resigned fatalism. It is reasonable to
well as in combination with psychological expect this. When a person’s interests, ideas and
orientated treatments. emotions are supporting their therapy there is
Therapies with a psychological emphasis convergence that will enhance its course. It is like
The many lines of therapy offered for swinning with a current, not against it.
treatment of Cancer that may be considered under The Will, or volition, is a term widely used to
this heading are aiming at a release of negative imply the prime mover of human activity. It is not
processes contributing to the disease and re- easily understood. Emotional pressure or
integration of a positive opposition to it. These ideological inclination can easily be misinterpreted
two apparently opposing approaches, in practice as free Will. The term “Will” implies an original
work together. A rationale for their use is easier to choice of action coming from a level of
understand when we remember that all aspects of consciousness operant in all of us which is freely
the human body are forms of energy co-operating choosing without bias from previous experience.
to produce the tangible result. Such energic forms There have been occasions when patients with
can therefore be manipulated by a release of major organic disease such as malignancy have
repressed emotion as well as by clarification of realized that their personal choices have
new ideas to inform the substance. The repressed determined their life situation and contributed to
emotions are repressive ideas that can conflict with their vulnerability to disease. Such insight is rare,
the creative impetus of an individual and provoke but when expressed has helped patients realize the
irritation and disease can be of distant or recent way in which individual choice can similarly re-
origin. It has often been observed by workers in orientate towards health. It is an insight that can
this field that a major psychological trauma has help a patient take increase of charge of their
occurred a few months before the primary personal experiences in a way that helps them
development of a tumour or its sudden spread of redirect at least some of the disease energy. A
metastases. The abreactive type of therapies are simple example of such helpful re-orientation
aimed at releasing imprinted emotions not occurs when a patient chooses to give up smoking.
adequately integrated or discharged at the time of Less obvious, but similarly important to therapy, is
their initial provocation. Closely associated with the choice of ideas, on which a person operates and
this can be an attempt to help a patient clarify ideas their conscious application to direct personal
on which they wish to act now, and others retained energy. All such factors serve to help an
from early years but which they now individual discover their own capacity of Self
seek to understand and change. Understanding is direction and with that attain a reduction of their
the key here. When insight develops. previously unrecognised psychological conflicts.
Concerning how previously held ideas and HAHNEMANN’s later expressions
emotional responses have developed, an individual concerning initiaitory essences appear to refer to
is in a better position to change or restate them as such a capacity for Self direction. In the sixth
he will. That is, he takes charge of them instead of edition of Organon he recurrently refers to
being ruled by them without his recognition. spiritual or initiatory essences as the primary
It is an important way of helping an individual determinants of gross forms seen in the time-matter
take increasing charge of his own directive world. His terminology implies an ultimate Self
energies, and reducing inner conflicts that direction of all gross forms. It is a concept not
otherwise may contribute to tumour development easily discussed, but if pursued implies an essential
or other disease. Such conflicts can be dignity and capacity for true Self respect. When
compared to splinters. Once seen they are easily applied to human development it means an

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essential Self responsibility; that being is its own responsibility, their other aspect is the realization
cause. At first such concepts may appear onerous, of a true inner determination that is essential to
but that is only one aspect of them. The other is Self respect, and many would argue an ultimate
the implication of authentic Self direction that aim of therapy.
gives true status to an individual. HAHNEMANN The third and final paper in this series will be
appropriately terms such an awareness “essential” a discussion of some of the experiences in applying
to being. He takes his discussion further when he such theories in seeking to help patients with solid
argues that potentization reveals a similar initiatory tumours.
level in the medicinal agent and that this can then
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medicine relates to the cause of a disease as well as
to its symptomatic effects, which brings us to the Some Experiences in the Treatment of Cancer by
fourth section. Homœopathy
The role of homœopathic treatment and Iscador in In this third paper of a trilogy relating to
the treatment of Cancer HAHNEMANN’s theories relevant to tumour
HAHNEMANN’s deductions imply that a development and therapy, I will outline three
correct homœopathic therapy relates to all aspects illustrative case histories and then discuss them.
of the cause and subsequent course of tumours. He Mrs A
relates this, not only to contemporary physical, She was 73 years old and had an Anaplastic
psychological and volitional factors but also to Carcinoma of the oesophagus. At diagnosis in
inherited traits or miasms, vulnerable to re- February’81 the tumour was said to be in the lower
activation and expression in overt diseases. His level of the oesophagus. She was treated by
theories on treatment of chronic disease therefore Radiotherapy and also in the following months she
include discussion of remedies intended to provoke had regular prescriptions of Iscador and Vitis Co,
a suitable counter-reaction to the latent trait or Phosphorus 30 and Condurango Q. Although
miasm which he argues is activated to produce throughout the radiation treatment she appeared to
gross symptoms as well as those appropriate to the show a good tolerance, she later developed
precipitating factors. He argues both that a correct Radiation Pneumonitis. This was treated by a
miasmatic remedy can help provoke an appropriate combination of steriods; Radium bromatum 200
response to the latent trait involved and that a and Causticum 200.
correct contemporary simillimum helps counter the In October ’81 she complained of dyspnoea
trauma that activated it. Hence it can be said that a and chest pain, and was found to have symptoms
correct homœopathic treatment can be relevant to and signs of lung metastases and a Pericardial
all aspects contributing to tumour development. Effusion. This was confirmed radiologically, and
Iscador, a mistletoe preparation, is also widely she was seen by a cardiologist who advised her
used by many homœopathic doctors in the transfer to a cardiac unit for pericardial tapping.
treatment of solid tumours. The use of this Mrs A insisted that Homœopathy and
medicine has been developed mainly by Acupuncture were all she needed for this additional
anthroposophical doctors since it was first developmant. Whilst awaiting transfer from the
recommended by Dr. STEINER. This, too, is said Royal London Homœopathic Hospital (RLHH)
to relate to the subtle forms that produce Cancer as the homœopathic remedy was Bryonia in varying
well as to their gross expression. potencies. When seen in the cardiology unit a few
Both homœopathic remedies and Iscador are days later, no sign of any significant pericardial
therefore alike in that they are both said to act effusion was found.
against malignant tumours by provoking subtle as In January ’82 she was seen in outpatients,
well as gross resistence to it. They can be reported thart she could eat anything she wanted
described as having a type of rear-guard action, and could do a 2 mile walk. She remained fairly
provoking the subtle resistence to a tumour process well until April ’82.
and undermining its base rather than merely In the last five months prior to her death Mrs
adjusting its façade. A experinced recurrent diaphragmatic spasms with
These are interesting theories carefully severe hiccupping and retching. Although Ignatia
reasoned by HAHNEMANN that appeal to the 6 and Cuprum aceticum 6 eased these symptoms,
intuitive sensitivity of many people. Although at they did not clear them. Mrs A frequently and
first they may appear to imply an onerous Self firmly stated her wish to have as few analgesics as

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possible as she wished to be alert and closely prescribed at least initially appeared to help to
observe her own death process. She had little pain reduce the copious offensive discharge from the
and required only Panadol or Distalgesic for tumour. Throughout the 7 months that she
analgesia. In the minutes prior to her death she remained in the RLHH, she consistently held to her
was calm and peaceful although experiencing stated ideals and died peacefully at 31 years in Feb.
another diaphragmatic spasm. She recurrently said ’83.
to the doctors with her “If only I could Mr C
communicate to you the beauty of this experience”. He was first seen at the Tunbridge Wells
Miss B Homœopathic Hospital (TWHH) in
Miss B was a young North African woman November’80, when he was 33 years of age. He
aged 30 years when first seen at the RLHH in had a Colorectal Carcinoma which had been
July’82. She already had extensive Hodgkin’s diagnosed in June ’79, when a resection of an
disease, including a 3"diameter fungating tumour Anular Sigmoid Carcinoma was performed. He
in her left supraclavicular region extending onto had remained well until August ’80 when he began
the anterior chest wall. She had first developed passing blood and mucous PR. Laparotomy at the
signs of the disease at age 13 years, and had Royal Marsden Hospital in August ’80 showed a
received exrtensive Chemotherapy and recurrence of the tumour invading the bladder, plus
Radiotherapy in other hospitals. When seen in the mesenteric and hepatic metastases. His wife
RLHH, she firmly stated her decision not to have reported that she had been told that her husband
any repeat courses of such treatment. Briefly was not expected to survive to the end of the year.
summarized, her history began in a wealthy North She had discussed this with her husband, neither of
African home. When about 10 years old, her them accepted this gloomy prognosis, and both
previously allegedly tranquil homelife was sought to add homœopathic treatment to the
disrupted by sudden and continuing major parental therapy already being prescribed. The main
strife. She left her family in her early teens and complaint on presentation was frequent loose
joined an Eastern religious movement. She lived bloody stools. In Sept.’80 the patient’s father died
in England from age 15 years. By the time she was with Lung Carcinoma.
admitted to the RLHH, contact with her parents Throughout the next two years Mr C received
was minimal, but she corresponded regularly with regular Iscador Qu cum Hg, a split dose of
her sister living in USA. She remained committed Carcinosin 12 and frequent Mercurius corrosivus
member of the religious movement she had joined 6, Natrum Sulphuricum 6, or China 6. He also
as a teenager and most of her friends came from continued with regular Chemotherapy as advised at
this group. She frequently and firmly, but not the Marsden. In June’81 ultrasound examination
aggressively, stated her conviction that her disease showed disappearance of previously detectable
was part of her Karma, that it was a way for her to hepatic metastases and a fall in the CEA to normal
resolve personally accumulated problems. Her levels. The pelvic mass appeared stationary.
belief was that close observation of its effect and In 1981 his second child was born. He
her maintenance of personal control through it, remained generally well, continued his fulltime
would suitably conclude this life time and prepare work as sales manager for a printing firm, but
her for her next incarnation. She therefore refused continued most of the time to pass frequent bloody
further conventional treatment. She also refused to stools. He appeared at least to be avoiding any
accept Iscador. However, she welcomed deterioration, unitl his brother was killed in a road
homœopathic treatment. Even in the latter weeks accident in Nov.’82. After this Mr C steadily
of her life she declined conventional medication. deteriorated and died peacefully in April’83.
She regularly practised meditation, and the use of These three case histories illustrate three of the
visual imagery. At times she appeared to welcome main reasons for which many patients have
an opportunity to discuss her past conflicts, her requested Homœopathy as an adjunct to other
ideology and hopes. She kept in regular contact therapy for neoplastic disease. Mrs A had a life-
with her friends from the religious movement of long interest in Homœopathy, Miss B was
which she was a member. committed to a philosophy which supported it, and
Various homœopathic medicines were Mr C turned to it when other treatment appeared
prescribed, including Aurum, Arsenicum album, inadequate for his needs. All three also reflect the
Kali Sulphuricum, Phosphoricum acidum and hierarchy of factors described by HAHNEMANN
Kreosotum were given orally, and hydrastis and in relation to the development of chronic diseases
calendula applied to the tumour. Although this including tumours. We may first note the
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HAHNEMANN implies is the primary directive of homoepathic remedies and regular Iscador
being-energies. All three showed clear evidence of injections.
an intent to learn as much as they The homœopathic remedies used came from
could through the illness they were experiencing. groups regularly used at the RLHH and TWHH in
Paradoxically they all accepted it, clearly discussed Cancer therapy. These are nosodes such as
the diagnosis with its apparent implications, yet at Carcinosin prescribed for Mr C. We also used
the same time sought to oppose it with the help antisycotic remedies, particularly Thuja for Miss
they believed appropriate to their life style and B, on account of her soft discharging tumour.
concepts. Their quiet and persistent determination Constitutional remedies were assessed and
was clearly evident. The ideas they prescribed for all three. Pathological type
expressed and sought further to clarify concerning prescriptions were widely used for instance in an
their particular situation appeared to have an attempt to ease the copious bloody stools of Mr C
important stabilizing effect for them. and the diaphragmatic spasms of Mrs A.
Mrs A referred to Christian concepts and Miss B to It was frequently observed by the nursing staff
Eastern philosophy. Although Mr and Mrs C that the patients described here were remarkably
showed no particular religious or philosophical positive and calm despite their gross disease.
affiliation, in their own way they discussed and Naturally they all had some phases of depression
pursued their concern for quality of life and not, as and negative type questioning, but opportunities to
they put it, mere longevity. All three consistently discuss their reactions, the prescriptions of
showed their intent to progress through the disease constitutional remedies, and the continued support
towards more Self understanding. Arguably this of friends, relatives and other therapists usually
contributed to the calmness they usually showed helped them through this in a matter of a few days.
and remarkably low need for analgesics. All three patients described here took an active
As well as referring to the fundamental role of interest in their therapy from the start. Its
volition and ideology in the development and application was recurrently discussed as fully as
treatment of tumours, HAHNEMANN also possible with them. Similarly as far as possible we
emphasizes the part played by emotional trauma. attempted to listen and help them clarify their ideas
Many other writers have referred to this in the last concerning their experiences, using their preferred
two centuries. Again this is evident in all three terminology.
cases reported here. Mrs A had a long history of
family problems which escalated in her later years. One of the few facts that is clear about Cancer
In addition her sister died with Breast Cancer in development is that it is far from understood.
1976. Miss B, as has already been noted, Arguably HAHNEMANN’s theories on chronic
developed Hodgkin’s disease shortly after major disease give many useful leads on how to pursue
family conflicts and breaking her previous close an insight into this condition and then evolve,
involvement with her family. Mr C only showed a together with the patients experiencing it, a rational
steady deterioration in his disease after his therapy appropriate to its many facets.
brother’s sudden death. In discussing the nature of
their disease, all three patients readily associated 2. FIFTY MILLESIMAL POTENCIES—AN
their personal emotional traumas with the INTRODUCTION DR. ROBERT M. SCHORE,
disease development. M.D. (HG, 11/1985)
In relation to gross physical factors relevant
to Cancer therapy, HAHNEMANN refers to such HAHNEMANN conceived an idea through the
basics as diet, drainage and general care. In recent collective thought of his time, knowing that sooner
years various diets have been suggested as being or later all of us would somehow understand. He
important aids in Cancer therapy. Of the three finished his life with some final thoughts but
patients reported here, all three without sufficient time to furnish a proof
chose predominantly simple wholefood diets, acceptable to succeeding generations. One such
Miss B was vegetarian. thought was the LM potenzen or fifty millesimal
The medication prescribed has already potencies. Why develop what appears to be a more
been summarized in the individual histories. Mrs complicated method, when your main intention is
A had Iscador, homœopathic remedies of a to remain simple and direct? Now we
constitutional and pathological emphasis, must carefully re-explore HAHNEMANN’s last
Radiotherapy and conventional medication. efforts and decide for ourselves whether or not this
Miss B had only homœopathic prescriptions. Mr C great master was again correct. We must
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draw any conclusions couched in modern assisted Dr. Schmidt in the original translation
‘scientific’ conjecture. from German to French.
Those of us not familiar with old German It then occurred to me that further theorizing
idiom cannot always perceive HAHNEMANN’s about the pros and cons of fifty millesimal and
thoughts through Boericke’s word for word centesimal potencies was merely a waste of time,
translation of the Organon. So we soon will have and that practical experience would clarify the
a clarification of HAHNEMANN in English—a essence of HAHNEMANN’s statements. After re-
most precise and perfect re-translation of the reading the Organon, I realized that I had not seen
Organon from the original German text and Pierre any case histories in the literature which used the
Schmidt’s precise French translation. What LMs exactly as HAHNEMANN had described.
HAHNEMANN said will become crystal clear, and The most common error was not beginning the use
only those who choose not to be classical in their of a remedy with the lowest potency (par. 246,
methods will fail to perceive its essence. footnote)6 the 0/1 or LM 1. It became imperative
I have been asking myself why that I begin using the fifty millesimal potencies
HAHNEMANN, in the sixth edition of the exactly as HAHNEMANN described.
Organon changed his concepts of potency so The most impressive statements I have read,
radically. From paragraphs 246 through 283, there inspiring me to investigate further the LM
is a clear description of his experience with the LM potencies, are the following, by Dr.Pierre Schmidt:
potencies during the last years of his life. The “… but we must bear in mind that
rules for preparation and utilization of the LMs are HAHNEMANN never says anything which has not
precisely worked out (par. 248, 270)6 just as the been duly considered and thought out, and that all
methodology for use and follow-up of centesimal his words should be weighed with the utmost
potencies is clearly described in previous editions care.”3
of the Organon, in Kent’s Lectures on
homœopathic Philosophy, and in Vithoulkas’s The “Here HAHNEMANN expounds his absolutely
Science of Homœopathy. new theory for the preparation of the 50
In this report I wish firstly to outline the millesimals as well as the technique of their
methods of preparation and administration of LM application. I had, in fact, already read years ago,
potencies. Next, I will describe HAHNEMANN’s in the B.H.J., an article on the ‘plus method’. I had
method of following the case after LM even applied it … and it had been a dead failure.
prescriptions. Finally, in order to illustrate the LM Since then, none of our papers has ever mentioned
method more graphically, I will present some case it. It showed, however, how important it was to
reports from my own practice. have the Organon translated, as no one had ever
applied the method in the proper way. Even today,
BACKGROUND DATA I occasionally read in homœopathic journals about
Relatively few in-depth articles have been cures efected by 50 millesimals in globules. This
written about the fifty millesimal potencies.1,2 is positive proof that the prescribers of such doses
Those I have discovered provoked my curiosity have not understood the new method at all, as the
and caused me to realize that more careful research remedies ought to be administered in liquid form
must be carried out before conclusions can be only (par.271).”3
drawn regarding the validity of the LM potencies.
Discussions with various well-known homœopaths “Although HAHNEMANN knew all about the
and homœopathic pharmacists revealed that their high potencies made by Korsakoff, up to 60, 200,
individual experiences with LM potencies were 1000 and even 1500, he did not know the very high
usually limited, and their methods of using the potencies effected and applied in accordance with
LMs varied considerably. Basically, there seemed Kent’s rules: 10M, 50M, 100M, etc. However his
to be uniformity of interpretation of last process with 50 millesimals, if applied lege
HAHNEMANN’s statements regarding the LM artis, gives really good results. The effects of this
potencies in the sixth edition of the Organon. technique ought to be evaluated on the basis of a
However, Dr.Pierre Schmidt’s French translation long clinical experience in order to be rightly
of the Organon seemed to clarify matters. Mr. appreciated. In most cases, Kent’s new method
Alain Naudé was kind enough to translate into gives such good results that this new process could
English the parts of Dr.Schmidt’s translation be applied exclusively to chronic or serious cases,
which refer to the LM potencies. I checked this of course only if there is no response to the single
data personally with Dr. Jost KÜNZLI, who dose. Remember, however, that HAHNEMANN
did nothing lightly and bear in mind his imperative
advice: Imitate me, but imitate me well!”4

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In Richard Haehl’s Samuel HAHNEMANN, will be found in Dr.Pierre Schmidt’s translation of

His Life and Work, there are various references the Organon (par. 270).
to the fact that HAHNEMANN knew of and used To begin the preparation of the fifty millesimal
higher potencies, at least as high as 1M.5 potencies, one starts with the third centesimal
One must realize that HAHNEMANN did not trituration with sac. lac.—never from liquid.
ignore the existence of high centesimal potencies, Specific instructions for the preparation of the 3c
and did not merely improve on his 30th with the trituration can be found in the Organon (par. 270).
LMs. HAHNEMANN was brilliant, sensitive and 1. To an approximately 60cc bottle to which has
intuitive, and it is my opinion that he perceived been added 400 drops of distilled water and 100
some kind of deeper disruption created by high drops of 90% alcohol, add 5 centigrams of the 3c
centesimal potencies, even when there were trituration made exactly according to
apparently curative results. These observations, in HAHNEMANN’s insturctions in paragraph 270 of
my opinion, led him to develop the fifty millesimal the Organon. Mix well until diluted. One
potencies, and to experiment with them during the excellent source of accurate preparations is
last years of his life. I have not yet found enough homœopathische Central-offizin Wettstein
of HAHNEMANN’s records to substantiate my Apotheke, Postfach 4005 Basel, Switzerland.
theories completely, but if any readers of this paper 2. Into a separate bottle (approximately 10cc)
can provide me with more of HAHNEMANN’s containing 100 drops of 95% alcohol, place one
records and observations, I will be most grateful. drop of this dilution from the 60cc bottle. The
Also, if any of my German and French-speaking bottle must be large enough so that the solution
colleagues have access to literature of this nature in does not fill more than two-thirds of it.
French or in German, copies will be greatly 11. Carefully close the bottle with a cork and
appreciated. Furthermore, I am sure that the succuss it 100 times by holding it in the hand and
forthcoming translation of the Organon into pounding the hand rapidly on a leather-bound
perfectly clear English will clarify the fifty book, a surface which is resilient and elastic.
millesimal method. 12. For this step you will need approximately 1½
WHY USE THE LM 2 drams of No.1 granules (poppy-seed size). These
may be slightly smaller than the usual No.10
POTENCIES? granules readily obtainable in America. One
As classical homœopaths we have an excellent source for uniformly made unmedicated
obligation to HAHNEMANN to do exactly as he granules (Streukügelchen No.1) is Jso-werk
says before we decide whether he is right or Regensburg, J. Sonntag & Sohne K.-G., Fabrik
wrong. We all know how well the high centesimal chem-pharmaz. Präparate. The Organon
potencies work, so why change to LMs? I feel that paragraph 270, gives specific instructions on
if we use the LMs and compare the responses to granule size. Place 1½-2 drams of these granules
centesimal reponses, we will have our answer. into a glass thimble which has a small hole at the
Unfortunately, there are few well-known classical bottom. HAHNEMANN and Dr.Pierre Schmidt
homœopathic physicians. My appeal to them is to used a platinum thimble, and this is preferable if
use the LMs exactly as HAHNEMANN instructed one can be obtained. Pour the solution from the
and then publish their findings. The exacting and 10cc bottle over the granules in the thimble, and
respected experience of the masters will prove observe until the liquid begins to leak out the end
valuable. of the thimble. Then quickly pour the granules
The LM potencies appear to work just as onto blotting paper and let dry. Throw away the
deeply and powerfully as the highest centesimal 10cc bottle. The glass thimble can be re-used after
potencies, but more gently, and without significant cleaning it and heating it over a Bunsen burner
aggravations. The over-all time to cure appears to until the glass glows.
be shorter (par.246)6. HAHNEMANN’s concept 13. When the granules are dry place them in a
of the quantity of the dose is crucial in glass vial, corked and labelled I or 0/1.
understanding the use of the LMs (par.248)6. 14. Into a new 10cc bottle containing one drop of
PREPARATION OF FIFTY MILLESIMAL distilled water, add one globule of this 0/1
POTENCIES preparation.
Let me preface my statements in this section 15. After adding 100 drops of 95% alcohol,
by saying that all variations from this technique are succuss 100 times as described in step 3.
against HAHNEMANN’s intentions. A more 16. Repeat step 4.
detailed description of the method of preparation 17. When the granules are dry place them in a
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18. Into a new 10cc bottle containing one drop of direct light if you are to take more than one dose
distilled water, add one globule of this 0/2 from it. Each day that you require a medicine, you
preparation. will make a fresh glass of the dilution.
19. Repeat steps 7 through 10, increasing the Your dose is one-half teaspoon, taken from the
potencies by single degrees (0/3, 0/4, 0/5, etc.) glass after stirring it vigorously. Rinse your mouth
until you reach 0/30. with the liquid before swallowing it. You must stir
Any pharmacy which does not follow these the solution vigorously before each dose.
instructions exactly in the preparation of LM Examples of some possible bottle labels are as
potencies is not following HAHNEMANN. The follows: Take one dose every morning, as
size of the granules is important because the directed; or Take one dose every four hours, as
quantity of the medicine absorbed by each granule directed; or Take one dose every other day, as
is important. Note also that one step requires 90% directed; etc. Remember, your dose comes from
alcohol and another 95% alcohol. In Samuel the glass, not from the stock bottle.
HAHNEMANN, His Life and Work, by Richard When these instructions are followed exactly,
Haehl, M.D., Volume II, page 428, reference is the response is smooth and gentle. The patients
made to Hahnemann’s original pharmacy of fiifty almost always have some complaints when they do
millesimal potencies, which contained many not follow the instructions. When they follow the
remedies, most of which were in potencies 0/1 to instructions, the results appear at least as quick and
0/10 only. Only a few remedies such as Merc. and smooth as with centesimal potencies. The most
Sulph. Were potentised up to 0/30. This is frequent mistakes are taking one full teaspoon from
interesting, because if one selects the best remedy the glass, or taking the dose directly from the stock
and follows HAHNEMANN’s instructions bottle. Almost always they will tell me, in these
properly, the curative action of the remedies should instances, that there was too much aggravation or
occur so rapidly as not to require more than the no good response. Instructing them on proper
0/10 before a different remedy is called for. dosage usually corrects the problem, if the proper
remedy was chosen.
DOSAGE WITH FIFTY MILLESIMAL HAHNEMANN was very precise, but human
POTENCIES nature being what it is, early in my LM practice I
The major reference to dosage is in paragraph assumed that slight variations in dosage were
248 of the Organon. For my patients I place only insignificant. When we dispense 10M or CM
one granule of the remedy in an amber glass bottle granules, we do not usually consider that there is
containing about 110cc of distilled water and few any difference in giving 5 or 25 granules. With the
drops of pure alcohol. Early experience taught me LMs it is critical! In my earlier cases there were
that more than one granule caused early many early aggravations and sluggish, disharmonic
aggravations, especially disruptive in sensitive recoveries for the following reasons:
patients. I cannot over-emphasize that one granule 1. More than one tiny granule was dissolved
is enough. The following instructions are given to in 110cc of water.
the patient with each bottle of liquid LM 2. The patient took the dose directly from
preparation: the bottle instead of diluting it in four
Instructions for use of the remedy: ounces of water; or the patient used
The dark glass bottle is your ‘stock solution’. impure water.
Keep it at room temperature away from direct light 3. The patient took more than ½ teaspoonful
and strong odors. as a dose. (Boericke’s translation says one
Each day that you require a medicine (see teaspoon; Schmidt’s translation says one
bottle label), first shake the bottle 8-12 times by coffe-spoonful.)
striking it against a firm, resilient object, such as a 4. The patient decided to save water and
book. Then place one tablespoon of this stock proportionately reduce the quantity of
solution into about 4 oz. of pure water, preferably water in the glass and the amount of liquid
distilled water. Be sure that the glass and spoon taken from the stock bottle. It appears
are clean and free from odors and soap residues. If that the actual volume in which one-half
the glass was previuously used for a remedy, boil it teaspoon is dissolved is important.
in water, heat it in the oven, or wash it in the 5. The patient forgot to succuss the bottle or
dishwasher before using it again for any purpose. stir the glass before the dose.
This glass of medicine is your supply for 24 hours 6. The patient was given the dose dry on the
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dissolved in one dram of water and given 4. The lowest of the fifty millesimal
as a dose in the office. potencies can act as deeply as the high
7. The patient’s condition was ameliorated, potency centesimal and yet be gentle
then aggravated, as HAHNEMANN said enough not to harm in cases of
would happen, but he continued dosing pathological tissue change.
during the aggravation. In contrast to 5. If an aggravation occurs early in the
centesimal high potency dosing during an treatment, too much quantity of the
aggavation (or giving more than one medicine was used. One must decrease
dose), overdosing effects with fifty the quantity of the dose and increase the
millesimal potencies quickly wear off interval betweeen doses.
after the remedy is discontinued. Also, in 6. If the patient antidotes the remedy, for
the event the remedy is not proper, but example by drinking coffee, the use of
close enough to disrupt the case, ascending potencies daily or every other
discontinuation of dosing allows for quick day will quickly overcome this.
recovery. With wrong high potency 7. Patients understand this method much
centesimals recovery to the previous state more easily because of its resemblance to
of health may not occur so quickly the allopathic method of dosing.
(par.283). 8. Because of the quick and clear action of
I am sure at this point that the reader is LMs, disruption of the case by the wrong
wondering why he should bother using fifty- remedy is quickly noticed, but also wears
millesimal potencies, when one dose of a 10M off much more quickly than a disruption
followed by sac. lac. is quick and easy and saves created by high potency centesimal doses.
bottles and water. Although my results are 9. Sensitive patients are more easily treated
preliminary, it appears that the LM doses are by merely decreasing the quantity of the
easier on the patient, while the centesimal doses dose. If a patient is sensitive, the dose can
are easier on the doctor and office staff. However, be reduced to ¼ teaspoon, or ½ teaspoon
we have had far fewer phone calls because of from the glass can be placed into a
centesimal aggravations, and the patients seem to second glass containing 4 oz. of water,
recover quite smoothly in either case. As stirred and the patient given ½ teaspoon
discussed in paragraph 270 of the Organon, from the second glass. Third, fourth or
HAHNEMANN recommended LMs because the even fifth glasses can be used in
immediate reaction of high potency centesimals hypersensitive patients.
may be too great for the weak patient. In my office 10. If a patient is improving from a
the LMs have worked wonderfully smoothly in centesimal dose, do not begin LM doses
cases of physical pathological change. until there is a reversal of progress.
11. After an aggravation with LM potency, do
FOLLOW-UP AFTER BEGINNING not resume treatment with the same
TREATMENT potency. Expect amelioration, and
resume treatment when needed only with
In Kent’s Lectures on Homœopathic
the next higher potency.
Philosophy and in Vithoulkas’s The Science of
Homœopathy, it is clearly described how to
follow up cases after high potency centesimal CASE REPORTS
prescriptions. These rules must be obeyed when I have only been using LM potencies actively
using the centesimal potencies. However, with for about nine months. However, I have used them
fifty millesimal potencies the rules are different. enough to observe that the properly-selected
The rules for follow-up of the case after LM remedy works deeply, quickly, smoothly, and
potencies are stated most accurately in Pierre without initial aggravation. I will select from a
Schmidt’s translation of the Organon, paragraphs variety of cases in order to illustrate the ability of
248-283. Fifty millesimal potencies are different the fifty millesimal potencies to act favorably on
from centesimal potencies in the following ways: all levels—mental, emotional, and physical.
Case 1: 28-year-old male with a chief
1. Continue giving ascending potencies so complaint of fits of anger for no apparent reason.
long as the patient is improving. There was a definite history of grief preceding the
2. Amelioration followed by aggravation is a onset of the chief complaint. The patient was thin,
curative response. desired salt, and had other symptoms allowing the
3. The quantity of the dose is critical.

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selection of Nat.mur. Nat.mur.0/1 was given, a by strong and disruptive aggravation. The dose
dose each morning. The patient began to feel was not premature because there was definite
better within 24 hours and continued to feel better reversal of the case following amelioration from
until the sixth day, when he developed an the 200th. She felt poorly for about one month but
aggravation. I thought this was quite early in the then seemed to recover and feel somewhat stable
case for an aggravation, so I had him take a dose for the next 6 weeks. At that time Kali carb. 0/1
every other day after diluting the remedy in a was begun and followed by ascending potencies on
second glass of water. This dose also aggravated, an every other day dosage. With these LM
so the remedy was stopped. The aggravation potencies she is feeling stronger than ever without
subsided after 36 hours, leaving the patient feeling aggravation and is currently taking the 0/7. The
well for the past 5 months. swelling above the eyelid is slowly shrinking. I
Case 2: 55-year-old obese female with suspect in this case that there may be pathological
hypertension and spells of dizziness and headache change in the kidney which is intolerant to the 1M
for many years. Based on what I thought were dose, but responsive to the gentle, deeper action of
proper symptoms, Puls. was given, but with only the fifty millesimals.
temporary relief, and slight lowering of the blood Case 5: 58-year-old woman fell, sustaining a
pressure. Later the patient recalled that her spells left ankle sprain and bruised over the ankle and
may have begun after a head injury in childhood. tibia. Arnica 200 afforded temporary relief for two
The case was difficult for me, but other symptoms hours; a repeat dose helped temporarily. Arnica
fit Nat.sulph. also, Nat.sulph was begun in the 0/1 0/1 every four hours relieved the swelling and pain
potency every other day, and followed by steadily over the next 36 hours.
Nat.sulph. 0/2, 0/3, 0/4, and currently 0/5. There Case 6: 2-year-old boy fell off a platform
has been no aggravation, the blood pressure is striking his head. He became stuporous but a full
normal, the spells are infrequent now, and she is neurological exam. At the local hospital revealed
losing weight with improved energy. Nat.sulph. nothing else. After the first dose of Arnica 0/1
will be continued in gradually ascending potencies every four hours relieved the swelling and pain
until there is aggravation, or the symptoms change steadily over the next 36 hours.
to another remedy. Case 7: 28-year-old woman sustained a left
Case 3: A Lachesis patient, whose main mid-forearm ulnar nerve injury after having the
complaint was fatigue, called for further treatment automobile door closed on her arm. The pain
after his improvement stopped 4 months after a travelled upward and the fingers were numb along
dose of Lach. 1M which created a short initial the distribution of the ulnar nerve. She was given a
aggravation. He was given Lach.0/1 with marked dose of Hyper. 30 from her first-aid kit and sent to
improvement after four doses, one dose daily. Six the neurologist. He said the nerve may take
weeks later he felt a reversal and took another dose several weeks to heal. I saw her later in my office
from the 0/1 bottle without calling me. He felt because the Hyper.30 had no effect. By then she
somewhat better but had an immediate flare-up of had a terrible headache, but Hyper. 0/6, one dose,
painful, bleeding haemorrhoids on the left side, an relieved the headache instantly, the numbness was
old symptom. This cleared on sac.lac. after five 50% improved after one minute and completely
days. In this case, the patient should have called, resolved after 30 minutes. There was some return
and Lach. 0/2 should have been prescribed. The of pain and numbness after 24 hours, but repeating
response probably would have been smoother the dose relieved the problem. I started this case
because the effect of the 0/1 potency had been with 0/6 because I did not have the 0/1 in stock.
completed six weeks earlier. Case 8: 40-year-old woman sustained
Case 4: 40-year-old female with chief crushing compound fracture of two fingers in an
complaints of a swelling above the eyelid and a automobile accident. It required surgical pinning,
marked sensitivity to drafts accompanied by suturing and casting. Hyper. 0/1 every four hours
weakness. The swelling weas classic for Kali relieved all pain and swelling and fever within 48
carb. And the case was started with the 200th hours, even after anesthesia and tetanus toxoid
potency. She came to see me before I began to use were given in the hospital.
the LM potencies and there was some minor Case 9: 76-year-old Sulphur patient with
pathology in the kidney related to surgery for typical 11.00hr. aggravation and bladder infections
prolapsed kidney, so I was reluctant to use higher felt temporary relief for two months after Sulph.
than 200. She felt much better for about 6 weeks, 200, Sulph. 1M was given, but she sustained a long
but it was clear that she needed a higher potency in and somewhat debilitating aggravation lasting 6-8
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tolerance for a 1M, so I repeated Sulph. 30 when I have done as

the problems returned shortly after the aggravation. HAHNEMANN requested and have
This also relieved temporarily. Sulph. 0/1 taken followed his instructions exactly. My
every other day created gradual relief without experience with fifty millesimal potencies
aggravation. This was followed with Sulph. 0/2 over the past nine months, with
and she continues to improve. approximately 400 patients, has proved to
Case 10: 37-year-old woman with painful, me that HAHNEMANN was correct. The
persistent right ovarian cyst about 4cm. size. One patterns of responses were exactly as he
year prior to this she consulted me because of night said they would be provided that one begins
sweats and edema. She was constitutionally a treatment, whether acute or chronic, with
Kali carb. patient and she was given the 10M, but the 0/1 potency. The potencies work most
sustained a long aggravation followed by often without aggravation but with the
weakening of her condition. I concluded that she same curative effects as centesimal
must have some internal pathology based on the potencies. They effect healing gently and
effect of the remedy, the family history of Cancer rapidly on mental, emotional, and physical
in close relatives, and the past history of recurrent levels. I hope that my further work and the
infections and long-term birth control pill use. A work of others around the world will help
few months after the aggravation I started her on to clarify the advantages of the fifty
Kali carb. 0/1, progressing through 0/6, with millesimal potencies over the centesimal
steady amelioration, increasing energy and potencies. HAHNEMANN, early in his
emotional well-being. During the 0/6 she had an career, used low potencies, but later was
aggravation, but stopping the remedy afforded no aware of and used centesimal high
relief, and she became weaker, with left-sided potencies. Why did he conclude that fifty
pharyngitis and fever resembling Lach. Lach. 0/1 millesimals were better? I encourage other
cleared the problem after three hourly doses; there classical homœopaths to submit their work
was no resultant set back of her overall condition. with the fifty millesimals for future
A few weeks later she fell ill with the ovarian cyst, publication and discussion in
but the picture was now Lycopodium. Lyc.0/1 was Homoeotherapy. My continuing work is
prescribed every two hours. After three doses, she convincing me that there are probably no
slept deeply, waking intermittently during the night inimical remedies when LMs are used, that
only to urinate. By morning she had lost five Lycopodium can probably follow Sulphur,
pounds, there was no right pelvic pain or ovarian and that LM potencies can be repeated
swelling, and she felt much better generally. She often and safely in weak patients and in
has continued to improve generally on ascending patients with serious tissue pathology.
every-other-day doses of Lyc. through 0/8. Her (Homoeo Therapy, Jan-Feb. 1980).
over-all energy and stamina has greatly improved.
Case 11: 21-year-old 3. HAHNEMANN’S
college student, constitutionally Nat.mur. LEGACY—THE Q (LM)
His main complaint was inability to POTENCIES
concentrate on and remember his school P.BARTHEL (BHJ,
work. I began his case with Nat.mur. 0/1 80, 2/1991)
ascending to 0/7, which he is currently
taking. He is improving generally and his Abstract
memory and concentration became normal The methods of pharmaceutical
during the 0/2 dosage. There has been no preparation evolved by HAHNEMANN
aggravation. between 1801 and 1842 are clearly defined
Case 12: 15-year-old and reproducible. The Q (50th millesimal)
girl with a chief complaint of warts on the potencies offer the shortest, most reliable
hand. She was quite withdrawn, angry, and and ‘most harmless way’ to ‘rapid, gentle
constitutionally fitted Nat.mur. After the 0/3 and permanent’ restoration to health. An
bottle of Nat.mur. given every other day unbiased look at the existing source
beginning with 0/1, the warts were gone and documents enables us now—150 years later,
she was definitely more open and and after innumerable miisunderstandings-
communicative. to produce and prescribe these highly
effective potencies as originally intended.
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The empirical rule demands: ‘Follow it, but In 1796

follow it exactly.’ HAHNEMANN published his ‘Essay on a
new principle for ascertaining the curative
1. HAHNEMANN’s goal powers of drugs, and some examination of
The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle the previous principles’ in Hufelands
and Journal.4
permanent restoration of the health … in
the shortest, most reliable and most 3. Development of the idea
harmless way … 3.1. First steps in manufacture and use
Organon 1st edition, In 1801 HAHNEMANN published
paragraph 2, 1810, the
[Boericke pamphlet Cure and Prevention of Scarlet
translation]. Fever in which he gave exact details of the
HAHNEMANN was consistent in pursuing preparation and administration of
this goal and felt he had reached it by Belladonna.
developing the correct method to produce …. dissolve one grain of the powder (of
and prescribe the Q (50th millesimal) Belladonna juice left to dry naturally and
potencies, as described in the 6th edition of stored with care) in 100 drops of ordinary
the Organon. Until recently, it has not been distilled water, triturating the mixture in a
possible to reproduce his results, as his small mortar; pour the cloudy suspension
manufacturing instructions have not been into a one-ounce vial, rinsing mortar and
followed. pestle with 300 drops of dilute (….) spirits
of wine and adding these to the solution;
2. Birth of the science of Homœopathy thoroughly combine the two by shaking
In 1790, HAHNEMANN translated well.
Cullen’s The first vial thus contained 400 drops.
Materia Medica, and in the process of doing Label the vial ‘strong Belladonna solution’.
so made his famous discovery relating to Take ONE drop of this and mix thoroughly
cinchona bark. He added the following with 300 drops of dilute spirits of wine,
annotation: shaking for several minutes; label ‘medium
The active principle responsible for the strong Belladonna solution’. Take ONE
action drop of this second mixture(…) and
of the bark has not yet been established, combine with 200 drops of the dilute spirits
and no doubt it will not prove easy to do so. of wine, shake for several minutes, and
However, the following should be noted: label ‘weak Belladonna solution’. This is
Substances that excite a kind of fever (very the medicine for prevention of Scarlet
strong coffee, pepper, arnica, Ignatius bean, Fever, prepared to meet our special
arsenic) cancel fevers of the intermittent purpose; one drop of this contains
type.1 1/24,000,000, i.e. the twenty-four millionth
HAHNEMANN then described his well- part, of one grain of dried Belladonna
known experiment. Juice.5
In the same work, HAHNEMANN wrote, HAHNEMANN then
Surely toxicity is nothing but the violent gave directions that depending on age,
manifestation of an extremely powerful children should be given a single dose every
agent applied in too high a dose and in the 72 hours, consisting of 1-40 drops added to
wrong place. Any potency benefit may well some liquid and stirred vigorously with a
have been lost merely due to incautious teaspoon for one minute; treatment was to
use.2 continue for the duration of the epidemic
The above statement and then for another four or five weeks.
indicates that HAHNEMANN was Further on he added:
beginning to get an idea, which then It is altogether hard to believe how much of
encouraged him to do further study and the power of a particular medicine is lost
research. Ernst Stapf called this the great (…) if one gives it unmixed, simply allowing
discovery of the homœopathic Law of it to be licked from a spoon, putting it on
Cure,3 which means the hour when the sugar, or—if one does add the drops to a
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stirring, vigorous and continuous stirring centesimal scale (1:100) as far as the 30th
gives a fluid medicine the greatest number potency under Arsenicum.15 As for the
of points of contact with the living fibre; method of agitation, he still says: ‘Well
this alone will give it real power.6 shaken’ or ‘accurately shaken’. Depending
These two passages on the type of drug, he used either the
are sufficient to give a rough outline of the millionth (3c) dilution or went even higher,
homœopathic method of drug processing— as far as the decillionth (30c). Until then he
dilution in stages and thorough agitation. almost always used fluids, shaking them—
The experiments sometimes unsystematically—for minutes.
HAHNEMANN made when he was in This explains why even the relatively high
Eilenburg near Leipzig (1801-1804) are potencies had extremely powerful actions,
described in two publications, Heilkunde which HAHNEMANN initially considered
der Erfahrung (‘empirical medicine’ also to be due to their toxicity, e.g. in the case of
translated as ‘medicine of experience’), arsenic.
which briefly states the key concepts that
were later to appear in the Organon and 3.3 Aurum—the first metal to be triturated
Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum, a The fourth volume of the Materia Medica
Materia Medica of 27 drugs in Latin, Pura appeared in 1818. Until then,
including a repertory. He used tinctures to HAHNEMANN had used gold only in
carry out homœopathic drug tests of the 27 solution. He found a passage on the
drugs, in the case of plants, a tincture made trituration of gold in the work of Arab
by dissolving the powdered juice. Cuprum, physicians and took to using the 1c and 2c
based on dissolved Cuprum vitriolatum, is in powder form.16, 17
the only metal included.
Concerning the size of 3.4. Enhanced power and self-imposed limits
the dose, HAHNEMANN said in the first of In volume 6 of Materia Medica Pura (1821)
these: HAHNEMANN says in the Preface: ‘How
… the juice of the poppy given in the is it possible for small doses of a drug
smallest dose ….. even though it was diluted to the extent required in
millions of times less than any mortal ever Homœopathy to be so powerful?’, and for
prescribed.7 the first time mentioned ‘bring down ten
The first edition of the times, using the full strength of the arm’.18
Organon (1810) says almost word for word HAHNEMANN’s
the same: further research and development is only
… of the juice of the poppy given in the partly represented in the first edition of the
smallest dose … even if millions of times German Homœopathic Pharmacopoeia
smaller than any physician ever (GHP 1).19
prescribed.8 The second edition of
HAHNEMANN was Materia Medica Pura (1822-1827) still has
still referring to vigorous shaking in this ‘mercury triturated up to the 12c’.20
case.9 A year later, vol.1 of his Materia However, the 3rd edition of the Organon
Medica Pura merely made reference to the (1824) has a change in method. Now,
Organon,10 and between 1801 and 1811 he trituration only goes as far as the 3c, with a
worked with dilutions up to the thorough mixture achieved as follows: To
sixtillionth.11, 12 reduce the effect on the Organism, give only
two succussions, or, in the case of a powder,
3.2 Start of systematic manufacture triturate the 1c and 2c for one hour each,
In 1814, in an essay and the 3c for 2 hours at most.21
entitled ‘A method of treating the currently The reasons why
epidemic typhus’, he says ‘shaken trituration and succussion were to be thus
vigorously for 3 minutes’. For the first time limited are given in the second edition of
he describes the process of potentization on vol.6 of Materia Medica Pura (1827):
the millesimal scale (1:1,000), using 12 Drugs are not lifeless matter in the usual
vials.13, 14 sense: on the contrary, they are by their
Volume 2 of Materia true nature non physical and entirely
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process of homœopathic trituration (and In 1835 HAHNEMANN, whose first wife

succussion) can be enhanced to border on had died in 1830, married Melanie de
the infinite. Hervilly and moved to Paris.
This is a fact, so much so that limits In the second edition
have to be set, lest the power of the drugs is of volume three of Chronic Diseases (1837)
increased to a point where it is too much he changed his method again, going back to
for the patients. 10 succussion strokes and stating that with
One drop of Drosera repeated doses, the medicine should be
diluted to thirty times its volume and changed for every dose by succussing five
succussed by bringing down the arm 20 or six times.26
times at each dilution stage will put the life Two years later he
of a child with whooping cough at risk; if on spoke of 10, 20, 40, 50 or more succussions.
the other hand the vials are only succussed Before going into the many things
twice and pilules the size of poppy seeds are HAHNEMANN discovered while in Paris, brief
moistened with the final dilution, the same consideration will be given to his posology.
medicine will easily achieve a cure.22, 23 4. Posology
The problem of drugs
4.1Basics
that proved too powerful occupied
In 1790, when he
HAHNEMANN’s mind from the beginning;
translated Cullen’s Materia Medica,
it is a thread that runs through the whole
HAHNEMANN, as is well known, wrote the
process of developing different variations of
following:
the method. The problem of excessively
Surely toxicity is nothing but the violent
large doses and of repeating the same
manifesation of an extremely powerful
medication in exactly the same form will be
agent applied in too high a dose and in the
the subject of further discussion.
wrong place. Any potential benefit may
well have been lost merely due to incautious
3.5 Solubility of triturated metals
use.27
Volumes 1-3 of HAHNEMANN’s Chronic
It was this particular
Diseases appeared in 1828. The Preface to
problem of too powerful a dose that led him
the second volume gives a further minor
to change his method. In 1805 he wrote in
change of method. HAHNEMANN had
Heilkunde der Erfahrung that any dose,
found that metals triturated for a total of 3
however large, was harmful, that
hours, exactly 1 hour per stage, were
premature repetition, too, caused damage,
soluble in water. All dry material-plant
and that the dose should be smaller each
material, minerals and metals- was almost
time the medicine was repeated.28 The
always triturated up to the 3c and then
same issue was taken up in the first edition
potentized up to the 30c as a liquid. Only
of the Organon:
fluid extracts of plants were potentized in
If however it was found that the best
liquid form all the way. For storage
method would be to give the latter and no
purposes, pilules were wetted with the
other, in unbroken sequence, (…) one will
potencies used in clinical practice (6c, 12c,
nevertheless come to realize that even in
18c, 24c, 30c).24
this case, the dose should be smaller and
3.6 problems with repeated doses smaller each time—always after waiting for
The fifth edition of the Organon (1833) had the full duration of action—so that there is
the extensive annotation to paragraph 246 no interference with improvement and the
concerning the problems of repeating a desired recovery is achieved by the most
dose. For long drawn out chronic direct route possible.29
conditions, HAHNEMANN’s HAHNEMANN
recommendation was to give an therefore recommended increasing the
intermediate medicine before repeating the potency with every dose.
original one.25 In the above-
mentioned 1814 paper on typhus, it says:
3.7 Early years in Paris …., one then gives him a single drop from
vial No.12 on sugar, preferably in the
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towards evening. Improvement will be There are however also homœopaths who
noted within a day and a night, and for as take homœopathic medicines with them in
long as improvement continues, no other their liquid form and yet persist in
medicine is given, nor is the same repeated; maintaining that these do not, in time,
one of the medicines recommended here can become higher potencies. They thus
be successfully given more than once (and demonstrate that they lack the powers of
one drop only)—and in rare instances also careful observation. I dissolved one grain
repeated a second time. … of natron in about half an ounce of water to
Neither medicine can which a small amount of spirits of wine had
be used in higher concentration or in larger been added, in a vial thus filled to about two
doses; they are too powerful.13 thirds; I shook the solution uninterruptedly
Five years after this, in for half an hour, and the fluid preparation
1819, the problem is once more addressed proved comparable to the 30th
in the second edition of the Organon, where dynamization as regards potentization and
it says that only a single dose of a medicine power.38
was to be prescribed, and after this possibly 5. Changes in manufacture and posology
another medicine, or, if the first was (1801-1941)
repeated, increasingly smaller doses,
possibly also intermediate medicines.30 What did HAHNEMANN actually give to his
patients?
Paragraph 301 deals
with a fundamental problem: At first he gave drops
For this reason, a medicine homœopathic produced by shaking for minutes at a time,
to the case will be proportional to the size of varying the number of drops according to
the dose, and, the dose being large, the the age of the patient. These proved fairly
harm done will be the greater the more powerful, however, and he soon advanced
homœopathic the medicine chosen.31 as far as the 30c. He also felt that there had
to be a limit somewhere.
1.2 Use of pilules Reducing the dose by
After 1818 wetting pilules, i.e. dividing a drop into
HAHNEMANN no longer gave the drops as between 100 and 300 (and indeed 1,000)39
they were;32 instead patients were given the parts, also did not get him nearer to his
smallest part of a drop. To divide a drop goal.
and obtain its smallest part he used pilules
made from sugar and starch that were the In the second edition
size of poppy seeds.33 100-300 to a grain, 34 of Chronic Diseases (1835) we find a note to
which were wetted in the hand using the the effect that when the 30c had ceased to
moistened stopper. In the third edition of act, the 24c should be used, followed by the
the Organon (1824) he said: 18c, 12c, and 6c.40 If the patient had
…in so far as one drop of spirits of wine received these five doses and still needed the
adequately wets about a hundred such same medicine, HAHNEMANN suggested
pilules.35 the use of an intermediate medicine.
When Chronic Diseases The problem
appeared in 1828, he was using pilules continued to occupy his mind even after
weighing 200 to a grain, 36 and had acquired 1833, as is evident, for example, from the
sufficient skill to wet 300 of these with a fact that the annotation to paragraph 246 in
single drop.37 The medicated pilules were the fifth edition of the Organon was more
allowed to dry and then put in storage than 10 pages in length.25
containers; they were very useful for a In 1837 he decided to
travelling medicine chest. use ten, rather than two, succussions in the
4.3. Transport of liquid potencies manufacturing process. If repeated doses
were required, this meant changing the
Liquid potencies on medication by dissolving the pilules in a
the other hand do not travel well. liquid and succussing this five or six times
HAHNEMANN discussed this in the fifth with every further dose.26 HAHNEMANN’s
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case records of this period show that he added to 100 drops of spirits of wine, the
used both low potencies and high poencies vial is closed with a stopper and given 100
ranging from the 150th to the 200th. Those powerful succussions, letting the hand
200th potencies were produced by applying strike a hard yet elastic body.46 The
100 succussions at every stage. He resulting solution is used to wet pilules.47
prescribed them in descending and later For the next potency
also ascending order, and would quite often stage, one pilule is taken from the storage
also give intermediate medicines. The container48 and wetted with a drop of water
records also include frequent instructions to to dissolve it. Then 100 drops of spirits of
dissolve the pilules in 7 or 15 tablespoons of wine are added and the mixture is
water and always to shake the solution succussed 100 times. The procedure is
before taking a further dose. repeated as before, up to the 30Q.
He would start
treatment with the 30c in 1837, and for 6.2 HAHNEMANN’s method of giving the
several days effect a change by shaking; he medicines
would then move on to the 24c, given in the Earlier on, HAHNEMANN had found that
same way, followed by the 18c, 12c and relatively low potencies produced by intense
finally 6c. shaking proved to be rather violent in
Another method he action. He developed this new method to
used (1837-1841) was to go down from the permit him to initiate treatment with
30c to the 29c, 28c, 27c, 26c, etc., always in pharmaceutically less developed, low
solution and changed daily by shaking. potencies.
Ultimately this means going up and down, One pilule (only rarely
up and down, and so on. more than one) was dissolved in about 8
6 Origin of Q (50th millesimal) potencies tablespoons of water, and this solution was
used to treat patients with chronic
HAHNEMANN was conditions who were given one dose per day
able to monitor the results of his attempts to for 7 or 8 days.49 The vial was given about
improve manufacture very accurately by ten powerful succussions before each dose
observing clinical results.41 The Q potencies was taken.50 The dose would be one, two or
were the logical outcome of years of three teaspoons, depending on the patient’s
experience.42 The keynote was progression sensitivity. The best way to find the right
in small stages, starting with the lowest dose was to start with one spoonful. If the
possible, non-toxic potency in pilule form subject was too sensitive to this, the dose
and dissolved in liquid. would be diluted in a glass (or several
The Q potencies did glasses) of water.51
not come up suddenly but are the outcome Treatment would start
of continuous step-by-step development with the 1Q, the lowest dynamization.52 The
between 1801 and 1842.43 If one fails to Organon simply says ‘starting with the
note the discoveries made in 1824-1837, lowest dynamization’, but HAHNEMANN’s
there would appear to be a complete and case records give clear evidence that
sudden change. In the 6th edition of the treatment would start with the 1Q. If the
Organon HAHNEMANN made quite patient continued to need the same
accurate statements as to the points to be medicine, the 2Q would be given, then the
considered with regard to manufacture 3Q, 4Q, 5Q, etc. This, too, is evident from
(paragraphs 265-273) and clinical use the case records. If the medicine was taken
(paragraphs 246- 248 and 276). every 2nd day, a bottle would last 14 days.
And if the dose was more than 2 or 3
6.1 Manufacturing method teaspoons, the larger size bottle, with 15
After triturating in three stages, each tablespoons of water, would be prescribed.
time for one hour, one grain of the powder These lower potencies
is dissolved in 500 drops of a specified have a relatively short duration of action, so
alcohol and water mixture. 44 Mixing is that intercurrent acute conditions can be
limited to slowly rotating the vial on its immediately dealt with at any time, continuing
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with medication for any chronic condition 6.4 HAHNEMANN’s clear, specific
afterwards, if required. directions and the less specific official
For practical purposes requirements of today
it has proved helpful today to give patients It is extremely rare for
written instructions on taking the medicine. anything said on the manufacture and
With this new method, dosage of homœopathic drugs today to
used by HAHNEMANN from about 1841 agree with the principles HAHNEMANN
onwards and subsequently by Melanie put down in the sixth edition of his Organon,
HAHNEMANN, the goal had been reached: on the basis of many years’ experience. He
The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle gave precise instructions relating to
and permanent restoration of the health … manufacture. The German Homœopathic
in the shortest, most reliable and most Pharmacopoeia, on the other hand, gives
harmless way … relative rather than specific quantities.
Organon 6th edition, Why is it necessary to
paragraph 2, 1842, follow HAHNEMANN’s directions to the
[Boericke letter?
translation] His experiments had
More than 40 years of shown that it matters if the mixture is
experience gained by HAHNEMANN thus shaken twice, ten times or a hundred times.
point clearly to the posology. Rather than Take a 5 ml vial containing 100 drops and
pushing this aside, we ought to take it up, teach let the hand holding it strike a firm base ten
it and use it for the benefit of our patients. times. Compare this with a one-litre bottle
given ten firm strokes against the base, and
6.3 Developing the life principle finally a ten-litre balloon carboy that we
In the light of treat in the same way, though we’ll need to
HAHNEMANN’s directions, prescribing 5 be careful not to break it. Finally we might
pilules or tablets t.d.s. or the like for several take a concrete mixer and let it go through
days in succession is outright malpractice. ten vigorous succussions. The GHP I allows
For in paragraphs 246, 247 and 276 of the for that kind of margin. It merely says:
Organon he says [Boericke translation]: vigorously succuss at least ten times.
… that the degree of every dose deviate According to HAHNEMANN, it is however
somewhat from the preceding and following most important to work with the same
in order that the vital principle which is to quantities, the same amount of force and
be altered to a similar medicinal disease be the same processing times.
not aroused to untoward reactions and Some manufacturers
revolt as is always the case with unmodified say: ‘ the same action as shaking down a
and especially rapidly repeated doses. thermometer’, and that surely is something
It is impractical to quite different from striking firmly against
repeat the same unchanged dose of a a solid base. Foreign pharmacopoeias, e.g.
remedy once, not to mention its frequent the French one, say: ‘Not less than 100
repetition (and at short intervals in order vibrations’! The vibrations are produced in
not to delay the cure). The vital principle a number of different ways, e.g. by
does not accept such unchanged doses suspending a vial between two loudspeakers
without resistance, …. and letting it vibrate for several seconds, so
For this reason, a that there are 100 vibrations. Others attach
medicine, even though it may be the vial to a fork that vibrates about 300
homœopathically suited to the case of times in 8 seconds.
disease, does harm in any dose that is too It appears that
large, and in strong doses it does more medicines produced in this way are also
harm the greater its homœopathicity and effective. The problem is, we do not know
the higher the potency selected and it does how to compare them with those produced
much more injury than any equally large by other methods. The only thing they may
dose of a medicine that is unhomœopathic have in common is the figure given for the
and in no respect adapted to the morbid total dilution, e.g. 10-60 for the 30c. We do
state (allopathic). not know how powerful this is. Transport
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further, as already mentioned, unless the The reasons why

vial is filled to the top so that no space is manufacturing methods do not agree with
available for a mixing process. Official the directions given by HAHNEMANN
regulations thus provide for accurate include errors in translation,59
60
dilution, but not for a well-defined potency. misunderstandings or the fact that
The same applies to methods for the production of LM potencies
trituration. Machine trituration in batches are given in conjunction with other relevant
of 1-10 kg will never require the same methods, as in GHP 1.61
energy input as HAHNEMANN’s well According to GHP 1,
defined manual trituration, where the LM potencies are made from 3c triturations
process is much more intense and precisely produced according to GHP 1. In the case
managed. This can be demonstrated in the of fresh plant material, a liquid 1c potency
case of Lycopodium. Effective trituration, is produced with not less than 10
with all the spores reduced to powder, can succussions, and from this the liquid 2c
only be achieved by following potency, again with not less than 10
HAHNEMANN’s directions and grinding 1 succussions. Method 7 (Triturations) is
grain of spores to 100 grains of lactose by then used to produce the 3c by thoroughly
hand for one hour. Machine trituration mixing 1 part of the liquid 2c with 100 parts
does not achieve this.53 If machines are used of lactose. The method given in the sixth
to triturate the material to the particle size edition of the Organon is to triturate by
given in GHP 1, the user is told nothing hand for at least one hour to produce the
about the time required in the given case 1c, the same for the 2c and the 3c.
and hence about the intensity of the
potentizing process. 7 The empirical approach
To illustrate the point, Feeling dissatisfied
let me quote a passage from Meyer’s with the results obtained on repetition of
Artillerietechnik given in the 7th edition of the same, unchanged medicine,
the Organon: HAHNEMANN continually sought to
Sulphur, saltpetre and carbon have no improve his method. He felt that it was
propulsive power if simply mixed; ground essential that physicians should
together for three hours, the mixture has manufacture the medicines themselves
the power to propel a canon ball through (Organon, paragraph 265) and not leave the
the air; after six hours of grinding the task to hired help.62 Today this is liable to
material has become so refined that it no give rise to legal problems, and one
longer serves a purpose as gunpowder but therefore has to look for a manufacturer
has assumed the characteristics of who follows HAHNEMANN’s instructions
fulminant preparations and will destroy the to the letter.
cannon.54 HAHNEMANN was
Every detail of the not an egomaniac when he said: ‘Follow it,
manufacturing process is therefore crucial, but follow it exactly’, though this is often
and not just the relative proportions used. taken to be the case. What he meant was
Even apparently ‘validated’ manufacturing that medicine is an empirical science. The
processes55 give different results and are far inner law of empiricism is that an
from appropriate for comparable case observation is only reproducible under
studies. It will be necessary to use as far as exactly the same conditions. The only way
possible the same method if results are to be to enter into the experience of another
dependable and clinical records from individual is to follow exactly the same
different practitioners comparable. process.
The amount of raw In 1817
material used by HAHNEMANN was thus a HAHNEMANN said this about
couple, i.e. two, grains56 of fresh plant Homœopathy:
material, and one and a half grains of dry This discipline bases
plant material;57 he used one grain of dry itself not just mainly but solely and entirely
matter such as metals and salts to produce on the tenet of empiricism; ‘follow it!’ is the
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care and you will find confirmation at every 9. Organon, paragraph 203, Ref. 9.
step …’63. 10. Materia Medica Pura, Preface to vol. 1.
Taking your homœopathic medicine Ref. 10.
• Put 3 pilules in a clean 100 ml bottle (if no 11. Journal der pract. Arzneykunde 1806; 24:
bottle is available, use a glass) filled with 47. Ref. 11.
water (uncarbonated spring water, or 12. Lesser Writings. Nux vomica: a trillionth
boiled and cooled tap water). of a grain; Arsenicum alb.: a sixtillionth of
• Each time before taking a dose, strike the a grain. Refs. 39 and 12.
bottle 10 times against the palm of the 13. Lesser Writings. Refs. 39 and 13.
other hand or against a fairly elastic 14. Krankenjournal (case record) No.10. p.1:
object, such as a book, placed on the table. “Dilution and reduction of doses. Take 6
(If a glass is used, stirr the liquid drachms of the strongest spirits of wine =
vigorously each time, using a porcelain, 1,000 drops, etc. Six vials like that for the
horn or plastic spoon (not a metal one). trillionth, eight for the quadrillionth, and 10
• Take … teaspoon(s), … drops every … for the quintillionth.’
minutes, … hours, … days, …. times daily 15. Materia Medica Pura vol.2. See ref. 15.
in the morning, at midday, in the evening 16. Materia Medica Pura vol.4. Ref. 17.
until you notice a change. Keep the liquid 17. In 1984 I found a case history in the Old
in your mouth for a while before Testament where the symptoms, drug
swallowing it down. manufacture (Aurum) and treatment are
For children, another method is to apply described, resulting in a partial cure
the liquid to an area of sound skin (e.g. (Exodus 32). Ref. 1.
inside the elbow) at night and massage in 18. Materia Medica Pura vol. 6, Ref. 20.
lightly. 19. GHP I,.Ref. 34.
Leave an interval of more than 10 minutes 20. Materia Medica Pura, 2nd edn. Vol. 1, Ref.
before and after brushing your teeth or 21.
having a meal. 21. Organon 3rd edn., paragraph 312, Ref. 22.
As far as possible 22. Materia Medica Pura vol.6. Ref. 21.
avoid alcoholic drinks, tobacco, wine, 23. The directions relating to Drosera are also
coffee, tea, cough sweets and pastilles, and given, in a similar form, in ‘Instruction for
chewing gum. Completely avoid those who want the truth’ 1825. In Lesser
peppermint or camomile tea. Writings. Ref. 39 and 23.
Never use medicaments containing 24. Chronic Diseases, 1st edn, vol.2. Ref. 24.
camphor and menthol (e.g. Vicks Vapour 25. Organon 5th edn. Annotation to paragraph
Rub and Japanese Peppermint Oil), for 246. Ref. 27.
these make homœopathic medicines less 26. Chronic Diseass, 2nd edn., vol.3, Ref. 29.
effective or even ineffective. 27. Ibid, S.91.
There is also need for caution with strong 28. Heilkunde der Erfahrung. Tr. in Lesser
perfumes and deodorants. The medicine Writings. Ref. 7.
needs to be kept in a place well away from 29. Organon, 1st edn. Paragraph 212. Ref. 9.
such products and protected from heat, 30. Organon, 2nd edn. Paragraph 253-272. Ref.
sunlight and electric power sources. 18.
Homœopathic medicines are also adversely 31. Organon, 2nd edn. Paragraph 301. Ref. 18.
affected by machines used to scan luggage 32. HAHNEMANN started experimenting with
(e.g. at airports). pilules between 1813 and 1815; see
Organon, 5th edn. Paragraph 288. Ref. 27.
Notes
33. Materia Medica Pura 2nd edn., vol. 2. Ref.
1. Cullen, Mat.med. Bd.2, S.109. Ref. 21.
3(below). 34. 100-300 to a grain = 1,600-5,000/g; the
2. Ibid. S.91. pilules were thus 1/ 3 to 1/10 the size of
3. Annotation in Lesser Writings, Ref. 39. modern size 1 pilules (GHP 1).
4. Ibid. 35. Organon 3rd edn., paragraph 310,
5. Ibid. annotation. Ref. 22.
6. Ibid. 36. Chronic Diseases 1st edn., vol. 2, Ref. 25.
7. Lesser writings, Ref.39. 1830: Chronic Diseases 1st edn., vol. 4: ‘…
8. Organon, paragraph 245. Ref. 9. 300 to a grain ….’. Ref. 24.

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37. Organon 4th edn, paragraph 283, differ quite considerably from those given
annotation. Ref. 25. in the 6th edition of Organon.
38. Organon 5th edn., paragraph 270, KH 1961. Schmidt, ref. 36. Manufacturing
annotation, Ref. 27. method differs from that given in 6th edition
39. Materia Medica Pura 3rd edn., vol.1, Ref. of Organon.
26. KH 1965. Tiedemann, ref. 37. This is a
40. Chronic Diseases 2nd edn., vol.1. Ref. 28. conference report. Schmidt’s method of
41. Chronic Diseases 1st edn., vol. 2. The latter manufacture is again described, with the
part of this volume shows how eager same problems as above. The report also
HAHNEMANN was to carry out says ‘a few grains’ rather than ‘a couple of
experiments to improve his medicines. Ref. grains’.
24. 61. GHP 1, Method 10, pilules: (smallest) size 1
For quite some time he potentized Natrum pilules – 500 weigh 1 g. Organon 6th edn:
by shaking uninterruptedly for half an 100 pilules weigh 1 grain, = 1,600 weigh 1 g.
hour at a time. 62. Materia Medica Pura 1st edn, vol. 6. Ref.20.
42. Organon 6th edn., paragraph 266 ff. Ref. 31. 63. Ibid. vol. 3. Ref. 16.
43. Pierre Schmidt did not realize that there
had been this gradual evolution. He Literature references
therefore wrote that towards the end of his
life HAHNEMANN went completely against 1. The Bible, Exodus 32.
everything he had previously written on the 2. Broese R. Homöopathische
manufacture of homœopathic medicines. Potenzierungsverfahren und moderne
Ref. 36. pharmakotechnische Erfordernisse.
44. Organon 6th edn., paragraph 270. Ref. 31. Allg.
45. Chronic Diseases 2nd edn., vol. 1. Ref. 28. Homöop Ztg 1987; 232: 235-7.
Chronic Diseases 1st edn., vol. 2. Ref. 24. 3. Cullen W. Abhandlung über die Materia
46. Organon 6th edn., paragraph 270. Ref. 31. Medica. Aus dem Eng 1, übers. und mit
47. 100 pilules weigh 1 grain = 62 mg; about Anm. von S.HAHNEMANN, Bd 1 u. 2.
1,600 therefore weigh 1g. Leipzig; Schwickert 1790.
48. Organon 6th edn., paragraph 270. Ref. 31. 4. Fischer P. Goethe-Wortschatz, S.471.
49. Organon 6th edn., paragraph 248. Ref. 31. Leipzig: Emil Rohmkopf 1929.
50. Loc. cit.: ‘…. With about 8, 10, 12 5. Grimm J. & W. Deutsches Wörterbuch Bd
succussions ….’. 7, S.1389 f. Leipzig: S.Hirzel 1889.
51. Loc. cit. 6. HAHNEMANN S. Essay on a New
52. Ibid., paragraphs 247 and 270. Principle for Ascertaining the Curative
53. KH 1965, Ref. 37. Powers of Drugs, and Some Examinations
54. Ref. 32. of the previous Principles. 1796. In The
55. AHZ 1987. Ref. 2. Lesser Writings tr. Dudgeon. London:
56. Organon 6th edition, paragraph 271. For W.Headland.
confirmation, see refs. 4, 5 and 38. 7. Idem. Cure and Prevention of Scarlet
57. Chronic Diseases 2nd edn., vol. 1. ‘With Fever. 1801. Loc. cit. Ibid.
sapless plants, e.g. Oleander, Thuja, 8. Idem. Fragmenta de viribus
mezereon bark, etc., there is no problem in medicamentorum positivis sive in sano
taking just about one and a half grain of the corpore humano observatis. Leipzig: J.A.
fresh leavers, bark, roots, etc., whichever Barth 1805.
may be required, and without further 9. Idem. Organon der rationellen Heilkunde.
preparation triturate these three times with Dresden: Arnoldsche Buchhandlung 1810.
100 grains of lactose to obtain the millionth 10. Idem. Reine Arzneimittellehre (Materia
powder trituration, …’. Ref. 28. Medica Pura) Teil 1. Dresden: Arnoldsche
58. Organon 6th edn., paragraph 270. Ref. 31. Buchhandlung 1811.
59. Organon 6th edn., English, paragraph 271. 11. Idem. Was sind Gifte? Was sind
P.295: ‘a few grains’ (instead of ‘a couple of Arzneien? (What are poisons? What are
grains’). Ref. 33. medicines?) Journal der practischen
60. KH 1960. Kuenzli, ref. 36. Some details Arzneykunde 1806: 24: 40-57.
relating to manufacture and clinical use

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12. Idem. Belehrung über das herrschende 33. Idem. Organon of Medicine 6th edn. Tr. W.
Fieber (on the prevailing fever). In Lesser Boericke. San Francisco 1921. New Delhi:
Writings ref. 6. Jain 1987.
13. Idem. Heilart des jetzt herrschenden 34. Homöopathiisches Arzneibuch Amtl.
Nerven-und Spitalfiebers. Allg. Anz. d D. Ausgabe (HAB 1) 1985 = German
1809. In Lesser Writings, ref. 6. homœopathic Pharmacopoeia (GHP 1). Tr.
14. Idem. Krankenjournal Nr. 10 (case record A.R. Meuss. London: British homœopathic
No.10) March 1813—February 1814. Association 1990.
Unpublished. In Homöopathie-Archiv, 35. Künzli v. Fimmelsberg J. Die
Institute of History of Medicine, Robert Quinquagintamillesimalpotenzen. Zschr f
Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart. Klass Homöopathischer Dynamisation.
15. Idem. Reine Arzneimittellehre (Materia Zschr f Klass Homöop 1960; 4: 47-56.
Medica Pura) Teil 2. Dresden 1816. 36. Schmidt P. über die drei Arten
16. Idem. Reine Arzneimittellehre (Materia homöopathischer Dynamisation. Zschr f
Medica Pura) Teil 3. Dresden 1817. Klass Homöop 1961; 5 206-12.
17. Idem. Reine Arzneimittellehre (Materia 37. Tiedemann M. Herstellung und
Medica Pura) Teil 4. Dresden 1818. Anwendung der LM Potenzen. Zschr f
18. Idem. Organon 2nd edn. Dresden 1819. Klass Homöop 1965; 9: 262-8.
19. Idem. Reine Arzneimittellehre (Materia 38. Trübners Deutsches Wörterbuch Bd 5, S.
Medica Pura) Teil 5. Dresden 1819. 40f, Berlin: W. de gruyter 1954.
20. Idem. Reine Arzneimittellehre (Materia 39. Stapf E. Kleine medizinische Schriften von
Medica Pura) Teil 6. Dresden 1821. S.HAHNEMANN Bd 1 u. 2.
21. Idem. Reine Arzneimittellehre (Materia Dresden/Leipzig: Arnoldsche
Medica Pura) Teil 1-2, 2nd edn. Buchhandlung 1829. Engl.: Lesser
Dresden/Leipzig 1822-1827. Writings, ref. 6.
22. Idem. Organon 3rd edn. Dresden 1824.
23. Idem. Belehrung für die Wahrheitssucher. 5. Dosage and Potency according to the
Allg Anz d D No.165. 1825. In Lesser Organon
Writings, ref. 6. Little DAVID (AH, 1998)
24. Idem. Die chronischen krankheiten
(Chronic Diseases) Teil 1-3. Classical Homœopathy
Dresden/Leipzig 1828. Teil 4, 1830. Homœopathy, as commonly practiced,
25. Idem. Organon 4th edn. Dresden/Leipzig was
1829. first established by Samuel HAHNEMANN
26. Idem. Reine Arzneimittellehre (Materia in the late 1820’s. These were watershed
Medica Pura) Teil 1 & 2, 3rd edn. years for our healing art as they represent
Dresden/Leipzig 1830 & 1833. the beginning of the most productive years
27. Idem. Organon 5th edn. Dresden/Leipzig of HAHNEMANN’s career. The year 1828
1833. brought the publication the 1st edition of
28. Idem. Die chronischen Krankheiten The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature
(Chronic Diseases) Teil 1 & 2, 2nd edn. and their homœopathic Cure. This
Dresden/Leipzig 1835. masterpiece was quickly followed by the
29. Idem. Die chronischen Krankheiten publication of the 4th edition of the Organon
(Chronic Diseases) Teil 3-5, (1829) which further elucidated
Dresden/Leipzig 1837/1839. homœopathic philosophy, case taking and
30. Idem. Krankenjournale (case records) in methodology.
French, from 1835. Continued by Melanie In the 1st edition of
HAHNEMANN, Largely unpublished, in Chronic Diseases, and its companion
Homöopathie-Archiv, Institute of History of volume, the 4th edition of the Organon,
Medicine, Robert Bosch Foundation, HAHNEMANN taught the administration
Stuttgart. of a single unit dose of one or two poppy
31. Idem. Organon 6th edn. Leipzig: Schwabe seed sized pellets placed dry on the tongue.
1921. The single dose was then followed by a
32. Idem. Organon der Heilkunst 1865. Ed. A. period of observation of the client to assess
Lutze. 7th edn. Köthen: P.Schettlers 1881. the remedy’s action. Vide Aphorism 242 of
the 4th edition of the Organon.

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innovations which brought Homœopathy

The Single Unit Dose closer to perfection. The 5th edition of The
“As long, therefore, as Organon was published by Samuel
the progressive improvement continues HAHNEMANN in 1833. This was followed
from the medicine administered, so long we by the publication of the 3rd, 4th and 5th
can take for granted that the duration of editions of The Chronic Diseases in the years
the action of the helpful medicine, in this 1835, 1837 and 1839 respectively. In these
case at least, continues, and hence all twin manuscripts he shares the outcome of
repetition of any dose of medicine is his new experiments. The 6th and final
forbidden.” edition of the Organon was finished in 1843
The same point is also stressed in Aphorism but was not published until 1920.
245. HAHNEMANN was
“Even one dose of the not completely satisfied with the posology
same medicine which has up to now proved and case management procedures he
beneficial, if repeated before the published in the 4th edition of the Organon,
improvement has begun to stand still in especially in complex diseases and chronic
every direction, will, like an untimely miasms. The old master felt there must be
interference, only aggravate the state…” a more flexible delivery system for
homœopathic dynamizations. In Aphorism
The Wait and Watch Method 285, 286, 287 and 288 of the 5th edition, he
These aphorisms introduces the method of using a freshly
introduced the “wait and watch succussed aqueous solution in teaspoon
philosophy” which is a manifestation of the doses. He gives one of the principle reasons
principles of minimal intervention and the for this in Aphorism 286.
minimal dose. If the client is improving “For the same reason
after the administration of the first dose of the effect of a homœopathic dose of medicine
a remedy, all repetitions of the dose are increases the greater the quantity of fluid in
completely counter indicated. It is only which it is dissolved when administered to the
when there is a clear relapse of the patient although the actual amount of
symptoms that a second dose of a remedy medicine it contains remains the same. For
may be contempleted. This injunction was in this case, when the medicine is taken, it
introduced to prevent disruption of the comes in contact with a much larger surface
natural healing process by the premature of sensitive nerves responsive to the
repetition of the homœopathic remedy. medicinal action. Although theorists may
HAHNEMANN imagine there should be a weakening of the
observed that premature repetition of action of the dose of medicine by its dilution
homœopathic pellets often caused a relapse with a large quantity of liquid, experience
of the disorder as well as accessory asserts exactly the opposite, at all events
symptoms of the remedy. This mixture of when the medicines are employed
natural and remedial symptoms confuses homœopathically.”
the picture and slows down the curative At the same time,
process. This is why classical homœopaths HAHNEMANN elucidated one more
are very conservative about the repetition critical aspect of the new posology in the
of the remedy before there is a definite note to Aphorism 287. This is the
relapse of the symptoms. This demands importance of succussing the remedy
great patience as, even during slow solution immediately before administration in
progressive improvement, the client must the same manner as one succusses the
experience a relapse of symptoms before a homœopathic dynamizations when
remedy can be repeated. preparing the stock potencies. In the note
to this aphorism HAHNEMANN points out
New Experiments that anywhere from 1, 2, 3, to 10 or more
Over the following succussions are used to progressively
fifteen years Homœopathy went through a increase the potency of the aqueous remedy
dramatic transformation as HAHNEMANN solution. For this purpose the homœopath
sought to improve his new system. The uses a 4 to 8 oz bottle filed with a solution
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made from one globule of the homœopathic Unfortunately, many chronic patients only
dynamization. slowly improve over a period of weeks to
From this remedy months on a single dose of the appropriate
bottle HAHNEMANN was witnessed remedy and potency. What can we do to
stirring one, or increasingly more, speed the cure? HAHNEMANN sheds light
teaspoons of the solution into 4oz. of water on this subject in Aphorism 246. Vide
in a glass. From this glass he would then Organon.
give 1, 2, or 3 teaspoons of the aqueous “On the other hand,
solution as a dose. In HAHNEMANN’s new the slowly progressive amelioration
posology the potency, size of the dose, consequent on a very minute dose, whose
number of teaspoons administered are all selection has been accurately homœopathic,
adjusted to suit the constitutional sensitivity when it meets with no hindrance to the
of the client. The renewed posology system duration of its action, sometimes
offers more power and is more flexible than accomplishes all the good the remedy in
the static dry pellets. These methods of question is capable of performing by its
adjusting the dose* is one of the greatest nature in a given case, in a period of forty,
gifts of the 5th edition of the Organon and fifty or a hundred days.”
the 1837 edition of The Chronic Diseases.
This is however, rarely
the case, and besides, it must be a matter of
The Middle Path
great importance to the physician as well as
Another important the patient that were it possible, this period be
aspect of the 5th edition of the Organon is diminished to one-half, one quarter, and even
HAHNEMANN’s review of dosage and still less, which many often repeated
repetition. In the 4th edition he outlined the observations have shown under three
single unit dose and the philosophy of the conditions.
“wait and watch” method. In Aphorisms Firstly, the correct
245, 246 and 247 of the 5th edition of the homœopathic remedy must be chosen by
Organon, HAHNEMANN introduces what the totality of the symptoms. Secondly, the
he calls the “middle path” concerning the remedy is to be given in the minimal dose so
methods of administering homœopathic as not to overexcite the Vital Force [refer
remedies. He begins his discourse on aphorisms on the medicinal solutions].
posology by clarifying the proper view of Thirdly, the remedy may be repeated at
the single unit dose and when it is suitable intervals to speed the cure, if
appropriate in treatment. He begins his necessary, without producing
new review in Aphorism 245. aggravations.”
“Every perceptibly The new posology
progressive and strikingly increasing maxim states that anytime the first dose
amelioration in a transient (acute) or produces a striking amelioration no more
persistent (chronic) disease, is a condition medicine is needed for the time being. If, on
which, as long as it lasts, completely the other hand, the first dose only produces
precludes every repetition of the a slow amelioration, the remedy may be
administration of any medicine whatsoever, repeated at suitable intervals to speed the
because all the good the medicine taken cure.
continues to effect is now hastening toward This new methodology
its completion. Every new dose of any can only be carried out if the remedy is
medicine whatsoever, even of the one last prepared in a medicinal solution and given in
administered , that has hitherto shown itself a “split-dose”. If the homœopath is still
to be salutary, would in this case disturb the using the dry pellet dose then they must
work of amelioration.” follow the rules as given in the 4th edition of
Anytime there is a the Organon. This means the homœopath
“strikingly increasing amelioration” on a can only repeat a remedy when there is a
dose of a homœopathic remedy there is no definite relapse of the symptoms even if the
need for the repetition of the remedy. If the person is only slowly improving.
remedy is repeated when it is not needed it With the medicinal
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repeated at suitable intervals as long as the Due to the great

patient is improving without any diversity of constitutions and sensitivity, a
aggravations. This is how the cure can be homœopath needs a flexible delivery system
reduced to ½, ¼ or less the time it takes which allows for the adjustment of the
with the ordinary dry dose method. These remedy in each individual case. This is
are some of the directions contained in the something that the medicinal solutions
5th edition of the Organon on the advanced supplies. Vide The Chronic Diseases.
methods of using the centesimal potencies. “Nevertheless the
It is often said that incredible variety among patients as to their
HAHNEMANN’s introduction of the sensitivity, their age, their spiritual and
medicinal solution was only for the LM bodily development, their vital powers, and
potencies and that he used his centesimal especially in the nature of their disease
potencies dry. This is not the case. For at necessitates a great variety in their
least the last years of his life treatment, and also in the administration to
HAHNEMANN used both his centesimal them of the doses of medicine.”
and LM potencies exclusively in the Also of great
medicinal solution with the addition of importance is the following revelation
dilution glass. In 1843, just prior to the which explains why the untimely repetition
Master’s death, HAHNEMANN sent of an unmodified dose causes complications
BOENNINGHAUSEN two cases in which and explains the reason homœopaths
he used the C and LM potencies in exactly disagree so much about the repetition of
the same fashion. This proves two doses.
important points; first that the new “Before proceeding, it
methods of using the aqueous solutions is is important to observe that our vital
for all homœopathic remedies. principle cannot bear well that the same
HAHNEMANN considered the two potency unchanged dose of medicine be given even
systems to be complementary and used twice in succession, much less more
them both to increase the range of the frequently to a patient. For by this the good
homœopathic pharmacy. Now he had 6c to effect of the former dose of medicine is
1M centesimal and 0/1 to 0/30 LM potencies either neutralized in part, or new symptoms
at his disposal. proper to the medicine, symptoms which
have never before been present in the
The Limitations of the Dry Dose disease appear, impeding the cure. Thus
HAHNEMANN even a well-selected homœopathic medicine
suggested that each edition of the Organon produces ill effects and attains its purpose
and The Chronic Diseases be studied imperfectly or not at all. Thence come the
together as companion volumes. In the many contradictions of homœopathic
1837 commentary, HAHNEMANN begins physicians with respect to the repetition of
assessing his experience of the dosing doses”.
procedures that he used during the late The observation that
1820’s and shares the outcome of his latest the Vital Force is disturbed by the
research in Homœopathy. repetition of an unadjusted dose is the
“Since I last addressed conclusion of around 35 years of
the public concerning our healing art I have experimentation and should not be taken
had among other things also the lightly. In the 6th edition of the Organon
opportunity to gain experience as to the HAHNEMANN adds that even with the
best possible mode of administering the perfect remedy it is unwise “to let the
dose of the medicines to the patients, and I patient have a second or third dose taken
herewith communicate what I have found dry.” The production of these
best in this respect. A small pellet of one of complications is the main reason why
the highest dynamizations of a medicine repeating remedies before the relapse of
laid dry upon the tongue, or the moderate symptoms is counter indicated in the
smelling of an open vial where one or more classical homœopathy of the 4th edition of
such pellets are contained proves itself the the Organon. The use of the medicinal
smallest and weakest dose with shortest solution however, overcomes this problem
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so that the patient never receives the exact We live in a world of environmental
same potency twice. Vide The Chronic degradation and endangered species,
Diseases. nuclear radiation, chemical and toxic waste,
“But in taking one and universal immunization and drug use, rapid
the same medicine repeatedly (which is urbanization, psychological complexities
indispensable to secure the cure of a serious and spiritual crisis. This is accompanied by
chronic disease) if the dose in every case is the rapid mutation of acute and chronic
varied and modified only a little in its degree miasms into new drug resistant strains and
of dynamization, then the Vital Force of the the appearance of new miasmatic diseases
patient will calmly, and as it were willingly, that lead to auto immune diseases and
receive the same medicine even at the immuno-deficiency disorders.
briefest intervals, very many times in Today’s homœopath
succession with the best results, every time sees mixtures of inherited predispositions,
increasing the well being of the patient. inherited and acquired miasms, multiple
This slight change in the degree of immunizations (iatrogenic miasms), along
dynamization is even effected, if the bottle with chemical exposures, drug suppression
which contains the solutions of one or more and psychological and physical traumas.
pellets is merely well shaken five or six This makes it all that much more important
times.” that the entire legacy of Samuel
The Discovery of a New Potency System HAHNEMANN be put into practice in the
HAHNEMANN was field. Many cases that were incurable with
not completely satisfied with the medicinal the method of the 4th edition of the Organon
solutions of centesimal potencies, especially were cured by the methods of the 5th and 6th
in complex disorders and chronic miasms. editions of the Organon. HAHNEMANN’s
He found in those with hypersensitivity, low claim that the new posology could speed the
vitality, complex chronic miasms and cure to ½ or ¼ the time of the method of the
organic pathology that the high potencies 4th edition of the Organon must be put to
produced unproductive aggravations while the test by experienced classical
the lower potencies could not cure. How homœopaths.
could he make a potency which could fill Much of this new
this lacuna in homœopathic treatment? material has been misrepresented because it
Surely the answer to the question did not lie has been misunderstood. The posology
in raising the centesimal potency to still methods of the 5th and 6th editions of the
higher levels so he decided to increase the Organon are placed on top of the strong
dilution rate instead. foundation of the 4th edition Organon. The
After many “wait and watch method” is the basis on
experiments HAHNEMANN settled on the which the careful repetition of remedies to
1/50,000 dilution ratio called the LM speed the cure is placed. Many people
potency. His new potencies used a serial think that the LM potencies can be given in
dilution system which began with the LM some mechanical manner daily or every
0/1 potency and progressed through 0/2, other day as if they are some low potency.
0/3, 0/4, 0/5, 0/6, onward to 0/30. This This is a great mistake as the repetition of
gradually increasing 30 potencies scale is the LM potency when it is not needed will
the perfect balance to the rapidly ascending either slow down the cure or cause
centesimal scale. Now the new posology aggravations. LM potencies will aggravate
included the adjustments of medicinal cases the same as the centesimals if they are
solutions of two complementary yet given when they are not needed to speed the
opposite potency systems. This expanded cure.
the range of homœopathic treatment. The first dose of any
Modern Times homœopathic remedy should be a single
Human beings have unit test dose (C or LM) which is left to act
always been subject to the stresses of birth, for a reasonable period of time. When
life and death. Such conditions are there is a striking response to the first dose
universal in their proportions. there is nothing else to do for the moment.
Nevertheless, our modern times present the If there is only a slight or slow improvement
homœopath with tremendous challenges. the remedy may be repeated to speed the

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cure if the four cardinal rules are followed. The Founder taught
These are that the remedy is perfectly that the phenomenon of the aggravation
homœopathic, that the remedy is given in was related to the size of the dose as well as
medicinal solution, that this solution is to the potency. These two factors become
succussed before each dose to change the far more critical in individuals with
potency slightly, and that the remedy is sensitive constitutions, weakened vitality,
repeated at suitable intervals to speed the chronic miasms and organic pathology.
cure without causing aggravations. HAHNEMANN wrote of his own
experience in relationship to the size of the
dose in The Chronic Diseases.
The Size of the Dose “I have myself
There is a commonly experienced this accident, which is very
held belief in modern Homœopathy that the obstructive to cure and cannot be avoided
size of the dose makes no difference in the too carefully. Still ignorant of the strength
action of a homœopathic remedy. of its medicinal power, I gave Sepia in too
Therefore, it follows that the administration large a dose. This trouble was still more
of 1 or 1000 drops, globules or teaspoons manifest when I gave Lycopodium and
are all “the same”. Some of these ideas Silica potentized to the one-billionth
originate in James Kent’s Lectures on degree, giving four to six pellets, though
homœopathic Philosophy where he only as large as poppy seeds. Discite
combines the Swedenborgian view of moniti!”
energy as a simple substance with the Hahnemannian
homœopathic potency. As the simple posology is based on the size of the dose, the
substance represents the 4th state of matter potency factor and the nature of the
it could have qualities but no quantity. delivery system. All of the breakthroughs
Therefore the size of the dose makes no of the 5th and 6th editions of the Organon are
difference. This is one area where our two founded on the medicinal solution,
great teachers disagree. olfaction, and the methods of adjusting the
HAHNEMANN taught dose. In my own twelve years of study I
that potentization releases dynamic forces have put HAHNEMANN’s theory to the
similar to electromagnetism which carries test in the field and found his postulate to
the inner medicinal energies of a substance. be true. Kent faithfully applied the
He discovered that each pellet contained a methodology of the 4th edition of the
certain “quantum” of pure remedial energy Organon and never put the posology of the
at specific potency levels. As both the 5th edition of the Organon into practice. He
amplitude and frequency affect a wave did not see the 6th edition nor did he know
form of a signal, the size of the dose, and the about the LM potency. It seems he was not
potency affects the remedial powers. The priivy to HAHNEMANN’s final insights in
Old Doctor’s views of energy dynamics are homœopathic methodology.
more similar to modern physics then the Case Histories
Swedenborgian paradigm. He taught that
the more perfect the simillimum, and the The following
higher the potency, the more the size of the examples demonstrate the
dose must be controlled. Vide Aphorism HAHNEMANNian methods of posology
275. and highlight the methods of adjusting the
“For this reason, a dose.
medicine, even though it may be 1. A very hypersensitive lady who
homœopathically suited to the case of was
disease, does harm in every dose that is too taking one 6c pill dry was experiencing
large, and in strong doses it does more harm strong aggravations every time she took the
the greater its homœopathicity and the higher dose after which she would improve a little
the potency selected, and it does much more and then relapse. She thought she was too
injury than any equally large dose of a sensitive for Homœopathy and may have
medicine that is unhomœopathic and in no given up. On making a medicinal solution,
respect adapted to the morbid state and taking one teaspoon, the remedy no
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repeat the remedy at suitable intervals until the dose made in this manner. This is an
she was cured. This is an example of how example of diluting the remedy through
changing from the dry dose to the liquid two glasses of water and getting a striking
dose, and succussing before each teaspoon, response when the remedy out of the first
transmuted an aggravation and made the glass caused an aggravation and then only a
remedy repeatable in a sensitive person who made a small improvement. Doesn’t this
had trouble taking even one dose dry. This demonstrate the difference the size
is example of changing from a dry dose to a of the dose may make?
liquid dose which shows there is a According to modern Homœopathy, this
difference in the way you give the dose and would not make any change in the effect
its amount. of the remedy.
2. A patient who took Carbo veg. 200c in 5. A patient was given a remedy in
a a
dry dose did not react. The remedy seemed medicinal solution which was succussed five
to fit her case. She then was told to try it times before ingestion. He responded well
again but in a medicinal solution. The dose to the first dose, but when he was told to
was one teaspoon. A few doses of the 200c take a second dose, he forgot to succuss the
succussed five times before each dose to bottle and the remedy did not act. After the
slightly change the potency cured rapidly. situation was discussed he was reminded to
This is another example of a solution curing succuss the remedy before taking it again
where a dry dose failed. If dosage makes no and it worked just as well as the first time.
difference wet or dry, as Kent said, why did This is an example of taking the same
this work? unsuccussed, unmodified remedy twice in
3. A woman who took one dose of succussion and having no effect at all.
Cimicifuga LM 1 in a 4oz. solution for When the remedy was “potentized anew,”
migraine headaches experienced an as HAHNEMANN suggested in paragraph
aggravation. After increasing the amount 248, it acted very deeply. This
of water in the solution by making an 8oz demonstrates the importance of succussion
solution there was no aggravation and she and changing the potency of each dose.
was able to repeat the remedy every three This is a related subject but does not really
days for a month and her migraines never deal with changing the amounts of the dose.
came back. She never experienced an HAHNEMANN mentions in the Organon
aggravation again. This is an example of that there are special conditions when the
adjusting the dose by using more water in size of a dose must be increased to
the original solution. This made the remedy overcome a disease. The first example he
act more gently on her constitution and gives is when there are primary eruptions
allowed it to be repeated without of the chronic miasms on the skin. Here are
aggravation. some examples of this method.
4. A person suffering from sleep apnea 6. In a case of scabies
was (one of psora’s primary eruptions) the
given Arsenicum album LM1 in a 6oz normal one teaspoon dose did not act deep
solution, succussed three times before enough to remove the mites. In aphorism
ingestion; one teaspoon was 248 HAHNEMANN mentions giving “one
taken and stirred into 6oz of water, then or increasing more teaspoons” of the
one teaspoon was given as a dose. After remedy when needed. By gradually
taking the remedy there was an aggravation increasing the amount of the dose from one
of some of the concomitant symptoms for teaspoon to two then three
three days, then a slight improvement for a teaspoons, the parasites were quickly
short while, and a relapse. The remedy removed. (Have done this many times)
was given again, but one teaspoon was 7. A case of ringworm (a primary
taken out of the first dilution glass, and eruption
placed in a second glass from on the skin related to the TB miasm) was
which the client was given one teaspoon. only responding slowly to repeated doses of
The succussions were the same. This caused Bacillinum LM 1 given in teaspoon doses.
a radical improvement and removed the The number of succussions was raised but it
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often but there was no change. The size of failure. If I did not adjust the size of the
the dose was increased to three teaspoons dose in these cases the correct remedy
and the ringworm immediately responded might have been called into question. These
and began to disappear. This larger dose methods are all connected to the
acted where a smaller dose did not. The innovations that Samuel HAHNEMANN
succussions were kept the same. introduced in the 5th (1833) and 6th editions
Another example of the Organon (c.1842) and the 1837 edition
HAHNEMANN gave of cases that often of the Chronic Diseases. These methods
need an increase of the size of the dose is demand more artistry on the part of the
when the general health of a person has homœopath but with more knowledge
improved but a stubborn local complaint comes more responsibility.
remains. I have often seen cases where
there is a general improvement but a How to Make a Medicinal Solution.
lesional or pathological complaint lingers
on. In cases like this it is best to start with The preparation of the
the smallest possible doses to get a reaction remedy solution for the centesimal and LM
and slowly augment them until there is an potencies can be summarized in three easy
effect on the local complaint. steps.
8. I gave Calcarea 1. Take an 8oz bottle and drop in one, rarely
carb. LM 1 to a gentleman who had an two, # 10 pills of the chosen remedy. The
incredible number of symptoms including minimal amount of water mentioned by
impotency which brought him great HAHNEMANN is 7 tablespoons which is
despair. He responded mentally and vitally 3½oz. I usually use 4 to 6oz. solutions. This
to the first doses but the local complaint leaves at least 2oz. of an air gap which
lingered until the size of the dose was makes for good succussions. The larger
gradually augmented over a period of time bottles (6oz., 12oz., etc.) are only necessary
by increasing the number of teaspoons when treating a hypersensitive person, as
taken as a dose. The impotency vanished the larger amount of water makes the dose
and he has remained cured to this very day. act more gently. Add a sufficient amount of
Another time to consider increasing the brandy or pure alcohol for a preservative.
size of the dose is when a case no longer Up to ¼ to 1/3 of the solution should be
seems to be moving forward. brandy to assure against spoilage.
9. A person was suffering from a swollen 2. The bottle is to be succussed just prior to
prostate with concomitant melancholia and ingestion of the dose in order to activate the
impotence, an obstruction of the flow of remedy and slightly raise the potency. The
urine, and a pressure-like sensation in the number of succussions greatly affects the
perineum. He was first given one teaspoon action of the remedy on the Vital Force.
of Conium which caused a fair response. For those who are hypersensitive, one, two,
He increased to two teaspoons on his own or three succussions is usually enough.
and got a similar aggravation (too large of a Those of an average sensitivity more
dose). He was advised to stop the dose for a normally use four to seven succussions.
few days and to start again with one Those who have rather low sensitivity will
teaspoon. This worked very well as LM 1 need eight to ten succussions. It is best to
and LM 2 were used and the worst start with a lower number of succussions
symptoms disappeared. Then it seemed as and increase the amount if and when
if the movement of the remedy forward had necessary. This is one of the primary
reached a plateau so the size of the dose was methods of adjusting the dose.
slowly increased from one teaspoon to two 3. From this bottle one, two or three teaspoons
then to three, and the case once again (depending on sensitivity) are stirred into a
started moving rapidly forward and is 4oz glass of water. From this dilution-glass,
much, much better. If the size of the dose one, two or three teaspoons are giving to the
makes no difference, how did this all adults. Infants are given ¼ or less
happen? depending on the age, and the average child
These are examples of ½ teaspoon. The size of the dose can be
cases where the methods of adjusting the gradually increased if more reaction is
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might need two or three teaspoons before completely comfortable with this method in
they will react sufficiently to the remedy. cases that only slowly improved over a
This is another way to adjust the dose. An longer period of time.
extremely hypersensitive person may need For this reason, in the
the remedy diluted through one, two, or 5th Organon (1833) HAHNEMANN
three such dilution glasses. In this case a introduced olfaction and the oral medicinal
teaspoon or less is taken from the first glass solution as new delivery systems for
and stirred into a second or third glass. homœopathic remedies. The change from a
Give the client one test dose and wait and dry static pellet dose to a dynamic
watch for a reasonable amount of time to medicinal solution succussed prior to
see how he or she reacts. This time period administration had an immediate impact on
depends on the nature of the disease you his posology and case management
intend to treat. Acute and chronic disease strategies. In the 5th Organon, he suggested
each have there own peculiar cycles. If that “any striking progressive
there is a striking response and a improvement” precludes the repetition of
dramatic improvement let the single dose the remedy, because the cure is already
act without interference. If there is only a taking place at the fastest possible rate.
slow or moderate improvement the dose At the same time, he
may be repeated at proper intervals to taught that the single dose was not
speed the cure. Slow down the repetition of sufficient for those cases that slowly
the remedies as the client improves. If the improve over a period of weeks to months.
remedy produces any aggravation For these cases the Founder recommended
it is best to wait and watch for the expected administering the remedy in medicinal
amelioration. This is the middle path. Why solution or olfaction at “suitable intervals to
not put HAHNEMANN’s postulates to the speed the cure.” HAHNEMANN called this
test for yourself! The study of the 5th and his new “middle path,” as it stands between
6th editions of the Organon will the single dose wait and watch and the
make this all possible. mechanical repetition of remedies. This is a
truly artistic method that demands
5. THE CENTESIMAL AND LM individualization of the case management
POTENCIES: procedure.
A COMPARISON FROM THE 5TH AND Over the next 10
6TH years, HAHNEMANN worked exclusively
EDITIONS OF THE ORGANON with the medicinal solution for oral
LITTLE David (SIM., Vol.XIII, 4/2001) administration and olfaction. Around the
year 1840 he began to introduce his new
A homœopath should be well acquainted LM potency into clinical practice to
with complement his C potencies. With the new
HAHNEMANN’s references to potency in 1/50,000 dilution ratio, he introduced a new
the 4th and 5th editions of The Organon in potency system with unique medicinal
order to understand the Homœopathy of qualities. This new double pharmacy
the 1840s, which is found in the 6th edition greatly expanded the therapeutic horizons
(1842). Homœopathy as commonly of Homœopathy.
practiced today is based on the single dry The Paris casebooks
dose, wait and watch method of I wish to review the
HAHNEMANN’s first Chronic Diseases posology systems of the 5th and 6th Organon
(1828) and the 4th Organon (1829). In this in relationship to the centesimal and LM
method, a single pellet dose of the potencies. It is very important to study the
centesimal potency is used as long as the remedial powers of HAHNEMANN’s twin
patient is improving in even the slightest potency systems and recognize their
manner. Many of the great 19th century similarities and differences. The most
homœopaths like James KENT were important aspect of the revised methods of
masters of this method. The dry dose may the 1840s is the medicinal solution and the
only be repeated when there is a definite methods of adjusting the dose. Many people
relapse of the old symptoms calling for think that HAHNEMANN used the dry
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medicinal solution exclusively for the LM birth in the late 1700s, but the old
potency. This is incorrect. He used the C homœopath was not satisfied with his
and LM potency in medicinal solution, side system. The medicinal solution had greatly
by side in the clinic, from 1840-1843. improved the treatment of virulent acute
Investigations of illness, and of many chronic diseases, but
HAHNEMANN’s cases from 1840-1843 the weak, the elderly, those suffering with
show that he used a remedy bottle with the considerable pathology, and degenerative
addition of a dilution glass for all his chronic miasmatic diseases still presented a
homœopathic remedies (C and LM). In his particular dilemma.
last 10 years he refined the Homœopathy of In certain cases, when
the 4th Organon and expanded his posology HAHNEMANN used his low
and case management strategies. So the potencies (6-30c) they would not
first point is that HAHNEMANN cure, but if he used the high potencies
introduced his revised liquid method for the (200c-1M) they produced unproductive
centesimals in 1833, and the LM potency in aggravations. What could he do with this
1843. unfortunately large percentage of cases that
The mother of all potencies still resisted homœopathic treatment? This
The 3c is the mother of was a lacuna in his therapeutic system that
all homœopathic potencies. In 1806, after he wished to fill before he died.
HAHNEMANN first proved Arsenicum in The development of the LM potency
3C, he wrote an article titled “What are After 36 years of
Medicines and What are Poisons?” The 3rd raising the potency of the centesimal
centesimal was the first true homœopathic remedies, HAHNEMANN decided to raise
dynamization. This is the root of the the ratio of dilution instead. Leaving the
centesimal scale, as at the 1 to 1,000,000 1/100 dilution ration of the centesimals
ratio, 3C marks the level that homœopathic behind, HAHNEMANN started searching
remedies become nontoxic. For 34 more for a potency that would fill this hole in
years he ran trials with raising the potency homœopathic therapeutics. After countless
of the centesimal scale, until he had experiments he settled on the 1/50,000
experimented with the 3C to the 1M. dilution ratio and created the 50 millesimal
After years of potency. I have reviewed hundreds of
experiments, he settled on the 6c, 12c, 24c, HAHNEMANN’s cases from the LM period
30c series as the most suitable lower (1840-1843) over the past two years. One of
potencies. With his low potencies, the first things one notices is that he used
HAHNEMANN started with the 30C both the centesimal and LM potencies in
potency and then used the 24c, 18c, etc., in medicinal solutions with the addition of a
descending order. He continued to lower dilution glass in his last two years.
the degree of his low potencies 30c-60c in The LM potency is
his last years, 1840-1843. At the same time, first made from the 3c trituration
the Paris casebooks record him raising his (1:100x100x100). Next, one grain of this
high potency centesimals through potencies trituration is placed into 500 drops to make
like 197c, 198c, 199c, 200c. Melanie the LM/0 solution (a 1:501 ratio). Then one
HAHNEMANN wrote a letter stating that drop is taken from the LM/0 solution and
HAHNEMANN used a 1M potency on added to 100 drops of dilute and succussed
occasions during his experiments. It seems 100 times. This makes the LM 1 or 0/1
he kept his high potencies separate from his potency, the first degree of the LM
low potencies, in small tubes with poppy pharmacy (100 X100X100X500X100=LM
seed size pellets. HAHNEMANN always 1). The centesimals of the 5th Organon
gave his high potency centesimals in (1833) were made with 10 hand succussions
medicinal solution, just like the LM although many modern pharmacies use 10
potencies. to 40 or more succussions administered by
At 85 year age, he machine.
came to another turning point in his long The amount of
career. With his young wife Melanie at his original medicinal substances in the LM 1 is
side, he began to ponder his legacy. similar to the amount found in the 6c
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greatly expanded due to the larger dilution potentization, but meticulous experiments
medium. A mere comparison of the amount have convinced me that this proportion of
of original substances found in the C and the dilution medium to the medicine being
LM potency does not show the differences dynamized (100:1) is much too narrowly
in their inner medicinal qualities. The LM limited to develop the powers of the
pharmaceutical solution is then used to medicine substance properly and to a high
moisten 500 tiny poppy seed size pellets. degree, by means of a large number of
One pellet of the 0/1 is succussions, unless one uses great force.”
further diluted in a minimum of three and a HAHNEMANN found
half ounces to make the medicinal solution. that continuing to increase the number of
After 10 firm succussions, one teaspoon (or dilutions and succussions of the centesimal
occasionally, two or three) is taken from the potency did not fill the desired therapeutic
medicinal solution and further diluted in a lacuna in his new healing art. He came to
dilution glass of water. From this dilution see that the 1 to 100 dilution ratio is limited
glass one teaspoon (occasionally two or by its smaller dilution factor, so he began to
three) is given to the patient as a dose. The experiment with new, larger dilution ratios,
final liquid dose has been diluted through rather than raising the C potency to higher
two more stages since the dry dose. The and higher degrees. He also noticed that
actual amount of original substances given when strong succussions were used in a
to the patient is more diluted than the dry relatively low dilution such as the
pill in the medicinal solution and stirred centesimal 1 to 100 ratio, they make
into a dilution glass. This final, minute aggressive medicines, prone to causing
amount of original substances in the dose quick aggravations and unproductive
has yet to be calculated in the equation. secondary curative effects in the long run.
In this method, the
size of the dose is greatly reduced as the “With a ratio of
potency is gradually increased, so that the dilution medium to the medicine as low as
Vital Force never receives the same exact 100:1, very many impacts by means of a
dose twice in succession. In this way, the powerful machine, as it were, are forced in.
Vital Force can receive the single dose or a As a result, medicines arise that, especially
series of doses in medicinal solution without in the higher degrees of dynamizations,
the aggravations witnessed in the dry or almost instantaneously but with stormy—
unmodified liquid dose. In this way, we can indeed dangerous—intensity, impinge on
speed the cure to one half, one fourth, or the patients (especially delicate ones)
less time, compared to the previous method. without bringing about an enduring, gentle
counter action of the life-principle.”
Differences between the C and LM potencies (Footnote to aphorism 270).
The high potency
centesimals are diluted more times then the Once again we see the
LM potency, although they receive far importance of the balance of the primary
fewer succussions at each dilution level. action of the remedy and curative response
The higher C potencies like 200C and 1M of the Vital Force. When too many
have a smaller amount of substance, and dilutions and strong succussions have been
more commutative numbers of succussions forced into the higher centesimal potencies,
and dilutions than the LM potency. For it makes medicines that are prone to
this reason, some think the LMs are low aggressive primary actions and strong
potency remedies. The LM potency, aggravations that do not produce an
however, has a much larger dilution ratio “enduring gentle counter action of the life
and 10 times more succussions per potency principle.” Such furious or prolonged
increment. These characteristics greatly aggravations are to be avoided at all cost, as
transform the medicinal qualities of the LM they disrupt the natural symptom pattern,
remedies. In the footnote to aphorism 272 waste vitality, and complicate the cure. The
of the 6th Organon (O’Reilly edition) LM potency, on the other hand, is given in
HAHNEMANN suggests the following: “In the smallest liquid dose so it produces mild
earlier instructions, I specified that a whole primary effect and a long enduring gentle
drop of a liquid in a given potency be added counter action of the vital principle.
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During the period of rendered excessively susceptible to such a

the 5th Organon, HAHNEMANN used the similar stimulus.”
unmodified liquid dose made up each time HAHNEMANN goes
from one or two poppy seed size pellets. In on to say that this medicinal disease alters
aphorism 29 of the 5th Organon, the Vital Force that rules the susceptible
HAHNEMANN described how the parts to a state of very similar artificial
centesimal method works. He wrote that disease “so that the living organism now
the similar homœopathic remedy “pushed suffers from the artificial medical disease
into the place of the weaker natural alone, which, from its nature and owing to
disease,” against which the instinctive Vital the minuteness of dose, will soon be
Force was “compelled to direct an increased extinguished by the Vital Force that is
amount of energy.” The idea of pushing striving to return to the normal state. The
into place and compelling the Vital Force to idea of a crisis-like aggravation compelling
act more energetically against the remedy is the Vital Force to increase its energy was
based on the phenomena of the part of the dry dose and unadjusted liquid
homœopathic aggravation. The methods of dose methods of the 1830s.
the 4th and 5th Organon are based on a crisis- In the 6th Organon,
like aggravation, in contrast to the gentle HAHNEMANN revises the model to include
medicinal solution and the noninvasive LM the necessity of a aggravation-like crisis,
method. with the idea that the dose can never be
Aggravation in the 5th edition made so small that it cannot overcome the
The centesimal model disease without aggravation. In the LM
of cure still involves the idea of “crisis”, model, aggravation at the start of treatment
where the aggravation of symptoms is a sign of the too large a dose or too high a
compels the Vital Force to act with potency and unnecessary repetition of the
increased energy to remove the remedy remedy. Vide aphorism 279 of the 6th
disease and begin convalescence. The idea Organon. “This pure experience now shows
of crisis as an integral part of the cure is universally that:
very ancient. This was before 1. If considerable corruption of an important
HAHNEMANN discovered the noninvasive [vital] organ does not obviously lie at the
method of the LM potency, the medicinal base of the disease (even if the disease is
solution, and the split dose. Vide aphorism chronic and complicated ) and
279 of the 5th edition: “The pure experience 2. If during treatment, all other foreign
shows universally … a dose of the medicinal impingements on the patent have
homœopathic selected remedy can never be been withheld, then the dose of a
prepared so small that it shall not be homœopathically chosen, highly potentized
stronger than the natural disease, and shall remedy for the beginning of treatment of an
not be able to overpower, extinguish, and important (especially chronic) disease, as a
cure it, at least in part, as long as it is rule can never be prepared so small that it
capable of causing some, though but a light would not:
preponderance of its own symptoms, over a. be stronger than the natural disease.
those of the disease resembling it (slight b. be able, at least in part, to over-tune the
homœopathic aggravation, aphorisms 157- natural disease, and
160) immediately after its ingestion.” c. even be able to extinguish a part of the
The need for natural disease in the feeling of the life
aggravation was also stressed as an integral principle, thus producing a beginning of
part of cure in aphorism 282. “The smallest the cure.”
possible dose of homœopathic medicine All of the references to
capable of producing only the very slightest the need for crisis-like aggravation to push
homœopathic aggravation, will because it the remedy in place of the natural disease
has the power of exciting symptoms bearing and compel an increase of energy of the
the greatest possible resemblance to the Vital Force are removed from the 6th
original disease (but yet stronger even in Organon. There is no need to force, push,
the minute dose), attack principally and compel, or aggravate in the noninvasive LM
almost solely the parts in the organism that method of the 1840s. This represents a shift
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compelling through aggravation to a remedy has been given in the medicinal

completely noninvasive method of posology. solution in a properly small amount, the
In HAHNEMANN’s advanced methods Vital Force will have little problem
there is no need of aggravations, crises, removing the remedial influence and no
overmedication, antidotes, long periods of antidotes will be needed. If the dose is too
waiting, or any excess counter-actions. All large, in too high a potency, it may mistune
these side effects have been removed from the Vital Force with a long-term medicinal
the homœopathic system of the 1840s. disease (aphorism 276). For this reason, the
dose, potency and repetition must be
Primary and secondary effects carefully controlled.
There are many
powers in nature but the potentized remedy Opposing secondary actions
is a unique creation of the intellect of In aphorism 65,
Samuel HAHNEMANN. In aphorism 64 of HAHNEMANN gives several examples of
the 6th Organon, he noted two types of the primary and opposing secondary
secondary actions to medicines. The first is actions that take place under the influence
the opposing counteraction, where the of various medicinal powers (64A:
organism automatically presents an counteraction, after-action). “Where there
opposite state proportional to its energy. is such a one, the life force brings forth the
The second is the curative counteraction to exact opposite condition-state
a homœopathic remedy, where the Vital (counteraction, after-action) to the
Force directs its whole energy to remove the impinging action (initial action) that has
mistuning from without while been absorbed into itself. The
reestablishing homoeostasis. Vide part 2 of counteraction is produced in as great a
aphorism 64 of the 6th Organon. “If there is degree as was the impinging action (initial
no state in nature exactly opposite to the action) of the artificial morbific or
initial action, the life force appears to strive medicinal potency on it, proportionate to
to assert its superiority to extinguish the the life force’s own energy.”
alternation produced in itself from without Here the Vital Force is
(by the medicine), in place of which it compelled to produce an antagonistic
reinstates its norm (counteraction curative secondary action in which it presents the
action).” opposite state in proportionate energy. The
This action by the life following examples represent these
force to assert its superiority is the power of principles very well (vide aphorism 65).
the curative secondary action. To • “A hand bathed in hot water is at first
accomplish this goal, the Vital Force heals much warmer than the other unbathed
the pathology in stages, from within to hand (initial action), but once it is removed
without, in response to the remedy as it and thoroughly dried, it overcomes cold
seeks control over homeostasis, thus after some time, and then much colder then
completely removing the dynamic the other hand (after action).”
mistuning. This establishes another aspect • “An arm immersed in the coldest after for a
of HAHNEMANN’s Direction of Cure (see long time is at first far paler and colder
also Hering’s Laws). than the other one (initial action), but once
If the balance between it is removed from the cold water and dried
the primary action and the secondary off it becomes not only warmer that the
actions is maintained there will be no other but hot, red, and inflamed (after
aggravations or excessive counteractions action of the life force).”
during the process of cure. The instinctive • “The heavy, stuporous sleep caused by
Vital Force does not react in an opposing Opium (initial action) is followed the next
manner to a potentized remedy, but rather night by greater insomnia (counteraction).”
seeks to manifest its superior vitality over • “And thus, after each initial action of a
the remedial disease from without while medicine that in large dosage strongly
reestablishing homoeostatic balance within. modifies the condition of the healthy body,
The life force may our life force always and everywhere brings
produce an opposing reaction against the to pass, in the after action, the exact
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opposite state (when, as stated, there really curative reaction of the Vital Force is not
is such).” disrupted by the repetition of the minimal
Strong medicines in large doses tend to size dose of the medicinal solution of the
cause opposing counteractions from the life remedy, as may be caused by the repetition
force. Sooner or later the Vital Force will of the dry dose.
oppose any medicine in a large dose
(including homœopathic) with antagonistic Cycle of healing with the LM remedies
counteractions. In Homœopathy the Vital • small liquid dose
Force is exposed to a very small dose of a • no aggravation.
highly potentized substance that elicits a • enduring, gentle secondary effect
pure curative effects for the Lebenskraft • removal of the remedial disease
(life force) without any overreactions. • cessation of remedy duration
Curative secondary action • complete return of health and full vitality
Homœopathic cures
This demonstrates the
take place because of the unusually small
important role that HAHNEMANN gave to
dose of a high potency of a similar remedy
the Lebenskraft (Vital Force) in the 6th
(aphorism 68, with reference to 64, point 2).
Organon. The goal of the LM strategy is a
To this subtle medicinal disease the life
smooth, continuous, graduated ascent to
force needs to use no more secondary effect
health and vitality through 30 microtonal
than necessary to remove the new similar
potencies, without aggravations.
artificial disease and return the organism to
a complete recovery. There is no state in In contrast to
nature that is exactly the opposite of a HAHNEMANN’s explanation of the
simillimum in the correct potency and a principle of primary and secondary action
minimum dose. (as reviewed in the preceding paragraphs),
Due to the there are those who say the Vital Force
extraordinarily high potency and small removes no mistuning and plays no active
amount of the remedy, the primary action role in healing. Like the mechanists of the
gently overtunes the natural disease without old school, they think of cure only in terms
any aggravation (63, primary action). After of a medicinal power, rather than as a
this, the life principle seeks to assert its combination of the remedy action and the
superiority by removing the remedy curative effect of the Lebenskraft, the Vigor
mistuning from without by returning to full Vita. HAHNEMANN spoke of the essential
health and vitality within. Aphorism 64b: role of life force in the Preface to the
“If there is no state in nature exactly Introduction of the 6th Organon in 1842:
opposite in the initial action, the life force “Homœopathy is aware that a cure can only
appears to strive to assert its superiority by succeed through the counteraction of the life
extinguishing the alterations produced in force against the correctly chosen medicine.
itself from without (by the medicine), in The stronger the life force that still prevails
place of which it reinstates its norm (after- in the patient, the more certain and faster
action, curative action).” the cure that takes place” (emphasis
added).
This healing process
ideally takes place with no aggravations, no
The action of the centesimal potencies
crisis, and no overly noticeable reactions
The remedial powers
other than the rapid restoration of health
of the centesimal scale reaches its peak very
and vitality (§ 148). That is the goal of the
quickly, promotes crisis, and then brings on
Similia Minimus in the 6th Organon.
a longer duration of secondary action. The
The correct dose of the Kentian high potency system has become
LM potency in medicinal solution produces the modern potency standard, with great
a nonaggressive primary action, no jumps of potency levels between 30c, 200c,
aggravations, and a long-enduring, gentle, 1M, 10M, 50M, CM, etc. This trend was
curative effect by the life principle. Even established by HAHNEMANN, as he quite
during the curative response, the remedy commonly used the 30c, 200c and
may still be repeated at suitable intervals experimented with the 1M. These large
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arch of the potency scale in the upward the higher opening potencies (0/3-0/6) are
direction. Even in medicinal solution the sometime of use, although most cases
200c and 1M tend to aggravate toward the resolve on LM 1-3.
beginning of the treatment rather than the We have discussed
end. This is due to the 100 to 1 dilution ratio some of the difference between the remedial
and strong succussions. powers of the C and LM potencies that
By nature, the makes them complementary opposites.
centesimal potencies are quick in their Once the homœopath understands the
onset, as they can cause aggravation at the qualities of the Cs and LMs, they will
beginning of the treatment, when the understand how to use them at the correct
pathology is at its maximum and the vitality times. The Paris casebooks show that
at its weakest. This tendency is still HAHNEMANN often used his centesimal
witnessed (although in a modified form) in potencies for crisis and acute diseases, and
the centesimals in medicinal solution. The switched to the LM potencies for
power of the C potency is most similar constitutional treatment. This is not an
(rapid onset, quick crisis, and aggressive absolute rule but a tendency one sees
power) to accidents, traumas, strong acute throughout the cases of his last three years
diseases, virulent acute miasms, crises or (1840-1843).
exacerbations of the chronic states.
The aggressive effects Administering the LM potencies
of the large increases in potency degrees of As mentioned, the LM
the centesimal scale are enhanced by the base potency is made from the 3c potency.
greater number of succussions per degree of HAHNEMANN’s low potencies were the 6,
the centesimal potency system. The 12, 24, and 30c, and his high potencies
medicinal solution moderates the aggressive reached 50 to 200c and the LM 1 to 30. In
tendencies of the Cs, but they still tend to some ways, the LM potencies possess many
aggravate more quickly, more forcefully, of the positive qualities of both a low and
and for longer duration than the correctly high potencies in balance.
given LM potencies. The lower degrees of
the LM potency act more deeply than the 6
The action of the LM potencies to 30c but they are also more gentle then
Chronic diseases often 200c or 1M for the delicate or weak
have an insidious onset, slowly increasing constitution. They reach a depth of cure
pathology, and reach crisis after a period of without producing overly strong primary
many years. The LM potency is subtle in its actions and rapid aggravations like the high
onset, uses a series of slowly increasing Cs. They have the stability and consistency
potencies, each dose slightly more potent of the low potency Cs, but the power to cure
than the last. The LMs tend to aggravate at deep chronic diseases like the high
the end of treatment, when the pathology is potencies.
healed and vitality restored. This is a sign One can tell from
that the remedy is no longer needed. If the HAHNEMANN’s Paris journals that he
repetition of the remedy is reduced as the considered the LM 1 a higher potency than
patient improves, there will be no the 30C, as he sometimes started people
aggravation at the end of treatment. The C with a 30C for the acute and then switched
potencies have a rapid onset and can cause to the LM potency for the chronic
aggravation at the beginning of treatment, conditions. Also, if the lower potencies up
when the patient is the most ill and the to 30c were insufficient, he would then
weakest. This is not the best situation. This switch to the LM scale and work upward.
is another reason why the LMs are sutiable In some cases, he began with an antipsoric
for many inherited or acquired chronic in 30c and then moved over to the LMs. He
miasmatic diseases, and particularly for also stated in the Organon that the 50,000:1
patients whose vitality is compromised by dilution ratio is more powerful than the
excessive drugging. 100:1 ratio, even at the lowest degrees. One
The properly adjusted reason is many succussions can be used
LM also works well on serious trauma, without “forcing” any excess energy into
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So we can see that the In the footnote to

LMs are not “low potencies”, and like any aphorism 247, HAHNEMANN discusses
other remedy, shouldn’t be repeated in a what he said in the 5th Organon, updated
mechanical fashion. They aggravate just with the new LM posology methods of the
like all other homœopathic remedy if 6th edition. When he introduces the concept
misused. I know this personally because I of the daily dose he says that the LM
aggravated a number of cases in the potency may be taken daily “when
beginning of my LM career. I quickly necessary”. The first sentence of aphorism
found out that the LM 1 would aggravate 247 of the 6th Organon reads, “During
certain sensitive patients and those with treatment, every noticeable progressing and
organic pathology. In general, aggravations conspicuously increasing improvement is a
caused by LMs are of a shorter duration state which, as long as it persists, generally
than the high centesimal potencies. This is excludes any repetition of the medicine
another reason they are safer than the ultra being used because all the good being
high potency centesimals in many produced by the medicine is still hastening
conditions. The great advantage is towards completion.” This is because the
versatility. When reaction is too strong, Vital Force is moving toward the cure at a
repetition of the remedy can be slowed maximum rate, and any more doses will
down. Conversely, it can be increased to only slow down the cure.
stimulate reaction. The remedy can be HAHNEMANN rarely
diluted as many times as needed to suit the used the daily dose for very long, always
susceptibility of the patient. interspersed his doses with a period of
If the person will placebo and period of waiting and
overreact to the action of potencies higher watching. The idea that HAHNEMANN
than 30c, it is best to use the lower potencies gave the daily dose of the LMs for months
like 6, 12, or 24c. I tend to use the lower or years is a complete myth, as proven by
centesimal potencies in medicinal solution his writings and Paris case journals. The
and the split dose where I fear aggravations 6th Organon offers a guidebook on how to
or pathology, and want to avoid a crisis. use the LM potency scale safely and
Then I work my way up to the 30c, change effectively, by opening in the lowest degrees
to the LM 1, and go through the LM scale. (0/1, 0/2, 0/3, etc.), and then ascending
These sensitive patients often do not do very through the potency range (upto 0/30).
well on 200c, 1M, etc. In fact, many of them LMs must be treated with the same respect
are incurable by the centesimal potency as other potencies. When the daily dose is
system alone. HAHNEMANN used this “not necessary” it will rapidly produce an
method also, although I did not confirm this overmedicated state in which there will be
fact until I studied his casebooks many aggravations or accessory symptoms that
years later. change the natural symptom pattern.
It is false claim to say There is quite a bit of misunderstanding on
that the LMs can be given daily or every this point. Overmedication always causes
other day for weeks, months, and years. side effects, changes the natural symptom
Some suggest giving potencies like LM 6, pattern, and slows down the cure.
LM 18, or some other odd potency daily, He also suggests
rather than using the complete graduated starting the case with the “lowest degrees”,
potency scale 0/1 to 0/30 in an artistic which his Paris casebooks show to be 0/1 to
manner. The Paris casebooks show that 0/3, and more rarely 0/4, 0/5, 0/6, 0/7. This
HAHNEMANN never gave his remedies in is the first octave of LM potencies, with the
such a mechanistic manner! The healing 0/8 starting the next range.
artist takes into account the constitutional There are times when
sensitivity or the nature of the disease and a low potency like 30c appears to only
individualize their dose and potency palliate, yet the 200c produces unproductive
properly. Mechanical methods are prone to aggravations that weaken the vitality. This
causing over medication. is because the pathology is too deep for the
low potency (6-30c), and the high potencies
Only when necessary (200c-1M) only cause aggravations without
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cases, the LM potency will cure when the have more literature then we did back in
centesimal potency will only palliate or 1970. Those who are well-trained in the
cause harm. This is area where the LMs classical methods of the 4th Organon and the
are ideal, as they act more gently and safely single dose, wait and watch method are
than high potency Cs if carefully adjusted. well-positioned to test the Paris methods of
The LM potency is also useful for the the 1840s.
elderly, where the high potency Cs may be The method of the
counterproductive but cure is still possible. Organon is an artistic method that must be
Summary individualized to the patient. There are no
The LMs act smoothly, preconceived schedules that can guide one.
considering their relatively high potency. Taking a dose daily, or on alternate days,
For this reason, the LMs are far more may be correct for one person, while one
suitable than the 200c and 1M for a good dose per week, month, or year is sufficient
number of patients. The gaps between the for another. What a homœopath learns is
30c, 200c, 1M, and 10M potencies are too when to wait and watch, as well as when to
large for many constitutions and for act to speed the cure. Much of modern
chronic conditions. This Kentian system posology is still 167 years behind the times,
only offers seven potencies, while there are but “the times they are a-changin’ .”
30 different microtonal LM potencies.
These individuals, who may experience
unproductive aggravations and accessory 6. LM POTENCIES
symptoms from the 200c or 1M (especially Luc De SCHEPPER MD (SIM, VOL,.XIII,
the dry dose), usually do very well on the 3/2000)
LMs when they are given properly.
These are some of the LMs: a Unique Potency, a Unique Method
differences. The LMs are safe and effective Many homœopaths have not yet
when the potency, succussions, and dose are taken
individualized, and the patient is not advantage of the great power of LM
overmedicated. The microtonal series of 30 potencies, and those who do may only use
graduated LM potencies is much more them for hypersensitive patients. But our
similar to development of degenerative main goal is to accelerate the cure for all
chronic diseases and miasms then the our patients while minimizing the
radical jumps of the centesimals. For this aggravations. HAHNEMANN developed
reason it is naturally suited to slow- LM potencies at the end of his life (the last
developing, long-lasting chronic diseases ten years) for this specific purpose, because
and miasms, or to patients who have he felt that the aggravations caused by
undergone serious suppressive treatments centesimal potencies caused too much
and continuous overmedication. suffering for the patient. Being a master
It has only been in the pharmacist, he developed a technique for
last few years that I have the advantage of making the remedies deeper and faster
reading the microfiches of acting while at the same time more gentle.
HAHNEMANN’s Paris casebooks. This has My own experience treating thousands of
allowed me to personally review the records patients with centesimals and with LMs has
of his cases from the LM period (1840- borne out HAHNEMANN’s assertions.
1843). By carefully reading the 6th Organon The LM potencies are
and Paris casebooks, much more made by diluting the remedy in a ratio of
information has come to light. It is one to 50,000 at each step instead of one in
unfortunate that much of what is written 100, while still keeping the succussions at
regarding the LM potencies has not been 100. (A detailed explanation is provided
widely available. below under “How to Make the
This situation is finally Remedies.”) The high number of dilutions
starting to change, as homœopaths raises the power of the remedy very high,
experienced in the 4th Organon method take while the relatively low number of
up experiments with the revisions succussions keeps the aggravations low.
introduced in the 5th and 6th editions. The result is that the remedy action quickly
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emotional level and far back in the patient’s Why do we advocate

timeline. This allows a cure in a fraction of using LMs to avoid aggravations? Some
the time of HAHNEMANN’s previous homœopaths believe that an aggravation is
centesimal method, which is exactly what he necessary in order to procure a healing.
was looking for: the rapid gentle and Nothing is further from the truth. And
permanent cure. At the same time, any some homœopaths feel that an aggravation,
aggravation wears off quickly, usually in 24 even lasting days or weeks, is acceptable.
hours or less, thereby allowing immediate Most homœopaths
adjustment. By reducing the intensity and practicing today treat chronic diseases with
duration of action through a high degree of high centesimal potencies such as 200c, 1M
dilution, we can now regulate the and 10M and actually look for an
homœopathic aggravation, something that aggravation to demonstrate that the remedy
was impossible before the invention of this is working. …They attribute this approach
potency. to Kent, which is why I refer to this method
LMs are also called Q as Kentian prescribing. But in fact Kent
potencies, both of which refer to the 1 in himself did not approve of bringing about
50,000 dilution. (L and M are the Roman aggravations, as we can see in his Lesser
numerals for 50 and 1000 respectively, Writings: “Keep the mild potency as long as
while Q is an abbreviation for it works. It is not well to jump degrees.
“quinquagesimillesimal,” derived from the The best action is the slight aggravation, the
Latin quinquagesimus [50th] and millesimus ideal one is the one that does not aggravate
[thousandth]). The specific potencies are but ameliorate. We do not seek to produce
notated 0/1, 0/2 or Q1, Q2, etc. in which the an aggravation, that is not the best, not the
0 stands for the tiny poppyseed granules on longest curative effect. You encourage the
which they are prepared. Sometimes the patient to become oversensitive by using the
notation LM is used to mean 50M in the highest potencies instead of going low to
progression 1M, 10M, LM, 100M. In that begin.”
case LM means 50,000c, which is entirely An aggravation is the
different from LM or Q potencis, as will be primary action of the remedy which is so
explained in detail below. In brief, LM strong that it represses the secondary
potencies are diluted one in 50,000 times curative response from the Vital Force for a
but succussed only 100 times at each step. longer or shorter period. This will slow
A 50,000c would be diluted 100 times and down the cure. I advise the readers to
succussed 100 times at each step, and the investigate carefully the definitions of
process repeated 50,000 times—a much primary action and secondary action
higher dose, especially in terms of expressed in Aphorisms 63 and 64 of the
succussions. Organon…. The primary action is the
I would also like to action of the agent (like our remedy) which
point out that the LM potency cannot be shocks the Vital Force and causes an
compared with a 3c or 6c potency, as many alteration in the health of the individual for
practitioners believe. LM potencies have a a shorter or longer period (in the case of
much deeper action than the centesimal low and high potencies, respectively). The
scale. LMs give us the best of both words: secondary action is the opposing action
they are as gentle as the low potencies and from the Vital Force with a net result of
as powerful as the highest centesimals. Far improved health.
from being a low potency, the LM 1 has The historical
actions equivalent to a higher potency than background … explains the source of the
30C. In practice I have often seen that a discord in potencies. The LM potencies are
hypersensitive would not react to 30c but teachings of the sixth edition, which
would have an initial aggravation to a HAHNEMANN completed in 1842. Some
standard dose of LM 1. (Of course we have modern homœopaths write that the sixth
many ways of adjusting an LM, tailoring edition has almost nothing new to offer.
the remedy to the patient.) How mistaken they are! The last edition
represented a major advance in
The Myth of Aggravations HAHNEMANN’s thought: 60 new
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and 40 aphorisms were obsolete in Melanie died in 1878 (from bronchial

comparison with the fifth edition of the catarrh like her husband), her adopted
Organon.. But HAHNEMANN could not daughter, Sophie von
publish it that year because of the bungling BOENNINGHAUSEN, was given the
of his publisher, and he died the following manuscript to continue to work on it. She
year. herself asked $ 25,000 but no offers were
According to von forthcoming.
BOENNINGHAUSEN, who corresponded The manuscript
with HAHNEMANN within two months of remained hidden in an attic in Germany
his death, he had received word from him and was not discovered until after World
about the latest, yet unknown potency (LM) War I. It was finally published in 1920,
which he referred to as “our highest with the first English edition appearing in
potency.” In von Boenninghausen’s Lesser 1921 (translated by William Boericke,
Writings, the Baron wrote about the use of nephew of the co-founder of Boericke and
high attenuations: “The immortal Tafel). But by the time it was published,
HAHNEMANN had in the last years of his the practice of Homœopathy was already
life, arrived at a profound conviction of the well established based on the single
efficacy of high attenuations, and had centesimal dose, “wait and watch” method
accordingly for some time followed in the of the fourth edition. Thus the guide lines
preparation of his remedies, a method of the sixth edition were not truly put into
different from what he had recommended practice until 1950 by Dr.Charles PAHUD
to the public in his former works. The of France and then by the famous
modifications then introduced he intended homœopath Dr.Pierre Schmidt of Geneva in
to publish to the world in the last edition of 1954. Dr. SCHMIDT published a small
his Organon.” booklet, Hidden Treasures of the Sixth
…. HAHNEMANN’s Edition of the Organon, and stated: “The
wife Melanie, in spite of many promises, main points which I wish to raise here are
never released the sixth edition! She wrote either entirely new and somewhat
to the English Homœopathic Association revolutionary when compared with
that she was willing to send it for a sum of accepted notions divulged and applied in
$50,000, which would be equivalent to the the five earlier editions of the Organon, or
income she derived from practice. She said points already stated but re-drafted and re-
it would take her two years to read and examined. They are, as a rule, barely
transcribe HAHNEMANN’s handwriting, known or not known at all by
and that she had fallen upon hard times homœopaths.” The Choudhury family
because the allopaths turned on her when began using LMs in India in 1957, and to
she was no longer protected by this day most of the world’s LM
HAHNEMANN. Unfortunately her request practitioners are in India. LMs were not
was refused and the sixth edition remained introduced to America until recently,
unpublished in her lifetime. Others, like because Homœopathy in this country is
HAHNEMANN’s grandson, Dr.Suss- dominated by the legacy of Kent, who
HAHNEMANN, tried to publish a “sixth unfortunately never knew of LMs because
edition” but Melanie warned them not to he died five years before the sixth edition
do, threatening them with a law suit: “I beg was published.
to inform you that the exclusive rights to
publish sixth edition belong solely to me How LMs are Made
and I possess the sixth edition of the To fully understand
Organon written by my late husband’s the differences between centesimals and
hand. Dr.Suss’ work can have no claim LMs, it is helpful to compare how they are
whatever to be genuine.” (Suss saw made. Most centesimals are made by
HAHNEMANN only twice in his life, first diluting one part of the remedy mother
as a child and afterwards as a young man tincture in 99 parts of alcohol (such as
the day before HAHNEMANN’s death. It Everclear or vodka) and succussing it 100
is therefore understandable that Suss was times to make a 1C; repeat for each
not considered a close associate of successive potency.
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Remedies which begin and a way to progress more gently from one
as solids (such as most minerals) go through potency to the next in the course of
the process of trituration which treatment.
HAHNEMANN developed. (Liquids like HAHNEMANN, one
snake venoms are dropped onto lactose and of the master pharmacists of his era, came
triturated. A milli liter of liquid is equal to up with a simple and ingenious solution for
a gram of solid in this case, so one ml of increasing the dilution, thus making the
liquid remedy would be poured over 99 remedies ever safer (especially considering
grams of lactose and then triturated.) The that some were made from poisons) while
goal is to grind one part of the remedy holding back on the succussions, thus
substance with 99 parts of lactose in a keeping the energy at a gentler level.
mortar and pestle, but HAHNEMANN Instead of succussing 100 times for each one
found it unwieldy to grind the whole batch in 100 dilution, the LMs are only succussed
at once, so he would divide the 99 parts of 100 times for each one in 50,000 dilution.
lactose into three batches. He would grind Administered in water
and scrape the remedy with the first batch (a development of the fifth edition, as we
for 20 minutes, finishing with the last batch have seen), the LMs became a truly
for a total of 60 minutes grinding and revolutionary tool—within a healing system
scraping. When HAHNEMANN first which was revolutionary in itself—for
developed this method he declared it healing at a deep level while controlling
equivalent to diluting one in 99 and aggravation. Putting the remedies in water
succussing 100 times, i.e. he said it was an accomplished several things at once:
alternative way to make 1C. By the time a • It enhanced the effectiveness of delivery,
solid remedy substance has been triturated since
up to 3c, it is soluble and can then be the teaspoon of water could touch many
diluted and succussed like a liquid more nerve endings than a tiny pellet.
remedy…. • It allowed a single dose to be split into
LM potencies begin many
the same way as centesimals, except that administraions; a single pellet of potency
they are made by trituration up to 3c no would be “spread out” into an entire bottle.
matter what the original substance. Plants • Succussing the bottle allowed minute
are crushed with lactose instead of being upward
made into a tincture. Remedies which adjustments of the
begin as a liquid (like Sepia ink, snake potency (much finer tuning
venoms, and Petroleum ) are dropped onto than the 100 succussions between
lactose pellets in a one to 99 ratio. centesimal
Apparently as HAHNEMANN worked with potencies) in keeping with
triturated remedies he found that this HAHNEMANN’s
process released the dynamic or energetic sixth edition dictum never to give the
properties of the remedy better than same
dilution and succussion. potency twice.
To understand the • It thus allowed for highly refined
vast difference between LMs and adjustments
centesimals it helps to understand to respond to aggravations and to the
HAHNEMANN’s line of reasoning and why individual temperament.
he began experimenting with the LMs. His Putting LMs in water
students and homœopathic colleagues allows for many ways to adjust both the
around him were experimenting with very potency and the dose, thus allowing these as
high potencies (up to 16M) and skipping well as the remedy itself to be
many steps between potencies administered individualized to the patient. The
to patients, thus jumping thousands of practitioner can adjust the size of the
succussions between doses. The result was remedy bottle (usually four or eight
what HAHNEMANN called the violent ounces), while the patient can adjust—on a
energy of the higher doses. HAHNEMANN daily basis if necessary—the number of
was looking for a way to increase the succussions, the number of cups it is
dilution without so much violent succussion, dissolved in, and the quantity taken (one

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teaspoon, one half or one quarter teaspoon, water. Add 99 drops of alcohol. Succuss
etc.). The patient can take the remedy once 100 times. Now you have the LM 3 stock
a day (chronic) or several times a day bottle. Pour one drop from your LM 3
(acute) and can “plus” the remedy when the stock bottle onto 500 #10 pellets. These are
bottle is nearly finished. (All these your LM 3 pellets.
adjustments are described in detail below.)
The simple fact that the remedies are gentle The tedious part of this process is
enough to be taken daily allows much more making LM 1. Practitioners usually
freedom for adjustments. purchase an LM 1 kit and make the LM 2,
In sum, to make LMs, LM 3 etc. by hand as patients need them.
start with a 3c made by trituration: Making the higher LMs only takes a few
minutes to make enough to last for years. If
Remedy in Plant Form your 500 pellets run out you just use a drop
1c Triturate the whole plant from the appropriate LM stock bottle to
impregnate another 500 pellets.
Liquid Form Read Aphorisms 269 to 271 in the sixth
Start with the liquid… edition to follow HAHNEMANN’s advice in
Drop onto lactose with one in 100 parts of his own words. As to the precise method of
the liquid, e.g. one ml. to 99 g lactose, then trituration, I refer the reader to Chronic
triturate. Diseases, Vol. I, pp. 147-148.

Mineral/Solid Form Details of Making LM 2 from LM 1

Start with the mineral in powder form. You will need to order ½-dram bottles
Triturate one part in 99 parts of lactose. (regular cap, not dropper bottles), one-
dram dropper bottles, blank poppyseed
2c pellets (#10 pellets available from
Triturate one part of 1c in 99 parts of homœopathic pharmacy suppliers by the
lactose. pound or quarter pound) and empty bullet
3c boxes to hold the LMs you make. Scientific
Triturate one part of 2c in 99 parts of precision tweezers with a fine point are also
lactose. helpful to handle the tiny pellets.
LM 1 Take First take one pellet of LM 1 and put it
one grain (0.062 grams) of 3c and add 500 in a one dram dropper bottle. This will be
drops of a mixture composed of one part your LM 2 stock bottle. Add one drop of
alcohol and four parts distilled water distilled water to moisten it. Keep a special
(i.e.100 drops alcohol and 400 drops water). dropper labeled just for water and a
Take one drop (note that you have not different one for alcohol; be sure not to
succussed this mixture) and put it in two ml measure either with the dropper belonging
of alcohol. Succuss 100 times. Now you to the stock bottle. After it has dissolved,
have the LM 1 stock bottle. Pour one drop add 99 drops of alcohol (Everclear or
from your LM1 stock bottle onto 500 unflavored vodka). Succuss the stock bottle
poppyseed pellets (#10 pellets). These are 100 times.
your LM 1 Pellets, which you will use to Now fill a ½-dram bottle 1/3 full with
make your patient’s remedy bottle. poppyseed blank pellets. When full, it holds
LM 2 Take 1500 pellets. When 1/3 full it will be close
one pellet of LM 1 and dissolve in one drop enough to 500 pellets.
of water. Add 99 drops of alcohol. Succuss Put 1 drop from your LM 2 stock bottle
100 times. Now you have the LM 2 stock in the bottle with the pellets. Immediately
bottle. Pour one drop from your LM 2 cap it and start rolling it around to coat all
stock bottle onto 500 #10 pellets. These are the pellets. This is your LM2.
your LM 2 pellets.
Be sure to label all your bottles; I use ¼
LM3 Take inch round labels for the caps and 3/8 x 5/8
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don’t peel off when inserted into the bullet with your name and the patient’s name, the
box. date, the name of the remedy, the potency
(LM 1, LM 2, etc.) and the number of
Making the Remedy Solution Bottle succussions to start with.
To make a remedy solution for the
patient, take a new 4 oz, bottle like a cough Standard Succussions (for the Non-Sensitive
syrup bottle (an “Rx bottle” ordered from a Patient)
pharmacy supplier). Put in one LM HAHNEMANN introduced a new
poppyseed pellet of the remedy (you can concept with the LMs: the patient succusses
shake the closed bottle and listen for the the remedy each time he takes it and thus
rattle of the pellet if in any doubt whether can control his reaction to it. Demonstrate
the tiny pellet is in there). Fill the bottle succussions to your patient with a demo
with distilled or purified water (no tap bottle (not the actual remedy bottle) and
water except in emergency) up to the line ask for a return demonstration. Strike the
halfway up the neck of the bottle (space has bottle firmly against the palm of the
to be left for the succussions). The size of opposite hand from a distance of about two
the bottle is adjusted for hypersensitive feet. A leatherbound book can be used
patients to eight ounces or occasionally 16 instead of the palm. Emphasize to your
ounces. As a preservative, add 15 drops patient the importance of using a firm,
(one dropper-full from a one-dram bottle) resilient surface. A tabletop, for example, is
of Everclear or vodka to a 4 oz. bottle. If not an acceptable substitute.
you use an eight ounce bottle for Also emphasize to your patient that the
hypersensitive, you should more than remedy bottle must be succussed before
double the alcohol; perhaps using as much each dose. Why? After the first dose
as one ounce of alcohol, because the bottle (assuming that the remedy is working), the
will last more than twice as long. patient will be less ill. The second dose must
(Hypersensitives often take ½ or ¼ teaspoon consequently be adapted to the less morbid
instead of a teaspoon, and towards the end condition. As the patient needs less and less
of the first bottle, they may be taking the of the remedy, you are speeding up the
remedy only as needed.) The alcohol should process of healing by giving the remedy
be vodka or Everclear, not methyl or more penetration power through the
rubbing alcohol. I use vodka because it is succussions. Consequently, HAHNEMANN
the only kind of alcohol that can be recommends giving the same remedy, but
tolerated by patients suffering from yeast more highly dynamized. He cautioned
overgrowth and fermentation (based on my against repeating the same LM potency
extensive experience in treating this even once (in chronic cases), this being
population). detrimental and even possibly leading to
Some patients in recovery from incurability (the same meaning without
alcoholism may object to even a few drops succussions in between). “Before
of alcohol as preservative, even if you proceeding, it is important to observe, that
explain that the amount is so small that it our vital principle cannot well bear that the
will not have a noticeable effect. (They may same unchanged dose of medicine be given
object because they have taken a vow not to even twice in succession, much frequently to
take even a drop of alcohol, or because the a patient.” (I have never seen this happen,
odor of alcohol when they open the bottle however; I have had patients make the
can be a trigger for them.) For these mistake of not succussing, and the remedy
patients you can use glycerin instead, still worked.)
doubling the amount because it is not as The practitioner tells the patient how
effective a preservative as alcohol. many times to succuss the bottle at first,
A four ounce bottle will be finished in based on the patient’s sensitivity. The
about three weeks if the patient is taking a average, normosensitive adult starts with
daily dose of one teaspoon. If the bottle eight succussions. The hypersensitive, as
needs to be stored for a longer period well as infants, the elderly and patients with
because the patient is taking the remedy severe tissue pathology, succuss it two to
prn, more alcohol is needed as a five times. The hyposensitive (i.e. a
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times. After the initial dose the patient can to six) to avoid another aggravation. When
adjust the number of succussions according the number of succussions has been reduced
to his reaction, as described below. to two, the patient starts reducing the
After the patient has succussed the amount of liquid instead, since the remedy
bottle, he takes one teaspoon from the bottle always has to be succussed. (In practice I
and stirs it into a cup of four ounces of never go to one succussion because I have
distilled or filtered water. Then he stirs not found any noticeable difference between
vigorously with a plastic spoon and takes two and one.) The curative action of the
one teaspoon from this cup (the dosage cup) correct remedy should be so rapid that you
as his dose. (Infants receive ½ tsp. from the will rarely need to go higher than LM 10
dosage cup.) The patient throws the rest of before a new remedy, if any, is called for.
the four ounces away. (Be sure to tell them In my experience chronic cases are usually
never to drink the whole cup. I encourage resolved by LM 5 or 6, and often by LM 2
patients to give the “remedy water” to their or 3. HAHNEMANN’s own LM pharmacy
plants and have heard remarkable stories of contained many remedies from LM 1 to LM
supposedly dead plants returning to life and 10 and only a few up to LM 30, such as
even to bloom.) To avoid mismeasurement, Sulphur and Mercuris solubilis (for the
give your patient a small plastic cup with treatment of Syphilis, so rampant in his
teaspoons marked on the side (the standard time).
med cup used in hospitals, available
inexpensively from pharmacy suppliers). Adjustments for the Hypersensitive Patient
Emphasize to your patient the importance The first way to adjust for
of designating a different cup to mix each hypersensitives is to reduce the amount of
remedy. To increase compliance, you can liquid at each step to ½ teaspoon and have
give the patient a clear nine ounce plastic them dilute it in two different four ounce
cup from the supermarket, with the four- cups of water: they take ½ teaspoon from
ounce line marked and the remedy name the remedy bottle, stir it into a four ounce
noted in indelible marker. (Once patients cup, take ½ from that cup and stir it into a
start using many remedies, e.g. for acutes, it second four ounce cup, then take ½
will avoid confusion if they keep a separate teaspoon from the second cup as their dose
cup for each remedy and label the cup.) (called “making a second cup”). Extremely
The patient can keep on using the same cup sensitive people can reduce the amount to ¼
for the same remedy… or 1/8 teaspoon at each step and dilute it into
three, four or five different cups. The
Dosage and Administration of LMs for a Non- frequency can also be reduced. Sometimes
Sensitive Patient one dose every seven or 14 days is enough to
The patient succusses the remedy and avoid aggravations. You may wonder how
takes a teaspoon from the dosage cup every you decide among these different methods.
day if necessary. Typically the non- Fortunately hypersensitives are so sensitive
sensitive patients will take it daily in the to the remedy that they can easily tell you,
beginning of their treatment. Sensitive based on a little experimenting, what works
patients may only need it once a week or for them. It may also be a matter of the
even once a month, and non-sensitive patient’s convenience and preference: some
patients taper off to a similar schedule over may find they can save time by taking the
the course of several months of treatment. remedy every other day, while others may
The patient is taught to stop taking the be too sensitive to the slight start-and-stop
remedy at the slightest hint of an effect of this method and need to take it
aggravation, which usually nips the daily at half the previous dose. One patient
aggravation in the bud. The patient waits may find it difficult to measure 1/16 of a
for the aggravation to disappear, the teaspoon in two cups and may prefer 1/8 of a
subsequent improvement, and then another teaspoon in three cups, while another may
downturn before starting the remedy again. find it too tedious to make three cups. With
This usually happens in a couple of days. LM potencies the treatment is patient-
When resuming the remedy, the patient centered: we explain how to adjust and then
permanently reduces the number of empower patients to take the adjustment
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If the patient is still aggravating on the the nature of the real cure, the homœopathic
liquid LMs no matter how much you adjust cure. Kentian prescribers administer remedies
it downwards (which happens rarely, and with large gaps, from 200c to 1M, to 10M, etc.,
only in the case of extreme hypersensitives), hence strong aggravations are possible. The
go to the olfaction or friction (skin) issue of similar aggravations is a serious one, as
method…. the suffering caused by long aggravations leads
many patients to abandon Homœopathy and
Advantages of LM Potencies vs. the return to the suppressive methods of allopathic
Centesimal Scale medicine.
These are the advantages I have found • If there is any aggravation with LM
for LMs in my own extensive experience potencies,
with both types of prescribing. They apply it will disappear within two days at the most
to all patients, but especially to when the remedy is stopped, usually much
hypersensitives who suffer too much from faster—several hours to half a day (although in
the aggravations caused by high centesimal extremely sensitive people the aggravation
potencies. I have had other practitioners occasionally lasts longer).
tell me that LM potencies aggravate, or that • While many LM prescribers might consider
they do not notice a difference between centesimals more appropriate for acute
LMs and centesimals, but invariably I have situations because their nature is somewhat
found tht these practitioners are similar (quick onset, early aggravations, and
administering LMs by a method different strong primary action of the remedy), LMs can
from HAHNEMANN’s method outlined in also be used in unusual acute situations where
this book, which I have found to work high potency centesimals have not
extremely well. helped. Make LM 1 in a four ounce bottle and
• LMs are quicker and deeper in action with take one tablespoon at least twice a
less day and as often as every hour from
aggravations. Aggravations are minimized the same cup, stirring vigorously before each
and can be regulated more easily (see dose. I have used this in an acute situation
Aphorisms 245 and 246). Normally, in skin (a tennis elbow) when I knew I had the
diseases and serious chronic cases, the simillimum (Bellis perennis) and the condition
homœopathic aggravation of the centesimal was responding only very slowly—even to high
scale can give rise to immense suffering of potencies in water and to Dr.Pierre Schmidt’s
the patients. As Kent himself expressed: “I favorite method (30c-200c-1M each one dose
should rather be in a room with a dozen with four hours in between). There was a
people slashing with razors than in the dramatic response due to the great penetration
hands of an ignorant prescriber of high power of LMs.
potencies. They are means of tremendous • Deep acting remedies like Lycopodium
harm, as well as of tremendous good.” It is and
evident that while high potencies are Calcarea carb can be used daily and repeated
consistent with the first and third ideals of for months.
cure, i.e. rapid penetration and permanent
restoration, they frequently violate the • Longstanding chronic diseases can be
second ideal, a gentle impression. cured
• There is no leap or jump in this method. more quickly using his scale, at least in my
The experience. For instance longstanding illnesses
patient starts with LM 1 and goes up to LM 2, like Asthma can be cured in a matter of months
then LM 3 and so forth after finishing each rather than years. This is also the case
bottle. By succussing the remedy bottle each for numerous other serious chronic illnesses.
day, the patient gradually raises the potency so The repetition of the dose with Kentian
that it is closer to the next remedy bottle, potencies is not possible if there are remnants
making a very smooth progression of potencies. of disease, so the patient suffers longer. (This
It is in the nature of chronic diseases that they method requires waiting until the practitioner
do not aggravate suddenly, but progress is sure she can repeat, which means waiting
gradually and slowly. So the potency of the until the patient is suffering again.) So
medicine should not be increased suddenly. it requires longer periods of time to
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effect the cure. The LM method • Practitioners who give a single dose every
hastens the process of cure by frequent few
repetition. weeks or months may be concerned about their
• It can be seen within two to four days remedies being cancelled by coffee, camphor,
whether mint, dental interventions, etc. This is not the
or not the remedy has been selected correctly. case with LMs, which are rarely cancelled by
After a single dose patients typically report a any of the above; and if they are, it does not
sense of well-being and improvement on a deep matter because the patient repeats the remedy
level, such as having more energy or being able the next day.
to sleep better, whether or not their chief • Practitioners of the “wait and watch”
complaint has improved. With 6c we often method
have to wait several weeks or months (three may find it necessary to forbid their patients to
weeks at least) before we can notice any use nutritional supplements or receive other
changes . With 200c and higher potencies we treatments such as acupuncture, chiropractic
may see a change quickly-but often at the cost or massage for fear that these will muddy the
of an unwarranted similar aggravation. Any picture and make it difficult to tell whether the
improvement with centesimals may come so remedy is working. With LM potencies, it is
much later that the patient often does not clear from the first day or two whether the
attribute it to the remedy. The homœopath remedy is working, so that patients can then be
ends up taking the blame for the aggravation encouraged to do everything they can to
while receiving no credit for the improvement. support their vital energy.
• Because of the quick and clear action of • It is not necessary for the patient
LMs, to
disruption of the case by the wrong remedy is discontinue prescription medication. LM
quickly noted and also wears off much more potencies are more effective than centesimals,
quickly than a disruption created by high again in my experience, in working through the
potency centesimal doses. patient’s Prozac, Albuterol, insulin or any
• In mental illness, where even a low other medication which patients are reluctant
centesimal to give up, and which in fact would be
potency can aggravate, LMs can cure dangerous for them to give up before the
smoothly. remedy has had time to act. The patient
• In cases of longtime suppression (and it is understands this method more easily because of
hard its resemblance to the allopathic method of
to imagine any chronic disease in our present daily dosing. (Although not always taken daily,
time that has not been suppressed), this potency LMs are administered more frequently than
works very effectively. LMs can revive centesimals usually are.)
suppressed symptoms better than centesimal • Patients are taught to observe their
potencies, in my experience. own
• LMs are excellent in palliating symptoms and adjust their own dosage, which
incurable gives them a much greater sense of
diseases (where there is great pathological participating in the healing process and leads to
damage) without the danger of aggravation. greater patient satisfaction.
• In other apparently hopeless cases • A homœopath can easily make LM 2,
of LM 3
advanced pathology (according to allopathic and so forth from LM 1, so that he only needs
prognosis), LM potencies may not only palliate to buy an LM 1 and then he has a complete
better than any other potency, it may even cure pharmacy at his disposal.
them. Where Kentian prescribers have to be Looking at all these advantages, I feel
extremely restrained in treating advanced that
pathology (because an aggravation could be HAHNEMANN has given us his greatest
fatal), LM potencies can be used more gift in the LM potencies. It is unfortunate
aggressively and often “cure the incurable” that by a historical accident only perhaps
because of their gentleness. This is especially 10% of the homœopaths in the world (and
true in what HAHNEMANN called one-sided fewer in the US) have been trained in using
diseases…. this potency. The new O’REILLY
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renewed interest in LM potencies, but there Adjust for hypersensitives: Ascertain the
has been a dearth of adequate instruction sensitivity of the patient by asking them
available for practitioners sincerely whether they have previously aggravated
interested in learning how to use them. In on homœopathic remedies; whether they
addition, many who would otherwise want are sensitive to environmental chemicals,
to try LMs have been deterred by fumes, or weather changes; whether they
misinformation passed around at have difficulty coming out of anesthesia;
conferences: that LMs are too difficult and whether they typically reduce their dosage
too unwieldy to use, or that patient of allopathic medicine to ½ or ¼ the
compliance is poor. In my own experience, recommended amount; and/or whether they
I have found that the majority of patients tend to have allergic reactions to vitamins
can understand and correctly follow the and herbs. If you suspect the patient is
directions for LMs; not only that, they hypersensitive, it is better to be
enjoy the sense of actively participating in conservative and give her an eight ounce
their own healing. I always tell them that bottle with two succussions. The worst that
they are the pilot and I am only the co-pilot can happen is that the cure takes a little
in their healing journey. The sense of longer than it otherwise would. For
empowerment they receive from observing example, you tell the patient to do two
their own reactions daily and making their succussions and it turns out she needs four.
own adjustments is healing in itself. If you err in the other direction, and tell a
As for difficulty of use, LMs require a patient to use four succussions when they
modicum of additional study in the really need two, the resulting aggravation
beginning, but they more than make up for will slow down the process of cure much
it in the ease of practice which they provide. more.
I have worked with both centesimals and Remember that an LM is much more
LMs, and I found a remarkable difference powerful than 30c (which is why I have
when I converted my practice to using LMs often seen that a hypersensitive could
almost exclusively: the pace of cure was so tolerate 30c but not an LM 1, two
speeded up that I felt my entire practice succussions). So if the vitality and
had been put in a VCR on “fast forward”, sensitivity is such that one would be
and the patients’ reactions were so concerned about giving a 30c, then do not
highlighted and clarified that it was like give LMs in a normal dose. Use eight or
switching from black-and-white to color sixteen ounce bottles with two succussions,
TV. I no longer needed to spend time dilute in several cups if needed, give one
puzzling over the patients’ reactions and dose as a test dose and repeat only if
how to proceed because LMs made the necessary.
picture dramatically clearer.
I hope that this book can serve as a Giving an initial test dose: When starting a
guide for students and experienced new remedy, give a test dose by asking the
practitioners like so that HAHNEMANN’s patient to take one dose and then skip the
last and most remarkable achievement following day so that he has a full 48 hours
receives the wide publicity and extensive to observe the effect. Make sure that the
use it deserves. Yes, the practitioner will patient does not interfere with this first
receive more phone calls from patients than dose (by avoiding coffee and not starting
when treating with high potencies. LMs any other new modality or a new diet at this
change the clinical picture so fast that often time) and see how the reaction compares to
the patient needs to consult with the the [following] three scenarios… Assuming
practitioner again within the first week. that you have chosen the right remedy, the
But as healers we must not deny our first possibility is a strong positive reaction
patients the benefits of LMs because of a such that the patient feels an extra amount
minor inconvenience to ourselves. The of nervous energy (taking off like a rocket).
gratitude of your patients and your sense of Much as the patient might like this, stop the
fulfillment in your practice will more than remedy for several days and reduce the
make up for it. amount of succussions because it means
that the dosage is too strong and will lead to
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succussion is reduced by two (e.g. from two, e.g. from eight to six, then when going
eight to six) if there is an aggravation. But from LM 2 to LM 3 from six to four. When
in this case you can consider reducing much the number of succussions has been reduced
more, e.g. from eight to four or even two, to two, you cannot go any lower so the
depending on how intense the reaction is. patient starts taking ½ teaspoon from the
A second scenario is a similar bottle and from the cup (written ½ - ½).
aggravation: stop the remedy until the
aggravation is over and adjust the Ending with 200c or 1M: Depending on the
succussions and/or the amount given. compliance of the patient, after LM 2 or
(Consider adjusting the succussions down LM 3 I sometimes give the same remedy (if
to two if the reaction is intense, as in the still indicated) in a 200c or 1M potency.
first scenario.) The third scenario is the This has certain advantages. First, some
ideal one, the “Driving Miss Daisy” patients get tired of taking a dose prn,
response: a gentle beneficial reaction (a which becomes especially confusing when
sense of well-being, sleeping longer and the remedy is needed less and less often.
deeper, etc.). There may or may not be any There is a real danger that they will
improvement in the Chief Complaint at this overdose themselves because they do not
point. A fourth possibility … is a striking pay attention. At the same time, as we
improvement in the patient’s chief progress with our LM potency, with each
complaint. In this case, HAHNEMANN dose slightly stronger than the previous one,
said do not repeat until the improvement the natural disease grows smaller while the
stops, which can take several days or even artificial disease created by the remedy
weeks. (A final scenario is not a reflection grows larger. Therefore, there is growing
on the potency but on the choice of a danger of accessory symptoms of the
remedy: a dissimilar aggravation indicates remedy, unhomœopathic to the case, if the
that the remedy is the wrong remedy and dose is repeated too soon (see the discussion
the case must be re-analyzed.) of accessory symptoms in Chapter 12). A
Our general rule is that if an 1M has less penetration power than LM 3
aggravation occurs we adjust down; if the (which has built in all the succussions of
dose is not strong enough, we adjust up. LM 1 and 2). This “lesser” potency
We suspect the dose is not strong enough if therefore might correspond more closely to
the patient fails to react to the well-chosen the diminished natural disease, keeping
remedy in a week or so, which is rarely the accessory symptoms to a minimum. Of
case if no other obstructions are present … course, when you have an intelligent and
There are several ways of adjusting, by diligent patient, you certainly never need to
decreasing or increasing the following: use another potency but LM. A very
• The number of succussions sporadic LM dose prn when symptoms
• The amount of water in the solution bottle, resurface speeds up the healing process.
by using an eight ounce or 16 ounce bottle. But the above method can be applied if the
patient is too busy and does not pay
• The dilution (number of teaspoons taken
attention to his progress (which happens
from the bottle and put into the four ounce
more often than one would think), or the
cup of water)
patient becomes confused as to when to
• The quantity of the dose from the cup itself
repeat the LM potency …
(½, ¼ or 1/8 teaspoon; two teaspoons or one
tablespoon, etc.) Plussing the bottle: For sensitive patients, in
• The number of cups used to dilute the order to dull the possibly aggravating step
remedy, the days of intake (skipping days from LM 1 to LM 2, I would tell them that
or everyday). when the LM1 bottle has only one teaspoon
Normally I adjust the number of remaining, to fill it with purified water half-
succussions way (2 oz. for a 4 oz. bottle, 4 oz. for an 8
first, down to the minimum of two before oz. bottle), and then continue with the same
applying the other measures. number of succussions (this is the plussing
method). Since the last teaspoon of LM 1
Reduce succussions between LM potencies: contains all the added succussions, it is the
When the patient goes from LM 1 to LM 2 strongest teaspoon of LM 1 and is therefore
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the patient finishes this plussed bottle and chronic miasmatic state. But it was a very
takes the first teaspoon of LM 2 (if still comon occurrence in HAHNEMANN’s
needed), any aggravation will be minimal or time. American homœopaths may see it if
non-existent. This is only necessary when they volunteer to work in Third World
going from LM 1 to LM 2 to LM 3 etc/, and countries, because suppressive treatments
only for sensitive patients. are not so widely available there.) LMs
Plussing is also a good way to test may also be contraindicated depending on
whether a patient still needs the remedy. I the patient’s temperament or forgetfulness
might do this when I think the patient is at ….
the end of the remedy. If the patient is In ascending order: Some Indian
about to finish LM 4 and I am not sure if practitioners start with LM 6, for example,
she will need LM 5, I might have her plus giving it for three days, stopping for a
the bottle. If her symptoms return slightly, month, then giving three doses of LM 12,
she needs the added stimulus of LM 5. If waiting another month, giving three doses
not, the plussed LM 4 might coast her of LM 18, and so on. This method may
gently to a complete cure. Another work in the hands of a very skilled and
situation in which I might do this is a experienced practitioner, but I would not
practical one: if the patient is about to run recommend it to a beginner and I have not
out and cannot get a refill in time, I tell her found it necessary in my practice. I always
to plus the bottle. If she continues to start with LM 1 and proceed to LM 2, LM 3
progress, then I know I can definitely etc. without skipping potencies. The only
reduce the succussions and may be the exception was that HAHNEMANN advised
frequency or dosage for the next LM bottle. sometimes starting with LM 3 in very
If there is no progress she definitely needs hyposensitive individuals. But practitioners
the next LM and possibly at the same should follow the basic rules until they are
number of succussions. I usually don’t do thoroughly familiar with the phenomenal
this deliberately, but if the situation comes power of LMs before they start
up, the information is useful to me. experimenting with different methods of
Nosodes: Nosodes are sometime found in administration.
LM potencies, but as a rule, I would advise Other Indian homœopaths give the
using nosodes in a 200c potency, as the old remedy in descending potencies, Dr.
masters did. 200c is more appropriate for Choudhury introduced this method in
their deep working and slow-acting nature. India, giving sensitive patients first a few
(I start with a 200c and then if I need to doses of LM 1 and then, when the patient
repeat it I have the options of repeating regained his vitality, raising the potency to
200c or going directly to a 1M.) LM 3 or 4 and after that gradually
descending the scale again. We can
When not to use LMs: Exceptions for the understand the reasoning. After
use of LM potencies are few, but they exist. application of the simillimum the disease
LM potencies are not indicated in the state becomes weaker, the patient feels
treatment of the three great miasms as long improved on all planes, yet by going to LM
as their external manifestations are present: 2 the remedy becomes stronger. So he
recently erupted itch (scabies), or syphilitic preferred the descending method, going
chancre, or figwarts. These situations down from LM 4 to LM 3, etc. But we can
require large doses of the remedy from the adjust for this by reducing the succussions,
beginning with higher and higher potencies giving the remedy less frequently and in
daily or even more often. This procedure smaller amounts. Also, as a practical
has no danger of causing medicinal matter, it seems difficult to judge how far to
aggravation since the practitioner can jump with a particular patient once the
observe the progress of treatment day by initial doses of LM 1 are given, whether to
day until the disappearance of these local LM 3 or LM 6, etc. Like the ascending
symptoms signal a perfect cure. (As potencies, this method may give very good
modern practitioners we are not normally results in the hands of an experienced
confronted with these situations. By the practitioner but is not recommended for the
time patients come to us, the condition has beginner. HAHNEMANN did use
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beginning, but later, he used ascending appears, representing an earlier layer in the
potencies throughout his cases, which patient’s timeline. We have to start again
Choudhury attributes to his senility and the with LM 1 of Natrum muriaticum. This is a
heavy burden of more important new layer, the patient has no Natrum
assignments. But we know from historic muriaticum in her system, so it is logical
accounts that HAHNEMANN remained that we start over again. However, if
mentally sharp and able to do his best work returning to the same remedy after a lapse
up to the time of his death. In my own of time (the patient seemed to be cured but
practice, I always use the ascending scale symptoms recur later), resume where you
HAHNEMANN recommended, with left off that remedy. If she is halfway
excellent results. through a bottle of LM 3, she must start at
the same place. If the remedy has spoiled
Overreaction by hypersensitives: A few (flecks are floating in it), she will have to
hypersensitives can be so sensitive that they take a new bottle of LM 3 and pour half of
seem to react to any seemingly well- it out, also succussing it approximately the
indicated remedy with many new same number of times as the accumulated
symptoms. The accessory symptoms can succussions in the previous bottle.
even overshadow the patient’s clinical
picture, giving the practitioner the false End at LM 30: HAHNEMANN made LMs
impression that the remedy is wrong. After up to LM 30, because as he stated,
several false starts, the practitioner realizes “everything has to come to an end.” In fact
that the problem is not his choice of remedy when his medicine chest was discovered, it
but the patient’s extraordinary had all the remedies proven at that time in
hypersensitivity. (If they were truly potencies to LM 10 with only Sulphur and
accessory signs, the remedy wouldn’t have Mercurius solubilis up to LM 30. He had
to be changed, only the potency.) I would about 1700 LM potency remedies in this
not use LMs in this case because they will chest versus about 500 C scale remedies
react to even the smallest dose due to their (which indicates his preference at the end of
deep penetration power. I would first try his life)! Most chronic cases are cured by
6c dry, one pellet per day, adjusting up if the time we reach LM 10. (Occasionally a
necessary by putting it in water and giving hyposensitive with a disease layer of many
one, two or three teaspoons a day, or years’ duration will need more.) An
adjusting down if necessary by going to the exception occurs when palliating incurable
olfactive or skin method. diseases. I used Arsenicum in a Cancer
patient whose oncologist gave her two
Administer in water: The famous Indian months to live. She lived another three
homœopath Patel tried giving LM potencies years and reached LM 16, enjoying good
dry on the tongue, claiming they worked health, energy and moods to the very end.
that way too. But he admitted that the Some practitioners like Patel in India have
medicines in liquid worked better. One reached LM 50 (especially in Nux vomica
should never use the LM potencies dry, only and Sulphur) but Patel started his cases
in water as HAHNEMANN prescribed. with LM 10 and jumped potencies from
there.
Always start with LM1: In a footnote to
Aphorism 246, HAHNEMANN states: “Use Administer correctly: Many modern
begins with the lowest degrees [i.e. LM1].” homœopaths think that LM potencies are a
He did not say, “Start with LM 6 or LM type of low potency remedy that can be
10.” “Imitate me, but imitate me well” is repeated daily “because they don’t
HAHNEMANN’s motto. aggravate.” Nothing is further from the
When we finish a layer, for instance truth. We already know that LMs are not
with an LM 3, and new symptoms requiring repeated automatically, day after day. And
a new remedy show up, what should be the it is mainly the incorrect use of the LM
potency of this second prescription? For potencies (starting with LM 5 instead of
instance we finish a layer of Sepia at the LM 1, giving the pellet dry, giving a dose
end of a bottle of Sepia LM 3. Now the directly from the bottle, etc.) that gives the
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aggravate,” as I have heard some Kentian Administering in eyedroppers: Most

prescribers say. As we have seen in homœopaths who tell me that they use LMs
previous sections of this chapter, a very seem to administer them in eyedroppers
small aggravation is possible and easily rather than four or eight ounce bottles.
corrected through the various means we This is not the method HAHNEMANN
have of adjustment of the dose. But that is recommended, and I am not sure where it
not what these homœopaths refer to. Some started. It is definitely more convenient for
of them even claim, “I used the LM potency the patient, and I am open to the possibility,
and my case aggravated. Then when I used although I have never tried it this way
the centisimal scale, I had no aggravation myself. I do have several concerns about
and my patient was cured.” If this were giving LMs in this way. It makes sense to
true, why would HAHNEMANN in the 6th me that the wave forms of the succussions
edition declare LMs his greatest (and thereby the power of the energetic
achievement and encourage his readers to imprint of the remedy picture) would be
discard his previous discovery, the altered if almost the entire volume of the
centesimals? I believe that many of the bottle is penetrated by the dropper. Most
problems reported with LM potencies stem practitioners who use LMs in eyedroppers
from an unfortunate lack of training and tell me that they aggravate or that they are
textbooks available for LMs. For example, no better than centesimals, which tells me
I have heard of homœopaths giving the LM that eyedroppers may not be as effective a
pellet dry on the tongue, or starting with method as the remedy bottles. David
LM 6, or giving a teaspoon directly from Little’s research with hundreds of patients
the remedy bottle, or jumping from one LM in India over the past 12 years indicates
to the next after only a few days. Almost that the size of the remedy bottle has a
every time improper application was the significant impact on the effectiveness of the
sole reason for aggravations from LMs. remedy…
Do not automatically give the remedy I would like to hear from practitioners
daily: It bears repeating that an LM who get results from LMs in eyedroppers
potency is not repeated indiscriminately comparable to my results with remedy
day after day just because, as many believe, bottles, since eyedroppers would certainly
“it is such a gentle potency.” In Aphorism be more conveniently to the patient. …I
246 HAHNEMANN said: “Every noticeably believe we owe it to our patients to try
progressing and conspicuously increasing different methods until we find the one that
improvement … excludes any repetition of will be the most rapid and gentle for them.
the medicine.” Cases with such As HAHNEMANN said, aude sapere (“dare
“conspicuously increasing improvement” to know”).
are of course the most wonderful reactions
we can have, and if the patient is sensitive
enough I have seen a layer resolved with a 7.
single dose of LM 1. ALO
Alas, as HAHNEMANN said himself in E: A Study in Materia Medica
the same paragraph, these cases are rather André SAINE ND. (SIM, Vol.XIV,
rare, and he continues in a footnote to the 4/2001)
same paragraph, “The same well-chosen
medicine can now be given daily, even for Aloe socotrina grows naturally on the
months when necessary.” We need to pay shores of the Island of Socotra, located in
great attention to each word the Indian Ocean, south of the Arabian
HAHNEMANN said, particularly to the Peninsula. It was known in ancient times as
words when necessary. We need to educate a holy medicament against melancholy.
our patients as to the different outcome Alexander the Great sent colonists to the
scenarios so they know how to adjust on a Island of Socotra just to cultivate the plant.
daily basis and when to stop taking the It was such a rare and precious plant that it
remedy. In addition to the patient was given as a present from sultans to
instruction handout…. I give them …a kings. The part used as a medicine is the
basic rule of thumb: “When in doubt, stop resin that freely flows out of its leaf when
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but also by its sweet smell and very bitter turning to his desk, he prepared three
taste. powders and handed them to me, with
Hering told the story of how he directions. I left him in wonder, for my
obtained a “stolen” piece of Aloe for his case had troubled the physician who had
proving: “I went to a druggist in sent me, and I had expected a long search.
Philadelphia by the name of Morris to buy “The remedy produced a violent
some Aloes. He showed me two kinds. I aggravation, and I recollect that wonder
told him that both of them were temporarily gave place to a state of mind
adulterations. He sent his boy out to all the akin to resentment. Recovery followed, and
drug stores in town for more samples. An so did my promised report to the doctor.
immense heap of Aloes was collected, all of The recital of the success of his prescription
them bogus. The druggist was chagrined. caused his face to smile all over, which
He sent to New York for more samples. I ended with a hearty, genial laugh, and he
came to examine this large assortment but said, ‘That was A-lo-es; it was low; it was
did not find a single genuine specimen the 500th.’ Then seating himself and
among them. At last I noticed that the motioning me to a chair, he went on to
druggist held back a small package, relate how he had suffered similarly when
carefully wrapped in paper, which he did proving the drug, and made me promise to
not seem willing to show me. I asked to see write out and give to him a history of the
it. He handed it over, smiled as I said: case, which I afterwards did, and informed
‘This is genuine Aloes. Where did you get me that the medicine had been potentized
it?’ He confessed that he had stolen it from for him by Dr.Fincke, from a choice bit of
a collection in the Academy of Pharmacy, of crude material furnished by himself.”1
which he was a trustee. The sample had
been brought into the country by an Diarrhea
expedition that had sailed around the world The main known effect of Aloe is on
and had received the specimen from the the intestines and rectum, and
Sultan of Muscat, who grew the plant from characterized by profuse, watery, gushing
which the substance is derived. When you diarrhea. Diarrhea will often be the chief
break a piece of Aloes the fracture must presenting complaint of the patient, and its
show a fiery red, almost purplish, golden characteristic symptoms will lead the
tint, almost transparent. The adulterated conscientious prescriber to study Aloe.
specimens were boiled in certain oils to such Now, let’s first describe the
a degree that they made the paper in which characteristic symptoms of the diarrhea of
they came, greasy.” Aloe. Typically, it is a profuse, yellow
Aloe was first proven by German brownish, watery diarrhea containing
homœopaths in the early 1820s and 1830s; lumps; it can be lumps with mucus, or
one of them was conducted under the lumps of mucus jelly. It can look like frog
guidance of HAHNEMANN. Hering and spawn, or it can be mixed with blood, and
other American physicians completed its typically associated with great rumbling,
proving in the 1840s and ‘50s. Hering first gurgling, and passing a large quantity of
published the materia medica of Aloe in loud, sputtering gas.
1857 in the Amerikanische The diarrhea can be felt coming
Arzneiprufungen (American Provings) minutes, or even hours before hand. There
which was translated by T.F. ALLEN and is often a great rumbling. At times, patients
published in the American Homœopathic can feel the bolus travelling in the guts and
Review in 1863, and reprinted in Reference then eventually filling the rectum. The
Works. rectum seems full of liquid, which feels as if
There is an interesting anecdote from it would fall out. That is when they develop
Edmund CARLETON recalling his first their most peculiar symptom, which
meeting with HERING, who prescribed him consists of insecurity of the rectum; they
Aloe: “I remember, as if it were but don’t feel that they will be able to contain
yesterday, the first time we met. It was in the diarrhea.
his office as physician and patient. He In old books, we can find the
stood and looked at me calmly, while I expression, ‘Want of confidence in
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symptom that “it is oftener than otherwise • Walking

described, by those who suffer it, as a • Morning: driving out of bed in the early
feeling of ‘uncertainty’—meaning that they morning, 5-10 AM
are not sure they shall not be attacked by • Evening
diarrhea any minute—and that they feel • Becoming overheated
just as though they would be.”2 They • Hot weather
cannot pass gas or urinate without stool • Damp weather: both hot humid and cold
escaping. The stool can also be passed damp (the patient is also mentally worse in
unnoticed. cloudy weather)
At times they can also have a great urge
• Acidic foods, fruits and milk
for stool, but only flatus is emitted. As
• After chagrin (anger)
Dunham well said, Aloe “strikes the patient
• From suppressed skin eruptions
equally between wind and water.” The
flatus tends to be hot, offensive, and • From Chemotherapy
accompanied by heat and burning of the As the diarrhea becomes more chronic,
rectum. At first they will have to hurry to the
the toilet, especially immediately on eating patient will develop hemorrhoids which
or drinking, but eventually they will lose protrude like a bundle of grapes after the
control. The stool will pass when walking stool. These hemorrhoids will create a
or standing, especially after eating. constant bearing-down in the rectum. They
Involuntary stool can go unnoticed, or there tend to bleed and feel sore,
can be an involuntary stool at night in bed characteristically better with cold water,
in a constipated person; even in children and especially sore upon wiping after stool.
you will find a large solid stool. A hard There is a tendency for the rectum to
stool can drop out without causing the least constantly secrete mucus which escapes
sensation. from the anus. There may be a peculiar
Other characteristics are that before sensation in the pelvis, a feeling as if a plug
the stool there is a great amount of was wedged between the symphysis pubis
distention, gurgling and heat in the and coccyx, which becomes worse with
abdomen. The heat is both subjective and urging for stool. This sensation could be
objective, and feels like the pelvis is filled related to an affection of the prostate gland.
with hot water. It can also be accompanied
by pain before and during stool. The pain Mind and head
is a pinching, cutting, twisting, and gripping Let’s go over some of the other
type of pain, forcing the patient to sit bent, symptoms of Aloe. Its mental picture is
which relieves. It is worse from jarring, most important. In the acute state, the
when sitting in a chair, or lying in bed, and patient tends to be very sick, and most
is relieved by passing the stool. remarkably, it is not pleasant to be in his
During the stool the patient feels a presence. Like Chamomilla, he is hard to
violent tenesmus, and there is much please, becomes angry at nothing, and
flatulency which is offensive smelling, and throws things when contradicted. He feels
burning with heat of the rectum and anus “disgust with everything, dissatisfied and
especially if there is a hemorrhoid. The angry with himself, capricious, discouraged
abdomen is relieved, but the patient feels an about his success. He is impatient and
extreme weakness, prostration, and irritable. He curses, quarrels with everyone
faintness with clamminess or even profuse who contradicts him. He has aversion to
perspiration. company, cannot endure the visits of
Let’s look at its most characteristic people. They are repugnant to him to the
modalities of the diarrhea, which could help point of repelling everyone.” You will find
to confirm Aloe: this remedy under “hatred, repels
everyone.” Like one of the above –
• The diarrhea is worse:
mentioned patients who turned his head
• As soon as he eats or drinks anything (he
away when his girlfriend picked up his
must hurry to the bathroom)
hand, or when his mother wanted to kiss
• Rising from lying.
him. [See part I of this article for details on
• Standing Dr. Saine’s Aloe cases, Simillimum,
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Summer 2001.] Fear of men, Dunham’s experience with Aloe. He

anthropophobia. reported that:
Another very characteristic mental “Among the remedies of which
symptom of Aloe is its great laziness: provings have been published within the
“Disinclination to move. Disinclination to last five years, none has seemed to me more
go into the open air, though there is relief deserving of attention than Aloes.
from it. Indolence; at noon. Disinclination “Among the symptoms of the head I am
to mental labor. Speedy fatigue from inclined to regard as characteristic of Aloes
mental labor. Incapacity for labor, with those which describe a heavy, confused
peevish restlessness, disinclination to dullness in the front part of the head
mental labor.” He sits still, silent. A extending to the root of the nose, with
characteristic of this laziness is the possible inability to think; a pain in the forehead
alternation with great activity, as in one of which compels the patient to close the eyes,
the above patients. In the proving it is or, if he wishes to look at anything, to
found under “Exhaustion alternating with constrict the eyes, making the aperture of
activity.” the lids very small. It must be admitted,
Or it could be the opposite, such as however, that symptoms so similar to these
excitement, or the tendency to overwork. are found under other remedies, that these
These are found in the proving under symptoms alone could not be regarded as a
“Inclination to labor. Much inclination for sure indication for Aloes.
continued labor. Especially inclined to “The following case will show how I
mechanical labor. At an early hour, quick, have prescribed Aloes, and will suggest
complete awakening, with inclination for some reflections upon the mode of selecting
mental labor, good appetite. In the remedies in practice.
forenoon, he is much excited, works hastily “During the winter season a gentleman,
and yet well. In the afternoon he works about 70 years of age, applied for relief
with a will, without a midday nap. Excited from a dull, heavy frontal headache, which
at night. Great restlessness and incapacitated him from mental labor. He
excitement. Inner restlessness and could give me no more definite or
excitement. Excitement of mind and body.” characteristic description of his ailment. It
The Aloe patient tends to get exhausted was felt as soon as he waked, and lasted all
easily. He tires quickly. The mental day. From such a description as the above,
symptoms are clearly worse during cloudy it would be impossible to prescribe with any
weather. certainty of selecting the right remedy. I set
Another characteristic mental symptom myself therefore to investigate the
is the aversion to change and tendency for patient's’previous history, in the hope of
fixation and obsession, as seen in three of getting some help from the anamnesis, to
the above cases. which HAHNEMANN and
There is a monomania, which can last for BOENNINGHAUSEN attach so much
some time and be replaced by another one. improtance. I learned that this headache
Cycles of fixations. was no new affliction. It had for years
In terms of sensitivity, he is very annoyed this gentleman, rather more
sensitive to jar, especially with colic, as seen during the winter season, whereas during
in T.P.'s case. There is also a special the summer he was comparatively free from
sensitivity to noise or music. He can hate it. No peculiarity of diet or regimen could
music and noise, which may set him off in a explain this fact.
tremor, or he can feel it travelling through “On the other hand, I learned that
his body like a shock wave (trembling from during the summer season my patient was
musical sound and noise) as seen in T.P.’s very frequently attacked with diarrhea, the
case. There can be a great liking for music, disease coming on suddenly, waking him at
as in S.P.’s case. M.D. was startled by 2 AM with a pinching flatulent colic, and so
noise. urgent a call to evacuate the bowels that he
Another important characteristic would be compelled to seek the water-closet
symptom of Aloe is the heavy, confused instantly, experiencing meanwhile the
dullness felt in the forehead, associated with greatest difficulty in retaining the feces.
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four or five stools, pappy, copious, light symptoms alone. The headache returned a
yellow, great difficulty in retaining the feces few times afterward with very much
for even a moment after the desire for stool diminished severity, but yielded at once to
was first experienced. Desire for stool Aloes. Lately my patient has been entirely
provoked by eating, so that he was free from it, nor did the diarrhoea return as
compelled to leave the breakfast table. it used formerly to do whenever the
Involuntary stool when straining to pass headache ceased to prevail.”3
water. When comparatively free from About the heavy confused dullness, P.P.
headache, he was inclined to diarrhea, and WELLS wrote: “This drug has been found
vice versa. effectual repeatedly in removing a peculiar
“I have long been persuaded that a heavy, dull, pressing pain in the forehead,
most important condition of success in the of no great severity, but which indisposes
treatment of chronic diseases consists in the to, or even incapacitates for all exertion,
practitioner taking such a view of the case especially for intellectual labor. This state
as shall combine the various ailments of of the head has appeared in the person of
which a chronic patient may complain at the writer, every year for the last 10 or 12,
different periods of time and in different on the blossoming of the Ailanthus. He
organs, even though these periods and found no remedy for it, till he received the
organs be remote from each other and proving of Aloes, in Hering’s Amerikanische
apparently disconnected. In no other way, Arzneiprufungen..” 4
it has sometimes seemed to me, could the Other characteristic symptoms are dry
characteristic indications of the remedy for mouth and dry, red lips, usually without
such a case be found. thirst; the desire for fruits, especially apples
“Acting upon this persuasion in the or apple juice; juice, or juicy foods;
case in question, I regarded the headaches refreshing foods; beer; farinaceous foods;
which predominated in winter and the milk; stimulants; bitter; and salt.
diarrheas which predominated in summer Aloe will be indicated in uterine
as, in some sort, complementary series of haemorrhage with a feeling of great
symptoms, and as making up, both heaviness in the pelvis, similar to the plug
together, the ‘totality of symptoms’ for sensation we referred to among the rectal
which I was to seek, in the Materia Medica, symptoms above. The uterus always feels
the simillimum. too heavy, and engorged, as if a
“The symptoms of the headache— haemorrhage would take place at any time.
indeed of the entire winter affection— This feeling of heaviness of the pelvis can
presented nothing that was characteristic of also be an indication for Aloe in a
anyone remedy to the exclusion of all constipated subject. The same state occurs
others. Carbo vegetabilis, Sabadilla, with the sphincter of the bladder as with the
Sulphur, Aloes, Nux vomica, and several sphincter ani; on rising, he is obliged to run
others might be regarded as about equally quickly to urinate, and can hardly retain
well indicated. the urine.
“When, however, to the head symptoms Some important generalities are: the
of the winter, I came to add the diarrhea sensation of heat, worse from warmth,
symptoms of the summer, regarding the worse in warm wet weather, better from
sum total as one disease, it was then cool or cold weather, better cold application
impossible to avoid perceiving that the (head and anus), better open air; ailments
diarrhea symptoms were strikingly from suppression and effects of drugs (it is
characteristic of Aloes, and could not interesting to note that WELLS mentioned
indicate any other remedy. This furnished that Aloe is indicated in “hospital
the clue to the prescription. On studying diarrhoea”); worse in the morning and
the head symptoms of Aloes, it was seen better in the evening, especially the energy
that they corresponded to the head and moods. It is interesting to read the
symptoms of my patient quite as well as the abstract of the mental symptoms written by
symptoms of any other drug. Aloes 200 was HERING in 1857 and realize how reliable
given and it afforded a relief, which my the original provers of Aloe were: “Anguish
patient had sought in vain from other and ebullition of the blood, vertigo,
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misanthropic, ill-humor, morose in cloudy soon eating or while walking. Aloe

weather, peevish toward himself, worse commonly has involuntary stool while
with pains, with suppression of the stool— urinating, like Muriatic acid. The
better in the open air. Disinclined to labor, involuntary stools of Aloe can even happen
lassitude alternating with activity; good- with hard, formed stools, and may pass
natured, self-contented; prattling and unnoticed.
laughing children.” Another good differentiating symptom
is the amount of flatus during diarrhea,
Diffferntial Materia Medica which is definitely more pronounced in
In acute cases of diarrhea, the remedy Aloe, where it is characterized by a loud
that will most often need to be sputtering. Loud gurgling as of water
differentiated from Aloe is Podophyllum, running out of a bottle, prior to passing
and often it will be very difficult to stool or large amounts of gas, is more
differentiate between these two remedies. It characteristic of Aloe. The Aloe patient
is therefore necessary to study carefully will characteristically pass hot flatus.
their similarities and differences. Jellylike stool is more characteristic of Aloe,
Both have heat in the abdomen with while Podophyllum’s is generally watery. It
full, bloated feeling, distention, and the is more characteristic of Aloe for the
soreness of the abdomen, which are all diarrhea to be worse standing and/or
relieved after stool. Both have a pressing- walking. Aloe will tend to be hungry after
out feeling. Podophyllum feels that the every stool, like Veratrum album, while
uterus will come out while urinating, and Podophyllum tends to have no appetite with
that during a stool, all the internal organs the diarrhea.
will come out. Both can have involuntary Above all, the Aloe patient is a more
stool in sleep or when passing flatus. Both unpleasant patient when acutely sick.
have aggravation from motion, summer Podophyllum is more depressed; he thinks
heat and after eating or drinking. Both can he is going to die.
have profuse, watery, yellowish, gushing
diarrhea. Podophyllum has gush “as from a Podophyllum
fire hydrant.” Both can have prostration The most characteristic symptom of the
after stool, though this is often more Podophyllum diarrhea is how profuse it is.
pronounced with Podophyllum, where the You wonder where so much can come from.
patient may feel a profound prostration. The profuse gushing stool of Podophyllum
The Podophyllum child can have a deathly tends to be more changeable in terms of
look, very pale, as if he is going to die. Both color. It can be yellow, green, white, or
can develop haemorrhoids with the black. It is also changeable in terms of the
diarrhea. Both can have offensive diarrhea. consistency. It can be watery, slimy,
With Podophyllum it may smell like carrion. gelatinous, lienteric, bloody, pasty, or
Both can have a morning aggravation, naturally formed. The very offensive stool,
worse 5 AM, and both can be driven out of with an odor like carrion, belongs to
bed. Both can have alternation of Podophyllum. Podophyllum can have empty
complaints, like diarrhea alternating with retching with the diarrhea. The diarrhea of
headaches. Aloe has alternation of lassitude Podophyllym is worse during dentition,
with great activity. which is not found in Aloe. In this condition
What are the main differences? there is a desire to press the gums or teeth
Aloe together. The sleep of Podophyllum tends to
Prominent with Aloe is the insecurity of be more restless. He sleeps with his eyes
the sphincter of the rectum. The bolus half-open, whining, moaning and rolling the
moves with great rumbling, and when it head from side to side. However, both
reaches the rectum a weakness is felt. grind their teeth in sleep. The painless stool
There is a feeling of not being able to hold is more characteristic of Podophyllum. The
the stool. The haste to go is therefore more hot flatus is not characteristic of
prominent with Aloe because of this Podophyllum, which instead passes hot
weakness. Aloe will also have a greater eructations.
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Another remedy often needing to characteristic of Aloe. Sulphur often tends

differentiated from Aloe and Podophyllum to be hungry during the day, and especially
in cases of acute diarrhea is Croton tiglium, at 11 AM, while Aloe tends to be most
which shares with them many characteristic hungry after stool, as illustrated by the
symptoms, such as the loud gurgling before following case.
the diarrhea followed by a profuse, yellow, “Mary H., 23 years old, applied for
watery stool which is aggravated by treatment because she had a movement of
drinking, eating and motion. The most the bowels after every meal. The trouble
characteristic aspect of the stool of Croton had existed for about six weeks. The stools
tiglium is the explosiveness. It comes out were nearly normal in consistency and
like a sudden explosion, a shot, all at once in looked well-digested. Always after eating
one violent gush, like water from a hydrant. and drinking, she must go to stool in a
The aggravation on drinking (nursing in an hurry. She had no bowel movements,
infant) and eating is more intense in Croton except immediately after eating and
tiglium and more characteristic of it. The drinking. She suffered from an empty
gurgling before the stool can sound like a feeling after stool, and soon became
loud swashing of water. The diarrhea tends hungry; but if food were eaten, she would
to be more painful in Croton tiglium, more be compelled in a few minutes to go to the
griping pain and tenesmus. Other closet.
characteristic symptoms of Croton tiglium “Her tongue was a little narrow and
are the great pallor and weakness covered with a light gray coat. Menses
associated with faintness, vertigo, nausea, were regular and lasted five days, with
vomiting, dimness of vision, perspiration backache and pain in the uterine region the
and coldness. Podophyllum can have first day.
vomiting preceding its diarrhea. The time “She had lost considerable flesh and
aggravation is not very prominent in Croton was getting uneasy, as the difficulty seemed
tiglium. Aloe has most prominently the persistent.
urgency with insecurity of the rectum, “Two symptoms especially called my
Podophyllum has the great quantity of stool, attention to Aloe; one was stool after eating
and Croton tiglium has the very explosive and drinking, and the other was the desire
stool. Only Aloe, among these three to go to stool in a hurry. Desire for stool
remedies, will pass stool without noticing it. after each meal is especially found under
Arsenicum album,China, Lycopodium,
Sulphur Podophyllum and Trombidium.
The third remedy, which often must be “Under Aloe in the Guiding Symptoms,
differentiated from Aloe, is Sulphur, but I found the following: ‘Hungry during the
this time it is on the chronic level. The two diarrhea; hungry after the morning stool’;
share hundreds of similar symptoms. Both ‘As soon as he eats anything, he must go to
are hot remedies, but Aloe is more stool’; “Has to hurry to the closet
intolerant of the heat. For instance, the immediately after eating and drinking.”
diarrhea of Aloe is aggravated in the heat of Although hunger occurred in this case after
the summer, which is not characteristic of every stool instead of after the morning
Sulphur. However, the great heat of the stool only, I gave her on January 22, 1908,
feet, and the desire to uncover them, Aloe 1M, dry on the tongue, every night for
especially at night, is more characteristic of a week.
Sulphur. Both are driven out of bed in the “February 5, Reported that she was
morning at 5 AM, but this symptom is more much better in every way. She did not feel
striking for Sulphur, less so for Aloe. Both so empty after stool and the hunger was
will desire apples, beer, farinaceous foods, nearly gone. As the case seemed at a
and salt, but Sulphur will also tend to desire standstill, the same medicine in the same
spices and sweets more prominently. The potency was again prescribed, and in a
11 AM aggravation is more characteristic of short time all the symptoms disappeared,
Sulphur. The aversion to change and the and she has not had any trouble since.”6
cycles of fixations are characteristic of Aloe.
The great indolence and lassitude, Retention or unconscious passage of stool
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In Hering’s American Provings, Aloe lead’ which sensation was relieved by an

contains over 1,640 symptoms. The evacuation of the bowels just in proportion
conscientious prescriber will profit from to its completeness. The stool itself was
revieweing these when the consideration of natural in color, large, hard and dry. On
Aloe comes up in a case, as many account of its size it was voided only by
characteristic symptoms not present in the great exertion and even the most persistent
above cases will be found there (see straining was not always effectual until
Reference Works under American after repeated attempts. There was no
Homœopathic Review). Aloe calls to be actual pain with the stool, but after it she
rediscovered, but also to be uncovered by had a sense of great soreness about the
continued clinical use. Many of the above anus, well up within the rectum and
cases have confirmed HERING’s, especially, in the perineum; so severe was it
WESSELHOEFT’s and JEKYLL’s that the ordinary means of cleansing were
observations, who have said, respectively, too painful and she was obliged to use a soft
that “Aloes has many symptoms like sponge and water for this purpose. This
Sulphur and is equally important in chronic soreness continued for several hours after
diseases …,” Aloe will “clear away a an evacuation.
number of other psoric symptoms not yet “The heaviness in the pelvic region and
contained in its pathogenesis,” and “Aloes the great soreness after stool called my
has cured many symptoms that are not attention to Aloe and although this drug
recorded in any Materia Medica that I have produces looseness of the bowels as its most
seen.” Many other characteristic aspects of usual effect, and in the few cases of
Aloe have been discovered clinically, like retarded action of the bowels recorded
the retention of the stool, as in the following under it in ALLEN’s Cyclopedia, the
case of Butler. character of the fecal accumulation is not
“In January 1885, Mrs. G., a brunette given, it more nearly covered the totality of
26 years of age, of plump figure, firm the symptoms than any remedy that I knew.
muscular fiber and nervo-bilious I gave it in a Fincke potency (the 45M graft)
temperament, consulted me for constipation a dose in water, each night until the bowel
of many years standing. She received moved—then to report for further advice.
Sulphur without benefit. “On the second morning (i.e., after the
“February 1, I gave her Bryonia, also second dose) she reported that the bowels
without benefit. Dissatisfied with not had moved and more freely and naturally
having been helped she discontinued than for months; that meantime the
treatment, saying that she never had heaviness in the abdomen, and the soreness
received more than temporary relief from after stool were very much better although
my medicine and was disgusted with drugs not well.
and with doctors. “The medicine was now discontinued
“In October, however, she came to me and she was directed to report again when
again, as the constipated condition was her constipation returned. Up to this time,
worse than ever and ‘something must be now more than six months, she has required
done.’ At this time she presented the no more medicine for this condition, her
following condition. bowels continuing to move naturally and
“Her general health was excellent. regularly.”7
Careful enquiry failed to find any aches, In the proving, we find that the
pains, or abnormalities, except those about “secondary effect” of Aloe is stool retention.
to be recorded. Her bowels moved once in This retention of stool in children for fear of
four or five days, usually without cathartics pain is not that uncommon, and had been
or enemata; if, however, there was no confirmed by Nash some years earlier.
disposition for stool after this length of Here is his most interesting case:
time she would take licorice powder, but “Master P. aged three years, light hair,
this was seldom resorted to. For two or complexion and eyes, had been troubled
three days preceding the movement of the with constipation on since birth. At times
bowels she had a feeling of heaviness he was worse than at others, and it was
through the entire pelvic region ‘as if the often almost impossible to get an evacuation
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feces were in lumps, very large and light “April 24, 1903, I was called to see a
colored; there was so much pain attending little schoolgirl, aged about 12 years. She
efforts at school that he screamed and was complained of pain in the right side, in a
covered with sweat, and the mother was central spot. She had slight fever, some
often obliged to pick away the hard lumps. thirst, and was restless and nervous. I
He seemed afraid, and avoided letting his could not get much in the way of symptoms
parents know, of a desire for stool, as long from the child, but as she lived with her
as possible. After treating him during aunt and did as she pleased, I came to the
several of these attacks with Bryonia, conclusion that her trouble resulted from
Sulphur, Nux vomica, Veratrum album, getting her feet wet on her way from school
Calcarea carbonica, and Sepia, with the day before, though I could get no
indifferent success, I found that he positive proof going to confirm my
oftentimes passed large, hard lumps of fecal suspicions. However, I prescribed Rhus
matter involuntary and apparently toxicondendron 200.
unconsciously. Aloes 200th cured and there “Called the 25th and found a slight
has been no return of the trouble for two improvement, when I told the aunt what my
years.”8 suspicions were in regard to the case. The
This symptom had also been reported child’s father was sent for, and, like many
by GUERNSEY in the following case: “A anxious fathers, felt that he must do all that
little girl was first taken with a bad, could be done under the mistaken notion
nervous, shattering cough; then fever; pain that good would result from doing
in her stomach; loss of appetite; everything that can be done, whether it has
constipation; could not sit up, or hold up any particular reference to the good of the
her head even, so completely had she lost patient or not, and as the child had not
the muscular power of her neck and spine. eaten anything for 48 hours he gave her a
She had a great variety of symptoms, but it pint of strong beef broth, with some bread
was quite impossible to name her disease. in it. Of course, he soon heard from it, and
Most of her symptoms seemed to belong to did also.
a great variety of medicines; only one “I found her with a temperature of
seemed peculiar, and to belong especially to 103°, trying to vomit, bowels bloated and so
Aloes. The symptom in her case that tender that she could not bear the slightest
characterized it from all other symptoms touch. Her pulse was 130, weak and
was an involuntary, unnoticed hard stool. threadlike, and the pain in the abdomen
The little girl knew nothing of it. Now, it caused the child to scream whenever she
was found on careful comparison, that was touched or moved in the bed. She was
Aloes had all her symptoms, and the golden called to the chamber as often as every half-
rule is, give the smallest dose that will cure. hour to pass a clear, thick jellylike
my choice was Aloes 50M, one single dose substance, which was preceded by pain and
only. In three days she made rapid relieved by the discharge. No pain during
recovery.”9 nor after the discharge. She got Aloes 200.
That would also apply to the symptom I repeated the dose three times during the
observed in many individuals by next 10 days; always after I noticed the
C.CARLETON SMITH who reported symptoms did not improve during the
during one of the Lippe Society meetings preceding 24 hours.”11
that during “the epidemic of cholera that Review of the characteristic symptoms of Aloe
occurred in Chicago while he was to be added or upgraded in the repertory
practicing there. Patients would come into As many characteristic symptoms of
his office holding the hands upon the Aloe were clinically cured, but often not
abdomen and fearing they would have an found or fully developed in its proving,
attack of diarrhea immediately. They could WESSELHOŒT legitimately asked the
not trust their bowels. Aloes would relieve question, “Are we authorized to add to the
all such cases, and they escaped the cholera pathogenesis of Aloe those symptoms which
afterward.”10 were cured in this case? …I think we are
Or, in the following case of fully authorized to do so and in this way
Appendicitis: enrich still further this splendid proving.”
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symptom to the Materia Medica of a • Irritable, quarrelsome with everyone who

remedy because it has disappeared under contradicts him; it seems he would rather
treatment. However, symptoms which have be torn to pieces than give up his will (p)
clearly and repeatedly disappeared • Throws things when contradicted (c)*
following the administration of a remedy • The weather is cloudy, cold, rainy (in
should be included. December), and his humor morose,
An asterisk (*) following a symptom in thoughtful, discontented (p + v)
the list below indicates that it needs to be • Ill humor; peevish about himself, so that he
added to or upgraded in the repertory. insults* and blasphemes; worse afternoon;
Symptoms listed in italics or bold type peevish towards himself without reason.
should be upgraded accordingly. The letter (p)
“p” after a symptom means that the • Little inclination for labor, discouraged,
symptom is found in the proving, the letter apprehensive about his success (p + v)
“v” means that it has been verified • Indolence; if he sits, he deliberates about
clinically, and the letter “c” means that the standing up; can be associated with great
symptom was cured under Aloe, but not fatigue, confusion, desultory thinking,
found in the proving. The letters “p + v” which can all alternate with activity (p + v)
means the symptoms was proved and
• Mental condition improves by exercise in
verified clinically. When there are no
the open air (p + v)*
letters, it means that the origin of the
• Much inclination to continued labor (p)
symptom, whether from a proving or
• Especially inclined to mechanical labor (p)
clinical, is not known.
• In the forenoon, he is much excited, works
Mind hastily and yet well (p + v)
• Absorbed (p + v)* • Excited at night* with warmth and redness
• Reserved (p + v)* of the face (p + v)
• Lassitude alternating with great mental activity
• Obstinate (p + v)*
(p + v)*
• A certain anxiety after one scruple (p + v)*
• After a meal, no sleepiness, but a forbidding
• Fastidious (p +v)*
and unconcerned humor; about half past
• Obsessions and cycles of fixations (c)
three he is better and is much inclined to
• Needs routine, or aversion to change (c)* joke, continually mocking the remarks of
• Anguish in the abdomen (p + v) others; in the evening he is inclined to work
• Great anxiety, timorousness, restlessness, (p + v)*
dread of death, great anguish so that she • Immediately after a meal, a sluggish sleepy
cannot stay anywhere (p + v) mood; he sat down by himself without
• Anticipation, anxiety about the future (v)* speaking, without any desire for mental or
• Fear of heights and going downhill (c)* physical exertion; for one till after four in
• When sick the patient is not pleasant to be the evening, already an opposite condition,
with. He is hard to please. He has disgust meditating, wrapped up in himself, as after
with everything. Dissatisfied and angry with a sickness, or a fit of anger, which still
himself. (p + v) gnaws internally, which one cannot express;
• Irritable, he cannot endure the visit of many nothing can engage his attention; he is
people, they are repugnant to him (p + v)* averse to and disgusted with everyone; he is
• Unfriendly and unfeeling (c)* not at all angered about an accident which
• Hates people; repels everyone (p + v) otherwise probably would have angered
• Aversion to being spoken to (c)* him (p + v)
• Ill humor, peevishness and anthropophobia, • Sits still, silent (p + v)*
with cuttings in the abdomen (p) • Very discouraged and unhappy mood, since
• Weeps easily;* weeps with consolation;* the forenoon, with confused head and lack
dissatisfied and angry with himself; of inclination to labor; better in the evening
revengeful (p) (p)
• Impatient and in a hurry (p + v)* • Contented, happy humor in the evening * as
• Indisposed to go outdoors, but the pain in well as all the following day (p)
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• Contented with his station in life; it • The nose is very red, without redness of the
involuntarily occurs to him that he is really face, in cold open air (p)*
much better off than many other people (p) • Epistaxis on the right side,* in the morning
• Towards evening, uncommonly aroused by in bed shortly after waking (p)
spirited joyful news (p) • Sneezing and with watery fluent coryza (p)*
• Merry, self-contented, fraternized with the • Husky voice during coryza (p)*
whole world (p + c)* Mouth
• Sympathetic (c) • Black comedone on edge of the upper lip
• Too affectionate (c) (p)*
• At evening, in a happy mood, he feels • Red and dry lips (p+v)*
completely happy and contented (p) • Dry mouth without without thirst (p+v)*
• Great serenity and good humor; in a • Dry mouth with thirst (p)*
patient (p) • Salivation with hunger (p)*
• The child is very much enlivened and • Cold sensation of the left side of the tongue
vivacious, it plays and prattles uncommonly (p)*
with much mischievousness and laughter; • Stitches under the tongue (p)*
from sucking Aloes (p) • Pappy taste (p)*
• Lack of self-confidence (c)* • Grinding teeth when angry (c)*
• Doubtful (c)* • Grinding teeth in sleep (c)*
• Will not use a public washroom (c)* Throat
• Sensitive to admonition (c)* • Sore throat after stool (c)*
• Aversion to consolation (p + v)* • Constriction of the throat (p)*
• Sensitive to noise (p + v)* • Raw throat worse in the cold open air (p)*
• Startling easily, at noise;* easily frightened • Sore throat worse at night; yawning; on
at slight noise (p + v) opening the mouth; in the evening; on
• Painlessness (c)* waking at night or in the morning; better
• Lack of irritability (c)* on swallowing food (p)*
• Never cries (c)* Appetite and thirst
• Never laughs (c)* • Thirstlessness during diarrhea (c)*
• Slow learning to talk (c)* • Thirsty during meals (v)*
• Low, whispering voice (c)* • Desire for fruits, especially apples and apple
• Aversion to being touched, being massaged juice, and juicy food, refreshing foods, beer,
(p + v)* salt, stimulants, farinaceous foods, bread,
• Grinds his teeth with anger (c)* meat, milk, bitter and cold sour drinks (p +
Head v)*
• Heaviness in the forehead with confusion • Aversion to fruits and meat
and aversion to mental labor (p) • Worse from alcohol, beer, fruits, milk, and
• Headaches worse in the summer and from vinegar
light; compelled to make the eyes small (v)* • Better from beer, cold drinks and tea
• Rubs his forehead (c)* • Increased appetite (p)*
• Heat of face with excitement, headaches (v) • Hunger with diarrhea, hunger after morning
• Headaches better cold and passing flatus* stool or any stool (v)*
• Headaches worse rising* Stomach and abdomen
• Congestion of the head in lunatics (p)* • Nausea and vomiting better sitting still (p)*
• Hair falling in lumps, leaves bare patches • Appendicitis with acute pain in the right
(c)** lower quadrant worse from movement and
touch (c)*
• Noise in ear when moving the jaw (p)*
• Stitches in the umbilical region on sneezing
• Cracking of the jaw (p + v)
(p)*
Ears • Enlarged abdomen especially in children
• Deafness, left then right side (p)* (c)*
• Ear pain, left then the right side (p) • Pain in the abdomen better lying bent and
• Earwax increased (c)* pressure (p)*
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• Profuse, watery, yellow-brown diarrhea, • Hemorrhoids, protrude like a bunch of

containing lumps with mucus; it can be grapes, better cold water, worse on wiping
lumps of jelly mucus like jellyfish; it can after stool.
look like frog spawn, green or white; it can • Anal pain better from beer (p)*
be mixed with blood (v) Urinary and genitalia
• Heaviness, pressure downwards; feeling as • Urine is saffron, offensive with sediments
if a plug were wedged in between the • Urine frothy (c)*
symphysis pubis and the os coccygeus (p) • Similar frequency and urgency of the desire
• Very active bowels before stools: noisy (as if to pass urine, with a certain uncertainty in
fluid was swashing), hot, distended, painful the tenure of that excretion (p + v)
(cutting, gripping), sensitive; they can feel • Enuresis (c)
the diarrhea coming minutes or even hours • Involuntary urination in old men with
before; at times they can feel the bolus enlarged prostate (v)
travelling in the guts and then eventually • Affection of the prostate gland
filling the rectum; the rectum seems full of • Cannot hold the urine when the urging
fluid as if it would fall out (that is when they comes (c)
have the above feeling of a plug) (v)
• On rising he was obliged to run quickly to
• Stool comes out with force; with lots of gas, urinate (p + v)*
loud sputtering; forceful, can come out like a
• At stool, urination; when urinating, desire for
cork; the evacuation takes place without stool
any exertion on the part of the patient; it
• Increased sexual desire after eating, after
seems, as it were, to fall out of the rectum
stool, in the evening (p)*
(v)
• High sexual desire, especially in children
• Lack of confidence in the sphincter ani;
(c)*
involuntary stools when passing flatus, when
urinating, when standing, when rising;* fear • Free discharge of prostatic fluid after stool
to urinate lest stool should escape (p + v) (c)*
• Quick ejaculation, emission during siesta*
• Holds the hands on the abdomen and fears
he would have an attack of diarrhea (c)* • Testicles cold; right feels cool at night;
penis small; scrotum relaxed (p)
• Diarrhea worse from anxiety, excitement
(c)* • Epididymis sensitive to touch and while
walking (p)*
• Continual urging for stool (p)*
• Stool comes out unnoticed, “the stool falls • Offensive perspiration of genitals.
out” (p + v)* • Fullness and heaviness in the region of the
• Albuminous white or clear frothy mucus in uterus; pressing down in the rectum during
globs like jelyfish (v)* menses; uterine hemorrhage with great
heaviness; the uterus always feels too heavy
• Painful or painless
and engorged, as if the hemorrhage would
• Worse being overheated, hot weather, must
take place at any time; this heaviness can
hurry to the closet immediately while or right
be seen in a constipated person; menses
after eating or drinking, after breakfast, 2
early and profuse; pains worse when
AM to 9-10 AM, worse around 5 AM,
standing (p)
rushing out of bed, worse moving around, Respiratory
rising from lying, standing, excitement,
• Shortness of breath in cold air or when
anticipation, fruits, milk (v)*
walking against the wind (c)*
• Diarrhea from suppressed skin eruptions (c)*
Back
• Passage of much flatus after each meal;
• Dorsal pain as from prolonged stooping
offensive, hot and burning; with relief (p)
(p)*
• The rectum constantly secretes mucus, • Low back pain worse lying on the back,
which escapes from anus, even with
better after rising (p)*
attempts at defecation
• Stiffness in the sacral area after sitting,
• Great weakness and faintness after stools
worse rising (p)*
(v)*
• Pain in the coccyx as if he had fallen on it
• Cold clammy to profuse perspiration after (p)*
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• Pain in extremities as if sprained (p) • Better in the evening: energy, inclination to

• Pain in the right upper arm worse motion work, moods, chilliness, increased sexual
(p)* desire (v)*
• Pain in left thumb, as if sprained (p)* • Better cold (headaches, hemorrhoids,
• Chilblains (c)* general) (v)
• Desquamation of palms of hands (c)* • All symptoms better exercise in the open
• Numbness of the extremities while lying air (p)*
after eating • Worse jarring when sitting in a chair or
Sleep lying in bed (v)*
• Lays on the abdomen, especially children • Aversion to bathing (c)*
(v)* • Aversion to having his hair being cut (c)*
• Lies on the abdomen with hands between • Better kneeling (c)*
the thighs (c)* • Sensitive to music: he hates musical sound
• Lies on back with knees bent and hands and noise; it sets him all in a tremor, or he
above or under the head (c)* feels it travelling his body like a shock
• Sleeps with the head covered (c)* wave; trembling from music or noise (v)*
• Cold hands and feet in bed n(p) • Development arrested (c)*
• Enuresis (c) • Ailments from suppression or the effects of
• Moans in sleep (v) drugs (“hospital diarrhea”) (c)
• Perspiration profuse in sleep; head and
neck (c)* Key or Guiding Symptoms of Aloe
• Dreams: animals of all sorts; danger, When one encounters a case of a
monsters; cannot cry out; of being crazy warmblooded person who becomes chillier
and being watched; having a stool; waves during acute states (like Pulsatilla), and is
and water* (p) aggravated by heat and better by coolness,
Generalities worse in the morning and better in the
• Chills extending down the back (p)* evening, better in open air, sensitive to
cloudy weather and especially, but not
• Worse spicy foods (p)*
necessarily, with a history of diarrhea, Aloe
• All the symptoms are better with exercise
should be considered. If there are other
in the open air (p)*
bonus symptoms such as cycles of obsession,
• Poor stamina and low resistance to effort;
indolence alternating with great activity, or
indolence
involuntary stools, then the choice becomes
• Worse mental and physical exertion (p + v) easier.
• Polarity: overly sensitive/insensitive to pain, The following key symptoms in a case
cries easily/never cries, should alert the prescriber to consider Aloe:
sympathetic/unfeeling, friendly/unfriendly, • Great impatience and hurriedness
hatred/affectionate, sluggish/vivacious, • Indolence, which can alternate with activity
great thirst during a
• Low stamina
meal/thirstlessness during diarrhea, desire
• Hates people; repels every one
for meat/great aversion to meat (v)
• Aversion to change; tendency for fixation and
• Alternating states: Indolence/great activity;
obsession
alternating moods; low back pains
alternating with headaches; cold hands • Startles easily
alternating with cold feet; constipation • Worse cloudy weather
alternating with diarrhea (p + c) • Worse hot weather
• Warmblooded but chilly during acute state • Worse heat, better cold
(v)* • Better open air, better exercise in the open air
• Worse warmth (v)* • Worse in the morning, better in the evening:
• Aversion to the sun (c)* energy, moods, indolence, control of
• Weakness from the heat of the summer (v) sphincter ani; tired in the morning and the
• Worse hot damp weather, worse being in the rest of the day, but the fatigue vanishes in
sun* (v) the evening; a crowd of thoughts busy him,
• Worse cloudy weather (moods: sad and cannot get to sleep for a long time.
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• Better passing stool or flatus: abdominal or characteristic of Aloe, that did not feature in
rectal pain, heaviness, palpitation, and your evaluation. I am curious as what you felt
headaches about these symptoms, and what other
• Chronic or recurrent diarrhea remedies you may have considered?
• Involuntary stools; stool unnoticed Aloe was the remedy indicated from the
• Ailments from suppressed skin eruptions, beginning, and it continued to be indicated
headaches, and diarrhea and ailments from right to the end of casetaking. As I
drugs. remember, no other remedies were ever
Conclusion seriously considered.
I hope this presentation will help my Childish ; sucking the thumb at 22, too lazy to
colleagues to better grasp the broad balance checkbook, wants instant
indications for Aloe, stimulate a more detailed gratification?
study of its Materia Medica, and encourage Childishness is an addition to the
them to report their cured cases to further repertory by Del Mas, who was a relatively
complete the picture of Aloe, thereby reliable author. In any case the symptom of
continuing the great work begun by childishness and sucking of the thumb are
HAHNEMANN. typically clinical symptoms rather than
symptoms found in a proving. As for the
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1940, 9 Disinclination to go into the open air,
2. CARLETON E. In A Memorial of though there is relief from it. Indolence; at
Constantine Hering. Philadelphia, N.p.n.d., noon. Disinclination to mental labor.
185-186 Speedy fatigue from mental labor.
3. WELLS P. “Aloes,” American Incapacity for labor, with peevish
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4. DUNHAM C. : “Remarks on Aloes,”
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6. ROBERTS T. “Experience with Aloe,” a grand characteristic of Aloe. We can read
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253 Fear of the dark until 18 years old; fear of
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Medical Advance 1887; 19: 389-391 The fear of germs is not found in the
8. NASH E. “Aloes— proving, however, we find “A certain
Constipation,”Homœopathic Physician anxiety; after one scruple.” The fear of the
1881; 1:153 dark is also not found under Aloe but a
9. GUERNSEY H. In Clinical Therapeutics, similar nocturnal fear is found: “After a
Volume 2. T.S.HOYNE. Chicago: Duncan nocturnal emission of semen, fright at the
Brothers, Printers. 1880: 363 rattling of the windows by the wind.” In
10. SMITH C. Discussion, “Proceedings of the any case neither of these symptoms
Lippe Society,”Homœopathic Physician contradict the choice of Aloe.
1890; 10:117.
11. DENVER I. “Two cases of appendicitis,” Fear of undertaking new things: “I don’t want
Medical Advance 1903; 41: 611-612 to go home from college because I don’t want
The following discussion is from to deal with new things”; “At 10 I didn’t want
Dr.Saine’s answers to the editor’s questions to move”; “I am scared of new things”?
regarding the case of S.P.from Part I of his
article on Aloe. The aversion to change, or the need for
Based on the other cases presented, I can routine, is an important clinical symptom
see in this case why you were led to think of which I believe is being reported for the
Aloe. However, there are some characteristic first time in this paper. It was a key
symptoms in the case, not necessarily symptom for recognizing Aloe in S.P.’s case.

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the first dose of Aloe. I hope this answers

Concomitant: hay fever with asthma? your questions. One of the essential
Hay fever and Asthma are common aspects of this paper is that when Aloe is
symptoms, found in most remedies. found indicated in a case the prescriber
should not be too concerned if not all the
Perspiration; head and neck during sleep? symptoms are covered by Aloe as long as
the most characteristic symptoms are most
These are clinical symptoms which I am
similar to it. I wrote that “Aloe calls to be
reporting in this paper.
rediscovered but also uncovered by
continued clinical use. Many of the above
Constipated except for diarrhea from milk?
cases have confirmed HERING’s,
It is not a known symptom of Aloe, but WESSELHOEFT’s and JEKYLL’s
it is also not a very characteristic symptom. observations, who have said, respectively,
that ‘Aloes has many symptoms like
Regarding the reaction: her whole state Sulphur and is equally important in chronic
changed at age 10 when they moved to another diseases,’ Aloe will ‘clear away a number of
house, which she has never gotten over. Her other psoric symptoms not yet contained in
mental state and severe allergies began at that its pathogenesis,’ and ‘Aloes has cured
time, and have persisted to the time of the many symptoms that are not recorded in
casetaking. After Aloe was given in ascending any Materia Medica that I have seen.’”
potencies, the mental emotional state was Many important symptoms characteristic of
much improved, but the allergy symptoms Aloe have been discovered clinically, like
didn’t resolve over the treatment period. the retention of the stool as reported by
The allergies got worse the first two BUTLER and NASH.
days after the first two doses of Aloe, and
got dramatically better, 50 and 70% better, Some of the cases presented in this
respectively. Within two months (August paper after good examples of paragraph
1998) the allergies were better by 75%, and 164 of the Organon. Specifically, in the case
in December 1998, she said that her of Aloe, many reliable prescribers have
allergies were another 25% better. She found that after prescribing Aloe because it
reported that the allergies were minimal covered the diarrhea symptoms and some
until August 3, 1999, when she went to the other characteristic symptoms well, it
country and had a big exposure to pollen. cleared the rest of the case, even though
She took two doses of Aloe CM (prescribed Aloe did not cover all the other
by her father) and her allergies got much characteristic symptoms.
worse and stayed worse from the remedy,
until a dose of Sulphur 200 in September --------------------------------------------------------
and Mercurius in December brought them ------
down to a minimal level by January, 2000.
I last spoke to her in March, 2000, when
she wanted to reschedule her appointment.
As for her Asthma, it never returned after
PART III

(While Part II features articles from other journals, Part III contains the editor’s and others’ contributions
exclusively to the Qrly.Hom.Digest)

BOOK SHELF: at Pondicherry and the present volume deals with

her experiences, stay and her sadhana from 1954 to
1. The Story of a Soul Vol. I – 1954-55 by 1955. Eventually many volumes will come out
HUTA Publishers – Havyãvahana Trust, covering the period – 1957 to 1973 as mentioned by
Pondicherry 2. 1999 – Rs.100/-. the author.
The book reveals Mother’s conversations,
This is almost an autobiography of the author many of her comments, letters and messages
who came as a very young girl to Mother’s ashram sent to Huta and day to-day experiences of a

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person who came at a very young age to be with Initially she

Mother and Shri Aurobindo as deeply felt by her
inner call. was not to do much work for the
Huta has been frank about her situation, Mother and there was even a
saying she had her weaknesses, defects,
difficulties and struggles, revolts against the
suggession that at first Mother
truth, and dreadful attacks of the hostile forces; wanted to make her work in
and how Mother’s grace and love saved her Mother’s kitchen. Had she done
miraculously inspite of severe ordeals,
tremendous falls and even catastrophes. so Huta adds - on page 81 “This
Essentially it shows how Mother shapes and book with innumerable paintings
develops consciousness not only of Huta but of
any individual whom Mother has accepted.
of Savitri that were guided by
Huta comes from a Mother and also immense
very influential and rich family, from a place volumes of tape-recording of
called Miwani in Kenya. From her childhood
she felt that she was a stranger in a dark world Mother’s recitations of selected
and had been searching and aspiring to realise passages from whole of Savitri,
and live the Supreme, Truth and Love. She kept
this feeling to herself and told nobody of her
that corresponded with the
final decision to leave her family life and paintings, also the paintings of
dedicate herself completely towards the Shri Aurobindo’s poems, and
fulfillment of her innermost call. She had two
initiations in a very natural manners. The first other visionary paintings, the
was in 1948 and the second one from a brahmin book called “White Roses”, the
priest who lived close to her house in India. She
met Mother only at the end of 1954 and before
slides on Meditation from Savitri
she came to India she already visited Europe, and other video cassettes would
particularly Rome and also seen the Pyramids. never have seen the light of the
She had a brief
communication through letters with the English day.
man known as Shri Krishna Prem (Ronald Throughout the
Nixon) who was an initiated disciple of Mother
Yashoda – a great yogi in his own right.
book there are Mother’s letters
Huta came to India written in her handwriting along
in Sept. 1954. Prior to her with that the same letters have
coming her own mother had a very significant
dream vision, which foretold Huta’s future as been printed in italics alongside
being near The Mother in the ashram. By for those who find Mother’s
this time Huta was forced into a marriage without
her liking in Dec.1953. Being compelled to do so
handwriting difficult to read. At
as she writes, “According to our narrow Indian other places stanzas from Savitri
custom.” She had no feeling or enthusiasm for have also been given.
marriage which had no meaning for her.
Circumstances As the author
arranged themselves through Mother’s grace and it rightly remarks on page 99
was on 1st Nov. 1954 that Huta along with her
family had Mother’s darshan.
“Gradually I was becoming more
The rest of the book then describes how she conscious and beginning to scan
refused to go back to her family and how slowly my imperfections and their
and very gradually Mother caused in her a change
from an imperfect raw instrument of a girl to a causes; but it is not easy to
very mature realized sadhak of today. convert the physical nature.”
Huta was given a room to stay in Golkonde
and it was many years later that Mother shifted her
Everytime
from that building and put her in a separate house. Mother would write to Huta

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encouraging her in various ways psycho-analysis. In addition he was very close to

Indian philosophy and to Swami Vivekanand.
and also allowing her to come and Dr.Srinivasan
see her whenever it was possible. paying a tribute to
The book is Dr.PASCHERO’s memory has
excellently printed, easy to read. said that PASCHERO considered,
The front cover carries a painting “the clinical meaning of Psora as
by the author signifying deep an idiosyncratic state or
longing for the divine and the back predisposition which acts as a
cover carries in Mother’s receptive ground and
handwriting blessings to Huta. fundamental cause of all
Very reasonably priced this book sicknesses. The miasms are not
will convey some idea of the diseases proper but rather
Mother’s everlasting Grace and dyscrasias or diathetic states
compassion not only to Huta but which conditioned illnesses or
to her innumerable devotees all syndromes. They are the
over the world. dynamic basis of the illnesses,
DR.D.E.MISTRY morbid alterations of the whole
organism, which could have an
2. SOME COLLECTED WORKS OF
DR. T. P. PASCHERO COMPILED BY effect on the very structure of the
DR.K.S. SRINIVASAN FOR CENTRE OF individual affecting his genotype.
EXCELLENCE IN HOMŒOPATHY,
CHENNAI – 600 080.
HAHNEMANN called them
hereditary – and can therefore be
Dr.K.S. Srinivasan has done an excellent considered as constitutional
service to all homœopaths by illnesses as the collective
collecting in a single small volume morphological, physiological and
the writings of Dr. PASCHERO physical qualities which
for the benefit of the characterise a human being”.
homœopathic fraternity. Furthermore Dr.Srinivasan in
Some of elaborating PASCHERO’s ideas
Dr.Paschero’s articles have has stated that the mental
already been published in a book symptoms are the characteristic
form by Dr. Eugenio symptoms par excellence of
CANDEGABE. This particular psycho-physical personality
compilation however contains 7 chiefly because the somatic
articles which are not in the pathology represents the
CANDEGABE collection. structural consequence of the
Dr.Thomas P.PASCHERO of Argentina lived
for nearly 80 years and passed away on 8th psychic dynamism, conditioned
September 1986. He was a Classical homœopath by the particular hereditary,
following KENT and high potency prescriber and
had a thorough knowledge of Sigmund FREUD’s
miasmatic diathesis.

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Dr.Srinivasan further states – and be free from the blocking of

that mental symptoms, evident as his negative symptoms, hence
it may be, cannot be by itself unable to live his life in the world
determine a prescription but the with a positive outlook knowing
mental symptoms must be his true identity.
completed with its particularities This book contains 13 lectures of Dr.
PASCHERO and each lecture is a jewel in itself.
and concomitants. He further It is difficult to say which of these lectures I would
adds-that Psora comes into being choose as the best in this lot. What Dr.
PASCHERO has done in each of his lectures is to
when the child who is egoistic and give first certain of his ideas and a fair amount of
isolated and self-satisfied is theoretical aspects and then he gives case records
unable to integrate and showing his analysis, of the patient. PASCHERO
is a high potency prescriber and the simillimum
communicate with the real and that he has given in all his cases is so exact that
fullness of life. This creates there have been no failures. Sometimes he begins
with a nosode straightaway as with the case on
anxiety and internal restlessness page-8 of a 4 year old girl with acute rheumatism
and many other forms of mental in knees and ankles who was given Tuberculinum
symptoms through the psoric 200 not only on her disease physio pathognomic
state but also on her behaviourial pattern of the
arisings, through this arising the acute state when she came to him. This along with
individual becomes aware of its a rare PQRS symptom which he says, one sees in
tuberculinic cases i.e. “she would not stand
true identity. Thus a patient’s anything white or the light reflected from a white
bio-patho-graphical history is surface, so that her mother had all the mirrors
mainly essentially the expression covered” and some generals like worse in damp
weather, headaches with weeping and emaciation
of the process of humanisation or led him to give Koch’s Tuberculinum 200 one
personalization and secondarily a dose. He further adds – that though he gave this
dose there was no definite psychological
record of his diseases, accidents symptoms or signs that would define this patient.
and moral disturbances of his life. Nosodes alone do not cure Psora except when they
PASCHERO insists – writes are given on detailed symptomatic indications. We
need the mineral antipsoric in such cases that
Dr.Srinivasan – and (many senior correspond to the essence of patients dynamism.
homœopaths – will agree to this) – After the nosode there can appear after sometime a
constitutional picture that can give us the
after many years of practice to simillimum. The patient improved dramatically in
know how to see a patient is the all aspects and only one dose was needed for 10
most difficult thing. Finally, months. After that she came back because she
began to show a marked change in character. She
Dr.PASCHERO throughout the became very restless, excited, frightened during a
articles given in this book has storm, starting at each noise with fear of thieves
and darkness and afraid to be let alone, a marked
emphasized, that a patient is not desire to be comforted, indulged, loved, and a
considered ‘cured’ if the marked sympathy for every person and animal
complaints which he had which especially when sick – all these showed her
marked sympathetic picture which led to the clear
brought him to the physician are cut image of Phosphorus which was given in 200c
removed but, this removal not one dose only. In this case Phosphorus was the
simillimum which remained latent behind the
resulting in the patient obtaining picture of Tuberculinum which as a good nosode
a positive outlook towards life, brought out the typical symptoms of the real

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constitutional remedy. This case is given in the residue of a morbid dynamism

lecture entitled Infantile Psychology in
Homœopathy. whose first expressions were
His second lecture is titled “The Practice of suppressed with local treatments,
Homœopathy” also full of case reports and his
third lecture is titled “Tuberculinum” with many
failing to understand that what
case reports. had to be cured was that very
A very brief lecture is called “Essential dynamic disposition. The basic
Features” and here some very useful tips are given
in just one page of some of the remedies. For problem in allopathic medicine is
example, he says do not prescribe Calcarea to that of suppression – i.e., blocking
someone who has no fear or apprehension of
anything, Kali carbonicum to an individual who is
the fulfillment of the Law of
not afraid of loneliness, Lycopodium to a patient Cure. The beauty of
having absolute self-confidence, Lachesis, to an Homœopathy as an art and
antisocial, noncommunicative woman who doesn’t
talk much or is not jealous etc. etc. 22 such tips science is that it can rectify the
are given in this small article. Vital Force, so that it can cure the
Other lectures dynamic origin of the morbid
that are given are “Homœopathic process. Above all only
diagnosis” – “Psora the homœopathic remedies can do
fundamental Pathology,” “Mental this, provided they are prescribed
symptoms”, “The Patient’s according to the similarity
Personality,” “Similitude and between a curative reaction
Epilepsy”, “Homœopathy is only experientally proved in a healthy
one”, “Knowledge of real Human individual, and the natural
nature, The Foundation of reaction of a diseased individual,
Homœopathy,” “Homœopathy is both being vital process of
a Constitutional Medicine” and expressions of the same Law of
the last lecture called “Vitalism Cure. The physician, no matter
and the Law of Cure.” what therapeutics he employs
I’m quoting a must be aware that every
significant statement given on symptom is a part of patient’s life
page 102, on the last lecture on situation. Each symptom has a
Vitalism – which is as follows – meaning to be unlocked, only
“when allopathic medicine after a complete understanding
considers disease to have a mere has been gained of the
physio-chemical substratum, this pathological expressions and
inevitably leads to the behaviour of a unique and untold
degeneration of the human being human life.”
by the careless suppression of the The source of these articles are from 13
journals, both Indian and abroad as far apart as
different ways in which disease Nov. 1967 to 2001.
seeks outward release. What Dr.K.S.
materialist medicine calls disease Srinivasan has done a unique
is no more than the pathological service in bringing out all these
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lectures covering 104 pages of Poisons? What are Remedies? He had also
written some ‘reviews’.
Dr.PASCHERO’s works. The HAHNEMANN
book is not on open sale and those lived here in his own house and
interested should write to Dr. consulted at regular times. While
Srinivasan for a copy. medicines were given only on
receipt of his fees there were some
who held up and in respect of
Dr.D.E.MISTRY. some of those cases
3. 1. Samuel HAHNEMANN noted in the
HAHNEMANN – Krankenjournal – D6 Record as ‘due’.
(1806-1807), Kritische Gesamtedition
2. Kommentarband, zur Transkription The title page
von Johanna BUSSMANN. hrsg. von Robert of the Case Register D6 carries
JÜTTE, Inst. Für Geschichte der Medizin der
Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart, Karl F. Haug
the following:
Verlag, Heidelberg. 2002. DM 198. “Marie Melanie D’Hervilly
This volume (the sixth) begins with
This is the 7th volume in the series of 23 April 1806 and ends with 9 September
transcription of Samuel HAHNEMANN’s Case 1807.”
Registers in the care of the Institute for History The Register
of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation, D6 contains 366 pages closely
Stuttgart. The transcription is accompanied by a
volume of detailed ‘Commentary’ which would written lines (upto 35 to 41 lines
enable an analytical and critical study of the Case in some pages!). In his Case
Register pertaining to the years 1806-1807.
During this period HAHNEMANN was in Torgau.
Registers HAHNEMANN wrote
HAHNEMANN was already 51 years age and had down only such information as
nine children. would be useful to his scientific
While during work. It is evident from a study
earlier years he was making his of the Case Register that even on
living mostly by writings festive days like Christmas and
(including translations), from his New Year HAHNEMANN
Torgau period he concentrated worked as usual.
more on his medical practice. In HAHNEMANN
the foregone year 1805 had to bear in mind all
HAHNEMANN had published eventualities especially in respect
major important articles: of patients from distance and
1. ‘Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum
positivis’ (in Latin) – which was the first Pure therefore sent them besides the
Materia Medica containing the proving and remedy for their illness some
toxicological symptoms of 27 drugs.
2. ‘Heilkunde der Erfaharung’ (Medicine of
different medicines too in case of
Experience) which was the forerunner of the eventualities. It is possible that
Organon. Some ‘Lesser Writings’ during such prescriptions are
these years were ‘Aesculapius in the
Balance’ and ‘On a surrogate for China’ misunderstood as alternation of
etc. In 1806 he also published ‘What are remedies.

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While some homœopath from Germany/France. It should

be pointed out here that the long awaited critical
HAHNEMANN had introduced study of HAHNEMANN’s manuscript of the VI
27 medicines (all vegetable drugs) Edition Organon was fulfilled by Josef
SCHMIDT in 1993 which put an end to the
in his ‘Fragmenta’ (1805), in the speculations about the introduction and
D6 (1806-1807) he has added 34 genuineness of the LM Potencies. Unfortunately
medicines. The commentator such a critical study was not done in the case of
the Case Registers of the Paris Period particularly
BUSSMANN points out that in of those cases where the LM were administered.
these 34 there are more metals We have, however, brief chapters in Hans
RITTER’s ‘Samuel HAHNEMANN, Begründer
and minerals. der Homöopathie – Sein Leben und Werk in
HAHNEMANN Neuer Sicht’, 2 Auf. Haug. 1986 and Hans Peter
gave dietary and life style SEILER’s ‘Die Entwicklung von Samuel
HAHNEMANNs ärztlicher Praxis, Haug, 1988.
adjustments. The homœopathic world is therefore beholden to
In the matter of Rima HANDLEY for her painstaking work,
although we may not agree with her opinions on
case recording, selection of the certain observations.
remedy and applying it It is evident
HAHNEMANN followed what he from the books of Hans RITTER
had laid down in his ‘Medicine of and Hanspeter SEILER that
Experience’ (1805). HAHNEMANN continuously
The historical value and understanding of the
development of HAHNEMANN’s thought experimented throughout his long
processes as he progressed in the course of his life. Rima HANDLEY’s work
long teaching and practice of Homœopathy, are
greatly enhanced by study of this volume.
also supports this view.
Printing, binding, get up are all of the highest In the ‘Einführendes Vorwort’ to the book
quality. under review now Rima HANDLEY says “ …
Hier können wir ‘ihm bei’ seinen Versuchen über
-K.S.SRINIVASAN. die Schulter blicken und den kontrast dieser
Herumexperimentiererei zu der Selbstgewissheit
4. HANDLEY, R.: Auf den Spuren des seiner öffentlichen Außerungen erleben.” This, in
späten HAHNEMANN - HAHNEMANNs my opinion, is an unfortunate judgement. It seems
Pariser Praxis im Spiegel der Krankenjournale to convey the idea that HAHNEMANN taught
[In search of the later HAHNEMANN – something but practised something quite opposite
HAHNEMANN’s Paris Practice as reflected in his in privacy (“über die Schulter blicken …”!). Once
Case Registers], Sonntag Verlag, Stuttgart, we realise that HAHNEMANN did not rest with
2001. (translation of ‘In Search of the Later the LM potency – that was his last finding and let
HAHNEMANN’ by Rima HANDLEY, known to the world – but continued to
Beaconsfield Publishers Ltd., U.K. 1997). experiment for a still more refined method to
Rima HANDLEY is a British homœopath make still more rapid, gentle cure. We will
who did a research which has been rather appreciate his prescriptions. For the
neglected for a very long period. There were homœopathy practitioner what are relevant are
many speculations about HAHNEMANN’s HAHNEMANN’s Organon and Chronic
practice in Paris, the introduction and use of the 50 Diseases and not what he did with his patients.
millesimal potencies, etc. To those who criticised even during
To silence the speculative criticisms all that HAHNEMANN’s life time that he did not publish
was required was for someone competent of his cases he is said to have replied that his cases
deciphering HAHNEMANN’s Orthography to were his own and cannot help anyone else, and
make a critical study the Case Registers pertaining how Homœopathy should be practised has been
to the Paris Period and come out with the findings. told in great detail in his Organon and other
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Rima HANDLEY makes it clear that A valuable addition to the

“Because I have been looking at HAHNEMANN’s
process rather than his conclusions, I have singled history and evolution of
out the examples of his breaking his own rules, but Homœopathy.
I do not mean to imply by this that he had no rules
K.S.SRINIVASAN.
or that he always broke them, only that he allowed
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himself to do so in the interest of advancing his
COMING EVENTS:
own learning.” (p.7) This means that HANDLEY
has chosen to bring to light the ‘exceptions’. 1. NATIONAL HOMŒOPATHIC
CONFERENCE 2003 SCIENTIFIC
David LITTLE SEMINAR ON 5TH JANUARY 2003. Venue:
in his ‘review’ of Rima Hotel Sayaji, H1, Scheme 54, Vijay Nagar, Indore.
Host: Shri Gujarati Samaj homœopathic Medical
HANDLEY’s work (The College, Hospital & Research Center, Sch.No.54,
American homœopath, 1999) has A.B. Road, Indore. Ph.: 25024023 Fax: 703447.
pointed that Rima HANDLEY Registration Fee: Delegate Rs.300/-;
Student/internee Rs.200/-, Foreign Delegate 50$
has incorrectly understood some upto 31 Dec. 2002. Spot Registration: Rs.50/- per
of the symbols used by delegate, Rs.300/- per student/internee (Depends
on the seats available). All payment should be
HAHNEMANN in his Case made through DD/Cash to NATIONAL
Registers. Another colleague who HOMŒOPATHIC CONFERENCE 2003 Payable
has carefully gone through some at Indore.
2. A Two Day International Conference, 3 –4
of the Case Registers of the Paris April 2003, London, U.K. Royal London
period informed me in a personal Homœopathic Hospital. Improving the Success
discussion that there are indeed of Homœopathy: BRIDGING THE
CREDIBILITY GAP. The Conference will
certain inaccuracies in highlight the rigorous evaluation of
Ms.HANDLEY’s book. Homœopathy in ‘real world’ settings including
primary care, secondary care and retail
We would pharmacy and also to bridge the gap between
strongly urge that the Paris Case theory and clinical practice, drawing
Registers be more carefully particularly on the emergent ‘Science of
complexity’ (For further info on complexity
studied and published completely. science, see www.complexityprimary care.org).
We would reiterate that relevant to a Themes:
practising homœopath are the Organon and 4. Empowering the patient
Chronic Diseases which are complete in 5. Theories supporting the plausibility of
themselves. Homœopathy
Ms.HANDLEY 6. Integration of Homœopathy in existing
healthcare settings.
has done a great job in opening For further details:
the Paris Case Registers. Her www.rlhh.org.uk/conference.
DELPHI Case Conference: DELPHI project will
pioneering work must be be held prior to the conference, on Wednesday 2nd
carefully read by all homœopaths. April. The DELPHI project aims to identify the
There is a most reliable criteria for the successful
prescription of homœopathic remedies by building
complete bibliography, a subject a database of case histories and by developing
and person index and a Remedy methodologies for, and support of systemic case
study. ALL enquiries regarding this meeting
Index. All these add to the value should be directed to Dr BAAS Cees. E – mail
of the work. [email protected] Tel: + 31-40-2420984.
Address: Robijnring 51, 5629 GJ Eindhoven, The
Netherlands.

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3. AHML AND I F for H.E.A.L.TH jointly 1957, and was the Editor of this journal from 1981
present THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL to 1985. He always ensured that his ‘practice’ was
HOMŒOPATHIC CONGRESS – 2003 FOR well-based on the principles. He made regular
• A DISEASE-FREE contributions to the journal all of which are
• DRUG-FREE educative for everyone. The Zeitschrift für
• DARKNESS-FREE PLANET! Klassische Homöopathie 3 & 4/2002 lists 88
DATES: 17TH – 19TH OCT. 2003 articles during the period 1969-2001! These do
VENUE: AIR-FORCE AUDITORIUM, NEW not include editorials, translations, book reviews,
DELHI. For further details/enquiries, contact: letters, etc. He also gave seminars.
Secretary General: Dr.AK. SETH, at Secretariat— Dr.KLUNKER was interested in Indian
AHML & I F for H.E.A.L.TH B2/11 Vasant Philosophy - particularly in
Vihar, New Delhi –110 057. Ph.:26147791, J.KRISHNAMURTHY’s. Dr.KLUNKER studied
26153369.e-mail: [email protected] Sanskrit till late in his years. He kept away from
------------------------------------------------------------- praises, awards, etc. and did not even want his
photograph to be published. What is important is
CORRECTIONS: In the last issue 1 & 2/2002 what is said and not who said and how he/she
1. P.No.20, Col.2, line 1 – “10-year-old-woman” looked like, he said.
read as “40-year-old woman”. My acquaintance with him through
2. P.No.71, Col.1, line 6 from bottom “no correspondance began nearly 20 years ago. Since
violently” read as “so violently”. then we had frequent, regular correspondance all
------------------------------------------------------------- through these years until few months before his
OBITUARY: Will KLUNKER was born on 9 demise. We had hearty discussions on
August 1923 in Munich, Germany. He studied Homœopathy. These I value very much. His
Medicine, but Philosophy was his primary interest death on 26 March 2002, a great loss for
besides Medicine. Hahnemannian homœopaths, has made me feel
Even as a student he had decided to become a very forlorn and sad. I have lost a true friend and
homœopath and studied with Dr.KÜNZLI and none to till the void.
Dr.VOEGELI and further with the great Dr.Pierre
SCHMIDT. During the past over 20 years that I K.S.SRINIVASAN.
knew him he was practising in Switzerland.
Dr.KLUNKER co-authored with Horst -------------------------------------------------------------
BARTHEL, the Synthetic Repertory (1973)
which became a model and source for subsequent
repertories.
He was closely associated with the Zeitschrift
für Klassische Homöopathie from its beginning in

“A vast similitude interlocks all,

All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
All distances of place however wide,
All distances of time, all inanimate forms, all souls, all living bodies though, they be ever so different,
or in different worlds,
All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes.
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe or any globe,
All lives, and deaths all of the past, present and future,
This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann’d,
And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them”

- Walt Whitman in ‘The Leaves of Gross’

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