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As Homeopathy Progresses Through the Third Century Since Its Founding by Samuel Hahnemann, It Is Timely to Reflect – Not FEATURE Of milestones and millstones by Jerome Whitney As homeopathy progresses through the third century since its founding by Samuel Hahnemann, it is timely to reflect – not Jerome became involved in homeopathy only on milestones that have been achieved as a student of Dr Thomas Maughan. He but also millstones that have hindered or remains continuously active in the promo- tion and education of homeopathy. His delayed progress. teaching and writings focus on the healing principles from which it has evolved, their When embarking on a journey it the increasingly conservative Hah- expression in the present, and ways to is essential to be clear about one’s bring scientific and practice advances into nemann. Organon 5-6 represent an being for the future. As well as being an current position so that there is increasingly flexible approach to ongoing participant in meditative provings, a solid platform from which to prescribing. Jerome is also currently creating and measure progress. In this article, The fourth edition may be viewed leading a home schooling course titled the focus is on five major homeo- as the point when Hahnemann ‘Explorations in conceptual thinking’. pathic innovators whose significant His enjoyment for hiking and biking introduced his most conservative continues when the sun shines. contributions we now take for rules concerning the practice of ho- granted. It also explores circum- meopathy (4th edition, para 242): stances that have shaped homeo- a) The dosage is to be the single pathy from 1810 to the present administration of a few poppy- and which serve as the foundation seed size pills. platform for its practice during its b) Repetition should be performed third century of existence. only when there is a relapse of symptoms. The Organon milestones However, within four years, writing During 1810 Samuel Hahnemann in the fifth edition, Hahnemann published the first of six editions of revised his previous emphatic the Organon that track an evolv- limitation regarding repetition and ing healing quest that was only advised the practitioner to formu- terminated by his death. Through- late the remedy in liquid form, an out those editions modification, approach that allows the practi- revision and change resulted from tioner to (5th edition, para 246): clarification due to experience-based a) Repeat the remedy during innovation. The outcome is that the improvement in order to six editions may be divided into the accelerate the time for cure. two categories of 1) increasing con- b) Tailor the repetition to the servatism followed by 2) increasing nature of the illness: frequent flexibility:Organon 1-4 represent for acutes; days or weeks for Homeopathy in Practice Autumn/Winter 2017 43 P43-53.dh2.sw2.Whitney.indd 1 12/02/2018 12:15 FEATURE chronics. dog. He went on to initiate the philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg, c) Provide for intercurrent potentisation of animal and human introduced a new structure into ho- remedies. substances, giving rise to nosodes, meopathic prescribing and layout By the end of the sixth edition sarcodes, isodes, and homeo- of the materia medica that has since Hahnemann even acknowledges prophylaxis. Although Hering was been termed ‘constitutional pre- that there are other ways than not alone in the subsequent advo- scribing’. Swedenborg had written dynamised remedies to stimulate cacy of these remedy substances the that there is nothing that exists in the vital force. extent and range of his contribu- any one of the spiritual, abstract, or tions established him as the leader material realms of life that does not Team Hahnemann and Hering: in the field. His contributions in also exist in some form in the other Our milestone ancestors: this area include: two realms. This observation may 1. Use of poisons & secretions such be termed the law of correspond- Kingdom sourced remedies as Lachesis ences. Kent, by engaging in lateral Hahnemann Hering 2. Nosodes: Medorrhinum, Syphili- thinking, reframed this concept Mineral & vegetable Animal & human num, Lyssinum into a working model which may 3. Isodes: Nosodes made from the be expressed as: there is nothing There are numerous locations patient’s own disease secretions that exists in any one of the mental, from which to ‘photograph’ the 4. Sarcodes: Normal secretions emotional, or physical states of a contributions of Hahnemann and from healthy glands, such as patient that does not correspond Hering. One of them that has yet Thyroidinum in some form with the other two to be emphasised is their interac- 5. Homeoprophylaxis: Variolinum states of their being. tive work as a team. The incred- for prevention of small pox This concept of ‘what is here is ibly fruitful collaboration between 6. Pre-Schüssler cell salt therapy: there’, as utilised by Kent, provided Hering and Hahnemann – from Hering suggests minerals may be the means whereby a homeopath 1830 to 1843 – was not based on lacking in diets. was now able to select a remedy by face-to-face interaction but rather 7. Preventative remedies: potentised isolating symptoms on two levels sailing ship mail delivery between seeds, insects, and animal organs and then checking them against the Paris and Philadelphia. Previously, to prevent or remove unwanted third level. In addition, the Kentian while studying at the University of pests. hierarchical approach of categoris- Leipzig, Hering had seen Hahne- ing symptoms from generals to mann and family walking on the The complementary milestone particulars supported much more promenade on Sundays but had contributions of Kent and Burnett profound prescribing for reaching never met him. While performing The final years of the 19th century into the inner levels of the being. his assignment for his university witnessed the simultaneous creative Ultimately, this advance was to mentor to disprove homeopathy, innovations of James Tyler Kent in make it possible for the competent Hering found that it worked. Dur- the USA and James Compton Bur- professional non-medically quali- ing 1821, homeopathic treatment nett in England. Both homeopaths fied homeopath of the late 20th and prevented the need for the amputa- introduced two uniquely different, 21st centuries to emerge. tion of his finger from sepsis. As a however equally valid, working result, he began to correspond with models of the interconnected nature Organopathic prescribing Hahnemann, a dialogue that lasted of humanness. Meanwhile, challenged to effec- until Hahnemann’s death in 1843. These working models, when tively treat the extreme morbidity Although copies of Hering’s half subsequently taken up by homeo- presented by many of the patients of the correspondence no longer ex- paths throughout the world, were that crowded into his surgery each ist, those of Hahnemann’s respons- to have profound and lasting effects day, Burnett drew on the organo- es are so vivid and thorough that on the evolution of methodology pathic teaching of Paracelsus. a reasonably clear feeling for their of practice right up to the present Organopathy, as it became known, friendship and creative interac- moment. had reached him via the recorded tion radiates from the texts. While 25 years of experience of Johann Hahnemann in the early years from Constitutional prescribing Rademacher, a medical contempo- 1810 to 1825 focused on intro- James Tyler Kent, drawing on the rary of Hahnemann. ducing remedies sourced from the writings of the scientist-spiritual Some patients presented mineral and vegetable kingdoms, with such morbid pathological Hering – responding to early edi- Constitutional prescribing Organopathic prescribing symptoms that it was not pos- tions of Chronic Disease – found James Tyler Kent James Compton Burnett sible to ‘see the unique person’ in in the USA in the UK the stimulus to prove Lachesis from amongst them. Burnett’s response Whole person Nosodes the bushmaster snake and, subse- Potency range Organopathy was to treat the organ that, at the quently, Lyssin, the saliva of a rabid time, was most dysfunctional. In 44 Homeopathy in Practice Autumn/Winter 2017 P43-53.dh2.sw2.Whitney.indd 2 12/02/2018 12:15 FEATURE In the not too distant future, homeopathy will be recognised as an application of the interdimensional © Masezdromaderi | Dreamstime quantum-nano reality many instances, Burnett found Kentian model became separated Even the most well- If the constitution is masked by that the remedy chosen treated from the Burnettian and both were balanced hammer is pathology then organopathy is a not only the affected organ but independently practised on an in- not capable of fixing possible alternative. everything that is was the simillimum for the whole creasing scale by separate segments not a nail person as well. of the homeopathic community. When a milestone is delayed by The rationale that Paracelsus had a millstone provided for this approach to bod- Organopathy The sixth edition of the Organon ily interconnectedness was based 1) Organs are not only a part of the did not see the light of day until it on the premise that: ‘what is here body as a whole but also have a was published in 1921. This meant is there’ is repeated in every organ unique character and function of that there was a gap of 88 years or whole subsystem of a person’s their own. between it and the 1833 publica- body. Another way of explaining 2) Either an excess or deficiency of tion of the fifth. It needs to be this working model is by view- a given organ results in disease stressed that the sixth edition is far ing each organ as having its own of the organism. more than a tweaked version of the character, function, and individual- 3) Many times, ‘organ remedies’ fifth edition in the tone and flex- ity; however, it is, simultaneously, cured the whole person by ibility of its revisions. an integral part of the body as a restoring the disturbed organ For example: whole and permeated with the to health.
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