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(This service is only for private circulation. 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, Belgium, Brazil, USA, etc., discipline- wise, with brief abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to the original articles for detailed study. The full names and addresses of the journals covered by this compilation are given at the end. Compilation, translation, publication by Dr.K.S.Srinivasan, 1253, 66th Street, Korattur, Chennai - 600 080, India.)

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Part I of the journal lists the current literature in Homœopathy drawn from the well-known homœopathic journals published world-over - India, England, Germany, France, Brazil, USA, etc., - discipline-wise, with brief abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to the original articles for detailed study. The full names and addresses of the journals covered by this compilation are given at the end of Part I. Part II contains selected essays/articles/extracts, while Part III carries original articles for this journal, Book Reviews, etc. ______paper addresses the complementary nature of these I. PHILOSOPHY disciplines in some depth, by way of exploration of the topic of suffering, the mirror as metaphor and 1. The Simillimum concept: alchemical correlates. Understanding Aphorisms 275 & 276 LASHKOVA, Zara (SIM. XXI, 2008) 3. Provings, Phenomena and Practice The evolution of Homœopathic knowledge The whole conceptual meaning of the term PITT, Richard (AJHM.100, 3/2007) simillimum in Homœopathy is still improperly and poorly understood. Knowledge of Medicines is an essential part of With reference to § 275 & 276, the author our homœopathic process. Homœopathic provings concludes that the simillimum is an integration of have been the cornerstone of our methodology to four major concepts. ascertain a knowledge of medicines. Verification 1. The similar remedy through clinical experience has been the other 2. The similar potency significant form of our development of knowledge. 3. The similar dose Experience confirms the validity of provings and 4. Proper frequency of repetition [Repetition if takes the knowledge into living three dimensional called for = KSS] reality. It is testament to Hahnemannřs genius that An interesting article. homœopathic provings and clinical verification, in attaining a Ŗknowledge of medicinal powersŗ is as 2. Homœopathy and Jungian Psychology: valid today as in his own time. Kindred spirits However, it can be argued that there are other NOSSAMAN, Nick (AJHM.100, 3/2007) ways to develop our knowledge of medicines and that both homœopathic provings and clinical There is a substantial resonance between experience have certain inherent problems, Jungian psychology and homœopathic medicine. In especially if relied on exclusively. Other, more the latter, we seek to understand the patient in his or phenomenological methods of attaining medicinal her totality by virtue of individualizing features, knowledge have been discussed in recent years, which guide us to the similar medicine. Likewise creating much debate in the profession. This article in Jungian psychology, the symbolic language of seeks to explore the issues around this debate and to the unconscious Ŕ such as is revealed to us in find a reasonable balance in our onion endeavor to dreams, active imagination and synchronicity Ŕ is a explore the knowledge of medicinal powers. It reflection of the aspects of the individual still to be argues that a combination of different forms of discovered. The goal is the same: realization of the Ŗknowledgeŗ gives the most confidence in developing our understanding.

4. Miasms: Energy Forces observed by facial potential of each individual patient in terms of features physical functioning and psychic expression. This BENTLEY Grant (AJHM. 100, 4/2007)

Every suppression will have the equal and There is too much of assumption and opinion opposite repercussions elsewhere. (Newtonřs Law) in this article. The author says that Miasms The suppression of local symptoms, which are Influence pathology, facial structure, behavior and manifestations of the inner general disease, affects outlook; therefore know the Miasms of the patient the inner more vital organs. This confirms a Law by the patientřs facial structure. Sample sketch in physics Ŕ Energy cannot be created or destroyed. diagrams are given. It can only be converted from one form to another. The author argues for repetition of a remedy In §203, HAHNEMANN writes, Ŗthis for several days, weeks, months! He says ŖToo pernicious external mode of treatment, has been the many homœopaths, myself-included, have been most prolific source of all the innurmerable chronic misled by the Řsingle dose and waitř policy. maladies under which man groans. Obviously HAHNEMANN saw great benefits in Doctors and patients are unreasonably the continuous repetition of the medicine; otherwise gratified by the disappearance of the local the LM potency scale would not have been symptoms. devised.ŗ Homeopaths can cause suppression by [How is it obvious? Irrespective of what any one focusing on a single symptom without has said a repetition is called for only when called understanding the central disturbance; by giving for by the case in question = KSS] too many doses of a medicine; wrong potency and even poly-pharmacy. 5. Miasmen, zwischen Wahn und Realität Good knowledge of miasms help us to (Miasms, between Delusion and Reality) understand the central disturbance better and with METHNER Roland (ZKH. 51, 3/2007) correct homœopathic treatment, the susceptibility to the miasms reduces and the subsequent This is a brief study on ŘMiasmsř. The author generations are greatly healthier in mind and body. discusses Miasms as propounded by This will reduce the crime rate significantly, help HAHNEMANN (3 Miasms) subsequently the mankind to progress positively and make the expositioned by J.H. ALLEN (4 Miasms, inductive earth a much better place to live in. method), ORTEGA, (3 Miasms) MASI- We need to be careful, responsible and ELIZALDE, SANKARAN, VIJAYKAR (all conscientious when practicing Homœopathy. deductive method), JUS, (4 Miasms) GIENOW (6 A case has been analysed miasmatically and Miasms). These Miasm Schools differ from each the readers are suggested to suggest rubrics, other in fundamentals. As much deep one studies remedy and potency. these authors so much complicated they are. The author has made a study of 250 cases over the 7. Intuition in der Medizin years and also the connection with Cancer. He (Intuition in the Medicine) felt that the fact lies between J.H. ALLEN and NAGER Frank (AHZ, 252, 4/2007) HERING. While Miasm knowledge will help to recognise specific connections between certain The significance of intuition in Medicine is infectious diseases and other diseases, the majority inquired in the light of its historical development of the current authorsř are only their personal and its philosophical classification. The role of observations, fantasies, unproved opinions and Ŗraison de la mathématiqueŗ is valued and inadmissible analogies. An exact verification in confronted with the Ŗraison du cœurŗ. this matter is the need now. Conventional Medicine will find its perceptions in a causal, analytical way, trusting in the delusion 6. A study of suppression, Disease and Healing of measurability. But the alternative Medicine is POTDAR, Swapna (CCR. 15, 1/2008) also one-sided in its own way too, not properly Suppression can happen in many forms. taking into consideration the rational. In Medicine a. An individual may himself suppress his all the four functions of Mind are required: cravings, desires, aversions, emotions, Intellect, Emotion, Sensation and Intuition. Only a needs and thoughts. This may be due to good combination of these ingredients will widen his fear of losing his image from a conflict the technique of Cure to the Art of Healing. of (sycotic) or out of possible consequences (Psoric) 8. Der Archetyp des Spiegels Ŕ Beobachtungen b. A strong thought which is unexpressed. über die Natur von Heilung (The Archetype of c. Orthodox thinking Ŕ suppression at family Mirror Ŕ Observations about the nature of level. Cure)

NOSSAMAN Nicholas (AHZ. 252, 4/2007) Results: The conceptions of health and illness of the interviewed patients are related to the idea of To this day no one knows with certainty what vital balance/imbalance mediated by body-mind mechanism is responsible for the healing that takes interaction. Dissatisfaction with conventional place when the similar remedy is prescribed treatment, family influence and suggestions of successfully in Homœopathy. HAHNEMANN others were the reasons for seeking homœopathic himself acknowledged that: 1. It is unknown, and treatment. Patients continued homœopathic 2. It is not necessary that it be known for us to have treatment due to positive therapeutic results, cure success in prescribing. Nonetheless, he made his without being aggressive to the organism, the own proposal for the mechanism involved. In that holistic integrated approach, the preventive nature spirit of Inquiry this paper explores this topic of the treatment and low prices of medicine. For further, using the metaphor of mirror. Besides its these patients, the availability of Homœopathy in applicability in describing the mode of healing the public health sector extends the possibility of which takes place in Homœopathy, the metaphor is access. The need for a wider dissemination of expanded in relation to successful healing Homœopathy and the difficulties in following the experiences in general, incorporating concepts prescription are the main problems involved in from general systems theory and references to a continuing treatment. Faith is an important wide variety of other fields. Jungian Psychology component. We found a correlation between the and Dream analysis, Native American healing conceptions of health and illness and theprinciples ceremonies, literature (including the Bible) and of Homœopathy, assimilated through a strong bond Mythology are all touched upon in the Inquiry. In between patients and the homœopathic practioners. addition, the nature and Conclusion : To investigate the beliefs, values and attributes of the Vital Force, as described by meanings that patients attribute to Homœopathy HAHNEMANN, are discussed. helps to understand subjective aspects that may interfere with treatment compliance. 9. Homöopathie- Eine Frage des Stils (Homœopathy Ŕ a question of Style) 11. Truth, proof and evidence Homœopathy and the APPELL Rainer G (AHZ. 252, 4/2007) medical paradigm SWAYNE Jeremy (HOM. 97, 2/2008) Thomas S. KUHN explained anew the term ŘParadigmř in his work ŖThe Structure of Scientific The study and practice of medicine, in its most Revolutionsŗ. Homœopathy claims to have personal and intimate functions, its most overcome the disputes about Paradigm. In the light sophisticated scientific and technological of Ludwig FLECKřs work, the concept of mode of manifestations, and its philosophical and ethical thinking and collective thinking recurs instead. ramifications, are central to our understanding of Like the conventional Medicine Homœopathy has the human condition. Homœopathic medicine: its its own mode of thinking which should be insights, the questions that it begs, and the scientific developed conscientiously. Mutual tolerance is and philosophical challenges it presents, has a called for. significant contribution to make to this process. To be actively and seriously engaged with 10. Conceptions of health, illness and treatment of Homœopathy is an adventurous undertaking. It is to patients who use homeopathy in Santos, Brazil. be engaged in exploring both human nature and the JUSTO Patriani CM & Gomes Mara H dé nature of the world we inhabit. And in that process Andrea (HOM. 97, 1/2008) we are also engaged in the pursuit of truth and the exploration of reality. Objective: To investigate the conceptions of health This paper deals first with the layout of the and illness, th ereaseons for seeking Homœopathy playing field on which Homœopathy has to and continuing treatment, compliance and the compete to be taken seriously. It then discusses meaning of the relationship between religiosity and three concepts: reality, truth and knowledge, which health for patients who adhere to homeopathy. are objectives for which we strive and principles Methods: A qualitative study of 20 adult patients in that guide us in that striving. In the third part it Santos (Brazil) treated by homeopaths in the public introduces the concept of Řpersonal knowledgeř as and private sector for atleast 2 years. Semi- an essential ingredient of scientific discovery and structured interviews, organized by predefined the pursuit of truth. And finally it proposes that the thematic categories, the content of the interviews homeopathic community in general, and the Faculty was analyzed. of Homeopathy in particular, must expand its vision

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 3 with a definition of a new paradigm, the new model mortality, feeling of being healed, Lacking interest of healthcare and medical science to which the in others. Calm versus Chaos Ŕ Internal dialogue vision aspires. about this. Craving for chocolate. Sensitive skin with 12. Treating Leick with like: response to criticisms eruptions and weak nails. Sensitivity. Surges of of the use of entanglement to illustrate energy and inertia. Profuse menses with swollen Homœopathy breasts. Pasty and floating stools, bleeding with MILGOM Lionel R (HOM. 97, 2/2008) anal fissure. Frequent urging to urinate. Many dreams. In criticizing papers which recently appeared in The details about the metal, its use in ancient Homœopathy, Leick claims that no doubts blind time, and then Jan SCHOLTENřs and Peter randomized clinical trials (DBRCTs) show that TUMMINELLOřs views are given. No cases as Homœopathy is efficacious, and that specific verification of the symptoms obtained from the effects of substances diluted beyond Avogadrořs Proving, has been given. [There is more mysticism limit are implausible. He states that generalized than Ŗfactsŗ, as is common with several modern entanglement models should be able to improve the provingsř. The actual proving data should have design of experiments to test ultra-high dilutions, been given. Interpretation by the author is not and disparages the authorsř understandings of called for = KSS] quantum physics. The paper responds to those criticisms. Several DBRCTs have shown that 2. Spiders Ŕ Suspended between Earth & Sky Homœopathy has effects which are not due to FRASER, Peter (SIM. XXI, 2008) placebo and these are now supported by preclinical work. This area of theory is in its infancy and it is Though the various spider remedies are very unreasonable to expect it to have generated similar, each one of them is precise in its action. experiments at this stage. The authors have used To find the right remedy we need to know well the accepted interpretations of quantum theory: Leickřs features that are general to the spiders, so that we view is colored by skepticism concerning can see more clearly the unusual characteristic to Homœopathy. find the particular spider needed. 1. Confusion Ŕ a state of awareness without 13. Modern or post-modern? Local or non-local? A understanding Ŕ as in Autism. response to Leick. 2. Hypersensitivity Ŕ physical and emotional WALACH Harald (HOM. 97, 2/2008) 3. Great restlessness. → physically chorea and Most debates in science and the humanities that twitching cannot be settled are not about truth, nor about data, 4. Very chilly, generally worse for cold and damp but about beliefs and world views. Philippe Leickřs and better for warmth comment on entanglement models of Homœopathy 5. Secretive as well as attracting attention are a good example. Because of this, no argument, 6. Aversion to solid food; sensitivity to smell. however convincing to some, will settle that debate. 7. > From smoking The only thing that can resolve it is a large cultural 8. Hypochondirasis and cunningness shift. My own ideas about non-local models, for a 9. Precocious sexuality. whole category of possibly similar events of which [The author could have substantiated all these with Homœopathy is but one example. the ŘProvingř symptoms. As it is, they all seem to me only opinions and imaginations fertile. This

------article is in true with the current Ŗinnovationsŗ. Homœopathy rests on facts. = KSS.] II. MATERIA MEDICA 3. The efficacy of Coffea cruda on Insomnia: A double blind trial 1. Proving of Rhodium metallicum KOLIA-ADAM; E. SOLOMON, J. BOND, & LUCAS, Joy (SIM. XXI, 2008) M. DEROUKAKIS (SIM. XXI, 2008)

Three - Two Female and one male Ŕ Provers Insomnia is defined as inadequate sleep intake participated in the Proving with 30, 200, 1M due to difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying potencies. asleep, waking too early and not being able to get Important Themes: A shift in perception; back to sleep. In industrialized nations between Money; Assertivenesses. Emotional reactions of 30% - 40% of individuals suffer from at least sympathy, anticipatory but calm; thoughts of occasional periods of sleep disturbance. The

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 4 significance of sleep lies in its impact on the central remarkable to observe much of this work is now nervous symptom as extended periods without largely unfamiliar to the present-day homœopath Ŕ sleep result in disturbances in mental function. teacher, student, and practitioner alike. This The remedy used in this study was Coffea striking deficiency, coupled with the seeming cruda 200c. Although there is some research profusion of more modern (more or less evidence that it has an effect on the sleep of speculative) Materia Medica, which themselves animals, there is no research on its effect on introduce considerable errors of omission, humans. translation, interpretation, and extrapolation, The aim of the study was to determine the together provide the necessary stimulus for our efficacy of the homœopathic remedy Coffea cruda present article wherein we examine the 200c in the treatment of insomnia characterized by pharmacography of HAHNEMANN and show the a difficulty in falling asleep due to nervous unsurpassed quality, even to this day, of that work. excitability and a flow of ideas. The quality of sleep was assessed in terms of duration of sleep and 5. Ein Characteristikum von Cocculus indicus? improvement in sleep pattern. The study was a (A characteristic of Cocculus indicus?) double-blind placebo-controlled study, which lasted HOLZAPFEL Klaus (ZKH. 51, 3/2007) for four weeks. A total of thirty participants meeting the inclusion criteria were recruited by Two cases which share a peculiar modality, means of advertisements. At the initial consultation were cured by Cocculus. The symptom was: participants were presented with information on the difficulty in protruding out the tongue. The study and were requested to sign a consent form as symptom seems to be a characteristic. The author well as complete a questionnaire. A homœopathic has made a thorough study of the BBCR, pharmaceutical company blinded the study, so that Boenninghausen, Boger, Phatak and the Proving when the participants selected their 50ml bottle of symptoms. medication, they automatically allocated themselves to the experimental or placebo group. 6. Acidum Hydrocyanicum Ŕ Steckbrief eines Participants were also requested to complete a sleep Arznedimittels (Acidum Hydrocyanicum Ŕ diary every morning and follow-up visits were warrant for a remedy) conducted on the second and fourth week of the SEUL Brigitte (AHZ. 252, 4/2007) study. All results were compared with the initial The remedy Hydrocyanic acid was introduced assessment and changes were recorded. Data were in Homœopathy as early as 1826, but it is still little analyzed according to the General Linear Model, known. It has a small number of indications in Mann-Whitney Test, Cross Tabulation, Fisherřs attacks of suffocation, convulsions and collapse Exact Test and Regression Analysis. and can be of great benefit in cases of emergency. It was found that the experimental group The essential information about this remedy are (Coffea cruda) reported an increase in sleep summed up here. A case report is given. duration (p = 0.003) to a greater extent than did the placebo group (0.007). Improvement in sleep 7. Homarus gammarus Ŕ Eine Kasuistk pattern elicited by the experimental group yielded a Homarus gammarus Ŕ A Case p-value of 0.002 compared with that of the placebo KOLLER-WINKING Anna group (p = 0.011). Therefore, on both parameters, (AHZ. 253, 3/2008) the homœopathic group fared better than the placebo group. This study serves as a point of A case report of a child showing many departure for other studies wishing to examine the symptoms of Calcarea in which the curative effect of homœopathic remedies on insomnia. remedy was Homarus gammarus. This remedy belongs to the Řsea remediesř. Allergy to milk and 4. Hahnemannřs Pharmacography the need for Ŗsuper-humanŗ protection are the most An examination of our primary Materia Record important criteria for the prescription. Much DIMITRIADIS, George (AJHM. 100, 3/2007) knowledge is obtained from Massimo MANGIALAVORI. Our written record of provings originated with Homarus gammarus was proved by HAHNEMANN, and whilst the value of his works A.CUSHING. However hitherto, this remedy has on Materia Medica may be measured by the been used only in respect of milk allergy. Thanks subsequent success and growth of Homœopathy, to Dr. Massimo MANGIALAVORI many clinical which itself relied on their accuracy, it is

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 5 symptoms have been added as specific for this alcohol, but he never did that to his mother. He remedy. The Řthemesř are: likes music very much. Distance The nurses and doctors in the hospital gave his Inability to stand on his own mother Pethidine without her permission just Immature saying ŖOh this is good for youŗ and then giving Weakness her the injection. It made her numb, particularly Super-human protection her legs so that she could hardly walk from one Secure surrounding ward to the other. She felt foolish and was talking Spastic retraction rubbish. She was angry but did not show it because of the power situation in the hospital. The labor Burning pains was very intense because they made her push 3 Cramping sensation times instead of 2. She felt rushed and hurried, as if Swelling she would burst or explode. The labor was short. Milk He was borne quickly in ½ hour. Motion He was fed every 4 hours instead of 3 as the Water hospital regime was every 4 hours. As he was Allergy exhausted he became a bottle fed baby. At the age Blistery eruption 2 he retreated and regressed when his brother was born. [In so far as the Materia Medica is concerned we When the mother heard the song ŖComfortably do not find the Řprovingř symptoms; the above numbŗ from the album ŖThe Wallŗ her mind went symptoms of Dr. Massimo appear to be based on straight back to the same feeling as during birth: his vast experience. = KSS] powerless and numb. She felt nauseous and uncomfortably numb. 7. Norwegian Proving of Rosa canina Lanthanides: Precocius, sensitive, compassionate HAUKAA Karine (HL. 19, 4/2006) (with birds) self willed. Erbium: Irony, distant, no contact, favoile pink Detailed ŘProvingř symptoms have not been Floyd. given. After 3 years, is still off the heroin and has There is a Řsummaryř of ŘMindř and Řgeneralř worked for 3 years. He is in a rehabilitation symptoms [without the full data of Řprovingř there programme for heroin deaddiction. is no purpose in publishing this article = KSS]. ------8. Erbium metallicum SCHOLTEN Jan (HH. 33, 5/2008) III. THERAPEUTICS

Case 1: A man has fatigue problems. He needs a 1. A woman at odds with her husband lot of sleep. He is not assertive in contacting HATHERLY Patricia (SIM. XX1, 2008) people. He feels not recognized. He had a kind of depression inherited from his mother and grand A woman in an extreme state of nervous mother. prostration consulted for the distress due to the Erbium metallicum 200 given.The Lanthanides disappointment in her second marriage. Felt are indicated by his aversion to authority and his pathetic and childish. Impulse to hit in anger. Felt philosophical attitude. Erbium not interested, not abandoned by her second husband. Indignation motivated, not assertive. As a reaction he was very from being blamed. Resentment towards husband. irritated for a day by a colleague who had to borrow Desires meat and salty food. Dizzy, nauseous with his Laptop. 4 years later, he is still doing well. ringing in ears. Cheated when a business was Case 2: A man of 25 years of age has had a heroin bought for livelihood. Scared of grasshopper. addiction for 6 years. Before that he used Cannabis Loves the independence of the female lions. Lac for 5 years, from age 14 to 19 years. He has a wall leoni 200. A month later much stressed out due to around him. He had only one good friend. He worsening business situation. Guilt feeling. Lac never complained much even if he fractured his leoni 1M. wrist. He is romantic and sensitive, timid, loving. 4 months later, business sold. Lost money, but He has tremendous compassion. He could violate out of problems; working as a massage therapist. his fatherřs trust by stealing money and buying 9 months later Ŕ Exhausted from long hours of work. Feeling empty, lost and angry. Constant

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 6 burning feeling in solar plexus. Poor sleep. Desire Salvatore, 10 year-old boy with difficult birth. to drink lot of water. Walked at 17 months, talked at 3 years. Still Lac leoni 1M. immature speech. Diagnosed with Auditorial 5 months later: Gave up massage work. Processing Dyslexia. Anxious, counting things, Decided to work as a medical representative. Still obsessive about rearranging things, very cautious. hanging on to marriage. Feels positive about future. Loves frogs. Sensitivity to noise, biting clothes. 10 months later: Walked away from marriage Bufo rana 200, 3 doses 12 hours apart. six months ago. Currently working in real estate. 2 months later: Initial aggravation in behaviour Feels free and happy. for 10 days and then better. Wrote a note without [It would have been useful if the relevant ŖProving mistakes. Obsessiveness decrease. Mingles with symptoms of Lac leoni were furnished to justify the others. Placebo. prescribing. ŖStoriesŗ do not make a Materia One month later: Not biting clothes. Defiance Medica. What was the pathology of this patient? and obstinacy much decrease. Placebo. Has she been cured? = KSS.] Over the next 12 months, he progressively improved. Another dose given when there was 2. Approach and Methodology in Drug relapse. Was found to be maintaining the Dependent Asthma improvement and well when seen several years BANERJEA, Subrata K. (SIM. XXI, 2008) later. Charts indicating the progress are given.

In drug dependent cases of Asthma, Migraine, 4. Twins: Identity and Duality Ŕ A case for Hypertension, etc. it is very difficult to get a clear Alumina picture of the case. The artificial chronic disease is TICEHURST Tim (SIM. XX1, 2008) superimposed on the original natural disease (§ 91), therefore symptoms are contaminated or suppressed Tyler, 5 years, one of the identical twins and the patient cannot give a clear picture of consulted for dry tickling cough and a crusty nose. modalities. In these cases medicines must be Rumex crispus 30. Cough and crusty nose based on the local symptoms. disappeared. His moodiness increased. Much more Experience shows that after approximately affectionate. Café-au-lait appearance. Moles 50% weaning from the Conventional medicine, removed. Mother benefited from Carcinosin so suppressed symptoms will resurface and then a Carcinosin 200. A month later, he developed a prescription can be made. strange tic, which was there for a while 2 years ago. Indications of eight homœopathic Aggressive, violent. Gestures of brushing the face bronchodilators used to wean patients off with hands, silly. conventional medication are given. Amyl nitrosum, Hyoscyamus 200. No improvement. Now he Aralia racemosa, Aspidosperma, Blatta orientalis, seemed Řlost‟. This was analysed as confusion of Eriodictyom glutinonum, Cassdia sophera, Pothos identity and idea of duality from the standpoint of foetidus and Solidago virga. being a twin. Alumina 200. Approach B: Non suppressed cases: cases with Next day tic is gone. Two weeks later, unusual clarity of symptoms. behaviour reducing. Alumina 1 M. Ŕ Sulky 1. Miasmatic Totality Ŕ Ascertain the surface behaviour disappeared. No aggression. Playing miasm with friends. 4 months later Tics relapsed. 2. Assess the Totality of symptoms + Alumina 1M. Essence (should include gestures, postures One month later Tics persist. Blind in left eye. behaviors etc) + Keynotes and PQRS of Vision score 20/220. the case and formulate the indicated Eye doctor advised patching the better eye. remedy Alumina covers loss of vision. He was better 3. Ensure the indicated remedy covers the in general. Alumina 10M. Vision improved from surface miasm 20/220 to 20/30 in few months. 4. Administer the remedy which He is focused, eager to learn, has real encompasses the miasm as well as the confidence. totality of symptoms. 5. Treating Hay fever 3. Case of Aspergerřs Syndrome THOMPSON, Michael (SIM. XXI, 2008) SHANNON Tim (SIM. XX1, 2008) In 2001 & 2002, the author used combinations of mixed grasses, mixed pollens, mixed weeds and

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 7 shrubs and mixed free pollens together in 30 & arteriosclerotic thickening or spasms of the arteries 200c. cause a sudden blockage of blood flow in the veins. In 2003, mixed moulds were added to the The result is sudden vision loss, along with marked combination and was called stop and prevent inflammation of retina. Belladonna stops the Allergy formula in 30 & 200 potencies. haemorrhage, help absorb blood in eye and improve Another combination remedy containing 27 vision. homœopathic remedies was also used. [How has Aconite: Arnica of the Eye: this article been accommodated in a journal of Conjunctivitis developing after exposure to homœopathics? Where is Homœopathy in this? cold, dry wind. The combination of several (27 now) pollens and Photophobia from Sun light, Solar keratitis moulds may fit into some other therapeutic responds very well to Aconite. methods; merely because of Řpotentisingř, it does Valuable remedy for treating pain experienced not qualify to be Homœopathy. It is an insult to after laser surgery Ŕ for example, laser surgery to HAHNEMANN. Moreover, the article contains treat nearsightedness. paragraphs giving all details of the clinic and other Staphysagria: not just for Styes: facilities offered by the author is also improper. Styes Ŕ an infection of the gland at the base of The author calls himself a ŘClassical homœopathř! the eyelash. Also Glaucoma & Macular The article is worthless for a genuine homœopath = Dgeneration responds to Staphysagria. KSS] A case of loss of vision in her left eye from inflammation of optic nerve (optic neuritis) 6. A case of Menstrual haemorrhaging. developed after indignation and dental work was MEISSNER, Julek (SIM. XXI, 2008) resolved within few weeks. Pulsatilla: Infections and more: 39 year-old woman with profuse menstrual Indicated in common eye infections, worse bleeding. Large bright red clots. Worse from warmth and better cold. movement. Painful. Tired during periods. Irritable A case of retinal hemorrhage with marked loss with breast soreness before periods. of vision, wept while narrating her complaints and Problems began 3 years ago after a tubal strong fixed religious ideas was resolved by a dose ligation with D & C. Treated with hormonal of 200. supplements which did not help. Hypericum: Soothes pain: Ipecac 30 o.d. for 3 days. One month later, Corneal injuries such as scratch to the eye, normal menses, no pain. No clots. Flow brown wearing contact lenses too long or surgical and scanty. PMS improved. procedures that injure the cornea. She remained well after that. Euphrasia: Heals Eye irritations: Remedy for external irritation of the eye. 7. Homœopathic Opthalmologist shares secrets of Acrid eye discharge. healthy eyes. KONDROT, Edward C. (HT. 27, 3/2007) 8. Expand your view You can improve Macular Degeneration Walter, an elderly man with his visual fields KONDORT, Edward C. (HT. 27, 3/2007) becoming more and more constricted due to Glaucoma and difficulty in sleeping for more than The macula is an oval yellow spot near the 60 years after he saw was his best friend vaporize centre of retina. It contains the largest in a missile explosion in World War II. Ever since concentration of cone cells and is responsible for this extremely traumatic event among other post- central vision. It is also specialized for high acuity traumatic stress symptoms so many years ago, he vision. With Age Related Macular Degeneration had not been able to sleep well at night. (ARMD), central vision gets fainter and fainter. Several doses of Aconite 10M over a two-week Images may appear dim, blurred or as actual Řholesř period. His visual fields began to expand and sleep or black spots. In many cases, extreme light improved. Over the next several months, his visual sensitivity and poor night vision precede ARMD. fields improved to a near normal level. Light to dark adaptation may be slow. Six remedies for sensitive eyes: Case 1: A 78-year-old lady with love for dancing Belladonna: Sudden onset complained of poor vision and dizzy spells. She Any sudden inflammatory reaction, often felt depressed, hopeless and withdrawn about the indicated in epidemic kerato conjunctivitis. Central situation. Sudden giddiness associated with ringing retinal vein occlusion which occurs when in ears. Sexual drive had never been high.

Thorough eye exam revealed ARMD, with disturbances. Platina 1M. Two months later, less advanced cataracts and poor vision: 20/300 in right driven and Eczema calmed down sleep improved. eye and 20/700 in the left eye. Leg numbness resolved. Sense of disconnectedness Sepia LM 1 for 6 months. 8 months later, 70% with others gone. improvement in vision: 20/200 in both eyes. Three months later, libido increased over the Dizziness and ringing in ears gone. next 20 months doses of 10M and 50M. In summer Case 2: Elizabeth, 76, worried about her dim 2004, night sweats continue and hair loss persistent. vision. Undergone ten laser sittings for MD. Fear Again joyless. Tired of taking care of anyone Sepia of being alone and anxiety worse at night. Anxious 200. Seven weeks later, no Eczema, normal Řsex about her health. Eye exam revealed ARMD with driveř, minimal night sweats. Over the next one cataract and scarring from laser treatment. Loves and half years, doses up to 50M. Then in a two simple small town life. Calcarea arsenicosa LM 1. hour retake appointment, picture of Lac delphium She took LM potencies for 6 months. Energy emerged and a dose of 1M. Sleeping very well. improved, could easily relax and fear being robbed Indications of Sepia, Lachesis, Pulsatilla, disappeared. Her vision improved from 20/400 to Cimicifuga and Sulphur are given for the hot 20/70! flashes.

Case 3: Amelia, 78, with cloudy vision in her left 10. From Nursing to Hot flashes eye since two years. Letters ran together while A middle-aged Momřs dilemma reading. Disappointed with the rift with her ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 27, 3/2007) daughter. Anger very quickly. Throwing in anger. Eye exam revealed retinal pigment atrophy with Georgia, 48, mother of a two year-old child vision of 20/1400. Also had Hypertension. with terrible mood swings with irritability and Staphysagria LM 1. 7 months later, peripheral sudden hot flashes. Tendency to be snappish before vision better, overall improvement in vision. menses. Bleeding terribly with each cycle. Vision now 20/800. Not getting angry. Exhausted at the end of cycle once the bleeding Remedies which help in ARMD. began, she would feel some relief. Migraine worse Calc. flourica 8x, Calcarea phosphorica 6x, before her cycle. Belladonna 200c. Kali phosphorica 6x, Natrum muriaticum 6x, Two months later, no Migraine, fewer and less Carboneum sulphuratum, Secale, Sanicula, severe hot flashes. Sleep improved. Felt calmness, Vanadium and Retina Sarcode. not exhausted and more patient with her daughter. Dr. Edward C. KONDROT, also suggests the Another dose a month later and 2 doses of 1M in following Tissue Remedies in ARMD. the next year. 1. Calc. fluor 8x 2. Calc. phos. 6x 11. Getting at the root of Peptic Ulcer Diseases 3. Kali phos. 6x Is it stress, food folly, or bacteria? 4. Nat. mur. 6x A homœopathřs point of view He further says: Homœopaths should not view DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 27, 4/2007) Macular degeneration as an incurable disease that will not respond to homœopathic treatment. Yes, Elaine, 55, with recurrent Stomach Ulcer and Homœopathy can help. Start looking for the anxiety problems. Anxiety worse since Simillimum that will improve their vision and their Menopause. Fear of heights, dogs and dark. Desire life. for sweets. Argentum nitricum 30, weekly once and later 200c. She responded very well with markedly reduced anxiety. Helicobacter pylori 200 weekly once for about 9. Womanopause a month. Stomach pain went away, so did her Healthy women, Healthy Menopause with bloating, nausea and bursting. Relapse a year later Homœopathy and few more doses resolved it. REICHENBERG ULLAMN, Judyth Indications for Argentum nitricum, Arsenicum (HT. 27, 3/2007) album, Kali bichromicum and Nux vomica are given.

Rae, 48 year-old dance therapist consulted in 11. All business: The Man who married his job 2002 for her Eczema, decreased libido and A case of chronic heartburn and acid reflux disturbed sleep. She felt superior much of the time. ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 27, 4/2007) Depression with extreme heaviness of limbs. She had hot flashes, night sweats and digestive

52 year-old Harold with years of heartburn and Belladonna 1M. Within minutes fever decreased. diagnosed as Gastroesophageal reflux. After spicy 8-10 hours, another dose as fever relapsed. T.d.s. foods or lying down after a big meal. Since 2 years for 3 days. heat and burning in his upper chest, sour taste in Still minor vertigo, tired easily and mouth. Gone through a difficult divorce and loss of oversensitivity to light. Calcarea carbonica 200. money due to dishonest employees. He was chilly gradually improved over the day. Two more doses by nature. Worried about business. Irritable and in the next few days and her recovery was much hurried workaholic. Nux vomica 200. Six weeks better than neighbours. later, no bad taste, sleep better, reflux less intense. 46 year-old woman was bitten by a swarm of Four years later continues to do well. Two or three mosquitoes and 4 days later felt tired and achy. Her times a year another dose of Nux vomica. body and head increasingly painful and feverish. Dilated eyes with dry mouth. Headache worse with 12. Snake bite? A close call! light and sound. FULLER, Mati (HT. 27, 4/2007) Belladonna 200. Immediately started feeling better. Repeated doses q.i.d. for 2 days. Wendy, 43, walked in the dark, 3 miles, late Now difficulty in breathing and irritability. night and she had swollen right leg with disturbed Phosphorus 200 q.i.d. for 1½ days. Terrible sleep and jittery feeling. Next day her right leg abdominal bloat. Lycopodium 200. Bloat reduced from about her knee to ankle was blue and swollen, within hours and better overall. 10 days later China hyper-ventillating Pain killers were given in the 30, 2 doses to help in complete recovery after viral Emergency room. No change in next few days. illness. Nausea, dizziness and palpitations. Felt like she had been poisoned. Nausea, when she told the ER 14. Beware of the Barbecue bugs! that there was a possible they dismissed it and gave If food poisoning gets you this summer, valium. She then consulted the another Homœopathy can help homœopath. Her left foot hard and icy cold. Two ASPINWALL, Mary (HT. 27, 4/2007) deep puncture marks were visible. Her symptoms consistent with rattle snake bite. Her hands and Food poisoning results from eating food tongue were trembling. Lachesis 200. she started contaminated with bacteria or other pathogens, feeling better immediately. Two minutes later, she resulting in abdominal cramps, generalized Aches, began to panic and hyperventilate with profuse Nausea, Vomiting and Diarrhoea. sweat on face. Lachesis 30 to get over the Indications for Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, aggravation of 200th potency. She started relaxing. China, Lycopodium, Nux vomica are given. Within 5 minutes, the color of her leg began to improve. Lachesis 30 with in water doses till there 15. A Toddlerřs tale of chicken Burgers was significant improvement. 8 days later, calm, GAHLES, Nancy (HT. 27, 4/2007) leg almost normal except for some swelling and hardness at the bite of the shin. 3 year-old son of the author, after chicken A dose of Lachesis 200 and she continued to burgers, suffered with redness of face, glassy eyes improve. and weakness. Arsenicum album 30. Within 5 Ŕ 10 13. Mosquitoes bring more than a buzz to outdoor minutes, his glassy eyed look disappeared, sweating activities. West Nile Virus: How you can stopped. protect yourself this season? CASEY, Shirley J. (HT. 27, 4/2007) West Nile Virus (WNV) is a strain of Encephalitis isolated in 1937. It has infected 317 16. School suffers Salmonella outbreak species of wild birds; 18 species of mammals in How one homœopath helped 100 students? with WNV along with human casualities. TREUHERZ, Francis (HT. 27, 4/2007) Symptoms: Fever and chills, headache and bodyaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, In a Jewish boys residential school, about 100 appetite loss, swollen lymph glands, skin rash students were affected with Vomiting and on chest, stomach and back, fatigue which Diarrhoea after eating improperly cooked fish and lingers. egg. They were found in the most unhygienic A 36-year-old woman with sudden headache condition. The boys lay stinking of their own feces, and fever. Nausea and very dry throat. looking weak and feeble, and emitting clouds of smelly gas. Some wanted fresh air.

Smelliest of boys who also craved air received Laura, 46, with slightly irregular pap since 10 Carbo veg. for those who were having years, but diagnosed as Cervical Cancer 2 days ago. simultaneous vomiting and diarrhoea Ŕ Ars. alb. Slight bleeding after sex two purplish ulcerous The ones who had lost the most fluid and lay looking sores in right groin since 2½ months and about weakly received China. preceded by painful swelling in that area. Next morning, most of them recovered quickly. Colposcopy was scheduled 3 months later. Chininum arsenicosum for those who improved A year and half earlier, mother died of Ovarian with Arsenicum. Cancer. Two months later Laurařs sister died in an A few boys with the worst attacks were given accident. Father died 2 years ago. She felt a Gaertner. profound sense of isolation from the loss of close relatives. Waking frequently at 3 a.m. Dreams of 17. After a Pap Test or a surgical intervention dead parents and sister. Strange memory lapses and Remedies to speed healing trouble in finishing sentences. Dampness and CASTRO Miranda (HT. 27, 5/2007) humidity annoyed her, worse before full moon, Headache premenstrual, Bloody nasal discharge Pap tests and other interventions to examine, before periods. biopsy or treat the cervix may be mildly 20 years ago Cryosurgery on Cervix after an uncomfortable or painful depending on the affair and a year later genital warts, burned off. procedure and bleeding afterwards. Homœopathy Thuja 1M in water, three times in a single day. excels in repairing damaged tissues after surgical Two days later, mentally better, able to think about tests or procedures. parents without gloominess. A weak later, sleeping Aconite well. Inguinal lesions discharging. Again To be taken before by people frightened of obsessive thoughts. Thuja 1M. after several weeks surgical procedures. continues to be better mentally, but again discharge Gelsemium from groin lesions. Thuja 10M. For the next 3 For those who feel jittery before the procedure. days discharges increased and swelling subsided Arnica to bring down the swelling, bruising & and lesions healed. Happy dreams. A few days excessive bleeding after the procedure. later, Pranic Healer found normal energy fields. 2 Millefolium for gushing of bright red blood weeks later, intense itching with dry scales. after the procedure. Subsided in 24 hrs. Staphysagria for pain due to sensitive cervixes. The Colposcopy revealed no evidence of any dysplasia for the first time in 10 years. 18. Irregular Pap tests, Genital Warts & Herpes How one triathlete overcame all Ŕ with help 20. Wild fire Ŕ Uncontained and on the loose from Homœopathy CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 27, 5/2007) ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 27, 5/2007) On average wild fires burn about 4 million Sherri, 25, with genital warts and abnormal Pap acres in the US annually. Smoke particles cause smear and also Herpes simplex in genitals with irritation in eyes, nose, throat, inflammation of monthly outbreaks of pain and itching cared for Sinus, Headaches, Coughs and difficulty in how others perceived her. Mild depression. breathing. Profuse sweat under arms when nervous. Indications for Arsenicum, Euphrasia, Kali Numerous warts removed from both her hands and bichromicum and Natrum arsenicosum are given. feet. Chronically oily skin on her face. Thuja occidentalis 200. two months later, pap tests normal. No Herpes outbreaks. Feeling upbeat. In the next 10 years, only once abnormal pap, which reverted to normal after another dose of Thuja 200.

19. Distressing test results: Cervical Cancer But after homœopathic treatment, Pap tests comes back to normal! IHRIG, Sybil (HT. 27, 5/2007)

21. Hear this! You can clear Ear infections ↓ 24. Beat Bronchitis and breathe easily CREEDY Melanie (HT. 27, 5/2007) FIOR, Timothy (HT. 27, 6/2007)

Melanie CREEDY a professional homœopath Case 1: Tricia, 53, with a nagging cough after set up the childrenřs Ear clinic in 2001 in Perth. laryngins Awakened by cough from 11 p.m. to 3 Many young children with CSOM are on long term a.m. Agg. by cold air. Agg. on waking. Retching antibiotics and have ear tubes inserted. Breaking with dry cough. Low grade fever. Few doses of the antibiotic cycle is the key to long term Nux vomica 30 did not help. Squilla 200. 2 weeks improvement in this recurrent condition of chronic later, sleeping well. Retching stopped. 95% better ear infections. with 3 doses. For acute infections, Aconite, Belladonna or Case 2: Sally, 11, with recurrent asthmatic Chamomilla Ŕ early stages Bronchitis. Now constant irritating cough with Pulsatilla, Mercurius or Hepar sulph Ŕ later gagging and retching. Cough better after a bout of stages Diarrhoea. Sanguinaria 200. Slight improvement. Kali muriaticum and Pulsatilla Ŕ for glue ears. Cough agg. from deep breath; going from a cold to Calcarea carbonica, Silica, and Sulphur and warm room. Eructations and flatus after coughing. Thuja Ŕ chronic cases Rumex 200. 2 days later 75% better. 5 weeks later Tuberculinum, Psorinum and Gaertner Ŕ as itching and slight cough. Sulphur resolved quickly. intercurrents. Case 3: Kevin, 4 months old, with wheezing and rattling cough. Diagnosed as Bronchiolitis. Cough 22. Down for the count: An adult ear infection < crying. Slightly cranky and irritable. Mottled CASEY, Allan (HT. 27, 5/2007) skin on extremities. Awakened by cough. Lachesis 200 t.d.s. for 3 days. Bronchiolitis resolved within The author experienced Inner ear viral a week. infection with sudden giddness, vomiting, high Indications for Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Rumex, fever with chills. Giddiness as soon as I opened Squilla and Sulphur in the use of Acute Bronchitis eyes. Saline IV, lot of bed rest, recovered in 10 are given. days. 15 months later, similar episode, sudden 25. The Sleep of Angels vertigo with headache, chills with fever, sensitivity Whooping cough healed to light. Belladonna 200. Fever spiked to 103 COWARD, Steven degrees for 10 minutes and then suddenly all (HT. 27, 6/2007) symptoms gone. 8 months old Madison with Pertussis not 23. Siblings without Rivalry helped by antibiotics and Spongia. Awakened by ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 27, 6/2007) cough 7-8 times each night. Hard wet cough ending in choking, turn bluish and limp from Sibling rivalry can be difficult for parents and exhaustion. Also symptoms of Hay Fever, children alike, especially for those who donřt Eczema. Sweat of head during sleep. Antimonium handle discord well. tartaricum 200 in water. A week later much 4 year-old Daisy with Asthma, Jealousy, improvement. Sleeping well. Eczema initially behavioral issues and violence Ŕ since infancy. worse and then gone. A week later no cough. Few Most of her transgressions were related to hitting, months later, Eczema flared up and cleared with kicking, biting, scratching or abusing her elder Sulphur. sister. Asthmatic during warm and damp weather Indications for Aconite, Drosera, Rumex, yellowish green mucus from nose, conjunctivitis Spongia in the use of dry coughs and Antimonium several times. Symptoms better in colder months. tartaricum, Coccus cacti, Hepar sulph and Natrum Mild Eczema worse in summer. Slept in knee chest sulph in the use of wet coughs are given. position and masturbated often. Medorrhinum 200. in the next visit, abuse of her sister, intense 26. Compassionate care at the end of life temper tantrums and violent outbursts were nearly Homœopathy and hospice can help gone. Several weeks without Asthma. Less BELLO, Lia (HT. 27, 6/2007) masturbation. Eczema clearing up. She maintained well over the following year Some caregivers and dying patients are turning with few repetitions. to Homœopathy for comfort and relief of symptoms as well as to improve the quality of life in oneřs last

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 12 days and allow more meaningful, conscious Case 2: Author‟s interaction with loved ones. In high school had severe sore throat, + ve for Paul, a case of Mad cow disease was helped Strep and treated with antibiotics. Since then cold with Nux vomica, Stramonium, Agaricus, Mag. commences with severe sore throat, leading to phos and Antim.tart as he gradually slipped away. severe cough and Bronchitis. Stitching pain The common symptoms of Nausea is relieved radiating to ears on swallowing. Phytolacca 30, with Ipecac, Nux vomica or China. every hour, improved the situation. Since then less To soothe the fear of death, Aconite, Arsenicum susceptible to colds. album, Tarentula hisp. when Ars. fails. Materia Medica of Phytolacca decandra from To relieve pains Ŕ Magnesia phosphorica, various sources are given. Aconite, Arsenicum, Aurum met. (bonepains) Cadium sulph. (Stomach Cancer and bad effects of 29. The Homœopathic Treatment of Cancer Chemotherapy). KLINKENBERG Carl Rudolf Cheldonium (Cancer pain after liver (AJHM. 100, 4/2007) metastasis); Euphorbium, Hydrasists, Nux vomica, Opium and Plumbum iodatum. There are few homœopaths today who dare to For collapse Ŕ Carbo vegetabilis treat cases of Cancer. Referring to the experiences For Breathing difficulties: Arsenicum and of past homœopaths, this article shows how one can Solaninum proceed in the treatment of Cancer today. In part I For caretakers: Kali phos 6x and Cocculus. of this series of articles the principles of the choice of remedy and the prescription of the subsequent 27. Life lessons and managing end-of-life pain remedy on the basis of the Organon are presented. with Homœopathy The significance of the local tumor symptoms for LUEPKER, Ian (HT. 27, 5/2007) the choice of the remedy and how they have been undervalued by KENT will be clarified. Finally the Ingrid, 73, with stage IV Breast Cancer way most homœopaths proceed in cases of Cancer, involving distant metastases retained her supple and especially according to the totality of symptoms of clear mind as a result of her choice of Homœopathy the patient, will be discussed, and possible sources for pain relief. of errors will be shown. Burning bone pains at the site of metastasis. The biggest mistakes in the treatment of Worse at night and initially with movement. > with Cancer can be summarized as follows: continued movement. Euphorbium 30 twice a day. 1. The local tumor symptoms (that which is Pain eased with every dose. individual about the Cancer) are undervalued. With metastasis to lungs, she experienced wet 2. The totality of the patientřs symptoms are cough in bed at night. Responded to few doses of included in the choice of the remedy. This can Antimonium tartaricum 30. result in palliation if it doesnřt cover the nature of the disease at the same time. 28. A homeopathic approach to Acute Pharyngitis 3. The Sphere of action of the remedy, its FIOR, Timothy (AJHM. 100, 3/2007) capacity to interfere with the cancerous process itself, is not adequately taken into account. Case 1: M E, 26-year-old fitness trainer, pregnant 27 weeks with 1-2 loose stools, worse in the 30. In Danger (Wolf at the door), I feel peaceful morning. Also haemorrhoids, heartburn and mild inside sciatica. Yellow leucorrhoea, weakness at 10-11 HATHERLY, Patricia (AJHM. 100, 4/2007) a.m. Craved sweets and apples for the first time in her life. Sulphur 200. Stools formed. Clinical cases which have themes of Danger Three weeks later, acute sore throat on waking, and Circles call for consideration of both Lac worse on left side, swollen neck glands on left side. lupinum and Lac delphinium when deciding on a Hurt to swallow saliva and pain extending to ear simillimum. Fossil remains indicate that dolphins constricted feeling. Lachesis 30 every 30 minutes and whales were four-footed land animals that lived until a change. Next day slightly better. Pain over 50 million years ago; and, since they are external to left ear while swallowing. Phytolacca mammals, it is understood that it is from the wolf 200 every hour until change. Within 4-5 hours, that they evolved. In a manner of speaking, we all sore throat was 50% better and totally in a day. Ŗevolveŗ as we undergo the tests that life serves up Culture + for group a Strep. to us. It is possible, as shown in the following case, that moving from the Lac lupinum to the Lac

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 13 delphinium state is attainable through working on and at the same the birth of healthy boy. A oneřs spiritual process. combined treatment of both Orthodox and A 41year-old man, never well since contracting Homœopathic medication resulted in healing. (In Mononucleosis in 1981. Fluctuation of energy her own words the patient said Ŗ. . The levels. Family history of Cancer. Café au lait spots Conventional Medicine helped me to overcome the on legs and personal desire for perfection on a physical consequences and stabilised! However, spiritual level all indicated Cancer Miasm. Homœopathy helped me in generalŗ. His strong need to protect his children and strong connection to the Mother/Feminine and his 33. Symptom oder Interpretation Ŕ ein personal pursuit of spiritual perfection, pointed to Psychiatrischer Fall Lac delphinium. (Symptom or Interpretation Ŕ A Psychiatric Lac delphinium 1M. A month later, all his Case) Ŕ BOGER Method. respiratory symptoms had settled and was feeling KLINKENBERG Carl Rudolf fantastic. Subsequently he had some digestive (ZKH. 51, 2/2007) disturbance which settled with Lac humanum. [Full of fancies and speculations, themes, etc. A 52 year-old-man with severe Anxiety and whIther Homœopathy? = KSS.] attacks of Vertigo. Case anamnesis, analysis of the symptoms and interpretations are discussed. 31. Ein Fall von Schizophrenic und seine Heilung According to BOGER the symptoms and mit Cenchris contortrix interpretations must be differentiated, while Beweise für Wirksamkeit der Homöopathie analysing the case. It is not possible and it is also (A Case of Schizophrenia and its Healing with not necessary for Healing to know the real cause of Cenchris contortrix Ŕ Evidence for action of disease. Homœopathy) With another case of a 34 year-old female, who CÁMPORA Carlos N. (ZKH. 51, 2/2007) suffers from paroxysmal attacks of breathlessness, pain in chest ribs, cold sweat of hands, severe Presentation of a severe case of Schizophrenia dryness of mouth and thirst for cold water, etc. the of more than 26 years of a female 46 years, cured choice of the striking symptoms with regard to the by Cenchris contortrix. Although the patient had attacks and her chronic complaints are chosen. previously been treated with conventional medicine and various psychological approaches, she had 34. Die homöopathische Datenermittlung nach showN no significant signs of improvement. The Bönninghausen exposition of the verbatim expressions of the (The examination of the Homœopathic Data patient and their precise translation into rubrics of according to BOENNINGHAUSEN) the Repertory, the analysis of the case including the STEINER Urs (ZKH. 51, 2/2007) approach strategies used and the treatment are demonstrated. Finally, the importance for The basis of what HAHNEMANN called Homœopathy to research on the basis of high Dynamis is for BOENNINGHAUSEN the quality cases are highlighted. The author has given biological inseparable networking of all its a follow-up period of five years. Cenchris symptoms. The symptoms therefore, have to be contortrix is a very less used remedy. This is one recorded separately, completely. The disease is of a series of 7 cases presented by the author in the modified by Ŗmodalitiesŗ which indicate the Berlin Congress in 2005. [Are the Řevidence- individuality for purposes of choice of the right mongersř satisfied? High potencies upto CM have medicine. The symptoms are there identified by a been used in this case and the patient has been hexameter; these are: 1. Quis?(Who? The cured and that is fact. = KSS] individuality of the disease together with its mental and emotional symptoms: only the deviations from 32. Ignatia, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla: her usual and natural state); 2. Quid? (What? The Mammakarzinom mit Knochenmetastasen disease (the nature of the disease and its (Ignatia, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla: Breast peculiarity); 3.Ubi? (Where? The location of the Carcinoma with Bone metastasis) complaint); 4. Quibus comitibus? (The HADULLA Michael (ZKH. 51, 2/2007) accompanying complaints, or the concomitants, those which appear in the context of the patho- Case-presentation of a young woman with bi- physiological processes together with the main lateral breasts surgically removed due to complaints. These symptoms may be co-incidental Carcinoma of both breasts with bone metastases with the main complaints, and they are peculiar,

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 14 rare, strange); 5. Cur? (Why? The cause, both 37. Die Untersuchung der Reaktionen nach Q- external as well as the internal); 6. Quomodo? (The Potenzengaben am Beispiel einer modalities. The modifications, which can take Onkologischen Behandlung (Study of place in anything, thus the measure, the rule, the reactions after a 50 millesimal Potency Ŕ aim, the relations, changes, etc. thus whatever with example of an oncological treatment) the exception of Time which is included in the last SPINEDI Dario (ZKH. 51, 4/2007) question of the hexameter. In his last work BOENNINGAUSEN mentions that the opposite This article discusses the reactions during a indications); 7. Quando? (When? The Time of long period of treatment of a 2.5 year-old girl, with appearance, the aggravations or ameliorations of Q-potencies of Phosphorus in a metastic Teratoma the symptoms. of the Coccyx. The author particularly discusses Special attention to record the complete the way of proceeding with the treatment after the symptoms which consists of at least one general appearance of new symptoms after the symptom (sensation), modality and location of the administration of Q potencies. complaint. The most recent symptoms of the sick 38. Q-Potenzen: Verdünnungen für übersensible weigh more, but most important are the modalities. Patienten (Q Potencies: dilutions for Medicines have bi-polar signs and modalities, oversensitive patients) which contain contraindications, and therefore ADLER Ubiratan C. & CESAR Amarilys de have to be taken into consideration for the Toledo (ZKH. 51, 4/2007) exclusion or affirmation of the medicine in question. Every medicine has its genius Ŕ an As observed by HAHNEMANN, individual character Ŕ which is mirrored in the homœopathic aggravations can also occur during entirety of its signs and modalities. The genius of repeated Q potencies, especially with a medicine has to be found again in the character of hypersensitive patients. In such cases the disease. HAHNEMANN advises the reduction of the dose, through dilutions of the homœopathic medicine. 35. Rezidivierendes abdominelles These watery dilutions should be renewed every Schmerzsyndrom unklarer Genese Ŕ day by the patient, what is not very practical in Magnesium phosphoricum these days. The authors report their experience in (Recurring abdominal pain syndrome of Brazil with Q potencies dilutions which were unclear origin Ŕ Magnesium phosphoricum) stabilized with alcohol in the pharmacy, making EMMRICH Peter (ZKH. 51, 3/2007) their use and transportation easier for the patient.

Magnesium phosphoricum in a special dosage 39. Zur individuellen Dosierung der Q-Potenzen form cured a chronic severe abdominal pain (On the individualization of the Q-Potency syndrome of uncertain and unclear origin. Earlier dosage) BÜNDNER Martin (ZKH. 51, 4/2007) conventional medicine had failed. The case points out that healing of such cases are possible with A new method developed by the author is simple Homœopathy. It also points out that presented for the administration of Q Potencies costwise, and freedom from adverse side-effects, which allows the optimization of dilutions and the Homœopathy is much more serviceable than daily application for the patients which reacts very conventional medicine. sensible for homœopathic remedies.

36. Coarctatio aortae Ŕ Aurum metalllicum 40. Diffuse Autonomie der Schilddrüse Ŕ Iodum SRINIVASAN K. S. (ZKH. 51, 3/2007) (Diffuse Autonomy of Thyroid gland-Iodum) EMMRICH Peter (ZKH. 51, 4/2007) The successful homœopathic treatment of a Normalization of Thyroid parameters in a 52 Coarctatio aortae, in a 33 year-old man, is reported. year-old woman with manifest diffuse autonomy of Main remedy was Aurum metallicum. The Thyroid gland under treatment with Iodum, as well treatment was during the years 1993-94, and the as cure of the psycho-vegetative ailments. While person is well until today (follow-up of more than the T3, T4, TSH showed progressive improvement 14 years). of the patient upto January 2005 and the patient

herself felt quite good, her face was clear, eyes

were not protruding and she had put on 5 kg.

weight, appetite was good, etc, the Thyroid

Sintigram showed that there was no change Today the modern man has become a speed between the earlier one and this! The question merchant, driving the motor of his life. Chronic therefore is : is the patient healthy since the time shortage, changing patterns of activity, greater laboratory results show normalising and the patient load of information and more active interpersonal herself feeling good, whereas the Sintigram shows relationships have affected verbal communication. no improvement! In the light of § 6 of the Organon that the symptoms represent the whole 45. GesturesŕNon Verbal Communication with illness of the patient, how far are the pathological Children tissue changes relevant to the homœopathic disease RAVI Singh (HH. 32, 4/2007) picture? Study in pediatrics involves understanding the 41. Eine Q-Potenz-Behandlung bei Aortenstenose mute communications, which comes out in very und Herzinsuffizienz (A Q-potency-treatment innocent ways. of Aortic Stenosis and Cardiac insuffciency) Physician should observe every child with all SRINIVASAN, K.S. (ZKH. 51, 4/2007) senses open and enquire with parents any particular habit or particular behavior. Treatment of cardiac failure because of Aortic Stenosis with Q potencies of different remedies. A 46. Memorable Outdoor Cases significant amelioration of the patient can be RASTOGI, D.P. (HH. 32, 7/2007) confirmed by medical diagnostics. This kind of reported cure is the best proof for the efficiency of Two small guava-sized growths hanging from Homœopathy. nostrils distorted face. Swelling tip of the nose. Discharges: very offensive. Sometimes few drops 42. Post Stress Disorder of pus also dropped from the nose. Thuja 200, 3 BIDANI, Navneeth (HH. 32, 1/2007) doses daily for 2 days. Second day night both the growths dropped on the pillow with a large amount When humans take in new information Ŕ phone of dirty material which was very offensive. number, seeing someone killed Ŕ the memory is lable at first chemically unstable. But within 6 47. An Analysis of Human Emotions hours a flood of proteins produced from short term SHAIK Tarannum (HH. 32, 8/2007) to long term. Emotionally arousing events causes stress. He has given homœopathic approach for Emotions, thoughts and feelings Ŕ the mental verbal reassurance with few remedies from KENT. planne on the whole is responsible for a majority of physical ailments. The seed of an ailment is sown 43. Constitutional Care and the Infant in the mind of the patient without his awareness of BHAVANI SANKARAM Yellapragada its existence. It is the duty of the physician then to (HH. 32, 3/2007) accomplish the difficult task of identifying the seed and removing it before it can grow any further. Many deep-acting and Constitutional drugs based on miasmatic/or symptom totality, when 48. Global warming and Vector borne diseases administered in early infancy have the power to MOHAN G.R. (HH. 32, 9/2007) correct the deviations and restore the biochemical balance of the individual. The treatment of epidemic disease has long Administration of potentized similimums to the held a special place in Homœopathy, dating to mother during her pregnant period and/or Hahnemannřs management of the 1799 subsequently in exterogestate period helps in Königslutter Scarlet Fever epidemic. correcting the child through the milk and other metabolites supplied to the young one. 49. Global Warming and Emerging Infectious Diseases 44. The Unspoken Language… KAUR SAINI, Harpreet (HH. 32, 9/2007) KULKARNI Ajit (HH. 32, 4/2007) Over the past 200 years, Cholera has become ŖEmotional feelings, instead of finding pandemic seven times and also certain skin expression and discharge in the symbolic use of disorders like photo dermatitis. words and appropriate behavior must be conceived as being translated into a kind of organ languageŗ.

40 diseases exist today which were unknown increased and lot of worms came out and then over a generation ago. New threats like Severe subsided. Second dose after 40 days and no relapse Acute Respiratory Syndrome. thereafter. Global efforts to control infectious diseases Case 3: A 20 year-old girl with Acne, Scars, had been Ŗseriously jeopardizedŗ by widespread Hairloss, Frequent urination and Headache since 3- drug resistance, a consequence of poor medical 4 years. Much anxiety before exams with frequent treatment and misuse of antibiotics. urination. Craving for tangy (sweet + salt + Homœopaths can easily take care of all sour)food. Carbo vegetabilis 30. A week later, infectious diseases including the most fulminating redness of face reduced. Hair loss subsided and ones, rapidly and gently without the fear of any urination normal. A month later, no scars. 4 complication, sequella or side effect whatsoever! months later, second dose. [In his Essay on Protection against Infection, in Case 4: 5 year-old girl with Urticaria since 2-3 Friend of Health (1792), HAHNEMANN says Ŗ. . years, temper tantrums and grinding teeth. . excess in venery, anger, grief and care, as also Fluctuating moods with negative attitude. Aversion over-exertion of the mind of all sorts, are great to milk and perspiration of upper lip. Little need of promoters of infection.ŗ = KSS]. sleep. Rheum 30. A week later grinding teeth reduced by 50%, Urticaria by 80%. Temper 50. A weighty Issue for Teenage tantrums less and sleeping well. KAUR Harpreet (HH. 32, 11/2007) 52. The magic of the Repertory When talking to teenagers about obesity they SHAH, Hiren M. (HL. 19, 3/2006) need to be encouraged not scolded about their weight. A wholesome weight loss regime includes 46 year-old lady with biliousness, Headache physical activities (active exercise), low fat diet and and pain in right back and shoulder. Slightest noise exclusion of junk food, along with constitutional disturbs her sleep. Left sided Headache with treatment to control cravings and treatment of nausea and vomiting. Very sensitive. Feels pathological conditions. insulted when scolded. Feels not valued. Cries in sleep. Sensitive to cold. Feels she had made a 51. Back to Basics mistake in choosing her life partner. A Simple way of prescribing with case Sarracenia purpurea 200. Two weeks later illustrations better, no Headaches. Back pain reduced. VASANDI, Yogesh (HL. 19, 3/2006) Biliousness reduced to a great extent. Relapse seven months later and another dose. 8 months Case 1: 17 year-old boy with Acute later a dose of 1M. In the next 3 years no relapse. Thrombophlebitis of both lower limbs. Agony due Case 2: A 9-year-old angry boy with pain to pain with red, shiny, ecchymotic patches Ŕ after abdomen and nausea and urge for stool. Nausea standing for hours during a tournament. Relapse from milk which he was fond of a year ago. Sad on even after allopathic treatment. Pain agg. by touch, waking. Upset if he loses. Plucks scalp hair and pressure and walking. eyelashes. Fear of the dark. Ganglion on right wrist since a year. Vitiligo Brucea antidysenterica 200. A week later, on fingers and lips. Based on aversion to regular bowel movements. No pains. More vegetables and profuse sweat on nose Ruta 30 one energetic. Gradually improved in all aspects. dose given. Materia Medica of Brucea antidysenterica is given. Next day pain less, but still swelling. Ruta 30 once a day. A week later much better. Vitiligo 53. Internal Focusing Ŕ to Explore the Vital patches turned pinkish. In two weeks he could Sensation wear shoes. In all 21 doses of Ruta 30. Vitiligo CHAUHAN, Dinesh (HL. 19, 3/2006) vanished in 3 months. Ecchymotic patches never returned. Ganglion vanished in 2½months. The author has developed an Internal Focusing Case 2: 35 year-old lady with palpitations from Technique to arrive at the Vital Sensation. This sudden noises, after treatment for cervical technique is explained and illustrated with a case. spondylosis. Eruptions around anus. In a case of Alcoholism with Neuritis, the Vital Discomfort to the bones from the slightest Sensations arrived at are jittery, lost, confusion and draught of air. No sleep due to over activity of blank. The tendency to control a sensation belongs mind. Fatigue. Coffea cruda 200. Fatigue and to Cancer Miasm. Asarum europaeum 1M. A sensitivity to noise reduced dramatically. Itching week later 99% burning reduced. Two weeks later,

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 17 no burning. No alcohol, Appetite better. In the His desire to be appreciated and desire for next 2 years 110% fit. good appearance led to Sulphur. Anxieties about family and money matters led to mineral kingdom 54. A case of Chronic Psoriasis and insecurity led to Kali series and Calcarea. As PANCHAL, Manish (HL. 19, 3/2006) Calcarea sulph does not have much violence, Hepar sulphuris calcareum 1M. For 4 days severe 55 year-old male patient with extensive pain and then no pain. In the next 13 months 3 Psoriasis. Domineering attitude with more doses and he remains absolutely fine. [What conscientiousness and sentimental. Craving for a rationale for selecting a Řhomœopathic remedy!ř = sweets, dreams of flying and side to side movement KSS] of tongue. Lycopodium 200. Two weeks later itching increased. Lycopodium 1M. Itching 57. Naja treats Hay Fever PUO and Atopic slightly reduced. No change. On further case Asthma taking Fear of dark, Superstitious, Fear of ghosts. BAIG, Mirza Anwar (HL. 19, 3/2006) Longing for company and light. Stramonium 1M. 2 weeks later, itching reduced, mentally calm and 69 year-old patient with fever due to exertion relaxed. No dream. In the next 3½ years 90% of travelling. Psoriasis gone with potencies XM, 50M & CM. Gelsemium did not help. Tongue was dry, bad [What is the purpose of reporting 90% relief. This taste, irregular pulse. Suffocation inside throat is not Řcureř. The 10% Psoriasis will again flare up. feeling of paralysis of tongue. Naja 200. A cure must hold good for quite long. Otherwise it Remarkable response. After Naja XM, he is no cure and there is no purpose in reporting it. = developed a fistula in ano. Nosode II. [? = KSS] KSS.] 58. An immigrant and a Native in the World of 55. Lupus of Larynx - A case of SLE Mango: Towards an understanding of §131- BAIG, Mirza Anwar (HL. 19, 3/2006) 132 SHUKLA, Chetna (HL. 19, 3/2006) Mr. M.L., 35 years-old, with scars over his face, locked jaws and roded lips with ulcers. In this article I have tried to express the process Coated tongue. Cadaveric odour from mouth. that worked to help me integrate the Aphorisms of Dyspnoeic. Hoarse voice. Unable to swallow the Organon (131 Ŕ 132) and my personal anything but sips of milk. History of experience of the examination of Mango in the Oropharyngitis treated with heavy antibiotics. healthy and in the sick. Discoid Lupus Erythematosus. Anxiety about death. H/o suppressed eruptions, discharges and 59. A case of Senile Dementia Malaria. AMBANI, Bandish (HL. 19, 3/2006) Thuja 200 on 19.1.04. Nitric acid 30/3 doses on 20.1.04. 65 year-old male with severe loss of memory, On 23.1.04 Ŕ better. Able to drink and breathe. constipation since 25 years after the surgery of Feel energy within. piles. Also insomnia. Kochřs infection at 15 years In the next 15 months improved with Lachesis, of age and Bypass surgery 12 years ago. Still had Nosode II, Sarsaparilla, Nux vomica, Syphilinum, chest paiun on exertion. Unusual and excessive Phosphorus and Muriatic acid at various intervals. love for his brother and laughing without reason indicated Baryta group. Sympathetic nature Ŕ 56. Non-specific Polyarthritis treated with Hepar Phosphorus. Baryta phosphoric 200. sulphuris calcareum A month later, sleep improved. Constipation DESAI, Pratik (HL. 19, 3/2006) reduced and 25% memory better. Over the next 2 years absolutely fine and only once repetition of the 30 year-old male with severe hip joint pains dose. since 10 years. Investigations Ŕ NAD. He feels like cutting his legs off during pain. Burns spoiled 60. Lac humanum: A clinical perspective shirts and prays God to kill beggers with physical HATERLY, Patricia (HL. 19, 4/2006) deformities - Based on these the author wanted to select The main symptoms of Lac humanum are a syphilitic remedy. given with morning sickness.

61. An ocean of grief Massimo MANGIALAVORI during the A case of Lac humanum presentation were noted down by Vickey BURLEY BAILEY, Philip (HL. 19, 4/2006) and Harry van der ZEE.

A 40 year-old woman with low energy and 64. When Rolls Talk to each other at the Breakfast Asthma of ten years duration since bacterial endo- Table Ŕ Hypericum carditis. Post partum haemorrhage after all three SCHADDE Anne (HL. 19, 4/2006) deliveries. Ocean of grief inside. Abused in childhood. Incensed by injustice. Spiritual fanatic. In §3 of the Organon, HAHNEMANN states: Basically feels alone in her life. Lachesis and the first step is Ŗto perceive what is to be cured in Platina did not help. Lac humanum LM1 once every individual caseŗ. This means we have to daily for few months. find the leitmotiv running through the story Ŕ to understand the ŖGestaltŗ of the disease. Thus the 62. Wanderings in the Periodic Table Ŕ The Silver analysis begins first with the physical complaints Series and when going deeper the physical pathology has WELTE Ulrich (HL. 19, 4/2006) to be reflected through the sensations and functions of the patient. But there is no general rule about The structure of the periodic table of elements how to approach every individual case since has a deep homœopathic significance. Jan individuality means every case is different and has Scholtenřs element theory of Řseriesř and Řstagesř to be approached differently. In the following case has been independently verified by many the physical pathology, the sensations and functions homœopaths worldwide. We describe twenty of were on the same level so that the remedy could be our cases of the elements of the silverseries, thereby chosen just from one rubric. showing the dynamics of this series, and one case of the iron series. Further, confirmed clinical 65. Neural-Net Based Homœopathic Treatment symptoms like colour preference and handwriting Selection Method in Fever with Drug Allergies are included, and it is shown how we use them. YESSIN S.V. & PETřKO, A.P. [This is a fairly long article. Seven ŘSeriesř are (HL. 19, 4/2006) mentioned: 1. The Hydrogen series. We have successfully devised a new neural net 2. The Carbon series technology-based method to quickly select a correct 3. The Silicium series homœopathic remedy in fevers combined with drug 4. The Iron series allergy. This approach can open the door to new 5. The Silver series ways in performing this important task for other 6. The Gold series case categories. 7. The Uranium series [The authors say ŖWe used a software package And Ŗ18 stagesŗ are briefly described. Neuro solutions (Neuro Dimension, Inc. v. 4.23), - [May be these will be lapped up by the Řneo- model Multilayer Perceptions, with the homœopathsř who follow Jan SCHOLTEN. To me Řbackpropagationř learning algorithm to create the these are not ŖHomœopathyŗ by any stretch of Fever ANN (Artificial Neural Nets). Electronic imagination = KSS] Řimagesř of homœopathic remedies (sphere and time of action, modalities and relationships) present 63. Identifying with Society Ŕ Kali arsenicosum in rubrics ŘFever, intense heatř and ŘGenerals, MANGIALAVORI Massimo (HL. 19, 4/2006) allergic constitutionř were loaded in the ANN Memory. …….ŗ [This too is Homœopathy! = The identification with society is the main KSS] theme of the Kali family. For each Kali this theme comes forward in a specific area of life and in a 66. My Clinical Experience specific way. In a series of thirteen articles, DEY, M. (CCR. 15, 1/2008) planned to be published in thirteen issues of Homeopathic Links, thirteen members of the Kali Pseudohypertrophic Muscular Dystrophy family will be discussed. These articles are based P.S., 12 year old boy with difficulty in rising on Session Four of the Second Three-Year from bed; squatting and walking since few years. Postgraduate Course by Massimo Susceptible to cold in winter. Past h/o of MANGIALAVORI, Bologna, March-April 2004. vaccinosis. Family h/o Sycosis. Irritable, fear of The comments on the cases and the remedies from dogs. Thuja 200/2 doses on 26.6.03.

30.9.03 Ŕ Improvement. Now he can ride bicycle. and sweets. Aversion to sour food. Restless. Placebo. Phimosis. Poor eye contact. 3.11.03 Ŕ No further improvement. Thuja 1M/2 Hard stools since 4-5 days. ∆ Autism with doses. ADHD. EEG Ŕ Post central dysfunction and 14.1.04 Ŕ Improving. fronto-parietal seizures. Sensori-neural deafness. 21.704 Ŕ Thuja 1M/2 doses Tarentula 200. 15.12.04 Ŕ Boy was walking, riding, playing. In the next 3 weeks much improved and then relapse. Another dose 3 months later another 50% Chyluria improved in one year of treatment. 49 year-old female with burning urination, pruritus and white urine. Susceptible to cold since Rheumatoid Arthritis childhood. Once attempted suicide. Past history of Mrs. V.K., 25, with pain in joints since 2 years. Otorrhoea, chyluria at 18 years; Meningitis 35 yers. Swelling and stiffness. Occasional itching. Unsatisfactory bowels once in 2-3 days. Hyperpigmented spots. Thick yellow coating Suppressed grief. Natrum muriaticum 200/2 doses. posteriorly. Desire sweets and pungent food. In the next 5½ months, 2 more doses of 200 and Sweat profuse on forehead. Leucorrhoea before 1M were given. No chyluria. Sulphur 30 and then menses. Weeping brooding. Natrum muriaticum 200 for burning all over body. 200. In the next 6 months much improved with one Palmar corns more dose of 200 and then one of 1M. 57 year-old lady with blackish corns on palms. Many homœopathic remedies did not relieve her 69. The Asthmatic Patient: His Relation to problem. Hair loss, bald spots since 6-7 years Tuberculinic or Sycotic Miasm chilly patient. Exostosis Ŕ Frontal head. KANJILAL J.N. (HH. 33, 4/2008) Carcinosin 200. In the next two months all corns disappeared except one. Exostosis reducing. Two The term of Asthma covers a number of more doses of 200. In the next five months no disorders with different clinical, pathological change. Carcinosin 1M. Next month no corn. features namely: Bronchial Asthma 1. Cardiac Asthma 12 year-old girl with susceptibility to cold 2. Branchitie Asthma since childhood and wheezing since one year. Agg. 3. Bronchial Asthma Night amel. Bending forward. Bedwetting till 3 Cardiac Asthma Ŕ May be related with Psora- months ago. Arsenicum album 30/2 doses. Better sycotic and formative type of tubercular diathesis for 2 months and relapse. 2 more doses. 15 days Bronchitic Asthma Ŕ May be related with Psora- later, Thuja 200/2 doses. In the next 8 months, four sycotic miasmatic complex. doses of Arsenicum album, Thuja 1M and Bronchial Asthma Ŕ May be called secondary Tuberculinum 200. No more problems. Asthma. Clinically and pathologically this disorder is of two types 67. Anaplastic Carcinoma of Cervix 1. Episodal Bronchial Asthma MISTRY D.E. (CCR. 15, 1/2008) 2. Chronic Bronchial Asthma Any idea of relating all types of Asthmatic Female patient under treatment for RA since patients with any single miasm like the tuberculinic 1988 was diagnosed with Anaplastic Carcinoma of or sycotic miasm will be tantamount to overŔ the Cervix in Sept. 2000. Conium 1M once a simplification of an intricate problem leading us to month and Syphilinum. In Dec. 2000, no obvious confusion. Hence, we must tackle every case of cervical lesion with minimum induration. Conium Asthma with a thoroughly miasmatic analysis on 10M in 2001 Jan., April and Sept. June 2001 Ŕ no the basis of the three fundamental miasm. clinical evidence of Ca. She was managed with various remedies till she breathed last on 14.2.2008. 70. Random Thoughts on Pleural Effusion and Homœopathy 68. Autism MASTER Farokh (HH. 33, 4/2008) NIMBARGIKAR (CCR. 15, 1/2008) Some of the common causes of the pleural 3½ year-old NRK, not responding to call, effusion treated with Homœopathy, left Ventricular expressing by gestures and delayed speech, failure, Cirrohosis of liver, Tuberculosis and irritable, wants to be alone. Destructive, bites and malignancy. Another type is Empyema and bangs his head against wall in anger. Craves milk Septicemia.

ŖI have used Eriodictyon californicumŗ. author is of the opinion that we may use several Dr.G.M.PEACE of San Francisco was authority of other methodologies like Sehgal method, Masi this remedy in Homœopathy. FARRINGTON also Elizaldeřs, Massimo Mangialavoriřs, etc., in such mentioned about the usefulness of this remedy for cases. occipital headaches. Yellowish, greenish discharge from the nose. 73. Homöopathie als Konstitutionstherapie bei Antimonium arsenicum – Cardiac dyspnœa Kindern mit Enuresis (Homœopathy as Antimonium arsenicum in paediatric cases where Constitutional therapy in children with there is lot of congestion in the lungs Enuresis) Sulphur and Mercurius sulphuricum follow GNAIGER-ROTHMANNER Jütta Antimonium arsenicum. Breathlessness while (AHZ. 253, 2/2008) eating, cannot complete the food, cannot complete the meal has been highlighted by HERING and Enuresis as a functional disease mostly gives ALLEN. I have found lying down aggravation and little concrete symptoms which can be applied to breathlessness, as the main symptom of select the correct homœopathic remedy. Therefore Antimonium arsenicum. considering the constitution for diagnosing the homœopathic remedy has great significance.

71. Euthanasia and Homœopathy Anamnesis includes all the non-verbal signs VITHOULKAS George (HH. 33, 5/2008) observed in the child, and the child is considered as a whole. The non-verbal signs are complemented The practice of ending the life of an individual and proved by the data which are expressed in suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable words and the clinical findings. Three types of condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of children are mentioned as examples and these are external medical treatment. (From the Greek. A Ŕ signified by three remedies: eu-eu-thanatos). The phlegmatic, withdrawn, irritable A problem that concerns everyone and which is child Ŕ Petroleum a worldwide conversation type. The restless, roughhousing child - Whether Euthanasia is ethically right is a Medorrhinum question of global interest, however it seems that so The charming, glamorous child - far no answer has been found. The justification of Tuberculinum keeping a patient alive under sedation for several 74. ŖSexuelle Freiheitŗ und Bufo rana days would cost millions to himself, to the State, or (ŖSexual freedomŗ and Bufo rana) to insurance companies. In this way, conventional PFEIFFER Herbert (AHZ. 253, 2/2008) medicine has passed a dilemma created by itself.

We should accept the fact that man has the right to Bufo rana is a valuable remedy for live his last hours being as alert as possible as the normalizing maturation of children. It is applied in processes conducted in his consciousness during his primary and secondary retardation or hindering of last days or hours are undoubtedly of cosmogonic evolution. Early sexualisation can be a cause importance to him. which seems to appear more by the changed basics Homœopathic practice has shown that those of education during the development. A secondary who have chosen Homœopathic medicine have disorder often appears as a result of violation of the suffered less, while their awareness before death childřs intimate region. Children who suffer from was optimal. Homœopathy might be helpful for the such a disorder and have been seduced into sexual dying patient with least possible suffering but with practices will then seduce other children. maximum awareness. The problem and its homœopathic treatment

72. Symptomarme Fälle in der Kinderheilkunde especially with Bufo rana is respect of four patients (Paediatric cases with paucity of symptoms) is described. The drawing by the children, of a NIEHOFF Klaus (AHZ. 253, 2/2008) man, assisted in diagnosing for assessment of progress of cure. Also Hering‟s Law can be seen By means of paediatric case examples it is in it. shown that in respect of cases with paucity of

symptoms, a wide attention to the patient, history, 75. Die homöopathische Behandlung von Psoriasis surroundings, and to the practitionerřs inner als Chance für eine neue Lebensqualität process in contact with the patient can sometimes (Homœopathic Treatment of Psoriasis as a be useful to find symptoms on which chance for a new life with quality) homoeopathic prescription can be made, The WILLIG Gabriele (AHZ. 253, 3/2008)

Homœopathic treatment of patients with 77. Homöopathie in der Allgemeinarztpraxis - Psoriasis Type 1 takes long time and requires much Eine Neurodermitisbehandlung mit Höhen patience on the part of both the doctor and the und Tiefen patient. This case of a man, 38 years, with (Homœopathy in General Medical Practice Ŕ psoriatic patches on the scalp, abdomen and Treatment of Neurodermatitis with high and extremities with whitish scales. Taking into low) consideration the totality he was prescribed TROST Thomas (AHZ, 253, 3/2008) Lycopodium in various potencies (both C and Q) over a period of 5 years and the patient was cured Main topic is the progress of cure of an Atopic in the order of above downwards. The patient Eczema in a two-year-old boy, with intermittent needed some other acute remedies in intervals asthmoid Bronchitis. Besides, general problems of which were given without in any any way a homœopathic treatment by a family doctor are interfering with the action of the constitutional discussed and clarified. remedy, Lycopodium. The author says in conclusion: ŖMy learning process, like every other homœopathy 76. Neurodermitis im Kindesalter: Zwei Practitionerřs is, never-ending and hopefully Kasuistiken HAHNEMANNřs Ŗnewŗ scientific knowledge (Neurodermatitis in childhood: Two cases) which he has put down in his Organon (not only in HADULLA, Michael M. and PFEIL, Timo A. the 6th edition) and Chronic Diseases must be (AHZ. 253, 3/2008) comprehended properly. [The author writes further that such ideas as those of SCHOLTEN and others Two cases of children with Neurodermatitis which are dismissed, should not be so, but we cured with Homoeopathy. The first was a child of should adapt whatever useful in them for our 6 months. The mother was in despair because the Practice. He also quotes Karl MARX child scratched and scratched. The case was ŖProletariates from all lands, uniteŗ, we should also carefully studied and Calcarea carbonica Q3 was say ŖHomœopaths of all Lands, uniteŗ. We agree given but there was no improvement. The case with this call with this Řnoteř Ŗhahnemannian was reconsidered and with the history Tuberculosis homœopaths of all Lands, uniteŗ. Certainly, what in the family, the child was given Tuberculinum is repugnant to genuine Homœopathy cannot be D200. The sweat on head was gone and no more embraced; there should some demarcation flatulence. After returning from holiday the child somewhere. Past experience should warn us. It is developed the skin lesions with all intensity. The not Ŗ unity at any costŗ. Surely HAHNEMANN symptoms were retaken and now Sulphur Q1 and it did not say Ŗcure in any way and every wayŗ. was raised to Q3. The progress was rapid and Busy Practice, which the learned colleague gives as complete. The child remains well. an excuse, cannot be accepted. Once one adopts Three month-old boy, with much skin eruptions Řtrade tricksř it will be never-ending. HC ALLEN, in the entire integument. The child looked as if AD. LIPPE and some like them, had very busy scalded, or as if suffered burns. The scratching Practice, as much as 50, if not more, patients in a was severe. Hands and feet were cold. Treatment day. Surely, they did it well. We too should strive by Pædiatricians and Dermatologists couldnřt help. towards that. = KSS] After a thorough repertorisation, Arsenicum album Q3 and 6, were given. Because the eruptions were 78. Petroleum: a series of 25 cases. crusty and began on the head, trhe extremities were RATHMANNER J Gnaiger-, SCHNEIDER A, cold, Silica Q 6 was given. There was rapid LOADER B, BÖHLER M, FRASS M, improvement. At 2 year age, the child was brought SINGER SR & OBERBAUM M. again, now for difficult breathing, wheezing. The (HOM. 97, 2/2008) Pulmonologist had diagnosed it as spastic- obstruction Bronchitis. The mother was not willing This study is based on 25 well-documented to give Cortisone or Broncho-dilator and brought reports of cases which responded well to treatment the child here. The child drank much, was happy, with Petroleum. Materia medica data were walked in and about in the house naked and compared with results in contemporary clinical barefoot, was given a dose of his constitutional practice. Many patients had characteristic skin medicine Sulphur Q 6. The child remains well. problems; children often had recurrent or chronic upper respiratory tract problems. The most prominent mental feature is a quiet, withdrawn or

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 22 stubborn disposition. The mental symptoms may be 81. The Medicinal Solution difficult to recognize. LITTLE David, (HH. 33, 8/2008) Detailed documentation in daily practice can be helpful for preserving data of the effect of a HAHNEMANN intended that the various medicine; confirmation of statements given in editions of Organon and The Chronic Diseases Materia Medica; improving understanding of should be read together as they form a complete homeopathic medicines and differentiating the picture of the latest developments in Homœopathy. indications for medicines. The best way to adjust each individual dose of a remedy to the sensitivity of the individual 79. Morning Sickness constitution is to use the medicinal solution. By CHAUKKAR Samir (HH. 33, 7/2008) replacing the single unit dose with the new split dose it became impossible to use one pill several Morning sickness usually begins during the times. first month of pregnancy and continues until the Some may ask why go through all the trouble 14th to 16th week, although, some women can have to use the medicinal solution? The answer is quite nausea and vomiting through their entire simple. Do you want to treat the most chronically pregnancy. Morning sickness is very common and ill and the most hypersensitive persons? Do you does not hurt the baby in any way. want to use Hahnemannřs most advanced methods In extreme cases, known as Hyperemesis and walk in his footsteps? gravidarium, hospitalization may be required to If you do, then a little more effort on your part treat the resulting dehydration, which occurs in is well worthwhile. about 1% pregnancy. The exact cause of Nausea and Vomiting is 82. Homœopathic Management of Atypical unknown. May be due to changes in hormone Angina levels. Rising level of Oestrogen may heighten MASTER Farokh J. (HH. 33, 9/2008) sense of smell. Evolutionary adaptation is a change that occurs Angina is caused by insufficient blood supply in an organism in order to make it better adapted to to the heart muscle. In unstable angina chest pain its environment. is unexpected and usually happens when one is at An increase in hormone Estrogen, Progestrone rest. sensitivity to odors, + bowel movement. The Micro-vascular angina causes chest pain but bodyřs effort to detoxify thoroughly for the health without apparent blockage in a coronary artery. of the unborn child. Case 1: He suffered from heavy sensation in the No one knows for sure what causes nausea in area of precordium along with piercing pain in the pregnancy. throat pit, upper abdomen and left shoulder. A Homœopathic remedies such as Asar, Colch, local physician suspected heart attack. His B.P. Jatr, Kreo, Lac acid, Nat sulp, Nux m, Nux v, Sep, was 90/70mm of Hg. Coldness in the feet Tab. can be very helpful to a woman with morning ascending upwards was noted and Aconite 30 few sickness and are safe to take during pregnancy. pills dissolved in water was given every few minutes. He was better within few doses. This 80. Psoriasis Ŕ A Dreadful Disease remedy was chosen from Allenřs Encyclopedia CHAUKKAR Samir (HH. 33, 8/2008) memory. Most striking feature is coldness, the collapse and heavy feeling. Psoriasis is a disorder which affects the skin Case 2: 50 year-old man. Acute distension of and joints. It commonly causes red scaly patches to abdomen and severe chest pain that he could not appear on the skin. Psoriasis is a common chronic breathe properly. He was constipated prior to this disease that affects the life cycle of skin cells. The incident he had quite a big phobia of heart attack cause of Psoriasis is not known but it is believed to even when he was normal because he used to have a genetic component. indulge himself in rich fatty food and non- Symptoms, Types, Treatment and Lifestyle and vegetarian food. Now there was definite history of Home Remedies are given. Homœopathic indulgence in food in a wedding. Natrum nitricum Management of Psoriasis are Arsenicum album, 200, few pills dissolved in water every few minutes Arsenic iodatum, Calcarea carbonicum, Graphites, was given. He passed a huge quantity of gas which Mercurius solubilis, Mezereum, Petroleum, Rhus relieved his cardiac anxiety. This remedy is useful toxicodendron, Sepia, Staphysagria, Sulphur. for lazy lethargic children.

Case 3: 18 year-old girl. Severe chest pain with V. PHARMACOLOGY trembling, agony, restless in pain. Her extremities were restless. She will bend the knees and 1. The Regulation of Homœopathic Drugs as straighten it up. This unique symptom with anxiety Complementary and Alternative Medicine to die made me think of Moschus. Moschus 30 in a Products: The Role of the Homœopathic glass of water few doses relieved her. The remedy Pharmacopoeia of the United States. was chosen from ŖExpanded work of NASHŗ BORNEMAN. J.P. (AJHM. 100, 4/2007)

83. Hemorrhoids and its Management FDA classifications and regulation of CHAUKKAR Samir (HH. 33, 10/2008) allopathic drugs, homœopathic drugs and dietary supplements are contrasted. The role of the Piles are normally enlarged and dilated blood HPCUS in regulation of homœopathic medicines is vessels around the passage of anus. Hemorrhoids described, and the HPCUS drug approval process is are common in women in adolescent age group and detailed. old women who are highly tensed. There are two types of hemorrhoids. 1. Prolapsed hemorrhoids 2. A Brief History of Potentization and strangulated hemorrhoids. Prevention includes MORRELL Peter (AJHM. 100, 4/2007) drinking more fluids, eating more dietary fibre. For some very light-weight underwear or without Amply supported with a wealth of quotation underwear gives relief. Kegel exercises may prove material in footnotes drawn from a range of helpful. Management and Homœopathic treatment authoritative sources, this short article delineates a is given. brief history of the processes used to prepare homœopathic drugs and the evolving rationale of ------Hahnemannřs methods. This brief survey indicates that potentisation IV. REPERTORY was a method HAHNEMANN was obliged to adopt through experimentation in order to obtain safer 1. New Repertory, new considerations and gently curative action from single drugs when RUTTEN ALB, STOLPER CF, LUTGEN employed on the basis of similars. His views on RFG & BARTHELS RWJM dosage evolved considerably through time, endless (HOM. 97, 1/ 2008) experimentation and sharp observation. The evolving rationale of Hahnemannřs methods. There The criteria for entering medicines in is a fairly large reference sources quoted. Repertory rubrics are unclear and partly incorrect. This is an interesting and detailed study. A new Repertory should be based on clear and objective criteria. 3. Herpes Zoster: A case Restrospective and prospective assessment of GUESS George (AJHM. 100, 4/2007) medicines and symptoms by the Dutch Committee for Methods and Validation gives an indication of 74 year-old woman with Shingles over right the validity of existing repertory. This experience is buttuck, genitalia and medial thigh. Itching and highly influenced by chance. Another part is due to burning. Worse from contact with clothing and the use of absolute rather than relative occurrence better cold applications. Fiery hot pains in the of symptoms. Yet another part is caused by not joints of right leg. Mezereum 200, one dose every comparing prevalence in the population Řcuredř by 12 hours as needed. a medicine with the remainder of the population. In Five days later: exclaimed that pain vanished in many cases we need better definitions of 8 hours and rash rapidly disappearing. symptoms. A clear protocol and prospective research 4. Woher bezog Hahnemann sein Petroleum could overcome many shortcomings of the (Wherefrom did Hahnemann obtain his Repertory. Statistics help to get more objective Petroleum) criteria, but we still need to reach concensus about PÖTTERS Hedwig (ZKH. 51, 3/2007) how to handle probabilities of outcomes of our assessments. With regard to the Pharmacological Book

which has laid down the pharmacological

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© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 24 study of the source of HAHNEMANNřs VI. VETERINARY preparation and stock used for the Proving which is different from the original substance. It was the 1. Osprey with injured Eye Regains a Ŕ Birdřs clear, yellowish Naphtha from the Nirano bei Eye view. Modena. However the substance mentioned in the CASEY, Shirley J. (HT. 27, 3/2007) Pharmacology Book is different.

A young Osprey (Pandion haliiaetus) flew into 5. Some Cactaceous and Succulent Plants used in a barbed wire. It was rescued and transported to Homœopathic Therapy rehabilitator. Aconite 200 in water, as it was WAIZEL-BUCAY José (HL. 19, 4/2006) showing signs of distress. Bird calmed down in 30 minutes. Arnica 1M for the bruises. No fractures, The raw materials to prepare homœopathic only numerous small punctures on the wings and remedies come from whole plants and animals, or the body. Hypericum 200. after several weeks of some of their parts or secretions, as well as care, it was noticed that it had a traumatic cataract minerals and isolated and purified organic or in right eye (veering to right when attempting level inorganic chemicals. Most of the materials flight) and also dull than normal and also somewhat originate from a variable number of plants (from reluctant to groom after getting wet. Silica 30. 390 to 750 or more), according to different within few days, the bird seemed to be flying pharmacopoeias and Materia Medica. The purpose straighter! of this research is to provide knowledge of some Ten days later, only traces of Cataract was cactaceae and other succulent plants employed in found. The Osprey was released back to the wild Homœopathy and collect related information with no visual, behavioral, or flight impairment. published in databases, pharmacopoeias, Materia Medica and other books. 2. Another eye injury, Another Remedy The technique followed to obtain the CASEY, Shirley J. (HT. 27, 3/2007) information was bibliographic screening by keyword (scientific name and botanic family). A full grown saw whet Owl had been hit by a Information was found about 14 species related to 7 car and was bruised and undoubtedly sore. botanic families. Here their clinical uses are Haemorrhage in the left eye. Aconite 1M and presented, as well as parts employed, and some of Arnica 1M and it improved within two hours. But the chemical compounds and secondary metabolites the eye was still full of blood. More Řcase takingř that could be responsible for their pharmacological repertorizing, Materia Medica studying and activity. Lachesis 200 given for eye haemorrhage; within

6. Pondering views three hrs. noticeable improvement and fully Bulk of Homœopathic Industry recovered in 5 days! Photographs published. VARMA, P.N. (HH. 33, 6/2008) 3. Mosquitoes bring more than a buzz to outdoor Bulk of Homœopathic Industry is working activities. West Nile Virus: How you can against Homœopathy. protect yourself this season? State Drug controllers have been liberal in CASEY, Shirley J. (HT. 27, 4/2007) granting manufacturing licences and more liberal in granting product licences of combinbation products American Buff goose suddenly stopped eating without any clinical trials. and was lying down and unable to move. Found to Perception of Homœopathy gets a dent by Bad be feverish with dilated eyes and difficulty in products. swallowing. Belladonna 1M tds for 4 days and the Is public aware of single or complex goose was normal. It was then observed that the homœopathic medicines? goose was eating ravenously and drinking normally The origin and rationale of combination. This but was having difficulty maintaining weight. In is mainly only with a view of commercial interest. addition the goose had yellow wrinkled skin Homœopaths can help alleviate the situation beneath her feathers and a very stiff neck. Natrum and promote Homœopathy in its scientific form. muriaticum 1M and the goose recovered and lived If the industry comes out with a new drug three more years. (most American Buff geese have evaluated on scientific parameters Ŕ it will be a life span of 18-20 years.) definitely welcomed.

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4. Rescued Blackbird Free to fly again. After VII. RESEARCH Homœopathy helps to heal an ear infection. CASEY, Shirley (HT. 27, 5/2007) 1. A Demonstration of the compensatory Response Theorem in the Action of A frightened baby black bird with rapid Homœopathic remedies respiration and heart rate was given Aconite 200. KATIRAI, Foad (HL. 19, 3/2006) An hour later it was calm and stable and ate eagerly. 10 days later cranky and less eager to eat. The following is an attempt to provide a Swelling over the left ear opening. Ledum 30 did demonstration Ŕ not an empirical proof Ŕ of the not help. Next day swelling more painful and right theorem of compensatory response, based on the ear region also swollen. Offensive white pus. understanding of that principle in pharmacological Hepar sulph. 30. 4 hours later, less irritable, kinetics, in the action of homœopathic remedies. willing to eat. Swelling localised. Large plug of Although not a proof in itself, a demonstration of thick white pus came out and swelling subsided. the expected results provides an efficacious Four hours later, swelling right ear also subsided theoretical model from which empirical tests and with discharge of pus. Over the next days no experiments can then be constructed to provide problem. Two weeks later mild recurrence. A dose such proof. It is in the hope of adding such a of Hepar 30 and released into wild. theoretical precursor to the literature of Homœopathy that this demonstration is proffered. 5. Willy our one Ŕeyed wonder cat. LYKE, Karen (HT. 27, 5/2007) 2. Seven years of Homœopathic training for medical students in Austria 17 year-old cat was hit and dragged by a car. PAINBAUER, T., GUBO, E., VOGEL, T., & X-ray revealed displacement between spine and BÄR, B. (HL. 19, 3/2006) pelvis and fracture of left ankle. Vet dressed the wounds with antibiotic salve, IV drip and oral Since 1997 more than 1400 human and antibiotics. He was given a homœopathic veterinary medical students have either partially or combination remedy orally and another fully taken advantage of the SIH student training combination accident remedy was applied. course in classical Homœopathy. This paper Eight days later he was moving about with outlines the development, success and future little difficulty. potential of this training programme Ŕ one that is unique in Europe. We will demonstrate that 6. Lachesis als chronisches Mittel bei Warzen starting homœopathic training while still studying (Lachesis as a chronic Wart remedy) medicine makes sense and that demand exists both WÜSTNER Ines (ZKH. 51, 4/2007) from students solely wanting information as well as those wishing to complete the entire homœopathic A 15 year-old Mare with moist and bleeding training programme. The project has been running Warts since two years. The Warts were in the head, for seven years and all functionaries give their time and near the ears. The Warts were moist and on an honorary basis. The quality of the bleeding, heavily at times and the Mare was programme meets international norms regarding finding much disturbance as it was frequently standards both in terms of the curriculum and the shaking its head because of disturbances by flies. lecturers. She could not be bridled due to these. Thuja as a locally oriented prescription brought about relief 3. Datensamlung in der homöopathischen Praxis extensively but without a lasting cure. There was a Eine systematische prospective new growth near about the navel. The case was Falldokumentation taken afresh in great detail and repertorised, and (Data collection in homœopathic Practice Ŕ a Lachesis came up. It was given in C 30, two doses Systematic prospective Case documentation) at an interval of two days. Improvement set in, and HUBER Heinz (AHZ. 253, 3/2008) the remedy was given in steps of 200 and then 1000, and the Mare was Řcuredř. A Multi-centre, prospective, practice-based, long time observational study was conducted in 16 ------specialised homœopathic Primary-care centres in Germany and Austria. 1322 patients were enrolled, of which 16.9% suffered from acute and 80.7% from chronic diseases. Patientsř and treatment data

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 26 were documented by using a simple questionnaire given in this Report. The skeptics shouldopen and entered via the Internet into a database. In the their eye. = KSS]. majority of patients the homœopathic treatment resulted in a significant improvement of their 4. Treating hot flushes in menopausal women health status. The practical experiences from this with Homœopathy-Results of an observational project regarding time and cost of systematic case study. documentation are discussed. BORDET MF, COLAS A, MARIJNEN P, MASSON JL & TRICHARD M 4. The effect of homeopathically prepared (HOM. 97, 1/2008) Thyroxine on highland frogs: influence of electromagenetic fields. Objective: There is great controversy concerning S. WEBER, PC ENDLER, SU WELLES, E treatment for menopausal symtoms. We evaluated SUANJAK-TRAIDL, W SCHERE- homeopathic treatments for hot flushes and their PONGRATZ, M FRASS, H SPRANGER, G effect on quality of life in menopausal women. PEITHNER and H LOTHALLER Methods: Open, multi-national prospective, (HOM. 97, 1/2008) pragmatic and non-comparative observational study of homeopathic treatments prescribed and Background: Previous experiments show that their effectiveness, observing their impact on amphibian larvae are responsive to quality of life. homœopathically prepared Thyroxine. Results: Ninety-nine physicians in 8 countries took Methods: We studied the effect of a highly diluted part in this study and included 438 patients with an and agitated Thyroxine solution exposed to various average age of 55. electromagnetic fields on metamorphosis in Homœopathic medicines were prescribed to all highland Rana Temporaria. The devices tested patients; 98% of the prescription lines were the were: microwave oven, mobile phone, airport X- most prescribed. A non-homeopathic treatment ray, and a red-light barcode scanner. Animals were and/prn food supplement prescribed for 5% of the treated either with homœopathically prepared patients. Thyroxine (10-30 parts by weight, 10-35 in the water This observational study revealed a significant in which the animals were kept), or analogously reduction (p<0.001) in the frequency of hot flushes prepared blank solution, or analogously prepared by day and night and a significant reduction in the Thyroxine exposed to the electromagnetic field of daily discomfort they caused (mean fall of 3.6 and one of the devices tested. Solutions were 3.8 points respectively, on a 10cm visual analogue administered at 48h intervals according to a scale; p<0.0010. standardized protocol. Ninety percent of the women reported Results: Animals treated with the standard test disapeearance or lessening of their symptoms, solution Thyroxine 10-30 metamorphosed more these changes mostly taking place within 15 days slowly than the control animals, i.e. the effect of of starting homeopathic treatment. the homœopathically prepared Thyroxine was Conclusions: The results of this Observational opposed to the usual physiological effect of study suggest that homeopathic treatment for hot molecular Thyroxine. The cumulative number of flushes in menopausal women is effective. Further test animals that had reached the four-legged stage studies including randomized controlled trials at most of the points in time. This was found should be conducted. independently by all three research teams involved. In contrast, this effect did not occur when the 5. Homœopathy-quackery or a key to the future Thyroxine solution had been exposed to the field of of medicine? the early model microwave oven, or mobile phone. GOLD Peter W, NOVELLA, S ROY, R There was no difference between aqueous or MARCUS,D, BELL, I Davidovitch N and alcoholic solutions were used, and there was, if SAINE A. any, only a small protective effect from aluminium (HOM. 97, 1/2008) foil. Airport X-ray and red-light barcode scanning did not diminish the effect of the homeopathic This is an edited transcript of a debate held at solution. [PC ENDLER, et al have been carrying the University of Connecticut Health Center, out research with Thyroxine in homœopathically Farmington, Connecticut, USA on 25 October potentised solution with frogs, over several years 2007. Homœopathy is a widely used but and so far the articles published in this journal and controversial form of complementary and elsewhere have shaown nothing but the conclusion alternative medicine. Six distinguished

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 27 international speakers, including advocates and 7. Effects of homeopathy in mice experimentally skeptics concerning Homœopathy, debated the infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. plausibility, theoretical principles, clinical and DE ALMEIDA Luciana Rodrigues, DE basic research evidence, ethical and other issues OLIVEIRA CAMPOS Mônica Caroline, surrounding Homœopathy. MIRAGLIA HERRERA Heitor, VILLANO BONAMIN Leoni and Adivaldo DA 6. Changes of RAPD profile of Trypanosoma FONSECA Henrique. (HOM. 97, 2/2008) cruzi || with Canova and Benznidazole. ALEIXO Denise Lessa, FERRAZ Fabiana Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the Nabarro, DE MELO Carolina Sundin, GOMES action of homeopathic treatment on mice Mônica Lúcia, TOLEDO Max Jean, experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. KANESHIMA Edílson Noboyoshi, BERASNI- Methods: Eighty adult male C57BL/6 inbred mice AMADO Ciomar Aparecida & ARAÚJO were randomly allocated to five groups treated with Silvana Marques (HOM., 97, 1/2008) biotherapy (nosode) of T. cruzi 12dH (12X) pre- and post-infection; Phosphorus 12dH post- Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan infection; infected control treated with control Trypanosoma cruzi, involves immune mediated solution and uninfected control. The biotherapy was processes. Canova (CA) is a homeopathic treatment prepared by the Costa method from the blood of indicated in the diseases in which the immune mice experimentally infected with the Y strain of T. system is depressed. This study evaluated the cruzi. Phosphorus was used because of its clinical Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA and reportorial similarity to Chagas disease. T. (RAPD) profile of T.cruzi under the influence of cruzi (104) sanguineous forms were inoculated CA and Benznidazole (BZ). Mice infected with the intraperitoneally per animal. Parasitaemia was genetic lineage of T. cruzi || (Y strain) were divided monitored, leucocyte and serological response were into 4 groups: evaluated at 0, 7, 14 and 42 days after infection. Infected animals treated with saline solution The prepatent and patent periods of parasitaemia, (control group); treated with CA; treated with BZ; maximum of parasitaemia, day of maximum treated with CA and BZ combined. parasitaemia and mortality rates were compared Treatment was given at the 5th-25th days of between groups. infection (D5-25). The parasites were isolated by Results: A significantly shorter period of patent haemoculture in Liver infusion Tryptose (LIT) parasitaemia was observed in the group treated with medium: at D5 (before treatment), D13, 15 and 25 the biotherapy before infection (p<0.05) than in the (during treatment) and D55 and 295 (after other groups. This group also had the lowest treatment). DNA was extracted from the mass of parasitaemias values at 9, 13, 15 (p<0.05), 17 parasites. RAPD was done with the primers λgt11- (p<0.05), 22, 24 and 28 days, a lower rate of F, M13F, M13F-40 and L15996, the amplified mortality and a significant increase of lymphocytes products were electrophoresed through a 4% compared to the infected control group. The polyacrylamide gel. Data were analyzed by the Phosphorus group had the longest period of patent coefficient of similarity using the DNA-POP parasitaemia, higher maximum parasitaemia, and a program. significant reduction of lymphocyte mumbers, but 163 markers were identified, 5 of them no mortality. The infected control group had the monomorphic. CA did not act against the parasites highest mortality rate (not statistically significant), when used alone. The RAPD profiles of parasites and the highest IgG titres at 42 days post-infection treated with BZ and CA + BZ were different from (p<0.05). those in the control group and in the group treated Conclusions: The results suggest that pre- with CA. The actions of CA and BZ were different treatment with biotherapy modulates host immune and the action of BZ was different from the action response to T. cruzi, mainly during the acute phase of CA + BZ. These data suggest that CA may of the infection. Phosphorus shows an action on the interact with BZ. The difference in the RAPD pathogenicity by T. cruzi infection. Homeopathic profile of the strain of T. cruzi produced by BZ, CA treatment of T. cruzi infection should be further + BZ and the natural course of the infection suggest investigated. selection/suppression of populations. 8. Effects of Nux vomica and Agaricus muscarius on the Neuronal Activity in Rats JUSSAL, R.L. (HH. 33, 6/2008)

Advances in Science and Technology have both microcosm and macrocosm, ideas of analogy, helped the development of a variety of vital connect all symptoms especially the peculiar, etc. medicines to treat the diseased conditions effectively. Two drugs Nux vomica and Agaricus. ------1. The experiments have been performed to determine changes in the neurotransmitter IX. EDUCATION enzymes 2. Changes in the Electroencephalographic 1. A Curriculum Based on Levels in Case-Taking (EEG) activity. VERVARCKE Anne (HL. 19, 4/2006)

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VIII. HISTORY ŘThe Levelsř in Les Herbiers 2002. As he demonstrated with three Argentum nitricum cases, different patients can experience the same remedy Eine spate Taschenapotheke Hahnemanns im 1. at different levels. He illustrated that there is Heidelberger Schloss (A later Pocket Medicine something Řdeeperř than the level of delusion, Case of Hahnemann in the Heidelberg Palace) which in turn is beyond the emotional and factual NOLTE Stephen Heinrich and level. These levels of understanding and SPARENBORG-NOLTE Anne experience can be applied in homœopathic (AHZ, 252, 4/2007) education. In this way the future homœopath gradually gets familiar with the level of the data, The choice of remedies and also the lay use of gets to master the anamnesis techniques to delve Pocket- Home- and Travel- Pharmacies is a major into these levels and to aim at prescribing at the issue in current homœopathic training. The vital level, where all diseases are located. Often composition of remedies of historic pharmacies has one can dive into the vital or sensation level by not been extensively studied. We describe and list probing the main complaint. This links 24 remedies of a historic pharmacy attributed to Hahnemannřs words to todayřs most advanced HAHNEMANN himself in his last Paris years. Homœopathy. In this series of articles, examples of This is conserved in the German Pharmacy prescriptions based on different levels of Museum in Heidelberg castle since 2002. Its experience are given. original provenience is not known, the last ownership was the private collection of Wilhelm ------DÖRR (1902 Ŕ 1952), a pharmacist whose passion was the collection of pharmaceutical antiques. Its X. GENERAL composition does not considerably differ from current recommendations. 1. Where do the BEES be? Worldřs hardest workers quit 3. Christian Franz Paullini und die ASPINWALI, Mary (HT. 27, 3/2007) homöopathische Dreckapotheke (Christian Franz PAULLINI and the Hot on the heels of Global warming, the Bee homœopathically Drug Pharmacy) population of many countries are disappearing. APPELL, Reiner G. (AHZ. 253, 3/2008) There is speculation that cellular phone towers, high voltage transmission lines, electro magnetic PAULLINI was born 365 years ago (25 fields, genetically modified crops and pesticides Feb.1643). He studied Theology and then may interfere with the innate ability of Bees to find Medicine. PAULLINI used earth, ash and also their way back to their own hives. such remedies as Ambra, Ziber, Moschus. He ŖThis is the biggest threat to our general food appears to have been a careful observer, and paid supplyŗ, said Kevin HACKETT, the national leader attention to strange, peculiar symptoms. Reading of USDAřs Bee and pollination program. his note one feels as if studying the homœopathic Two cases of Wasp stings, a case of allergic Repertory, for example some entries: Blindness, skin infection and a case of Gall stone colic treated from severe terror; a Mason reported that he by Apis mellifica are given. vomited as often as he heard music; delirium from SAVE THE BEES bean flowers; Apoplexy from suppressed menses; So, what can one man or woman do to help the etc. PAULLINI appears to be well-connected with beloved bees? Give up insecticide sprays.

Eat pesticide-free food. Avoid genetically beekeeping management practices that support and modified crops. strengthen the beeřs immune system and thus, the Plant the right kind of flowers. hiveřs immunity overall, rather than use methods ŖThese tend to be traditional cottage garden that weaken it. This includes not feeding bees plants such as lupins, hollyhocks and lavender,ŗ artificial diets, stop exposing them to toxic says David GOULSON of the Bumblebee chemical compounds, providing enough genetic Conservation Trust in Scotland. ŖThey offer a variation to prevent inbreeding, and discontinuing ready supply of pollen and nectar from flowers that the use of antibiotics. are easily accessible to passing Bees. Of less use ŖFrom the very beginning, I have always are cultivated annual bedding plants that have been refused to use toxic chemicals in my hives. My highly bred. These often produce no nectar or have stubbornness caused me to lose many hives in the double-headed flowers that make access impossible early days, but by persevering have proven to for insects.ŗ You can find a list of plants favored myself that it is possible in this day and age to keep by North American Bees and more great honey bees without resorting to the use of information at: dangerous synthetic chemical compounds. www.bumblebee.org/FlowerlistUS.htm ŖSince the Honey Bee exerts such a powerfully Grow flowers all season long. beneficial influence on the natural world around us, ŖItřs important to have flowers on the go from it seems logical to assume that our own efforts to early spring through to autumn so the Bees have a help the Honey Bee thrive can indirectly benefit all constant supply of nectar,ŗ says Adrian Knowles, of nature.ŗ an ecologist. You can further reduce Bee stress by MARY ASPINWALL is registered with the Iriish supplementing their nectar with a mixture of Society of Homeopaths and can be reached at roughly 30% honey to 70% water during the early www.homeopathyworld.com. cold days if there has been a frost or strong wind that has damaged flowers. Put a little of the 2. Homeopathy and Complementary Medicine in mixture onto a small container (e.g. , the top of a Tuscany, Italy: integration in the public health lemonade bottle or the cap of a pen), and put this system. among the flowers. ROSSI Elio, BACCETTI Sonia, FIRENZUOLI Educate yourself and others. Fabio, & BELVEDERE Katia Dr. MARLA SPIVAK, an entomologist (HOM. 97, 2/2008) specializing in Apiculture with the University of Minnesota Extension, advises: ŖDonřt panic. The healthcare programmes of the Region of Educate yourself … Spread the word about the Tuscany, Italy have contained references to various benefits of Bees … Or learn to keep Bees yourself.ŗ types of non-conventional medicine since 1996, and You can learn more by visiting the last three Regional Health Plans have included a www.extension.umn.edu/honeybees/ chapter on non-conventional medicine that arguably UPDATE: Organic Bees not Affected represent the greatest degree of integration of such By Mary ASPINWALL therapies in the public health care system achieved In the last issue of Homœopathy Today, I thus far in Italy. The plan aims to guarantee wrote about the terrible plight of the honey bees definitive integration in the Regional Health [ŘWhere Do the Bees Be? Worldřs Hardest Service of types of non-conventional medicine Workers Quitŗ]. Since then I have heard from the which are supported by a sufficient level of Organic Consumers Organization that: ŖA crucial scientific evidence to allow them to be defined as element of this story, missing from reports in the forms of Complementary Medicine (Acupuncture, mainstream media, is the fact that organic Herbal medicine, Homœopathy and Manual beekeepers across North America are not medicine). Moreover, in 2007 the Regional council experiencing colony collapses. The millions of of Tuscany, for the first time in Italy, approved a dying bees are hyperbred varieties whose hives are regional law disciplining the practice of regularly fumigated with toxic pesticides by complementary medicines on the part of Doctors, conventional beekeepers attempting to ward off Dentists, Veterinarians and Pharmacists. mites.ŗ http://www.organicconsumers.org/bees.cfm 3. Medicine, rhetoric and undermining: managing ROSS CONRAD, author of Natural credibility in homœopathic practice. Beekeeping (ISBN-10: 1933392088) agrees: ŖThe CAMPBELL C (HOM. 97, 2/2008) best thing beekeepers can do to combat CCD [colony collapse disorder] in my opinion is to use

This article examines homeopathic selfless service to create successful results. In practitioners Řreal lifeř accounts, and illustrates the addition they were able to produce intelligent ways in which they negotiate their homeopathic scholars of Homœopathy who latter on worked as a practices as contigently formulated ongoing social successful practitioners. The selfless attitude of the events in research interview settings. Interview learned physician made a success in getting the transcripts were analysed in a qualitative support not only by the government but also by the framework using discourse analysis. The findings national and international societies for the sake of show that practitioners construct Homœopathy and Homœopathy. This uplifted the spirit of defend their own individual practices either by Homœopathy. When the institutions get several Řalignment-with-medicineř or by Řboosting-the- advantages and grants to develop medical colleges credibility-of-Homœopathyř. Homœopathy is also and secured job in government service, then why negotiated and sustained as an Řalternativeř to the professors of the institution, show negligence in notions of conventional medicine, which is the their services. Few reports confirm that the accepted yardstick for practice or as a practice that dispensaries which were once very popular and had is portrayed as problematic. Overall, managing enormous number of patients but now have few personal credibility is accomplished through patients visiting. Students usually blame their specific ways of accounting that tend to marginalize teachers for the failure. homeopathy. Developing and establishing So before criticizing the science one should homeopathic practice further as a discipline in its mend oneřs ways. Institutions and teachers should own right is offered as a Řnucleusř to reduce impact their theoretical and practical knowledge to continuing marginalization. their students and students should work hard to grasp the subjects. 4. British media attacks on Homœopathy: Are Laboratories Ŕ Misleading the system: they justified? When any companyřs M.R. visits, he may show a VITHOULKAS George (HOM. 97, 2/2008) list of mother tinctures or potency whose quality no body can judge. Homœopathy is being attacked by the British Till a homœopath is ignorant of standardization media. These attacks draw support from of the medicine he will have to face problems in his irresponsible and unjustified claims by certain practice. Despite his best selected remedy it wonřt teachers of homeopathy. Such claims include the act properly because of being sub standard. use of Řdreamř and Řimaginativeř methods for Stand up, awake and try to come alive with the proving. For prescribing some such teachers eternal power given by that God, and accomplish attempt to replace the laborious process of the mission as physician. matching symptom picture and remedy with spurious theories based on Řsignaturesř, Řsensationsř ------and other methods. Other irresponsible claims have also been made. These Ŗnew ideasŗ risk destroying XI. BOOKS the principles, theory, and practice of Homœopathy. 1. VAIKUNTHANATH DAS KAVIRAJ: 5. Who is to be blamed? Homœopathy for Farm and Garden, Mark MUKHERJEE, P.K. (HH. 33, 6/2008) Moodie Publications, Gloucester, UK; 2006, 191 pages, softcover, $35, ISBN 0-9517890-5-8. The great revolution towards Homœopathy Reviewed by TONY SCOFIELD. (HT. 27, 4/2007). from past to modern era is marvelous and has VAIKUNTHANATH DAS KAVIRAJ began spread awareness regarding Homœopathy amongst his homœopathic work with plants in Switzerland a number of people. So knowledge of physician is in 1986 when a friend suggested he try treating a important. row of apple trees that suffered from bright red rust. Prejudice practice in the field is a great To everyoneřs surprise, the homœopathic remedy obstacle for the development of science. Belladonna cleared the rust and left a much better- Physicians are misguided with the patents by tasting apple than the trees had produced before. the pharmaceuticals but we were taught that This experience inspired years of subsequent Homœopathy means use of single and simple research in Australia and Europe, which form the medicine for treatment of condition. basis of this book. Gradual decreasing standard of the lecturer and The first quarter of the book consists of a brief the student of the institutions. Once the lecturer review of Homœopathy and agriculture. The and the practitioner of the institution showed their author begins by quoting sections of Hahnemannřs

Organon and putting agriculture into this context. The author has accumulated a great deal of Throughout his discussion, he puts the plant at the useful information here in a groundbreaking book. center of the treatment regime and, when discussing The Materia Medica and Repertory are easy to control methods, he does pick up on an important follow and the selection of a suitable remedy point that even Ŗorganicŗ control methods miss the should not pose too much difficulty. This point of the real problem Ŕ the fact that plants are technique is certainly worth trying as it is neither still being attacked. The plant is obviously having expensive nor time-consuming and will not have an a problem and it needs to be treated rather than the adverse effect on the environment. pests and diseases attacking it. Organic farmers Mark MOODIE, Publisher of Homeopathy for would go further, perhaps, and say that the soil or Farm and Garden, has created a website to collect local environment is at fault and that these need to and share information about using homeopathically be addressed first. But, the plant is the organism prepared substances for plants and on related topics which manifests changes as a result of soil (e.g., biodynamic gardening). Visit deficiencies and provides the means of selecting www.considera.org. suitable remedies, so it is not surprising, perhaps, that this is the obvious target for treatment. 2. Patricia HATHERLY: The Homœopathic The author attacks Ŗchemicalŗ farming and Physician‟s Guide to Lactation; paperback, 278 genetic engineering and highlights the phenomenon pages US$60/- ISBN 0975202307. Reviewed by of insects developing resistance to the pesticidal Georg GUESS (AJHM. 100, 4/2007): qualities of genetically modified crops. KAVIRAJ ŖThe Homœopathic Physicianřs Guide to Lactation contrasts these problems with the advantages of is a work of scholarship and keen experience. Miss homœopathic treatment: only one dose is usually HATHERLY, a homœopathy and lactation required so it is economical in terms of labor, and consultant, has penned a book essential for all cost of the remedy is negligible; only minute doses practitioners who deal with breast feeding ……this are used so there are no residue problems; no book offers valuable information about three milk resistance develops; and finally, the plant is treated, remedies Ŕ Lac caninum, Lac humanum and new not the disease. information on Lac maternum. The author is keen on intercropping and companion planting and uses remedies of suitable 3. Rachel ROBERTS: Mat Med Cards (Packs 1 companion plants to protect against pests and & 2) Review by George GUESS (AJHM. 100, diseases pertaining to them. He also, not 4/2007): ŖMat Med Cards are Materia Medica Flash surprisingly, uses micro- and macro-nutrients (e.g., Cards, one side of each card containing several boron, potassium, phosphorus) as homœopathic characteristics of a remedy organized in any of five remedies. categories Ŕ modalities, foods, Miasms, Řin a The first part of the book ends with a brief nutshellř (a one sentence summary), and Řtop tipsř review of the structure of the soil and the nutrients (clinical hints, comparative Materia Medica, and therein, and of plant structure. Finally, instructions remedy relationships); the other side containing are given on how to use the remedies Ŕ they are Řminipicturesř Ŕ abbreviated Materia Medica prepared in water using the 6X potency and sprayed descriptions Ŕ of the remedy. The cards are divided onto plants. into two packs, each containing 60 cards. …… The bulk of the book consists of a Materia Practitioners might use the cards to refresh their Medica in which a Ŗclinical descriptionŗ of each memories of basic Materia Medica. Used for these remedy details the symptoms and/or pests and purposes, Mat Med. Cards would be a useful diseases. Also a Ŗgeneral descriptionŗ gives the purchase…..ŗ history of each remedyřs use and indications. Further details such as the appearance of plants and 4. SOLDNER G., STELLMANN: Individuelle their various parts, relations with other remedies, Pädiatrie. Leibliche, seelische und geistige and antidotes are often given. At the beginning of Aspekte in Diagnostik und Beratung. this section, I would have found it interesting to Anthroposophisch-homöopthische Therapie, read about the authorřs own proving work and been (Pædiatrics, mental and emotional aspects in given more information about where he obtained Diagnosis and counselling. Anthroposophistic- other details for the Materia Medica because the homœopathic Therapy). Stuttgart: book implies that it did not all come from his own Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellchaft 3. Aufl. experimental work. 2007: 820 S., geb., Preis Euro 89/- review Johannes The book concludes with a Repertory where WILKENS: AHZ. 253, 2/2008) conditions can be matched to remedies.

ŖAfter six years now the third edition of the opulent others the themes of dependance and fixity groups work on individualized Pædiatrics by SOLDNER and the states of schizoid, paranoid, depressive, and STELLMAN is available for purchase. The border-line neurotic. spectrum of pædiatric diseases in the light of anthroposophic Medicine and Homœopathic 7. BENDAU, C.: Hautkrankheiten Medicine so completely, scientifically, precisely homöopathisch behandelt, (Skin Diseases treated and indeed with care has been so well done in this homœopathically), Kirchzarten: Sunrise; 2007: book. In the centre of the book are several cases 135 A., geb., Preis Eu.95. (German) review Rainer and over 500 medicaments which one can learn G. APPELL (AHZ. 253, 3/2008): alongwith. The book reads less as a text book but Gabriele BENDAU who underwent practical rather as a very interesting criminal novel, wherein training from Gerhard KÖHLER for three years, the interest held so well that one would read till the decided to do something sensible and therefore she last page. . . . . This book has built many bridges prepared a work on Skin which has now come out between classical Homœopathy and Knowledge of in book form. Skin diseases are explained and Anthroposophy Medicine. We must be thankful to diagnosis and colour pictures of the different the authors with their large experience and ripe patholgies give a good idea, and the medicine is practice as doctors have removed the distance also given...... Overall the pictures are very between these two Medicines. As a matter of fact, good and impressive. . . . . The book is both a gift STELLMANN and SOLDNER have presented us to the reader and at the same time a homage to with the ŖOrganonŗ of modern Pædiatric Practiceŗ. Gerhard KOEHLER from whom she learnt to: to clearly look, taste, smell, hear and track. With 5. QUAST, C.: Homöopathische Konstitutions- HAHNEMANN we should say: ŖFollow me mittel für Katzen, (Homœopathic Constitutional intelligently and honestlyŗ. Medicine for Cats), Stuttgart: Sonntag:2007: 171 S., geb., Preis Eu.34.95, (German) review Rainer 8. KÖHLER, G.: Lehrbuch der Homöopathie: G. APPELL (AHZ. 253, 2/2008): Bd. I Grundlagen und Anwendung. Bd.II. Homœopathy Cat lovers will be glad. After her Praktische Hinweise zur Arzneiwahl. Stuttgart: book on dogs Carolin QUAST has taken up the Hippokrates. (Textbook of Homœopathy, Bd. I, Cats. . . . .The cartoons by Julia Drinnenberg Foundations and Application, Bd. II: Practical complements the text in its own way.ŗ Hints for Remedy selection) (German) review Rainer APPELL (AHZ, 253, 3/2008): 6. MANGIALAVORI, M.: Praxis. Bd. I Ŕ Ŗ. . . Among the small number of text books in Theorie. Der tiefere Zusammenhang der Homœopathy, the two volumes of Gerhard Symptome. MANGIALAVORI, M., KÖHLER (1916-2002) takes an exceptional place. MAROTTA, G: Praxis. Bd. 2 Ŕ KÖHLER leads the beginner by the hand and goes Arzneimittellehre. Familie der Drogen about with him in the homœopathic Cosmos, then (MANGIALAVORI, M. Vol. I. Practice Ŕ I. brings the foundations close, then the method, etc. . Theory. The deep connections of Symptoms. . . . A work that is again available which maintains MANGIALAVORI and MAROTTA. Practice Vol. the foundations in spite of many Řmodernř streams. 2 Ŕ Materia Medica. Family of Drugs). Kandern: These volumes must be taken up in all studies.ŗ Narayana: 2007: Bd.181 S., Bd.2 322 S., geb. Preis Eu.110. review Rainer G. APPELL (AHZ. 253, 9. ROßDEUTSCHER, S.: Praktische 2/2008): Dermatologie für Homöopaths. Die Haut das ŖIn the Repertory the Symptoms are splittered sichere Symptom? (Practical Dermatology and they have to be connected and perceived as forHomœopaths. The Skin, the sure complete symptoms. This is what the authors have Symptom?). Worpswede: Eva Lang Verlag: done. MANGIALAVORI develops his model. To 2007: 76 S., brosch. Preis Eu. 24. (German) study a remedy in context outside of it in a review Rainer APPELL (AHZ. 253, 3, 2008): reductionist manner is not right, the remedy has a ŖNo disease picture comes so much along the history, toxicology, pharmacology and mythology, phenomenologically thinking homœopaths, as and has to be studied from all these aspects. Thus is dermatological, which unfortunately does not gained the Řtotalityř. signify that it is easy to treat and to be grasped. . . . . In Bd. 2 Giovanni MAROTTA discusses . . Interesting is the hints on contact allergies. different psycho-physisich organisations models. ROßDEUTSCHER is vehement in opposing the In the background of the ŘDrugř remedies she often expressed opinion that Steroids and depicts life strategies, which contains amongst homœopathic treatment are not compatible; the Q

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 33 potencies will take care of this. With regard to the has, in the meantime, gone into the 8th edition; this specificity of the repertory rubrics the author means that there is much need for a ready-at-hand advises to observe primarily how the patient is reference.ŗ going about with his skin disease. That decides ultimately how we should go about with the 13. Materia Medica of Homœopathic Remedies patient.ŗ with sub-headings and Cross-references. James Tyler KENT, edited by Henny Solberg HAUGEN, 10. FARRINGTON E. A.: Der neue Farrington. Hardcover, 952 pages. £49.99. Homœopathic Klinische Materia Medica. Vorlesung zur Book Service, Sittingbourne, Kent/UK, 2005, ISBN Arzndeimittellehre und Differentialdiagnosen. 1-869-975-286. Review Francis TREUHERZ (HL. Neu bearb. Und übers. V.A.SEIDENEDER. 19, 4/2006): Ŗ…. Entirely overlooked in the (FARRINGTON E.A.: The new Farrington. homœopathic world is this 100th anniversary year of Clinical Materia Medica. Lectures on Materia the first publication of Kentřs Materia Medica. Medica and differential diagnosis. Revised and This book is an edited version of two original corrected by v.A. SEIDENEDER), Buchendorf: publications. … The best way to really review this Peter Irl; 2007:1,009 S., geb., Preis Eu.69. book is to use a quote…. probably written by John (German) review Reiner G. APPELL (AHZ. 253, Henry CLARKE: ŘDr.KENT has in an eminent 3/2008): degree the faculty of apprehending what ŖAs he left this world in 1885 at 38 year age, BURNETT calls Řthe true inwardnessř of a remedy, Ernest Arthur FARRINGTON left to us a work and of tracing that inwardness in its outward which has not lost its value, perhaps now rightly expression in symptoms. …. The vitality of Kentřs grasped and hopefully well appreciated...... work consists largely in this, that it is unmixed Ŕ Without PC, Laptop, Repertorisation Programme, undiluted Ŕ with allopathic notions…..Dr. KENT and based on the well-known, experienced does not present his work as a complete Materia knowledge of the Materia Medica he has built this Medica, but for giving vivid picture of remedies it single handedly which draws our respect even has no superior. This work is well got up and is today. The present work is not a new one, but it printed on paper which is not too shiny. …ŗ. has been well gone through and errors corrected and with an expanded Index of the remedies 14. Accurate Homœopathy, Sanjay MODI, 220 accoprding to their themes, etc., by competent pages $30. Krupa Publications. Review Ralf A.SEIDENEDER. With this book which one JEUTTER (HL. 19, 4/2006): Ŗ… The intention and should not miss, we need not depend on secondary hope of the book is to study Homœopathy in such a literature, but obtain it from the original source.ŗ fashion that may fill up some gaps in our thinking and yield us a fairly clear outline to guide our 11. GUTGE-WICKERT, A.(Hrsg.): future work. The author sets out to provide the Homöopathische Beratungskompetenz für Řright mapř to find our way through, what has Apotheker (Homœopathic Pharmacological become in recent times a maze, the genuine competence), Stutgart: Hippokrates; 2007: 193 principles and practice of Homœopathy. He has S., kart., Preis Eu.39.95 (German) review Gerhard chosen a broad range of topics to do this…. Anyone BLEUL (AHZ. 253, 3/2008): who dares to know, and likes to have his own Pharmacists have been feeling the need to homœopathic prejudices challenged, should read integrate ŖHomœopathy and Nature cure this book. It will undoubtedly set on the right path proceduresŗ in their profession. Pharmacists must all who sincerely want to gain clarity in be trained to manufacture single homœopathic Homœopathy.ŗ remedies as also rare ones...... The book is recommended as a Standard 15. A Homœopathic guide to partnership and work.ŗ compatibility, Liz LALOR, paper back 275 pages. ISBN Ŕ 1- 55643-528-2. $18.95. Review 12. ENSINGER, T.: Leitfaden zu Kents Jay YASGUR (HL. 19, 4/2006): Ŗ…. This 275 Repertorium (Leaders to Kent‟s Repertory), 8 page quality paperback consists of three sections; unveränd. Auflage. Stuttgart: Haug; 2008: 287 an introduction, constitutional summaries, and S., kart., Preis Eu.34.95 (German) review Rainer partnership combinations. … This volume is well APPELL (AHZ. 253, 3/2008): Ŗ...... In spite laid out, with one page of bibliographical Synthesis, Phatak, Complete, Universale and/or resources….ŗ Murphy, there are still those who work with Kent...... ENSINGERřs Leaders to Kent Repertory

16. Vaccination and Homœoprophylaxis? Isaac patients. This book will help us to be accomplish GOLDEN. Soft cover, 264 pages, 6th ed. 2005. this task.ŗ Isaac Golden Publications, ISBN 978-0-9578726- 4-6. Review Kaare TROELSEN (HL. 19, 4/2006): 19. Imagine Homœopathy Ŕ A book of ŖIf there is one topic that can really provoke Experiments, Images, and Metaphors, Chris (Classical) homœopaths into fits of passionate KURZ. Softcover, 328 pages. 20 illustrations. argument itřs Homœoprophylaxis ………… I Eur.39,95 Thieme 2005. Review Dr. Atena loana recommend this thought-provoking book to ANTONESCU (HL. 19, 4/2006): Ŗ…written for anybody who thinks they posess the open mind we people who want to take the time to understand always demand from the society surrounding us. things at a deeper levelŗ, says Julian WINSTON in his foreqord to the book. How so? Chris KURZ 17. Into the Periodic Table Ŕ The Second series, offers us a unique experience …. The 17 chapters Jayesh SHAH, Hardcover 262 pages, Schroder take us on a journey through a landscape of und Burneister Verlag. 2005. Hamburg, Homœopathy, starting with the Basics, … all the Germany ISBN 3-9809626-0-1. Review Dr.J. way to topics like vaccination and ROZENCWAJG (HL. 19, 4/2006): ŖThis book is a homœoprophylaxis, it leaves little unexplored…. A printout of a Seminar held by Dr. Jayesh SHAH in book of solid classical homœopathic knowledge, it Munster, Germany. He presents fifteen cases, all looks into the core and is creative in a true sense, treated with remedies from the second series of the respecting its integrity, and not inventing a Ŗnewŗ Periodic Table. And as is the case in this type of Homœopathy. … Personally, I experienced teaching, the cases have been selected according to ŖImagine Homœopathyŗ as a really interactive the remedy used and not according to their interest, book. … This is a book that you will read and (live difficulty or therapeutic approach. ……. There is through) with pleasure …ŗ an abundance of remarks like Ŗby then I knew the remedy very wellŗ. ….There is almost no 20. The Second Simillimum, Peter CHAPPELL, repertorisation in the way, we, Homeolinks Publishers, 216 pages. Є40/-. ISBN the proletarian homœopaths, would do. I wonder 807103-3-4. Review Ashley ROSS (HL. 19, what the choices would have been if a regular use 3/2006): ŖThis is an intriguing, unsettling and of rubrics had been made?...ŗ inspiring book!... This beautifully presented book [That such a ŘSeminarř was held at Münster Ŕ von provides an overview of the philosophical and BOENNINGHAUSENřs place of all Ŕ indicates the practical evolution of the Řmethodř which gave rise decay Hahnemannřs Homœopathy has gone into = to PC1, and the many disease-specific PC remedies KSS]. which followed… He argues that many of our homœopathic Řidealsřderived from Hahnemannřs 18. Miasmatic prescribing Ŕ Subrata Kumar teaching (and 19th Century understanding!) are BANERJEA. Hardback, 256 pages, Allen evidently less than we would like to believe them to College of Homœopathy, Essex, England, 1st ed., be; that present-day classical homœopathic 2001, US $24/-. Review IvoWIESNER (HL. 19, practice, in most casers, is inadequate in producing 4/2006): Ŗ….Lots of people start thinking about fundamental change in advanced chronic Miasms only in an emergency, when the case has pathology, and it is time for a re-think of some of got to the point of no progression and well- the most basic and dearly-held assumptions… the indicated remedies have failed. … The book starts Second Simillimum is essential reading for any with ten basic principles describing the serious homœopath…ŗ phenomenon of a Miasm, pointing out that it is a dynamic energy in every living creature on Earth. 21. Monera-Kingdom Bacteria and Viruses It has a tendency to join other already existing Spectrum Materia Medica Vol. I, Frans Miasms in the body after entering it, thus creating VERMEULEN Emryss Publishers, hardcover, multiple layers of Miasms. … There are six main 848 pages, Є64/-. ISBN 90-76189-15-3. Review J. sections in the book …. The core of the book is ROZENLCWAJG (HL. 19, 3/2006): ŖAnother represented by a large number of comprehensive masterpiece by a master writer and master tables. … These are also tabulated miasmatic tips homœopath…. Monera is the first volume of a … Each table in the book presents tremendous series of six entitled Spectrum Materia Medica. diagnostic information and these are a long tables Fransř idea is to go systematically through the included…. it worth mastering Miasms in our daily animal kingdom from the smallest to the biggest homœopathic practice, for the well-being of our ones, through the Periodical Table, the plants, the synthetic substances, the imponderables, using the

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 35 modern scientific taxonomy so that nothing is one of the ways is though Heilkunst, as reported missed…. Monera is about microscopic life forms: here. ….ŗ Viruses and bacteria; it is the ŘBook of the Nososdesř; all of them, once and for all ….. The 25. A Drug-free Approach to Asperger Bowel Nosodes are integrated in their rightful Syndrome and Autism: Homeopathic Care for place, … I could rave for pages about this book. Exceptional Kids, Judyth REICHENBERG- Just read it: it is worth every cent and when you ULLMAN, Robert ULLMAN, Ian LUEPKER. finish it, I am quite sure you will preorder the next Picnic Point Press, US$ 22.95. 290 pages. volume. Review Patricia KAY (HL. 19, 3/2006): Ŗ…. I was amazed that the book truly is useful for lay readers 22. Lacs in Homœopathy, Farokh J. MASTER and professional homœopaths alike. However the Lutra Services BV. 195 pages 2002, US $46. authors do point out that this book is not self-help ISBN 90-74456-10-3. Review Jay YASGUR (HL. book for lay people. … Three doctors describe 17 19, 3/2006): ŖThis short book, which is based on cured cases that elucidate the salient features of his seminars and Power Point Slides, details nine remedies used to treat this syndrome… This book is Lacs: caninum, caprinum, delphinum, equinum, well-researched, compassionate, practical, realistic felinum, humanum, leoninum, lupinum and and inspirational. …ŗ vaccinum defloratum. Dr. MASTER states that there are about 24 Lacs which have been made into ------homœopathic remedies …. This book contains a number of interesting caveats …..ŗ OBITUARY

23. Clinical Observations of Children‟s 1. Dr. Ernst A. BAUER (1914 Ŕ 2007): Remedies, Farokh J. MASTER, Publisher: Rene On the 4 July 2007 passed away at the age of OTTER, Lutra, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 93 years, the Swiss homœopathic physician Ernst 2nd ed. 2003, 724 pages, Hardback, US-$56/- BAUER. He was born on 13th February 1914. He ISBN-90-74456-11-1. Review Ivo WIESNER was an excellent physician and an outstanding (HL. 19, 3/2006): ŖThe book under review is the person. Ernst BAUER practiced a wide spectrum second edition … Part I includes a Chapter on of Natural Healing Methods and he remained ŖAbnormal Behavior in childrenŗ… The book classical Homœopathy practitioner. He was a continues with the Art and Science of longtime student of Pierre SCHMIDT, who from Homœopathic Paediatrics…. Part II contains line 1946, taught him besides Homœopathy, drawing based on Power Point slides …. Part III is Accupuncture and other methods. A particular the Core of the book and presents an extensive yet mark of BAUER was that he remained a learner well-structured description of 76 remedies, none of throughout his life and he went about learning from which is really new ….. we also find some less competent teachers. He was open to all new frequently or rarely prescribed remedies …. Is methods and he was quick to learn FREUDřs recommended to all serious homœopathic Psychoanalysis and was very good in it. Since he practitioners…ŗ followed Pierre SCHMIDT he used high and very high potencies upto MM for which he had a 24. Autism: The Journey Back Ŕ Recovering the particular Pharmacy. He made the anamnesis in self through Heilkunst, Rudi VERSPOOR and Pierre SCHMIDT prescribed Model and he Patty SMITH. Self-published, softcover, 199 confirmed the choice of the medicine by applying pages, ISBN 0-9685166-9-6. Review J. the Weihe‟s Pressure Points. In one of his earlier ROZENCWAJG (HL. 19, 3/2006): ŖThis book is Practice he gave to a woman with acute Mastitis obviously about treating Autism through Heilkunst. Puerperalis a dose of Bryonia C 200. There was the But as seen while addressing the ever-increasing classical Bryonia symptom but it did not produce phenomenon known as Autism…. Now here is an the expected result and he had to use Penicillin. opportunity to read in fewer than 200 pages about When he asked Pierre SCHMIDT why Bryonia did the basis of Heilkunst, what it is and how it is not work, Dr. SCHMIDT told him that in such an supposed to work. Once you have read this book, acute case 200 was like water, and he should have then you are on firm ground to either accept it, chosen a XM. criticize it or research it. … Its main appeal would Another important thing to him besides be for parents of autistic children as a Homœopathy was, Nutrition. He had patients from demonstration that there are ways to cure them; and all over the world who either fasted or received from him raw (uncooked) food. In the light of his

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 36 over 50 years of Practice it was clear how well- Director of A Nelson and Company, homeopathic rounded a homœopathic physician should be to pharmacists of London and he secured employment have a good Practice. He oversaw the healthy there. He took a 2-year pharmacy course and joined development of several families over a long period. the Register. He stayed in the company for many He saw the connection between a general increase years and eventually becoming a Director. in chronic diseases and a general spiritual fall with Following the tragic death of his two fellow industry-promoted nutrition. He was Directors, Mr and Mrs. Dudley EVERITT, John uncompromising in his views and unconventional started his own pharmacy on 6 June 1978. Until in a positive sense. He was far ahead of his time Johnřs retirement in April 1989 (when the staff had and was thorn in the eyes of his colleagues; the grown to 56 from 6), Ainsworthřs Homeopathic well-known methods of Homœopathy, Pharmacy prospered and enjoyed considerable Acupuncture and Fasting were all too early for professional and public support. The pharmacy them. He had a very busy Practice. He got served three Royal Physicians, Dr. Margery telephonic calls from all over Europe and over BLACKIE, Dr. Charles ELLIOTT and Dr. Ronald seas, right from 5.30 morning and it lasted two DAVEY and a host of other influential clients and hours. The conversation was in their mother celebrities as well as members of the public in the tongue. Thousands of patients from long distances UK and overseas. he took care of so. On some days there were John supported the work of the British similar complaints from patients who were Homeopathic Association enthusiastically separated by distances far from each other. Dr. throughout his professional life. He contributed to BAUER considered these quasi-epidemic disease early work on the European Homeopathic symptoms as from the Cosmos. In the passing Pharmacopoeia. He held a very eminent and away of Ernst BAUER we have lost a Physician different positions. with exceptional universal knowledge. Our sincere Steven KAYNE, a pharmacist in Glasgow, condolences to his wife Mrs. Helen RÜTTI- who knew John for more than 40 years says, ŖHis BAUER. (Report by Dr. Andreas WEGENER. dry wit and storytelling skills were greatly enjoyed ZKH, 51, 3/2007). by all.ŗ John is survived by his three children 2. Greg Blake BEDAYN (Nov.19, 1949 Ŕ Jan.4, Vivienne, Hilary and Philip. 2008) (SIM. XXI, 2008) Greg was the founding Editor of the American ------Homeopath. For the cover of the journal, he sourced or commissioned masterpiece paintings of XIII. NEWS & NOTES historical figures in Homœopathy. Sir Edmund HILLARY, slept in Gregřs bed before he set out for I. A pilot project for CHC Certification of Mt. Everest. In 1995, he, along with Julian experienced homœopaths. PITT, Richard (SIM. WINSTON, discovered the final home and resting XXI, 2008). place of James Tyler KENT. He proved Ravenřs This project is being done to encourage well- blood. trained experienced domestic and foreign homœopaths to become certified and help 3. JBL AINSWORTH (9 Sep. 1919 - 31 Aug. strengthen our profession. 2007) (HOM. 97, 1/ 2008) The Homeopathic community has lost a great II. Student Homœopath visits KENYA. supporter in the passing of JBL AINSWORTH RESENDES, Barbara (SIM. XXI, 2008) FRPharmS, FFHom (Hon). Who died peacefully in This is personal experience of the authorřs visit the early hours of Friday, 31 August 2007 at to Kenya in 2007. She worked with Didi Kingsacre Nursing Home in Devon, the county in RUCHIRA in Nairobi. She attended various which he was born in 1919. He made an mobile clinics in different parts of Kenya. outstanding contribution to homeopathic pharmacy Combination remedies are the order of the day for more than 30 years. in Kenya. Johnřs Chemistry degree was interrupted with A variety of holistic courses are taught at outbreak of World War II and he joined the Devon Didiřs school. Over the past 9 years, Didi has Regiment in Exeter and finally invalided out the trained many Kenyan Students to become army due to a serious leg wound. homœopaths. Funding for her many projects and Johnřs wife Peggy, whom he married in 1942, clinics comes from donations by groups, companies had a family connecton with Dudley EVERITT, a

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 37 and individuals throughout the world. There are with other UK homœopathic hospitals also at some good photographs. serious risk. Cost cutting is cited as the reason, but total expenditure for all homœopathic hospitals III. The London Homœopathic Hospital, Dr. together is less than .005 percent of the total annual Frederick QUIN‟s Legacy and an appeal on healthcare budget. [In so far as Medicine is behalf of Camlis. BISSELS Gerhard (SIM. XXI, concerned if cost is to be cut more homœopathic 2008) hospitals have to be opened and in due course The London Homœopathic Hospital was close down more and more allopathic hospitals = founded by Dr. Frederick QUIN in 1849. It KSS] irrefutably proved its worth to British Parliament in There has been an orchestrated campaign using 1854 London Cholera outbreaks. flawed science, ridicule and fear tactics in UK & It was doomed to close few years later, but USA. [Some of the actions of the doctors of the thanks to the prudent management and generous Hegemony medicine borders on rabidity and sheer support from its subscribers, it rose phoenixŔlike hatred of other systems of medicine = KSS] from the ashes. In this scenario, we need to improve further our Quin was adamant that a homœopathic hospital practices, clear to our code of ethics, demand and could only exist in conjunction with a central develop appropriate research methodology, look to homœopathic library and teaching facilities. quantum physics, the new biology, materials The Royal London Homœopathic Hospital, to science and the latest research into potentisation. this day Europeřs largest provider of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), VI. Arnica & Quick Recovery Facelifts. and the Research Council for Complementary New york Facial plastic surgeon Andrew Medicine have joined forces to found the JACONO, performs a short scar incision facelift Complementary and Alternative Medicine Library and uses Arnica Montana three days before surgery and Information Service (CAMLIS). For more to speed recovery time. information e-mail [email protected] - Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, February 18, 2007. IV. Man‟s greed has no bounds. Blind rage of the nature is taking place all around VII. Fighting Flu: Today show cites Homœopathy. us. The Corporate Sectors do it with the only In Feb. 2007, NBCřs today show with Matt motive: profit at all costs. Greed, destruction, etc. LAUER and Joy BAUER talked about the are all pathologies. homœopathic remedy Oscillococcinum for Flu as A trial is to begin in the New York court which seven controlled studies showed that it was able to an oil giant Shell stands accused of crimes against reduce Flu-like symptoms. - NBC News humanity over its activities in the oil-rich Niger transcripts, Feb. 13, 2007. Delta, of Southern Nigeria. The Nigerian Řactivistř Ken Saro-Wiwa was VIII. Spanish Homœopathic Market Growing. protesting against the activities of the oil giant Global insight, Milena IZMIR LIEVA, March 28, Shell since these activities ruined the lives of the 2007. Ogoni people. With the help of a military regime ŖHomœopathic medicines are becoming the protests were crushed and Ken Saro-Wiwa was increasingly popular in Spain, and the market is tried by a military court and executed in 1995. growing at 10 Ŕ 15% annually.ŗ - Europa Press Political situation in Nigeria has changed. Ken reports. Saro-Wiwa Jr. is fighting for compensation for his fatherřs cruel death. Of course nothing can IX. Homœopathic Alternatives to Hormone compensate the devastation of the Ogani peoples Replacement Therapy (HRT) environment. Report on a presentation by Dr. A.U. [Ref.: The Hindu, Chennai 28 May 2009] RAMAKRISHNAN. (HT. 27, 3/2007) Since 2002, prescriptions for HRT declined V. The end of Homœopathy? rapidly following highly publicized reports of No, our time is now! BOYCE, Carol (HT. 27. increased risk of Breast Cancer, Heart disease, 3/2007) Stroke, blood clots and urinary incontinence. The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital At the 2nd Annual Joint American (RLHH), was transformed into a state of the art Homœopathic Conference in Denver, Colorado, on healing environment in 2005, in a $40 million April 14, 2007, Dr. RAMAKRISHNAN presented revamp. This hospital is under threat of closure, ŖHomœopathic Alternatives to HRTŗ.

To soothe menopausal complaints, he suggests loose leafŗ folios with evocative images of Sepia, Lachesis, Pulsatilla, Cimicifuga, Crocus homœopathic remedies designed to give a strong sativa, Nux vomica, Sanguinaria, Trillium visual aid to working memoryŗ. Available online at pendulum, Ustilago maydis, Valerian and www.artofHomœopathy.co.uk. Oophorinum. For Osteoporosis or Osteopenia: Calcarea flourica XIII. Teacher, Healer and Life long learner Ŕ 3x or 6x, Iodum, Phytolacca, Flouricum acidum Robert (Bob) LUZADER. LOCKWOOD, Amy and Aurum metallicum. E. (HT. 27, 4/2007) He has found Oophorinum remarkably 81 year-old Robert (Bob) LUZADER with effective in normalizing hormonal imbalances. 3x macular degeneration drove solo 2,460 miles round or 6x, 2 pellets twice a day for 3 months. trip to attend the Joint Annual Homœopathic For women with bone density problems, Conference in Denver, Colorado. Napthaline 6x Oophorinum 3x or 6x for 6 months followed by a prescribed by Dr. D.P.RASTOGI. With this his bone density scan. Once bone density normalizes, vision is better and needs only reading glasses. In Oophorinum is discontinued and the patientřs 1987, his degenerative Arthritis of over a year constitutional remedy is given to help maintain cured with Rhus tox 30 o.d. for 6 weeks. He bone density. completed every course offered by NCH and studied overseas with many classical practitioners X. Groundbreaking New Research shows: in many countries. For 20 years, he nurtured his There is something in that medicine after all! organic Farm in Florida. After meeting D.D. (HT. 27, 4/2007) DUBEY, a soil scientist and homœopath of Indore The team of Rustum ROY, Ph.D., Professor of (India) he used remedies in his Farm and succeeded solid state materials science at Pennsylvania state in reviving a bark of a peech tree with Sulphur 30; University, Iris R. BELL, M.D., Ph.D., Director of sprayed Psorinum 30, over Avodado trees when Research for the Integrative Medicine Program at danger of frost was imminent: He continues to University of Arizona College of Medicine and explore the uses of homœopathic remedies on Manju LATA RAO, Ph.D., and Richard HOOVER, plants. 2 years ago diagnosed with basal cell Ph.D., from the Materials Research Institute, Carcinoma. Following Dr. Ramakrishnanřs Pennsylvania State University conducted study for protocol, he alternated doses of Arsenicum 2 years. Using Spectroscopy, they were able to see bromatum 30 with Carcinosin 30. After 12 distinct structural differences between a months, all evidences of skin Cancer gone. Even homœopathic remedy and plain water, between one two years later, no recurrence. remedy and another remedy and between different His curiosity, energy and desire to learn clearly potencies of the same remedy. keeps him going and serves as an inspiration to Equally important, they replicated the results others as well. many times over. The research team focused on interactive XIV. Stakeholders Dialogue with National phenomena known as epitaxy and the temperature Centre for Complementary Medicine. process created during succussion in explaining GAHLES, Nancy (HT. 27, 5/2007). how the unique structure of a homœopathic remedy National Institutes of Health (NIH) organised formed. The team found that succussion plays a a ŖStake holders dialogueŗ on its Campus in critical role in creating the key structural changes in Bethedsa, Maryland in June 2007. National center water that occur during homœopathic remedy for Complementary and Alternative Medicine preparation. (NCCAM) has a yearly budget of $121 million to put toward CAM research, training of researchers XI. The Guardian Life Insurance Company of and public education. More than 100 CAM America, a leading insurance provides to small and practitioners from a wide variety of modalities mid/sized companies announced that its group discussed about the possible areas of research and medical plan will offer discounts upto 30% on its difficulties. alternative medical treatments in 38 disciplines including Homœopathy. (HT. 27, 4/2007) XV. A Vaccine for Cervical Cancer: Does your Daughter need it? Sixth grade girls targetted: A XII. Art of Homœopathy by Chris HURST. homœopath‟s perspective on the HPV vaccine. Review by Jay YASGUR. (HT. 27, 4/2007). NEUSTAEDTER (HT. 27, 5/2007) Chris HURST, a homœopath & artist based in The goal of Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine is Wales, UK is offering a ŖCollection of concise to prevent Cervical Cancer from sexually

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 39 transmitted disease before girls become sexually Some data identifying the geographical areas of active. higher doses of natural radiation from Cosmic Rays Though the statistics indicate that only a small as also from soil are available. Effects of these percentage of those woman infected with HPV ionizing radiations on the Biology have also been actually develop Cervical Cancer, 1600 adverse well studied. Research can be taken up from reactions have been reported. thence. Neither the International Homœopathic A group of researchers in an article in August Medical League nor the HMAI seem to be engaged 2007 issue of Canadian Medical Association with any kind of research nor even encourage journal concluded that a Mandatory HPV vaccine useful researches; not to the knowledge of this program is premature and could have unintended writer at least. As far as the work done by the negative consequences. CCRH is concerned, nothing whatever of it is known to most of the Homœopathy Practitioners. XVI. “FREE ANTI-RADIATION PILL It is, therefore, for individual committed TENNESSEE” (U.S.): ŘThe Hinduř Madras, dated Homœopathy Practitioners to take up these November 20, 1981: researches. Dr. NASH has given a generous five State health officials are going house to house pages for kali hydroiodicum in his `Leaders` and handing out free potassium iodide pills to residents has said ŖI think it can be used lower than most living within 8 km of a nuclear plant as a drug without injury, and yet I believe we do not precaution against accidents. Each of the estimated know half its remedial power as developed by our 7,000 families living near the nuclear facility will process of potentitation.ŗ This was said by him get a vial containing 14 of the pills to prevent nearly seventy years ago. Has any further thyroid cancer which can occur as a result of knowledge of remedial powers of Kali iod been exposure to radiation. The pill has a useful life of added to our Materia Medica during these past 70 about a year-UPIŗ. years ? A new proving of Kali iod also seems [Evidently the pills mentioned above are, what called for, to further enlighten its already known we call, the Řcrudeř drug. The Homœopathic pathogenicity of affections of Lungs, Mucous Materia Medica clearly indicated that ŖKali iod acts membranes, Bones, Glands and interstitial prominently on fibrous and connective tissues, infiltrations. = KSS] producing infiltration, edemas, etc.; Glandular Swellings. Also Glands enlarge, indurate; Rough XVII. The varied Paths to Truth. Ernardo nodules all overŗ. COWPERTHWITE also MERIZALDE, President AIH. (AJHM. 100, mentions ŘGoitreř. With the Homœopathic Kali iod 3/2007) can we not also cure and prevent cancer of Thyroid Nutrition, sleep and exercise are the important in the light of the above? Perhaps it may be components of healthy life style which are required in the low potency in some cases and forgotten. Even more neglected are the factors that perhaps high in some. have been associated with happiness another Further, note that it is a remedy for ŘThyroid essential component of health: relationships, Cancerř which can occur as a result of exposure to meaningful work and adequate entertainment. radiation. We can add this to our Materia Medica Research has shown that positive emotions can give and use our Kali iod in cases of hypertrophy of a ten year increase in oneřs lifespan. glands, especially the Thyroid, suspected to be due We all know how Ŗsmallŗ our intervention to radiation. There are parts in India where Řnatural without remedies are, and how great an impact they radiationř is more. What is the percentage of can have in our patientřs lives. The magic of Thyroid enlargement in those places? Would Kali Homœopathy is what has given meaning to many iod reduce the percentage? of us. Securing the future of Homœopathy is about A further classification may be made of cases securing our own future, our purpose in life, and suspected to be due to irradiation from natural this can be fulfilling. sources like cosmic Rays and due to exposure to Advancing healthcare through Medical Irradiation. These are very interesting homeotherapeutics is the mission of American questions and the answers may open up deep wells Institute of Homeopathy (AIH). To achieve this of knowledge. homœotherapeutics has to advance while keeping It is the bounden duty of the Homoeopaths to clearly defined basic components and building and take up research work which would actually enrich strenthening those components which are not so knowledge of the Homœopathic Therapeutics. Of clearly defined and verified. It is this spirit, that course these research works can be better carried AIH encourages the writing and publishing of out by a band of scientists devoted to Homœopathy.

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 40 articles which challenge our concepts and 2009ŗ, co-hosted with the Indian Society of assumptions. Gastroenterology; He pointed out that the incidence of Crohnřs XVIII. Dr. Russel MALCOM: An interview by disease and ulcerative colitis rose from 0.4 per lakh WHITMONT, Ronald (AJHM. 100, 3/2007). in 1977 Ŕ 81 to 4.7 in 1987 Ŕ 91 and 1.7 to per lakh Dr. Russel MALCOM of Royal London in the corresponding period respectively. It was Homœopathic Hospital is a practicing homœopath getting increasingly common in Asia too though the in Scotland, calls our attention to the under prevalence was not as pronounced in the West. utilization of the Bowel Nosodes. A working Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) too had turned knowledge of this group of remedies will increase almost universal in distributive terms owing to a set the clinical effectiveness of physicians. He has of precipitators that included diet, stress, developed a selective Bowel Nosode Repertory insufficient sleep and environmental factors. based on highly reliable data from materials used ŖAs Helicobacter Pylori decreases to lower over half a century in places like Royal London prevalence of gastric and peptic ulcers, lifestyle Homeopathic Hospital and Childrens Hospital in changes, including a burgeoning obesity burden are Glasgow and from 10 years of personal experience. pushing up prevalence of Gastro Esophageal Reflux The Bowel Nosode Repertory can be vital in Disease,ŗ Dr. QUIGLEY said. identifying something wich will unblock a case and ŖWe cannot change our genes; but we certainly prepare a patient to respond to classical similimum. can reorient lifestyle practicesŗ. Bowel Nosodes help in removing the intrinsic He promised to bring to India the WGO Ŕ blocks of an individual. formulated ŖTraining the Trainers Programmeŗ. The emerging scientific data on human bowel One of the important missions of the WGO microflora is highly compatible with much of the was to propagate cutting edge protocols among information already documented in homœopathic Gastroenterology practitioners and encourage literature. For e.g. Morgan pure is associated research. clinically with itching and skin eruptions. The Robert H.HAWES, Professor of organism Morganella morganii is one of the most Gastroenterology, Medical University of South histamine producing organisms known. California, U.S., trained around 50 specialists from His views on teaching, his introduction to India during the meet in early diagnosis and Homœopathy and his other experiences are treatment of gastrointestinal Cancers. mentioned. XXI. An article by Dr. Raj B. SINGH, Chief XIX. A Pilot Project for CHC Certification Respiratory Physician, Apollo Hospitals, of Experienced Homœopaths: (AJHM. 100, Chennai, in The Hindu dated 14 Aug. 2009 4/2007) The Council for Homœopathic explains that the ŘSwine Fluř (H1N1 S-OIV) is like Certification (CHC) has proposed a new Pilot most flue, affects mainly the respiratory system. Project for Certification of experienced The viruses travel through droplets dispersed while homœopaths from both North America and abroad. sneezing or coughing. Antibiotics have no effect This project is being done in recognition of the fact against viruses. Specific anti-viral agents namely that many experienced in Homœopathy have not Ostelamivir (Tamiflu), are effective against H1N1 become certified, and because of their years of if used early. experience, do not feel the need to undergo the full Swine Flu is one among many infections certification process. It is hoped that this project caused by viruses and bacteria. Many of these will encourage well-trained and experienced infectious are more infections and dangerous than domestic and foreign homœopaths to become Swine Flu in India. TB kills a thousand people in certified and help strengthen our profession. India every day. Most cases of Swine Flu are livelyrecover with XX. „Westernisation causing morbidity‟ by M. or without Tamiflu. The virus may get less virulent Dinesh VARMA (From ŘThe Hinduř, Chennai). with time. Many may already have natural Increasing Westernisation of lifestyles is immunity against the virus. resulting in morbidity scenarios which were [The above, in brief, are facts. Unfortunately a prevalent in Europe and the U.S. two decades ago, big, big scare has been uleashed by the Media. shaping up in Asia, Latin America and Africa, Many people die every day of Pneumonia and other Eamonn Quigley, President, World diseases as against the Swine Flu deaths. The result Gastroenterology Organization (WGO), said in of scare is millions of dollars for Tamiflu Chennai for the ŖChennai Digestive Diseases Week manufacturers = KSS].

XXII. Some random notes on Crocus sativus. In 2003, Wald and Law published a landmark Farokh J. MASTER (HH. 32, 1, 2007). article in the British Medical Journal in which Farokh J. MASTER gives some random notes they modeled the potential benefit of combining six on Crocus sativus. He has given few Crocus drugs for Řprimary prevention.ř Folic acid was sativus cases. 1. Epistaxis, 2. Continuous bleeding recommended for addition to Aspirin, betablocker, due to retained Placenta. In Paediatric cases ACE-inhibitor, Statin, and a diuretic. It was argued Crocus sativus for extremely exuberant, that since these drugs could prevent the first heart affectionate, loving, caring and extrovert. It also attack or stroke in persons with pre-disposing risk helps for haemorrhage after delivery. factors, all persons above the age of 55 years should be administered this Řpreventive polypillř. XXIII. The Effects of Global Warming and Several scientific questions currently remain, Homœopathy. Farokh J.MASTER (HH. 32, especially with respect to primary prevention. 12/2007): ŖGlobal warming will be the greatest - Are three of four or five drugs required environmental challenge in the 21st century.ŗ and will the increasing number provide - Albert GORE. incremental benefits that exceed the risks All about: What is The ŖGreenhouse Effectŗ and are worth the cost? How Fast Is The Earth Heating Up? - How will this drug combination compare Forest Destruction Creates More Heat. with behavior change involving healthy What you can do to Decrease Global Warming diets, regular exercise, and smoking Prevention. Role of Homœopathy. cessation? - Will only one or two drugs, along with XXIV. Can polypill replace poly-policy for behavioural interventions, equal a four or heart health? (The Hindu, Chennai, May 6, 2009). five drug combination in primary Considerable media interest has recently been prevention, even if some drug therapy is evinced in the use of a Řpolypillř, as a means of required? protection against heart attacks and strokes. - Should poly-drug therapy be reserved for The rationale for a polypill evolved over the persons at a high Řabsoluteř risk of a future last two decades of the 20th century, when a series CVD event? of large clinical trials demonstrated that four classes Practicing physicians have been uncomfortable of drugs were highly effective in resucing the risk with the idea of a fixed dose combination. They of recurrent heart attacks and death in persons who wish to retain the freedoim of Řtitratingř each drug survived a first heart attack. These drugs (beta- according to an individualřs clinical response. blocker, aspirin, ACE-inhibitor and statin) were not The major criticism directed at the claim that only effective when given individually but also had the polypill will be the panacea for preventing CVD incremental benefit when added to one another. It comes from the public health community who view has therefore become the standard practice to it as a purely biomedical approach to a problem prescribe all of these drugs to a post-heart attack wherein deranged Biology has many social patient for Řsecondary preventionř of further determinants and behavioural causes. If those adverse events. antecedent causes are not addressed, increasing The other dreaded cardiovascular event is a numbers of individuals from each successive Řstrokeř or paralyzing Řbrain attackř. One of the generation would have to be put on a pill at some main cause of stroke is high Blood Pressure which stage of their lives. These critics also worry that is unrecognized, untreated or poorly controlled. the promised protection of a polypill may work Blood pressure-lowering drugs have been shown to against people giving up unhealthy habits like reduce the risk of a stroke, heart attack and death. smoking or bad diets. Such drugs include diuretics, ACE inhibitors, It is clear that the decline of CVD in developed betablockers and Cholesterol-lowering statins. countries over the past four decades has been the Aspirin is highly effective in reducing the risk result of policies promoting healthier behaviours as of an ischemic stroke but increases the risk of a well as improved clinical care. ŘHaemorrhagicř stroke. Aspirin and Statin are not Finland the poster child of CVD prevention in helpful in preventing a haemorrhagic Europe. In 2001, a scientific meeting organized by the The recent recommendations from the World World Health Organisation and the Welcome Trust Health Organisation (WHO) the World Bank, and [Burrows Welcome, a Pharma Industry = KSS] several other international expert bodies estimate development of a Řcombination pillř for Secondary that tobacco control and reduction of salt in diet prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases. will save millions of lives over the next 10 years. If

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 42 trans-fats are removed or reduced and saturated fat (b) A new study published in American as well as sugar are reduced in processed foods, the Journal of Obstetrics and Gyynaecology found gains will be even greater. Fruit and vegetables that too much Caffeine during pregnancy doubles have been shown to be protective both against CVD the risk of miscarriage. and Cancer. (c) A study published in the International Similarly, urban design and transport policies Journal of Cancer confirms that physical activity can greatly enable physical activity by providing reduces Colon Cancer risk. The more strenuously protected cycle lanes, safe pedestrian pathways, women exercised, the lower the risk. parks, and community sporting facilities. (d) A research study carried out by the [All these have been repeatedly stressed by National Institute of Health in U.K. shows that environmentalists, but they donřt have voice and women often experience different physical these are not money spinners. Industries promoting symptoms for as long as a month or before a heart production of Cars, etc. are a strong lobby. attack. 70.6% reported unusual fatigue 47.8% Processed food industries also have the clout = reported sleep disturbance and 42.1% shortness of KSS]. breath. Less than 30% reported chest discomfort/pain 43% did not have any chest pains. XXV. The old and the New. Rajan SANKARAN (CCR. 15, 1/2008). (HL. 19, 3/2006). About the debate over strict adherence to Hahnemannian methods versus the more XXVIII. Animal food stocks are frequently found contemporary approaches Rajan opines that change to be infected by viruses. In the case of Swines is synonymous with evolution and all should work there is respiratory diseases caused by Influenza to fill up the lacunae in our system. [What are the viruses in which anti-biotics and steroids/non- the lacunae? = KSS]. Any advance/change when steroidal anti-phlogistics are not indicated. The based on solid fundamentals should not be feared author feels that in acute cases remedies like upon as deviation from HAHNEMANN. Except for Aconitum and Belladonna are useful. the label Homœopathy, these have nothing to do with Hahnemann]. The classification into XXIX. Referring to the Bowel Nosodes in the kingdoms and subkingdoms and discovering the AHZ 252, No.6/2007, Dr. Manfred FUCKERT, common features are a kind of Grand writes (AHZ. 253, 2/2008): Ŗsince several years I Generalisation. The newer approaches are never have been using the Bowel Nosodes in my Practice meant to substitute, but to complement the both as an inter-current and as a single remedy by traditional method of studying Materia Medica. It itself. It can also be used to activate a remedy is important to see the new as an extension of the when the best selected remedy does not work as old, as a continuum. [Let each one of us make expected. In a case of a Colic which was not honest self-introspection and see how much of responding to Lycopodium, a dose of Morgan Homœopathy in there in these new Řcontemporary Gaertner (Bowel Nosode related to Lycopodium) approaches = KSS]. helped the Lycopodium to exhibit its action fully.ŗ

XXVI. Hans Walz Award. Prof. Dr. Martin XXX. Treatment of Skin diseases in Snakes DINGES. (HL. 19, 3/2006). The second Hans (HEIJNEN D.: Ganzheitliche Tiermedizin 2008: Walz Award for the studies in the History of 22: 9-9): With three cases the possibilities of Homœopathy was given by Robert Bosch homœopathic treatment of skin diseases due to skin Foundation Stuttgart on 2 December 2005 to Dr. desquamation by Snakes, burns and skin problems Jens BUSCHE for his dissertation ŖA network of are discussed. A Boa constrictor bled from an old homœopathic patients in the Duchy of Anhalt- healed burn injury every time it desquamated skin. Bernberg. The family Kersten and its social After a dose of Ignis alcoholis 200, the skin healed. environment in the period 1831-1835.ŗ Two rattle snakes failed to desquamate. After BUSCHE considered dietetics to be as Sulphur 30 for 3 or 4 doses they desquamated. For important as the use of homœopathic medications an incomplete de-squamation in a Rainbow Boa in Hahnemannřs treatment. which earlier the owner had to remove the skin manually, weekly doses of Psorinum 30 XXVII. (a) A research study published in the normalised. Journal Epidemiology concluded that drinking two or more Colas a day was linked to two-fold XXXI. Ghosting Medical Science: Sub-editorial increase in Chronic Kidney Disease. in The Hindu, News paper: Excerpts: ŖMedical

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 43 ghost-writing, according to a researcher, Řoccurs investigated with an in vitro model of laser-induced when someone makes substantial contributions to a thrombus production in mesenteric circulation and manuscript without attribution or disclosure. It is induced hemorrhagic time (IHT). Platelet considered bad publication practice in the medical aggregation induced by ADP and dosing of sciences, and some argue it is scientific prostanoid products 6-keto-PGF1α, TXB2, PGE2 misconduct.ř An extreme case is what the US- and LTB4 were also performed. based Wyeth Pharmaceutical did, according to a Results: The portal hypertensive group cache of 1500 documents that is now in the public receiving a placebo showed a decreased in vitro realm. Wyeth hired professional ghostwriters to platelet activity with prolonged IHT, an effect that make a major contribution to the production of 26 was normalized by ULDA. SC-560 induced a mild papers that were published in 18 medical journals antithrombotic effect in the normal rats, and an between1998 and 2005. The papers showed in unmodified effect of ULDA. NS-398 had a mild good light Prempro Ŕ the corporationřs blockbuster prothrombotic action in portal hypertensive rats, hormone therapy drug prescribed to menopausal similar to ULDA administration. TXA2 level after women Ŕ in the face of mounting evidence of ULDA, remained unchanged. increased breast Cancer risk from taking the drug. Conclusion: These results suggest that the Even after this particular ghost-writing scandal was effect of ULDA on platelet activity in portal brought to light by a U.S. Senator, the documents hypertensive rats, could act through a COX 2 would have remained out of reach butfor the pathway more than the COX 1, predominant for public-spirited intervention of PLoS Medicine, an aspirin at higher doses. open access journal, and The New York Times. The two acted as intervenors in the litigation XXXII. Beryllium Viola D. (Revue Belge dř brought against the drug company by thousands of Homeopathie 2007; 2:54-65 in HOM., 97, 1/2008) affected women.ŗ This article discusses Beryllium very It is scandalous that such ghost-written papers thoroughly. The main psychic symptoms are are published. The effect is to mislead doctors by sensitivity to criticism, irresolution and passivity, playing down the harmful effects of the drug. What yielding, self-protection by being unobtrusive and is shocking is the willingness of researchers of unassuming. Other symptoms are stooped head and repute to lend their names to ghost-written papers. shoulders, dryness of skin and mucous membranes, [It is greed that drives these people, be he/she a Cancer (bones, lungs), lung infections (kidneys, great scientist, he/she is a bad human and they will lungs), blocked nose, nosebleed, Thyroid be roasted in hell = KSS] One way to counter this affections, Cardiovascular diseases (Angina is to punish the researchers who collude in such pectoris, feeling there is not enough room for the sharp practices. [How many have so far been heart), itching in back, formication, retarded growth punished? = KSS]. Conscientious journal editors or arrested development. [where are they? = KSS] and publishers should not Beryllium is toxic and can cause diseases let their journals be used to mislead the scientific resemblimg Sarcoidosis, Pneumonia or Lung community and cause injury to the public. Cancer.

XXXI. Ultra low dose aspirin and selective COX XXXIII. Collinsonia Canadensis. Faingnaert Y. Inhibitors. Eizayaga FX, Aguejouf O, Desplat V, (Revue Belge dř Homoeopathie 2007; 2:66-111 in Belon P, Doutremepuich C. (Modifications HOM. 97, 1/2008). The author describes this plant produced by selective inhibitors of cyclogenase and and its herbal use (digestive, urinary and respiratory ultra low dose Aspirin on platelet activity in portal troubles). Then, four clinical cases are presented: a hyprtension. World J Gastroentrol 2007; 13:5065- child suffering from constipation, a woman with a 5070. doi:10.1016/j.homp.200711.013, available knee meniscual lesion, a pregnant woman with online at http://www.sciencedirect.com in HOM. piles, and woman with Colitis. 97, 1/ 2008) In conclusion the materia medica is Aim: To study the mechanism involved in the summarized: the main psychic symptoms are potentially beneficial effect of ultra low dose melancholy, irritability, irresolution, need for Aspirin (ULDA) in prehepatic portal hypertension, protection, feeling of culpability, of being forsaken, rats were pretreated with selective COX 1 0r 2 cannot talk. Other symptoms include: sensation of inhibitors (SC-560 0r NS-398, respectively), and enlargement of various parts and organs of the subsequently injected with ULDA or placebo. body, Constipation with rectal pains, Methods: Portal hypertension was induced by Haemorrhoids, and pelvis congestion, speakerřs portal vein ligation. Platelet activity was Sore throat, Cough from excessive use of voice.

Heart disease complicated with Haemorrhoids, recommends pregnant women to wash hands with flushes of heat with Haemorrhoids. soap and water especially after contact with saliva or diapers from young children. XXXIV. Colchicum. Marchat P. (L’ Homéopathie Européenne 2007; 2:17-19 in HOM., 97, 1/2008) XXXVII. Transplant breakthrough (Indian The author gives us a peculiar description of Express, 26 January 2008 in CCR, 15, 1/2008) this remedy. First, he recalls its main symptoms: A new technique Ŕ injecting bone marrow from digestive troubles, including pain in the transverse the organ donor to the recipient frees the patient colon and distension of abdomen, autumnal from having to take antirejection drugs for the rrest diarrhea, rheumatic symptoms, and joint of their lives. This was reported in the New inflammation. The patient cannot bear the joints to England Journal of Medicine. be touched or moved, and is very sensitive to cold and damp. There is a great hypersensitivity to XXXVIII. New hope for those with Liver Failure odors, to pain, and to some psychic problems, Ŕ Times of India, 28 September 2007 in CCR, 15, consequently the need to keep oneřs place, to stay 1/2008) included. A clinical case illustrates this remedy: a The stem cells from the patientřs bone marrow woman who felt rejected both by her husband and have ben taken and injected into the disesed liver to by her employers. help it regenerate itself eliminating the need for a transplant. XXXV. Radium Bromatum and betrayal Colin Zero to 20: Teen risk factors for Schizophrenia P. La trahison de radium bromatum (L’ identified are Ŕ Recent decline in function, higher Homéopathie Européenne 2007; 2:21-24 in HOM. levels of unusual thought content more 97, 1/2008). At the 1997 British Homeopathic suspicion/paranoia, or social impairment and past Congress, Jonathan SHORE set out Radium or current study abuse. bromatum with several clinical cases, this article 20 to 50: Lancet reported a study of researches recalls the materia medica and the main themes of from University of Oxford that over 100,000 this medicine. Ovarian Cancer deaths have been prevented by the The most important somatic symptoms are use of Birth control pills. dermatological and rheumatological: Acne rosacea, 50 and above: A new study in circulation Noevi, Psoriasis, Scleroderma, Epithelioma, Itching reported that exercise sharply cuts older menřs and burning all over body; pains in Cervical, death rate. Men with who were very highly fit had a Lumbar and Sacral vertebrae, pains in arms and 70% lower risk of death. legs, as though they would break on moving, To treat the Ŗhealthy illŗ, doctors are sensation of weakness between shoulders and in increasingly turning to placebos according to a US lumbo-sacral region, sensation of general study. Placebos are duly prescribed as per the heaviness, specially in arms and legs. There is requirement of the patient, in majority of cases as a aggravation from motion, and improvement from psychological treatment. Placebos work best when open air, continued motion and hot bath. a patient underestimates the bodyřs natural healing The themes of this medicine, according to potential. Jonathan SHORE, are a feeling of general heaviness, and above all a feeling of being XXXIX. The Use of INR (Prothrombin Time) in betrayed. Ten years of using these indications in My Practice. Farokh J. MASTER. HH. 33, authorřs practice make this remedy particularly 6/2008. INR means International Normalize Ratio, reliable. Another use concerns patients with a system established by the World Health Radiotherapy, either for alleviating side effects, or Organization and the international committee on for allowing other medicines to act in patients thrombosis and homœostasis for reporting the result having been treated by Radiotherapy. of blood congulation. Certain homœopathic remedies are used to XXXVI. Your age (Indian Express, 26 January treat bleeding disorders and most important 2008 in CCR, 15, 1/2008) remedies are those prepared from snake venoms Below zero: The US Centre for Disease and Corticotropinum. Control and Prevention has urged Gynaecologists The most important homœopathic remedies are to advise pregnant women to guard against those prepared from snake venoms ad Cytomegalo virus infection which causes serious corticotropinum like Bothrops, Cratalus horridus, Lachesis muta, Vipera aspis, birth defects. This virus spreads through contact with infected childřs saliva or urine. CDC ------

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PART II

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

1. Hahnemann‟s Pharmacography furthering development of our pharmacography. An examination of our primary Materia Let us look at these works more closely: Medica record. Fragmenta… (16) DIMITRIADIS, George (AJHM.100, 3/2007) This was the first of Hahnemannřs true pharmacographic works, published 1805, in Latin. Introduction: Hahnemannřs work to develop a A German edition, intended by HAHNEMANN, new Materia Medica containing pure was not made due to the Ŗbadness of the (conjectureless) observations on the effects of times.ŗ(17) The Fragmenta contains the medicines on the state of health, (5) began in 1790, pathogeneses of twenty-seven medicines, twenty with his realization of a possible similars principle two of which were incorporated into RA. Of the in the case of Cinchona in the treatment of Malaria. remaining five, Cuprum and M appeared Over the next six years he systematically examined later in the second edition of CK vol.3 (1837) and (6) a number of other substances with known Vol.4 (1838) respectively), whilst Cantharis, therapeutic effect, (7) and published the results of Copaiva and Valeriana were not furthered by his definitive findings (1796) in his article (8) In HAHNEMANN. Two later (Latin) editions, the Search of a New Principle for Ascertaining the 1824 (Naples), and 1834 (London, F.F.QUIN) Curative Powers of Drugs, with a few glances at appeared. A French translation was published in those hitherto employed, (9) wherein we read (10) 1855, (18) and more recently (2000), a German ŖIn my additions to Cullenřs Materia Medica, I translation of the original Latin.(19) Regrettably, have already observed that bark, given in large Fragmenta has never been translated into English. doses to sensitive, yet healthy individuals, produces (20) a true attack of fever, very similar to the intermittent fever, and for this reason, probably it Reine Arzneimittellehre (RA) (21) overpowers, and thus cures the latter. Now after The first edition RA was published in six mature experience, I add, not only probably, but sequential volumes over ten years (1811-1821).(22) quite certainly.ŗ These went through to a second edition, (23) with only the first two volumes taken to a third Hahnemannřs discovery of this general edition.(24) RA was first translated into English by similars principle (11) thus marked the birth of C.J. HEMPEL (1846), but this work was strongly Homeopathy as a system of medicinal therapy and criticized,(25) and a new translation was finally necessitated a new, pure, Materia Medica, to undertaken by R.E. DUDGEON, appearing in 1880 methodically (12) record the observed effects of under the title Materia Medica Pura (MMP).(26) substances upon the health, i.e., provings. (13) His first such work, Fragmenta … appeared nine years Die Chronischen Krankheiten (CK) (27) later (1805), followed by his Reine The first edition CK appeared in four Arzneimittellehre (RA) [Materia Medica Pura], consecutive volumes between !828-30, (28) with a and lastly, Die Chronischen Krankheiten … (CK) second enlarged (29) edition, in five volumes, [Tηε Xηρονιχ ∆ισεασεσ..]. He recalls (14): ŖThe released between 1835-39. (30) Hempelřs English first fruits of these labours, as perfect as they could translation (1845-46) was again widely criticized, be at that time, ai recorded in the (31) and a new translation, by L.H.TAFEL, was Fragmenta…1805..the more mature fruits in the published in 1896 under the title The Chronic Reine Arzneimittellehre … and in ..Die Diseases, their Peculiar Nature and their Chronischen Krankheiten…” Homœopathic Cure (CD). (32) Each of these records represents the thinking of HAHNEMANN at that particular period, (15) and In its final form, RA spanned 6 volumes, and their careful comparison provides an insight into his contained the provings data of 65 medicines, (33) a number of whose Řmedicinal virtuesř had been discovered and therein described for the first time

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 47 by HAHNEMANN, and with a total of almost never been undertaken. We can still however 32,000 symptoms. CK comprised 5 volumes, the observe, with respect to its general schema, that material medica spanning volumes 2-5 (volume 1 HAHNEMANN: was a theoretical part), with 47 medicines and 1. numbered symptoms on each page. nearly 41,000 symptoms in total. Of these 47 2. recorded the various times & medicines, 17 were incorporated from RA (with circumstances in numerous footnotes to additions), which brings the total number of the symptoms medicines contributed by HAHNEMANN to 95 3. used differentiating type to indicate degree (65RA+47CK-17RA), with a total symptom count of symptom certainty (37) of around 65,000 Ŕ over 1 million written words 4. separately listed his own observations representing 34 years of continued observation in from the observation of others (38) the application of a single therapeutic principle Ŕ This same basic plan was continued through similars. Considering this was an age long before RA and into CK, expect for the separate listing of computerization, RA & CK can only be seen as the observations of others, (39) which was works of a single-minded, relentless pursuit, and abandoned around 1827, (40) after which time he any shortcomings or individual errors we may juxtaposed all symptoms into a single, cohesive list, uncover should not dissuade us from a close study arranged systematically according to the now of this invaluable reference material. (34) familiar schema of RA & CK. (41) Moreover, when closely examining these works, it It is here important to realize that is important to keep in mind they are, more or less, HAHNEMANNřs incorporation of the observations abbre of others, be it from homœopathic sources or from viated representations of actual provings the old school, was only done where they agreed phenomena as recorded in the long-hand of with his own observations and understanding. (42) proversř day-books. Carbo animalis [ADAM] (32) M oreover, for the (17 of the 65) remedies in RA

(35) No. RA/MMP CK/CD which were incorporated into CK, HAHNEMANN Thus, even 1 6 49 increased their symptom number with additions HAHNEMANNřs 2 7 54 from himself and others, but the original symptoms 3 9 61 pharmacography can 4 12 67 were re-used (i.e., original contributors did not only be thoroughly 5 13 76 undertake re-provings of those remedies). This understood by careful 6 23 100 fact is most readily seen by an examination of the 7 36 152 comparison of the 8 37 122 provings of both Bar-c. and Calc. whose RA symptoms as they 9 38 121 proving symptoms were distinguished with a appear in his RA & 10 71 247 preceding dash( ) (43) when taken into CK. (44) 11 77 255 CK. George 12 82 274 We further note that all symptoms of those DIMITRIADIS with 13 84 281 remedies in RA which went through to CK were their antecedents as 14 85 282 fully incorporated, as seen with the adjacent 15 95 310 recorded in the 16 96 321 example which traces all 32 symptoms contributed various periodicals 17 97 322 by ADAM (45) into Carbo animalis, from their (36) of the day. We 16 98 323 19 101 324 placement in RA, through to CK. Further more, that have ourselves 20 102 327 this incorporation was done with particular undertaken this 21 104 331 diligence is revealed by the fact that (surely long but most 22 108 350 23 119 376 HAHNEMANN (not infrequently) modified the revealing) process 24 123 404 wording or expression of the original symptom, over the past 2 years, 25 128 420 (46) and even altered the placement (order) of 26 161 576 and herein offer some 27 163 586 symptoms, (47) that he may improve clarity and of the observations 28 176 693 comprehensibility. (48) made so far: 29 177 694 These findings evidence a most thoroughly 30 189 26 31 190 23 considered approach by HAHNEMANN to CK, 32 191 28 (49) the final chapter of his pharmacographic record, which still, today, remains unrivaled. Observations 2 Hahnemann‟s Contributors 1 Overview After his arrival in Leipzig (1811), (50) Whilst Hahnemannřs Fragmenta forms our HAHNEMANN formed a Union of Provers of primordial record of medicinal provings, Medicine, (51) recruited from amongst his students remarkably, an English language translation has

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 48 at the University. Initially there were ten, but only always) (63) acted as proving master, overseeing eight (adjacent) persisted. the proving of one or more subjects.(64) Moreover, We have indicated the number of remedies and it is known that the actions of various medicines the approximate symptom count for each of these can and do approximate each other (in one or more eight Provers, but we should mention the great groups of symptom), (65) and that therefore, a majority of these symptoms were contributed to prover reactive (sensitive) to one medicine may RA. prove similarly reactive to another, and it should HAHNEMANNřs Proverřs Union not be surprising to find some relationship, in a FRANZ, Karl Gottlob (37 medicines, 1900 symptoms) single prover, between the symptoms of one GROSS, Gustav Wilhelm (42 medicines, 2380 symptoms) medicine, and another.(66) In addition, anyone HARTMANN, Franz (28 medicines, 880 symptoms) sufficiently familiar with HAHNEMANNřs HORNBURG, Christian Gottlob (24 medicines, 750 symptoms) comments on the subject of Sensitivity, LANGHAMMER, Christian Friedrich (47 medicines, 1600 Idiosyncrasy, and Provings methodology, (67) will symptoms) know that, in health, whilst only sensitive or RÜCKERT, Ernst Ferdinand (8 medicines, 100 symptoms) idiosyncratic persons (68) may react sufficiently or STAPF, Johann Ernst (43 medicines, 1000 symptoms) Wislicenus, W.E. (25 medicines, 840 symptoms) uniquely to a medicinal proving dose, in sickness, all persons displaying similar symptoms will react

to the homœopathically selected medicine.(69) All in all, for the 95 medicines within RA and This is the very reason why such Řsensitiveř CK, besides HAHNEMANN, there are over 25,000 subjects, i.e., those readily predisposed to react, entries from 76 contributors of the homœopathic are ideal candidates for proving.(70) All that school and over 15,000 inclusions from around remains, is the test if clinical success in order to 1,400 old school sources.(52) In terms of symptom strengthen the standing of such observations, (71) number, apart from HAHNEMANN, who alone and this is where, in turn, reportorial grading contributes the most (around 24,000 symptoms), consistency becomes most beneficial.(72) the seven most prolific contributors, in order, are: 3 Multiple contributors to a single symptom NENNING 4800 symptoms (20 medicines) (53) A number of remedies list individual GROSS 2380 symptoms (42 medicines) (54) symptoms ascribed to more than one contributor. FRANZ 1900 symptoms (37 medicines) (55) Amongst this group we find, on the one hand, LANGHAMMER 1600 symptoms (47medicines) symptoms resulting from a collaboration in the (56) Proving and/or recording of the data presented for GERSDORF 1450 symptoms (8 medicines) (57) publication, as for example the many contributions SCHRÉTER 1200 symptoms (14 medicines) (58) of HARTLAUB & TRINKS, (73) which rightly STAPF 1000 symptoms (43 medicines) (59) show the names of each contributor as jointly Next to HAHNEMANN, you will note responsible for the submission. On the otherhand, LANGHAMMER as having contributed to the and more revealingly, we also see (not greatest number of individual remedies Ŕ 38 uncommonly) composite symptoms, i.e., those medicines in RA and further 9 (new ones) in CK. formed from a number of separate (yet similar) Whilst LANGHAMMERřs objectivity and capacity symptoms, from one (74) or more contributors as a Prover has been (mischievously) attacked, we (homœopathic, (75) allopathic, (76) or a mixture of find overwhelming evidence that his contributions both) (77), into a single, representative symptom. were not only valid and consistent with those of (78) When we study the final form of these other contributors, but trusted and thoroughly symptoms thus rendered by HAHNEMANN, we utilized by HAHNEMANN. (60) indeed begin to appreciate his desire to provide a There is here another misapprehension which clear and faithful summary of such symptoms should be mentioned Ŕ that the similarity of a (being careful to avoid any loss of meaning), and to number of Proving symptoms in a number of thereby render a more completed form of symptom different medicines, from a single contributor, in as short a space as possible. Let us provide a reveals more about the prover than the couple of specific examples (our translations of medicine.(61) But our first retort to this half-truth, HTRA): is that, apart from the fact that there are many 1. Alumina CD 119 (709) Stitching on individual more dissimilar symptoms from individual spots of the head [Tks,Ng] contributors,(62) it fails to remember (see below) This single symptom from both TRINKS and that a single contributor does not necessarily mean NENNING is actually found to be a composite of a single Prover Ŕ as for example, in the case of the following seven separate observations published HAHNEMANN who often (or Nenning, who

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 49 in HARTLAUB and TRINKSř Reine dubious character should be marked with the sign Arzneimittelehre (HTRA Vol.2, 1829): of dubiety, until they have frequently been TRINKS: HTRA62 (80) Stitching on confirmed.ŗ(89) individual spots of the forehead ŖIf some little circumstance happened during NENNING: HTRA57 (81) Long-continued the experiment, which could hardly be expected to stitching in the occiput, in the evening interfere with the effects of the medicinal action, HTRA58 (82) Blunt stitching in the forehead the symptoms subsequently noticed were inclosed above the right eye, in the forenoon within brackets as not certainly pure.ŗ(90) HTRA59 (83) Painful stitching and tearing in As previously mentioned above, this concept the left frontal eminence, in the evening was indeed applied in his Fragmenta (1805), HTRA64 (84) Sudden, acute stitching in the wherein the reliance (certainty) was indicated via left temple, in the afternoon, and again in the means of the following differentiating typography morning (see above under Overview): HTRA66 (85) Painful stitching and tearing in 0. (Symptom enclosed in parentheses) (91) the right side of the head, in the forenoon 1. Symptom in normal type HTRA67 (86) Stitching in the left side of the 2. Symptom in CAPITALS (92) occiput This system of grading Proving symptom The summation of these seven symptoms into a certainty (93) held two significant benefits: firstly, single representative form given in CD119 does as a meaningful index, particularly for new precisely what the homœopath themselves would medicines which had not received the confirmation need to do when surveying such a group of separate of practice, and in which case their reliance for one yet related symptoms, each one partly repetitious, or other complaint could be weighted according to partly new Ŕ we put them together, compose them such initial gradation of their Proving symptoms; into a meaningful, more Řcompleteř form, summary secondly, a symptom could be adjusted to in order to comprehend their overall meaning. (87) accommodate future confirmation (upgraded), either from further Provings, or from clinical 2. Colocynth CD236 The left foot goes to sleep, success.(94) This is precisely what also when resting. [Hbg, Gtm] HAHNEMANN does, as we ourselves observe a Colocynth MMP202 Going to sleep of the left number of symptoms that are given within foot [Hbg] Ŕ when at rest. [Gtm] parentheses (0 grade) are later listed without This original Colocynth symptom as found in parenthesis (1 grade), as from Fragmenta to RA, RA(183), and translated in MMP202, tells us that or from RA to CK, (95) indicating both HORNBURG and GUTMANN reported the HAHNEMANNřs later developed certainly for that first part of this composite symptom, the going to symptom. There is further evidence to show that sleep of the left foot, and that Gutmann further this Řcertaintisingř of an uncertain symptom was reported its occurrence during rest (second part). made on the basis of clinical confirmation, whilst the upgrading of a 1 to 2 grade occurred at the 4 HAHNEMANN‟s symptom grading Provings level. Let us examine the following two Having recognized the necessity for a sets of examples: systematic (rather than accidental) approach to Carba.MMP 108 (During the evacuation of the discovering the health-altering effects of medicines stool pains like needle-pricks in the anus) towards the construction of a Pure Materia [Adm] Medica, HAHNEMANN further conceived the Carba.CD350 During the evacuation, stitching idea of marking the degree of reliance of such in the anus as from needles. [Adm] data. In 1796, he writes (88): Coloc.MMP43 (A shooting throbbing pain in ŖA complete collection of such the right lower molars, as if struck with a observations, with remarks on the degree of metal wire) [Stf] reliance to be placed on their reporters, would, Coloc.CD56 Shooting, throbbing pain in the if I mistake not, be the foundation stone of right lower molars, as if struck with a Materia Medica, the sacred book of its metal wire. [Stf] revelation.ŗ In both these examples, we see the RA (MMP) But what is meant by symptom reliance? parentheses were subsequently removed when the Speaking on his Provings methodology, symptom was transferred to the CK (CD). The HAHNEMANN writes: contributor names appended to these symptoms did ŖThe more obvious and striking symptoms not change in either case; i.e., only ADAM and must be recorded in the list, those that are of a STAPF respectively, and since, as we have shown

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 50 already (see above) that no contributor to an RA Amm-c. CD362 Retention of stool† during remedy undertook a re-proving of that remedy the first days, followed by soft stools; with for CK, then the only criterion left to all provers. [Ng] HAHNEMANN upon which to remove the Mag-m. CD332 No stool for several days parentheses (uncertainty) was clinical (with various provers). [Ng] confirmation, (96) which criterion was also applied to his own symptoms, as we see in the † Note the English CD gave it wrongly as Ŗurineŗ, following few examples: but German CK clearly writes ŖStuhl.ŗ Aur.MMP 11 (One sided headache like This confirms the criterion for assignment of digging, boring, pecking, in the morning emphasis for a Proving symptom was the immediately after waking, increased by coughing number of independent Provers; such grade and bending the head backwards). assignment being made during the Aur.CD71 Burrowing, boring and dull sound in pharmacographic process (during construction of one side of the head, early on awaking, the Materia Medica). In the case of single Prover aggravated by coughing and by bending the symptoms, neither the repetition of a symptom head back. event, nor the length of time it lasted would result Aur.MMP49 (A sort of burning in the eyes.) in the assignment of emphasis, (98) as we observe Aur.CD102 A sort of burning in the eyes. in these few examples: Dig. MMP426 (Secret mania with Ant-c. CD215. Formication and burning in the disobedience and obstinacy; he tries to run varix of the anus, in the evening, in bed, until away). going to sleep (aft. 11d. and 5w). [Csp] Dig. CD27 Secret insanity, with disobedience Aur.CD231. Every day very hard, knotted and obstinacy; he tries to run away. stool (the 1st days). (99) Mang. MMP1 (Vertigo when sitting and Aur.CD232. Every morning soft stool with standing; he must, lay hold on something; he some pinching. (100) tends to fall forwards) Borx. CD312 Sneezing and fluent coryza (the Mang. CD18 Vertigo, when sitting and first days). [Srt] standing; he must hold on to something, so Calc. CD347. Impaired hearing (the fiurst 3 as not to fall forward. days). These few examples, which may be readily Cupr. CD186. Squeezing together of the multiplied, evidence HAHNEMANNřs relentless intestines, and sensation of a heavy pressure efforts to verify and improve his pharmacographic from behind and above to the left and record. downwards; aggravated by walking and by Now we move to the question of how external pressure; pain not relieved by stool HAHNEMANN determined a symptom (or part and recurring every forenoon. [Rkt] thereof) should receive emphasis (i.e., 2- Graph. CD105. Throbbing in the right side of grade).(97) Let us examine the following symptom the head, in the afternoon; recurring for examples which, fortunately, also record the several days. [Ng] number of provers: Puls. MMP420. Cutting pains in the abdomen, Borx.CD7 Easily frightened, both he and she by day, and particularly in the evening, day are startled by a shot at a distance. [Srt] after day (aft. 4, 5, 6d). (101) Whilst we observe an abundance of symptoms ŖCD38 Aching in the whole head, with from single contributors which are given in qualmishness, nausea, and trembling of emphasis, it must be remembered that the the whole body at 10 a.m., with two female contributor of a symptom may not themselves have Provers at the same time (2nd d). [Srt] acted as Prover, but rather, as Proving master ŖCD92 Stitches in the left ear, with two conducting the Proving, (102) and a single Provers (alt. 14d). [Srt] contributor name therefore does not suggest a ŖCD133 Toothache in hollow teeth, with dull single prover. Here are some examples of such griping, in wet, rainy weather, with five symptoms: provers. [Srt] Meny. MMP254 Vivid unremembered ŖCD308 Easy conception, during the use of dreams. [Lgh] borax, observed in five women. [Srt] Meny. MMP184 Obtuse boring stitching on ŖCD397 Stitches in the sole of the foot, with the left scapula, over towards the spine. two persons in the same way (2nd d). [Srt] [Hbg]

Meny.MMP186 Excessively painful tearing Ph-ac. CD695 Running all over the body downwards betwixt the scapula, as from ants, with some single fine especially on breathing deep, going off stitches. [Hrm,Wsl] when sitting, immediately returning when Sil. CD501 Constipation for two days walking; when at rest a sore pain [Gss,Ng] remained. [Hbg] Stann. CD338 Pollution, without Mur-ac. CD48 Tearing in the right parietal lascivious dreams, [Lgh,Gtm] bone, at times with stitches extending to Sulf. CD672 Heartburn all the day. [also the forehead, and drawing at times to the Ng] border of the orbit, occasionally with Zinc. CD866 Burning in the right side of tickling in the left ear, and burning in the the chest (2nd d.). [Gff and Ng] concha. [Ng] We see HAHNEMANN was both Mur-ac. CD266 Itching in the anus, with methodical and consistent in his assignment of sore pain and formicating stinging. symptom grades, the benefits of which were Lyc. CD1363 He feels urged to go into the realized by Bönninghausen who applied them to his open air. own reportorial works.(104) But whilst the Lyc. CD1369 assignment of remedy grades is still, as it should be, When walking in the open air, anxiety and considered important, this view is formed rather onset of Vertigo. more on a theoretical than a practical basis, because To recapitulate: the sole criterion used by this system of grading has been irrevocably HAHNEMANN for listing a symptom with compromised in successive Řmodernř (both emphasis, was that it derived from multiple pharmacographic and reportorial) works, largely provers, whether from one or more contributors. through the admixture of heterogeneous, non- To put it into perspective, there are close to 2600 primary, conjecture-full material, each with emphasised symptoms in CK alone, which differing inclusion and grading criteria. (105) represents over 6% of the total symptom number Ŕ 5 Discrepancies in other words, a significant proportion of The pharmacographic record of symptoms are derived from multiple provers. (103)1 HAHNEMANN, zealous and meticulous as he was, Of these, over 300 symptoms list more than a single is nevertheless not without discrepancy or error. contributor name, as for example: These must be identified with reference to original Alum. CD298 Chapped (dry) lips. [Ng, literature and corrected wherever possible, or at Tks, Srt] least clearly marked for attention. It is noteworthy, Anac.CD78 Tearing Pressure in the left that, whilst some of the errors we have found are temple. [Hrm, Gss] significant, of themselves they do not prove critical Ars. CD955 Sinking of the strength. to our application of similars. (106) [Störk, Rau, and many others] Nevertheless, the mistakes evident either in the Caust. CD1263 Cold feet. [Frz, Hbg] original German and passed onto the English, or Con. CD502 Suppression of the menses. introduced by the English translators (whose efforts [Andry, Andrée, Greding] must nevertheless be considered as invaluable), and Iod. CD1 Dejection. [Künzli, Matthey, which have since been continued, from print to Gairdner, Richter] print, without attempt at examination and correction Kali-n. CD225 Pains in the stomach. Ŕ these do not reflect well on our profession. The [Falconer, Alexander, Rihter] following few examples highlight our neglect and Lyc. CD833 Much itching on the prepuce, need for the rectification of this resource: on the inner surface. [also Gff] 5.1. Mistakes in the original German Mang.CD81 Dilated pupils (aft. 25h). The simplest of these are what we could term [Hbg, Lgh] organizational errors, where HAHNEMANN was Mez.CD457 Twitching pain in the hip- unable to keep an accurate tally on contributors and joint, extending down into the knee. their input into various remedies. For example, a [Whl,Gss] number of CK symptoms append contributors who Nat-c. CD70 Dull in the head, as after a were not named by HAHNEMANN in the remedy prolonged sleep. [S] preamble. These are: Nit-ac. CD1249 So weak that he hadto lie Ars. Wahle, 18 symptoms down nearly all the time. [also Hg] Clem. HARTMANN, 10 symptoms; KUMMER, (107) 32 symptoms

Iod HARTLAUB, 39 symptoms; TRINKS, 27 goes on to add two symptoms from the symptoms earlier (2nd edition) RA which were omitted Mag-m. HARTLAUB & TRINKS, 1 symptom in the 3rd edition of 1833 (i.e., MMP399, Nat-c., HARTLAUB, 3 symptoms; RUMMEL, 400), the first of which was listed as 1 symptom uncertain (parenthesized), and the second Nit-ac. FOISSAC, 5 symptoms; HERING, 3 does not at all add anything new to the symptoms; STAPF, 5 symptoms; symptom list, being already well stated HARTMANN, 3 symptoms within MMP401 (RA400). In our own view Petr. FOISSAC, 1 symptom therefore, we believe these were purposeful Phos. RUMMEL, 2 symptoms omission by HAHNEMANN, and have Sepia RUMMEL, 1 symptom removed them entirely, as he had intended. Sil. FOISSAC, 12 symptoms; HARTLAUB, 6 The final symptom count therefore is 458, symptoms; RUMMEL, 3 symptoms not 459. Sulf. WAHLE, 15 symptoms; WALTHER, 12 Digitalis CK misnumbered in two ways: symptoms firstly, symptom 300 was actually number Also, a number of remedies actually name 200, which meant the total symptom number contributors (in their preamble) yet no symptoms was 100 less; secondly symptom 319 was can be found ascribed to them in the subsequent list numbered 320, meaning that all subsequent of symptoms, viz: symptoms were out by one, giving a total Agaricus (STAPF); Cuprum (FRANZ); Mag- count of 601, not 702 as shown in CD. carb. (SCHRÉTER); Manganum (WAHLE); Dulc. CK misnumbered Ŕ symptom 154 being Muriatic acid (RUMMEL); Sepia numbered as 155, consequently, all (WAHLE); Silicea (HERING) subsequent symptoms were out by one, Another basic organizational error involves the giving a total of 408 symptoms, not 409. mis-numbering of symptoms. There are seven This error reproduced in CD. remedies in the original German wherein symptoms Iodium CK misnumbered, there being no were misnumbered: symptoms marked with numbers 610-629 Ŕ Ambra RA misnumbered Ŕ symptom 39 was symptom 630 should therefore read 610, given as 40, consequently, all subsequent consequently, all subsequent symptoms were symptoms were out by one, giving a total of out by 20, giving a total of 704 symptoms, 489 symptoms, not 490. This error not 724. This error reproduced in CD. reproduced in MMP. Arnica RA misnumbered Ŕ symptom 534 was 5.2 Mistakes introduced into the English given as 535, consequently, all subsequent translations symptoms were out by one, giving a total of First in this category, we find errors of 637 symptoms, not 638. This error omission, as for example: reproduced in MMP. Bryonia RA misnumbered Ŕ symptom 530 Omission of symptoms should read 531, consequently, all Agar. CK339 Durchfall [Diarrhœa] † subsequent symptoms were out by one, Arn. RA438 Einzelne Stösse in den Hüften giving a total of 782 symptoms, not 781. [Single blows in the hips] † This error reproduced in MMP. Carb-an.CK49 Dämisch im Kopfe, mit Druck M-arct. RA misnumbered in four ways: firstly, in der Stirn [Stupid in the head, with symptom 261 was given as 260; secondly pressure in the forehead] † symptom 398 (actually 399) was given as Carb-an. CK348 Vor dem Stuhlgange, ein 400; thirdly, symptom 424 (actually 425) is Ziehen vom After durch die Scham [Before given as 425; fourthly, symptom 439 was the stool, a drawing from the anus through to given as 440. These series of errors added the pubis] † together to mean the original number of Chin. RA(267) Blähungsauftreibung des symptoms was actually 458, not 459 as listed Unterleibes (Stahl) [Flatulent distension of in the RA. However, we agree with the abdomen] ‡ HUGHES (footnote to MMP 400) that † These errors did not impact on CD RA400 actually represents 2 symptoms numbering which continued numbering as if which were incorrectly adjoined by the symptom were present. publisher, and list this into two separate symptoms (MMP 400, 401). HUGHES also

‡ This error affected MMP numbering Ŕ we work as possible, and accept such errors were, to have inserted it in the appropriate place at some measure, unavoidable. (108) position Chin. MMP413. What cannot be readily understood however, is why the profession itself, over the ensuing 170 Omission of emphases (Bold in CD) years, had not detected them. (109) Agar. CD328 Stuhlgang sehr festen Kothes. (Ap.) Agar. CD328 Stool of very hard faeces [Ap.] Closing comments Alum. CK301 Zahnfleisch-Geschwülste It is evident that Hahnemannřs pioneering Alum. CD301 Swelling of the gums. work in developing an accurate and systematic pharmacography to be used in practice according to Omission of parentheses (uncertainty) the defining homœopathic principle (similars), was Amm-c. CK629 (Ueber der rechten Ferse, Stechen) carefully and methodically conducted over a long Amm-c. CD629 Above the right heel, stitches. period. Aside from Hahnemannřs most fundamental realization of similars as a general therapeutic Omission of contributor name (symptoms hence approach, his pharmacography is, in itself, misinterpreted as being from HAHNEMANN) remarkable in both concept and content, Bar-c. CK629 Ziehschmerz das ganze linke Bein representing hundreds of thousands of individual herab. (Gr.) trial on the effect of drugs. Even today, and even Bar-c. CD629 Drawing pain down the whole of with the need for careful correction, when studied, the left lower limb. (110) these works remain both unmatched (111) Euphr. RA(83) Nachts öfteres Erwachen, wie von and irreplaceable. (112) it would therefore be a Schreck. (LANGHAMMER) mistake to consider them as either outdated. (113) Euphr. MMP114 At night frequent waking as if simply because they have so long lacked the from fright. attention required for removal from the present, or Guaj. CK7 Schwaches Gedächtniss; er vergisst das of little consequence, because, as some would eben Gelesene, und alter Namen erinnert er sich gar suppose it, the number of medicines therein is any nicht mehr. (Tth.) case too limited to warrant our attention. (114) Guaj. CD7 Weak memory; he forgets what he has From our own work (Hahnemann Institute, just now read, and old names he does not remember Sydney) in very closely examining this material at all. over the past (more than) two years, we continue to Then we find mistakes of translation itself, as gain a clearer view of Hahnemannřs with the following examples. pharmacography, an understanding of which allows From this (albeit very brief) account, we see us to better identify and correct such discrepancies that the above errors in Hahnemannřs original and errors without compromising on the intentions pharmacographies do not affect their use, and of Hahnemann, and towards its complete revival. whilst a number of mistakes introduced into the Let us as a profession, (115) student, teacher, English language translations are less innocuous, researcher and practitioner, seek to re-discover our they are not insurmountable. In both cases, given sources, to stand upon the shoulders of those of our the sheer volume of work, we can understand the predecessors who, almost single-handedly, forged difficulties faced by Hahnemann and his English their way through the unknown into the world of translators who intended as faithful and accurate a objectivity and certainty in the field of medicine. Symptom Medicine Presently German Should reads original read Scanty emission of urine, S e l t e n e r A b g a n g d e s Infrequent emission of Agar. CD without increase in U r i n s , ohne vermehrte Menge urine, without increase in 358 quantity. [Ap.] desselben. (Ap.) quantity [Ap.] Painfully sore cracks Ant-c. CD Furuncles in the corners of Wund schmerzende Risse in den (splits, rhagades) in the 97 the mouth… Mundwinkeln… corners of the mouth… Itching tetters in the Ars. MMP Jückende Flechten in der Itching tetters on the knee, popliteal fossa intro. Kniekehle

Large, darkŔred itching Calc. CD Large, dark-red itching Grosse, dunkelrothe, jückende spot on the legs (below 1353 tetter on the legs… Flecke an den Unterschenkeln… the knees)…

Con. CD Nervous asthma Nervous weakness Nerven-Schwäche (Schmucker) 796 [Schmucker] [Schmucker] Dig. CD Feeling of great tightness Grosses Leichtigkeits-Gefühl im Feeling of great lightness 597 in the body. [Fr.] Körper. (Fr.) in the body. [Fr.] S t a r k e s K l i n g e n i n Kali-c. Loud ringing in one ear Loud ringing in one ear d e m e i n e n Ohre und CD 304 and burning in the other and humming in the other Sumsen in dem andern. Swelling of the meatus Swelling of the meatus Nat-m. CD Geschwulst des Ohrganges und auditorius and burning of auditorius and discharge 292 Auslaufen des Ohres. the ear. of the ear. Swelling of the gums, Geschwür am Zahnfleische, Tag Ulcer on the gums, Nat-m. CD painful by day and by und Nacht schmerzend, drei painful by day and by 408 night, for the three weeks. Wochen lang. night, for three weeks. Tension of the calves when S p a n n e n d e r W a d e n Tension of the calves Nat-m. CD sitting, as if the muscles i m G e h e n , als wären die when walking, as if the 1083 were too short. Muskeln zu kurz. muscles were too short. Bibliography DHD DIMITRIADIS, G.: Homœopathic Diagnosis, HAHNEMANN through HAHNEMANN BÖNNINGHAUSEN, Hahnemann Institute Fragmenta Fragmenta de Viribus Medicamentorum Sydney, 2004. Positivis Sive in Sano Humanis Corpore HGS HERING, C.: The Guiding Symptoms of Observatis, 2 parts, 269 & 470 pages, J.A. our Materia Medica, 10 vol., 1879-1891. BARTH, Leipzig, 1805. Indian reprint, B.Jain, Delhi, 1974. RA Reine Arzneimittellehre, 1825-1833 [vol.1-2 HHL HAEHL, Richard: Samuel HAHNEMANN, 3rd ed.], Arnold, Leipzig. Reprint Haug, His Life and Work, 2 volumes, Stuttgart, 1922. Ulm/Donau, 1955. Indian reprint, B. Jain, Delhi, 1985. MMP Materia Medica Pura, RA translation by R.E. HLW DUDGEON, R.E. (Ed.): Hahnemannřs DUDGEON, 1880, Indian reprint, B. Jain, Lesser Writings, collected and translated by Delhi 1990. R.E. DUDGEON, 1851, Indian reprint, B. Jain, CK Die Chronischen Krankheiten, ihre Delhi. eigenthümliche Natur und homöopathische HMP HUGHES, R.: A Manual of Heilung, Leipzig, 2nd edition (5 volumes), Pharmacodynamics, eight edition, 1880; 2nd 1835-1839, Arnold, Leipzig [vol. 1-2], and Indian ed., Ringer & Co., Calcutta. Schaub, Düsseldorf [vol. 3-5]; reprint, Haug, HRM HERING, C.: Analytical Repertory of the Heidelberg, 1979. Symptoms of the Mind, second Edition, CD The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature Philadelphia, 1881. note: an earlier edition of and Their Homœopathic Cure CK translation this work was published in 1873 as vol. 1 of by L.H. TAFEL, 1895, Indian reprint, B. Jain, Heringřs Analytical Therapeutics (HAT). Delhi. HTRA HARTLAUB, C.G.C., TRINKS, C.F.; Reine Arzneimittellehre, 3 volumes, Others Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1828-1831, Reprint v.d. BB. BOGER, C.M. (Ed.): Bönninghausenřs Lieth, Hamburg. Characteristics and Repertory, Parkersburg, KLP KENT, J.T.: Lectures on Homœopathic 1905. Philosophy (1900), paperback edition, BLW TAFEL, L.H. (Trans.): The Lesser Writings Thorsons, 1979. of CMF von Bönninghausen, compiled by TBR DIMITRIADIS, G. (Ed.): The Bönninghausen T.L. BRADFORD, translated by L.H. TAFEL, Repertory Ŕ Therapeutic Pocketbook Method, 1908, Jain Publishers, Delhi, 1979. Hahnemann Institute Sydney, June 2000. this CDP R. HUGHES & J.P. DAKE, A Cyclopædia of work represents a rearranged English Drug Pathogenesy, 4 volumes, 1886-1891. retranslation of Bönninghausenřs First Indian reprint, World Homœopathic Therapeutisches Taschenbuch (TT), of 1846, Links, New Delhi, 1979. and therefore assumes all its characteristics. CMM COWPERTHWAITE, A.C.: A Textbook of TMM TESTE, A.: The Homœopathic Materia Homœopathic Materia Medica, 11th edition, Medica, arranged systematically and 1909, Indian reprint, B. Jain, Delhi, 1980. practically, 1814, translated from the French, and edited by C.J. HEMPEL, 1854.

TT BÖNNINGHAUSEN, C.M.F. von.: actual meaning is so changed as to lead the Therapeutisches Taschenbuch für reader to a different impression altogether. We homöopathische Aerzte, zum Gebrauche am will publish the results of such comparative Krankenbette und beim Studiem der reinen study, as we have made so far, in a future Arzneimittellehre, Münster, 1846. article focusing on that subject. [Therapeutic Pocketbook for Homœopathic 5) Provings (Prüfungen) as they are termed Ŕ a Physicians, for use at the Sickbed and in the form of drug-trial unique to Homœopathy. A Study of Pure Materia Medica] detailed account of this term as used by Journals HAHNEMANN will be found in The Sources AAD Allgemeiner Anzeiger der Deutschen of our Materia Medica. Appendix 1, DHD, AHH Archiv für die Homöopathische Heilkunst PP.131-142. AHK Annalen der Homöopaathischen Klinik 6) HAHNEMANN writes (Extract from A letter AHZ Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung To A Physician Of High Standing on the AJHM American Journal of Homeopathic Great Necessity of a Regeneration of Medicine Medicine, AAD, 1808, in HLW516): NAHH Neues Archiv für die Homöopathische ŖI set myself diligently to work to test several Heilkunst medicinal substances on the healthy body,* and PMG Practisiche Mittheilungen der see, the carefully observed symptoms they Homöopathischen Gesellschaft produced corresponded wonderfully with the THR The Homœopathic Recorder symptoms of the morbid states they could cure easily and permanently.ŗ Notes The results …. will be found in my book: 1) Pharmacography (Gr. Φάρμακο [pharmaco] = Fragmenta deviribus… medicine, + үραφη [graphy] = writing). This 7) These had been only discovered by way of term forms part of a series of terms which have accident, as HAHNEMANN writes (In Search been previously proposed (Sydney Seminar, of a New Principle…, 1796, in HLW258): July 2005) as part of a standard nomenclature. ŖThe humiliating confession must be made, The term pharmacography may be used in two that most of the virtues of medicinal bodies ways: firstly, to describe the process of were discovered by accidental, constructing a written record on medicines (a empirical experience, by chance; often first Materia Medica). observed by non-medical persons. Bold, 2) We consider Hahnemannřs RA/CK as our most often over-bold, physicians, then gradually scientific and accurate records of proving. made trial of them.ŗ 3) We have been greatly dismayed to learn that 8) Hufelandřs Journal der praktischen final-year students of Homœopathy (after 4 or Arzneikunde, vol.2, part 3 pp. 391-439, & part 5 years of study) have never before even seen a 4pp. 465-561, 1796; in HLW 249-303 copy of Hahnemannřs Materia Medica Pura 9) Versuch [in search of] über ein neues Prinzip (MMP) or the Materia Medica section of his zur Auffindung der Heilkräfte der Chronic Diseases (CD), and further surprised Arzneisustanzen. Note the title of this work to discover that practitioners of many yearsř has been translated as ŖEssay on….ŗ, however, experience have hardly opened these volumes, the term ŖVersuchŗ in this context is better let alone studied or understood their content. represented with the title ŖIn search of…ŗ, Yet these works, which are exceedingly more which indeed describes this work, wherein accurate and pure [conjectureless] than their HAHNEMANN provides Řglimpsesř to over 60 modern successors, are the foundation-stone of remedies, demonstrating their homœopathicity all our Materia Medica, and it is the to the disease symptoms against which they responsibility of our teaching institutions to had been serviceable. A more detailed account ensure they are made accessible, and studied, of this can be found in DHD, P.138, Note 7. by our students. 10) HLW267 4) A comparison of original Provings in 11) HAHNEMANN gives an interesting account of Hahnemannřs Pharmacographies with their his reasoning in this regard, from which we rendering in various successive Materia read (Extract from a Letter to a Physician of Medicæ reveals how, without further Proving, High Standing… in HLW516): they have been altered and extended through a ŖIn a word, medicines must only have the process of misinterpretation, speculation, and power of curing diseases similar to those they theoretic extrapolation, to a point where their produce in the healthy body…otherwise how

was it that those violent tertian and quotidian pages; the index, in small type condensedly fevers, which I completely cured four and six printed, filled 469 pages.ŗ weeks ago without knowing how the cure was 17) HAHNEMANN writes (Extract from A Letter effected, by means of a few drops of Cinchona To a Physician Of High Standing … in tincture, should present almost exactly the HLW520, footnote): same array of symptoms, which I observed in ŖI would, ere this, have communicated to the myself yesterday and to-day, after gradually world the large number of medicines whose taking, while in perfect health, four drachms of properties I have investigated since 1804, and good cinchona bark, by way of experiment? I have published the whole in German, were it now commenced to make a collection of the not that the publisher of the Fragmenta has morbid phenomena which different observers begged me to delay doing so on account of the had from time to time noticed as produced by badness of the times.ŗ medicines introduced into the stomachs of 18) Fragments sur les effets positives des healthy individuals, and which they had medicaments observes chez l‟homme sain, casually recorded in their works. But as the translated by CHAMPEAUX & MILCENT in number of these was not great, I set myself 1855, and published in LřArt Medicale, diligently to work to test several medicinal Brussels. Reprinted 1958. substances on the healthy body… 19) Marion WETTEMAN, Samuel Hahnemann‟s 12) HAHNEMANN correctly reasoned (In Search “Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum” Ŕ of a New Principle…, in HLW258-59) that the the first homœopathic Materia Medica, effects of a medicine could only be known by dissertation for Doctor of Medicine, Faculty of experiment upon the healthy organism, and that Medicine, Eberhard-Karls-University, such trials should be conducted methodically. Tübingen. This is a translation of the first part 13) HAHNEMANN writes (In Search of a New (Materia Medica) only. Principle…in HLW 265): 20) Perhaps we will not wait another 200 years for ŖA complete collection of such observations, such a translation of this foundation work. with remarks on the degree of reliance to be Who shall put up their hand to this needy and placed upon their reporters, would, if I mistake fundamental work? not, be the foundation stone of a Materia 21) Reine Arzneimittellehre, 1825-1833 [vols.1-2 Medica, the sacred book of its revelation.ŗ 3rd ed.; vols. 3-6 2nd ed.] Arnold, Leipzig. 14) Organon, §109, footnote 2. Reprint Haug, Ulm/Donau, 1955. The 15) We approached this subject with the view that arrangement of RA differs from that of its Hahnemannřs latest editions of these work English language counterpart (MMP), in that were the way he intended them (typographic & the observations of other [Beobachtungen other human error aside Ŕ inescapable in a Andrer] are listed separately from those of work of such magnitude), and that any HAHNEMANN, and therefore, the symptom significant changes from previous editions, numbers in MMP mostly* do not correspond were, without evidence to the contrary, with those in RA. deliberate and purposeful. * The exception to this is volumes 1 and 2 which 16) Fragmenta de viribus Medicamentorum went through to a 3rd edition (1830 & 1833 Positivis Sive in Sano Humanis Corpore respectively), as well as Ambra, Carb-an., and Observatis, in 2 parts: 1st part, 269 pages Carb-v. from the second edition of volume 6 (Materia Medica); 2nd part, 470 pages (word (1827) Ŕ in these cases, the observations of index), J.A. BARTH, Lipsiae, 1805. This others and those of HAHNEMANN have been work consists of two parts, the first (268 pp.) placed together, and therefore correspond in formed the Materia Medica proper Ŕ a list of number to those of MMP. symptoms for each of the remedies therein; the 22) First edition RA Ŕ publication dates for each second (469 pp.), a word-index to the first part. volume: 1 (1811), 2 (1816), 3, (1817), 4 HERING gives the following account (HRM (1818), 5 (1819), 6 (1821). 18): 23) Second edition RA Ŕ publication dates for each ŖIt is true that HAHNEMANN added to his volume: 1(1822), 2 (1824), 3, 4 (1825), 5 first collection (his ŘFragmentař of 1805), an (1826), 6 (1827). index where every word could be found; but it 24) Third edition RA Ŕ publication dates for each was altogether out of proportion … The next, volume: 1 (1830), 2 (1833). in large type spaciously printed, filled 268 25) Richard HUGHES, with whose erroneous and often biased conclusions (with respect, in our

own view, to many matters homœopathic) we 34) It is astonishing that our profession focuses largely disagree, but who is nevertheless much of its time in new medicinal Řprovingsř noteworthy in his literary efforts on (of dubious quality) in the search for more homœopathic historical matters, in his Sources certainty in prescribing, whilst simply of the Homœopathic Materia Medica (HMP accepting (rather ignoring!), as is, the Provings p.41), gives an overview of the serious faults to record of our predecessors, without seeking to be found in HEMPELřs translation, summing check, verify, falsify, etc. any such data up by saying: inherited from the past Ŕ we find numerous ŖI must regretfully say that I have long ceased discrepancies and even the most basic or errors to have any reliance on this translation, and merely carried over into our modern works. never venture now to quote HAHNEMANN as No science can hope to survive let alone given by HEMPEL lest I should misrepresent develop without due regard and careful him.ŗ scrutiny over observations of the past. It should also be noted that HEMPEL used the 35) These day-books are not available, although 2nd edition for his translation, even though some works do describe the sequential effects volumes 1 and 2 had already gone through to a of medicinal doses Ŕ one such work is that of 3rd edition. we further refer the reader to the HUGHES & DAKE (CDP), which however comments of various colleagues (THR, 1893, was seriously flawed from its outset, in that pp.323-329) which highlight the general these authors could not get past their own consensus against Hempelřs works. prejudice which limited their collection to 26) Materia Medica Pura, translation of RA, by Provings with potencies no higher than the 6th R.E. DUDGEON, reprint, B. Jain, Delhi, 1990. centesimal (Introduction, p.xiv), referring to As expected from a work of such volume, the Řinfinitesimalsř as mere Řdilutionsř instead MMP introduced its own errors, both of of their rightly termed potency or attenuation typography, but also of translation. Our own (as demanded by HAHNEMANN himself). examination of MMP and a comparison with The resultant work, whilst being worth an RA over the past few years has revealed a examination as it does contain some nice regretful neglect of this material by our sequential accounts of provings phenomena, is profession in general. nevertheless so seriously defective as to render 27) Die Chronischen Krankheiten, ihre it mostly academic in its actual utility. eigenthümliche Natur und homöopathische 36) There are a number of remedies which Heilung, Leipzig, 2nd edition (5 volumes), appeared for the first time in Hahnemannřs 1835-1839, Arnold, Leipzig [vols. 1-2], and works, e.g., Arg., Aur., Cocc., Ole- and Staph. Schaub, Düsseldorf [vols. 3-5]; reprint, Haug, HAHNEMANN also derived many symptoms Heidelberg, 1979. from Proving fragments published within the 28) First edition CK Ŕ publication dates for each various books & periodicals, e.g,, AHH, volume: 1,2,3 (1828), 4 (1830) NAHH, AHZ, HTRA, AHK, etc., each of 29) The following thirteen remedies appeared in which he fully acknowledges. this second edition for the first time: Agar., 37) This symptom grading within a Provings Alum., Amm-m., Anac., Ant-c., Borx., Clem., record indicates the degree of certainty that the Cupr., Euphor., Kali-n. [Nitrum], Mez., Plat., symptom has been the result of the medicine Sulf-ac. not therefore due to one or more other 30) Second edition CK Ŕ publication dates for each circumstances co-incident during the course of volume: 1, 2 (1835), 3 (1837), 4 (1839). the Proving. What must be kept in mind here, 31) D.WILSON penned a critical review of is that this symptom gradation at the level of Hempelřs translation, appearing in the Monthly the Materia Medica itself, is a measure of Homœopathic Review of 1862, and there certainty that the symptom was actually appeared a series of discussions in volumes 6, produced by the medicine in Proving, whilst 7, 8 of the same journal. the Ř0ř indicates a level of uncertainty. This 32) The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature differs essentially from the remedy grading and Their Homœopathic Cure, translation of within repertory developed by CK by L.H. TAFEL, 1896. BÖNNINGHAUSEN (modelled on 33) The remedy number in RA is 65 when the Hahnemannřs symptom grading) and as seen in magnets (M-1mb., M-aract., M-aust.) are Bönninghausenřs SRA, SRN, and TT (and our considered together. TBR), which is a measure of clinical success.

38) HAHNEMANN further grouped these symptom, is Taraxacum (RA, vol. 5, 1826). ‘observata aliorum’ according to their His fellow-Provers being: literature source, which he also clearly FRANZ [36 symptoms]; GUTMANN [106 indicated. symptoms]; KUMMER [40 symptoms]; 39) ŘBeobachtungen Andrer’. These symptoms are LANGHAMMER [79 symptoms]; also distinguished in that their numbers are ROSAZEWSKY [2 symptoms] enclosed in parentheses Ŕ whenever a symptom HAHNEMANN had nevertheless clinically number in RA appears without parentheses confirmed these Provings and provides (e.g. Cham. RA5), it is to be found listed recommendations for dosage (Tarax. amongst Hahnemannřs observations, but if it Preamble). appears within parentheses (e.g.Cham. RA(5)), 43) The following symptoms failed to indicate it is to be found under the Řobservations of their origin as being RA (via means of a othersř. preceding dash ( Ŕŕ )): 40) We see this in his final (sixth) volume of the Symptoms which omitted a preceding dash (second edition) RA, wherein Ambra, Carb- in German original (CK) an., and Carb-v. list symptoms of both Calc. RA/CK = (76)/388; (81)/441, (92)/633, HAHNEMANN and others, together. (113)/697; (130)/809, (174/1211, (181)/1246; 41) The significant point of distinction between (182)/1247 RA/CK with respect to layout, is Hahnemannřs Symptoms correctly marked in German CK but decision to list the symptoms of mind at the omitted preceding dash in English CD. beginning of the Proving record in CK, as Calc. RA/CK&CD = (235)/62; (78)/404 opposed to their place at the end in RA. 44) We have examined a number of remedies 42) We have many examples where which went from RA into CK, and find no HAHNEMANN accepts or rejects (based on examples where a contributor to RA provides the Provings) the old-school use of a particular new symptoms to the same remedy for CK. medicine. For example: 45) ADAM (of St. Petersburg) contributes to 96 Scilla (note to MMP 172): symptoms in 3 remedies within a 2 year period: HAHNEMANN labels its old-school use as an Bar-c. CK 1st edition, 1828 (23 symptoms) expectorant as being palliative Ŕ that, based on Carb-an. RA 2nd edition, vol. 6, 1827 (32 its power to produce an easy expectoration of symptoms) thinned mucus in its primary action, it will Carb-v. RA 2nd edition, vol. 6, 1827 (41 rather prove curative in Ŗtoo copious and too symptoms) frequent mucous secretionŗ. 46) He did not simply restate the symptoms as they Verbascum (preamble) appeared in the RA, for example, Carban. RA HAHNEMANN condemns the old-school 128/CK420; Dulc. RA 163/CK184. conjectural employment of this remedy as Ŗa 47) For example, Carban.RA 37-38/CK 122-121 demulcent, resolvent and laxativeŗ based respectively. merely on Ŗthe sickly odour of its flowers 48) Even so, in their transition from RA to CK, we when crushed with the fingers, and from the note symptoms which seem less full in their slimy character of its juiceŗ. He then goes on to meaning than the original (sometimes say ŖThe following pure symptoms and morbid lengthier) RA version, as the following sets of states which have been produced by this plant symptoms show: on healthy persons will show how much Carba. RA/MMP 123: ŖNocturnal seminal mistaken the medical world was in its frivolous emission Ŕ for the first time for a long period Ŕ conjecture..ŗ with lecherous dreams, without stiffness of Moschus (preamble) penis, and after waking a spasmodic pain along HAHNEMANN cites the Ŗvery precise the urethra, especially at its back part. [Ad.]ŗ experiences of Lentin, Zanetti, Morgenstern, Carba.CK/CD404: ŖAfter a pollution, in the Robol, and othersŗ of the old school as support morning, on awaking, a cramp-like pain along for the use of ŖMoschus in various kinds of the urethra, especially in its posterior part. tetanusŗ, such symptoms being supported in [Ad]ŗ the proving. Coloc. RA (32)MMP33: ŖDeep in the ear an The only remedy in Hahnemannřs itching shooting pain which extends from the Pharmacographic writings for which he does Eustachian tube to the membrane tympani, and not himself contribute a single Proving is momentarily removed by boring in the finger (aft. 1½ h). [Stf.]ŗ

Coloc. CK/CD42: ŖItching shooting deep in the SRN Foreword, p.x.: (BÖNNINGHAUSEN is ear, extending from the Eustachian tube to the here answering Rummelřs favourable view of membrana tympani, and going off on Jahrřs Handbuch of 1834) introducing the finger (aft. 1½h.) [Stf.]ŗ ŖDespite his frequent use of this book, he Coloc. RA(189)/MMP208: ŖTearing stitches [Rummel] did not seem to have detected the lengthways on the whole body, on the numerous Ŕ almost in every column Ŕ mixups forehead, temples, back, upper and lower (of Cina with Cicuta, of Coffea with Cocculus, extremities, side of the abdomen, and chest of Colchicum with Cylamen, of Cannabis with (aft. 6h.) [Lr.]ŗ Cantharis, of Chamomile with China, of Coloc. CK/CD242: ŖTearing stitches lengthways Euphorbium with Euphrasia, of Ignatia of with on the whole body, on the head, the back, the Ipecacuanha , of Magnesia with Manganum of abdomen, and the limbs. [Lgh.]ŗ Oleander with Oleum animale, of Rheum with Looking at the first example of Carb-an., the Rhus, of Secale cornutum with Selenium, of CK version omits to mention this emission was Taraxcum with Tartarus stibiatus, etc.), the unusual, accompanied by sexual dreams, and numerous omissions of most important occurred with flaccid penis Ŕ comprehension remedies and the duplication of many remedies has been affected, perhaps not critically, but within one rubric.ŗ certainly the image of the original symptom ‡ This however, in itself, does not explain why has been, from our own perspective, HAHNEMANN did not later check for such unfortunately reduced. One possible problems and then at least make some explanation for this seeming sacrifice of reader comment, either by way of a letter to comprehension for the sake of brevity, involves BÖNNINGHAUSEN, with whom he remained JAHR, who was employed by HAHNEMANN in steady correspondence, or elsewhere in a (February to October 1834) for the express periodical to which he had ready access (eg. purpose of assisting him towards the Archiv), especially when considering that publication of the second edition CK. HAHNEMANN well knew of the difficulties HAHNEMANN himself later complained to with JAHR and the very real chance of error. BÖNNINGHAUSEN† that JAHRřs careless Perhaps, keeping in mind Hahnemannřs change inexactitude necessitated constant supervision, of life-style at that time Ŕ his move to Paris and it is therefore not impossible that such with a new (very much younger) bride, and the alterations actually made by JAHR escaped subsequent enjoyment of more social activities the attention of HAHNEMANN.‡ This is such as the French theatre Ŕ his circumstance nonetheless a topic worthy of much more provided sufficient distraction for him to attention. review the entire work. In any case, until we † We read from Hahnemannřs correspondence have concrete evidence to the contrary, we to BÖNNINGHAUSEN: must accept that what we have is as he 26 Dec. 1834 (SHB 110): Ŗ..JAHR had, after intended it. sorting the materials, only to copy them, and to 49) HAHNEMANN expresses the earnestness of abridge the longwinded symptoms of N-g, and his efforts with the following remark (CK others, and since I worked everything through Preface, 1st ed., 1828): with him word by word, his superficiality and ŖIf I did not know for what purpose I was put twaddle could not create any damage; and he here on earth Ŕ to become better myself as far performed consequently quite well.ŗ as possible and to make better everything 27 May 1841 (in SHB 137): ŖThe new around me that is within my power to improve ŘManuelř by JAHR is overloaded with useless Ŕ I should have to consider myself as very ambiguous things Ŕ but he does not accept any much lacking in worldly prudence to make advice.ŗ known for the common good, even before my BÖNNINGHAUSEN himself also complains death, an art which I alone possess, and which about Jahrřs lack of accuracy: Letter to it is within my power to make as profitable as HAHNEMANN, 7 August 1834 [shb 107-108, possible by simply keeping it secret.ŗ transl. B. Deutinger] 50) Refer HHL, vol. 1, p.96, where, according to ŖIt is a pity that Jahrřs works (Hanbuch and the record of Hahnemannřs correspondence, Repertory) do not correspond, not even in their we see he arrived in Leipzig at the end of outstanding characteristics, and there are so August, 1811. many print errors and mixing up of medicines 51) Refer HHL, vol. 1, p.375. with similar names.ŗ

52) These were distributed mostly amongst 55 of Acon., Ammc., Anac., Arn., Ars., Asar., Barc., the 95 medicines, since 8 only listed from 1 to Bell., Bry., Calc., Camph., Canns., Caust., a handful of such inclusions, and the following Cham., Chin., Cina, Clem., Coloc., Dig., Dulc., 23 listed no entries at all from old school Hell., Hep., Hyos., Ip., Maus., Mang., Merc., sources (typestyles used below denote where Mosch., Mur-ac., Nitac., Nuxv., Op., Phos., Provings appeared: RA [plain text]; CK Phac., Puls., Rhus., Ruta, Scill., Sil., Spig., [italics]; RA + CK [bold italics] Spong., Staph., Verat., Zinc. Alum., Ambr., Amm-c., Amm-m., Ang., Bism., 60) Richard HUGHESř (HMP, p.22) ignorant and Borx., Calc., Carb-an., Carb-v., Caust.,Graph., mischievous comments on this topic have no Kali-c., Petr., Ph-ac., Plat., Sep., Sil., Staph., basis in fact. We ourselves prefer to call upon Tarx., Thuj., Thuja., Verba., Zinc. the evidence of the Provings record and its 53) Nenning contributes to the following (20) success in clinical practice, as a measure of medicines: Prover capacity or validation. Such Agar., Alum., Ammc., Ammm., Barc., Caust., misinformed criticism against Dulc., Graph., Kalic., Kalin., Magm., Mang., LANGHAMMER are even heard today, and it Murac., Natc., Phos., Sars., Sil., Sulf., Sulac., makes one wonder as to their purpose Ŕ Zinc. regardless, their result is to brand these primary 54) GROSS contributes to the following (42) sources as unreliable and thereby neglected, medicines: whilst at the same time promoting the sales of Agar., Ammc., Anac., Ang., Arg., Arn., Aur., new, up-dated, and so-called Řscientificř works Barc., Bell., Calc., Canns., Chel., Chin., Cina., on Materia Medica Ŕ as if a more scientific Cocc., Con., Dig., Dulc., Ferr., Ign., Iod., record than that of HAHNEMANN on the Mang., Merc., Mez., Mosch., Natc., Olnd., effects of medicines has ever been written! Phos., Phac., Plat., Rheum, Ruta, Samb., Sep., 61) FRANZ Vermeulenřs comments on this Sil., Spig., Stann., Staph., Sulac., Thuj., Verba., subject, as found in his Introduction to Prisma Zinc. Materia Medica, provide one such mis-guided 55) FRANZ contributes to the following (37) example. By extracting and collating all medicines: symptoms of each observer across a number of Anac., Ang., Arg., Arn., Asar., Aur., Calc., medicines we obtain a proper perspective of Camph., Canns., Caust., Chin., Clem., Cocc., both their similarities and their differences Ŕ Con., Cycl., Dig., Hyos., Led., Marc., Maus., we ourselves have begun such a process, and Mang., Meny., Mez., Olnd., Phac., Rhus., have thereby reached an evidence-based Ruta, Samb., Spig., Stann., Staph., Stram., conclusion which does not support such views Sulac., Tarx., Thuj., Verat., Zinc. as Vermeulenřs. 56) LANGHAMMER contributes to the following 62) For example, if we compare the symptoms (48) medicines: contributed by LANGHAMMER to Colocynth Agar., Anac., Ang., Antc., Arg., Arn., Ars., and Manganum (27 symptoms in each), we Aur., Bell., Bism., Calc., Caust., Chel., Chin., find far greater differences than similarities, Cic., Cina, Clem., Cocc., Coloc., Con., Cycl., and in addition we observe numerous instances Dig., Dros., Euphor., Euphr., Guaj., Hell., where these supposedly too similar symptoms Hyos., Ip., Led., Marc., Mang., Meny., Merc., of a single contributor are indeed supported by Murac., Natc., Olnd., Phac., Ruta, Samb., the adjacent symptoms from other contributors. Spig., Spong., Stann., Staph., Sulac., Tarx., 63) NENNING declares he abstained from Proving Thuj., Verba. medicines on himself, given the paralytic 57) GERSDORFF contributes to the following (8) condition [Lähmungsartig] of his right hand, in medicines: order to put his contributions beyond possible Ambra., Carb-v., Iod.,. Kalic., Lyc., Mez., reproach (AHZ 3:14; 105, December 1833). Sep., Zinc. 64) A similarity of multiple symptoms from a 58) SCHRÉTER contributes to the following (15) single contributor could indeed indicate an medicines: input from more than one Prover. Thus, Agar., Alum., Amm-c., Ars., Borx., Calc., Iod., Vermeulen wrongly concludes (Introduction, Kalin., Lyc., Magm., Natc., Natm., Phos., Prisma MM): Rhus, Sars. ŖEven HAHNEMANN himself… for, instance, 59) STAPF contributes to the following (44) produced five times the Řdelusion of being medicines: unfortunateř in as many Provings.ŗ

Of the (3) symptoms we find contributed by medicines which have an affinity for evoking HAHNEMANN wherein the Prover reports such effects. feeling (not delusion) Ŗunfortunateŗ (Chin. 69) It should here be mentioned that, a patient who, MMP1113, Ipec. MMP222, Phos. CD23), that having never taken, say, arsenic, yet, in in China is given in italics, which, as we response to all variety of circumstances and demonstrate later in this article, likely indicates stimuli to which they have been exposed, have, multiple Provers. Furthermore, expressions in summation over time, expressed a pure such as Řunfortunateř themselves must not be picture of arsenic symptoms, must themselves taken further than the context in which they are be predisposed to react in an arsenic way, even given, for example, whilst the adjacent without taking arsenic Ŕ these same patients symptoms in Ipec. MMP222 do not use this would, in health, make the best provers of term, they are clearly of a similar nature Ŕ just Arsenicum Ŕ for what is more likely to produce expressed somewhat differently by different an Arsenicum response than Arsenicum itself? contributors (e.g. Ip. MMP 219, 220, 221, 223, Conversely, a subject who proves readily 224). To draw a conclusion therefore, as done disposed to react to a particular medicine (in by Vermeulen, based on individual words or such ultra-attenuated doses as given in our expressions, is to ignore the meaning of the Provings), is the same person who would more whole, in context. It thus becomes clear that readily develop a similar (natural) disease. such concerns of prover bias, which have been Thus we see that sensitive or idiosyncratic readily promoted to the level of thesis, are subjects are best suited for Provings, since they without basis in fact. readily express a series of symptoms following 65) It is precisely from their similarity of action exposure to the substance to which they are that medicines are able to be grouped into a particularly susceptible. But this is no different concordance or relationship of remedies (as to what is accepted in Pharmacology, that is, first undertaken by BÖNNINGHAUSEN). that a substance is only able to effect a 66) For example,STAPF, whose credentials as a physiological response because there are Prover and tireless contributor for our already receptors present to which their profession is beyond question, contributes the molecules fit precisely Ŕ whilst the receptor- following similar symptoms: ligand hypothesis is itself flawed from our own Acon. MMP 8 Vertiginous heaviness of the point of view (as it does not explain how ultra- head, especially in the forehead and on attenuations produce physiological effect), stooping, with Nausea, and qualmish feeling in nevertheless it demonstrates that, even in the scrobiculus cordis (aft.2h). [Stf] physiology, it is accepted that there must be Arn. MMP 2 Giddy whilst walking [Stf] some level of predisposition for any substance Ars. CD 110. Vertigo, with loss of thoughts to actually evoke a response. when rising. [Stf] 70) The susceptibility of a person to a particular Ars. CD111 Violent Vertigo, with Nausea, stimulus cannot be known or reasoned when lying down; he has to sit up diminish it. beforehand (Organon, §278) and [Stf] HAHNEMANN provides clear instruction as to Aσαρ. MMP1 Vertigo, as from slight the approach to Proving in order to bring out intoxication, on rising from a seat and walking the Řgeniusř of a medicine (Organon, §130). about (aft. 10m). [Stf] 71) For example, the lengthy symptoms 4 and 5 of Asar. MMP9 In the morning, on rising, dizzy Borax in CD, contributed by SCHRÉTER, are in the head, with headache in the left side of themselves listed only in plain type, yet their the forehead (aft. 22h). [Stf] clinical validity has been repeatedly verified, as Here we have extracted only those vertiginous well by BÖNNINGHAUSEN himself symptoms contributed by STAPF in the ŘAř (Something about Borax, AHZ1856, Vol.53, remedies, but this list could be easily extended, p.60, in BLW61) who cured with it a number and with any contributor, including of complaints in two separate women, each HAHNEMANN. displaying this symptom. 67) Organon, especially §§116-117, 121, 128-132. 72) BÖNNINGHAUSENřs repertorial works, the 68) That one subject may be disposed to react with latest of which was TT (and now our own urinary, or respiratory, or skin, or mind, etc. English language counterpart, TBR), are the symptoms, means they will tend more towards only repertorial works with a meaningful and such symptoms in a Proving situation, and that consistent application of specific criteria in the their contributions will be greatest with

assignment of grades. This subject has been 85) German original: HTRA66 Schmerzhaftes elaborated in our DHD. Stechen & Reissen in der rechten Kopfseite, 73) HARTLAUB & TRINKSř joint contributions Vormittags 11½ Uhr. (d.1.T) (Ng) are found in the following remedies: Ars. 86) German original: HTRA 67 Stechen in der (CD263, 281, 439, 454, etc.) Carb-an., Cocc., linken Siete des Hinterhauptes früh (d.3.T) Dulc., Euphor., Ign., Iod., Mag-c.* Phos., (Ng) Rhus. 87) Similarly, the contributions recorded within *CK lists 650 symptoms of Mag-c. ascribed our periodicals of that time from where by HAHNEMANN to HARTLAUB & HAHNEMANN derived some of these TRINKS. But HAHNEMANN therein symptoms (e.g. AHH, NAHH, HTRA, AHK, suggests these symptoms are likely to have etc.) were also meaningfully summarized originated from NENNING (they were accounts collated from the masses of Prover published in HTRA without any contributor day-books. It is however, also regrettable we name). do not have many of these Proverřs day-books 74) For example, Dulc.CK/CD397 [Ng] = for the purpose of research (not as a ready- HTRA48+49+50 [Ng] reference). 75) We have counted over 115 such symptoms 88) In Search of a New Principle…., 1796, across 17 medicines. The following few HLW265. specific examples trace a composite symptom 89) The Medicine of Experience…, 1805, in CK to its multiple original symptoms: HLW453, Footnote. Alum. CK/CD119 [Tks.Ng] = HTRA57, 58, 59, 64, 90) MMP, Preface, p.2 66, 67 [Ng] + HTRA62 [Tks] 91) We have assigned Ř0ř to parenthesized Alum. CK/CD 196 [Srt,Ng] = HTRA115[Srt] + symptoms to indicate a degree of uncertainty; HTRA 116 [Ng] numbers 1, 2 are assigned to indicate a degree Alum.CK/CD 197 [Htb, Ng] = HTRA120[Htb] + of certainty. HTRA 118, 119 [Ng] 92) Whilst HAHNEMANN writes (Praefatio) that Alum. CK/CD202 [Ng, Htb] = HTRA121, 124 [Ng] these symptoms are given in capitals, the + HTRA125 [Htb] publisher actually used italic script (perhaps to Alum. CK/CD655[Srt,Ng] = HTRA 501[Srt] = save space), and which HAHNEMANN, HTRA481, 504, 505 [Ng] perhaps, then failed to go back and note in his Amm-c CK/CD244 [Srt,Ng] = HTRA 25, 26 [Srt] + Praefatio prior to print. HTRA115 [Ng] 93) This is what HAHNEMANN writes in his Amm-c. CK/CD 324 [Ng.Srt] = HTRA 159 [Ng] + Praefatio to the Fragmenta (translated by B. HTRA 29 [Srt] DEUTINGER): Phos. CK/CD887 [Ng.Bds]=HTRA352 [Ng] + ŖA symptom which has been printed in HTRA353 {Bds] CAPITALS, I have observed more often, and 76) For example, Iod. CD11, 32, 44, 102, 115, 126, the one printed in small letters more rarely. 175, 185, 188 The ones put in brackets I published with 77) For example, Iod.CD7, 157, 195, 225 reservation since they have been observed yet 78) These were indicated by affixing all the by myself only once, i.e., in a case not quite contributor names to such symptom. clear and doubtful. Here and there I added the 79) German original: Alum. CK 119 Stechen an brackets when I did not perceive the true being einzelnen Stellen des Kopfes. (Tks, Ng). of a person, or if a person was of slow 80) German original: HTRA62 Stechen an comprehension or committed errors in dietary einzelnen Stellen des Vorderkopfes. (Ts). intake.ŗ 81) German original: HTRA57 Lange anhaltendes Here we see any doubt regarding a Proving Stechen in der Stirne, Abends. (d.2.T) (Ng) symptom, whether due to some circumstance 82) German original: HTRA58 Stumpfes Stechen or to an inability to perceive the meaning or in der Stirne über dem rechten Auge, intention of the Prover, was marked in that Vormittags. (d.3.T) (Ng) symptom by its enclosure in parentheses. This 83) German original: HTRA59 Schmerzhaftes symptom grading system was continued by Stechen & Reissen im linken Stirnhügel, HAHNEMANN in both his RA and CK. Abends 6 Uhr. (d.1.T) (Ng) 94) By this is meant a positive clinical effect 84) German original: HTRA64 Plötzliches, following a prescription based on similarity of spitziges Stechen in der linken Schläfe, the symptoms of the medicine with those the Nachmittags, auch einmal früh. (d.f.T) (Ng)

disease being treated, thus confirming the themselves, let alone do they have any real validity of the original Provings data. guidance to do so, and it is no wonder they 95) For example, Bell. Fragmenta p.28, sympt.9 look toward the nowadays abundance of so- (Wetteman)/RA1012; Carban.RA108/CK350, called new, modern, essential, thematic (etc., and again for Carb-an. RA99/CK325; Mang. etc.) works which promise both accuracy and RA1/CK18; Aur.RA8/CK71, etc. excitement in the otherwise perceived tedium 96) Had HAHNEMANN himself confirmed these of Materia Medica study. I say by all means by way of reproving, he would have added his examine these works, but do not ignore the own name to the symptoms. That our sources. This is, unfortunately the state of conclusion here is well founded is supported by affairs in the teaching of Materia Medica. the following statement of HAHNEMANN 103) We find twenty-seven of the medicines in (Medicine of Experience, 1805, in HLW453, Hahnemannřs Pharmacography contain a Footnote): (variable) number of unemphasised multi- ŖThe more obvious and striking symptoms contributor symptoms; of these, thirteen must be recorded in the list, those that are of a remedies list only one such symptom, and only dubious character should be marked with the the following eight remedies list what we sign of doubiety, until they have frequently consider a significant number of such been confirmed.ŗ symptoms: 97) Such emphasis was indicated by spacing the Remedy no. first published text in RA and CK. 98) These may however be used to remove any Belladonna (35) 1811, RA first ed., vol. 1. uncertainty. Camphor (13) 1805, Fragmenta 99) The translation by DUDGEON wrongly gives China (14) 1805, Fragmenta Ŗclottedŗ rather than knotted [knotiger] stool. Helleborus (8) 1805, Fragmenta 100) The translation by DUDGEON wrongly gives Hyoscyamus (32) 1805, Fragmenta Ŗgripingŗ rather than pinching [Kneipen]. Moschus (11) 1811, RA first ed., vol. 1. 101) The translation here is wrongly given by Opium (36) 1805, Fragmenta DUDGEON who (understandably) Veratrum (12) 1805, Fragmenta misunderstood the colloquialism of Hahnemannřs time. The correct translation has Whilst we are not (yet) able to explain (with been given here by B. DEUTINGER of our sufficient certainty) this discrepancy from the Hahnemann Institute, Sydney. general trend as reported in the text of this article, 102) HAHNEMANN for example, as is well we do observe all these medicines are from the RA, known, used not only himself, but recruited and that their pathogeneses were amongst the first friends, family, students, and colleagues in his to be recorded, and it is plausible Hahnemannřs Provings work. Similarly, NENNING multiple-prover criterion for symptom emphasis recruited his wifeřs millinery factory workers. was not, at that earliest stage, quite formed. It is to be here noted for the profession to Remember this was a time prior to the formation of know, that not too long ago, I learned from a his Provers-group (see HHL vol. 1, p.375), when near graduate student, that their lecturer held a HAHNEMANN had only a handful of (family & (hopefully uncommon) view to the following friend) Provers Ŕ he acted as both Prover and effect, that since Ŗmany of the female Proving master, and his own observer bias may reproductive proving symptoms within have been a reason why he did not add emphasis to Hahnemannřs MM are appended with the a symptom which he had derived from multiple names of male contributors (even sources. Later, as his experience confirmed and his HAHNEMANN), that therefore, these must be confidence grew, he could, with certainty, add spurious and to be dismissed.ŗ But how is it emphasis to highlight the symptom. possible that a person in such position of 104) In his Preface to SRA (1832), authority, indeed, charged with instruction in BÖNNINGHAUSEN writes: the Materia Medica to the unsuspecting ŖMoreover, it has been my endeavour to student, how can they be so ignorant Ŕ have constantly indicate symptoms that have been they not read and understood the fact that the verified in practice, and I have sought to make contributors are not always the Provers this perspicuous by the use of a differentiating themselves? And as a result of such mis- type…ŗ teachings, the student loses any hope of 105) The inconsistency and dilution of grading thoroughly examining these works for inclusion criteria is readily evidenced in (non-

primary) works on both Materia Medica and in AJHM 2006, 99:4; 9-19, and AJHM 2007, Repertory. With respect to Materia Medicæ, 100:1; 50-57 respectively. we see that, unlike HAHNEMANN, authors 106) Even the most significant errors, in may use differing typestyle to indicate either themselves, are not critical, so long as the their own clinical (or other) support for a homœopath avoids prescribing on a single symptom (i.e. the emphasis is not based on symptom or component, and, in all cases, seeks actual Prover numBer), or where a symptom the remedy which fits a syndrome of symptom derives from a number of previous works Ŕ but components. CK thus remains Hahnemannřs the problem here is, that, often, these multiple final contribution to our store of knowledge as secondary sources can be traced back to a to the real effects of medicines; forged through single primary source, i.e. their extensive base many years of clear observation, methodical is only apparent. With respect to Repertories, experiment, and long experience. we observe great confusion as to what the 107) Refer C.HERING, Uebersicht unserer grades actually represent, and it is a fact that Arzneiprüfungen nach den Prüfern geordnet, most Repertories do not at all mention their AHZ 31 (1846) pp. 22-30, 38-42 specific criteria for grade assignment. KENT 108) Bear in mind the absence of any computer himself only makes a mention of the grades in systems (as is today our fortune) to help his Repertory (KR) some years after its identify and correct such discrepancies. publication (Lectures… [1900], pp. 213-214); 109) How also can we explain the enormous but here we must not forget that Kentřs is a number of errors, both persistent and newly secondary (non-primary) Repertory, a added, in our modern works? Indeed, there are composite of previous repertorial works, each so many and varied errors in these works, that with their own grading integrity, yet mixed to even list them, would, in itself, be a together in a heterogeneous manner, and that mammoth undertaking Ŕ no less so because therefore, devoid of specific grading criteria Ŕ there is insufficient or no regard to proper KENT simply fitted the existing grades of the referencing and explanation as to precisely various precursor works into his own schema, how or why individual terms (symptom or thereby losing their connection to both the rubric entries) have been changed or added. Provings and the decades of clinical successes This serious negligence reflects poorly on our before him (see DHD for more detailed professionřs capacity for (or interest in) proper account). Moreover, we find in KR many clear research. instances of purely clinical rubrics listing 110) From BÖNNINGHAUSEN we read remedies in his highest (3) grade, even though (Three Precautionary Rules of Hahnemann, this grade was supposedly reserved for those NAHH 1844:1;1,69, in BLW 199) symptoms confirmed by multiple Provings and Ŗ…the Materia Medica Pura ought to be not verified by multiple clinical successes. But the only read but also studied; and only then when situation is not at all improved with the advent the homœopath-to-be has faithfully and of more modern repertorial works. Synthesis, persistently passed though this study he will be for example, also does not provide their able … to find out in every case the suitable grading criteria, and again demonstrates a real remedy with certainty. inconsistency, when compared to its direct 111) It must be pointed out that the very predecessor, KR, in its assignment of grades, structure of Hahnemannřs Pharmacographic not only in somehow (undisclosedly) works presents the information in such a way converting the 3-tiered grades of Kentřs as to readily allow the combination of the Repertory into its own 4 Ŕtiered system various symptoms (and their components). (supposedly borrowed from Pierre The homœopath, in studying these works, must SCHMIDT), but also in their assignment of apprehend and rejoin these fragments into a grade to additions from contemporary sources. cohesive comprehensible overview Ŕ this is This is not the place to elaborate, however we precisely the mechanism used in the clinical have ourselves collected ample evidence, and situation, wherein the homœopath must invite our conscientious colleagues to make apprehend and rejoin the symptom fragments their own comparison. We also refer the reader of the patient for the sake of reaching a to our previous writings on this topic Ŕ in (homœopathic) diagnosis. For this reason, the DHD, as well as our articles The First study and re-study of Hahnemannřs Repertory and ŘBogus’Bönninghausen as found Pharmacography provides the best form of training for the homœopath, as it reinforces the

same mechanism required in the clinical profound application to the homœopathic method setting. as a whole. Six years ago I was asked to prescribe 112) Within these works to which we constantly for the wife of a physician; she was in a grave refer even in our daily practice, we find condition from Brightřs disease. Her case had been symptoms nowhere else to be found, and there worked up clinically by standard methods at the are many instances where pivotal symptoms hands of competent physicians. She presented the upon which a prescription was based, were following indications for homœopathic study: either removed in the newer compilations on A frontal headache in the morning on arising MM, or else their descriptions so truncated or from lying. changed (not through their compilersř own More or less constant fullness of the head, with clinical experiences, but from their cold hands and cold, perspiring feet. Řcomprehensionsř at the desk) as to render Hunger diminished. them inapplicable. We have learnt from many A faint all-gone feeling at 11 a.m. such disappointments, over many years, that, Craving for alcohol, salads and fruit. for remedies which appear in Hahnemannřs More thirst than hunger. Pharmacographic records, we trust that source Aggravation from eating fats. primarily. Constipation. 113) The suggestion that these old Provings are General aggravation of all symptoms in the no longer applicable to our modern diseases is morning. strongly refuted, not only by the results of their General aggravation from heat and from the application in the clinical setting, but also in sun. the knowledge that these Provings are a record Enlarged thyroid before her menses. of basic expressions (symptoms) of disease Her past history was: Typhoid fever eleven (i.e. not of Řdiseasesř themselves), and that years before. She had never been well since this. these basic symptoms may be re-combined in Her treatment during Typhoid was cold baths with any manner of ways to resemble an almost no medication. infinite variety of Řdiseasesř, even in our The following were the points that she could modern day. remember of that illness: 114) No doubt our profession would be better The first symptoms were a severe ŖBronchial served if these works described double or triple coldŗ with a hard cough which caused a pain the number of remedies (if only through the upper right chest to the back. HAHNEMANN had lived another 80 or 100 With this was a severe frontal headache which years). However, the homœopath who seeks at was worse from light and better from cold. She all times the most similar remedy shall not at remembers having this throughout the illness. all be limited by this number, for there exist Great thirst. other works of good (but not better) quality to Constipation. which they may readily refer. Quiet delirium, in which she saw figures with 115) We welcome any support by way of hideous faces in the corner of the room. resources, expertise, or skills, from those All of her symptoms were worse from four within our profession keen to assist in this ořclock in the morning on. work. Although Sulphur appeared to be the suitable remedy for the symptoms she had at the time that ======she came to me, the symptoms that she had with the Typhoid infection called for Bryonia. This was 2. PRODROMAL SYMPTOMS given with immediate benefit and final cure and she GUY BECKLEY STEARNS, M.D. is today apparently in perfect health. Her husband [From The Homœopathic Recorder, June remarked that he had never seen a case worked out 1929] just that way and said it ought to be published. This was an application of the principle embodied ŖTHE PRODROMAL SYMPTOMS in the opening quotation. Her prodromal symptoms CONTAIN THE KEYNOTE FOR THE were those which she had with Typhoid fever, from HOMŒOPATHIC REMEDYŗ. which she had never recovered. It is not possible to The above quotation is from a remark made by apply this principle to every chronic case, because Dr. BOGER at one of our meetings and is borrowed the beginnings are often buried so deep in the past as a text for this paper. It was made in a discussion that they cannot be recalled and also, in many of some aspect of acute prescribing, but has a cases, conditions develop without any obvious

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 66 symptoms. It is like many other principles in the early indications cannot be obtained, the Homœopathy. It applies only to the cases to which remedy must be selected on the present symptoms. it can be fitted. If this is well selected and the patient improves, Another case where this principle applied was older manifestations come back. If these are not that of patient suffering from valvular heart disease disturbed but are allowed to develop until a new with failing compensation. This patient gave a picture presents itself, a second prescription can be history of two attacks of acute Rheumatism and one made which carries the patient further back. It is in attack of Pneumonia. The history of each of these working back that cases are often mixed up, for, if attacks showed plain indications for Bryonia. Her the second remedy be not skillfully selected, the present symptoms were not particularly indicative symptoms become so modified as not to develop of Bryonia. She had been digitalized more or less the symptom-picture of older conditions. These for a long time. Bryonia gave her marked relief and cases do not fully recover. If the record of such a restored her to comfortable state of health. One of mixed-up patient be studied over a period of two or the best illustrations of this principle was related to three years, it will be found that, instead of the me by the late Dr. J.H. CARTER. A man had been symptoms disappearing after they have been in the hands of the elder WESSELHOEFT of reproduced, they keep recurring at intervals and Boston. One of his chief complaints was an there is only a slight headway made toward cure. obstinate constipation. He went regularly to In malignant conditions, it is usually difficult WESSELHOEFT over a period of two years when, to obtain prodromal symptoms. However carefully because of change of business he moved to the case may be taken nothing can be obtained from Philadelphia. At his last visit, he asked for the the past and frequently there is nothing in the address of a physician in Philadelphia and present symptoms that is positively indicative. The WESSELHOEFT told him to go to Dr. LIPPE. reasons for this may be some unknown factors The doctor then said to the patient, ŖI have never having to do with the aetiology of Cancer. been able to help you and I have often wondered The principle of the prodromal symptom in its why you continued to come to me. Your case has relation to the curative remedy was followed by troubled me a great dealŗ. The man told him that HAHNEMANN in his directions for prescribing for he had continued under his treatment because he epidemics. This was taught also by the late had confidence in him and that, although he had not Timothy Field ALLEN, who cited an epidemic of helped as regards his constipation, there was some Influenza where he and his son made a composite improvement in other ways and he was impressed picture of the first few cases and worked out the by the painstaking way in which his case had been remedy that best covered them. In such a workout handled. At his first interview with Dr. LIPPE, the there will be one predominant remedy and a few doctor went into his past history and learned that, remedies which cover more or less well. When this many years before, he had Diphtheria from which group of remedies had once been established, the he nearly died and that, from that time, he had been prodromal symptoms in the individual case show constipated. LIPPE told him that he had never been which one of the group of remedies is required. cured of Diphtheria and, on the symptoms that the This is true eventhough the picture at the time is not patient could remember, he was given Lac. can. in sufficiently complete to indicate the remedy. The high potency. This brought about a speedy cure. composite picture is the epidemic picture. During That there is a natural sequence of conditions the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, some of the leading to any chronic state is not a new idea. This most severe cases required Arsenic. The full appears occasionally in medical writings. Dr. J.T. indications did not appear until the patients were SIMONSON, several years ago, wrote a paper on quite ill. These cases had a marked aversion to ŖResidual Conditionsŗ, showing how many troubles food. In Arsenic in LIPPEřs Materia Medica, of adult life have their beginnings in infancy. At appears the symptom Ŗcannot bear the thought of one of the meetings of the American Medical foodŗ. In studying a few of the Arsenic cases it was Association, the thought was presented so neatly in found that the first symptom was a sudden and one of the papers that it attracted the attention of complete loss of appetite, where even the thought the daily press. In this article it was stated that of food was repugnant. In fact, when the patient every illness is a fatal one and the writer enlarged was asked about his appetite, his facial expression Ŕ upon this idea by showing how each illness in an indicated his aversion to the thought of food. After individualřs life leaves its effect and that the observing this prodromal symptom, much time was culmination of the effects of all the patientřs saved and serious developments avoided, for all illnesses is the last illness. Thus, the first illness is conditions requiring Arsenic are serious. Another the prodromal factor of the last one. In cases where symptom which appeared in that epidemic as a

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 67 prodromal indication was Ŗcircumscribed redness nosode made from a tuberculous person carries the of the cheeksŗ. In one epidemic this almost always result of one or more diseases or disease miasms in indicated Sulphur. At other times, it has been addition to that of Tuberculosis. Undoubtedly the indicative of Arsenic, or Phosphorus, or nosodes are hydra- and octopus-armed; there is Antimonium tart. or Sanguinaria. The rest of the always more to them than their names imply. symptoms indicated which of this group was Vaccine is more than cow-pox, indeed, the term required. The hectic flush simply called attention includes something of Syphilis, of Gonorrhoea, of to the remedies. Tuberculosis, or of other disease forms. Broadly speaking, the Chronic miasms, Psora, Now, taking as a fact the statement that any Syphilis and Sycosis, are the prodromal indications nosode is ill described as to origin, by its name, and for the remedy in many chronic cases. It is the additional fact that no two nosodes, having unfortunate for our school that the late J.H. ALLEN different sources of origin, can possibly be could not finish his writings on the indications of identical, we are forced to the conclusion that the these chronic miasms. In acute conditions, the use of indiscriminate preparations of any one of prodromal symptom applies to the first symptoms these remedies should be frowned upon. To be which occur in the present illness and one must not logical, each different preparation should be proved be diverted from the present need to too deep and then used according to that proving. This we investigation of the past conditions. In chronic have not been doing. Rather have we been diseases, the prodromal symptom applies to all of grouping the provings and clinical observations the former illnesses. from the use of a number of different preparations of the so-called Tuberculinum, and then selecting ======the one or the other according to fancy or notion, which may account for some of our failures when 3. TUBERCULINUM prescribing this remedy. This may not have been CHARLES L. OLDS, M.D. true of the older homœopaths, as for instance Swan, [From The Homœopathic Recorder, November who prepared his own remedy from the pus 1929] expelled from the lung of a man far gone with consumption, made provings with that preparation, Tuberculinum is an old remedy and yet it is a and then clinically made use of it. BURNETT new remedy. It is comparatively old in point of prepared his remedy, which he called Bacillinum, use, but still it is new because we have no adequate from the walls and adjoining tissue of a tuberculous provings; and it will remain new, or only partially cavity. He apparently used it empirically and discovered, until such provings are made as will experimentally at first, and later from his clinical reveal its inmost characteristics. It is true that we data. KENT prepared his Tuberculinum bovinum have various fragmentary-very fragmentary- from the tuberculous glands of cattle. He says in provings, and quite an abundance of clinical his Lectures of Materia Medica, Ŗfrom observing material to prove its worth, and it is upon these, the effects of this preparation. I have been combined with some intuition and more or less gathering these notes in my interleaved HERINGřs empiricism, that we have somewhat fearfully and Guiding Symptoms, and they now guide me in the hesitatingly based our prescriptions. Therefore, it is use of Tuberculinumŗ. But he quotes largely from with a plea for a more complete provings of this BURNETTřs experience with Bacillinum, and also valuable remedy, as well as of our other nosodes, from the Guiding Symptoms, where the article on that this paper is written. this remedy is largely made up of the experiences Tuberculinum is one of the nosodes prepared of SWAN and BURNETT with their own from the tissue or sputum of a tuberculous person. preparations. What is in a name! And how much Coming from such an origin it has been supposed to may a name blind us! We are apt to think of pretty well represent Tuberculosis. And so it does, tuberculosis per se, and there is no such thing. in a causative factor in the human body. Then we have Aviare made from the tuberculous Tuberculousis may have been the active, paramount tissue of chicken. There are also Kochřs lymph and condition in the patient from whom the specimen several other foreign preparations, none of which is was taken, and from which specimen the medicine frequently mentioned in homœopathic literature. was made, but obviously it must represent, not only The late Dr. Samuel SWAN of New York, who the Tuberculosis, but everything else that patient was the first to introduce Tuberculinum to the had, all of the disease conditions, all of the buried homœopathic profession and to make a practical miasms that were a part of that patient. So that it is use of it in its potentized form in the cure of not only possible, but highly probable, that the disease, was one of the remarkable medical men of

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 68 his time. He was a daring experimenter in the field The so-called inimicals are always of opposite of the high potencies of unusual drugs and energies. polarity. This may or may not explain their He had vision beyond that of most men of his day, inimical relations. and with the inevitable result that he became the When you have selected a remedy for your laughing stock of a large part of the medical patient, if it is the most similar remedy and in profession, even including some of his potentized form, that is, above the 3x, it will always homœopathic brethren. Human nature is ever the be of an opposite polarity from that of the patient, same, and even a homœopath damns what he but immediately upon administering this remedy cannot understand. If all the unthinking criticisms the polarity of the patient will change to that of the of the medical truth, the adherents of Homœopathy remedy given, and it will then remain unchanged as would not be today the rapidly decreasing minority long as that remedy continues to act curatively. that we almost fear to number. This, to my mind, is a substantial proof of It was through his great success in tuberculous HAHNEMANNřs contention that the curative cases that Dr. SWAN was led to formulate the power of medicines depends upon their symptoms startling statement that Ŗmorbific products will cure being similar to those of the disease but superior to the disease that produced them, if given in the it in strength. This also may be used to definitely highest potencies and to any but the one from determine the length of action of your remedy in whom it was takenŗ. At once he was cursed with the particular case. the stigma of isopath, one who conformed to the Again, polarity may help to solve the potency belief in ŖIDEM EODEM CURANTUREŗ or the question in certain instances. It is a well-known same cures the same. On the surface this appears fact that at times a high potency of the well logical, but on closer examination it may be seen indicated remedy will not act curatively, while a that there cannot be such a state as ŖIDEMŗ when very low potency of the same remedy, or even the using potentized medicines. If that formula means crude drug, will give surprisingly good results. anything it must be ŖSIMILIAŗ; the crude drug and Why is this so? May it not be a matter of polarity? the potentized medicine are not the same, they Recently, in the case of a lady of 70 years, the never can be the same, but they are similar. If they symptoms were convincingly Cina, in fact so much could be the same in their relation to cure there so, that I gave it in the 200th potency, in spite of the would be no need of potentized drugs. fact that it was wrong as to polarity. There was no This naturally leads to the question: What is action observable following its administration. I the difference between the crude drug and the then gave Cina 2x with prompt removal of all potentized medicine? Probably it differs in several symptoms from my patient. ways. HAHNEMANN speaks of the spirit-like Personally, I have used SWANřs BURNETTřs dynamis of the drug being liberated by and KENTřs preparations of this remedy; also the potentization and thus becoming more powerful to Aviare. Several clinicians have attempted to show overcome the similar disease. KENT taught that the sphere of action of these different tuberculins, potentization brought the plane of the remedy into a but their generalizations have been vague for the plane more similar to that of the disease. No doubt most part. Used empirically, and we all do this at these statements are correct as far as they go, but times, one may be as good a guess as another, but they are rather vague and of themselves need used homœopathically each should be prescribed explanation. I believe that one of the answers to on its own proven symptoms. this question is polarity, magnetic polarity. The literature on the Tuberculinum shows a Everything has polarity, and apparently this polarity vast amount of empirical prescribing, with some is not always fixed, but may be changed by certain very remarkable cures, as instanced in BURNETTřs agencies. Disease, for instance, changes polarity in work on consumption, and also in that of Ghose of the field of medicine. Suppose we take a specimen Calcutta on Pneumonia. He reported nine cases of tuberculous sputa and potentize. The 1x, 2x and cured with Tuberculinum 200. He does not say 3x potencies above will remain positive like the what preparation was used, but as the East Indians original substance, but the x and all potencies above procure most of their medicines from Boericke & will have a negative polarity. Therein lies a Tafel I presume it was the Tuberculinum bovinum. difference. The crude drug and its higher potencies He gives the following characteristic symptoms for are as far apart as the poles, and we know how far its use in Pneumonia: ŖOppression of the breathing that is in the case of our Magnet pol. aust and and muco-purulent, viscid or rust colored Magnet pol. arct. expectoration. Difficulty in breathing, resulting from bronchial and pulmonary obstruction produced by a super-abudant secretion from the

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 69 mucous membraneŗ. All of which, to my mind, A lady of 65 had a profuse and long-lasting means nothing of value in selecting the remedy haemorrhage from the lung. Ipecac was given and outside the pathology of the case. But his results controlled the bleeding. A history was then are attractive. Nine cases of Pneumonia cured, and obtained of cough with white, frothy expectoration, most of them desperate. It is something to think occasionally tinged with blood, and dating back about. several years to an attack of flu. She was better by In 1905 Yingling stated: ŖIn Pneumonia the quiet and lying down. Chilliness yet craved the first remedy I think of is Bacillinum, unless there is open air. Mild, quiet disposition. Tuberculinum plain indication for another. Most cases are CM (SWAN), followed later by a higher potency, convalescent in less than a weekŗ. Here is more stopped all evidence of haemorrhages and cough. empiricism, but excellent results. This leads me to She seems very well today, but I believe there is ask: When does empiricism cease to be empiricism still a latent T.B. that may flare up again. and become homœopathic indication? Some three years ago I was called to a Russian I have never used the tuberculins in the active musician who was spitting up mouthfuls of frothy stage of Pneumonia; I suppose because I havenřt blood. He thought that he had strained himself known their indications, but have used them after while practicing some gymnastic stunts. He was the active stage with much gratification, given Arn. and then Rhus without any great particularly where there was a little tubercular flare benefit. I then obtained a history of other up, just enough to show the soil upon which the haemorrhages a slight hacking cough with little or Pneumonia throw; and more particularly in those no expectoration. Exertion causes sharp pains in cases where the pneumonic process was early left chest; worse on lying in any position except on arrested, but leaving the patient with a dry, the back; mentally much depressed but easily irritating cough with a little clear blood in the excited; chilly but wants the open air. Bacillinum sputum, and sharp, sticking pains in the affected 12x was given every 24 hours for three days, then part; and in those cases that, several days after the every third day for two weeks. The result was lung fever had subsided, began to run a degree of excellent. He seems well and his cough has gone, fever for a few hours each day, with much nor has there been any further bleeding from his exhaustion and irritability, deep seated headache, lung. I do not believe that he is cured, but he cough with little or no expectoration, and a desire refuses further treatment. to lie quietly on the back because of the undue Now I will detail a case that shows very poor sensitiveness of the affected side. judgment on my part, but it brings out some In tuberculosis, that is, active tuberculosis, my interesting facts. pronounced successes have mostly been in those A lady of forty, mother of four children. Of cases with a definite lung cavity and a decided medium height and build and having brown hair tendency to bright red haemorrhage. Years ago a and blue eyes, consulted me some years previously Florida cracker came to me with a history of for pain beneath the right breast which was frequent bleeding from the lungs, and with a cavity overcome with Phyt. She now gave the following in the right lung that seemed big enough to hold a symptoms: Crushing, burning pain as if the parts goose egg. He was long, lean, yellow, and full of were in a vise, starting beneath right breast and Malaria, quinine and Spanish arguidente. Those are going through to back. Pain always started at 1 all the symptoms that I remember, and I donřt know a.m. and lasted until a.m. Pain came gradually and why I gave him Tuberculinum CM (SWAN). left gradually. At the height of the seizure she was Perhaps it was a last hope impressed upon me by an in great agony and walked the floor with her body all-wise Providence. But whatever the prompting, bent forward, moaning with the pain. Sometimes the remedy worked; that was the last of his when the pain was at its worst she was forced to haemorrhage until shortly before his death years run. At times external heat relieved somewhat and afterwards. During the two or three years following at others she wanted cold. She could not bear to my first interview with him he received a few more touch during the paroxysm and often was very doses of the Tuberculinum CM (SWAN) although snappy and uncivil. Phyt. relieved for one day long before the three years were spent the cavity in only. Then Kali bi., Kali carb., Cham., Cina and his lung had healed and his cough was gone. But Ars. were given, each as best seemed indicated. his T.B. was not cured. He died some ten years Each relieved once and once only, some for 24 later of a rapid consumption following quickly after hours, none for more than 48 hours. Cham. a neglected Pneumonia. Nevertheless the relieved almost at once, the others slowly much as Tuberculinum had done good work for him. Morphine does. Higher and lower potencies were given, but without apparent results. The medicines

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 70 were used both during and between the attacks, but short time and then fails. Rapid emaciation, with the results were nil. Ced. and Coloc. were given few or no other symptoms. Tendency to take cold; without changing the general character of the case. one cold after another. Changing, shifting ailments; Then gradually the pain began to move toward the as soon as he gets over one trouble another appears; heart, that is, its starting point moved toward the always developing something new. Marked heart, a little nearer each day, until the seizures periodicity of the symptoms. Suffocating in a began at the heart region, but the general character warm room; craves the open air though chilly; of the pain remained the same, and the time wants to be out with the wind blowing upon him; it element did not change. The heart itself seemed in seems as if he could not get enough fresh air. no way affected by the paroxysms, but Lach., Naja, In the mental sphere there is timidity, as Latrodectus mact. and Aran.each gave the patient expressed by the fear of dogs. This I have several one gasp of relief and then died. What was wrong? times verified. Obstinacy, irritability, despondency, Why did my remedies expire after one effort? hopelessness; she knows that she canřt be cured, Evidently the patientřs acute symptoms were and there is no use to take any further medicine. blinding me to something of greater import. I Deep-seated headaches, periodical headaches, retook the case, and found besides the symptoms headaches with a sensation of a band about the already enumerated, swollen glands under and head. Sick headaches that come at definite about left clavicle; changing, shifting symptoms; intervals. marked periodicity; icy cold feet; scant menses with General relaxation. Sensation as if the stomach painful swelling of the breasts during the period; had no support; as if the genitals had no support. craves the open air though chilly; obstinate Strawberry tongue. constipation for years; as soon as she gets over one Diarrhoea, profuse, watery, offensive, with illness another takes its place. After careful study I abdominal pain which is relieved at stool. Rapid gave her Tub. bov. 200, about one dose a week, and emaciation with offensive diarrhoea. later the 10M of the same remedy, which not only Hard, dry, shaking cough; cough with mitigated the paroxysms of pain but bettered the expectoration of yellow or greenish-yellow sputum; general health of the patient. Likewise, before the great rattling in the chest with inability to raise and paroxysms had entirely ceased the location of the expectorate; no expulsive force to the cough; cough pain had reversed itself, traveling back to its worse lying in any position expect the back. original location beneath the right breast. Haemorrhage from lung cavities. Twice, in different patients, I have noticed the Chilliness across the back beneath the following symptom after one dose of Tuberculinum scapulae. Attacks begin with a shuddering like a CM (SWAN): Cold, clammy sweat at night during chill. Feet icy cold. sleep. Complaints that come on as a result of damp or Recently a lady wrote me from a distance, wet. Complaints that make us think of Rhus in giving these symptoms: Thinks she has Malaria in every respect except that they are made worse from her system; deadly sleepy most of the time, and so heat; he is driven out of bed to walk the floor; he very tired; bowels loose for three weeks; every canřt remain quiet. Complaints that have other day chilliness and the next day fever; profuse symptoms that are always changing from place to sweat of head and neck, (Chronic symptom). Tub. place like Puls. CM (SWAN). It is said that only tubercular people are Two weeks later she came to my office, saying susceptible to Rhus poisoning, and that that two days after the medicine the symptoms were Tuberculinum will remove that susceptibility. This all relieved, and soon entirely gone. But she had is worth keeping in mind. We all know that Rhus developed a slight hacking cough in the morning tox. or Rhus rad.acts favorably in a large number each day for about ten minutes. The cough makes of the ivy poisonings that we see. But why not in her head feel as if it would fly in pieces; must hold all? The tubercular taint may be the answer. My head with hands for relief. These symptoms came own thought has been that the Rhus disease was so every day after the Tub. was given. Were these changed or altered by an already existing and more symptoms of the remedy? I believe they were. powerful miasms that the potency of Rhus was no I shall now give a few symptoms that have longer similar. seemed to me characteristic, but whether they Aviare, made from the tuberculous tissue of the belong to all of the preparations or not I cannot chicken, has developed no symptoms known to me vouch. Lack of reaction after acute diseases, that differ widely from those of the other especially those of the chest. Feeble vitality, the tuberculins, save the following: Asthma with an well-selected remedy does not hold; it relieves for a

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 71 intolerance of chicken or eggs. Even the odor of a Natrum sulph. has bad taste in mouth, slimy chicken being cooked would bring on an attack. mouth. Another remedy, that in the future may found Nux vomica is not a long acting stomach to be closely allied to the tuberculins, is the Indian remedy, but does act for a long time on the nervous cockroach in Asthma or Blatta orientalis. It has system. been used considerably in Asthma and in If, after taking a remedy there is itching of Tuberculosis. The lower class East Indians are soles of feet, it is good indication. noted for their filth, tuberculosis and gonorrhoea; Usually disease leaves by an eruption or and the cockroach is noted scavenger. They will discharge from mucous membrane. attack filth of any kind, and human discharges are Remember, after an operation, even the no exception. They will even peel the skin off the slightest, the element of shock must be included in toes at night if those members are left uncovered. the totality of symptoms. What is more likely than that they should be If a child is croupous, give him one or two carriers of tuberculosis as well as of other things. doses of Phosphorus in medium potency Ŕ say This remedy should be proved. We can do very 40M. Ŕ in the autumn and it will prevent attacks of little with a remedy without provings. It should be croup during the winter. an axiom of all homœopaths to prove remedies as If a patient has Rheumatism, prognosis is well as other things, for then only can we see them favorable if it begins in body and changes to arms, from the inside. legs or feet, but if it begins in hands or feet and goes to body it is very serious. Disease leaves the PHILADELPHIA, PA. body through the hands and feet. In acute conditions never give more than three ======doses of a remedy in the same potency. If patient is much better or worse after any one 4. HINTS FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF dose do not repeat. Later it may be necessary to DR. CASE NOTED BY A PUPIL repeat the remedy in a higher potency. [from The Homœopathic Recorder, June 15, In prescribing I have found no better guide 1928.] than paragraph 129 of the Organon (Translated from the original edition of 1810, by C.E. Bryonia is a great developer. WHEELER, M.D., London: Dent. 1913). (This In many cases, Borax should be given instead paragraph is the same which has been numbered as of Belladonna. 153, in the fifth editions and later edition. Ŕ Editor.) When there is a great desire for apples give In his lectures on Hepar sulph. in a Clinical Aloe. Materia Medica, Dr. FARRINGTON said: ŖIf Nine cases out of ten of nose bleeding will be suppuration occurs as the result of inflammation we cured by Millefolium. have Hepar indicated and exercising a double In any haemorrhage, where there is no peculiar function. If you give it in a high potency when the symptoms indicating another remedy, give throbbing, stabbing pains in the affected part and Millefolium. the general vigor show the onset of inflammation, it In paralysis, think of Opium and Plumbum. may prevent the whole trouble. In other cases you Belladonna does not bear repetition. It would see that suppuration is necessary and you wish to easily kill a patient repeated in very high potency. hasten the process. Then you give Hepar as CM. Phosphorus has an aggravation thirty-six hours will cause suppuration. after it is taken. No matter what its potency if it is the right remedy there will be an aggravation. ======Badiaga – fresh water Sponge Ŕ has for characteristic symptom very difficult expulsion of 5. An Interview with Ralph TWENTYMAN phlegm; so difficult that when finally dislodged by HAVELOCK-DAVIES John (AH. 8, 2002) cough it flies from the mouth with great force. If you have a patient very low with Phthisis do The private gravel road leads up a slight rise not give Arsenicum or Phosphorus in very high framed by well-clipped hedges, the height of a man. potency unless you wish him to die. Cherry trees and laurels stand close about the house In the fluctuations of remedies Lachesis repeats and on the front lawn, a Japanese maple shows the its symptoms in fifteen days, Kali phos. in two first signs of that autumn fire festival that will see weeks. its leaves turn from green to deepest red and fiercest orange. The study is on the north side of

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 72 the house and the afternoon light has the clear parallels and overlaps between Anthroposophy, steady quality prized by painters. There are no Homeopathy and the Jungian theory of archetypes shadows among the books in this quiet, unhurried are more complex than this casual reference makes room. Between us three late roses in a glass vase apparent. And although anthroposophical medicine unfurl thick and glossy petals. and homeopathy are inextricably linked, there are Dr. Ralph TWENTYMAN is 87 and, ŖYes, in substantial and important differences between the excellent health, thank you.ŗ Tall, scholarly, two disciplines. 2 erudite, his knowledge is lightly worn, underpinned TWENTYMAN became discontented with his by a dry and incisive wit that at times spills over in medical education while still an undergraduate at a shout of almost boyish laughter. It is clear he has Cambridge. ŖI didnřt really see how I could a deep and enduring delight in the power of thought continue with it. It was so utterly materialistic and and the poetry of vigorous expression. Not just the dead. Hours a week spent dissecting corpses, idea, a flat and two-dimensional creature of little physiology based on twitching nervers in a dead substance, but the idea as living thought, conjured frogřs leg, I was really rather in despair.ŗ from air and brought to sudden and muscular life. He was rescued by reading of a book by the And as we talked, I became aware that this was German physician George GRODDECK in The someone whose depth of insight and experience Listener, a now defunct but once influential BBC charted one of the major intellectual developments (British Broadcastind Corporation) publication. of the 20th century: the restatement of a concept of GRODDECK, an associate of Sigmund FREUD, is humanity that sought to heal the Cartesian often credited with being the founder of separation of mind and body. This was a psychosomatic medicine. His achievement, to use movement of many facets, ranging on the one hand GRODDECKřs own words, was Ŗthe introduction from the exploration of the unconscious and the of a knowledge of the unconscious into the formation of theories of psychosomatic disease, to treatment of all patients, and particularly those an increasing interest in mythology and spiritual patients who suffer from organic illness.ŗ practice on the other. From FREUD and GRODDECK was also responsible for GRODDECK, JUNG and STEINER, there is an introducing the term, Řthe Itř into psychoanalysis. unbroken line of descent to WHITMONT and The term was adopted by FREUD and according to TWENTYMAN. This was more than casual TWENTYMAN, perverted by him. Certainly, in conversation; it was a moment of rare but special terms of GRODDECKřs original definition, the ŘItř privilege, the sharing of a lifetimeřs wisdom. was far reaching in its scope than FREUDřs On retirement in 1979, TWENTYMAN was concept of the unconscious. consultant physician at the Royal London In his essay, ŖOn the Itŗ (1925) GRODDECK Homeopathic Hospital and had been editor of writes that he has no answers as to the nature of the British Homeopathic Journal (BHJ) for 21 years. It, only that he has some clues. ŖFrom the human Apart from homeopathy, another major influence semen and the ovum a human being is made, not a was Anthroposophy. Rudolf STEINERřS Řspiritual dog or a bird; there exists an It which enforces the scienceř has had an enduring, and still continuing, making of a human being and builds up the human effect on TWENTYMANřS life, thought and body and the human soul. This It supplies its career. Indeed the tenets of anthroposophical creature the personality and ego of a human being medicine have a central place in his assessment of with nose, mouth, muscles, bones, brains, makes the nature of man, and thus of health and disease. these organs functional, activates them even before During his time as editor of BHJ, birth and causes the developing human being to act TWENTYMAN was influential in reprinting essays purposefully before his brains are fully ready,ŗ by Edward WHITMONT but also many articles by Every human expression of life, GRODDECK says, doctors and others influenced by Steiner and ŖBe it physical or mental, of health or ill health, Anthroposophy. WHITMONT was taught thought, action or vegetative function, can be traced homoeopathy by Elizabeth Wright HUBBARD, back to the It.ŗ 3 who was in turn a pupil of Emil SCHLEGEL. The GRODDECKřs views changed latter was a long-standing friend of STEINER. TWENTYMANřs perspective. ŖI suddenly felt HUBBARD indeed was told that STEINER learned medicine was a possible subject.ŗ Shortly after this his homoeopathy from SCHLEGEL, a fact she later he became a member of the New Europe Group in passed on to Twentyman.1 Longon. ŖThey knew GRODDECK among many In his essay on Phosphor in Psyche And other people in the world of psychology.ŗ But Substance, WHITMONT refers directly to unfortunately GRODDECK died in Switzerland in STEINERřs anthroposophical system but the

1934, shortly before TWENTYMAN was due to sense free. We needed this abstract intellectualism. meet him. But it has reached the point where to go will lead to However, through the New London Group, increasing pessimism. Thereřs no meaning or TWENTYMAN was introduced to a number of purpose in the universe.ŗ homeopathic doctors. ŖMembership of the group ŖSTEINER maintained that by hard discipline, was utterly personal and inter-personal. Certainly one can develop in the first stage, like GOETHE, the people I met within it were the outstanding and the imaginative seeing of the ruling real ŘIdeasř as most important influence in my life. They opposed to mere abstract images. GOETHE, the introduced me to STEINER, and to a wider view of German poet-scientist, was a contemporary of European culture.ŗ Hahnemann. His methods were very different from After qualifying at Cambridge, those of todayřs orthodox science, although there is TWENTYMAN went on to work at University now increasing interest in them in universities in College Hospital, London, as a house physician, some parts of the world. In a sense, STEINER was casualty medical officer and medical registrar. At the development of the Goethe an method for the this point the war intervened and he became Ŕ Ŗat 20th as opposed to the 19th century.ŗ far too tender an age with not nearly enough ŖTwo of the many fields with which GOETHE experience to justify itŗ Ŕ the medical specialist for dealt were plants and colors. He developed a the Iraq Persian Gulf command of the Royal Air faculty of seeing, with an inner eye, the real ŘIdeař Force. of the plant, not a logical definition of a plant but After the war he realized that he did not like the real ŘIdeař in a more Platonic sense. This is the the way medicine was developing. ŖSo I took a trip formative force which makes the plant develop in along to the homeopathic hospital and, after the way that it does, a concept, of course, far looking round and so on, enrolled in their courseŗ removed from the one scientists have reached.ŗ and after passing the Faculty of Homeopathy ŖGOETHE developed his perception, which examinations he was appointed to the hospital staff. must always have been highly developed, until after ŖThis was shortly before the National Health spending decades observing plants, he could Service (NHS) was introduced. But they couldnřt imaginatively see this ŘIdealř plant, which then take me on so I spent the rest of my life on the manifests in the different plant realms during the staff of the homeopathic hospital.ŗ growth of the single plant and the different species Anthroposophy has a distinct and particular of plants.ŗ view of the achievements of modern science. ŖAmong the great themes that are involved in STEINER and his co-author Ita WEGMAN make his work is the notion of polarity. In color clear in the opening pages of their book particularly he showed how Newtonřs idea that Fundamentals of Therapy that there is no colors are to be derived from the light is not true. If question of opposition to the medicine that works you look at a white wall meets a frontier and comes with recognized scientific methods.4 STEINERřs up against darkness. Where the light and the dark individual contribution was to outline a series of adjoin, there the prism reveals colors. So techniques that he believed allowed the spiritual GOETHEřs notion was that colors arise through the aspects of manřs nature to be systematically battle between light and darkness, not just out of studied. While recognizing the achievements of the light itself.ŗ natural science he sought to go beyond the laws of ŖThroughout his work, and the work of any materialism using the techniques of focused Goethe an approach, the notion of polarity is thought described in his book Knowledge of the essential. So in the human being you have the Higher Worlds and its Attainment, An Outline polarity of the head and the belly, or the of Occult Science. Anthroposophy, or spiritual nerves/senses as against the metabolism and the science, sees humans as beings of body, soul and lungs with an inter-mediating realm in the rhythms spirit. Anthroposophical medicine developed once of the heart and lungs. Man even in the simplest doctors recognized that, if accepted, STEINERřs portrayal is threefold: a head, a belly and a chest. extended physiology had remarkable implications ŖAnd the same with the soul, the soul plays for medical treatment. between love and hate, or between fear and shame, TWENTYMAN says: ŖSTEINER insisted that and canřt be derived out of a single but out of an one can develop oneřs consciousness out of the interplay. Fear and shame arise in the battle abstract intellectualism of today. This was an between love and hate, and all the other emotions essential staging point in our human development; can be classified in between. Then one can relate until we reached this wide-awake intellectual fear more to the head pole and to thinking, and consciousness, we could not become in any real

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 74 shame more to the belly pole. And you get that the being is reduced to a mere observer. This seems to soul is not just related to the brain.ŗ me to reduce medicine to garage mechanics, which In his paper, ŖDisease as Metamorphosisŗ. it is very good at and when one needs surgery, its TWENTYMAN related these ideas to JUNGřs expertise is superb. But as a real help for the concept of the archetype. GOETHEřs aim, he said, increasing psychological problems in medicine it is was to discover the essence of Řplantnessř and to almost useless. It merely wants to do chemical grasp this idea, the concept of the plant, in such a surgery on the brain.ŗ Indeed he feels that vital and imaginative way that he could really contemporary homeopathyřs efforts to be seen as behold it, not as a verbal abstraction but as a living, scientifically and academically respectable is in dynamic creative archetype. Similarly in order to itself Ŗa bad thing.ŗ Homeopathy, he says, simply systematize comparative anatomy, GOETHE does not belong to the dying tradition of academic proposed an Řanatomical typus,ř a basic archetypal science. animal in which the shapes of all animals would be TWENTYMANřs view of the often complex contained as potentialities. 5 relationship between Anthroposophy, Homeopathy, In Psyche and Substance, WHITMONT Modern Psychology and orthodox modern medicine suggested HAHNEMANN used the same method is explored in depth in his book The Science and in comparing the symptoms common to most of the Art of Healing (1989). Here he wrote that the provers with those of the most similar diseases. It significance of HAHNEMANNřs contribution was out of these common or similar qualities that becomes clear when homeopathy is understood as HAHNEMANN fashioned the abstraction of the the beginning of a bridge over the great divide Řtotalityř of a drug picture. This was an archetypal opened by the Cartesian guillotine. ŖThe absolute image, in terms of GOETHEřs postulate, since no split between the objective body and the merely single prover or patient could actually exhibit all subjective soul, which finds expression in a one- the predicted characteristic symptoms of a drug sided mechanistic medicine and equally one-sided totality. Every actual case presents a rudimentary psychodynamics, begins to find a solution in the and varied aspect of the conceptual totality.6 idea of the spectrum of disease. TWENTYMAN says STEINER portrayed ŖThe essentials…of HAHNEMANNřs method further stages in the development of consciousness: are first the observation of disease on the human inspiration and intuition. ŖBut the first step is scale and the resolute avoidance of reductionism. definitely to follow with GOETHE into Disease is not primarily a disorder of molecules, or imagination, which is a sort of higher hearing cells or any other abstraction. Disease has meaning where you make yourself inwardly empty. Then as a human phenomenon on the human scale. into that total inner emptiness something from Secondly we notice that there are local or bodily outside can enter.ŗ and mental symptoms in all cases though, as ŖBut it is very difficult to empty oneřs HAHNEMANN most importantly emphasized, consciousness. It happens every night, but then we there is a spectrum of illness. Thirdly, healing must go to sleep. If one could stay awake in the state in involve a change in consciousness as well as a which one comes into sleep, then one would know change in somatic symptoms. Something be a lot more than one does when one is awake. Many allowed to sink into forgetfulness, which is inventions and many saving ideas have come to Řsticking in the gulletř…ŗ people when they have slept on it. But STEINERřs ŖWe have therefore a trinity of medical point is how to develop in the future so that what approaches. The basic mechanistic study of comes in the sleep consciousness unconsciously structures of the body, then the exclusively can be achieved in full consciousness. But itřs no subjective psychological interpretation, which can boyřs job! explain all illness as purposive, albeit unconscious, ŖWith intuition, if one ever achieved it, one and the third, the homeopathic, which potentially would be able to experience another real mediates between them.ŗ individuality in oneřs self as oneřs self, which ŖAt present these three cannot communicate means you have got to totally overcome your own with each other. There is no common concept or egotism.ŗ image of man shared between them; for science, However, current scientific paradigms, man is at best an animal, but ultimately a heap of TWENTYMAN says, still divide man into body molecules; for psychology, man is a battlegroumd and soul, as though these two aspects of human of instinctive impulses and moral sanctions, in existence have no connection. ŖScientific medicine which the role of the organs is almost disregarded. is only concerned with what I call the corpse of the Homœopathy lacks any conception of the relations body, the structural biochemical corpse. The human between man and nature. It is my contention that

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 75 the stream of anthroposophical medicine could be gone into its discoveries. ŖMany of these are the mediator between the three, fertilizing each indisputably real. One has to take all this very approach and enriching itself in the process. The seriously and canřt just dismiss it.ŗ However, from trinity must become a triunity.ŗ 7 the scientific perspective, he says, the biggest TWENTYMAN also argued that the main problem for Homœopathy historically has always hindrance to the wider acceptance of Homœopathy been the question of potencies. was HAHNEMANNřs prohibition against the In The Science and Art of Healing, investigation of the inner workings of the human TWENTYMAN wrote that there is plenty of organism and his denial of the possibility of experiential evidence that Ŗpotencies beyond the worthwhile medicinal knowledge being derived range of dilution which would include a single from theobservation and study of plants, animals molecule of the original active substanceŗ can and minerals in nature. produce demonstrable results. However, orthodox Taking up this theme during the interview, scientists are likely to continue to show no interest TWENTYMAN points out that ŖHAHNEMANN Ŗuntil they can form intellectual conceptual more or less says that itřs quite useless to look into frameworks, which render potency effects processes in the human organism; you have got to understandable…HAHNEMANNřs thought, keep limited to the symptoms. And itřs useless to together with that of many of his contemporaries follow natural science into the exploration of the was essentially vitalistic… and he also spoke of the way plants grow, for example; youřve got to see problematic potencies, based on serial dilution and entirely what turns up in the proving. This cut succession, as having dynamic or quasi-spiritual homeopathy off from any real relationship with the effects of influences.ŗ8 This is an area in which development of science. In HAHNEMANNŗs time TWENTYMAN feels Řspiritual scienceř can supply this was understandable and he, I think, grasped the part of the missing intellectual framework. nature of illness, very much in the way GOETHE ŖThe anthroposophists drew attention to the did his plants. But he was not able, anymore than projective or synthetic geometry, developed in the GOETHE was, to take it further. 19th century. Euclidean geometry, to which most ŖThere is a difference between the ancient people are still wedded, is only one extreme of the Greek idea of the similar and HAHNEMANNřs. In various Řgeometriesř that emerge from projective the Greek time nature was still much more Řlivingř geometry. than it is today and the Řlivingnessř of the human ŖIts great idea is the polarity of the point and organism was much more vital than it is today. We the plane. The point is the infinitely contracted. If have become ex-sanguinated people. You only have you take a sphere and contract it, eventually it to look at photographs!ŗ becomes a mere point. The whole of Euclidean ŖSo HIPPOCRATES and company could say, geometry is derived from such points. But if you if you get diarrhea, its because your healing force take that same sphere and expand it, the curvature wants to expel some nasty food you ate and cure gets less and less. When the sphere becomes you. The diarrhea is natureřs healing force so work infinite, the curvature becomes nil. Thus the with it, not against it. The diarrhea is natureřs infinitely contracted sphere, a plane. healing force so work with it, not against it. For ŖSo it is possible to make all the forms that you them the symptoms were the image of natureřs can construct in Euclidean geometry out of planes, healing activity. Now HAHNEMANN does not say rather than points. One can see it in a room. If you that at all. He says the disease comes to expression take two planes they intersect in a line. If you take in the symptoms Ŕ the disease, not the healing two points, there is only one line that will go force. Nature, he says, is not very clever at healing. through them. So two points will create a line but It needs a good doctor like me, Sammy two planes also create a line. Three planes Ŕ the HAHNEMANN, to carry through what were ceiling and the two adjoining walls Ŕ will create a perhaps the good intentions of nature. So these are point and three points will create a plane. Thus in a sense opposite notions of the similar. But everything in Euclidean geometry can be essentially all you need to grasp is that the understood in terms of planar geometry. symptom picture is the remedy.ŗ ŖA man called George ADAMS showed how TWENTYMANřs view of the basic findings of the forms of plants as they grow work in this planar contemporary science is broadly similar to that of geometry, not in Euclidean geometry. So to reach STEINER and WEGMAN. He says that while the living world, you donřt need to stick to Anthroposophy does not accept all the Euclidean geometry, which comes to points, atoms materialistically exaggerated theories of present day and molecules. You come into the realm of the science, it does admire the effort and work that has living.

ŖAnthroposophical thinking has always taken measurable matter of the organism. However, planar geometry very seriously. You see, you can STEINER maintained there were three further portray the development of matter as a process of components of the human organism: the etheric gradual condensation from the infinite sphere of the body or life element provides a kind of template heavens to the infinitely contracted atom. But you that guides the cells as they reproduce and can take it from the point and expand it again in differentiate. It is particularly active during the your potentizing and bring it back to the Ideal, to embryonic stage and in the process of nutrition. The the spiritual forming realitiy of it. But neither the generative quality of the etheric body is scientists, nor most homeopaths, are prepared to dramatically expressed in plants, which transform think differently from what they were taught at water and carbon dioxide, in the presence of school and think they know.ŗ sunlight, into the sugars that are the basis of life. However, although Homœopathy and In less differentiated tissues, such as the anthroposophical medicine share much in terms of metabolic and nutritive organs, the creative Materia Medica and the use of potentization, this potential of the etheric body remains available for should not be allowed to obscure some very real growth and regeneration. But in highly differences of emphasis. differentiated tissue, such as the nervous system, In STEINERřs view the necessary relationship the capacity for regeneration is limited and etheric between disease and cure is ill-defined in forces are released to serve the higher function of Homœopathy. Precise indications for the consciousness.11 appropriate remedy are lacking. In the last of his Consciousness is the quality that seperates lectures to the medical profession, he said: ŖI must human and animal life from that of plants. Humans ask you to forgive me, if I point out that a scrutiny and animals are further distinguisehed from plants of homeopathic medicine does not always furnish by the possession of internal organs within enclosed satisfactory results. True, Homœopathy attempts to body cavities. STEINER considered these attributes handle the human being as a whole: it forms a were due to the astral body or soul. While the comprehensive picture of all the symptoms and etheric body is primarily involved in building up attempts to build a bridge to therapy. But the the physical body and keeping it healthy, the astral professional literature of homeopathy brings to body has a catabolic or destructive effect, which in light something else calling for comment. At first itself creates a tendency towards illness. This is due glance one is almost in despair for, especially in the to fact that consciousness is bought at the cost of therapeutic literature, we find the remedies breaking down or Řburningř physical matter, mainly enumerated one after another, and each in the form of glucose. recommended for an entire legion of illnesses. It is In general terms, it is possible to say that the never very easy to discover specific indications higher the metabolic rate required to support from the literature for everything is beneficial for consciousness, the greater the complexity of the so much!ŗ9 nervous, metabolic and circulatory systems. In To rectify this problem STEINER argued order to effect the necessary degree of that the choice of remedy should be based on an development, the astral body works in harmony understanding of pathological process from the with the etheric body. However, even this involves unique perspective of anthroposophical physiology. a polarity of action. For example, etheric processes Central to this view of the human organism are the produce a limb with a hand Řbudř of solid tissue. An three autonomous, yet interacting and astral process then intervenes producing enzymes, interpenetrating, organ sytems of the head, chest which break down or Řdigestř tissue to create the and belly, described by TWENTYMAN. Over- spaces between the fingers. activity of the belly or metabolic pole results in The fourth element of the human structure is fever, delirium and inflammatory illness. Excessive the ego or spirit, an additional level of activity of the nerve/sense or head pole causes consciousness that animals lack. Humans are aware coldness, exhaustion and degenerative illness. that they are independent conscious beings with the The maintenance of health is very much a ability to escape the constraints of istinctive matter of keeping the head and belly processes in behavior and act in accordance with higher the equilibrium. As the rhythmic system of the motives, such as concern for others. However, the heart and lungs, centered in the chest, is very much ability to chose cannot be separated from involved in maintaining this equilibrium, it has a responsibility for the consequences. Not only does special role in healing.10 the ego give people the ability to think for The three systems of the head, chest and belly themselves, it also enables them to transform their constitute the physical body, the weighable and own natures.

The ego has a dual effect on the physical body, sepals, raising them to higher function.ŗ Similarly as it affects both the etheric and astral bodies. It is the plantřs deeply incised leaves, reminiscent of the particularly involved in thinking and thus has a fingers of the hand, and powerful poisons also point destructive effect, particularly on the nervous to an astral influence. ŖIt would also be expected system. It is also associated with the Will and the that Aconitum would have a special with the way volition is expressed through the physical nervous system.ŗ15 body. The ability to stand upright and walk on two STEINER rectifies what he describes as the legs is, for example, a specifically human attribute. lack of Řspecificityř in homœopathic drug proving Anthroposophy also proposes a by maintaining, in common with Paracelsus, correspondence between the four human elements Rademacher and, to an extent, BURNETT, that the and the four natural elements: earth, water, air and physician must first diagnose the organ or organ fire, or, more specifically, to the four fundamental system in which the disease has its origin before states of matter: solid, liquid, gas and heat. Thus the prescribing the appropriate organotropic medicine. physical relates to the solid state and mineral As well as the homœopathic method of kingdom, the etheric to the liquid state and plant trituration, dilution and succussion, kingdom, the astral to the gaseous state and animal anthroposophical medicine employs other means of kingdom and heat or warmth to the ego and potentization, including rotation in a high-velocity kingdom of man.12 centrifuge and repeated exposure to heat or light. The properties of a medicinal substance are Collection and potentization procedures may also explored by a process of Řimaginativeř divination be timed to take into account the phases of the that draws on Goethean morphology, moon. anthroposophical physiology and homeopathic Substances are frequently combined. This may proving. And, as far as TWENTYMAN is be done to enhance the potentization process; a concerned, knowledge from spheres as diverse as plant, for example, may be combined with a botany, zoology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, mineral with which it has a particular affinity as in astrology, mythology, alchemy and traditional Ferrum per Chelidonium or Stannum per herbalism, is also relevant. Collectively, the Taraxacum. But it is also used as a strategy that methods employed define a new doctrine of enables the management of organ dysfunction from signatures, in which knowledge of the action of the several directions simultaneously. Such medicines medicinal substance is deepened step by step until are not regarded as simply the sum of their the inner nature of the substance is revealed in the individual components but as capable of unfolding details of its appearance.13 a new therapeutic activity as a unity. Pertudoron, The study is pursued as far as possible before for example, a whooping cough remedy, includes any conclusions are tested in clinical practice and Belladonna 3X, China 3X, Coccus cacti 3X, only if this brings confirmation, are the links Drosera 1X, Ipecacuanha 3X, Mephitis 5X and considered to have been demonstrated.14 Veratrum album 3X. However the content of the TWENTYMAN says: Ŗone probably has to go combination is not always in potency and mother a bit further to see how these ideas work into tincture are often used.16 understanding. If you take, say, a plant, TWENTYMAN says that although monkshood, Aconitum napellum, gradually from its anthroposophical medicine uses more mixtures than root, stem and leaves there forms a monkshood at classical homeopathy, there are many schools of the top. And one thinks thatřs that. But if you have homeopathy that have used combinations. ŖThere GOETHEřs ideas in your head, you can see the was a very good mixture in my day for boils called flower expresses fear and retreat, the flowerřs ŘSSC.ř Itřs a mixture of Sulphur, Silica and Carbo stamens cower within the monkřs hood. If you give veg. and that in potency was the best thing I met for it to somebody Ŕ not too big a dose! Ŕ a further boils. Potencies in anthroposophic medicine are not metamorphosis will develop in the human always low and go up regularly to a thirtieth. symptoms. And these are a further metamorphosis STEINER, I have heard, was known to prescribe of what one sees in the flower. Thus the drug even higher on occasion. picture symptoms are those of fear and anxiety. The ŖThe anthroposophical medicine I worked with drug picture thus extends on the human level that a great deal is Iscador for cancer. Thatřs prepared which is present on the vegetable level. from mistletoe (Viscum album). My experiences In their picture of Aconitum, EVANS and were that it was very helpful. Occasionally but not RODGER attribute the fact that the plantřs flower often one could reverse the whole malignant is a development of the plantřs calyx rather than a process. But as a supplementary remedy, it helped corolla to astral influence, Ŗwhich descends into the patients feel good throughout the course of the

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 78 illness and reduced the need for other treatments. dies in the spleen. Jupiter is also related to the liver The patients I treated with Iscador usually found and to the forming of thoughts in the head. Mars is they could go through the illness very positively. related to the gallbladder and to the larynx, Even at the end, again and again, they said ŘIřm Mercury to the lungs, Venus to the kidneys and very glad for this experience.ř It kept their general silver to the reflective capacity of brain.ŗ poise, balance and well-being whereas so many of ŖI always enjoyed Silver, the metal of the the modern scientific treatments make patients very moon and of the Greek goddess ARTEMIS. Now in ill.ŗ Greece, ARTEMIS was a maiden goddess. She was ŖIt is used in various potencies, the most midwife to the animals of the forest and delighted common being, I should think, the equivalent of in play with her girl friends and bow and arrow. But about 1X up to a 6X. It is given by subcutaneous at Ephesus on what is now the Turkish coast, injection preferably. Anthroposophical doctors use DIANA was the goddess of wisdom. The multi- subcutaneous injections quite a lot, the idea being breasted image in her temple was a symbol of that it enters into the rhythmic system of the lungs, fecundity and feminine power. Diana-Artemis, heart and circulation more strongly. If you want to Artemis-Diana, they are the same.ŗ work more strongly into the metabolic system, you ŖYou see silver makes the best mirrors and the will probably give things by mouth. There is some brain reflects. It is also the principal reproductive indication that if you want them to work into the ingredient of photographic film. So we reflect in the nervous system, external applications can be head and babies in the uterus. Of course if one is valuable. These are not absolutes; they are only talking to an audience of women, one has to point directions.ŗ out that this shows the superiority of women Iscador is prepared from the whole mistletoe everything because they produce live, kicking plant including the leaves, stalk, berries and babies while men only produce dead silly flowers. The plant is gathered in both summer and thoughts.ŗ winter as the sap ingredients differ from one season ŖAnd then, of course, there is gold Ŕ the metal to the other. Juice form the winter and summer of the heart, which in the old astronomy holds the plants is kept separate until later in the process. It is balance between the outer and the inner planets and first mixed with an equal quatity of water by weight in us holds the balance between the metabolism and and subject to lactic acid fermentation. The the belly, and the nerve senses centred in the head.ŗ fermented product is then diluted to 10 per cent. TWENTYMAN maintains that by thinking of The winter and summer sap are then mixed and the remedies in these extended terms, a more living potentized in a centrifuge.17 picture of the human being is created than that ŖI found the anthroposophists also had some provided by modern physiology and one that is also very valuable remedies for back trouble. They are of particular relevance in the area of psychological called Řdisciř preparations but they are cocktails. I medicine. Classical homeopathy of the kind used to call them my homeopathic osteopath. They developed by Kent is now, he feels, significantly arose out of the work of a man called Dr. out of step with our present scientific and HAUSCHKA. He found, largely by a sort of psychological knowledge. accident that one could preserve tinctures and ŖClassical homeopathy developed in America things without alcohol by exposing them when it became united with Swedenborgian rhythmically to light and dark. He found that for philosophy and science. Indeed SWEDENBORG every sort of plant there was a different time of year was one of the greatest scientists of his day. In the when this worked. So he used plant tinctures made middle of the 19th century the Swedenborgians were with this method together with corresponding one of the leading intellectual movements in potentized tissue from animals. So disci America. HENRY and William JAMES grew up in preparations for the back incorporate potentized a Swedenborgian household. A great many animal cartilage, as well as a range of metals.ŗ homeopathic doctors were affiliated to the ŖThere is great use of planetary metals in Swedenborgian movement, and most anthroposophical materia medica: lead Swedenborgians were keen on homeopathy.ŗ corresponding to Saturn, tin to Jupiter, iron to Mars, ŖJames Tyler KENT was an ardent mercury to Mercury, copper to Venus and silver to Swedenborgian. He said of his own teaching that if the Moon. These then correspond to different anyone thought they could get the same results as organs. Saturn has a great relationship to the him without adopting his philosophy, they were skeletal form, Jupiter to the spleen. You see the mistaken. I think there are very few modern people bone marrow and the spleen are in one of these who are really able to enter into the work of polarities; the blood is born in the bone marrow and SWEDENBORG. It is a marvelously rewarding

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 79 study but very difficult and hard for us today. Time broader, wider situation and medicine as an aspect has moved on, of course, from SWEDENBORG in of the total human crisis. There is a total crisis of the 18th century. Historically, it is an enormously human consciousness and Iřm more concerned with important contribution but I donřt think it adequate, that. I donřt think itřs any good to look at bits and alone, to form the basis for the development of pieces. Iřve only touched on illness as an example Homœopathy.ŗ of the crisis. ŖThe whole of 19th and 20th century science ŖPARACELSUS, for example, had an developed since SWEDENBORG. He started from important notion. One shouldnřt look at the healing the groundwork of the science of his day. He did of disease as simply getting rid of the symptoms. not set out to contribute basic scientific work; he Disease is an opportunity, PARACELSUS says, for took the highest scientific knowledge of his day in thr personality to grow and take a step forward in anatomy and physiology, but also in cosmology and its spiritual development. No healing or cure is physics, and from that developed a philosophical really complete until it results in the development vision, rooted in observations of this world. He was of the spirit, soul, being of the patient. Itřs an one of the first men to set a path into the spiritual, opportunity, a gift, to help the personality develop whereas in the past the path had always been from further but there is not much sign of that in modern the spiritual into the physical. SWEDENBORG medicine. GRODDECK had it. And men like started from where we are here and developed that JUNG came a long way towards seeing mental into a spiritual vision. His scientific knowledge of disease as something to be transformed with a his time was immense. He was the first man to richer personality at the end of it.ŗ describe an endocrine organ; interestingly, it was ŖThere are many anthroposophical ideas the function of the pituitary gland, a fact that is not inherent in what I have been saying. But to the enough appreciated.ŗ18 threefoldness of the human organism Ŕ the nerve ŖNonetheless, SWEDENBORGřs vision of the senses, the rhythmic middle and the metabolic Ŕ I world is based on 18th century science. People like personally think there needs to be added a fourth, to take the dogmatism of KENT and think you can the system of endocrine glands that allows the practice that. But in SWDENBORGřs time the whole to play like a musical instrument. The microscope had hardly come into biology. The endocrine glands do not act in the same way as the study of tissues really only came about in the other systems; they act synthetically for the whole Napoleonic era with such a man as BICHAT in organism and are one aspect of the ego realm Ŕ the France. The study of cellular biology with better realm of individuality that manifests in thinking, microscopes only really came into medicine with feeling and willing: thinking in the head, feeling in Rudolf VIRCHOW in 1860 or so.ŗ the heart and willing in the liver.ŗ ŖOriginally, MORGAGNI in Italy said all ŖNow it is terribly important to grasp the unity disease is centered in structural change in organs, of these three. In ancient times up until the after finding holes in the lungs of tubercular Renaissance when modern science began, thinking, patients. Then BICHAT looked at tissues through feeling and willing were all interwoven. Religion the microscope and found the same disease had wonderful art and a wonderful cosmology. manifested in a tissue and youřve got what is called Science, in so far as it existed, was portrayed histopathology. Then VIRCHOW said ŘNo, all religious phenomena and was essentially moral. disease is in the cell.ř Now they say itřs in a They were all interwoven.ŗ molecule called the gene Ŕ thatřs the latest fashion. ŖThen came BACON, COPERNICUS and So it has nothing to do with a living thing at all. But GALILEO and they began separating thinking from it is this progression from organ to tissue, to cell, to the other two. Indeed BACON said you could think molecule that has brought medicine to where it is what you liked without it disturbing your religious today. One canřt ignore this; oneřs got to cope with faith! But, through this, thinking became separate it; but one needs more than is available from and autonomous. Then the artists set about SWEDENBORG.ŗ emancipating art from any connection with religion TWENTYMAN is in the final stages of and ultimately from any connection with nature or completing a second book, provisionally titled reality. It has become in modern abstract art, God Spirituality, Mythology and Medicine. It will be knows what. Itřs art for artřs sake. And if you look published by the Rudolf Steiner Press, which is at the characters of DOSTOIEVSKY at the end of based in Forest Row, the East Sussex village in the 19th century, it is said again and again that Řto England where TWENTYMAN lives. the superior man all things are permitted.ř Well, of ŖItřs not a book intended for doctors. Iřm course, everyone is convinced they are superior, so trying to write as old man in an effort to see the all things are permitted. The Will is divorced from

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 80 moral sanction. It is no longer concerned with 1TREUHERZ, Francis. ŖThe Origins of Kentřs beauty or truthř it is just ŘI am permitted, I will do Homeopathy: the influence of Swedenborg,ŗ it,ř Journal of the American Institute of ŖSo you have thinking, feeling and willing Homeopathy. 1984. 77:4 and The Homeopath. separated from each other Ŕ science, art and 1983. 4:2. (Originally presented at The Society of religion but in myself, thinking, feeling, willing. Homeopaths Conference, Warwick, 1983.) The poor ego thus feels very on edge, as it is no longer supported by those great beings: oneřs 2WHITMONT, Edward C. Psyche and Substance. nation, oneřs race, oneřs religion, even oneřs Berkeley: North Atlantic Books. 1991. 121. family. All this has become relative; and so the poor ego asks ŘWho am I?ř And that ŘIř is what on 3GRODDECK, G. The meaning of Illness. one side finds its root in the endocrine system and Selected Psychoanalytic Writings. Ed: Lore on the other in the immune system. The immune Scacht. London: Hogarth Press. 1977. 132. system has to do with the relation of self and not- self. When I develop an allergy, it is when what 4STEINER, R. and I. WEGMAN. Fundamentals should remain on the surface, and in the sensory of therapy. An Extension of the Art of Healing world, pushes through the barrier, the frontier, through Spiritual Knowledge. Authorized inside me. When I get a so-called autoimmune translation from the German. London: London disease then one of my organs becomes Řouterř and Anthroposophical Publishing Company. 1925. 1-2. behaves as though it does not belong to me. The frontier between self and not-self has become 5TWENTYMAN, R. ŖDisease as Metamorphosis,ŗ chaotic so we get more allergies and endocrine British Homeopathic Journal. 59. 1961. diseases. Apart from this, the poor ego is psychologically out of its depth and does not know 6WHITMONT, Edward C. Psyche and Substance. what to do. The modern Řweltanschaungřsimply Berkeley: North Atlantic Books. 1980. 34-35. does not not give the ego any support whatsoever beyond rules of thumb. 7TWENTYMAN, R. The Science and Art of ŖThe self has somehow got to find its relation Healing. Edinburgh Floris Books. 1989. 18-21. to the great being of mankind, mankind as a great organism. It was one of manřs ancient beliefs. Even 8Ibid. 60. Auguste COMTE, the great Frenchman of the 19th century, father of so-called positivism, who usually 9STEINER, R. Spiritual Science and Medicine. gets cursed as the father of the worst materialism, London: Rudolf Steiner Press. 1948. 265-266. even he, no less, had the concept of ‘le grand être,’ the great being which he conceived as the living 10EVANS, M. and I. RODGER. Anthroposophical organism of mankind.ŗ Medicine: Treating Body, Soul and Spirit. ŖToday with all this talk of globalism and London: Thorsons. 1992. 62-65. racism, it seems we must identify the concept of mankind as whole or being. This should be the 11Ibid. 24, 29, 32. meaning of Christianity but I have not heard it from the Church yet. But that is what Christianity is Ŕ the 12Ibid. 34, 39, 48. idea that the whole of mankind finds its center in Christ. Now itřs up to us to try to move in that 13TREUHERZ. 1984. direction, to see the races and nations as organs of this great being, not as absolutes. Until recently 14EVANS, M. and I. RODGER. 74. these were the absolutes within which the individual breathed and felt himself. But they are 15Ibid. 74. not today, and when people try to make them so, they become fundamentalists of one sort or 16TREUHERZ. 1984. another.ŗ 17KASAD, 1990. 379. References Special thanks are due to Francis TREUHERZ, 18TREUHERZ, Francis. ŖSteiner and the MA, F.S.Hom, without whose guidance and Simillimum. Homeopathic and Anthroposophic assistance this paper could not have been written. medicine: the relationship of the ideas of Hahnemann, Goethe and Steiner.ŗ Journal of the

American Institute of Homeopathy. 1985. 78:2; Dr.ROOD could open to a Page in Heringřs The Homeopath. 1985. 5:1. (Originally presented Guiding Symptoms and find the case before her at a meeting of the Faculty of Homeopathy, mirrored there, word for word. She treated multiple Scottish Branch, Glasgow, 1984.) generations within families, often in the same morning. Dr. ROOD used Homœopathy in treating ======Cancer in hundreds of cases. While there can be no question that Homœopathy is effective in many 6. MARION BELLE ROOD, M.D. forms of this disease, her results were the constant LANGE Andrew (AH. 3/1997) discussion of the patients who waited outside her door. MARION BELLE ROOD, M.D., was one of Often she would just leave a book for me to the great elders in American Homeopathy. She read, without explanation. She taught in a Socratic practiced in her hometown of Lapeer, Michigan for method; instead of answering questions, she would over fifty years. She was a pioneer in Science and say, ŖYou think about it.ŗ Then a few days later, in Medicine. As the only woman in her physics the middle of a patient consultation, she would masters program at the University of Michigan in begin a long dissertation to me, (actually directed Ann Arbor, she helped work on the Quantum toward the patient) answering the questions I had Theory during the 1920řs. After two years of asked previously. The poor patient, who had no teaching mathematics at a convent in Tennessee, idea what she was talking about, just respectfully she attended New York Homeopathic Medical responded, nodding her head in agreement, ŖOh College as the only female student in her class, yes, Dr. ROOD.ŗ graduating in 1932. Harvey FARRINGTON was Stories about Dr. ROOD are of a legendary one of her Professors. She earned her living while nature. Most of them are true. She lived outside of going through medical school by tutoring the town where the road turned to dirt. ROODřs Lake children of the ROCKEFELLER family. During Road had been named after her grandmother, and that period of time, the term ŖHomœopathyŗ had was the site of their Farmhouse on the edge of a been dropped from the schoolřs title, in order to state wilderness preserve. Dr. ROOD had moved to maintain accreditation. This was happening in all this house after the family house in town, from the remaining homœopathic schools at that time. which she practiced for many years, had been the Dr. ROOD received her advanced training in victim of arson, due to political rivals of her father Homœopathy from her family physician, Dr. and brother who were lawyers. Harriet KNOTT, who in her later years, while She did not have telephone, nor take blind, lived with Dr. ROOD supervising her cases. appointments. Her clinic hours began at eleven in Dr. ROOD was also a colleague of A.H. the morning. Patients came from around the GRIMMER. GRIMMER invited her to join his country and the world to line up on her dirt road. practice in Chicago, which had been Kentřs Cars lined up outside her driveway by eight in the practice. However Dr. ROOD wanted to stay in her morning. She would open her door and treat the rural home town, and it was in this small town she first in line, and continue until till 1 a.m. daily, remained, practicing from 1932-1992. sometimes later. She worked until the last patient Her approach to disease was deeply influenced had been treated. Patients would eat picnic by her understanding of Chronic Disease and the lunches, stand on the porch and chat, while waiting. Miasms. Her tremendous understanding of the In Dr. ROODřs office in her living room, pathogenesis of disease enabled her to solve the patients sat amidst piles of books, cats and dogs, most difficult cases. J.H. ALLENřs ŘChronic dishes covered in lace, and wooden boxes filled Miasmsř was central in her understanding of with medicines. Records were kept on large file prescribing medicines miasmatically. Far advanced cards. She sat behind a small wooden side table of an isopathic application of Nosodes, she knew with KENT and KNERRřs Repertories guiding her. and developed some of the rarer remediesř Busts of HAHNEMANN and HYPHATIA watched relationship to the Miasms. over her. HYPHATIA was a young woman One case in which the patient presented mathematician and astronomer from Alexandria, symptoms that reminded Dr. ROOD of his fatherřs and the leading proponent of neo-platonic thought. bad reaction to typhoid vaccination when in service Patients reported that she would leave you with during the Korean war. The remedy Nux moschata an issue of Scientific American when she went to thirty years previously, had helped his father, and prepare your remedy, then quiz them about the acted to clear this manřs case, also. articles when she returned. As a scientist, Dr. ROOD kept a wide range of journals piled through

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 82 out the living room in which she saw her patients. she politely retorted, ŖWell you never talk about She would regularly lecture to her patients on the those things.ŗ When a local reporter interviewed relationship between Homœopathy and current her after her retirement he asked her what would developments in Science, whether they could her patients do without her to which she replied, appreciate her insights or not. ŖWell I hope theyřre all better. Thatřs what is She felt strongly that a background in Physics supposed to happen.ŗ was essential for a homœopathic education. She Dr. ROOD never married while many of her had a tremendous ability to perceive where brotherřs friends had shown interest in her, her Homœopathy had been confirmed in the scientific mother had encouraged her to study books, and she literature, or solutions to medical problems in the simply got too involved in them she would say. scientific literature, unsolved due to the lack of While living a humble and simple life, she was homœopathic thinking. She had special interest in constantly abreast of developments in Science and Interferon research, which she felt had proven Politics throughout the world. HAHNEMANNřs description of viral interference On Monday, she took the day off. She bought as spelled out in the Organon yet pharmaceutical most her remedies from Erhart and Karl Pharmacy approaches had failed in utilizing the discovery of in Chicago. Dr. ROOD would go by train to pick Interferon effectively. up her remedies in Chicago, and bring them home. Through Dr. GRIMMER, she became The trip took 6 hours. interested in the Abrams method, which was a Once a month she taught Quantum Physics at predecessor to radionics. She built a dark room SR. WHITE Jr. High School in La Peer, Michigan. with copper wire coils to block outside Along with Dr. Wyrth Post BAKER (who electromagnetic influences, in which she conducted wrote intro to homœopatherapeutics she helped tests. This method was the basis of a later study led save Homœopathy in the 1950řs.) She testified by Guy Beckley STEARNS and other members of before the Senate, to maintain the status of the the International Hahnemannian Association in Pharmacopoeia. the 1920řs, and although certainly not reflecting Dr. ROOD charged $10 for a visit, raising this classical methods, it was of great interest to some to $20, when the Pharmacopoeia was again of the leading homœopaths of the time. Dr. ROOD reviewed in the 1980řs. She raised and contributed used this method for over twenty years in some of $50, which funded this updating of the US her most difficult Cancer cases. In later years she Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia for approval. no longer used the Abrams instrument, relying Without this generosity and foresight, we would not instead on her experience and the Repertories to be able to produce and prescribe homœopathic determine the remedy. medicines today. She believed that medicines could have an Dr. ROOD died in December, 1995 at the age of effect at a distance. In fact, one night when an 96. She represented kindness, strength, humility, impatient patient had left, after having waited much and the unique individuality of our tradition. Her of the day, Dr. ROOD just looked out of the door legacy remains in her foresight in preserving the and exclaimed, ŖOh he must have been exposed to US Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia, in the the remedy he needed from in here, and felt so generations of patients that she treated, and in her much better he didnřt need to see me!ŗ example of brilliance in understanding of the One night, we were having tea at three in the Science of Medicine. morning, after every one had gone, and I asked her, ŖDr. ROOD, your patients think youřre clairvoyant, ======what does that mean to you?ŗ if I had asked her directly she would never have answered. Instead ======

7. The Action of Drugs and active, you had to strike it to become active, The Action of D rugs on the response of matter and if it had been over-working, you gave it rest. by Sir Jagadis BOSE, F.R.S. Then it occurred to me that I would try the (Lecture given in the British Homœopathic action of various stimulants. I tried several, and Society on June 23, 1926) found that this receiver became extraordinarily sensitive, it picked up messages from enormous

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, - Of distances, greater distances than it had done before. course I am not a medical man, and I am in no way Then I gave it certain depressants, and I found that concerned with the practice of medicine, either the power of answering had become diminished. homœopathic or allopathic. I was unconsciously Then I applied poisons, and I found that the answer dragged into the study of the most mysterious of of these inorganic substances was abolished for all phenomena, the phenomena of life; and I will time. But the curious thing was that if, instead of simply tell you, as a sceptic, how I was drawn into giving large doses of the poison, I gave it an this fascinating subject. extraordinarily small dose, then it became very You must remember that we are often carried sensitive indeed. I had thus come across a region away by our own dreams, and we have to be very where the boundaries between inorganic and sceptical about what we are dreaming. The worst organic life vanished, and continuity was critic you can have is yourself, and I have, all my established between the realms of the living and of life, tried to disprove the things that I discovered, the non-living. I will show these actual records on and when I have failed to do so, then I bring them the screen presently. So it appeared that matter to you. You ask me, Sir, what is it that led me into itself had a promise of potency, of life. There was a these investigations. More than thirty years ago I time when this earth was a molten mass on which was working on that mysterious subject, invisible no life could have existed, therefore life must have, light, light which no one can see, ether waves, the in some way, evolved out of non-life, or rather I tremulousness of the ether, by which nowadays we should say that everything is potentially alive. are able to send messages over enormous distances. Finding that inorganic matter mimicked It is more than thirty years ago that we carried out organized life, such as human life, I thought an some very important investigations on that subject. intermediate region, plant life, might also show We sent messages through space; we fired pistols some of the characteristics of our own life. But and exploded things at a distance. That was in everyone who had had to deal with this subject Ŕ I 1893 and 1894, long before this was supposed to be have been asked about this by various gentlemen possible. While sending these messages, while here who have studied Botany for twenty years Ŕ recording them by wireless means, I found that physiologists and others, said there was nothing in occasionally the record that was obtained gradually common between the reactions of animal life and became smaller and smaller, until it disappeared, those of plant life, that the plant was passive, while and for no apparent reason. Being anxious to find the animal was all the time moving. They taught out what caused this, I made an automatic recorder, that there are three characteristics of animal life: by which the replies in the receiver were written contractility (the power of suddenly contracting down. And I was astounded to find that the records when struck), conductivity (the power of nervous were exactly like the records obtained from muscle action by means of which when an organism is when it has become fatigued. That is, the inorganic struck by a stimulus from outside, a message is substance used in wireless showed fatigue, just like carried at a known speed to the interior), and the human beings do. It was extraordinary. Then, conductivity (integrative) by which a large mass of thinking that giving it a period of rest might revive tissue becomes one, being connected by these and restore it from the state of fatigue, I gave it a nervous links. It was thought that plants had no two-hoursř rest, and after that I found this recorder nervous system. Thirdly, in the animal we have the reviving and answering vigorously, to show again, phenomena which are known as spontaneity. Our later, signs of fatigue. Thinking that a still longer heart beats continuously as long as life remains. It rest might make it still more sensitive and make it was thought that plants had no such system or perceive signals sent from greater distances, I was characteristic. But my researches, some of which I surprised to find that it had lost its power of shall describe to you Ŕ not all, only fragments of answering altogether, in fact it had become too them Ŕ prove that all this is completely wrong, and lazy, and I had to strike it several times before it it is this wrong theory which has hitherto stopped responded. So there were these two contradictory the advance of the science of life. reactions. If it was lying too idle for it to be vivid I shall first throw on the screen the response of inorganic matter. First I had response of organic

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 84 matter, in a receiver which was actuated by wireless The first picture shows the outside of the messages. Then I wanted to find out whether institute. There we face the world. But we cannot matter such as a bit of steel, or iron, or platinum see truth unless we retire to the forest, otherwise the wire, or copper wire answered when it was struck mind is constantly taking part in the rush and hurry or pinched. I have a series or records of the plant of the town. But inside here, which I now show when it was pinched, and the electrical record is you, there is a strange quietness, you are there. I have a series of long answers. But when surrounded by Nature. Some plants such as these the object of the experiment was kept actuated for a you see here are attached to the recording apparatus long time without giving it rest, it became fatigued, by means of which the plant expresses all the and you can see the fatigue curve of the metal in the changes it goes through; we get a diary of the plant, slide. The first response, you see, is very large, and we can look at the writing made by the plant then it gets smaller and smaller, until it disappears. itself, and so find out what its feelings have been. That is the fatigue curve of a bit of Tin. The next You see also the building which is being erected for slide shows where I get answers from a bit of expansion of the work for the activity of the Platinum. I gave it a small dose of stimulant, and institute has become enormously increased, and we you see the result. There is, at first, a small and are trying, as far as means allow, to increase that feeble answer, but when I drugged it with a activity. Here you see a wonderful bird; we have stimulant you see how enormously it acted. Next, I all sorts of birds and plants and animals associated show you opposite effects of a small dose of poison in a friendly way. This poor bird has lost his wife, and a large dose of poison. Here is the normal and he is searching for her all the time. It is known response, and you see how enormously increased as Ŗthe eternal loverŗ; he will not take any other the responses are after a small dose of poison has wife, and he is ever searching for her. He been given. I increase the dose of the poison and sometimes comes before the glass window, and, then the power of resistance vanishes altogether; it seeing hs image, he thinks she is hiding behind a has been killed. screen, and he dances before her, as he supposes, so I will now show you a photograph of the place as to induce her away form this shadow of death. where this investigation has been carried out, so And here is the photograph of a place twenty miles that you may get some idea of the organization by down, because some of the experiments cannot be which the work is going forward. I think it is well carried out in a town, as the air there is vitiated, and that I should tell you the Eastern ideals about the the sensitiveness of the plants is much reduced by advancement of knowledge. We believe we can atmospheric pollution. So down the river is my only get truth when we rise above any longing to other institute where these specially sensitive get success, above considerations of success or experiments are carried out. And here is another non-success. You must be completely, absolutely branch of the institute, which is located 7,000 feet indifferent to success or want of success. Some of high, at Darjeeling, and in front of it is the eternal this work which has been carried out had to be snow, and the climate is like that of Europe, cold practically continuous for twenty years before it and bracing Ŕ though I cannot say that the climate received public, that is, scientific acceptance. If of London just now is bracing! one were simply thinking of success, one would The first trouble I had was the popular idea that soon give research up. But truth is more powerful only a few plants like Mimosa are sensitive, and than human association; truth will always remain, that others are insensitive. Plants were divided into truth is for the service of humanity. We must, the most sensitive, and the ordinary. In order to therefore, never make ti a commercial asset. So show that ordinary plants also are sensitive, I one of the conditions of my institute is, that my devised an apparatus by means of which the record disciples who have given up all their life in pursuit of a supposed insensitive plant could be seen. of science, shall give it up for the common benefit Here, for example, is the record of such a common of humanity; they are to take out no patents for any vegetable as the carrot. At a certain point I inventions or discoveries made at the institute. I chloroformed the carrot, and thereafter the hope some day to make this institute an responses become smaller and smaller, until the international one, thus reviving the ancient great carrot became unconscious, so weak that it gave no traditions of India, which, twenty-five centuries response, it would not answer any more. ago, welcomed scholars from all parts of the world But the subject of my lecture this afternoon is within the precincts of its ancient cities. This the answer of life to various drugs. And there I institute is meant for all men and all women alike, found something which must have puzzled you for all time coming. very much. Medical men find that they give the same drug to two patients, one of them is cured, the

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 85 other is nearly killed! Why is that? Take a man and food, but, poor man, he cannot assimilate it. The look at his behaviour. To-day he is exuberant, problem is how to make you a more efficient joyous, but tomorrow something comes in which assimilating organ. Working on plants, last time I man delights not, nor woman either. Now, that is was in England I showed the apparatus by means of the most difficult of all problems in medicine. which the rate of normal assimilation of a plant was What you have to do is to solve that problem. I automatically recorded by the plant itself. You will have found something of extraordinary interest, and find it described in my book on the physiology of I think it will interest you. It is this: that a living assimilation, published by Longmans. One curious creature is not mere matter, but matter plus energy, thing I found was that while it was normally energy stored in unequal ways from the past, and assimilating, giving traces of certain chemical there are being received by him some impressions substances, in very minute doses indeed, even one and energies from outside. Therefore day by day I part in a billion Ŕ and by billion I mean a thousand am changing, I am not as I was yesterday; I am million Ŕ produced an enormous increase in the different, because the sum total of energy which is assimilative power, nearly a 100 per cent increase. entering into my life makes me different from day And there are other substances of which this is true, to day. Roughly speaking, I may describe this to for instance, extract of thyroid gland in very small you by a drawing of curves. The whole cycle of doses. But if you increase the dose beyond a life may be represented at the base or crest of a certain point it does harm. The important thing, curve with substance as the living creature. Let us therefore, is to find what the critical dose is, take it in one condition; its activities diminishing as remembering that the critical dose for different it is cut off from outside sources of food; there is a persons is quite different. falling down of this curve, and at some point it Talking of the effect on the tonic condition loses life, that is, it dies of inanition. The top is the reminds me that I carried out a curious experiment. highest point, the crest of life. If it is deprived of I brought out two batches of similar plants, but stimulus in many forms, not only food, but of the under two opposite conditions; I lowered the stimulus of hope and the desire to live, it slides tonicity in one case, and raised the tonicity down, until finally it dies of inanition. Under artificially in the other. Then I gave doses of stimulus this normal curve of response rises higher poisons to both. The unfortunate plant whose and higher, until the climax is reached. It is that tonicity was below par died instantly without a climax of life that we have to aim to attain. The struggle; the other became stimulated and grew extraordinary thing is that in this condition what is faster than it had ever done. There is the question necessary to bring it to a climax of life is response of the power of resistance, the inner power, that is to stimulation. Any drug or other stimulant what you are after. Drugs do not help you, except converts the curve of life from an abnormal to a in helping you to get the inner power of resistance normal one, to a bigger normal, and a bigger increased. It is our power of nerve resistance which normal still until a climax is reached. But if you has to be exalted. That is one aspect of pursue the stimulation after that, it becomes assimilation, and that was enormously increased by exhausted and begins to die. The two curves so giving traces of certain substances. Traces of produced meet in a common spot, which is death. iodine increased it at a very great rate. The medical man may mistake one for the other. But I have come to speak to you of another There is no external means of finding out the tone effect, which is the most difficult of all; this of the living thing. What you want is a tonometer throbbing, by means of which our heart is to find out in what portion of the psychic scale you continuously contracting and expanding, and by happen to be on. If it is at one place you use means of which the nutrient fluid, the blood, is stimulating drugs, but if you make the fatal mistake circulated round and round, carrying the material to of regarding one point or stage as the other, there every part of the body. Is there any such thing as will be death. The problem is how to measure the spontaneous circulation in the blood in plants as we tone, the tonicity of life. I have been working at it; believe to be in animals? I shall show you the I do not know whether I shall succeed. To find that experiments, and that is the principal subject of my on is the essential point at which the science of life lecture. The subject is so large that one cannot becomes exact, not empirical. touch more than the fringe of it in an hour or two. Let us think how the activities of life may be Before referring to plants, let us regard the exalted. One activity of life is the power to power of automatic pulsation in ourselves. Our assimilate food. You may have any kind of food heart, as long as it is alive, goes on throbbing but it is no good if you cannot assimilate it. without cessation; it is automatic Ŕ something ROCKEFELLER has means of getting any kind of inside. If I had time, I would disabuse you of the

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 86 false idea that there can be anything inside self- poison and is just on the point of dying, I can revive originated. No such thing; it is the power from it by giving it a dose of antagonistic poison. That outside which has been streaming in, which I gather will show what enormous possibilities there are of and store up and make my own. It is that which curing people of poisonous reactions. We find out causes pulsation. It is an outside force which I have what different poisons are antagonistic to each trapped and made a part of me. Now in regard to other. plants this automatism we can very well see in this You would think that to show this automatic particular plant called Desmodium gyrans. This pulsation you must get a particular plant from India, plant has had the good fortune of traveling round but that is not so. Every one of these plants grown the world with me, because when I was talking in this country have been throbbing but you have about these things they said it could not be true, so I not seen it. You had no idea that that passive thing had to carry not only my instruments but also the in the form of a plant was in a state of throbbing. It plant. It is like the poor parrot, who complained is not still for one moment. By this pulsation its that they had not only brought him from his native life is maintained. I will explain to you presently country, but had made him speak English! So I had how I discovered this. In our own case the not only to bring my extra-ordinarily delicate circulating fluid is kept moving by the throbbing instruments Ŕ which were a little upset by being pulsation of the heart. In the case of the plant it brought Ŕ but also the plant. And this plant has gets its inorganic substance with it. How is it done? been the indirect means of saving me from It is a problem which has puzzled all scientific men imprisonment. It was shown in 1914, and I had to for the last 300 years up to this time; they have not get a compartment reserved for carrying my found out any explanation of this. There was at one instrument and apparatus, so there was a little time great admiration for the very fine work which trouble and uncertainty. I had to come across the was done in Germany by a physiologist at continent of Europe. Railway officials said they Strasburg, who wanted to know whether this rise of could not give me the compartment because troops sap is due to vital activity or to some other physical were moving. I was to have begun my lectures on action. I do not know what led him to do it, but he August 4th, 1914, and on that day there was an tried an experiment on a big scale. He had an oak outbreak of war. My nephews had gone on in tree cut down, and had twenty men to take it and advance, and they were kept in prison for four place it in a tub of poison. The leaves remained years, and came out more dead than alive. I show alive for several days, and he thought the rise of sap you the picture of the leaf of the plant, pressed could not have been modified by the poison; between two pieces of glass. It is this tiny leaf therefore, he said, it is not a living reaction, but which goes on pulsating and throbbing, and I had to something like capillarity and that sort of rubbish. make a delicate apparatus by means of which the But the big oak tree has a stiff leaf; even if it was pulsations were automatically recorded. This leaf dying it is so stiff that it does not fall off easily. So is so tiny that if you put a grain of sand on it it why take that big oak tree? Why not take a small bends down and is unable to lift itself up. And here plant like this (exhibited)? I took two plants, and are a series of records, which were made by the you may try the experiment yourselves. I am here plant itself. As long as the plant is alive it pulsates. able to prove that this ascent is due to living But what we call Ŗautomaticŗ is really the result of reaction. If it is like the action of a heart which is something from outside. I kept this plant in the pumping blood; if it pumps sap like the heart dark, and withheld food, and you will see how, on pumps blood, I may expect that the drugs which the third day, these pulsations came to a stop. affect our heart would affect this plant in the same When it was in a practically moribund condition, I way. There are drugs like Caffeine, like Camphor, threw a beam of light on it and gave it a little food, which make our hearts beat very fast and pump the and it started pulsating again. blood very quickly. Therefore I took two drooping Here is the most extraordinary thing. I have plants and placed them in these two bottles of two series of records. The heart of the animal is water. In one I put a solution which contained a acted on by different poisons in a different way. little cardiac stimulant, in the other I put a little Some poisons kill it in an expanded state, others poison. One plant, you see, has risen from the kill it in a contracted state. Here is the record of the drooping position and is full of the solution which heart of a frog which was poisoned, and the record has been sucked up, whereas this other which was at death is at diastole. The same drug given to this put into poison in the solution has not sucked plant also killed it in diastole. The other kind of anything up and the plant is killed. That, I think, poison causes death in the opposite condition at completely proves that this ascent of the sap is a systole. When the heart is nearly killed by one

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 87 vital activity, like the action of the heart. But one more into the plant, and as soon as it comes into experiment is of no value: I have others. contact with the heart of the plant, there is a If this fact is as I say, how on earth am I to throbbing recorded by the Galvanometer. I show prove it still farther? The unfortunate circumstance you an actual record of this. The probe, consisting is that no one up to the time of the first experiments of fine Platinum wire, is thrust in gradually more knew how to measure the movements of sap. Let and more, until suddenly, at a certain point, there is us take the case of a leaf spreading out. You must pulsation. That is the heart; it is near the cortex of have noticed that if you do not water it the leaf the stem and is a long tubular organ. In the lower gradually droops; put it into water and it gradually animals it is a tube, and by peristaltic action the raises itself up. The movements of the leaves are blood is sent forward. In our own case, too, in the the movements of the arms. If I apply water here, embryo, the heart is a tubular organ, and as we this drooping leaf is raised up. If I place in the grow the heart gets twisted. By rhythmic throbbing water a depressing agent, an agent which slows the action it drives the blood forward. In the plant pumping action, there will not be enough water there is a tube, which passes from the root to the pumped up and the leaf will fall down. If now I put top, and the sap is sent forward and upward by a stimulant the pumping will go on quickly and the peristaltic action. By this slide I show you the leaf will be raised up. actual record. In the heart of the animal, if the I will now show you a slide of the apparatus by intracardiac pressure is very feeble, the pulse which this record was taken. An erect plant was almost disappears. There must be pressure inside taken and placed in a poisonous solution; it was for the heart to pulsate; when the pressure is kept in the solution ten minutes and then the increased it pulsates. I watered this plant and the photograph was taken. Then the dying plant was pressure was increased and so the pulsation was given a stimulant, and you see on the screen the increased. When I withdrew the water the pulsation dying plant has become quite erect again. It is a stopped, when I re-applied water pulsation was marvelous sight, for some plants are so active that again increased. That proves that inside the plant an apparently dead one shows the change to life there is tissue which is in a state of continuous within five minutes; you can see life coming back pulsation, propelling the sap. into the leaf. The poison has killed this one, and And now comes the most difficult of all the after a time it is decomposed. Here is the special problems: Can you make this throbbing visible to apparatus by which that record was made. There is us? You may ask. Yes, we can, in this way. Out a movement of the leaf so slight that you do not heart is throbbing, and all our blood is pumped notice it, but by the action of this lever I magnify through the arteries. By good luck, the artery I am the motion a hundred times. The leaf was feeling at my wrist is at the surface, so we can feel horizontal, and I first treated it with Bromide, it. If, under the action of a drug, the heart goes on which slows down the heart beat; and you see at beating very quickly, it will pump the blood so once that the leaf, which was horizontal before, forcibly that this artery will become swollen out, became, under the action of the depressant, forced due to the increased blood-pressure. Contrariwise, down. At that moment I gave a stimulant, and it if by a depressant agent the heart-beat is made took some time for the leaf to overtake the slower, this artery will not swell up so much; it will depressant; there was a struggle as to which should be contracted and there will be a diminution of get the upper hand. After a time the stimulant had blood-pressure. This throbbing can be felt when the upper hand, and the leaf became re-erect. From the artery is large and is near the surface, but when that we find that there is something inside which it is buried under other tissue, such as muscle, we prompts this action, something which acts like a cannot feel it. How on earth will you feel the heart. throbbing of a plant or a tree when its arteries are But where is the heart of the plant? That was buried under other tissues? Though we cannot feel the next problem, and a very difficult one. If you it, that is no indication it is not there. But our put an electric wire into connection with a sensitive feeling organ is very crude. We must increase our electrical instrument, a Galvanometer, if the wire is power of seeing a millionfold then what was resting, rest is evident from the absence of a record. invisible will become visible. I will show you how But if you take a little probe and thrust it into the it is done. circuit of a current, you obtain a record. If you What I have here is a plant which is placed thrust a probe inside me, as long as it passes between two teeth, one of which is fixed, and the through resting muscle nothing happens, but as other is moveable. If there is a throbbing pulsation soon as it touches a throbbing heart an agitation going through, and the sap is moving by pulsation, takes place. I thrust this probe gradually more and then, for a second, the diameter of this plant would

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 88 become slightly increased by the sap passing suit some of you Ŕ very dilute alcohol produced through it, and after the sap has passed through, it great depression of the heart of the plant. A very will revert to its former diameter. The difference, weak dose of whisky did this. You may say the of course, is extraordinarily small. But if I take a plant is not so highly organized as the animal, but it long lever, this end movement will be magnified at is doubtful which is the nobler of the two. Here I the outer end thirty or forty times. But if the applied Bromide, and you see the pulse-beat is movement is only the millionth of an inch, our downward, each down stroke of the throbbing heart lever is of no use, we have to increase the length of being now larger than the upstroke. While this it still further. And I will show you how it is done. depressant action was going on, I applied Musk, When the little artery is expanding, the lever comes which is a very strong stimulant, and at once you out in one direction, when it is contracting, it comes see the struggle between depressant and the out in an opposite direction. The problem is to stimulant, the stimulant getting the upper hand, and magnify this small movement. From the end of the a depression is converted into a stimulation. lever a thread is wound round, and there formed an Lastly, we come to consider the terrible action axis which is on a jeweled bearing. A beam of light of Cobra venom. I wanted to find whether the can be sent on to it, and in this way a magnification action of Cobra venom was similar in the case of of a million times can be made. Here is the the plant and of the animal. The venom of Cobra is apparatus, which some of you saw at work at the extraordinarily deadly, a trace of it is enough to kill Royal Society of Medicine. I will show you record. a creature in ten to twelve minutes. I shall show You see here registered the throbbings inside this you the result I obtained with a small dose of cobra plant. If the pulsation issues the string is pulled and venom on a plant and an animal. Here is the the axis is rotated in one direction. Outside you can normal pulse. One part in a thousand solution was see nothing, but it is all the time throbbing in this given and the pulse became smaller and smaller, it way. I give a stimulant, the heart, the plant will died away, and the heart came to a stop. I applied beat very quickly, and sap of a larger volume will the same dose on the plant, and the heart-beat be propelled, and the channel will swell. When became depressed and it died out. I placed it in there is increased sap the pressure will be raised water but it never revived, but became decomposed and there will be a movement the lever in one in a very short time. There is a very curious belief direction, whereas a depressant will cause a in India, that a man who has died of snake-bite is movement in the opposite direction. not really killed, that there is a chance for him of In order to show that the heart of the plant and revival. I do not know why there is this belief. But the heart of the animal are affected identically by because of it the people who are killed by snake- the action of the same drug, I have before me two bite are not cremated, but are put upon a raft and records, one of a fishřs heart, and the other in a allowed to float down the river, and there is a story plant. Let us see some of these results. that they are revived. It is not unlikely that the On the record I now show was the normal heart heart stoppage form Cobra venom may be beat of fish. The experiment was done with such temporary. Whenever there is a belief or a care that they did not feel it in the least; a little superstition you must try to remember there is knock was given, and it remained temporarily something behind to justify it. It is said to be stupid unconscious, and the record was taken. Afterwards for people to believe in superstition, but large the fish was placed in a little cold water and it number of people would not believe in a revived at once, and it was quite happy. I show the superstition unless there were something behind it. normal pulses. I will tell you something which justifies this. Your I want to tell you one thing; you must medical advances have been made by carrying out remember that to get the normal action of life you investigations on drugs which are said to have this must put it under normal conditions and normal or that property. At first medicine was empirical. action, not subject it to torture or to fright. Once Why do you give this? Because we are told it does you prove by comparative experiments that the so-and-so by our grand mother. I found another plant and animal mechanisms are the same, the very interesting thing about Cobra venom. I found matter is solved; you need not carry out that with a normal dose this throbbing pulsation experiments on the animal, because the plant is a came to an end, and the plant died in fifteen better witness. On giving a dose of a stimulant, minutes. I gave a very small dose of the poison, Camphor, which is a tremendous stimulant, of two and the throbbing, which was feeble at once parts in a thousand, the pulsation is at once became increased. Therefore Cobra venom in a quickened very greatly, and the artery becomes very small dose is an extraordinary stimulant. Then swollen outwardly. Conversely Ŕ and this may not

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 89 having got that, I tried it on the animal and on the anyone doing anything, as the man would die in plant. two minutes, in those desperate cases, I have been About a thousand years ago there arose a new told by several men whom I can believe, that when school of medical men in India. We have an they gave this dose of poison the individual came ancient system of medicine two or three thousand back to life in several cases, not in all cases. The years old, and it was regarded as divine inspired. It effect of the poison appeared almost miraculous, was due to experimentation; but people forgot it. the individual being apparently brought back to life Everything said by ancient medical men was again, and the failing heart pulsating again and regarded as something to be accepted, but this new becoming strong. I carried out an experiment on school which arose a thousand years ago refused to the effect of this preparation on the heart of the believe anything unless they could justify it by animal and the plant. I show a slide of the normal experimentation. Therefore this was regarded as pressure, where a minute dose of snake venom was unorthodox. It is this unorthodox school which introduced into the plant, and you see the heart-beat makes a special preparation of Cobra venom, a is very much increased. The effect of this is to minute dose of it being given. They believe that make the heart beat more vigorously. every poison has two opposite virtues, a good and a I have, in the course of my talk this afternoon, bad quality, and that the bad quality could be shown that the life-reaction of the plant is identical neutralized by the action of certain oxides of with that of the animal. We have been able to find metals, metals so finely ground up that they were that it is contractile, that there is a certain tissue insoluble. They had this belief: that even a along which general excitation is transmitted to a poisonous substance could be made very good, and distance; we have been able to record throbbings of if it has an evil property this last could be its pulsating life. In these and in many other ways neutralized. The substance I have mentioned is a the plant is very much nearer to us than we ever small dose of Cobra venom mixed with certain thought. Thus, through the experience of the plant, oxides. I was told by many people that in a number we may perhaps alleviate the sufferings of of cases where the heart was on the point of failing, mankind. and the medical man said there was no chance of

PART III

(While Part II features articles from other journals, Part III contains the editorřs own contribution and other original articles.) ------

1. Teaching Ŕ Psychiatric patients. Pure it deals how to manage the cases of rape and incest, Classical Homœopathy. Dr. André SAINE. and he follows this with chapter on psychosis. Publishers: B. Jain Publishers. Price Rs. 299/- After this two relatively unused remedies have been Indian Edition Ŕ 2004, 2006. given viz Melilotus, and a still a more rare remedy The book is divided into two basic parts, Part 1 Derris-pinnata. The next chapter deals with goes in 336 pages. It begins with an introduction psychosis and schizophrenia followed by manic- by the author and then goes on to deal with depressive disorders and various rubrics used for misconceptions about Hering‟s Law which was psychosis. Finally in this section he deals with the originally taken by HERING & HAHNEMANN as four main remedies of psychosis Belladonna, a rule especially in antipsoric chronic diseases. The Stramonium, Hyoscyamus, Veratrum followed by author then deals with the topics of psychiatric lesser used remedies like Cantharis and then difficulties while practicing Homœopathy and what Lecithin and Kali phos particularly used in cases of was Hahnemannřs original position regarding the depression. role of psychiatry. Part II is pure classical Homœopathy and is Dr. SAINE says, that there are two types of divided into 3 sub-parts-viz. Part 1 Ŕ which is a disorders Ŕ one he calls psycho-somatic and the classical homœopathic aspect, Part 2 which is case other he calls as somato Ŕ psychic and in both handling, Part -3 which is evaluation of symptoms. disorders he has quoted various authors like JAHR, In sub-part 1 after the introduction, many pages GRIMMER about prognosis of such cases. He next have been devoted to what is known as Hering‟s deals with the topic of temperaments, the definition Rule or Law with relevant quotations from of neurosis, phobias, anxieties and fears and then a Organon aphorisms and then a brief one para separate chapter on obsessive compulsive disorders. sketch of Constantine HERING. Furthermore, it The rubrics associated with such disorders are describes how KENT introduced Hering‟s Law as given along with some case reports and the relevant given in his Lectures on Materia Medica and use of potencies in such cases. Lesser writings and ends with paragraphs on return i. How to study the Materia Medica is the next of suppressed or not healed symptoms, and a skin topic and as examples he has dealt with the eruption at the end of a cure. remedies Argentum nitricum, Silicea and Thea. Sub-part-2 is case handling from pages -21 to The role of antidotes, placebo, psychotherapy is 72. it deals with case-taking, case-analysis, case- then taken up and then the real meaning of the word management, classification of symptoms, cure with relationship to recovery, palliation and discerning the disease and wrong way of living, suppression. He then goes on to describe Thuja, certain aspects of dis-similar diseases in one Medorrhinum and Staphysagria in detail along with patient, treatment of an infectious disease, and a relevant case report given with those drugs and points about different stages of indispositions. then writes about compulsive behaviour patterns in Then comes a case report of a boy who had cough states of anorexia, gambling and pyromaniacs, all his lkife who responded beautifully to Natrum kleptomania, and trichotillomania. The topic of mur. 10M. The author deals with acute trauma, Hysteria is then dealt with followed by a chapter on punctured wounds and emotional traumas, Tarentula, Moschus, Asafoetida and Valeriana. poisoning by vaccinations Allergies, aspects of What are the elements of a good practice and how acute excerbations of chronic diseases antibiotics does one take a given case, this occupies almost 30 and then he describes 3 Case reports rapid pages and it is then followed with a section on progression of apathe, glomala-nephritis and total repertory which includes the logic of the repertory, renal failure. Malaria then occupies the next sub- understanding the language of the repertory and the topic and then goes on to give a list of those various additions that should be made after the prescribers whom he considers best prescribers as practitioner has confirmed the symptoms LIPPE, GUERNSEY, SKINNER and others. repeatedly. The next chapter is significant because Paragraphs on alternating diseases, Nosodes,

Complex diseases, dissimilar diseases and been left out from the Řlaterř Provers. = KSS]. The treatment of the case of AIDS and AIDS cases. story moves on chronologically to 1805 Ŕ the This sub-part ends with the topic of wrong way of publication of the Fragmenta . . . . and its contents. loving and changing of life styles, cases where History of the next great work, the fore-runner of there are lack of symptoms and what is known as the Organon [which made such history in the field one disease picture. Sub-part 3 deals with of Medicine, like no other literature on Medicine evaluation of symptoms from pages Ŕ 73 to 209 and either before or after it = KSS] is discussed in the I feel the reader should now depend less on my next step. Here PATEL quotes HAHNEMANN review and read the whole chapter for himself. with regard to Řteaching the perfect healing methodř After the end of this chapter he has given the life wherein HAHNEMANN says that it is best taught and works of Adolf LIPPE. The founding of in an established hospital; PATEL says, rightly, that Allentown Academy, some cases treated by LIPPE until now, nowhere in the world there is such and summarizing of the philosophy of LIPPE with teaching as yet! his life-history. There is a small alphabetical index The publication of the Organon in 6 volumes of various remedies. Summarizing I would say this appeared in 1811 Ŕ 1821; HAHNEMANNřs book cannot be hastily read. It is a monumental Materia Medica Pura, Chronic Diseases, the work and shows the profound work of Dr. ANDRE arrangement of the symptoms, the ŘSchemař of SAINE, his depth, scholarship and experience and HAHNEMANN vis-à-vis KENT (REPERTORY), it is not only meant for the student but also for the are studied in detail next. The Řstoryř of the senior most practitioners of Homœopathy. The several editions of the Organon and in detail the 6th print is easy to read, good binding and moderately edition and the differences between the 5th and 6th priced. editions are discussed. The Řcomparativeř study of

D.E. MISTRY the Aphorisms in the different editions as given in ======DUDGEONřs edition is given. Anamnesis, the analysis of Symptoms, etc., are 2. Miasmatic Taint or Block Removers and discussed subsequent pages, and of course the Bond Breakers or Resolvers, by Dr. R.P.PATEL, Chronic Miasms. PATEL quotes extensively and Dr. R.P Patel Institute of Homœopathy for exclusively. Next, the study of Repertory with Research and Education in Homœopathy, reference to the Nosodes Psorinum, Medorrhinum Hahnemann House Ŕ Meissen, Atmajyoti and Syphilinum with respect to the three Chronic Ashram Road, Subhanpura, Vadodara Ŕ 390023, Miasms. Every Symptom in the KENT Repertory Gujarat, India, Rs.500/- ($ 25/-): This is a fairly is analysed as to its Miasm and its relevance to the heavy book, also dealing with a heavy subject, viz. Nosode under study. Proving Symptom and the Chronic Miasms and their cure. Dr. Clinical Symptom are given separately. R.P.PATEL is one person who has been writing on There are very few printing errors; the print is this very important subject, regularly. clear, language is easily understandable; since it is In the book under review three Nosodes, in A4 size it can be studied only on the table. Psorinum, Medorrhinum and Syphilinum are Dr. PATEL has done a Herculean task and it studied in great detail. The study is based on deserves serious study by the Profession and Kentřs Repertory. The literature consulted in this needless to say, by the student, particularly the regard number 122 if not more! A detailed study, post-graduates. This is a serious study, indeed. painstaking, and rewarding to one who studies Dr. PATEL has begun with a brief biography of it. Samuel HAHNEMANN. This is followed by a K.S. SRINIVASAN brief enunciation of the ŘProjectř work with reference to the correction, verification, etc. of the ======Kent Repertory, undertaken by the Patel Institute. The next chapter is ŘSituations and Problems 3. Materia Medica Revisa Homœopathiae Ŕ experiment by HAHNEMANN is recounted; a list Agaricus Ŕ von Peter MINDER, (Hrsg. Klaus- of the other faithful follower Řproversř of Henning Gypser), Wunnibald Gypser Verlag., HAHNEMANN is given. JAHR, KENT, ALLEN, Glees. 2008. ISBN 978-3-940940-00-1, 144 HALE and SWAN are mentioned as later workers pages. Attention of the readers is invited to QHD, who carried on the Řprovingsř. [HERING himself XXIV, 3 & 4/2007 wherein the need for revision of and with his colleagues carried several Provings our basic literature, viz., Materia Medica, and the and in fact published separate volume on the efforts of Dr. GYPSER, in this regard has been ŘAmerican Provingsř. The name of HERING has discussed. Dr. GYPSER has already published

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 92 several monographs on individual medicines. The cultures like the American Indians, the Maya first in the series was Dulcamara which was civilization, etc. are mentioned. The homoeopathic reviewed in the same QHD. Subsequent to the therapeutic uses are also touched upon Monograph on Dulcamara, there has been a steady flow of further monographs. Here we take up one - K.S. SRINIVASAN of these, Agaricus muscarius. This is a remedy proved Ŗfirst SCHRETER and E. STAPF and later ======by HAHNEMANN and his Proversř Groupŗ. HARTLAUB and TRINKS also prublished their 4. Materia Medica Revisa Homœopathiae: Proving. In the light of this it is surprising that this Capsicum, Peter MINDER (Hrsg. Klaus- remedy has been much under-prescribed, the only Henning Gypser), Wunnibald Gypser Verlag, reason, I think, is because we have not studied the 2008. ISBN-978-3-9808817-6-0. 45 pages. This remedy well enough to recognise the Symptoms slim Monograph is on lesser-used remedy, when we come across them in a patient. Capsicum. The first Proving was published in the Now: why a revision and how will it enrich our Fragmenta . . . (1805), and later in the Pure knowledge of the Materia Medica? Take, for Materia Medica, Vol. IV (1827). Symptoms from example, the symptom Ŕ given in the monograph the Fragmenta not taken in any of the subsequent under study Ŕ under ŘGemutř: ŖHeitere Laune, doch Materia Medica works, have been given in this kein Trieb zum Sprechenŗ. (ŘCheerful mood, but Monograph. The Materia Medica Pura has 344 without any impulse towards conversationř. Symptoms while the present Monograph contains Symptom No.26). The Řsourceř is given as Chronic 559 Symptoms. Diseases and the Prover is APELT, considered by Careful study of the - Materia Medica reveals HERING as a reliable source. I do not find this the deficiencies in the Repertory Ŕ for example the entry in the Kent Repertory or the later Repertories Symptom 153 in the MMP: ŖPain in the Urethra that I have accsess to! Also ŖFurcht vor Feuer, especially in the forenoonŗ is given in the Kent sieht überall Feuer, ekstatissche Erregung, Repertory as given only under ŖPainŗ and the time Geschwätzigkeit, alles > im Schlafŗ (Fear of Fire, modality is not mentioned. Again Symptom sees fire everywhere, ecstatic excitement, . . . ) is No.149: ŖUrination, urging, frequent, < sitting, not not in the Repertory. The Chronic Diseases when walkingŗ is given only as ŖUrination, urging, contains only 715 Symptoms, whereas this frequent, sitting, whileŗ leaving out the second part Monograph has 2257 Symptoms! Agaricus is of the symptom Ŗnot while walkingŗ. These are indeed not a Řminorř remedy; we have to study it some that came up on random study. beyond the abridged versions. Hence the need to The source of the Symptoms covered by this Řstudyř the Materia Medica, which is Řcompleteř, Monograph are mentioned in respect of each contains all Řprovingř symptoms, even doubtful symptom. ones (which may be thrown out only if clinical I would urge all Homœopathy Practitioners to verification falsifies it) clinical symptoms, etc., acquire these series and seriously go about applying which will contain many that may not be found in it and report. the Repertories.; therefore one necessarily has to I hope that the Homœopaths all over the world keep oneself updated with case reports and will use these Monographs and send in information obtained from other reliable sources. confirmation, because it is only then that a reliable Revision is a continuing process. Pure Materia Medica is built. We hope that the At the end is given Index of the Sources under work proceeds apace so that most of the remedies the following heads: will be covered in the not-too-distant time. Medicinal Provings and Poisonings Ŕ 30 Error-free printing. Printing, paper, binding, references in alphabetical order etc. are all excellen Clinical observations Ŕ 115 references in alphabetical order - Names of the Provers . As Prologue much information is given, for [Further volumes in this Series will be reviewed in example, that the ŘFly Agaricř, the Agaricus is not the ensuing numbers of the QHD = KSS.]

Řfetidř smelling as mentioned by HAHNEMANN. -K.S. SRINIVASAN Interesting information about this mushroom, its toxicology, and its uses is given, including inter- ======alia the reference to this hallucinogen in the Rig Veda as Řsomař; the use of this mushroom in other

4. A Dictionary of Causation in Homœopathic Fn,Cure of Cancer and metastasising Tumors) Materia Medica by Dr. Abdur REHMAN, (German): Dr.Jens WURSTER has been working Homœopathic Stores and Hospital, 30, Allama with Cancer under the leadership of Dr. Dario Iqbal Road, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.: This is an SPINEDI since some years in the Clinic at Santa eagerly long-awaited book. Dr. REHMAN is well- Croce and we have his interesting article on this known for his scholarly work ŘEncyclopædia of subject in the ZKH. 49, S1/2005. He has also Remedy Relationshipř (in English and German presented paper in the 60th World Liga Congress in separately) which has been well-received. Berlin Personally, I am using it in my everyday Practice. The book has a theoretical part and a practical Another book of practical use from Dr. REHMAN part. is this book under review ŘA Dictionary of There is an Introduction to Homœopathy, Causation in Homœopathic Materia Medicař. followed by Cancer treatment in Homœopathy. Every ailment will have a cause, be it acute or The author takes us through the relevant Aphorisms chronic; in our experience we have seen long-term in the Organon (§§ 201, 203, 205 and Fn 206); adverse developments due to what one say, some thence choice of the symptoms, evaluation of the trivial cause. It is not possible to have a repertory symptoms, hierarchiesising the symptoms. He then which will have ready-made for application rubric discusses the specific questions to be asked for to point to the specific to the Řcauseř which I may correct anamnesis and what symptoms are to be be searching for; the causes are manifold, especially kept in consideration in respect of nevertheless a reference source would be helpful to Cancer treatment. How to rightly judge the course look for the right remedy. While lot of information of the homœopathic therapy. Then a Chapter on are available in the Guiding Symptoms much have the Q Potencies and their uses. (ref. §§ 276, 246 been added over the many years and these are and Fn, 247) What reactions are to be observed scattered in several separate books, Case reports, after giving a Q Potency? Next is explained how seminars, etc.; there is lot of material in these. the Q Potency is to be administered. This is REHMAN has collected these over the years and followed by the Řplussing methodř of given them to us in this book. RAMAKRISHNAN. According to WURSTER REHMAN has cast the net very wide, more the Řplussingř method may be of use in special, rare than 150 sources, what more! One has to carefully cases; whereas the Q potencies have several read the rubrics and make oneřs own cross advantages. references to suit the symptoms peculiar to oneřs The homœopathic treatment as accompanying practice. Chemo- radiation- therapies is discussed. Next is an There are few shortcomings: first, whereas the essay on Papilloma virus and Cancer development. other works of Dr. REHMAN were published by ŘMy way of homœopathic treatmentř ends the First the reputed German publishers ŘThiemeř and Part. ŘHaugř Ŕ and the printing and binding were very The Part 2, discusses documented Cancer cases; good and sturdy to withstand repeated handling, the detailed anamnesis, analysis, repertorisation and present publication done in Pakistan is poor in remedy selection, administration, follow-up, etc. these. The Lay-out also strains the eye. There are clearly. Ten (10) Cases are given: metastasising few printing errors. While the Řsourcesř have been Melanoma; Inoperable advanced Prostate listed at the end of the book, they are not quoted in carcinoma; Breast Cancer with Lung metastasis; the rubric itself, with the result one cannot know Invasive Follicular Thyroid gland Carcinoma; the source from which the particular information metastasizing Naso-pharynx carcinoma; has been drawn. The book is not, at present, metastasizing Ovarian Carcinoma; metastasizing available in the Indian market. Pancreas Carcinoma; metastasizing Melanoma with I very strongly recommend this book to every cutaneous metastasis; Breast Cancer not operated Ŕ busy Homœopathy Practitioner. cured with Homœopathy; Breast Cancer recurring. Further on a case of Pulmonal metastasizing - K.S. SRINIVASAN Thyroid gland Carcinoma; this case impresses in

the mind the power of Homœopathy when the ======correct remedy is chosen and given. The great 5. Die homöopatischer Behandlung und Heilung difficulty is in knowing when the totality of von Krebs und metastasierter Tumore, Dr. Jens Symptoms is to be the guide for choice of the WURSTER, Verlag Peter Irl, 82321 homœopathic remedy and when an organopathical Buchendorf. ISBN-978-3933666-19-2. 4 Auflage. treatment should be chosen. This case covers all 2006. (The Homœopathc Treatment and and aspects of Cancer treatment.

The last case is of Malt-lymphoma and bone- It should not be misunderstood that in this book Tbc in a woman and a Melanoma in a dog. the advice is to treat the skin exclusively; the A careful study of the cases and the authorřs underlying disease which is trying to find a vent, directions, considerations, etc. should enthuse us to must be treated. The skin symptoms and its take up the homœopathic treatment of Cancers and morphology should help as indicators as also the their cure with greater confidence. other important symptoms to find out the similar The book is printed in Art paper, A 4 size; remedy which will cure the Řin-lying evilř. printing, paper, binding Ŕ all excellent. The Skin diseases have been discussed under the following large heads: Blisters and Vesicles, -Dr. K.S.SRINIVASAN. Herpes simplex, Herpes zoster; Cuts, ======Hyperkeratosis, Eczema, and peri-oral Dermatitis; Acne, Rosacea; Ailments with Viruses, Bacteriae, 6. Hautkrankheiten homöopathisch behandelt and Fungus; Diseases of Nails. All these are (Skin Diseases homœopathically treated), briefly discussed in about 1210 pages (A 4) with Gabriele BENDAU, 2007. Sunrise Verlag, color pictures of the Skin disease under Kirchzarten. ISBN 978-3-9806010-3-0. (German): consideration. After these there is an Index of the The author Gabriele BENDAU studied with Dr. remedies discussed, an Index and literary Gerhard KÖHLER. She learnt thoroughly and references. collected lot of pictures to write an Řillustratedř Paper, printing, binding and general get-up are book on Skin Diseases. This book is a result of her all excellent; 135 pages in A 4 size. The book is efforts; unfortunately she passed away suddenly very useful for the busy Homœopathy Practitioner. before the book could be published. The author has taken the pains to carefully -Dr. K.S.SRINIVASAN. collect the main symptoms, classify and ======photograph and document them and suggest the remedy. In this both the Proving Symptom and the 7. Rhymes of Remedies, S.C. MISHRA, Mishra Řcuredř symptom are both significant. Homœopathic Medical Publishers, 651, Yadav BENDAU says that as a young assistant to Dr. Colony, Jabalpur Ŕ 482002 M.P.), India. 2009. KÖHLER she saw that a typical morphology would 104 pages. Rs.80/-.: Rhymes are liked by all; they indicate the right remedy. She says of an help memorise key points on any subject; especially experience in this regard: A young lad who suffered for students; and all of us are students in so far as from Neurodermatitis told her about his anxieties, Homœopathy is concerned and we welcome such chilliness and some other symptoms all of which aids; I remember that the few rhymes given in ML indicated Arsenicum. KÖHLER who did not know TYLERřs Drug Pictures were of great use; there any of her symptoms, said on seeing the eruptions were also some stray poems in the Br.Hom.Jl. (not Ŗhm, hm, to me it seems to be Arsenicum Ŗ. It was since 20 years now). We enjoyed them. The best I surprising that the mere morphology was sufficient had read was by Patersimilias. Of course there for Dr.KÖHLER to think of Ars. When she asked have been several in local languages, and they help. Dr. KÖHLER how the lesion on skin is more than a Dr. SC MISHRAřs exercise have been fruitful; Řlocalř symptom and he answered: he has covered 84 remedies. Some remedies like 1.The skin is a Nerve and Sense organ. It Apocynum cannabinum have only two Stanzas develops with the Embryonal development just while Nux vomica has 10. MISHRA has taken up like the Brain from the Ectoderm. the so-called ŘKey notesř and hence it becomes a 2. As an organ of metabolism it is much ready reckoner too! The rhymes are interesting to important with regard to its thermo control in warm read and can be memorised and recalled households, it eliminates and resorbs. I enjoyed reading them and I can confidently 3. The skin functions as reliever of internal recommend it. disturbances. We forget often that the skin is also Nerve and -Dr. K.S.SRINIVASAN.

Sense organ. ======KÖHLER says ŖThe morphology of the skin 8. Search and research on sixth edition of the disease is a reflection of the internal alterations.ŗ Organon of medicine and 50 millesimal The Hering‟s Rule is of particular relevance in potencies - an accident. Dr. Ramanlal P. Patel, skin diseases. The skin will be healed last; it is Director, Institute of Homoeopathy for Research important that we advise the patient of this order of and Education; Vadodara, Gujarat, India. cure.

Initiation in the Research work on the sixth Homoeopathic Methodologyŗ. That infuriated the edition of Organon of Medicine and 50 millesimal whole homoeopathic community against me. Even scale of potencies was/is an accident in my life. An at one stage I was asked by Dr. A.N. MUKHERJEE accident is a inspiration and provocation of an inner who was Chairman of the Society which was hidden energy or ambition in an individual man to running the college to leave the college. I survived do good work in life. I had no dream that I will do because of Dr. B.K. BOSE. The echo within the something to change what was going on with the homoeopathic community was very weak to teaching of fifth edition of Organon of Medicine accept the change. without knowing why, what for the sixth edition. The problem was changes in sixth edition and Let me inform the readers how you face preparation of medicines, potentisation and Homoeopathic community, How the Research work administration. Nobody cared to prepare potencies th. started, and personal encounter with homoeo drug according to directions given in 6 edition. cartels. Manufacturers all over the world never prepared It was in 1948, it so happened that when I was their medicines according to directions given as a student at Calcutta Homoeopathic Medical they never read, and professors and teachers in College, I was very much impressed with lectures Homoeopathic colleges never properly read in on ORGANON OF MEDICINE by Dr. B.K. BOSE between the lines of Organon hence they never who was a direct student of Dr. J.T. KENT of taught to wards (students). For me the situation was U.S.A. I used to read different editions and confusing. What to do? Needs necessary research commentaries on ORGANON. We had college work. library which was hardly used by any student or Hahnemann‟s unheard directions would teacher. As I was interested in Organon I asked the have meant a significant change to practice with librarian who was also a compounder in I.P.D. and a completely new set of remedies/medicines in O.P.D. He obliged my request to see the library absolutely new and different potencies. Finally after a week. Cupboard were rare commodities for even homoeopaths will question the authenticity books at that time except for some old, rare books. of Hahnemann‟s sixth edition of Organon of When the room was opened, it was a room which medicine. was not ventilated and books were not arranged During this period Calcutta was the ONLY properly or catalogued in a library manner. I saw place in India to manufacture homoeopathic heaps of books and journals lying on the floor with medicines. I took courage to approach being heavy load of fine dust over books and journals. student to most prominent manufacturers and The librarian told me that ŖNobody asks for books explained what I want with the help of the Organon so I have not cleaned the room neither books for of Medicine. First, they did not understand and to nearly six months and more. You are the only one some I made to understand when I told that one who recently asked for a book. What do you want?ŗ drachm of medicine in globules can treat 300 to 400 First I volunteered to clean the room and books. He patients. They said, ŖTHERE IS NO MONEY. agreed and put faith in me. It took nearly six to WHO WILL BUY?ŗ I was sad and disheartened. seven hours to clean dust and to put aright, but I Hahnemann Publishing Co. was mistaken by me found a GOLDEN book in the heaps Ŕ The SIXTH that they only publish books. When I came to know EDITION of ORGANON OF MEDICINE by Dr. that they manufacture homoeopathic medicines I Samuel Hahnemann translated in English by tried to catch a straw as a drowning man to save William Boericke, San Francisco, December 1921 life. I went to their head office. Dr. BAAR was and published in 1922. It was a surprise for me as I there as manager and a qualified pharmacist. I told was taught in the college only according to Fifth to him all my efforts and failures to get medicines Edition by Dr. B.K. BOSE and in our I.P.D. and prepared according to sixth edition. He understood O.P.D. all followed prescribing centesimal my thoughts and thinking. But he was helpless as potencies accordingly. ŖTHERE IS NO BUSINESS AND NO MONEY Sincerely and honestly, I took the book AS NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT THIS WAY OF with the permission of the librarian to read. I found PREPARATION AND HOW TO USE THIS vast difference with the fifth edition in many PREPARATIONŗ. Last straw for drowning man aspects. Meanwhile I went to all publishers in vanished with drowned man. As I was leaving his Calcutta to find out anybody who has published so office he said; Ŗwaitŗ. He told me; ŖI can prepare that I can own a copy. None had published. So I for you one or two medicines as a trial but it will had to copy by hand the differences in sixth and cost you a huge amountŗ. I asked him, ŖHow fifth edition. I published an article in our college much?ŗ Two rupees for each potency, he said. magazine by name ŖHomoeopathy and ŖDuring that time for one drachm medicine it was

© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXVI, 1 & 2/2009. For private circulation only. 96 priced or costed only 25 paiseŗ. When he was ready Hospital serves the purpose of teaching the students I agreed and he prepared within a month two at the bed-side which is of paramount importance remedies Ŕ Nux Vomica and Sulphur upto 0/30 and for the practical training and development of later upto 0/50. (Now they have 125 or more confidence in Homoeopathy in the students. medicines in LM potencies). We are grateful to the Central Government and Now the problem of clinical trial. Dr. B.K. the Provincial Government for the help, financially BOSE was against 6th edition as he was teaching and otherwise given to build up and develop this all along with the fifth edition and getting good institution. The Central Government gave us a results. I had discussion with him many times and Grant of Rupees Two Lakhs and Twenty Thousand he always told me during discussion ŖPAGAL (Rs. 2,20,000/-) for the year 1959-60. And again a BOY (Mad boy)ŗ. Once he agreed for a trial of Nux Grant of Rupees Two Lakhs and Twenty-five Vomica in O.P.D. What an inner joy I experienced Thousand (Rs. 2,25,000/-) for the year 1960-61 and which is still with me. We tried without anybodyřs a further Grant of Rupees Seventy-five Thousand knowledge as he was Vice-Principal of the college (Rs. 75,000/-) specially for equipments for the and Professor of Organon of Medicine and Materia College for the year 1961-62. We feel happy to say Medica. We tried nearly three to four months and that both the Provincial and Central Health with good results with Nux Vomica and Sulphur. Ministries are satisfied with the working and the Finally he told me, ŖTum pagal nahi ho (you are not progress of our institution. mad)ŗ. It was a blessing and a strange, rare and The Research Hospital: undreamed appreciation. The whole course of my We submitted a Research Scheme to prove the life changed as a student and practitioner. Now I efficacy of the 50 Millesimal scale of potencies to am known as Ŗ50 Millesimal man or Doctorŗ. the Central Health Ministry, through the Provincial SHANTI (Peace) with inner self. I am 84yrs. in this Health Ministry, on 4.3.1961. We started our life and 56yrs. with Homœopathy. Research Department with ten special beds in the Collegiate Hospital. The Central Health Ministry INITIATION OF CLINICAL RESEARCH immediately sent a Commission to the A.H. WORK IN THE HOSPITAL: Medical College to report about our Research THE ATHURASRAMAM HOMOEOPATHIC Department. The Commission visited our MEDICAL COLLEGE AND THE RESEARCH institution in March 1961 and was quite satisfied DEPARTMENT ON 50 MILLESIMAL SCALE with our working and scheme. It recommended a OF POTENCIES (1959-65). Grant of Rupees Thirty Thousand (Rs. 30,000/-) for The A.H. Medical College was established by the Research on 50 Millesimal potencies which we Shri Swami Athuradas. The Foundation-stone of received from the Central Government for the year the College building was laid by His Highness the 1962-63. To continue the research work we Rajapramukh of Travancore-Cochin State on 16th. received a further grant of Rs. 14,725/- for the year May 1955. The College is run by a Registered and 1963-64 and a sum of Rs. 10,000/- for the X-Ray Charitable Institution called the Athura Seva plant. In the year 1964-65 we received Rs. 15,672/- Sanghom; which was inaugurated by the Governor to continue the Research work. of the Kerala State, Shri B. Ramakrishna Rao on At first the Research was continued in the 14th July 1958. The College was formally Collegiate Hospital upto 28.7.1962 but after that it inaugurated by Dr. K.G. SAXENA, Physician to was shifted to a new building specially constructed the President of India, on the 14th July, 1958. It for this purpose. The new Research Hospital was was an event which ushered a new era for the opened and inaugurated by Dr. K.G. SAXENA, development of homoeopathic education in India. It Advisor in Homoeopathy to the Central Health was the first institution of its kind in the Kerala Ministry, on 29.7.1962. state which was recognised by both the Provincial The Research Hospital has facilities for 20 and Central Governments since 1961 (vide beds, ten for the female and ten for the male Governmentřs Order No. 15769-C2/61-4 Health, patients. The patients are looked after by specially dated 28-7-1961). The College is fully provided trained nurses in the homoeopathic treatment and with Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology research. The Hospital is fully-equipped with all Departments, an X-Ray Unit and a Clinical kinds of homoeopathic remedies and specially with laboratory. At present the Collegiate Hospital is 50 Millesimal scale of potencies. The X-Ray Unit provided with 100 beds. This is the first time in the and the Clinical Laboratory are attached to the history of Homoeopathy that the Collegiate Research Hospital. The Hospital was visited by Dr. Hospital is financially and otherwise looked after Sushila Nair, then Health Minister; Govt. of India by the Provincial Government. The Collegiate and recommended more fund for the research work.

- Dr. Ramanlal P.Patel, D.M.S., D.F.H., L.M. (2) To find out further actions of drugs on (Dublin) etc., Director. certain disease conditions which are supposed as P.S. At present C.C.R.H. has taken over the work of incurable - e.g. Cancer, Asthma, Thyroid research in Homoeopathy except on 50 Millesimal enlargement, Leucoderma etc. Scale of Potencies. (2008) (3) To prove the efficiency of homoeopathic drugs in infinitesimal doses. A SCHEME SPONSORED BY GOVERNMENT OF (4) To lessen the duration of treatment. INDIA FOR THE RESEARCH ON 50 (5) To reduce the cost of treatment (even for MILLESIMAL SCALE POTENCIES (1959-65): serious complaints). Treatment according to 50 Introduction: millesimal scale requires only one pill of No. 10 Hahnemann died before he could publish his (size) for a dose and one drachm contains sixth edition of Organon in which he made certain approximately more than 1000 pills which costs changes in the preparation of drugs and in the only 60 paisa. Hence in 60 paisa. 1000 treatment of diseases. In 1921, Dr. William prescriptions can be given. BOERICKE of U.S.A. translated 6th edition in (6) To give relief to the suffering mankind in English and was published in 1921, but its an easy and harmless way. authenticity is still doubted hence nowhere experiments were conducted according to the Work already done on the problem: teaching of Dr. HAHNEMANN in his sixth edition. In the clinical research department experiments We feel necessary to find out how far the new were conducted on 500 patients who were suffering methods advocated by Dr. HAHNEMANN are from Acute and Chronic diseases and the results helpful to the suffering mankind and for the were found to be more favourable than the progress of Homoeopathy. We see in his latest Centesimal scale or Decimal scale potencies. The methods, a new development of medicinal power or results of the same were published by Dr. R.P. Patel energy which is not known to medical sciences in the A.H. Medical College Magazine for the other than Homoeopathy. The research work is benefit of the homoeopathic practitioners. already in progress in the clinical research Period required for completion: department of A.H. Medical College, Three years to five years will be required to Sachivothamapuram, Kottayam. complete the research work. The exact Title: requirements are as follows: - Treatment of diseases by 50 Millesimal scale (1) In-patient (20 beds) and out-patient potencies according to the latest method of departments for, (a) Acute diseases, (b) Chronic Dr. Hahnemann in accordance with the 6th edition diseases. of Organon of Medicine. (2) Laboratory: Pathological laboratory Research workers: building with properly equipped laboratory (1) Dr. Ramanlal P. Patel, D.M.S. (Cal.), D.F. materials and chemicals. Hom. (London), L.M. (Dublin), Principal, - Dr. R. P. Patel,The Director, Research Department, Athurasramam Homoeopathic Medical College, A. H. Medical College. Sachivothamapuram, Kottayam; Director, Research Department, A.H. Medical College; Ex-Chief PROTOCOL AND METHODOLOGY: Homoeopathic Physician, Fr. Mullerřs Hospital, PRINCIPLES ON WHICH RESEARCH IN Mangalore; Ex-Chief Clinician, Coombe Maternity 50 MILLESIMAL SCALE OF POTENCIES Hospital, Dublin; Member, Panel on Health, ARE CONDUCTED AT ATHURASRAMAM Planning Commission, Government of India, etc. HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, Assisted by : - (1) Dr. P. Elias, B.Sc., D.M.S. (2) SACHIVOTHAMAPURAM,KOTTAYAM Dr. K.G. Arjunan Nair, D.M.S. (3) Dr. K.V. (1959-65) : Appukuttan, B.Sc., D.M.S. (4) Dr. M.P. A. GROUPING OF CASES. Janakiamma, D.M.S. I. According to age: Place: Athurasramam Homoeopathic Medical 1. Infants and Children. College, Sachivothamapuram, Kottayam. 2. Women and Men. 3. Aged/Old people (60 and above) Aims and objects: Women and Men. (1) To establish the action of 50 Millesimal II. According to category of sicknes : scale potency according to Dr. Hahnemannřs latest 1. Acute cases. instructions given in the Sixth Edition of Organon 2. Chronic cases. of Medicine. 3. Constitutional.

III. According to Disease : (f) Aggravation if any after giving 50 1. General diseases. Millesimal Scale of Potency or 2. Local diseases. Potencies. 3. Epidemic diseases. (g) Any other observation as a remark. B. RECORDING OF CASES: C. COLLECTION OF DATA: A special performa is devised for recording of (a) Total number of cases treated upto - the cases admitted in the Research wing of A.H. Results. Medical College. (b) No. of cases of each category - results. The special features of the Performa are: - (c) Observations regarding 50 Millesimal Preliminaries of the case consisting of: - Potencies. (a) Name, Age, Sex, Address. Action of lowest to highest potencies. (b) Date of admission, Case No. & Bed Response. Aggravations. Trial in special No. cases. Single doses. Ascending doses. (c) Duration of Disease. Repetition. Jumping. (d) Provisional Diagnosis. (d) Observations comparing the results with (e) Previous Treatment. Centesimal scale of potencies. (f) Physician in charge. D. Limitations in the use of 50 Millesimal scale of 1. A complete statement of the patientřs illness. potencies. 2. Discriminative symptoms consisting of: E. CONCLUSION: (a) Particular characteristics. (a) Is 50 millesimal scale better than (b) General, Keynotes, Physical and Centesimal scale of potencies? If so in Mental-characteristics. what ways? (c) Pathological characteristics. (b) Are there any rules and regulations for 3. History of the patientřs illness consisting of: administration of 50 Millesimal scale of potencies? (a) History of present illness. If so, what are they? (b) Personal history of the patient. (c) Is there any special indications for the 50 (c) Past history of the patientřs illness. Millesimal scale of potencies? If any what are they? (d) Family history of the patient. 4. Complete physical examination of the AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF RESEARCH patient with investigations Ŕ (1959-65). Clinical and Pathological. The aims and objects of the research are to 5. Provisional diagnosis. find out the efficacy of the 50 millesimal scale of 6. Totality of symptoms of the case. potencies which Dr. HAHNEMANN discovered 7. Basis of selection of the Similimum and during the last years of his life after matured repertorisation of the case. experience of homoeopathic treatment. He found it 8. Basis of selection of the Potency and to be very effective and less harmful than the Repetition. Centesimal scale of potencies which were used 9. Treatment consisting of: - prior to the discovery of 50 millesimal scale of (a) Date and Time of administration of potencies. But as Dr. HAHNEMANN died without the medicine. laying down definite and proper rules and (b) Remedy. regulations about the use of 50 millesimal scale of (c) Potency. potencies, we felt duty bound to resume his (d) Doses. experiments and find out the facts. (e) Repetition. (f) Response to the Remedy. N.B. We submitted the final report to the 10. Date of Discharge. Government of India after five years in 1965 with 11. Remarks consisting of: further grants for new research schemes to continue (a) Result - cure, improvement or no under the Ministry of Health, Govt. of India (1968), improvement, relieved. which are being carried out by C.C.R.H. at present (b) Single or multiple remedies used and (2008) except the use of 50 Millesimal scale of their names. potencies for the patients in the Hospital. (c) Potencies used and their repetition. (d) Response to 50 Millesimal, Good/Not ======satisfactory. (e) Response to Centesimal potencies compared.