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• Welcoming the New Executive Board of LMHI ; pictures with short biographies • President’s editorial • Editor’s Note • Immediate Past President Dr. Renzo Galassi ; The “New Age” of our LMHI Newsletter…

• Hahnemann’s Patrimony ; Dr. P. Schmidt • Tribute to on the Occasion of his 100th Day of Death ; Dr. K.H. Gypser

• James Tyler Kent – His Part in Homeopathic Pharmacy ; Heike Gypser • Rice Story ; Raffaella Pomposelli

• Title: Quantumphysical Efficacy of ; Dr. Karin Lenger • Hans Wals Preis 2017 • The Quiz Part ; Dr. Pietro Gulia • Introducing the New Group for the Newsletter

• Our sincere and special thanks to Jelka Milic and to Jose Matuk Kanan ; Dr. Renzo Galassi

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In active Homoeopathic practice for more than I studied homeopathy at Escuela Medica Homeopatica three decades Argentina "Tomas Pablo Paschero'', where I Director of the Pareek Hospital and Research graduated in 1988. I have been Headmaster of this Centre institution since 2004 for 12 years in a row (six Best known for his work on the management of periods), and taught Materia Medica since 1999. I severe pathologies through Homoeopathy have been National Vice- President for Argentina from developed through his extensive practice of 2008 to 2012 and LMHI Secretary for Education from hundreds of patients daily. 2013 to 2016. DR. ALOK PAREEK , DR. GUSTAVO CATALDI, LMHI President LMHI Prime Vice President

Homeopathic doctor in Macerata, Italy. 1983- She completed her basic homeopathy education in Topics 1987 Master with Prof. Antonio Negro and Dr. InHom Wiesbaden, Germany Alma Rodriguez at the L.U.I.M.O. International Continuous homeopathic education at various Free University of Homeopathic . 1985- homeopathic seminars, 1989 Seminars in Italy by doctors T.P.Paschero courses and congresses worldwide since 2002 and P.S.Ortega. 1989-2005 Annual attendance at She is one of the founders of the first Homeopathic Dr. Proceso Sanchez Ortega's office in Mexico. association in Turkey, the Classical Homeopathy Since 1985 Dr Renzo Galassi has been member Association in 2003 and is the president of the of the Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica association since 2013 Internationalis. In 1989 he founded the She is a member of the LMHI since 2007 and Accademia Omeopatica Hahnemanniana giving National Vice president of Turkey between 2010- basic courses to doctors and pharmacists. He 2016. Head of the delegation of the Turkish gave several seminars in Italy and abroad. Standartisation Institute (TSE) in the CEN/TC 427 .

DR. RENZO GALASSI, DR. ALTUNAY AGAOGLU, LMHI Past President LMHI General Secretary

As homoeopathic doctor I am working in my own Medical Doctor for 43 years special- ized in Family private practice in Leipzig. Knowledge in structural Medicine, 38 years in Homeopathic Medicine and 25 development of NGOs. Experiences in dealing with years in Traditional Chinese Medicine including Association Registration Court in Germany. Acupuncture Board Certified in Homeopathic Gymnasium / High School finished with graduation Medicine by the American Board of for University in Augsburg, Germany Ludwig- Homeotherapeutics in 1978 Maximillian-University of Munich: Study of Medicine Graduated from“Santa Barbara College of Oriental In 2010 I started as Treasurer of the German Medi- cine” in 1988. President of “California Central Association of Homoeopathic Doctors Homeopathic Medical Society – CHMS” for 17 years (DZVhÄ) and as chairman of Homoeopathy- as well as Editor of its past Journal/ Newsletter Foundation of DZVhÄ. Presently on the Board of Directors of the CHMS.

DR. MONIKA KÖLSCH, DR. RICHARD HILTNER, LMHI Treasurer LMHI Secretary for Liga Letter

The Medical Association of Rome1975 Degree in Medicine at La Sapienza University in Rome 1976-2016 L.M.H.I. Member He received his medical education and degree at the 1976 Diploma of Homeopathic Medical doctor of Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario, in the A.I.M.O.H. 1987-1997 / 2001-2012 President of Bogota. He returned to the in 1982, I.R.M.S.O completed his residency in psychiatry and neurology, 2002 Founder and Vice-president of ASSUM - Ass. and become board certified in that specialty. per la Universalita della Medicina - Roma 2002-2016 Director in 65 ECM events He is currently an associate clinical professor of 2004 University Professor in L'Aquila - psychiatry and human behavior at Thomas Jefferson Perfectioning Course in Homeopathic Medicine University in Philadelphia and an attending at the Myrna Omeopatica Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas 2007-2012 Vice President for Italy of the Liga Jefferson University Hospital(http://bit.ly/dcoQyy). Medicorum Homoeopathica Intemationalis L.M.H.I. DR. BERNARDO MERIZALDE, DR. PIETRO FEDERICO, LMHI Secretary for Public Relations LMHI Secretary for Education

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After finishing the studies of pharmacy at the Dr. Raj K. Manchanda, M.D.(Hom), M.B.A. (Health Universities of Innsbruck (Austria) and Padova Care Administration) Delhi University is a dynamic (Italy) she took up the study in homoeopathy leader of Homeopathy having 33 years hands on attending various courses and seminars. professional experience (clinical, teaching, research Extensive research work followed at the and public health) including 20 years in Department of Universities of Bonn (Germany) at the Health &Family Welfare, Govt. of Delhi. Presently, Department of History of Medicine and Marburg guiding the homoeopathic research in India as Director (Germany) at the Department of History of General of Central Council for Research in Pharmacy about the history of high potencies Homoeopathy under Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India including their preparation with various machines. since2012. She delivered different lectures on the Fulfilling his additional roles as : Co- chairman, Drug preparation of homoeopathic remedies in Technical Advisory Board; Member-Secretary, Germany and India. Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Committee (HPC); DR. HEIKE GYPSER, Expert member in various committees of Ministry of TopiLMHIcs Secretary for Pharmacy AYUSH, Government of India; Contact person with DR. RAJ KUMAR Parliament of India and Delhi Legislative Assembly for MANCHANDA, LMHI policy matters on Homoeopathy. Secretary for Research Recipient of “State Award” in 2010 by the Government of Delhi for the meritorious works undertaken in the field of Homoeopathy and “Award of Recognition” by Robert Bosch Foundation, Germany in 2011. Professor Ross is an Associate Professor in Owes authorship of about 30 several research papers Homoeopathy. He has been teaching in peer reviewed international/national journals and a Homoeopathic philosophy and Materia Medica for book: Textbook of Dermatology for Homoeopaths in 19 years. He is also a member of the English and Spanish language. Active participant in International Advisory Board of the conferences across the globe and presented more Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice than 50 research papers at International and National journal and a reviewer of submissions to both the level spreading the spirit of evidence based Homeopathy journal and the Indian Journal of medicine…… Research in Homoeopathy.

PROF. ASHLEY ROSS, LMHI Secretary for Provings

Maestro in Education Docencia Superior by the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro Titular Professor of Homeopathy – Graduate Dentistry Course – Salgado de Oliveira University– Niteroi – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil Dr Gloria André President of the Brazilian Homeoapthy Feighelstein LMHI Dentistry Associa- tion of Rio de Janeiro Secretary for Dentistry President of the Technical Camera of Homeopathy and Ethic Camera of the Brazilian Dentistry Council.

LMHI Library Commettee , Dr. Cesar Cremonini

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LMHI President’s editorial, by, Alok Pareek

The LMHI congress in Buenos Aires was very enriching. “If there is one who is wise in the law, it is because It was wonderful to get to know the colleagues from this he loves it and obeys it. If he is wiser than the part of the globe and attend the scientific sessions. I others, it is because he loves it more than other for congratulate the organizers for meticulously performing the sake of the good it will do for man.” this momentous task. Kent. Lesser Writings: The Making of Man Since taking charge in Buenos Aires, the new board has As I write my first Editorial as the President of the already been busy with activities: preparing the Working LMHI, the above mentioned words of Kent come to group meeting reports, communication with individual my mind. These words are the best short member countries, further upgradation of the website, explanation of our ultimate aim at LMHI – to make this edition of the newsletter etc. each other “wise in the law”. This wisdom would come from love; love would come from admiration; Dear friends, I will keep you updated about our work in admiration would come from belief, and belief would the board which goes on behind the curtain and does

come from scientific exposure and learning. All of not get featured as news. Please accept my Season’s

this is only possible with greater interaction and greetings for a very Happy New Year. Enjoy growth as a scientific community – the central aim of reading……… LMHI.

A few months ago in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when the international council of the LMHI entrusted upon me the responsibility of being the International President, I was nostalgic. I remembered how my father, who is an LMHI delegate since 1957 would talk of the LMHI upon his return from congresses and my first congress 40 years ago in New Delhi in 1977. A feeling of great responsibility followed the nostalgia. I am really thankful to have a very able board, with expert members in each of the secretary positions. I am sure together, we will be able achieve, greater love, acceptance and appreciation Dr. Alok Pareek, for Homeopathy in the International medical President - LMHI community.

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A Homeopathic Approach to Hyperactive, Attention Deficit Disorder and/or Autistic Children/ Adults (Part Three) by Marci Richard Hiltner, MD

Dr. Richard Hiltner

Dear colleagues, ADD ╣ 53 Y/O H. R.

Before I continue on the part three, I wish to thank especially H. R. is a 53 y/o woman seen initially in 3/17/06 with history the Past President of the LMHI, Renzo Galassi, who has begun of depression, hot flushes, difficulty with concentration, mood a WORKING GROUP (WG) for the LMHI NEWS. As of this swings, poor memory, fear of speaking because would forget time, the following have very generously given their time and what she is saying; decrease hearing for years; insomnia, effort to this WG: Altunay Agaoglu, Dan Cook, Bernard Zauner fatigue, decrease sense of smell. Dizzy. and Pietro Guila. She has taken intermittently Adderall [amphetamine salt Now, continuing on with the aspect of attention deficit disorder, combo] since 1999. I wish to present a case. She had a tendency to suppress emotions and grief. A. L is an 8 y/o boy first seen on 6/20/94. He was very intense, >> salt erratic, could be cruel to animals, very restless, gets into fights, Given Natrum mur 1M and LM 1 on 3/24/06. One week later decrease memory, tendency to touch his genitalia. pain in right upper extremity and chest. ECG ok. Fears being alone, needs light on at night, water, being Acupuncture helped. poisoned, dogs, rats, snakes. Nightmares about father, “bad 5/9/06 sense of smell and hearing better. spirits.” Energy is better Father alcoholic. Parents divorced. Concentration and memory improved. Hyoscyamus 10 M on 6/20/94. No hot flushes 7/15/95 still improving. He had one more dose. Less fights, No dizziness memory better. Sleeps better. More calm. Much less touching of genitalia. Natrum Muriaticum (sodium chloride) Hyoscyamus The main feeling in people needing Natrum muriaticum, Impulsive: talking, joking, throwing tantrums. derived from table salt, is feeling rejected and unloved, and Jealousy, provokes fights and abuse. then withdrawing to avoid being hurt again. Precocious sexual behavior, masturbation, exhibitionism. Cursing, especially for shock value I These individuals tend to be shy, introverted, and rarely present behavior problems. They cry their salty tears alone, n regard to attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), not wanting to be embarrassed in public. here's a case of a 33-year-old man. JD was first seen on 9/5/97. They tend to be confidantes to parents or to friends. Headaches, allergies, and cold sores are common He was taking Lithium for 3 months. Talkative, anxious, complaints. They often crave salt, pasta, and bread, and are restless, friendly, depressed, scattered, poor short term averse to slimy foods and fat. memory, broods over unpleasant subjects, critical, jealous and avoids .strangers . Fear of being alone, heights, people, claustrophobia, being sexually molested. Fear of abandonment. Wants to fly. Impulsive. Picked on as a child. Acted the clown. Irritable and tired inwardly, outwardly happy; compulsive. (To Be Continued) Hyoscyamus 1M. He had a definite improvement.

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The “New Age” of our LMHI Newsletter… by Dr. Renzo Galassi – LMHI Past President

Dear Colleagues, Sisters and Brothers of our Noble Art, it is a My answer was “OK. But we know, many groups around the great pleasure to be back to work for the LMHI after a period of world are today proving new remedies with the tools that rest and restoration of energies, which I had spent during my Hahnemann left us. Also the LMHI, under my proposal, has presidency. started a Multicentric proving of a remedy in five different countries.” (The results will be published, maybe in the next I decided, together with our new President Dr. Alok Pareek and Issue of the LMHI Newsletter). our Secretary for the Newsletter Dr. Richard Hiltner, to go on But they answered me, that according to their “personal” with my collaboration for the publication of our LMHI Newsletter, experience, we can avoid studying a substance with a proving; as I have done since my election as President in Quito 2013. that they are able, thanks to other “techniques” to establish the This work is very important, because we offer in every issue symptoms a new remedy is able to cure………. interesting articles of Classical Homeopathy, so difficult to find Well, I am happy that such colleagues exist, who are so good nowadays and very important for our youngest colleagues who in discovering many remedies, and new theories, new need training in the basics of our Medicine. approaches to patients and who also have time to travel I proposed, and the proposal was accepted, to create a team, a around the world several times a year, leaving their office and Working Group for the Newsletter. We will start with an patients. I ask myself every morning when I start studying, if experienced group of colleagues who will bring “new Blood” and such brilliant minds disregard our Hahnemannian theories ideas to our magazine. They are Dr. Daniel Cook, from Dallas – and clinical applications, is it still worth spending time studying USA, Dr. Pietro Gulia, from Rome – Italy and Dr. Bernhard Hahnemann and the classics? Time will answer these Zauner, from Bad Schallerbach - Austria. questions…!

We invite all experienced colleagues and teachers of our As I still love to spend time to read old books and Magazines, Medicine to send articles on Hahnemannian Medicine, to be yesterday I had in my hands the 2nd Volume of the evaluated and published. During my term as a president, I Medical Advance, published in 1875. At the page 441 I could received congratulations for the clinical, historical and scientific find a letter sent by the great Dr. Adolph von Lippe (1812- content of the Newsletter, so we will go on with this style. 1888) and I was inspired by him to consider the situation we face nowadays as part of our history. Also in the time of the Now, I want to share with you some thoughts about our Golden Age of Homeopathy in USA and in Europe, they had to Medicine that needs today, more than ever, unity and face the situation of deviation from the original principles of our strengthening of our healing potential. During my trips for the Medicine and mystification of the Materia Medica. I leave to LMHI I had the opportunity to visit many teaching centers and I Lippe (According to the researches of our colleague Andrè have seen very good quality level. Sometimes I could question Saine of Montreal – Canada, Lippe was probably one of the some students and I was so happy with their answers, most of best 3-4 prescribers of our history) the duty to define the the time clear, adherent to Hahnemannian doctrine and situation that they were living that time and that we live today. practice. I compare this situation where the students grow in the Art of healing, to the Renaissance when new artists grew in “Philadelphia Correspondence. tight contact with their Masters……. A different situation appears when we face the “world” of the Dear Doctor:—TheDecember Number of the Cincinnati Seminars, workshops, etc. Medical Advance has been received in advance of time. Your I have seen and I see a sort of competition among “renowned remarks on the Twelve Tissue Remedies have been read with speakers” to spread their hypotheses and ideas in every corner interest, especially, as I had tried my ability to express an of the world. Talking with some of them I was informed that it is opinion on this new Departure, in the October number of the important to speak good English, to write one or more books Hahnemannian Monthly. Although "recommended for with personal new theories and then sooner or later they start investigation," I should think there were but few men among their trips around the world, showing their successes and us so insane as to accept Schussler's dictum, based on his illustrating their new approaches, which according to their study and experiment when, at sight, they find him making statements, work very well, curing patients much better than in boastfully absurd statements; when they find him on the the past, when they were using the Classical Method. When I physiological and functional crutches, evidently, suffering from tried to ask them what about the Principles that are the basis of locomotor ataxia. All the new discoveries, based on study and our Medicine and that are not part of their new Methods, they experiment, in any of the collateral branches of sciences, if answered me that our goal in our professional life is to update true, can be made subservient to accepted infallible principles the work of Hahnemann and the other Classics, and that we ; may they be offered to the world at large ; they can be made can’t limit ourselves to 200 remedies or to theories dating back subservient to religious fundamental truths, if offered to us, as 200 years. Homoeopathists, they can be made subservient to the fundamental and infallible principle, which we are supposed to have accepted when we entered the ranks of a school, founded and characteristically named by Hahnemann. THELIGA NEWS • Dec 2016 • www.lmhi.org 7 LIGA NEWS

Only the illiberal, contracted mind will reject the After having had a rather enlarged experience by the proffered facta, because one or another illogical clinical experiment of the curative action of Eupatorium, enthusiast has drawn wrong or false deductions from especially in intermittent fever, having successfully cured these otherwise carefully stated observed facts. But we hundreds of cases by means of this remedy ever since do ask ourselves : Why are we punished with these 1846, we endeavored to give a concise pathogenesis of it frequent " Departures ?" 'We see the evil, the growing in our text book, and these did give (symptoms 24 and 35) evil ; and for all evils there is a remedy. As long as vomiting of bile. Why does the eminent author drop this men, in or out of the profession, will submit to be characteristic symptom ? And if his siftings, omissions guided by the opinions of miserable, fallible men, these and alterations supersede in reality the proffered "Departures" will multiply, from Humphrey's experience of men " who cannot give guarantee of Homoeopathic Specifics, down to the Twelve Tissue sufficient weight," why does he resort to that, among men Specifics and Grauvogl's Lapis Albus (another Specific of letters considered impropriety, in answer to a criticism ? for Carcinoma). It has been men's opinions which have Must the only critic be the gentleman whom he chooses to superseded the (by them violated) fundamental parade before the profession as having rendered him principles. As long as our societies, our colleges, our valuable assistance, who surely will be exonerated from journals decline to define their views of what is truly participating in the reckless manner in really caricaturing, Homoeopathy, as long as no definition of our at least, Eupatorium? fundamental principles is offered ! just so long will the Dr. Hering has persistently objected to such arbitrary increasing number of "Liberals," of men who are taught actions, and now is called upon to be sponsor to them. C. to believe in the freedom of medical opinion and Hering has carefully collected all symptoms of new and action, be exposed to the temptations offered " lazy old remedies, given by all kinds of men, without doctors." considering their color And if this is so, then the only remedy is, to unite upon or previous conditions, and was thereby enabled to add infallible fundamental principles, belonging to the very valuable works to our Materia Medica. Will the school of Homoeopathy ; such united acknowledgment profession of principles will require a free discussion of them ; to submit their principles or their Materia Medica to such make a beginning in the good work, may 1 be arbitration ? That is the question. permitted to suggest for further consideration, a creed of ours, expressed in three sentences. Yours, very truly, 1. The Dynamic Origin of Diseases. Ad. Lippe.” 2. The Dynamized Single Remedy, administered under Philadelphia, 1204 Walnut St., \ 3. The Laws of the Similars. November 30th, 1874. Or, shall we consent to submit these weighty subjects to self-constituted arbitration ? The tendency of our days lies in that direction. Permit me to call your attention to "Facts." Vide Hahnemannian Monthly, vol. x. no. 4, p. ]83. A well qualified professional gentleman, published a mild criticism of Dr. Korndoerler's translation of Boenninghausen's Fever-Work, with additions, the renowned author resents the criticism, and assumes “My special thanks to Daniel Cook MD of the responsibility of the work as it stands, but claims Dallas/Texas who corrected the style of the article.” the valuable assistance of Dr. Hering, which he says: "Is not deserving of maligning from such a source!" He further says on page 184, "Many symptoms, however, have been purposely omitted. " These are such for which no guarantee of sufficient weight could be obtained." Here we have a self-constituted committee sifting our Materia Medica, and rejecting just what is thought of light weight. In order to show the great danger which such arbitrary proceedings will inflict on us, we shall mention only one symptom of one remedy. Under Eupatorium, we find, " vomiting at the conclusion of the chill." True, Dr. Walter Williamson gives in the Transactions of American Institute of Homoeopathy, 1846, the same symptom (150) but also, (Symptom 148) retching and vomiting of bile.

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HAHNEMANN'S PATRIMONY by DR. Pierre SCHMIDT

from LMHI 11th Congress, 1936

Those who say they have tested Homoeopathy and it is a Sufficient time has elapsed for us to put the question as to what the failure have only exposed their own ignorance. (Kent.) patrimony bequeathed by Hahnemann to the world really is, and what we have done with it. This heritage is composed of seven A climber has reached the mountain-top, where a glorious very important elements, i.e.: view greets him; the blue sky, the wonderful horizon, 1) The renowned Law of Similars: Similia Similibus Curentur, the impregnable mountain-peaks wrapped in eternal snow; real basis of all the homoeopathic doctrine, discovered in 1796, lower down are wooded slopes, fields, plains and valleys; a expressed thus: In order to cure a disease by medicinal agencies, thick white mist creeps up shutting out the larger masses, administer in minimal doses the medicament, which, if given in while the sun shines brightly on the church steeples of the large dose to a healthy susceptible individual, would be able to little villages perched high up on the mountain, bathing all cause a similar condition to the one presented by the patient to be in light and beauty. treated. This is the pivot of homoeopathy and Hahnemann The climber, alone in all this silent grandeur halts awhile to mentions it many times in his Organon, but in a still more contemplate the scene, and his heart overflows with particular, decisive and clear way in his introduction in these terms: gratitude for all the marvels displayed. He is so moved by "Observation, reflection and experience, I discovered that, contrary all he sees that he strives to attune his heart to vibrate in to the old allopathic method, the true, the proper, the best mode of unison with nature’s wonders and muses thus: treatment is contained in the maxim: To cure mildly, rapidly, "Here am I, far away from the hustle and bustle of the certainly and permanently, certainly, in every case of disease , world, nature's beauty spreading out before me-forests, choose a medicine which can itself produce an affection similar to flowering valleys, gardens and orchards. Providence has that sought to be cured !" lavishly bestowed all her gifts on man and says: ' Come, 2) The single remedy. Hahnemann, in course of his long medical look on all these riches, take and enjoy them.' " career, progressed in this sense, that he modified his conceptions according to the tests and fruits of his increasing knowledge and Is it possible that beneath those mists there live experience. He changed his mind on many points during his discontented, dissatisfied, unhappy, envious, jealous medical career. To begin with, he turned from allopathy to people who quarrel and hate each other? Can there really homoeopathy, then he changed his ideas concerning posology, be frontiers which separate hearts? "Behold, I gave you and when I say changed I ought to say revolutionized, because every potentiality and all these riches to enjoy; what have here he was dealing with the penetration into an absolutely new you done with them? Have you turned them to good world. Furthermore, he modified his conception of pathology, account?" ceaselessly correcting acquired notions. concerning the repetition Has man responded to all this liberality, these generous of remedies, their preparation, the number of succussions, their gifts, in the development of his qualities; in goodness and different ways of administration. The evolution of all his charity? If not, how can he help a feeling of bitterness in his conceptions was based on the results observed through daily tests heart? No, ungrateful man, displeased, selfish and jealous, on his patients, and after further reflection they were ameliorated, has only sowed discord and maledictions and now reaps remade or modified; but on one question he has been absolutely the fruit of his action: epidemics, sickness, cataclysms, firm and never changed to his last moments, strange to say, ever misfortunes and calamities of all sorts. The progress of since the time he was an allopath, therefore before the discovery of civilization does not seem to have taught him the lesson of homoeopathy and that is the question concerning the simplicity in life. Far from having cultivated and generously shared the the prescription of remedies. “Simplicity is the supreme law of the gifts bequeathed, man became greedy, avaricious and ” is what he wrote in the Journal of Hufeland as far back selfish. as 1797. I had the curiosity to look through 18 original writings of in 1796 proclaimed the Law of Hahnemann from 1784 till 1843, the date of his death. Through all Similars and brought new notions and principles to the he unceasingly and unhesitatingly repeats without a possibility of medical world with unprecedented courage. He himself ambiguity what he reiterates in § 259 and especially in §§ 273 and suffered morally and physically and it was only after 12 274 of the last edition of his Organon, the culmination of his full years of continuous experiments and daily sacrifices that experience: “ In no case is it necessary and therefore not he published his Chronic Diseases. The secret of the permissible to administer to a patient more than one single, simple action of his remedies can be explained metaphysically by medicinal substance at one time. The true physician will be mindful the sufferings experienced himself through the proving of of the wise maxim that ‘ it is wrong to attempt to employ complex each medicament. Those medicaments, owing to a law of means when simple means suffice,' never think of giving as a similar applicable on a superior plane, act on similar remedy any but a single, simple medicinal substance, because sufferings: the suffering is cured through suffering even though the simple were thoroughly proved... it is produced by a medicament. This is perhaps also why new yet impossible to foresee how two and more medicinal substances drugs which have not been tested through pain are far from might, when compounded, hinder and alter each other's actions on deserving the value of those proved by Hahnemann the human body." I developed this question at the Congress of himself. Roma in 1930 and even more fully at the Congress at Arnhem in 1934.

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Hahnemann in a letter addressed to his faithful Hering in After 40 years of assiduous experiment, Hahnemann Philadelphia, the 13th September, 1833, wrote: "On my chose the 30th centesimal potency, which for quite a long birthday, the 10th of April, I had in Coethen, more than time he thought was the optimum dilution, but according 20 of my pupils (including Boenninghausen) from all to his wife in Paris at the end of his life he made use of over the world, and all were completely in accord on one the whole scale of potencies from the lower trituration’s to point, that a true homoeopathist should never administer the higher potencies, 200 and 1M, if he judged them at the same time more than one single , carefully necessary. It is today proved that the smaller potencies selected , homoeopathic remedy, this after a and the more infinitesimal have still an undeniable conscientious research and an examination of all the therapeutic power. All this question of "medicamentous conditions of the morbid state," and today, more than dynamization" drove Hahnemann to discover the best ever, I repeat with insistence to every young method of preparation for his remedies, and it is he homoeopathist to follow this wise advice of our founder. himself who first discovered a procedure of The more remedies we prescribe for a given case, the "medicamentous exaltation" of which he gives a most less we know which one has ameliorated, cured or detailed description in his Organon and where he settles aggravated. He who has been able to get rid of all the points concerning the gathering of materials, the allopathic errors must not pass through this alluring door pharmacopraxis proceedings of trituration, dilution, which deflects from the essential homoeopathic globuli, imbibition, etc. principles. Apply your prescriptions. to the whole 5) Homoeopathic diagnosis. organism and not to its local parts and always give, as This touches one of the primordial rules of Homoeopathy: Hahnemann teaches, the remedy based on the totality the individualisation, endorsing thus the famous maxim: of the mental symptoms (if they exist) of general There are no diseases, there are only sick people. symptoms and local symptoms. As Sir said: Remember, as Kent said, that two sick people are more "Always try to find the remedy which covers best the unlike than two well ones. The morbid diagnosis is not minimum symptoms of maximum importance, according sufficient for the homoeopathist; he needs besides a to the homoeopathic rule. therapeutical diagnosis, i.e., an equation whose “" The precept of monopharmacy is one of the cardinal unknown term is the morbid cause and the known one points of homoeopathy." (Dr Granier.) being furnished by the totality of the symptoms, which Hahnemann has given us his golden rule by saying: "To correspond to a remedy capable of reproducing the give only simple remedies and to wait to prescribe the pathological picture observed in a given patient. The next until the first one has exhausted its action, that is actual symptoms do not represent and are not the what leads directly into the sanctuary of art.” disease itself. The Organon says: "that for a physician the 3) Proving on the healthy. visible side of a malady is constituted by the symptoms as Struck by the small value and also the danger of the a whole, the outwardly reflected image of the internal conclusions given by the old school, whose therapeutic essence of the disease.'' That is why the search for the was based on experimenting on animals or sick patients, homoeopathic remedy must be essentially based on the Hahnemann had the idea of testing drugs on the healthy characteristic, uncommon and striking signs observed in man. He poisoned himself with more than 100 drugs in the patient; rare symptoms must agree with the totality of order to bring out their pure effects: animals being symptoms of the given case. Thus, every patient unable to express their sensations, and sick people becomes a special case, whose specific remedy must be already sensitive on account of their pathological state, carefully sought and any true physician will be careful to being unable to furnish but one-sided and incomplete avoid routine and what some call predilection of favorite answers. What gives the value and the richness of the remedies. He will always bear in mind the well-known morbid pictures obtained by Hahnemann in what he articles 257 and 258 of the Organon. The homoeopathic calls pure or pathogenetic experimentation, is that they diagnosis is a therapeutical diagnosis − that is, it contain not only the objective symptoms observed, but immediately indicates the useful remedy, the morbid especially the subjective and mental symptoms. diagnosis being only subordinate to the former. 6) Technic 4) The small or infinitesimal dose. of the remedial application. This comprised: A homoeopathic cure can be equally obtained through a) The pharmaconomy (from pharmacon = remedy and substantial doses. In fact, it is with these that nomos= administration, distribution), i.e. the various ways Hahnemann made his first tests on himself. of administering the medicaments. Nevertheless, his long experience, verified by all the b) The pharmacopollaxy (from pharmacon = remedy and generations of from his time till today, has pollaxis= many times) or repetition of the remedies about proved that his remedies produced much more efficient which I published an article in the Recorder, 1933 (Vol. results when administered in minimum doses, and that 48). in many cases this very attenuated form became quite c) The pharmaconeosis (from pharmacon = remedy and indispensable. The use of infinitesimal doses without neos = new), meaning the administering of a new remedy being an absolute necessity is nevertheless the and what to do after the first prescription. The true consequence of the law of similars. The medium or homoeopathic practitioner must never change a remedy strong doses obviously would provoke a morbid unless new indications and serious reasons call for it. "addition" (Organon 69); minimal doses on the contrary d) The pharmacopausis (from pharmacon = remedy and induce the specific dynamic reaction sought for in pausis = rest), i.e., the suspension of remedies. "The homoeopathic therapeutics. older one grows in the profession, the less does one give remedies to the patients and the better they are cured!" (Granier.)

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However necessary it may be for the physician to beware 2) In many countries, the single remedy has become an of the impatience of the sick, he must perhaps still more exception. It seems old fashioned not to give a group of mistrust his own. To do nothing apparently after the remedies, alternatively or simultaneously with the idea of prescription of the remedy, is in reality to let the remedy saving time. take its course and develop its full efficacy. See what 3) The rigorous proving on the healthy man as a basis for Hahnemann advises on the subject in his "Chronic the application of any homoeopathic remedy is not Diseases" and follow the precept of Gui-Patin: "Vulgus considered as an essential notion by many physicians vult decipi, ergo decipiatur," which means that for himself who still administer medicaments solely based on the physician must have "du savoir" (knowledge) and for empiricism or "ab usu in morbi. “ his patient "du savoir-faire" (skill, tact). 4) The small dose is the question which is still the most These various questions have been developed in the respected. If all do not consider it reaching the highest most interesting way by homoeopathic physicians, and scale, it is nevertheless applied by all those who claim to Kent deserves our admiration for the extremely be homeopaths and at a rate certainly much lower than authoritative and magisterial way he has written on the the strong doses of the old school. 2nd prescription and all that ought to be done in every 5) Individualisation and the research of characteristics are particular case after the action of the first remedy really forgotten topics. Everyone pretends to have no time administered. Nobody else had ever treated this question for them and is striving to find more and more objective in such a practical way. symptoms easy to detect, thus studying more the house 7) The theory of the three miasms and chronic diseases. than the man living in it. The folly of speed also affects the Acute ailments are considered as short affections and medical faculty whose aim is to find the remedy quickly, chronic ones as maladies of long duration. An acute and there are even some who have prepared schemes trouble which lasts becomes a chronic disease. Such are where the patients are catalogued according to their the actual notions, but Hahnemann has revolutionized sicknesses to which automatically correspond such and these ideas and demonstrated that acute diseases such remedies. In those cases, it is easy to see they are depend on and derive from chronic ones, and can only always obliged to give many remedies for the disease to burst out on a chronic soil. To this theory is linked the be treated. notion of the three miasms, so much debated, but so full 6) The verbum sapienti of Hahnemann concerning of teaching and of real practical value for those who take repetition and the respect of aggravation are very the trouble to study and investigate this question frequently forgotten and even unknown by many thoroughly. It is possible to be a homoeopathist without homoeopaths. accepting this belief, nevertheless it is not so much the 7) The theory of miasms, in spite of its outstanding assent to but the understanding of those concepts which interest, is forsaken by a great number of homoeopaths. It count, because they are truly homoeopathic. may appear a paradox, but many are those who have never opened the Organon or glanced at the Chronic The seven points just given constitute the essential pillars Diseases! of the homoeopathic edifice. They are absolutely and As in the case of the climber referred to at the beginning thoroughly characteristic of Homoeopathy, and those who of this study, it is with a certain bitterness that one asks conform to those concepts and apply them in their daily what has really been done with the riches of practice are homoeopathic physicians. Hahnemann's patrimony. This is our heritage, our patrimony, our wealth. What have Nevertheless, if I am obliged to point out how many of we done with it? Have we made it prosper as in the Hahnemann's precious counsels are nowadays despoiled parable of the talents? There have been some faithful or unknown, yet it is my duty to say very forcibly that the disciples who have applied those seven main points knowledge, comprehension, study and rigorous practice according to the Master's spirit and who have thus of them are not only possible, but that the application of continued his work by imitating him and trying, according the seven points largely rewards those who consecrate to his advice, to "imitate him well.” themselves to it. He has had enthusiastic admirers who tried especially to If a broad eclectism seems to us, theoretically speaking, propagate his doctrine and finally many physicians who, the most useful rule to be applied, the wisest choice although convinced of the truthfulness of the principles practically is the one contained in those seven precepts; and new ideas brought to light by Hahnemann, and it is the appanage of those who have fully and undervalued and judged it all narrowly and who thought thoroughly investigated homoeopathic philosophy and are well to combine his advice with allopathic ideas or with fully aware of the heritage bequeathed by Hahnemann. new and divergent thoughts. So, the seven cardinal In my country, in Switzerland, the tendency is points given above have been interpreted and applied in approximately equal between those who search to apply quite various directions with this very curious fact that the above given points and those who have modernized, I those who have departed so for from the teaching of the mean modified the teachings of Hahmemann; and as founder of Homoeopathy still call and consider another colleague will expose the opposite point of view, I themselves Homoeopathists all unconscious of their error. am happy to tell you that the application of pure homoeopathy, i.e. of those seven homoeopathic points, is 1) Thus, referring to the first point concerning the law of a possible, practical, perfectly realizable achievement. similar, there has been and there still is a custom of giving (homoeopathic) remedies according to allopathic enathiopathic principles without any consideration of the law of Similia.

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My purpose is not to criticize in any way other methods, Like the prince in the story, Science is walking the which certainly justify themselves in the eyes of those earth with the lost glass slipper in its hand, seeking the who use them, but to state clearly that the seven points of rightful wearer thereof. Many false claimants are Hahnemann are neither old-fashioned nor senile, but are "trying it on" and vainly. In the fullness of time today as true and as applicable as 140 years ago. They Cinderella shall be known; contempt and contumely lead to results as encouraging now as formerly. The may be heaped upon her by the proud and haughty practice of homoeopathy according to the Hahnemannian ones now in high places; but it is she only whom the conception is a pragmatic art. The seven points represent prince will espouse. the seven colors of our Homoeopathic flag, and those Now go from hence and witness the blandishments of who rally to it can merit the Hahnemann's title of "science"; behold the glamour of her laboratories, homoeopathist, or homoeopathician, according to Kent. hearken to the tales of wonder told therein. Hold fast We ought to meditate on those teachings and to re-read all that is good. Then read your Organon, master it, untiringly the Organon and the Hahnemann "Lesser apply its truths at the bedside. Let the years bring to Writings" from which we shall always be able to draw new you the ripe fruit of all this. Do not be impatient. strength, and if every opinion ought to be respected Remember that reasonably, we ought to render to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to Homoeopathy that which pertains to Homoeopathy. Let us repeat what Samuel Arthur Jones "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.“ has well expressed: "Teachers and students, remember your inheritance; be proud of it; be true to its demands; forget not its deservings. Devote all that in you is to the Perhaps when you are gleaning the precious aftermath comprehension and the apprehension of it; make all in thankfulness, you may give a passing thought to the knowledge, the fullness of knowledge, tributary to it−for memory of the worn-out Watchman who came to you such all truth is. by night, bringing the challenge, "Under which King?"

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Tribute to James Tyler Kent on the Occasion of his th 100 Day of Death

by K.H. Gypser

When Kent was buried up in the mountains of Montana, His death occurred on 5th of June, and he was the husband to in Stevensville in the area called Bitterroot Valley, Clara Louise Kent (1856-1943) born Tobey. The couple was America had lost the other great man of its married almost 20 years, and she was a homoeopathic physician homoeopathic history. The first, like himself. (1800-1880), It was in the same year, 1916, when Kent passed away and the period of the immensely successful and world-leading American homoeopathy came to an end step by step that **Albert Einstein (1879-1955) published his theory of relativity, **the Trans-Siberian Railways was finished, and **Francis Joseph (1830-1916), the last emperor of Austria, died.

As there is no death without

birth we go back to the rural

Town of Woodhull in Steuben

County, New York, where Kent

was born on the 31st of March

1849. The cemetery is full of

grave-stones demonstrating that

the family of the Kent´s had

settled there a long time ago.

had spread our healing art widely over the country, and We even find today the farm- it is a strange coincidence that Kent started his career house where Kent has been as homoeopath in the very same year, 1880, when born. After finishing his carrier Hering died. Both influenced homoeopathy worldwide at Prattsburgh´s until this day.

When Kent after 36 years of service to homoeopathy passed FRANKLIN ACADEMY AND UNION away in 1916 he died FREE SCHOOL and later at the as a worn-out man at WOODHULL ACADEMY he the age of 67. Like entered the clinic of an old other citizens of school physician of Woodhull who used named Dr. Elihu Brown for a the recently period of two years. This kind established train connection to spend some time in of traineeship was required as healthier surroundings he had built a country home there. a qualification for the study of He deceased exhausted after finishing all the corrections medicine in those days. of the third edition of his famous repertory and after decades of hard work. As his death certificate shows he died from Bright´s disease which is called chronic He matriculated at the Glomerulonephritis nowadays. ECLECTIC MEDICAL INSTITUTE in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 6 February 1871 being the 15th student of the session. Eclectic medicine was founded by Wooster Beach (1794-1868) and Samuel Thomson (1769-1843) in North America of the 1820´ies. THELIGA NEWS • Dec 2016 • www.lmhi.org 13 LIGA NEWS

Generally spoken it can be said that eclectic medicine In spite of the fact that Kent was a reader of the **never applied anything that could harm the patient, homoeopathic periodical “MEDICAL ADVANCE” in 1879 an **their remedies were of vegetable origin and most of occurrence in his life was necessary to convert him to them were frequently used by American Native people, homoeopathy. His second wife, Lucy H. Kent from

**everything being helpful without ideological basis was Philadelphia, whom he married in 1875 became used, and seriously ill and could not be helped by any doctor. **orthodox medicine with its authorities was strictly Finally she insisted to consult the homoeopath Dr. R.A. declined. Phelan (1836-1902) who cured her. That made Kent to study homoeopathy under his guidance and to retire The ECLECTIC MEDICAL INSTITUTE of Cincinnati was one from all his positions in eclectic medicine. of the leading institutions for the teachings of eclectic medicine in the whole country. Kent graduated after four months of study and after presenting his medical thesis entitled “True Eclecticism”. It has to be said that Kent´s time of medical study totally covering a period of two years and four months was fully up to standard concerning the medical education in America in those days.

With homoeopathy Kent had discovered his real devotion in life, and his extraordinary career started. His conversion took place in the summer of 1880, and with that his first homoeopathic period - the St. Louis period - had begun.

In his clinic he used low potencies for a very short time of some months but soon stepped higher applying the 30th and 200th. He had an extensive and lucrative clinic, made visits and took care of the inhabitants of a home for retired Kent’s Clinic ,Woodhull people. His speciality was the treatment of chronic diseases. After that he returned to his birthplace and settled down in practice localized in West Washington Street. He practised In 1881 he published his first cases in “THE HOMOEOPATHIC there in 1872, 1873 and part of 1874 until he moved to St. COURIER”. Soon other periodicals followed like the Louis, Missouri, after the death of his wife Ellen. He entered “MEDICAL ADVANCE”, the “ST. LOUIS PERISCOPE AND into the “Roll of Physicians” of St. Louis on 6th August 1874 CLINICAL REVIEW”, “THE HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN” and and settled down in practice with his former fellow student even more. He became a well-known writer in John A. King (1842-1930). This came to an end in 1876, homoeopathic circles. Primarily he published clinical cases and Kent practiced alone changing his locations on a yearly but also basic outlines and provings like those of Cenchris basis. He enrolled into eclectic medical associations contortrix and Culex musca. During his St. Louis period starting in 1877 and became vice-president of the ECLECTIC lasting eight years he contributed 55 articles to journals MEDICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI in 1879 and delegate to the plus an uncounted number of lectures. NATIONAL ECLECTIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION in 1879 and 1880. In the last year he was appointed to the position of “Recording Secretary” as well as to a member of the The faculty of the HOMOEOPATHIC “Bureau of Electricity” and the “Committee on Credentials“. MEDICAL COLLEGE OF MISSOURI - the third oldest in the country - appointed Kent to the chair of descriptive and surgical anatomy and as well as to the He delivered papers on the demonstrator of anatomy for the meetings of eclectic societies, winter session 1880-1881. Among his contributed to their periodicals duties were operations to be and published his first book performed during his lectures and entitled “Sexual Neuroses” in service at the out- patient department 1879. of the college. Furthermore he lectured on neurology. He allowed young men to attend his daily clinic to become qualified for the study of medicine at his medical institution. In the next session he taught as professor for principles and practice of surgery. He was From 1876 to 1878 Kent held also registrar of that institution from 1884-1888. He the position of “Demonstrator of became professor of Materia Medica and therapeutics in Anatomy” at the AMERICAN 1884. In the same year his first lecture in this field was MEDICAL COLLEGE where published entitled “Cinchona or China”. Already here is eclectic medicine was taught. to be observed what he did all through his life as an The students of that institution academic teacher of Materia Medica: He opened up obtained their practical training “Hering´s Guiding Symptoms” and went from generals to at the ST. LOUIS CITY HOSPITAL. particulars.

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In 1886 and 1887 the renowned journal “THE With the help of the influential and H OMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN” wrote about the excellent enormously rich John Pitcairn (1841-1916) standard of the HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE OF Kent founded the PHILADELPHIA POST- MISSOURI which was the merit of Kent, and that there GRADUATE SCHOOL OF HOMOEOPATHICS in was no college in the USA being equal to that 1891. Admitted were graduated MD´s who institution. obtained the title of “Master of During his St. Louis period Homoeopathics“ after a twelve-months Kent was a member of study - six days a week about five hours different homoeopathic lectures per day plus working in the societies and served also as dispensary - and passing an examination. chairman, delegate and even The guidelines were Kent´s lectures on the president. Two societies made Organon and Materia Medica. He also him honorary member. In April worked in the dispensary and served as 1888 he followed a call to take dean for many years. over the clinic of the late A. Lippe in Philadelphia. Looking The Philadelphia period lasting from 1888-1900 was the most fruitful of back it is most astonishing Kent´s homoeopathic life. He established the probably very best how speedily Kent acquired a teaching institution for pure Hahnemannian homoeopathy America has profound knowledge of ever seen. His lectures on philosophy as well as on Materia Medica homoeopathy. were published, and he started and completed his famous repertory which appeared in public in twelve parts in 1898-1900. To make this publication possible he paid 9.000 $ out of his own pocket. Finally he edited the “JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHICS” which was of very high standard.

He settled down with his clinic in Walnut Street and served as consultant at the WOMEN´S HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL of the city guiding three assistants. There final stages of tuberculosis and cancer were treated homoeopathically. Three months after his arrival he announced a Post-Graduate-Course which was the In 1895 his second wife died, and he married for a third time the second in Americas homoeopathic history. This one did before mentioned Clara Louise Tobey in 1896. In the very same not fail like the first in St. Louis 1884. period he became a Swedenborgian.

Kent lectured in the WOMEN´S HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL about Materia Medica and the Organon. The latter lectures were the basis of his later lectures about “Homoeopathic Philosophy”. After presenting guest lectures to the DUNHAM MEDICAL COLLEGE of Chicago in autumn 1899 he moved to Evanston, a suburb of this city, in 1900 and settled in an area where Swedenborgians lived.

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He opened his clinic in the Stuart Building, Suite 707, His first from abroad was R.G. Miller State Street, Chicago, which was the liveliest street of (1862-1919) from Glasgow well- the city in those days and practised there until his death. known for his “Relationship of Remedies” who studied in St. Louis in 1885. Others were Sir John Weir (1880-1971) from London or B.S. Bose from Kolkatta. Among his American disciples A.E. Austin (1868-1948),

F.E. Gladwin (1864-1931) and A.H. Grimmer (1874-1967) were of He lectured at the DUNHAM COLLEGE on Materia Medica special importance because the first and Homoeopathic Philosophy. When it united with the two gave instructions to Pierre HERING MEDICAL COLLEGE he became Dean of the Schmidt (1894-1987) of Geneva who institution. In 1903 he made a change for the brought homoeopathy back to HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE of Chicago lecturing Europe, and the latter to T.P. there on Materia Medica until 1910, and returned then to Paschero (1986) who spread the HERING COLLEGE until it was closed due to the homoeopathy in Argentina. Flexner-Report in 1913.

In an oration like this there is usually no place for any criticism. If we make an exception from this rule here it has to be said -first that Kent´s great merits can stand this easily, and -second that true criticism never intends to minimize the person but distinguishes what is correct in his work and what is not. Of course lack of time prevents deeper comments but the intention is to put right some ideas circulating in the homoeopathic world: 1. In regard to the influence of Swedenborgianism upon Kent it is true he incorporated it into his teachings starting during his Philadelphia period but never into his practical application What else did Kent accomplish in this, his longest of homoeopathy. homoeopathic period? By the way his first in St. Louis 2.Concerning some of his so-called new remedies it is true lasted 8 years, his second in Philadelphia 12, and his last he composed them at his desk from the leading symptoms of in Chicago 16 years - that is always increasing by 4 years. their major constituents at the request of the editor of the He “Critique”. Because of that they were not included into -edited his “Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica” “Kent´s Minor Writings on Homoeopathy”. as a book in 1905; 3.It is true that the grading system of his repertory is lacking -published the second edition of his “Repertory” in 1908; basic consistency. This originated from the various -was consulting physician at the HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL repertorial sources he used with their own very different from 1903-1910; systems of graduation. One has only to compare identical -founded the “SOCIETY OF HOMOEOPATHICIANS” with some rubrics in Kent´s repertory located in different parts to see of his disciples like Austin, Gladwin and Grimmer in 1910; the differences. Therefore one has to decide whether to -published a periodical entitled “THE HOMOEOPATHICIAN” in make use of the gradings or of the mere entries only.

1912; and This discussion of criticism of Kent

-became honorary member of several national and perhaps may prevent homoeopathy from

international homoeopathic societies. Kent´s health was deifying him. But it should never be failing in his last years, and the periodicals are full of forgotten how much he has done for our reports about recreation and recovery. When he passed art of healing. His life was completely away the homoeopathic world had lost one of its most devoted to homoeopathy. He practiced, prominent practitioner, teacher and author. He influenced taught and wrote, and still today we are homoeopathy worldwide by his writings and among them indebted to him for all he has done. especially by his repertory which is in use still today including its several derivates. His disciples spread his teachings over the globe. “My thanks go to Daniel Cook MD of Dallas/Texas for reading the manuscript.” THELIGA NEWS • Dec 2016 • www.lmhi.org Dr. med. Klaus-Henning Gypser

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JAMES TYLER KENT – HIS PART IN HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACY

BY HEıKE GYPSER

Kent´s repertory is probably on the desk of every homeopathic As we commemorate this year the 100th anniversary of the practitioner and everybody who goes a little deeper into death of Kent it is worth to have a closer look at his works, homeopathy sooner or later comes across it. Even without which are of importance for homeopathic pharmaceutics. going very much into details and basic knowledge of homeopathy one can use Kent´s work easily for searching the James Tyler Kent was born in 1849 in Woodhull, New York. proper remedy after a well-done anamnesis. The repertory is After his traditional medical education and a positive so widely known and accepted, that many are surprised when experience with homeopathy he studied and practiced it. Later they learn also about different other repertories. But this is just he taught anatomy, materia medica, homeopathic philosophy one single point that shows the great influence of Kent´s work, at different homeopathic colleges and became dean of one his thinking and teaching, which ended up in its classification and president of a second college in cities like Philadelphia as: “Kentianism”. Beyond doubt Kent´s influence for the and Chicago. The Philadelphia Post-Graduate School of homeopathic world was immense. Homoeopathics was founded by Kent and some of the most prominent homeopaths were brought forth by this institution. He was also a member of different homeopathic associations and many publications established his fame. Kent died on 5th June 1916 at the age of 67 years from glomerulonephritis.

Probably one of his first steps in homeopathic pharmaceutics was done with the preparation of Podophyllum, and Kent explains why: In the beginnings of his practice of homeopathy he was quite doubtful regarding the homeopathic remedies, which he admits: “I remember when I first read from Hahnemann that potentized medicines would cure the sick that it seemed to me a mystery”. But most likely not much is known about the role of Kent in homeopathic pharmaceutics. In this subject he followed the He begun to practice with low potencies tradition of Hahnemann, stipulating that a homeopathic but he was not satisfied. Later he physician should himself care for the preparation of the “resolved to test the 30th potency to see if required remedies as said in aphorism 264, ORG V: “The true there was not yet medicine in it” so he medical-art practitioner must have the most genuine, full- prepared with his “own hands the 30th strength medicines on hand in order to be able to rely on their potency of Podophyllum with water on the curative power; he himself must know them according to their centesimal scale, after the fashion of genuineness.” Hahnemann, having been told that water Because one single remedy is given only, everything depends was as good as alcohol and it was only the upon it. It has to be the right remedy, therefore Hahnemann attenuation that was required”. With this continued in section 265, ORG V: “It is a matter of conscience Podophyllum he was able to cure an infant for the medical-art practitioner to be certain that each patient fearing it would die soon, with a thin takes the right medicine every time. Therefore, the practitioner yellowish fecal stool, but the next morning should give the patient the correctly selected medicine from t was all right and did not need any more his own hands, and he should also prepare the medicine medicine. After this impressive experience and other himself.” Podophyllum cases Kent was so overwhelmed that he decided to make more potencies by hand arriving at the number of 126 different remedies in C 30 and even some in C 200. After the results obtained with his own potencies, Kent procured Jenichen´s (1787–1849) 200th as well as higher potencies and he has noted that the “higher potencies operate more and more interiorly”. He observed that patients treated with Jenichen´s lower potencies “would improve only for a matter of weeks, but on the administration of Fincke´s higher potencies the work would be taken up, and in that way the same patient could be carried on from one potency to another”. ¹

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Most likely after the described experiences Kent went more and more into the use of higher potencies. Exactly at this time the use of high potencies was becoming more public since a number of publications described their use and preparation. Also Kent acquired quite some experience as many case-histories prove, and he used the remedies from Samuel Swan (1814–1893), Ellis Monroe Santee (1862– 1931), Bernhard Fincke (1821–1906) and Thomas Skinner (1825–1906). All those homeopathic doctors – they were not pharmacists – had developed their specific potentizing machines for the preparation of their own remedies, just as Hahnemann has demanded. The pioneer of the high potency preparation was certainly Bernhard Fincke.

Kent was also able to comment in 1889 on the “Santee

Gravity Potentizer”: “I have used the potentizer invented

by Mr. Santee, and know its potencies to be perfectly

fluxion decimal. I have also used the potencies with

proper effect.” ³

Of major importance for homeopathic pharmaceutics were He was the first to introduce to the homeopathic world high the high potencies that Kent prepared with his own potencies prepared by an apparatus. But also Skinner´s machine. For the first time it became public that Kent has potencies played an important role. Kent wrote in a letter to invented a machine in 1885. It remains uncertain why it Dr. Hayes in July 1903: “I am perfectly familiar with the was necessary for Kent to build his own machine as he entire process of making Skinner potencies. I am the one was so satisfied with the Skinner potentizer. This was who urged the firm of Boericke & Tafel to put in a Skinner available during Kent´s times. For example Skinner had potentizer and make the potencies […].It is the only cent. modified an apparatus for Tyrell, and Tyrrell offered to potentizer in the world that makes accurate potencies. potentize remedies for his colleagues who were members Fincke´s potencies are absolutely unknown in their making. of the International Hahnemannian Association. They are made in secret. Swan´s potencies were fraud of the worst sort. I saw Swan make of them and I discarded all Unfortunately it is not clear when Kent´s machine was I had. I have a full set of Skinner´s potencies – they work built exactly. Furthermore it is not obvious, who built the well – I know how they are made. I know all about them machine and whether Kent himself was involved in the and expect to continue using them.” construction of it. The estimated year of construction of the Kent potentizer shown here is about 1910. It is the first apparatus run electrically. Pierre Schmidt (1894– 1987) describes Kent having constructed a machine which was able to prepare 200, M, XM, LM, CM and even higher potencies. ⁴

On the other hand we can also read: “ The Fincke High Potencies never failed me; they act quickly, long and deeply.” ²

By the way concerning the secrecy of Fincke´s high potencies, Kent was wrong. Fincke had made public his apparatus in 1869, and he even got an US patent on his potentizer, which makes it the only apparatus with a patent.

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With this machine of Kent it was possible to potentize two Depending upon the working-mechanism of the various different remedies at the same time in two separated devices, such as Skinner´s, Fincke´s, different types of high glass tubes. The remedy to be potentized was put into the potencies can be classified. Basically two main types can glass tubes. “The tubes have an opening at the bottom be described up to the time of Kent. After having looking

with a slight turn” and they are capped by a rubber deeper into the mechanism of Kent´s apparatus, a third stopper, that is held in place by a spring. Water for the type of high potency can be defined. process of potentiation flows form above into the tubes Two main ways of preparing high potencies by an and they are shaken for ten times. The tubes are fixed on apparatus were established: a baseplate and this plate is shaken via different cams - Continuous fluxion potencies and brought back into the normal position by return - Interrupted fluxion potencies springs. At this point the stoppers open and all the liquid With Kent´s machine a third type of remedies was flows out, except for the quantity that remains “in the produced, such as: slight turn at the bottom of the vial”. ⁵ -Succussed and diluted potencies. This remaining amount is the one that will be continuously brought to potentiation. Such high potencies have always This is an aspect never observed in remedy preparation been potentized by water alone and not using alcohol as before. There is one exception: Francis Edmund Boericke Hahnemann has stipulated. (1826–1901), the co-founder of the homeopathic The great uncertainty here is the water supply: One pharmaceutical company Boericke & Tafel, also possibility is water flowing in from above – for example constructed an apparatus for high potency preparation the water comes through a tube from the water tap, but almost ten years before Kent. But for unknown reasons there could also be a water tank from where the water is only five remedies were prepared by this machine and they pumped into the tubes. In both cases the water-flow is were never sold but they were given away for free so that continuously. Julian Winston (1941–2005) suspected the these few remedies did not play any role in homeopathic possibility of “a separate regulator, which filled the tubes treatment. Boericke had in mind to obtain remedies by an with a pre-set quantity of water.”⁶ In this case the apparatus as closed as possible to the manual preparation, succussion follows the dilution, and we are very close to because he wanted to follow exactly Hahnemann´s handmade potencies. directions. It remains unknown, whether Kent had in mind this point also. Comparing Boericke´s and Kent´s machines it is clear that both worked upon the same principle; it is not clear that Boericke´s remedies attracted no interest from the profession.

Anyway with the “Kent-machine” many remedies were prepared by Ehrhart & Karl over the years. The pharmaceutical company for homeopathic remedies Ehrhart & Karl founded in 1912 by Urban Joseph Ehrhart (1877–1935) and Louis Karl in Chicago produced with the Kent machine “their remedies above 1M as mentioned in their 1915 catalogue”.

This is the peculiar point making the machine so special: If there is a continuous water flow and this is most likely, because an interrupted water supply might have been to complex, looking at the quite simple construction of the machine, the succussion takes place at the same moment of the dilution, because the tubes are shaken when the In 1977 Ehrhart & Karl was sold to the Luyties company in water flows in for supplying the dilution solvent. It means St. Louis and the machine went also to Luyties.⁷ It is said the potencies are diluted and succussed at the same that the machine was never in use at Luyties.⁸ moment. While potentizing by hand either the

Hahnemannian way or by the one-glass-method, the Kent was involved with Luyties before while he still lived and Korsakovian way, the liquid is added to the potentizing worked in St. Louis. The pharmacy was founded in 1857 in glass and only after that the succussion takes place. The St. Louis and closed in 2001, when it became part of the succussion and the dilution at the same moment make a Standard Homeopathic Company in Los Angeles.⁹ In 1884 completely new type of remedies, totally different from the Luyties sold “Dr. Kent´s large case of high potencies”, a Hahnemann´s way of preparation. Unique remedies are remedy kit with 70 or 126 remedies for 14 or 36 or US obtained. Unfortunately this point cannot be pursued any dollars. It could be possible that these remedies offered by further; it is lost to history. Luyties are the ones mentioned before.

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Somehow there was a collaboration of Kent with the two Kent with his great experience in the use of the different high mentioned pharmaceutical companies, but strangely there potencies wrote about the practical use as follows: “After 30 was no further and closer contact to the well-known and years of careful observation and comparison with the use of very prominent company Boericke & Tafel. various potencies, it is possible to lay down the following rules. Every physician should have at command the 30th, 200th, 1m, The listed homeopathic doctors and several others had 10m, 50m, cm, dm, and mm potencies made carefully on the built their own apparatus working on different principles of centesimal scale. From the 30th to the 10m will be found those production. Such high potencies are always prepared by curative powers most useful in very sensitive woman and an apparatus because a manual preparation with its very children; from the 10m to the mm ordinary chronic diseases in many steps of potentiation is almost impossible. persons not so sensitive are all useful. In acute diseases the 1m Practically speaking it is unmanageable, knowing that for and 10m are most useful. In the sensitive woman and children it a 1 million Skinners apparatus had to run 14 days and is well to give the 30th or 200th at first, permitting it to act as long Swan´s one week for his 10MM (10 million). We can say as it will cause the patient to improve in a general way, after that for all high potencies produced by the various which the 1m my be used in like manner also after improvement machines it is valid that : ceases the 10m my be required […] Whenever the similimum is found the remedy will act curatively in a series of potencies […] - Only one glass was used for the whole potentizing My experience has led me to go upward in the scale, instead of process, so to say the Korsakovian method is applied. downward.”¹² - The potentizing solvent was water. For the last From Kent´s huge experience it was possible to derive the potentizing step alcohol was used and is performed by “Kent-scale: 30; 200; 1,000 (M); 10,000 (XM); 50,000 (LM); hand. 100,000 (CM); 500,000 (DM); 1,000,000 (MM)”.¹³ - The potentizing process usually started with a But Kent was not only involved in the preparation of high handmade C 3, C 6, C 30, sometimes with a mother potencies, he was involved very much in the preparation of one tincture or a simple solution. more single remedy: Tuberculinum. At his time it has become - Remedies in 1,000; 100,000; 50,000; 500,000 (Swan less interesting to a physician to prepare the own remedies; had also 100 million [CMM] and 500 million [DMM] were homeopathic pharmacies and quickly growing pharmaceutical made. companies came on stage and took over the remedy preparation. In addition the question for self-dispensing was of Unfortunately every doctor had his own system for no longer interest. But nevertheless Kent himself prepared marking the potentizing steps. Usually “m” means mille Tuberculinum by potentizing a portion of a mass of tissue alive from the Latin – thousand, but can also mean million. with tubercular bacilli by trituration and mashing up to a pulp. He suggested also the precipitation of the purulent tubercular fluid And since 1880 these types of remedies have been in in alcohol. The supernatant fluid can be potentized up to the wide use especially in the United States because they thirtieth potency.¹⁴ His explanation: I “was impressed with the were easily obtained from pharmacies. The use of high idea that the Tuberculinum in vogue was not the best form for potencies was a substantial part of American homeopathy use as a remedy or to prove. His Tuberculinum “was made from and many case histories describe the use of the different a slaughtered cow in the advanced stage of tuberculosis. The high potencies made by different manufacturers. best specimum was selected and B & T potentized it to the 6th cent.” Tyrrell a friend of Kent made for him “the 30, 200, 1m., The remedies mostly used were the remedies of Fincke 10m., 50m and c.m.” This Tuberculinum was “tested in hundred and Kent, also the Skinner-remedies of Boericke & Tafel. of cases and it worked “far better than the other form” then “in It is interesting to observe that each of the three different use”. Kent stated it “is the only pure Tuberculinum […] it is not types of potencies belongs to one of the three mentioned mingled with anything to change it or preserve it”. This was in categories of high potency: Fincke`s remedies are 1903 and Kent continued: “Since B & T have in use a Skinner continuous-fluxion-potencies, Skinners are interrupted- potentizer, which is the best ever invented for making potencies fluxion-potencies and Kent´s are succussed and diluted for homeopathic use, it seems that now we should begin to potencies. demand that doubtful potencies and unknown scales for making It is worth mentioning that no one had the idea to potencies shall be relegated to the past. B & T have now on compare the action of the differently prepared remedies in hand this form of Tuberculinum in the 30, 200, 1m., 10m., 50m., daily practice although it was understood that different c.m. and m.m. From these provings should be made reports of ways of preparation were used. Not even Kent did. We cures recorded in order that the blind use of this agent may not find only brief snippets of information, such as: “The high be necessary.”¹⁵ potencies of Fincke were chiefly used, and, as a rule, By this it is be demonstrated that, Kent was also aware of the produced their effects more promptly and rapidly than problem of the correct mother-substance. While he lived it was lower potencies, the patient often expressing herself still possible to obtain for his use the “very identical substances conscious of the coming operation of the medicine within that were proved by the provers”. For him it was important not to five minutes after taking the dose, and was frequently change the mother-substance and he asked not to use a proven relieved of great distress in fifteen minutes or half an hour plant, which has grown in “a different climate and on a different […] experiment will approve that the higher will often soil”. One should procure “that what was proved originally. For complete what lower potencies have only partly effected, Fincke this was also important and he has procured the original and demonstrate that the limitation of the molecule is not substances proved by Constantine Hering (1800–1880), such the limitation of force.”¹º And Dr. Biegler (1832–1907) as Lachesis”. thought he obtained a ”quicker response from Swan´s potencies, and a more lasting effect from Fincke´s”.¹¹

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One thing can be done by the homeopathic physician: To keep in mind the importance of remedy preparation and go in search and make contact with the homeopathic pharmacist and companies. An honest pharmacist will be happy to get some feedback from the homeopathic community and he will make no secret about his or her way of preparation. Since a small globule of the proper homeopathic remedy will for sure change disease into health very much depends upon it.

So get inspired and influenced by Kent, for whom it was important, to take care, to prepare and to observe for obtaining the best remedies possible. Today`s approved regulations are no guarantee for high qualitative remedies (at least in Germany the pharmaceutical laws are not made by homeopathic pharmacists or physicians – they are made by allopaths). So Kent had a sample of the original Lachesis. He demanded also, that “the medicine should be well known; its The best remedies are needed for curing the sick in the history […] with all the steps and details” and “the question of meaning of Hahnemann, following the rule of simile and potentization should be taken into account”. One “should not remembering aphorism 264, ORG VI: “The true medical-art be careless in this and not gather potencies from Tom, Dick practitioner must have the most genuine, full-strength medicines and Harry. When able, go to headquarters and get your on hand in order to be able to rely on their curative power […]” potencies.”¹⁶ Most likely the Lachesis Kent used was the one Obviously all this Kent had in mind when he became involved in Skinner has potentized from the original 4th centesimal homeopathic pharmaceutics and this should be a call not to trituration of Lachesis up to the C.m. Skinner got it from forget the importance of remedy preparation. Lippe, which was a graft from the original of Hering.¹⁷ 1 James, Tyler Kent. Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy. Lancaster, PA. 1900, p. 105– 107. Unfortunately for most homeopathic physicians today the subject of remedy preparation is of no interest – in contrast 2 W. F. Kaercher: The Fincke Process of Potentiation. In: The to Hahnemann´s demands. Doctors leave out of sight Homoeopathician 4(1914), p. 378. sometimes the preparation of homeopathic remedies. Of 3 E. B. Nash: A New Potentizer. In: Homoeopathician 9(1889), course it is not their duty. In most countries this is not p. 108. possible any longer to follow Hahnemann who did not trust 4 Künzli von Fimelsberg, Jost (Edit.): Zur Theorie der the pharmacists and it is not possible for the physicians to Homöopathie. Leer 1973, p. 82. prepare their own remedies. Today´s physicians have to trust 5 Winston, Julian: A brief history of potentizing machines. British the pharmacist by law! But they could keep an eye on the Journal of Homeopathy 78(1989), p. 66. work done by pharmacists. Kent was aware of the difficulties 6 Winston, Julian: A brief history of potentizing machines. British to obtain the best quality remedies, probably because he had Journal of Homeopathy 78 (1989), p. 66. the comparison by using the remedies of many different 7 Winston, Julian: A brief history of potentizing machines. British manufacturers. And at the meeting of the International Journal of Homeopathy 78 (1989), p. 66. Hahnemannian Association in 1887 he said also: “There is 8 E-mail from Margot Murphy Moore (26.2.2016). another point to which your attention may be profitably 9 E-mail from Margot Murphy Moore (26.2.2016). directed, and that is to secure greater care in selecting our 10 B. L. B. Baylies: Clinical Confirmation of High Potencies. medicines and more care in manufacturing our potencies. It Homoeopathician 8 (1888), p. 42f. seems as though carelessness were also creeping into our 11 S. L. Guild-Leggett. Society Reports: Medical Advance pharmaceutics. The discretion must be exercised in selecting 33(1895), p. 96. proper material for our pharmacopoeia and in their 12 Gypser, Klaus-Henning (Edit.) Kent´s Minor Writings on preparation. The same preparation, especially in the use of Homoeopathy. Heidelberg 1987, p. 631–632. our vegetable remedies, should be used in the prescribing as 13 Künzli von Fimelsberg, Jost (Edit.): Zur Theorie der was used in the proving. We do not mean the same potency, Homöopathie. Leer 1973. p. 153. but the same pharmaceutical preparation. Impure or 14 James, Tyler Kent. Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy. uncertain drugs will, of course, not correspond in their effects Lancaster, PA. 1900, p. 59. upon the sick to the action of a purer drug used in the 15 Gypser, Klaus-Henning (Edit.) Kent´s Minor Writings on proving. The physician and the prover should use the same Homoeopathy. Heidelberg 1987, p. 446 preparation. Without doubt, many of our failures may be 16 James, Tyler Kent. Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy. justly laid to some imperfection in our drug preparation.”¹⁸ Lancaster, PA. 1900, p. 229. 17 Skinner, Thomas. Dr. Skinner´s Centesimal Fluxion 100 years after the death of Kent these words are as Potentizer. The Organon 1(1878), p. 53. relevant as those years back. But which physician can say 18 Gypser, Klaus-Henning (Edit.) Kent´s Minor Writings on for sure that a cure has only failed because of the wrong Homoeopathy. Heidelberg 1987, p. 207. selection of remedy and not because of an improperly prepared remedy? This problem is actual today, as it was more than 100 years ago. Dr. Heike Gypser Schäferei 22 D-56653 Glees Germany THELIGA NEWS • Dec 2016 • www.lmhi.org [email protected] 21 LIGA NEWS

The effect of homeopathic treatments on germinability of Sole CL and Mare CL rice seeds

R. Pomposelli , MD G. Costini MD, B. Frammartino Phd, M. La Sala

Objective

Great interest and discussion is developing about the use of homeopathic

remedies in agriculture. The use of the homeopathic method in agriculture has Figure 1: Plastic boxes with rice seeds.

shown a significant effect on the germination of cereal seeds process and a

effective contribution to the control of plagues and diseases. The aim of this

experiment was to evaluate the effect of the germination rate of Sole CL and

Mare CL rice seeds treated with , Phosoforus and

Carboneum Sulfuratum. This experiment was realized from the Belladonna

Foundation Onlus with the collaboration of the Botanical Museum of Milano.

Material and method The experiment was conducted from September 3rd 2016 to September 22nd, we used rice seeds from a lot produced in 2015 with low germinability. The result of a preliminary experiment done to test the efficacy of homeopathic remedies among many available, indicated that Phosoforus and Carboneum Sulfuratum Figure 2: Detail of germinated seeds had a better effect on rice seeds germination rates and that Sole CL (85%) has shown higher germination rate compared to Mare CL (15%) type. The final experiment was laid out in a Completely Randomized Design with two factors and three replications and using only Sole CL rice seeds. We used a total of 18 plastic boxes and 900 rice seeds (Fig.1), in a room with constant temperature, 18°C for 12 hours and 26°C for the remaining 12 hours. Half of the seeds (450) were previously washed with Calendula the remaining seeds only with water. The seeds were randomly placed in three blocks containing 6 boxes each (50 seeds each box), with and without Calendula pretreatment. Each day three tablespoon of water with a dissolved granule of Phosoforus or Carboneum Sulfuratum, were used to wet the seeds. The controls were seeds with none of the two remedies. The boxes were observed for 14 days and the numbers of germinated seeds were recorded. We calculated germination index (%) as the Figure 3: Rice plants after germination. ratio of germinated seed to the total of seeds set on test, and energy of germination calculated as the percentage of seeds germinated at 72 h. Time to event analysis was used to characterize the temporal pattern of germination. We used non parametric test to evaluate the variability within each box and assessed logistic regression and Cox model to evaluate the effect of homeopathic treatments on seeds growth. Pretreatment with calendula was used as confounder.

Results A total of 900 Sole CL rice seeds were used, the overall germination rate was 52,1% (n=487). Germination rates of seeds with and without Calendula pretreatment were 54,2% and 54% respectively. The variability observed within each block, among boxes, was not statistically significant. Germination rate (Tab. 1) was significantly higher among seeds treated with Carboneum Sulfuratum, 59,3%, whereas was lower among those treated with Phosphorus, 49,3 %; among controls the rate was 53,7%. The energy of germination (23,3%) and the cumulative germination rate at 7 days (41,7) was also higher among seeds treated with Carboneum Sulfuratum although the differences were not statistically different. Table 2 describes the germination hazard plot and displays the instantaneous germination rate for each day. In table 2 the solid line, represents the smoothed germination rate characterized by the temporal pattern and is higher during the entire study period among seeds treated with Carboneum Sulfuratum. The lowest response is among those treated with Phosphorus. Similar results were observed in the multivariable models, both the logistic and Cox regression indicates Carboneum Sulfuratum compared to controls as the treatment with better response.

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Table 1: Summarized results of experiment.

Treatment

Carboneu p Phosphorus m Control Sulfuratu

m

Number of germinated seeds 148 178 161

Germination Rate (%) 49,3 59,3 53,7 0,04*

Energy of germination (%) at 3 days 18,7 23,3 19,7 0,33

Cumulative germination rate 34,3 41,7 38,3 0,13 at 7 days (%) Logistic Regression - Odds Ratio 0,84 1,25 Ref Ns

Cox Regression – Hazard Ratio 0,99 1,10 Ref Ns

Table 2: Comparison of Germination Hazard Rate by treatment.

CONCLUSION

We observed the overall germination rate of 52,1%. The differences observed among rates calculated on seeds with and without Calendula pretreatment were small and not statistically significant. The germination rate of seeds treated with Carboneum Sulfuratum was higher than Phosphorus and controls. The present work indicates that homeopathic treatment has a potential in the process of germination to be more in depth analyzed and studied. Further study are necessary to deeper investigate the role of remedies in the process of germination.

The plants grown after the experiment were placed in a piece of soil in the Botanical Museusm of Milan (Fig3 3).

Acknowledgments Donatella Stergar director of the Botanical Museum of Milan.

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Title: Quantumphysical Efficacy of Homeopathy Dr. Karin Lenger Institute for Scientific Homeopathy, Germany

Abstract

The nature of homeopathy can be clarified since Lenger’s detection of magnetic photonsin the MHz-regionof homeopathic remedies by two different magnetic resonance methods: by the Tesla-flatcoil system and delayed luminescence (DL) using a modified photomultiplier. Separation of the newly detected magnetic photons from their carrier substance ethanol or saccharose globules took place when the measuring system has a bigger resonating frequency field than the field between carrier substance and photons. The potency levels were measurable by the number of photons, taking DL or by the characteristic size of the magnetic frequency field separating the photons in dependence on the potency level and on thepotentized substance. Frequency spectra characteristic for a specific remedy were shown. Six unknown remedies could be identified by DL.The Law of Similars (Hahnemann 1796) can be expressed like this: the frequencies of the patient must match the frequencies of the remedies to get in resonance: either to attenuate the ill making frequencies or to enhance the amplitude of both:the sick body and its consciousness being an electromagnetic wave packet since Einstein.It is assumed that healing takes place firstly quantumphysically on the energy level; later on the pathological pathways are regulated.This confirms Popp’s quantumphysical theory about health and illness and Förstersaying that each chemical reaction takes place on a higher energetic level of the atoms.The uptake of photons is necessary in biological systems to keep them alive in steady-state. Because of its efficacy according to the resonance principle homeopathy is a regulation therapy curing both: hyperfunction and hypofunction of a pathological pathway and consciousness applying additional potentized substrates, inhibitors and enzymes: Hashimoto disease supported by the substrates of the thyroid-pathway, asthma was healed by using the highly potentized substrates of the respiration chain and those of the glycolysis, paralyses require mostly the neurotransmitter Acetylcholine which biosynthesis is supported by highly potentized substrates and inhibitors of glycolysis and fatty acid oxidation. The psychological problems of the patients are simultaneously healed by the applied remedies. Homeopathic healing means that body and consciousness are treated as one because homeopathy is a holistic medicine.

Biography

Karin Lenger, Dipl.-Biochem., Dr.rer. nat. studied Biochemistry at the universities of Tübingen and Cologne/Germany. She worked as a Scientific Assistant at the Medical University of Lübeck/Germany for 12 years performing her biochemical enzymatic studies: enzymatic gene regulation, cancer research, enzymatic mechanisms of steroid hormones. She started her homeopathic career as a Lecturer for classical homeopathy at DHU ((Deutsche Homöopathie Union=German homeopathy Union) in Karlsruhe 1986-1994. Since 1995, Dr.Lenger has been working as a practising doctor and Lecturer for classical homeopathy in Europe. Over the years she has developed the “biochemical homeopathy” by using substrates of pathological enzymes in high levels of potentization . She detected photons in high homeopathic potencies by scientific proof, by two magnetic resonance methods. She has developed a model of physical and biochemical function of homeopathy. She has a lot of publications and had been invited for speeches on many world congresses in Europe, USA, Shanghai , Dubai, Hongkong

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The Hans Walz Foundation at the Robert Bosch Stiftung announces herewith the

Hans Walz prize for studies on the history of homeopathy

which originated outside the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

Hans Walz (1873-1974) was a right-hand man of Robert Bosch the Elder and for many years CEO of

the Robert Bosch Company as well as member of the board of trustees of the Stuttgart Homoeopathic Hospital Corporation. Throughout his life he was professionally and personally engaged in advancing homoeopathy.

The aim of the prize is to promote the research of the history of homoeopathy outside the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation. The prize will be awarded for a major study

(Master- or Diploma-thesis, doctoral dissertation, monograph, article) which is either still unpublished or published in 2015, 2016 or 2017. The language can be German, English or French. The prize amounts to 1500 Euro.

The winner of the prize will be chosen by a jury. During the last years winners came from Germany, the

United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada. The prize will be awarded at the end of the year 2017 in Stuttgart.

Deadline for nominations and applications is 30th of July 2017. Applications (including two copies of the study) should be addressed to: Prof. Dr. Martin Dinges

Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Stiftung Straussweg 17, D-70184 Stuttgart, Germany E-mail: [email protected], WWW.IGM-BOSCH.DE

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72nd LMHI Homeopathic World Congress, Leipzig, Germany, 14 – 17 June 2017 „Networking in Medical Care – Collaboration for the benefit of the patient“

Dear Members of the LMHI,

We take great pleasure in inviting you to the 72 nd Congress of the Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis (LMHI) which will be held in Leipzig, Germany, from 14-17 June 2017. The preparations are already in full swing and our congress team is working with high enthusiasm. The LMHI Congress 2017 is organised by the German Association ofHomeopathic Physicians (DZVhÄ, www.dzvhae.de) in collaboration with the Scientific Society for Homeopathy (WissHom, www.wisshom.de). Established on the occasion of Samuel Hahnemann’s doctor anniversary in the year 1829, the DZVhÄ is the oldest medical association in Germany and has been a member of the LMHI ever since its foundation in 1925.

Under the title “Networking in Medical Care – Collaboration for the Benefit of the Patient” we cordially invite you to exchange your experiences, to learn from each other and to share new insights. At the same time, this congress shall serve to foster the networking and open dialogue of homeopathy with other medical disciplines and professional associations. Together, let us send a signal that our common aim is the well-being of patients suffering from serious diseases. To reach this goal, it is our responsibility and obligation to collaborate and provideAGW Homöopathie-Kongress 2017 individual therapies. We are looking forward to welcoming you at the LMHI Congress 2017 in Leipzig!

You will find program details and further information about the congress via the congress website: http://www.lmhi-congress-2017.de

Preparations for the Homeopathic World Medical Congress 2017 in Leipzig are in full swing and the Scientific Committee is in its final throe of reviewing the submitted abstracts – we are proud and happy to announce that lecturers from all over the world have introduced themselves and their topics. We will inform you on our congress website about the invited lecturers as soon as the review procedure is completed.

We highly recommend an early hotel reservation given the fact that the Leipzig Bach Festival will take place at the time of the congress. We have reserved a hotel contingent for you in the centre of Leipzig, a list of available rooms is available on our congress website at www.lmhi-congress-2017.de/hotels-and-accommodations. Please book your accommodation directly on the congress participation form. By the way – you can still register for the 72nd LMHI Congress at the reduced early registration fee.

We look forward to welcoming you in Leipzig in June 2017!

Angelika Gutge-Wickert (Berlin), Congress President

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Leipzig is a „Hahnemann-City“

Leipzig offers best conditions for the Homeopathic World Medical Congress 2017 – for many reasons. The congress venue “Leipzig Congress Hall” is situated in the heart of the city. And it is here in Leipzig, where Samuel Hahnemann began his medical university education in 1775. He returned in 1811 to open his medical practice and to give lectures at the Leipzig University. Ten years later, in 1821, Hahnemann left Leipzig to settle down in Köthen (Anhalt). The Hahnemann Monument in Leipzig, unveiled in 1851, has been restored and can still be visited today. Leipzig is the ideal starting point for excursions to other places where Hahnemann left his traces: Meissen, his birthblace; Torgau, where he wrote the “Organon of the Rational Art of Healing”; Köthen, where he lived from 1821-1835 and where the DZVhÄ was founded in 1829. Today, also the LMHI has its statutory seat in Köthen. Therefore, the governance meetings of the LMHI are planned to take place in the Hahnemann-House and in the European Library of Homeopathy.

You will find program details and further information about the congress via the congress website: http://www.lmhi-congress-2017.de

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27 LIGA NEWS Quiz Corner... for our younger colleagues... Pietro Gulia Medico-Chirurgo Omeopata [email protected]

Pietro Gulia

1) Aph. 211 - Hahnemann states: “This holds good to such an 6) Clinical case: May, very hot days. A stout, 63-year- extent, that … … … often chiefly determines the selection of the old, retired woman. Chest pain and cough since ten days. homoeopathic remedy … ” What must we observe? She self-prescribed (!!!) Sulphur 6 Q, 2 drops/day, a) Mental, general, physical symptoms of every single patient. without improvement, on the contrary she has been b) Clinical history of every single patient worsening day by day. Paroxysmal cough with c) The state of the disposition of the patient suffocation; panting respiration. Dry cough but a lot of expectoration in the morning: transparent and viscid 2 ) Aph. 159 – Hahnemann writes on the apparent increase of catarrh. She feels worse in the open air; more frequent the disease during the first hours. According to him, what can it and violent fits of coughing in the open air. No cough make slighter and shorter? during the night: she sleeps well. Chest pain and head

a) Prescribing the right homeopathic remedy and the right pain when she coughs. Thirsty: she has to drink often, potency of it. sometimes a glass of cold drinks sometimes warm b) Prescribing the smaller dose of the homeopathic remedy. drinks, both of them help her. Pale; no fever; BP normal; c) Adapting the dose to pathology, age and general conditions heart rate 85bpm, regular; respiration rate 30/min; dry of the patient . rales in upper zones of right and left lung. What remedy?

3 ) Aph. 273 – 274 – According to Hahnemann, when it is necessary and therefore permissible to administer to a patient 7 ) More about the same clinical case. Telling her more than one single, simple medicinal substance at one time or symptoms, the lady added two symptoms had appeared, when have we to attempt to employ a complex (i.e., a totally new for her. First, a strange sleepiness in the

combination of two or more remedies)? afternoon, never felt before in her life; second, the need a) When there are groups of symptoms very similar to two or for eating at 11 a.m. Could you explain what happened? more remedies. Please, don’t forget she self-prescribed Sulphur and her b) When two or more organs or apparatuses are involved. cough worsened. c) Never, in no case under treatment.

4) In Materia Medica Pura Hahnemann states: 20 – Acutely 8) Lippe (Keynotes and Red Lines Symptoms of Materia sensitive and readily inclined to weep about slight troubles. Medica) states: “Brown streak through the middle of the 22 – Now disposed to weep, then again to laugh. 24 – She tongue – Involuntary stool and urine; brown or white images that she might give people something wrong, which diarrhea – Retention of urine, during dysentery - might kill them. 26 - Anxiety with heat in the head and cold Tendency to small boils; ecchymoses on various parts of feet, so that he does not know what to do; he forgets every the body – Hot head, with cool body”. Can you discover moment what he desired to do. 38 – He gets vexed about the remedy? Yes, of course … the Repertory will help everything, takes every word ill and gets insulted, he you. imagines he ought to defend himself and gets angry. 53 - He is so peevish and obstinate, that he will not give an answer to anybody, he cannot bear to have anyone around 9) Nash states (Leaders in Homeopathic Therapeutics). him, and cannot get quickly enough what he wants. “Great coldness (objective of the surface, yet the patient The remedy is … cannot bear to be covered. – Numbness, crawling and paralysis; formication as of mice creeping there, all parts 5) If you answered to quiz n. 3, could you explain the reason of of body. – Passive hemorrhage, everything open and your right choice? Aph. 274 can help to answer. loose, no action, in thin, scrawny, cachectic women”. The remedy is …

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10) Hahnemann advises to prepare the remedy Sulphur:

a) from the tincture, made with flowers of sulphur and alcohol; b) by triturating flowers of sulphur with sugar of milk up to the 3rd; c) by triturating up to the 3rd, then dissolving few globules in alcohol to make the tincture

Solutions quiz Corner – LMHI News n. 18

1) There are no specific remedies for painful dentition in children. As a rule, only symptoms can drive to select the correct remedy in every individualized case.

2) A not-homeopathic remedy to the case was given and too often repeated; it produced new and troublesome symptoms not appertaining to the disease to be cured (aph. 249).

3) Aphorism 249: “… if the aggravation be considerable, be first partially neutralized as soon as possible by an antidote before giving the next remedy chosen more accurately according to similarity of action; or if the troublesome symptoms be not very violent, the next remedy must be given immediately, in order to take the place of the improperly selected one” - Nux vomica 30 CH, two globules to antidote Chamomilla. Two days later, symptoms indicated that Pulsatilla was the homeopathic remedy to the case.

4) VERTIGO – Coffee, after; FACE – Cracked, Lips, Lower, Middle of; MOUTH – Salivation; ABDOMEN – Distension, eating after. FACE – Heat, drinking; eating after. FACE – Perspiration, drinking after; eating after; SKIN – Unhealthy GENERALS - Inflammations, Wounds of ; Wounds, suppurating. The remedy is CHAMOMILLA

5) COUGH – Night; midnight after; 4h; waking from the cough. COUGH – Sleep, wakens from - COUGH – Tormenting – Racking – Violent. EXPECTORATION – Night – Transparent – Thick. MOUTH – Discoloration, Tongue, gray, Centre. VERTIGO – Motion, Head, of, agg. STOMACH – Thirst, extreme; large quantities, for; GENERALS – Food, cold water des. STOMACH – Nausea, drinking after agg; some time after; water agg. STOMACH – Appetite, diminished – Nausea, eating after, agg. GENERALS – Weakness, exertion agg, slight exertion. SKIN – Eruptions suppressed. MIND – Ailments from cares, worries. MIND – Anxiety, health, about – relatives, of.PHOSPHORUS 200K: quick improvement. All troubles disappeared in four days. The more striking, singular, uncommon and peculiar (characteristic) signs and symptoms1 of the case of disease (Aph 153) are in bold.

6) Aphorism 39: “ … the customary prescriptions, composed of unknown ingredients, used in ordinary practice for the other nameless, innumerable forms of disease. These likewise do nothing but debilitate, and only suppress or suspend the malady for a short time without being able to cure it, and when used for a long time always add a new morbid state to the old disease”. Aphorism 70 sums up fundamental concepts

7) In my opinion, the Hahnemann’s direction of cure (see Chronic Diseases) has been respected: symptoms disappeared in the reverse order of their appearance, first the cough and dizziness, then nausea and poor appetite and the excessive thirst; the patient recovered his strength and good mood from the early beginning, as Hahnemann states in Organon, aph. 253 . NB: so far, no rash (strange or not?).

8) His diarrhea was a wholesome discharge: non to treat it. It disappeared in few hours. Aphorism 246 states: “Every perceptibly progressive and strikingly increasing amelioration during treatment is a condition which, as long as it lasts, completely precludes every repetition of the administration of any medicine whatsoever, because all the good the medicine taken continues to effect is now hastening towards its completion. This is not infrequently the cause in acute diseases …” Chronic Diseases: “… Let him non think (the homeopathic doctor), while a well-chosen antipsoric medicine is acting and the patient some day feels a moderate headache, or else a moderate ailment, that he must give the patient at once some other medicine, whether an antipsoric or another remedy; or if perchance a sore throat should arise, that he must give another remedy, or another in account of diarrhea … No! The homeopathic antipsoric medicine having been chosen as well as possible to suit the morbid symptoms, an given in the appropriate potency and in the proper dose, the physician should as a rule allow it to finish its action without disturbing it by an intervening remedy”.

9) “Irresistible inclination to bite the teeth or gums together

10) TEETH – Clenching teeth together; desire to clench teeth together, constant. STOOL – Brown – Mucus. PHYTOLACCA

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DR. RICHARD HILTNER, USA DR. RENZO GALASSI , ITALY

DR. ALTUNAY AGAOGLU, TURKEY DR. BERNARDO MERIZALDE, USA

DR. BERNHARD ZAUNER, AUSTRIA DR. DANIEL C. COOK, USA

EVIN TURKAY, TURKEY DR. PIETRO GULIA, ITALY LMHI SECRETARIAT & MEDIA

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Goodbye………to two special colleagues……by renzo galassi, LMHI Past President

From the deepest part of my heart I want to say something about the two wonderful colleagues who left the Executive committee in Buenos Aires: Josè Matuk Kanan (and his wife Norma) from Mexico and Jelka Milic from Croatia.

I had the personal experience to work with Josè during his presidency, assisting him as Vice-President. It was a great gift for me, because he is a special person, always smiling and acting in a friendly way. He was always ready to offer his experience to solve problems and to give advice……..I have never seen him angry or refusing to sit down and talk about any topics or problems, even when he was tired. He lived his voluntary work for the LMHI as a Mission and we will be always grateful for his efforts and friendship shown during the last decades inside the board of the LMHI. He was Secretary for Archives, General secretary, Vice president, President, Past president and now he will accompany us being a member of the Council of the Past Presidents. Gracias amigo!!!! Jelka appeared in my life when she invited me to give a seminar in Zagreb some years ago. During those 3 days I could realize how hard she worked and the high quality of her work for the Croatian Homeopathic fraternity. Being that time the Vice-President of the LMHI and starting to look for a good General Secretary for my board, I decided to invite her to apply for the position. She was so humble that she had to think a lot about my proposal. Fortunately she accepted and I felt so relieved knowing that behind me, with all my defects and mistakes, she was taking care of the administration of the LMHI.

Unfortunately she decided to not go on with the path to the Presidency as I would have liked and after three years of intense work, in the silence, in the backstage, she decided to leave the group. Thank you Jelka, your big heart taught me many things, first of all humility and balance, two qualities not so common nowadays.

Hoping to see you both during the next LMHI world congresses, receive a GREAT HUG and a special THANK YOU from all the members of the LMHI family.

Yours sincerely, Renzo Galassi

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