LMHI President’s editorial, by,Renzo Galassi A new issue of the Lmhi Newsletter is ready for all the homeopathic community. A lot of topics are developed by the authors, as usual we will read articles on classical Hahnemannian Homeopathy, but we will also have the pleasure to read information about important events which have happened over the last months. At the beginning of February I was able to visit the Homeopathic community of Bangladesh, in Dhaka It was the first time that an LMHI president visited that country and the opportunity was given by the international congress of the CASH (Center for Advanced Study on Homeopathy), where also delegations from Thailand and India patecipated. In Bangladesh homeopathy is an official Medicine with many colleges and hospitals and more than 25.000registered Homeopathic doctors.. • Liga Meets a Country,BangladeshbyDr.MohammedAshrafurRahman • A Long Story Cut Short,by Brita Gudjons • A visittoaHomeopathictreasure by Renzo Galassi • Boenninghausen Revival – by Klaus Henning Gypser • HalfscholarshipofferedbyAMHA toLMHI members • First Days Spain - Cuba byAntonio Marques • Homeopathy inSlovenia • 70th LMHI Congress ;RIODEJANEIRO,BRAZIL • HomeopathyinsubclinicalhypothyroidismbyRajKManchanda • QuizCorner by Pietro Gulia Dr. Renzo Galassi – LMHI President We will read the article in this topic written by our National Vice President for Bangladesh, Dr. Mohammed Ashrafur Rahman. We will know, from the "pen" of our dear colleague Ortrud Lindemann, the report of the experience of our volunteers in Liberia during the Ebola Relief Action promoted by the LMHI with the support of the DZVhA. This action, with all the difficulties and obstacles, showed the spirit and the goals of our historic and humanitarian association: be present in every place of the globe where solidarity is needed. We don't deal with esoteric and fanciful remedies, but with the most effective and powerful means to give relief to the sufferers we meet on our paths. In April, as the LMHI International Council decided in Moscow 2002, every country is invited to organize the celebration of the Hahnemann Day. I invite all the organizers of such events to send information to our secretary in order to upload it on our new Website. The official event, the one in which there is the presence of the LMHI president and other members of the board, this year was in Cuba. The Cuban colleagues applied for this organization and we considered it a good opportunity to visit that community which is very active in the scientific and clinical fields. There were two main events, one in La Habana and one in Matanzas. After months of inactivity on our website, now the new one is starting to work and we will find many sections inside it, including special information for the members who are receiving a personal password to Log In. Thanks to the huge knowledge of some colleagues, this time Dr. Dan Cook and Klaus Henning Gypser) we will go back to the history of our Medicine and we will be informed about interesting aspects of the Golden Age of Homeopathy. I want to close my editorial reminding you that our most important event of the year, the LMHI Congress, with the possibility to meet each other and share our experiences, is approaching. It will take place in the wonderful scenario of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Brazil is one of the most advanced countries in regards to Homeopathy and it will be a pleasure to interact with our “Cariocas” colleagues. The website of the congress is LMHI2015.org I wish you all the best and I hope that God will bless our "old", historical, unique Association. Thank you all for your ef forts, for your daily work in the hidden environment of your offices, where step by step, prescription after prescription, the astonishing "miracles" of healing have been going on since the time of our unique Master Christian Frederick Samuel Hahnemann. Greetings from my heart, LIGA NEW S Electronic Newsletter of the Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationali s • No. 14 • April 2015 THE LIGA NEWS • April 2015 • www.lmhi.org Topics • President’seditorial • Editor’snote • Dr.Yves Faingnaert,by Renzo Galassi • HanzWalzPrize • ReportoftheEbolaMissiontoLiberiafromLMHI,byOrtrud Lindemann • America's "Golden Age" of Homeopathy, byDanielCookMD,DHt
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LMHI President’s editorial, by,Renzo Galassi A new issue of the Lmhi Newsletter is ready for all the homeopathic community. A lot of topics are developed by the authors, as usual we will read articles on classical Hahnemannian Homeopathy, but we will also have the pleasure to read information about important events which have happened over the last months. At the beginning of February I was able to visit the Homeopathic community of Bangladesh, in Dhaka It was the first time that an LMHI president visited that country and the opportunity was given by the international congress of the CASH (Center for Advanced Study on Homeopathy), where also delegations from Thailand and India patecipated. In Bangladesh homeopathy is an official Medicine with many colleges and hospitals and more than 25.000registered Homeopathic doctors..
• Liga Meets a Country,BangladeshbyDr.MohammedAshrafurRahman• A LongStoryCut Short,by BritaGudjons• A visittoaHomeopathictreasure by Renzo Galassi• BoenninghausenRevival – by Klaus Henning Gypser• HalfscholarshipofferedbyAMHA toLMHI members• First Days Spain - Cuba byAntonio Marques• Homeopathy inSlovenia • 70th LMHI Congress ;RIODEJANEIRO,BRAZIL• HomeopathyinsubclinicalhypothyroidismbyRajKManchanda• QuizCorner by Pietro Gulia
Dr. Renzo Galassi – LMHI President
We will read the article in this topic written by our National Vice President for Bangladesh, Dr. Mohammed Ashrafur Rahman. We will know, from the "pen" of our dear colleague Ortrud Lindemann, the report of the experience of our volunteers in Liberia during the Ebola Relief Action promoted by the LMHI with the support of the DZVhA.
This action, with all the difficulties and obstacles, showed the spirit and the goals of our historic and humanitarian association: be present in every place of the globe where solidarity is needed. We don't deal with esoteric and fanciful remedies, but with the most effective and powerful means to give relief to the sufferers we meet on our paths. In April, as the LMHI International Council decided in Moscow 2002, every country is invited to organize the celebration of the Hahnemann Day. I invite all the organizers of such events to send information to our secretary in order to upload it on our new Website. The official event, the one in which there is the presence of the LMHI president and other members of the board, this year was in Cuba. The Cuban colleagues applied for this organization and we considered it a good opportunity to visit that community which is very active in the scientific and clinical fields.
There were two main events, one in La Habana and one in Matanzas. After months of inactivity on our website, now the new one is starting to work and we will find many sections inside it, including special information for the members who are receiving a personal password to Log In.
Thanks to the huge knowledge of some colleagues, this time Dr. Dan Cook and Klaus Henning Gypser) we will go back to the history of our Medicine and we will be informed about interesting aspects of the Golden Age of Homeopathy. I want to close my editorial reminding you that our most important event of the year, the LMHI Congress, with the possibility to meet each other and share our experiences, is approaching. It will take place in the wonderful scenario of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Brazil is one of the most advanced countries in regards to Homeopathy and it will be a pleasure to interact with our “Cariocas” colleagues. The website of the congress is LMHI2015.org I wish you all the best and I hope that God will bless our "old", historical, unique Association.
Thank you all for your efforts, for your daily work in the hidden environment of your offices, where step by step, prescription after prescription, the astonishing "miracles" of healing have been going on since the time of our unique Master Christian Frederick Samuel Hahnemann.
Greetings from my heart,
LIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGA NEWS Electronic Newsletter of the Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis • No. 14 • April 2015
Dearcolleagues, There are a few subjects that produce such fiery emotions than that of immunization. Presently, there has been a recent outbreak of measles in California. There has been much press release on the emphasis all children of being vaccinated against measles. At this time, the state legislature has been introduced to a bill to force all children to receive the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella). This will extend in the future to any immunization that the State feels is appropriate to force all people to be vaccinated. About 50 percent of those affected in the current (2015) California measles outbreak were not vaccinated, according to the California Department of Public Health. Exactly how many vaccinated individuals have been affected is still unclear.
California has been a state that has for many decades has had freedom of choice on receiving immunizations. Namely, one can refuse immunization on the following reasons: 1) Philosophical, 2) Religious, and 3) and Medical.
Ron Whitmont, MD wrote an excellent article in the EPOCH TIMES on February 16, 2015 Another Perspective on the Safety and Sensibility of Vaccination http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1251968-another- perspective-on-the-safety-and-sensibility-of-vaccination/
: The following are various quotes from this article :
He states that: "The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a physician-led organization, has called for a moratorium on mandatory vaccination, citing over 11,000 annual cases of vaccine reactions with 20 percent leading to disability or death. These are only the short-term manifestations of vaccine injury. So far, no one has even begun to calculate the long-term effects that these treatments may have on the health of our population and society". .
He Continues: "The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System and the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Program were both established to provide a clearinghouse and a no-fault compensation program for vaccine-related injuries and deaths. According to HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] records, over $2.8 billion in compensation awards has already been paid to petitioners and more than $121.6 million has been paid to cover attorneys’ fees and other legal costs since 1986. This number fails to reflect that more than 70 percent of claims made to this department are denied". "According to a recent report filed by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), which is intended to function as the government’s primary medication and vaccine safety surveillance system, is deeply flawed ". "Data derived by healthsentinel.com from the Historical Statistics of the United States…unmistakably demonstrates that the measles vaccine had nothing to do with the decline of measles-related deaths. The risk of complications, including death, was inexorably declining before the vaccine was ever introduced". "If vaccines are so effective (and so beneficial) why do a substantial number of outbreaks take place in the immunized population"? "According to The New York Times, there were 93 childhood fatalities from the flu between October and December 2003, but 66 percent of these children had already been vaccinated against the flu". There are a number of other concerns about immunizations including: a rapid escalation of chronic illness beginning in childhood and extending into old age. All of this indicates that vaccines have failed on at least two distinct fronts: (1) They fail to provide lasting immunity, and (2) they create an older population of individuals at much higher risk for far more serious disease, since most childhood diseases are safer and more benign when they are acquired in childhood. Waning immunity is the process by which immunity induced by a vaccine diminishes over time. Unfortunately, space does not permit anymore on this
subject. I would strongly recommend that you all read this very important article by Dr. Whitmont.
In the hall of the best Western Hotel, in Redondo beach, los Angeles, California, 2010, I saw for the first time a man, white haired, blue eyes and very elegant as regards to his attire as well as his behaviour. He was Dr. Yves Faingnaert, the invited colleague to be the new Treasurer of the LMHI. He was that time also the treasurer of the Belgian association and of the ECH, so that one colleague said to me nicely: "This man has in his hands all the money of the Homeopathic doctors........" I was elected LMHI vice president that time and day by day, working with him for the LMHI I realized that Yves was not only a treasurer for all of us, but a Gift of God. He worked a lot for a professional management of our treasurer office. Unfortunately at the beginning of 2014, he wrote me an email, announcing that, due to his age and to the upcoming retirement, he decided to step down from the position before the end of the term. It was very sad for me, but we accepted it and fortunately we were able to find a very good substitute, Dr. Altunay Agaoglu, but I have to say that Yves, with his kindness and his friendly attitude will accompany us forever.
I want to say on behalf of the LMHI: " Thank you Yves, we wish you and your wonderful wife Kristel the best!"
Renzo Galassi – LMHI President
Dedicated to our former treasurer Dr. Yves Faingnaert……., by Renzo Galassi
As everyone might already know that one of the main problems of the organizations' and/or associations' is collecting the member fees which are quite necessary for the projects and aims of them. After taking into consideration the economic problems of the countries, we offered a brand new fee system as LMHI at the IC meeting in 2014. As the EC of LMHI, I would like to thank everyone for their contributions. I am quite sure that with this new fee system more members will join the LMHI family and will benefit from its activities.
The new LMHI membership fee system is based on the most recent data of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita from the World Bank. The fee is paid according to the categories which consists of member number and year. There are 3 categories;
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15 euro for Category A: GDP > 12.500 USD per capita 10 euro for Category B: GDP 12.500 - 6500 USD per capita 7 euro for Category C: GDP < 6500 USD per capita
After the 1000th member, there will be a decline in the fees in every category and payment will become less. Category A: The fee for the first 1000 members is 15 euro, for second 1000 members is 10 Euro and for the third 1000 members is 7 Euro Category B: The fee for the first 1000 members is 10 euro, for second 1000 members is 7 Euro, and for the third 1000 members is 5 Euro Category C: The fee for the first 1000 members is 7 euro, for second 1000 members is 5 Euro, and for the third 1000 members is 3 Euro
Voluntary membership fees for Individual Members; LMHI is like a big family that grows and strenghtens with its members. Each member of this family is very important for us, including the individual members. LMHI grows with each member’s support and contribution, so it is always open to individual members who are willing to give more support according to their potentials. Due to this, individual members can pay more membership fee and support LMHI.
As everybody knows, the membership fee can only be paid by wireless transfer to LMHI's bank account or by credit card.
Our new bank details are stated below ;
Deutsche Bank Privat- und Geschäftskunden AG Postdamer Platz 11 10785 Berlin / Germany IBAN : DE89 1007 0024 0733 6266 00 BIC/SWIFT: DEUTDEDBBER
Hope to live more fruitful and joyous relationships in future.
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) which is either still unpublished or published in 2013, 2014 or 2015.
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 and Canada. The prize will be awarded at the end of the year 2015 in Stuttgart.
Deadline for nominations and applications is 30th of July 2015. 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
Resumee: After 2 1/2 months of preparation a team of four homeopathic doctors started their mission to relieve the consequences of the Ebola outbreak from February/March 2014 which reached a peak in August 2014; at least in the region where we finally and after careful study and outweighing of all alternatives chose to go, Ganta United Missionary Hospital in Nimba County. On arrival, the last Ebola patient had died prior to our possible help. We were forbidden to treat any EBV infected person and after some discussion anew with representatives of the Liberian Health Authorities, three of us four decided to treat all the other (in- and out-)patients including EBV survivors.The experience was positive and inspiring for all of us. History of our endeavor: In August 2014, the LMHI, together with the German Association of Homeopathic Physicians (DZVHÄ), decided to respond to the plead for international support to fight the Ebola epidemic that had already cost the lives of many people in some West African countries. In early August, the president of LMHI, Dr.Renzo Galassi, asked the members of the LMHI for collaboration to work on the issue. International Collaboration and Solidarity with our not so well off brothers and sisters all around the world had been one of his aims. By the end of August, the first team was formed consisting of Dr Richard Hiltner, Dr Medha Durge and myself. In 2010, the President of Liberia, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson herself had asked for homeopathy to be the third line of medicine for her country and contacted Homeopathy without Borders (HOG, Germany) to establish a formal training in Monrovia at The JFKennedy Hospital. However, this project got stranded in the internal alleys of the Ministry of Health. In August and September of 2014, the President herself had repeatedly asked for support in the fight against Ebola, especially and expressively to Germany and the USA as nations with resources to share funds and expertise in times of crisis. The months of September and October were filled with preparative telephone conferences, contacts to all possible entities that could help us with the access to the good starting point in Liberia.
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Ganta United Missionary Hospital (GUMH) was chosen because of the long lasting relationship with a German based NGO (Non-Government Organization) based in Leipzig ( Freunde Liberia´s e.V. Friends of Liberia) and the possibility to contact before hand to prepare well for our stay and endeavor. The contact was established with the Medical Director, Dr. Albert Willicore, and the Hospital Administrator, Victor Doolakeh Taryor. The disease had not cost any lives among the health workers of GUMH.
Background of the disease: The virus was first observed and described in Congo in 1976 on the banks of the River Ebola, an ARN virus that belongs to the family of the Filoviridae. It is patented in the USA and classified as an agent of biosecurity level 4, category A. The recent outbreak started in Guinea Conakry in February 2014, rapidly spread to Liberia; where in Ganta in March the first patient was spotted. The disease reached a peak in August 2014 in Ganta, Nimba County. Careful and strict hygienic measures were taken. The death rate from the infected of these new viral strains were considered around 70% depending on many factors like general health, nutrition, socioeconomic factors etc. EVD was classified as an epidemic; however, statistically corresponds to an endemic. ( Dr.X. Uriarte ,17.09.2014) In the many victims, concomitant diseases were Malaria, Aids and others. Other hemorrhagic fevers are caused by Lassa fever, Enterovirus, Yellow Fever, Aids and Malaria and are sometimes difficult to be differentiated. Lab tests are required to establish the correct diagnosis.
In September 2014, five members of a research team in Sierra Leone tragically died in fast succession just before publishing an article in Science on the origin of the virus. The WHO published in their guidelines the need for collaboration with CAM particularly in these cases of diseases that had no successful treatment nor vaccine as yet. The WHO authorized Glaxo Smith Kline to develop a vaccine.
Organization before hand: Our volunteer group was firmly supported and coordinated by Dr. Altunay Agaoglu with her outstanding profesional, personal skills and attitude. Dr Curt Kösters and Dr Cornelia Bajic gave all the professional and structural know how and worked day and night on the Project; opening paths to official recognition by the Liberian Authorities assisted by the Consul to Liberia Michael Kölsch. Only the American Branch of Liberian Embassies gave the visas in direct application forms. The Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish embassies were overwhelmed. The Ambassador to Germany, Ethel Davis, helped with official visas and gave necessary advice. The President of Liberia knew of our group. In regular international telephone conferences, we all got familiar, were updated and developed common strategies. We gained two further members who soon strongly contributed to our project: Christine Wittenburg and Dr. Edouard Broussalian. The latter joined in the last moment and participated in our first group. Professor Dr. Ashley Ross developed and designed a protocol for documentation and basic research which was presented to the Health Ministry of Liberia and their Ethic Committee prior to our arrival. We were freely given all the required remedies by Brita Gudjons, Robert Müntz and the Hahnemannian Pharmacy. LMHI President Renzo Galassi wrote a letter about our aid mission which to all LMHI members and to all the homeopathic community and requested help and support. Fortunately, we saw that there are too many people who were willing to help both materially and spirutually, and they made donations.
Report of the Ebola Mission to Liberia from LMHI 17th of October to 7th of November 2014
We could not materialized this mission without the help of their donations. I, again thank to all this kindness and to all the help on behalf of my team and LMHI. Teaching for epidemic outbreaks: The crucial point, however, was to be
able to handle the patients with homeopathic remedies. Dr. André Saine from Canada held two excellent Webinars for us with the aim to not lose one patient in the course of the treatment. 110 remedies were determined in five different potencies. The teaching was comprehensive and intense. Interaction was possible to clarify some doubts and André was to be our 24/7 on-call-background for difficult or overwhelming cases. With his tremendous knowledge in clinical Hahnemannian homeopathy, we all felt enriched and gained security in our prescription skills. Through him and the German Web page, we had all the necessary back up from publications during centuries of the management of epidemics which should later come handy when on the ground, but difficult to overcome obstacles by skeptics.
Practical aspects of our journey: Our personal and very important altogether aim was to not cause any burden on our hosts by falling sick. The main dangers being malaria and its prophylaxis, gastrointestinal problems, heat management and hygiene in general. We decided to take Artemisia annua tea three times a day together with potent, but natural insect repellents. We were prepared for a few days if not having enough food by bringing basic food supplies that could serve for the odd days. This included a good vitamin C supply as well as garlic to care for our intestinal health. The Yellow Fever Vaccine had to be given at least 10 days prior to entering the country or if once obtained during our lifetime would proved to be enough as a requirement for the Visa. We were lucky to have colleagues in our team that were all acquainted with basic living standards and the prevention of common diseases in tropical countries. Only two of us had been before in Africa, especially, West Africa.
Team work: Another classical challenge of an international team of homeopathic physicians is team work in extreme circumstances. We are from three continents and four different “schools” of homeopathy with different approaches to remedy choice and also potency choice and administration. All of us are experienced prescribers; all of us have worked with severe and acutely sick patients in more than basic conditions. All of us had worked in international teams before. The choice of a team leader only made it seemingly easier. There were some enriching discussions on remedies and approaches. Other difficult to make decisions had to do with the “ How to proceed” manual in the tense moments. The fact that we were two male and two female participants made it easier. The fact of respecting our different experiences in completely different fields ( hospitals, patient numbers, lowest hygienic standards, undernourished patients, consequences of poverty in all different ways,communication standards etc.) as well. We managed to mainly be complementary. The biggest draw back proved to be unnecessary heroism in each of us; the most important help, humor; the desire to help one another out in vision of the outstanding hospitality and group behavior of our incredible hosts. Eating together and sharing the same space made us soon believe we had known one another for a long time. Cultural adaptation:
In working and living experiences in a completely different environment which includes different races, climate, religion, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, it was extremely important to go well prepared knowing about the immediate and fundamental history and reality of the people and place you encounter. Liberia is a special place in many ways. It was the openness of our hosts mainly that made it easy for us. We were fully accepted (except for political issues that had nothing to do with us personally) and more so, appreciated by the vast majority of the people, especially in Ganta Hospital.
Within less than a day, the news had spread who had arrived and that implied the many beggars in and out of the hospital ( one of the not so easy parts). Accommodation and food were so well arranged by three women from neighboring villages used to care for the “White,” that is, was difficult to actually “miss that something”. However, it is well worth the while to spend as much time as you can on getting familiar with the country and its habits. I myself found videos, two important and inspiring books and the beforehand contact to Liberians, in particular, most helpful. Also, for homeopathic prescribing, it is most important to find out what is normal in which place and circumstance. As Jeremy Sherr says after years of experience in Tanzania: In Africa you just have one mind symptom : “I am hungry”. Homeopathic achievements: After being forbidden to treat Ebola patients in Liberia, first, by Dr. Kateh, then by Dr. Bawoo, and finally by Dr. Steven Kennedy representing the Liberian Health Authority ((and sponsored by the WHO) already on day six and thus our first day of patient contact, three of our team then proceeded to treat all the patients that were transferred to us by the Medical Director of the Ganta United Missionary Hospital: Dr. Albert Willicore; who, previously to our stay, only had a very unclear vision about homeopathy. After starting each of us on one of the three wards and in the outpatient department seeing everyday as many patients as we could manage, we soon organized a teaching session on homeopathy which was frequented by more than thirty collaborators who even after three hours could not cease to ask questions as to the theoretical and practical background of homeopathy. From that day on, our OPD was frequented by a rising number of patients. Many nurses and hospital workers asked for treatment and we tried to manage in the limited amount of time and space. By the end of our stay, there were long queues outside the hospital to consult with us ( and not because we were foreign, they were used to being exposed to staff from all over the place for some periods of time).
Within no time homeopathy proved to be a most beneficial complement to the day and night surgical efforts of our inspiring and admirable colleagues, two from Liberia and one from Congo. We were able to treat the most acute and severe states of disease like patients with meningitis, septicemia, pneumonia, skin infections, secondary infections due to diabetes, burns, surgery like amputations, child birth etc. Apart from the many with endemic Malaria, TB, Aids… Many patients had high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, asthma, chronically festering wounds, chronic heart and kidney failure. One of us worked on the obstetrics and gynecological ward. The results were remarkably good in spite of all the odds and nearly all of our patients being on several drugs at a time. Blood pressure turned to normal ( even in a chronic patient); wounds could heal impressively and sometimes only explainable by the use of homeopathy; many a women could deliver vaginally and thus avoid the hazards of surgical interventions; some stroke patients improved unexpectedly; some babies were resuscitated and remedies like Opium, Antimonium tart, Aconitum helped them back to life. All of us had our successes and the hospital began to voice that they wanted a proper education in homeopathy to be able to achieve themselves what homeopathy had showed them as possible. All of our cases were documented, some gave us a later e-mail or telephone follow up. We treated more then one patient who had survived EVD, but was still suffering from the consequences. Also the many affected by the fear and panic created as a consequence ( Gels, Arg nit, Acon, Stram…) The experience was most challenging, but rewarding on all the possible levels improving our expertise. However, I must say I have never seen as many patients die in such a short time, especially, children, babies and women in labour due to scarcity of means and staff.
Personal difficulties: The main difficulties had to do with a lack of communication before hand and a clear outline of the aims and limits of our common endeavor. Not all of us found the living conditions easy to adapt to. Not all of us understood what it needs to work in a team in all moments. We are just so used to work by ourselves usually…. The fact that we were forbidden to treat Ebola patients was the major draw back, of course. There was no support from the WHO whatsoever ( in fact quite the opposite), The research protocol was not interpreted in our favor at all and created a hostile attitude even prior to our arrival at Ganta Hospital. The fact of trying to produce a nosode was definitely not understood by the local and national authorities. The persecution by the press that got hold of some information that was meant to be internal was a severe draw back and problem for some of us. Even months afterwards, we were still interviewed, phoned and visited in our private homes (!!!) by representatives of the international press. The classical skeptics called us mass murders and other not so beautiful names. Experiences already shared by colleagues who had worked on delicate subjects like children infected with Aids and other diseases with “political” interest. Learning process:
The main thing to be learnt was humbleness and togetherness. That holds true on an international level in view of the necessity of collaboration between the LIGA and national organizations , doctors and non doctor homeopaths, doctors and pharmacists, volunteers and background workers, doctors and our patients, doctors and our local colleagues, volunteers and our hosts and so on. Especially in times of crisis we all need one another and as homeopaths we have a simple, beautiful and common ground : the highest purpose being to restore the sick to health! And that by the Law of Similars. That is why we went! And that is what we did. We all are grateful for the experience and the even months afterwards still flowing flood of communication shows that it was well worth the while even if we could not touch nor treat even one EVD patient.
55 years old, born and studied medicine mainly in Germany , 36 years dedicated to homeopathy Working in Barcelona, Spain where she cofounded 16 years ago Marenostrum, a multi professional health center for family health, published books and numerous articles on homeopathy,teaching doctors and midwives since 25 years Cofounded Bhaktapur International Homeopathic Clinic and thus helped to establish homeopathy in Nepal on a teaching and treatment level for the first time fully recognized by the Nepali government Responded to the Liga call in august 2014 for the Ebola Relief Action Currently busy with the development of a Casa de Paso for the terminally sick in Spain
Abstract: Perhaps the greatest assembly of homeopathic masters working in one place and time occurred in northeastern America in the late 19th
Century. The works of Hering, Guernsey, Nash, H.C. Allen, Kent, Lippe, Timothy Allen, Boger, Dunham, and Farrington are still standard texts throughout the world. Many suppose that they brought and led an era of homeopathic excellence in America. But it cannot be said that homeopathy flourished in America between 1850 and 1900. The many homeopathic colleges that were established, and most of the physicians who called themselves homeopaths, represented eclectic pseudo-homeopathy and had no proper knowledge of homeopathy. It was their confusion and opposition to genuine homeopathy – not resistance from allopathic schools, as some believe – that prevented homeopathy from becoming established in America.
For a long time, many have believed that homeopathy flourished in America from about 1850 to 1900, and declined precipitously after that because of opposition from rival allopathic institutions. In 1900 there were in America twenty-two medical colleges and many clinics and hospitals that were supposed to be homeopathic. And there were twelve thousand people calling themselves homeopathic physicians, to whom the teachings and example of the greatest assembly of homeopathic masters in history were accessible: Constantin Hering (1800– 1880), Adolphus Lippe (1812–1888), Henry N. Guernsey (1817–1885), Carroll Dunham (1828–1877), Henry C. Allen (1836–1909), Timothy F. Allen (1837– 1902), Eugene Nash (1838–1917), Ernest A. Farrington (1847–1885), James Tyler Kent (1849–1916), and Cyrus M. Boger (1861–1935), along with a pioneering group of pharmacists such as Bernhard Fincke (1821–1906) and Samuel Swan (1814–1893).
Whereas by 1920 only seven homeopathic medical colleges were left, and by 1950 there were none at all; and the number of homeopathic physicians declined as abruptly—after 1950 there were only about twenty left in the whole of the United States. 2But there was no golden age of homeopathy in America: most of the activity between 1850 and 1900 that seemed so bright and then suddenly ceased was not homeopathy at all, but a caricature of homoeopathy. An era of pseudo- homeopathy came and went in the second half of the nineteenth century. The geniuses who appeared and produced their timeless works were not indicative of the era, they were exceptions. They were not followed or heeded, except by a few. They did not create an era of great homeopathy; they were all there was of great homeopathy.
A fortunate wind gave them birth and put them here at the same time. They mutually inspired each other, built on
each other’s excellence, and felt support and fellowship in their work, while the climate around them was not friendly and never became so. One wonders why homeopathy failed in America when so many homeopathic geniuses lived and worked here, in a period of less than 50 years, and set such a high example? Homeopathy failed in America because the vast majority of those who called themselves homeopaths practiced a farce of homeopathy and produced indifferent results. When challenged by the few voices of true homeopathy, they defended themselves by attacking homoeopathy with scandals and lies. In America in the nineteenth century the seed of homeopathy fell in very weedy soil. The beginning of homeopathy in America was full of promise and hope. Dr Hans Burch Gram (1786‒1840) moved to New York from Europe in 1825, and opened the first homeopathic practice in this country. The earliest students of homeopathy in this country were extremely serious and dedicated.
In 1835 the first school of homeopathy to be established anywhere in the world was founded in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The instruction there was based on Hahnemann's Organon, Chronic Diseases and Materia Medica Pura. The students had to know German, since all the lectures and most of the texts were in that language. This curriculum kept away all but the most dedicated individuals. As a result, homeopathy was initially represented by men of great integrity and commitment, who were thoroughly grounded in the fundamental texts and principles of homeopathy. They had great success in their practice. Wherever these early pioneers of homeopathy settled to practice, people were amazed at their results, and the fame of homeopathy spread. Cities and towns were much smaller in the last century than they are today and news spread quickly. Chicago, for instance, had a population of only twenty thousand when the first homeopath came to practice there in 1843. Ten years after settling in any city of that size, a dedicated homeopath properly trained in Hahnemann's Organon and Chronic Diseases was known and respected in the city and all around. The second homeopathic medical college in America was founded in 1848, thirteen years after the opening of the Allentown Academy. It was called the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, later named the Hahnemann Medical College. Then, just a year or two after that, an astonishing, frantic multiplication of homeopathic medical colleges began. From 1850 until 1900 one new so-called homeopathic college opened every two or three years. By 1900 there were twenty-two self- styled homeopathic medical colleges and twelve thousand graduates from these colleges who were practicing.
Why did this sudden explosion of homeopathic medical colleges take place? It is generally assumed that the homeopathic medical colleges founded in the second half of the nineteenth century were modeled on the Allentown Academy and produced graduates of the same caliber as that school. It is also assumed that the great masters of homeopathy who were practicing and teaching in America during this period indicated the general level of homeopathic teaching and practice of the time.
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They possessed not only the keenness of mind to consider this new system of medicine, but also the discipline and perseverance to study it in a foreign language, since at that time all the texts were in German. The number of homeopaths practicing in America had grown to about one hundred by 1835, all of them living in Pennsylvania and New York.
It is also assumed that intelligent leadership was provided by the American Institute of Homeopathy (known as the A.I.H.), which was formed early in this era to represent this new medical profession politically and legally; and which until this day it has had the same position and function in homeopathy as the A.M.A. in allopathy. Alas, all these assumptions are false. Homeopathic medical colleges proliferated in the latter half of the nineteenth century for two reasons. Public response to the successes of the early well trained homeopaths was one. But legions of able teachers and students do not suddenly appear upon public demand. There were not enough suitable students and qualified teachers for twenty-two homeopathic medical schools in this country in the late nineteenth century. There were enough to establish one model homeopathic medical college every ten years or so from 1850 on. Three or four times that number were founded during this era because in America prior to 1910 medical colleges could be established as commercial business ventures by private entrepreneurs. All one needed to start a medical college in America— allopathic, homeopathic, eclectic, osteopathic, or chiropractic—was a charter from the state legislature, and that was not very difficult to obtain at a time when bold enterprise was a civic virtue. The requirements for starting a college were extremely lax: it was not essential to have a clinic, or a hospital, or even a dispensary on the property. The amount of training required for entrance and for graduation—including the amount of time spent actually seeing and treating patients—was left entirely to the discretion of the college directors. A medical college could be a three-roomed building in a sparsely populated area with few sick people available to learn from, and a student could be admitted without a high school education, and graduated with an M.D. degree one year later. 3The Hahnemann Medical College of
Chicago, for example, opened in October 1860 and graduated its first class four months later in February 1861—froman institution consisting of one 12x20 foot lecture room, a closet- sized dissecting room, and an 8x10 foot dispensary in which four patients could be seated . 4
We do not know who was the first to seize this opportunity to establish a private, bare-boned medical college with promises of prestige and a homeopathic diploma, but once it was known that one could start such colleges and grant diplomas, they started sprouting like mushrooms in a damp basement. The result was a business boom in commercial medical colleges between 1840 and 1880 in America. About three new medical colleges opened each year during that period. Most of them were allopathic, but homeopathic, eclectic, osteopathic, and chiropractic colleges were also established at a frantic pace. By 1904 there were 166 medical colleges in the United States5—five times more than in Germany or Britain in proportion to the population.6 The ratio of physicians to patients in America in 1904 was more than twice that of today.7 It was not until the excesses of this situation were brought to light by the Flexner Report of 19108, which detailed the facilities and curriculum of every medical school, that America began to require its medical schools to adhere more closely to the European model, where every medical college was a branch of a university, every candidate for admission had to have completed an undergraduate university education, and graduation with a doctorate in medicine required a four- to seven- year program of academic and clinical medical training.
Despite the masterful texts written by the great homeopaths of this era, which today are still considered classics, it was mainly allopathy, not homeopathy, that was being taught at these so-called homeopathic medical colleges. The homeopathic medical colleges of this era were established without a faculty of homeopaths. The departments of gynecology, ophthalmology, clinical medicine, pulmonology, physiology, neurology, pediatric medicine, anatomy, pathology and surgery were taught almost exclusively by allopaths or eclectics. Only the "Department of Materia Medica and Therapeutics" was in the hands of a homeopath. It took a very special type of homeopath to attempt to teach homeopathy in such a setting. Homeopaths of the first rank could not always be found to take such a position, or to keep it for very long in the face of such continual opposition.
Whether by decree from the college directors or by natural selection, the ones who stayed the longest were those most willing to conform to the prevailing allopathic ideas of the day, even to embrace them. The bacteriology theory, which portrayed virtually every acute illness as a germ infection to be cured only by killing the microbe reputed to be its specific cause, was embraced by allopathy in the 1880s. Most of those calling themselves homeopaths adopted this theory as well, including faculty members of supposedly homeopathic colleges, leaders of so-called homeopathic organizations, and authors of would-be homeopathic textbooks. Students in America’s homeopathic medical colleges were taught from 1880 onwards that homeopathy could not treat infectious diseases, since its remedies did not attack germs. Graduates who were already in practice learned the same ideas from their journals and associations. A typical so-called homeopathic view of 1885: "Take for example pyemia.. [elevated white blood cells in the blood]: he would be an incurable empiricist who should today presume to treat it on general constitutional principles on the one hand or by comparison of its symptoms on the other. The same may be said of parasitic affections of the skin, all the infections and contagious diseases, the genus of which has been discovered... the marsh malarias, in the cure of which the alkaloids of cinchona have proved to be specific; the rheumatisms, which are due to an excess of azotized nutrition, the dyspepsias..."9. A professor at a homeopathic medical college in 1887 taught that the early stage of gonorrhea was to be treated with injections of mercury bichloride, or zinc chloride, or silver nitrate10. The two leading figures in the Southern Homoeopathic Association declared that nothing but crude doses of quinine could ever successfully treat malaria— rejecting not only Hahnemann's exposition on it in the Organon, but also the brilliant and detailed textbook on the subject by one of their contemporaries, H.C. Allen, whom they could easily have consulted. 11
For the after-pains of childbirth, homeopathic students were taught to give concoctions of chloral hydrate12. For the painful after effects of gonorrheal treatment, opium was to be injected13. Morphine, the pre-eminent pain-killer of allopathic medicine at the time, was taught to be given for gallstones and kidney stones, and for the palliation of any severe pain14. One of the professors at the Hahnemann College of Philadelphia taught, "A simple mustard plaster, a poultice, a strengthening plaster, a gentle laxative, a little morphine, etc, are used by every humane and sympathizing practitioner of homeopathy whenever the best interest of the patient may call for this palliating medication."15 This same professor also taught, "If I had nothing left in this world to choose from except internal medication and injections, I would take the injections every time."16 Such allopathic treatment became common practice among so- called homeopaths. A 1901 conference of the A.I.H. reported:
"[M]en, who have been in the practice of medicine 8 or 10 years...say, 'When you go out to a case of neuralgia don't spend half an hour trying to find out what homoeopathic medicines to give, but relieve the patient' first; give morphine and then put the patient to sleep, and then you can study the case, and in that way hold the patient...” Everybody in the profession does that nearly; there are only an exceptional few who do not. "17
Instead of teaching students to consider the patient as a living whole, whose totality of symptoms is the sole object of study and treatment, the homeopathiccolleges taught students to disregard the totality of symptoms and focus instead on the specific pathology of the case. A typical "homeopathic" view in 1881: “But, on the other hand, when we work in the light...the necessity of a thorough and complete pathological knowledge as a basis for the genuinely homeopathic prescription becomes apparent, and we discover how truly accidental is success when our sole resource is the totality of symptoms."18
In the supposed "golden age” of American homeopathy" from 1850-1900, specific treatments for names of disease (rather than for the individual’s actual state and presentation)
were taught throughout the so- called homeopathic medical colleges. The specifics taught by these would-be homeopathic medical colleges were vast and eclectic, borrowing heavily from allopathy. A report in the journal Homoeopathic Physician in October 1887: "[W]e quote the following specimens of homeopathic teaching. These items are notes published in a journal to show what the colleges are doing. One can easily see how little Homeopathy is taught by such lecturers: Professor P. recommends the use externally of the fluid extract of Sanguinaria in lupus...."
"Professor H. speaks very highly of Ipecac in many nervous diseases, especially of its use in cerebro-spinal meningitis... For fibroid tumours of the uterus Professor A.G.B. speaks very highly of the internal use of Iodide of Lime. Not the Calc. iod., but a preparation of iodized lime.."
"Professor F. also recommends in postpartum hemorrhage 'a half teaspoonful of Squibb's fluid extract of Ergot in water, and repeat the dose in fifteen minutes if necessary.'... Professor of Practice recommends Gelsemium for impotency. No symptoms!... The Dean of one of these 'truly homoeopathic' colleges acknowledges he uses Morphine as a palliative... 19". The homeopathic student was taught to treat anemia with a combination of iron citrate and quinine, and chronic diarrhea with a mixture of anvil scales, sinaruba bark, buckthorn, and white wine20. He was likewise taught that when a patient complained of constipation, he was to ask no further questions but simply give him a combination of Cascara, Conium, Collinsonia, and Nux Vomica, all in crude form.21
When homeopathic students and physicians are taught by their own faculties and their own leaders that all manner of febrile illnesses, inflammations, and sicknesses are due to specific entities and must be treated apart from (and in complete disregard of) the patient's totality of symptoms; when they are taught that pain has to be treated with specific allopathic measures and should not be seen as an aspect of the patient's entire state of health, then homeopathy is not being taught but instead disavowed.
Hahnemann Homoeopathic Medical College was supposed to be the flagship, the "center of homoeopathic learning in the United States and, in fact, the whole world." 22 In 1889 one of its graduates wrote the following letter:
"In the January issue Dr. Drane says, "If homoeopathy is not taught and practiced in that college [Hahnemann College of Philadelphia] it is not elsewhere." I am a recent graduate, and now have a student at the college and I am thus able to speak of the recent past and the present. I will cite a few examples of the teaching and practice, and your readers can decide as to its homoeopathicity. I do it with regret, for I have a feeling of reverence for my Alma Mater. Within three days one of the faculty cited to his class a case of croupous pneumonia he was treating; spoke of the high temperature, 105º, and the high pulse rate 137, and said he feared he would lose his patient from heart failure. … He then told them he was giving physiological doses of Digitalis 'to keep the heart from stopping." He told the class he would feel himself criminally guilty if he allowed that heart to fail without using a cardiac stimulant. Is this Homoeopathy? Is any man able to find the 'indicated remedy' while using physiological doses of a Drug? If this patient dies, was it Homoeopathy that failed to effect a cure? Another member of the faculty recommends gram doses of Salicine to cure inflammatory rheumatism by destroying the "germ," and fifteen grams of Quinine to cure intermittent fever. Another member of the faculty says that a physician that will not use hypodermics of Morphia to relieve pain is criminally guilty... This is a specimen of the teaching and practice of the Hahnemann College of Philadelphia. This kind of seed sowing cannot fail to produce an abundant harvest of "empirics" calling themselves Homoeopaths, and Homoeopathy must suffer accordingly. "23
Allopathic concepts, diagnoses, and treatments were extensively taught at the so-called homoeopathic medical colleges during the supposed golden age of homeopathy in America. What about homeopathic concepts, diagnoses, and treatments? How much attention was given by these schools to teaching homeopathy itself? Practically none. Almost without exception, the twelve thousand physicians calling themselves homoeopaths in 1900 received no training in homeopathic doctrine, homeopathic method, or homeopathic materia medica. Between 1840-1890 a structured course on the subject of homeopathic doctrine and principles was presented at only two homeopathic colleges! 24 Worse, at one of these schools, the instructor who had instituted the course and was preparing to teach it was told by a fellow faculty member, "If you attempt this the faculty will take your head off."25 The American Institute of Homoeopathy, learning of this situation after it was exposed in a series of articles by the International Hahnemannian Association (I.H.A.), issued a request to American homeopathic medical schools in 1886 that they should start including courses in the Organon and Chronic Diseases in their curriculum.26 Harris Coulter in his landmark book, Divided Legacy: A History of the Schism In Medical Thought,27 writes that the call for this instruction "was ignored in many schools” but was heeded by the Hahnemann College in Philadelphia. In 1887 its teaching in this field was nominal at best:
…they announced this supposed improvement of their curriculum ...[that] an equal amount of time and thought would be given to teaching Hahnemann's Organon. … We were informed by a pupil of the class to whom this promise was made that there were just three attempts made to talk of the Organon, that these were short, and that these talks, and notably the last one, were miserable failures. 28
James Tyler Kent was the onlyhomeopath in this entire era to give a complete course at any American homeopathic medical college on the principles contained in the Organon. These lectures were taken down in shorthand and thereafter published as Kent’s Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy, one of the most important and widely studied homeopathic texts in the world. The Organon of Medicine sold only about five hundred copies during the entire era of this supposed golden age of homeopathy in America. Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, an essential supplement to the Organon, sold even fewer copies and was "long out of print" in 1889. 29
Homeopathic materia medica received no greater attention from the homeopathic colleges of this era than did homoeopathic doctrine. In 1887 the Dean of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia told one of his pupils that Hering's Guiding Symptoms was useless.30
At this same "flagship" college of American homeopathy, by 1889 the pharmacology course consisted almost entirely of readings from an allopathic pharmacology text.31 A student in this course reported, "When [the lecturer's] time is nearly all spent, he will briefly and very hurriedly allude to a few homoeopathic uses."32 Similarly, in 1890 the Cleveland Homoeopathic College proudly announced that the full allopathic pharmaceutical dispensary was being taught at their school. 33
In 1889, the great homeopath Cyrus Boger could find no significant difference between the teaching of the allopathic college texts and those used in the so-called homeopathic medical colleges.34 He stated further that the graduates of these "homeopathic" colleges were so ill-taught in homeopathy that "One of two things must happen to [the young graduate], either he becomes an Eclectic in fact, or else seeing the error of the ways into which he has unwittingly fallen, he must perchance learn his lesson of how to prescribe all over again...The teaching of the schools must undergo a change or as a school we are doomed.35
So there was virtually no teaching of the Organon, the Chronic Diseases, and the homeopathic Materia Medica. What was the result? The single remedy was not important:
While I am a homoeopath—see my door plate—and practice in accordance with the law of similia, my experience has taught me that there is no reason in the endeavor to maintain that only the single drug can be the simillimum… When giving a single remedy, like Tincture Belladonna, Silicea 1x or Lycopodium 1x, and even though having the remedies administered frequently, and changing them several times per day (as the symptoms changed) to keep up with the simillimum, I received no benefit. 36
The homeopath was elsewhere told that if he could only work his case down to four remedies, "Give all four at the same time...the prescriber is criminal if he does not." 37
What about potentization? The potentized remedy was rejected by most self-styled homoeopaths of this era as "a superstitious fancy of Hahnemann's" and an impediment to "scientific medicine."38
An ex-President of the A.I.H. was happy to state in 1887 that "high dynamizations had been laughed out of the A.I.H." 39
And the Law of Similars? It was taught that treating with opposites was as valid as treating with similars.40
Indeed, in 1880 homoeopaths were taught that "When treating a case outside of the law of cure, [the homeopath] could for a time adopt any system of practice, believing it to be the best for his patient."41
By 1911 the Journal of the A.I.H. was publishing lists of diseases which were said to lie outside the operation of the Law of Similars. 42
It is no wonder that in 1887 a graduate from a homeopathic college reported that at his homeopathic medical school no homeopathy was taught.43 Not a single word of the Organon was included in his training; the prescribing of potencies higher than 3x was not admitted. As if that were not bad enough, until he realized the abyss of his education through accidental contact with real homeopathy years following his graduation, he considered himself a trained homeopath and called what he practiced homeopathy, as the following physician reported in 1889: F. E. Stoaks, M.D., "Experiences of a Young Homoeopath", Homoeopathic Physician, VII (1887), 172. I have only practiced homeopathy twelve years. Up to within two years, my buggy case [i.e., travel case] contained only liquids and triturations; the liquids were composed of tinctures, 1st, 2nd and 3rd potencies, and the triturations of 2x, 3x, and 6x. Beside this I employed every new specific (?) upon the market. I wasn't a Homoeopath, I wasn't an Eclectic, nor was I an Allopath; but I was, what are perhaps three-fourths of the homoeopathic profession today, but what to call it I don't know. I hooted at the single remedy, and was as sure as mortal man can be of anything, that all reported cases of cures by the so-called high potencies were the basest fabrication.
Through the earnest efforts of some of my confreres, I in a weak (?) moment promised to give high potencies and the single remedy a trial, and I did so with a vengeance. I knew as do ninety-five Homoeopaths out of one hundred that intermittent fever could not be cured without Quinine; so chills and fever was the chosen field for my work. I was advised to procure "Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever" by H.C. Allen, M.D. I did it. I have in the past eighteen or twenty months, or perhaps a little longer, used no Quinine and have cured—yes, I call it cured— every case of chills and fever, with the single remedy in high potency...Now let several thousand Homoeopaths [of the ninety-five per cent majority] get up on their hind legs and howl: "It's a ----- lie!" That does not alter the facts. This experience I repeat constantly. 44
The idea that in 1900 there were twenty-two homeopathic medical colleges and twelve thousand homeopathic physicians in America is pure fiction. The fact is, in 1900 there were probably around 300-500 genuine homeopathic physicians in America—a mere three to four per cent of the nominal total45—and not a single college where homeopathic medicine was taught.46 The so-called homeopathic colleges and their graduates were unequivocally eclectic. Students at American "homeopathic" colleges between 1850 and 1900 were taught to examine patients allopathically, diagnose allopathically, and then treat these allopathic conceptions of disease with any and every homeopathic, allopathic, and herbal drug having a reputation for getting rid of the pathological "entity" causing the condition. Homeopathic medicines, if they were included in the prescription, were given in crude form (in fact rarely higher in potency than 3X), and mixed with several other medicines. Coulter in his book Divided Legacy writes that for the vast majority of those calling themselves homoeopaths at this time, every homeopathic principle was expendable and potencies above 6X were considered useless. They were determined "to turn away from Hahnemannian homeopathy and restructure the doctrine along allopathic lines. This led them closer and closer to allopathic practice until finally they had more in common with their professional opponents than with their nominal brethren."47 This is chillingly summed up by a faculty member of one so-called homeopathic medical college in 1884: "We do not pretend to make homoeopathists of our students. We only make them doctors, and when they leave, if they wish for homoeopathy, they can get it themselves."48
Why did homeopathy in America fail? What future could homeopathy in America possibly have when the vast majority of its so-called practitioners knew nothing of homeopathic method and principles? An allopathic. journal gave a blunt answer to this question when it commented on a so-called homeopathic professor's declaration that he gave purgatives, diuretics, etc., and considered himself “a good homoeopath”: "Homoeopathy had committed suicide in the open streets." 49
The failure of homeopathy in America was already obvious in 1870—a mere thirty-five years after the Allentown Academy was founded.50 Before homeopathy could be established in America, its true representatives were vastly outnumbered by a wave of eclectics who laid claim to the same title, graduated and supported by ambiguous schools whose leaders followed trends, not homeopathy. Anybody who called himself an advocate of homeopathy was permitted to teach or practice or sell whatever he wanted and call it homeopathy. Before any action was taken against such people, their misrepresentation of homeopathy had deformed it beyond recognition, and produced an entire generation of physicians and patients who thought that the practice of eclecticism was proper homeopathy. It all happened so quickly that by the time real homeopathy reacted and spoke in a unified voice, it was completely drowned out by the overwhelming din of pseudo-homoeopathy, and practically nobody could hear it. With friends like these, homeopathy did not need enemies. By 1900 homeopathy was almost non-existent in America’s homeopathic colleges. Before the stream of pseudo- homoeopaths had become an overwhelming flood, a stand against them was possible. By 1870 it was clear to genuine homoeopaths that the would-be homeopathic medical colleges were degenerate, and that their graduates—who were entering the A.I.H. in greater and greater numbers, believing they were trained homoeopaths since that is what they had been told by their alma maters—were completely ignorant of homeopathy. In that year the A.I.H., as the national authority on homeopathy, could have upheld the true identity of homeopathy and insisted that only those who understood and practiced its system of principles would be allowed to call themselves homeopaths, and all others would have to call their activities by some different name. But instead, the A.I.H. decided to welcome the eclectic graduates of the falsely homeopathic medical colleges just as they were. No stand was taken. From this point on the A.I.H. ceased to represent homeopathy. Homeopathy is a system composed of principles, and can no more exist when these are ignored than a language can exist when its rules of grammar are ignored. Carrol Dunham, a genuine homeopath and the much-beloved but unfortunately too trusting President of the A.I.H. at the time, dreamt that the horde of ignorant newcomers would be lifted to a knowledge of real homeopathy through their exposure to the expert few. But the newcomers did not want to learn; they wanted to assert themselves.
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They overran the A.I.H., and then eliminated every provision of its charter which was at variance with their eclectic training, all the while believing that they were merely bringing the A.I.H. more in line with the latest teachings. In 1870, the A.I.H. declared that pathological indications were more important than the individualizing symptoms of the case in the selection of the remedy. In 1880 it did away with the fundamental homeopathic position that mixtures could not be a part of homeopathy, and mixtures were welcomed. By 1882 it voted that a homeopath need not restrict himself to practicing according to the law of similars, but could practice any kind of medicine he wished and still call himself a proper homeopath. In 1889 the A.I.H. opened its membership to those who refused to accept the Law of Similars altogether, as well as to those who refused to practice homeopathy, including any and all allopathic physicians.52
The A.I.H. by 1880 was so overwhelmingly eclectic that the real homeopaths among them formed a separate association, the International Hahnemannian Association (I.H.A.). Interest in real homeopathy was by then so small that no more than 150 physicians ever belonged to it, while the roster of the A.I.H. numbered over ten thousand. The members and adherents of the I.H.A. kept homeopathy alive in this country from 1880 onwards. These were its only representatives during the so-called golden age of homeopathy in America. Why was real homeopathy never able to grow appreciably, and why could it never establish an enduring presence in any homeopathic college or homeopathic association other than the I.H.A.? By representing their teaching as homeopathy, the so-called homeopathic medical colleges misled and in most cases irretrievably conditioned anyone who studied there. The young minds who promised to be the future of homeopathy in America were ruined by these "homeopathic" colleges. Once indoctrinated in eclecticism at one of these ‘homeopathic’ medical colleges it was almost impossible for a graduate to consider real homeopathy seriously even if he chanced to come in contact with it, because it required him to disregard everything he had learned in college, cast aside any respect he had for his former teachers, and consider with an open and objective mind something completely new – an uncommon trait in any era. As if this did not already make the survival and continuation of real homeopathy difficult enough, pseudo-homeopaths vigorously opposed any efforts by real homeopathy to separate and identify itself distinct from pseudo-homeopathy. Whenever real homeopathy began to show what it really was and what it could do, the pseudo-homeopaths attacked it with ferocity in scathing public denunciations.
This inflamed the pseudo-homeopaths, who didn’t follow such things. They then commenced public, often derogatory attacks which took time to public confidence in
against genuine homeopathy defend and which undermined homeopathy. The few true
full trying to homeopathy
homeopaths already had their hands maintain an association where was discussed, and a journal for members, along with the occasional attempt to establish a hospital or clinic where homeopathy might be practiced faithfully. Homeopathy was obstructed and prevented from moving forward in the late 1900’s by pseudo-homeopathy.
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Perhaps the most revealing and symptomatic episode of this era was the scandal involving the Homoeopathic Women's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1887. The work of the great homeopath Adolph Lippe had inspired a group of people in his city of Philadelphia to establish a homeopathic hospital there—a real homeopathic hospital. One of the provisions in the hospital's charter was, naturally, that only homeopathic remedies were to be used. Soon after the hospital's opening, eight physicians who had been granted visiting staff privileges (because they had graduated from a homeopathic medical college, and called themselves homeopaths) were caught giving patients in the hospital crude purgatives and stimulants53; they were later found also to have given quinine, ergot, morphine, and combination pills containing belladonna, strychnia, crude quinine and hyoscyamus.54
The eight “homeopaths” did not apologize and did not ask how they might practice homeopathy more correctly, but resigned in loud protest, denouncing the hospital in the city newspapers for its terrible care of patients and for the dangerous way its board interfered in matters of professional judgement. The Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia publicly supported the eight resigning physicians in their attack on the hospital, and promised them all positions in the new hospital it was then planning, approving in advance "all the crude drugs, opiates, etc." they might decide to use.55 What could possibly be more devastating to public confidence in homeopathy than for a group of "homeopathic" doctors and the Hahnemann Medical College to publicly condemn one of its first hospitals and all the principles that were the very definition of homeopathy?
In a similar way, whenever a group of homeopaths tried to create a forum for homeopathy by forming an independent society (which they usually designated as "Hahnemannian" to distinguish it from the abused term "Homeopathic"), the pseudo-homeopaths loudly reviled the group and the medicine it practiced. The pretext usually employed for this condemnation was the question of potency, which was a convenient means of ridiculing homeopathy before a public skeptical of metaphysical ideas. Its real aim was to keep people from investigating homeopathy's claims seriously, since the real issue separating true homeopaths from pseudo-homeopaths was not potency, it was homeopathy. Thus, when the genuine homeopaths from the Monroe County (New York) Homoeopathic Medical Society left it in 1889 and formed the Rochester Hahnemannian Society, the president of the Monroe County Homoeopathic Society viciously denounced the new group in the public press. One of the Rochester Hahnemannians wrote an explanatory letter (in a homeopathic journal, not the public newspaper): ibid., 222. The only difference that is claimed in this magnum opus of the before mentioned official [the President], aside from a ridiculous attempt to belittle our method of prescribing, is in the assertion that we use only the higher potencies, thus attempting to place the cause for division on the question of dose. You know, too well, the subterfuge here attempted, but for the enlightenment of any outsiders who might be deceived by such statements, we here affirm that the members of the Rochester Hahnemannian Society use potencies ranging from the lower, or sometimes even the tincture, to the highest, the third and sixth potencies being often employed.
In short, we unhesitatingly place ourselves on record, to the effect that the question of dose has absolutely nothing to do with our having to take the decided step of separating ourselves from the Monroe County Society and its methods of treatment. We wish it understood at the outset that we are prepared to uphold all the statements that we shall now make in proof of the following assertions. We charge the majority of the members of the Monroe County Homoeopathic Medical Society:
First— With the practice of writing prescriptions which are composed of several drugs, also of prescribing r.emedies, in form homoeopathic, to the number of two, three, or four in alternation, practices which are in opposition to the rules laid down by Hahnemann which teaches the use of the single remedy.
Second—Of a quite general use of the hypodermic syringe to introduce such old school measures as morphia, cocaine, etc., for the relief of pain in cases not incurable, and which plan of treatment recognizes pain as the only condition to be alleviated. This method ignores the plain instructions to select a remedy for the "totality of symptoms," is too often the beginning of the opium habit, and many times renders the case incurable.
Third—The use of cathartics, diuretics, emmenagogues, etc., and the use of drugs for diagnosed conditions, prescribing more for the name of a disease than for the patient.
Fourth—Of a general laxity of practice, under which some of their members have publicly boasted of the success they have attained with the recent fads, antipyrin and sphincter stretching.
Lastly—That while claiming the honorable name of Homoeopathists, their practice is so diverse, that they cannot be described by any other term than Eclectics, to- day using homoeopathic remedies, to-morrow measures of the Old School and the next day both together. In
consequence of which inconsistency, they have already brought opprobrium upon the name they profess to serve.56
Some today believe that American homeopathic physicians who preferred high potencies (200C and above) were dogmatic, and that they ostracized “Low- potency prescribers” and created a schism in American homeopathy which led to its decline. This blames the fall of homeopathy on precisely those people who kept homeopathy alive during this era! Members of the I.H.A. used and commended low potencies (6C to 30C) as well as high.The schism was not over potency, it was over the basic tenets of homeopathy and whether a ‘homeopath’ needed to follow them or not. Attacks on homeopathy often were led by pseudo-
omeopaths using the name but not the system of homeopathy, and who reacted violently whenever true homeopaths attempted to group together and make known what their medical practice was: the following of certain principles.
Genuine homeopathy was becoming difficult to find in America long before 1900; by 1900 its place and its name had been completely usurped by pseudo-homeopathy. It is indeed nothing short of miraculous that it was not altogether extinguished during this era by such misrepresentation and antagonism. As it was, it limped into the twentieth century with approximately the same number of adherents as it had when it started in America, its small flame never dying, though never increasing. Over the course of that next decade the eleven thousand eclectics sailing under the false colors of homeopathy dropped the pretence of calling themselves homeopaths —a name they never deserved in the first place—and melted entirely into allopathy. At first glance it looks as if thousands of professed homeopaths disappeared almost overnight after 1900, but what really happened was that these eclectic physicians, who used every manner of medicine to treat their patients, stopped placing the name “homeopathy” on their business cards. Their practice of offering whatever drugs were most popular at the time—homeopathic medicines, allopathic medicines, herbal medicines, old physic—did not change. The era of microbiology was taking hold, and university medical schools with updated laboratories were leading the way. The pseudo-homeopaths already believed in this doctrine, and its specific treatments for specific infections, and so they more and more aligned themselves with allopathy. When they began to call themselves allopaths, the pseudo- homeopaths were much closer to identifying themselves correctly. The pseudo-homeopathic way of examining the patient, making a diagnosis, selecting medicines, and dosing the patient is identical with the allopathic approach. Between 1900 and 1910, seven homeopathic colleges closed and enrollment in homeopathic colleges declined by half. The Flexner Report, published in 1910, had no bearing on the failure of homeopathy in America, as some people think. In the decade following the publication of the Flexner Report, eight homeopathic colleges closed. The decline which began before the appearance of the Flexner Report continued unchanged after its publication. The Flexner Report merely bore the news of this fading. In fact it was no more critical of homeopathic medical colleges than of allopathic ones, favoring the elimination of two-thirds of each type. It judged five homeopathic colleges worthy to continue as medical colleges. In the last century, the greatest obstruction to the success of homeopathy was pseudo-homeopathy. It overcame even the greatest conjunction of energy, genius, dedication, and indefatigable labor that has yet occurred in the history of homeopathy, in the persons of that brief generation of masters whose works are essential even today. Homeopathy was not completely extinguished only because true homeopaths separated themselves from pseudo-homeopathy and established a voice for homeopathy, however small. Even so, homeopathy barely survived in America. We may well wonder whether pseudo-homeopathy inspires people to investigate real homeopathy. The only beneficiary of pseudo-homeopathy may be allopathy. What did eleven thousand American pseudo-homeopaths bequeath to real homeopathy at the beginning of this century? Only its ruin in America for a period of nearly 80 years.
Author: Daniel Cook graduated with a Degree in History from Stanford University before pursuing medical studies. He has practiced classical homeopathy in Dallas, Texas for 20 years. He is the most recent Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine.
1Modified from the article, “The Ascendance and Decline of Homeopathy in America,” by Daniel Cook and Alain Naudé, Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, Vol. 89, No. 3, Autumn 1996. 2Harris Coulter, Divided Legacy: A History of the Schism in Medical Thought, vol. 4. ( Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1994), 322.
3Abraham Flexner, Medical Education in the United States and Canada, 1910. 4William King, History of Homoeopathy in America, vol. 2 (New York: Lewis Publishing, 1905), 341-3. 5Harris Coulter, Divided Legacy: A History of the Schism in Medical Thought, vol. 3 (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1973), 444. 6ibid., p. 458. The U.S. ratio of medical colleges to population of 1:500,000, as compared to a ratio in Germany and the U.K. of 1: 2,500,000 in the same period. 7ibid., p. 457. The ratio in 1904 was 1:600, when all doctors were in primary
care. Today the ratio is 1:1100, which includes the physicians not only in primary care but also in all the medical specialties.
8Abraham Flexner, Medical Education in the United States and Canada, 1910. 9ibid., p. 348, quoting New York Medical Times, XIII (1885-1886), 258. 10Homoeopathic Physician, VII (1887), 146. 11Medical Advance (1890), 52. 12Medical Advance ( July 1890), 51. 13Homoeopathic Physician, VII (1887), 146. 14ibid., p. 353
15Coulter, op. cit.,vol 3, p. 354, quoting Homoeopathic Times, VIII (1880-81), 154. 16ibid., p. 355, quoting Homoeopathic Physician, VII (1887), 148. 17ibid., p. 373, quoting AIH Transactions, LVII (1901), 648. 18ibid., p. 348, quoting North American Journal of Homoeopathy, NS XII (1881- 82), 618-619. 19Homoeopathic Physician (1887), 353. 20Medical Advance (July 1890) 51-2. 21Medical Advance (Mar 1889), 195. 22Coulter, op.cit., 102. 23R. Farley, M.D., Medical Advance, XXII (1889), 188-89. 24Homoeopathic Physician, (1887), 42. 25ibid. 26Coulter, op. cit., vol 3, 443. 27ibid. 28Homoeopathic Physician, VII (1887), 38. 29Medical Advance (1889), 58. 30Homoeopathic Physician, VII (1887), 221. 31Coulter, op. cit., vol 3, 444, quoting Homoeopathic Physician, IX (1889), 51. 32ibid. 33Medical Advance, XXIV (1890), 396. 34Medical Advance, XXIII (1889), 194. 35ibid. 36Medical Advance, XXIII (1889), 63. 37Homoeopathic Physician, VII (1887), 73. 38Medical Advance. XXV, (1890), 50. 39Homoeopathic Physician, VII (1887), 107. 40Coulter, op. cit, vol. 3, 353. 41ibid., p. 354, quoting Homoeopathic Time,s VIII (1880-81), 154. 42ibid., p. 395 43F. E. Stoaks, M.D., "Experiences of a Young Homoeopath", Homoeopathic Physician, VII (1887), 172. 44S. W. Cohen,"Double Remedies: A Reply", Medical Advance, XXIII (1889), 281- 282. This was a letter to H.C. Allen, the editor of the Journal. 45The most optimistic genuine homoeopath could only estimate 500 genuine homoeopaths (about 8% of the total) in 1887[Homoeopathic Physician (1887), 422.], while a more pessimistic supporter considered 1 in 50 more accurate (Homoeopathic Physician (1887), 215). A convention speaker at the A.I. H. calculated in 1882 that no more than 1% of its members were high- potency followers of Hahnemann's principles [Coulter, op. cit, vol.3, 392]. 46This was already true in 1887, when the Homoeopathic Physician reported that "The trial of a strict homoeopathic college has never been made" (1887, 122). The only college they ever recommended was the Missouri College of
Homoeopathy when Kent was lecturing on philosophy in 1887: "A pupil at the Missouri College can learn Homoeopathy; at most of the other colleges he can't learn, for none is taught. In the one instance, eclecticism may be taught by some of the professors; in most of the other colleges eclecticism is taught by all. (Homoeopathic Physician, June 1887, p.198) 47Coulter, op. cit., p. 331. 48Coulter, op. cit., p. 443, citing Homoeopathic Physician, IV (1884), 316. 49Homoeopathic Physician, VIII (May 1887), 178. 50Coulter, op. cit., p.382. 51Coulter, op. cit., 386. 52Medical Advance, XXIV (1889), 194. The vote was 76-34. Cf. also Coulter, op. cit., 387. 53Homoeopathic Physician, VII (1887), 178. 54ibid., 250. 55ibid., 222. 56Medical Advance, XXII (1889), 220-221.
Bangladesh is officially the People’s Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in the South Asia. It is bordered by India, Myanmar & by the Bay of Bengal to the south. The capital of our country is Dhaka which is located in central Bangladesh. The climate in Bangladesh is dramatic to say the least. It’s subtropical & tropical. The land area of our country is 51.703 sq miles. Bangladesh is the world's eighth-most populous country, with over 160 million people, and among the most densely populated countries. Homoeopathy in our country is controlled by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It’s controlled by the ordinance 1983 and regulation 1985.
Liga meets a country , Bangladesh,a big country with a big heart for homeopathy
by Dr. Mohammed Ashrafur Rahman
There are two courses for homoeopathy such as : 1. BHMS ( 5 year academic & 1 yearinternship) – controlled by Dhaka University A-There are one governmental and one non-governmental colleges 2. DMHS (4 year academic & 6 month internship) – controlled by Bangladesh Homoeopathy Board. A-51 non-govermental colleges B-Colleges are approved by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Registered Homoeopaths in Bangladesh are about 30,000, thereof 1.500 are BHMS. Homeopathy is included in National health policy and national health care service. About 50 Homoeopathic medicine manufacturing institutes are active in Bangladesh. There are also many Homoeopathy Foundation hospital and research Centre in our country. Some of them are: 1.BCASH Homoeopathy MedicalCentre. 2.Modern Homoeopathy Medical Centre. 3.Dhaka University Homoeopathy Medical Centre. 4.Dhaka City Corporation Homoeopathy Medical Centre. 5.Chittagong City Corporation Homoeopathy Medical College & Centre. The Government has appointed 15 BHMS doctors as Medical officers in Public Hospitals. Moreover, 93 doctors are waiting to get their appointment letter.
Visit of the LMHI officers in Bangladesh
The annually 4th International Homeopathic Scientific conference 2015 was organized On 6-7 February 2015 in Dhaka. LMHI President Dr. Renzo Galassi and LMHI Treasurer Dr. Altunay Agaoglu were invited to the conference which held in Dhaka, Bangladesh as the guests of LMHI Bangladesh NVP Dr. Mohammed Ashrafur Rahman. Before the conference, a visit to the Governmental Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital has been made, the only governmental homeopathy college of BHMS, where the patients get free treatment and care. After being met by the dean of the college, its teachers and students in the morning, all the departments were visited. The very same day at evening, information about LMHI is given to the presidents of some associations and leading homeopath doctors at the meeting which is organized by DR. REZAUR RAHMAN HOMOEOPATHIC FOUNDATION (DRRHF). Representatives from Thailand and doctors from India were also attended to the meeting. Dr. Renzo Galassi invited the associations to be a part of LMHI and the working groups. At the conference, Dr. Renzo Galassi after introducing LMHI, made a presentation about Miasmas.
We believe that with this visit of the LMHI President to Bangladesh, a strong relations began among friends. After this short but very effective, pleasant visit, Bangladesh has now more then 50 new LMHI members. And we know this number will grow in the future.
A Long Story Cut Short, by Brita GudjonsJust a few years after my state exam as pharmacist I opened a dispensary at the outskirts of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where in 1976 I became acquainted with homeopathy through a lasting cure. This acquaintance developed into a passionate relationship. In 1987 this finally lead to the manufacturing of homeopathic remedies of single substances, initially on the basis of the HAB (Deutsches Homöopathisches Arzneibuch = the German pharmacopoeia). Deeper insights into the history of the manufacturing of remedies in the works of Hahnemann soon lead to the production of Q-potencies according to Organon, 6th edition, § 270. Even in 1978 there existed an instruction for the manufacturing of LM-potencies. As early as in the mid 80's Dr. Wil Klunker had criticized these in an article in the KH (journal of classical homeopathy) because of incorrect naming by Dr. Flury, not least also because this instruction results in a watered down quality. Beginning in 1990 diverse medical doctors, pharmacists, including non-medical practitioners and myself, repeatedly undertook efforts - alas in vain - to have the original instructions regarding the Q-potencies be incorporated into the pharmacopoeia by the appropriate authorities. All that was left from Hahnemann's lifelong efforts to develop an optimal type of remedy was just a (Q) behind the heading regarding the LM in the PharmEur. This tiny character (Q) in memory of the lifetime achievement of Hahnemann now also was supposed to disappear. In 2011 the EDQM forwarded the request to have the (Q)s removed ... I entered a caveat. Then the Labor Gudjons filed the application to include Hahnemann's instruction regarding the Q-potencies in the HAB. After many years of debates, a series of references from literature* collected by my assistance and myself, we succeeded in convincing the members of the commission of the HAB under the direction of Mrs. Ute Norwig. Hahnemann's instruction for the manufacturing of the Q-potencies will be taken over into the HAB almost 1:1. Finally in 2015 we are all eagerly expecting the official announcement of the inclusion of the instructions regarding
Q-potencies in the HAB in the German federal gazette.
the Bibliography : 25 reports of homoeopathic doctors about their experience with Q-potencies Hahnemann: Organon VI, Pure Materia Medica, Chronical Deseases Dr. Hans Peter Seiler: Die Entwicklung in Hahnemanns Praxis Prof. Dr. Juette: The LM-potencies in homoeopathy:from their beginning to the present day. Emoto´s books (the memory of the water) Rudolf Steiner 6 remarks about machines Some six articles in the german Journals of homoeopathy AHZ, ZKH from Dr. Wil Klunker, Dr. A. Grimm, Peter Bartel Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Duerr about science Gudjons aktuell development of HAB
A visit to a Homeopathic treasure……. by Renzo Galassi
After a lot of work, I decided, last October, to give a gift to myself. I decided to visit one of richest collections of old homeopathic books in the world and immerse myself in this environment made of history and Homeopathic culture, coming from the past and preserved by one colleague and his group in a very small, but nice village between Koln and Bonn, Glees.
It was already night when my airplane landed and after a while the automatic doors of the airport opened. While breathing the fresh air of Germany, I saw a tall man, with a serious look approaching me and saying: " You have to be Dr. Galassi, I guess". When I smiled saying "yes, nice to meet you", he said: "I am Klaus Henning Gypser".
This was the beginning of three days spent together as if we were two very old friends, talking about common friends and wonderful histories lived together. From morning till night we always spoke and read pages, clinical cases of the old Masters of our Homeopathic history. The house of Gypser, as he told me, is a house built around a library. Henning’s knowledge of all the classical,old writings is so huge, that he received, as a result, another impressive library on the death of its owner, Dr. Georg Von Keller. And Henning decided, together with his wife Heike to give a house to this second huge library. They renovated a nice building that at the moment is the seat of an Academy of Homeopathy, the Gleeser Academy. The entrance and the consultation of the books is free for each colleague of good will. (you can read the structure and activities of the Academy in the following article of Dr. Robert Goldmann of Berlin)
I was impressed by the knowledge of Henning of his books. Every time I talked about a special topic, he was able, thanks to an index written by him of all the articles of the thousands of books of the library, to find and show me the exact source of the information. He was very proud to show me the results of his last project, the Materia Medica Revisa Homeopathica. I want to thank him for his work. A work of a person, (but I have to say of a family, because his wife Heike and his sons are helping him continually) that is giving continuity to the History of our Medicine. He is a guardian of our "roots" and his tireless work will secure the persistence of the principles of our Medicine, in spite of the attacks of our enemies and the damage, sometimes done, by our own colleagues.
For this issue Henning Gypser decided to write an article about the Boenninghausen method that he revitalized, together with his team, many years ago.
Boenninghausen Revival - A Chronological Treatise on History and Practice
Dedicated to Dr. Renzo Galassi of Macerata, Italy, for his devotion to homoeopathy By Klaus-Henning Gypser
Introduction
Clemens Maria Franz von Boenninghausen (1785 - 1864) who was cured by one dose of Pulsatilla C 30 followed four weeks later by Sulphur C 30 in 1828 by his botanical friend and homoeopathic physician Dr. Carl Ernst August Weihe (1779 - 1834) was one of the most prominent followers of Hahnemann. The founder of the homoeopathic healing art wrote in 1833:2
“Government Counselor Baron von Boenninghausen of Muenster has studied and grasped my homoeopathic system of treatment so thoroughly that as a homoeopath he deserves to be fully trusted, and if I should be ill myself and unable to help myself I would not entrust myself to any other physician.”
Picture No 1: Clemens Maria Franz von Boenninghausen
(1785 - 1864)
Boenninghausen published a lot of contributions to homoeopathic literature. Unfortunately not all have been translated into English. He was the founder of two different lines of repertorial tradition: 1.The arrangement taken up by C.M. Boger (1861 - 1935) in his “Boenninghausen´s Characteristics and Repertory” (Parkersburg 1905) which is based on his translation entitled “A Systematic Alphabetic Repertory of Homoeopathic Remedies” (Philadelphia 1900) of Boenninghausens´s “Systematisch-alphabetisches Repertorium der antipsorischen Arzneien“ (2nd
Ed. Muenster 1833) 2. The „Therapeutic Pocket Book“ (1st Ed. Muenster 1846) In the 19th century and early decades of the 20th century the Pocket Book was extensively used by the profession. Several editions in German, English and French were available. Some of the best American practitioners claimed in the 1920´s and 1930´s to solve difficult chronic case better with this repertory than with Kent´s. Even during the speedy decline of American homoeopathy Herbert Albert Roberts (1868 - 1950) published in 1935 „The Principles and Practicability of Boenninghausens Therapeutic Pocket Book“. In spite of this, the tradition to of practicing according to Boenninghausen was more or less forgotten especially in Europe including Germany.
Picture No 2: Roberts, „The Principles and Practicability of Boenninghausens Therapeutic Pocket Book“
Picture No 2 Therapeutic Pocket Book“
In 1979 the German publisher Ulrich Burgdorf made reprints of two of Boenninghausen´s works available to the profession: Die Aphorismen des Hippokrates Die Homoeopathie The first book being written in ripe old age contains a great many practical hints. Unfortunately it has never been translated into English. The second was compiled in his younger days and informs educated laymen and patients about homoeopathy. Both reprints were met with no great interest probably because of lack of direct methodological approach. In 1982 my teacher Dr. Will Klunker (1923 - 2002) of Heiden, Switzerland, became interested in Boenninghausen and after pointing out the “Lesser Writings” edited by Thomas Lindsley Bradford (1847 - 1918) requested me to prepare a collection of all of Boenninghausen´s original articles published in different periodicals, including those in English and French. This book, in chronological arrangement appeared in public under the title “Boenninghausen´s kleine medizinische Schriften” in 1984 and included the contributions Bradford had omitted. A close study of this over the next years was followed by a detailed insight into Boenninghausen´s method of case- taking and especially case-analysis as well as his mode of remedy application including intercurrent remedies etc. This led to the -use of the “Therapeutic Pocket Book” in my practice, and -reading of all of his other writings being obtained from antiquarian book dealers - edition of an index to important subjects in all of his publications. 3
In 1983 a medical thesis on the life and work of Boenninghausen was published by Friedrich Kottwitz at the University of Berlin. 4
A study published two years later5 of the sources of our repertories inspired me to a comparison of Kent´s “Generalities” with corresponding rubrics of the “Therapeutic Pocket Book”. This showed that Kent́ s repertory contains many entries from the Pocket Book.
From 1987 until 1995 several works of Boenninghausen have been reprinted in Germany, e.g. his Repertory of Antipsoric Remedies. Kottwitz, F. Clemens Maria Franz von Boenninghausen (1785-1864). Med. dent. Diss. Berlin 1983. Boenninghausens Therapeutisches Taschenbuch als Quelle der "Generalities" in Kents Repertorium. ZKH 29(1985)223-227.
During a seminar on repertories in Lucerne, Switzerland, in September 1991 I compared this method of repertorization with Kent́ s and others. This was followed by an invitation of the “Schweizerische Aerztegesellschaft fuer Homoeopathie und Phytotherapie” (“Swiss Medical Society for Homoeopathy and Plant Therapies”, SAHP) to deliver seminars on the Boenninghausen method which started in 1992 and took place for several years. They included also the repertorization with the so-called Lieth card index repertory published in 1989. This covers 551 perforated cards and is based primarily on entries having 3rd and 4th grade in the “Therapeutic Pocket Book”, and the repertorial part of Boger´s “Synoptic Key”. Fortunately for German practitioners the publisher Bernd von der Lieth reprinted the original edition (1846)of the “Therapeutic Pocket Book” in 1985 on the occasion of Boenninghausen´s 200th
anniversary. Thanks to the availability of this tool it was possible now to teach the so-called Boenninghausen method.
Picture No 3: Lieth card index repertory In February 1993 a group of 5 or 6 colleagues came to me to get instructed in
regard to the Boenninghausen method. This led to the foundation of the “Boenninghausen Study Group”. Soon the number of attendants increased to 30 - 35.
George Dimitriadis invited me to Syndey to present a seminar for his colleagues comparing Kent́ s and Boenninghausen´s method in Spring 1995. As a consequence of this a co-operation with him and our Boenninghausen-Group resulted. In the year 2000 the revised edition of the Pocket Book entitled “Boenninghausen´s Therapeutisches Taschenbuch - Revidierte Ausgabe 2000” (Stuttgart 2000) was published as well as a corresponding software6. It included the “Pocket Book” of 1846 and all entries from other (later) works of Boenninghausen being in harmony with the general plan of the “Pocket Book” as well as the additions Boenninghausen made up until his death that he sent to Carroll Dunham (1828 - 1877). Until now there are four German editions of this revised “Pocket Book”. Starting in June 2000 Bernhard Moeller delivered many seminars in German speaking countries explaining the method of using the revised Pocket Book including its corresponding program.
Picture No 4: title page “Revised Therapeutic Pocket Book” In 1995 Raimund Friedrich Kastner published a materia medica compilation of Boenninghausen, using all works of Boenninghausen dealing with materia medica known to this date in one huge volume entitled “Boenninghausens Physiognomik der homoeopathischen Arzneimittel“. In the same year Martin Stahl made public a medical thesis on the
letters between Hahnemann and Boenninghausen entitled “The Correspondence between Samuel Hahnemann (1755 - 1843) and Clemens von Boenninghausen (1785 - 1864)”. In the year 1997 Bernhard Moeller published a very detailed introduction into the methodology of Boenninghausen entitled “Einfuehrung in die Methodik Clemens von Boenninghausen´s“. 7
In the year 1997 during a meeting of the Boenninghausen Study Group in Darup, Westfalia, where Boenninghausen lived, his great grand-son Lothar von Boenninghausen presented to me the personal interleafed copy of a materia medica Boenninghausen had published in 18368 and used until his death. It contained many handwritten additions from his pen. Our colleague Andreas Jansen took up the task and transcribed and edited this manuscript very carefully in 1999. It was published by Bernd van der Lieth.9
In 1998 it was again Raimund Friedrich Kastner who presented to the homoeopathic community a repertory compiled of all repertorial rubrics Boenninghausen had published in his various works. In the same year the “Deutscher Zentralverein homoeopathischer Aerzte” invited me to present a paper on its 150th annual meeting about “The Basic Principles of the So-called Method of Boenninghausen“. Dr. Heiner Frei of Laupen, Switzerland, who was deeply impressed by the Boenninghausen method since my early seminars delivered before the SAHP made use especially of the Lieth card index and since 2000 of the software of the revised Pocket Book edition 2000. In consequence to his successful case- analysis by this method he published three very valuable books full of cases demonstrating the principle: Kastner, R.F. Boenninghausens Repertorium der homoeopathischen Arz-neimittel. Heidelberg 1998. *Die homoeopathische Behandlung von Kindern mit ADS/ADHS. Stuttgart 2005(The Homoeopathic Treatment of Children with ADS/ADHS). *Effiziente homoeopathische Behandlung. (Efficient Homoeopathic Treatment) Stuttgart 2008. *Homoeopathische Behandlung multimorbider Patienten. (Homoeopathic Treatment of Multi-morbid Patients) Stuttgart 2010.
Pratical Application
Boenninghausen himself has never written any contribution to explain his method in full detail. But his various writings contain a lot of remarks giving hints to his method. Taken together they form the so-called “Boenninghausen method”. Some basics have to be lined out to make possible a proper understanding of Boenninghausen´s intentions. In first instance he was a practitioner - working in the early times of homoeopathy. In those days a successful prescription depended mainly upon a proper knowledge of the remedies. Repertories gave hints only for the selection of a remedy. Therefore the study of the materia medica was Boenninghausen´s favourite subject in homoeopathy during his lifetime. Arnold Lorbacher (1818 - 1899) wrote in 1879: “Boenninghausen … we can call with no exaggeration the best well-founded and greatest expert of our materia medica.11
What is the most important subject in his study of materia medica? The “Goldkoerner” (gold nuggets) being single symptoms generally related to one remedy only, and the “genius” of the remedy. To cut a long study (first published in 199212) short concerning the latter: With reference to Asa foetida Boenninghausen pointed to the remedy´s stitching pains from inward to outward. These occurred in the proving in several parts of the body. He discovered the following: If these characteristic pains occur in any other part in the sick than those displayed in the proving, they can be employed. Gypser, K.-H. Der „Genius der Arznei“ bei Boenninghausen. Zeitschrift fuer klassische Homoeopathie, 36(1992)224- 230. The definition of a so-called genius symptom is the following: 1. It has to occur often in different parts of the body in the provings.2. It has to be clear and not vague.A genius symptom is quite often only a part of a complete symptom. With reference to Constantine Hering (1800 - 1880) a complete symptom is composed of: -locality (including extension) -- sensation (including findings) -- modality in regard to time and circumstances --concomitants. The genius symptom is often met within the sensations or modalities, and rarely among the concomitants - e.g. the red face or cheeks of Capsicum is concomitant to many of its symptoms, and therefore it can be classified as genius. Returning to Boenninghausen it is important to understand his idea of a genius symptom being represented in the third and fourth (and rare fifth) grade of his “Pocket Book” otherwise its general plan cannot be grasped completely. Another part of the above- mentioned basics deals with the procedure of case-taking by Boenninghausen. With reference to the Organon VI section 95 he divided the patient´s symptoms into two groups: 1. The main symptom - the symptom being the motive to consult the doctor,e.g. a headache with its sensations, modalities and concomitans; 2. The side symptoms - bearing obviously no relation to the main symptom, e.g.a change in regard to appetite or thirst, sleep, mental condition or whatever.
The totality of symptoms consists of all more or less persistent symptoms from the beginning of the main symptoms, the suffering of the patient, until the first consultation.
From Boenninghausen´s original case-books the division in main and side symptoms is apparent. He even had special sheets of paper printed in that line. With reference to Boenninghausen this classification of symptoms has to be extended:
Picture No 5: Boenninghausen´s Case-book 13
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**First in regard to causation. If there is really a causa occasionalis in the meaning of Hahnemann it has to be used but a warning of Boenninghausen14
has to be taken into account: If cold is the causa occasionalis perhaps of an acute disease and at the time of consultation the patient reports an amelioration of his complaints from cold the causa “cold” is no longer of any worth and its use for the selection of the remedy is forbidden. The present state of the patient is ameliorated by cold, and therefore this modality has to be considered.
**Second in regard to mental symptoms. With reference to the Organon VI section 210 and 212 the change of the mental disposition has to be considered. In Boenninghausen´s weighting of symptoms it comes last to decide between two or three final remedies. Here we deal with broader dispositions like irritability, sadness, changing mood, despair, indifference etc. Of course the mental state might also be the main symptom, e.g. the patient comes for consultation because of his attacks of anxiety occurring in crowded rooms being accompanied by profuse sweat. Then it is of first importance.
**Third in regard to the polarities. Taking into account the genius (compare the example of Asa foetida) there are symptoms or parts of symptoms in our remedies running through their pathogenesis, e.g. for Pulsatilla the thirstlessness, the aggravation in the evening or in warm rooms, the ameliorations in cool open air. If one arrives in his repertorization at Pulsatilla one has to consider the patient́ s symptoms being not in contradiction to these (and other) genius symptoms of Pulsatilla. Of course the patient must not have these genius symptoms at all but he should not present their contrary. This is more detailed outlined in the foreword to the revised edition of Boenninghausen´s Therapeutic Pocket Book 2000, p. XXXIII-XXXIV. At least to me the polarities15 were one of the most important re-discoveries I made studying Boenninghausen in the 80´s, and they were of immense practical use to me right after re-discovery.
From what has been outlined before an order (weighting, arrangement, hierarchy) of symptoms for repertorization follows: - Causation (if there is any at all) - Main symptom - Side symptoms - Mental disposition (change in) -Polarities.
Boenninghausen gave us two exceptions from this rule of arranging symptoms: 1.If a remedy corresponds very well to the side symptoms and not at all to the main symptom, in spite of this that the remedy should be given and will cure. Boenninghausen reasoned that the lacking symptom (in this case, the main symptom) had not yet been displayed by a sensitive prover. 2.Finally there are two remedies at equal disposal: One (A) corresponds better to the main symptom, the other (B) to the side symptoms. Then he applied A, after a couple of days B, and after some days A again (in chronic cases; in acute the intervals were shorter, hours only). This procedure is somewhat connected with the subject of intercurrent remedies he used very often. This is a very detailed matter and cannot be outlined in this survey more extensively. But this can be said: In a study I made choosing at random 55 chronic cases of his practice the average time of cure by this mode of prescribing remedies was two and a half months. The general plan of the “Therapeutic Pocket-Book” was necessary to Boenninghausen because another type of repertory would have required many volumes. Hahnemann agreed to his idea as shown by their correspondence dated 24 September 184216. Having in mind Hering´s definition of a complete symptom and Boenninghausen´s idea of a genius symptom one understands the plan of the Pocket Book: It divides every symptom into its elements and lists the entries of remedies in their corresponding grades. This opens the possibility of re-combining the symptoms and enlarged the therapeutic sphere of our remedies enormously. All rubrics are spread over six chapters and various subchapters. A short case history from my practice taken from the introduction of the revised Pocket Book17 will demonstrate the use of this tool: The 43 year old female patient G.N. suffered from drawing pains in her left shoulder blade as a result of long stooping for two weeks. These pains extend from time to time to the heart like a cramp. They are decidedly aggravated by sitting and especially by sitting bent as well as by deep breathing, and they are ameliorated by stretching, standing and lying.
In this minor case of acute disease there were no side symptoms. According to the hint of Boenninghausen the remedy must accord first and foremost to the result and not to the cause, so prolonged stooping was not taken into account. Furthermore the quality of pain was not considered as there were a lot of clear modalities. Here are the titles of rubrics with their corresponding rubric code numbers (If these are put into the software program the whole process of repertorization is done automatically. Of course they can also be found by word searching.):
Shoulderblades Back, left < Sitting bent < Breathing deep > Standing Lying
- 793 - 792 - 2383 - 1994 - 2613 - 2553
This resulted in three remedies covering all symptoms in high grades, Scilla (6/17, P 14), Bry. (6/17, P 9), and Rhus tox. (6/15, P 0). The first number indicates how many symptoms are covered by the remedy, the second number the addition of grades, and P the differences of polarity. If the number is high, there is a great difference, and therefore one has not to face contradictions. Consequently Rhus tox. was eliminated at once, and finally Bry. as well because of lower grades in two important modalities. The patient obtained a single dose of Scilla C 200 (ISO). By next morning the pains had disappeared never to return. Dr. Heiner Frei has been fascinated by the idea of polarities since the revised Therapeutic Pocket Book appeared in print. He developed a special method of case-analysis based on polarity rubrics marked “P”. We are fortune that he enriched our literature with the book entitled “Polarity Analysis” (in English) demonstrating case histories18. It is very useful in cases with strong modalities.
One remark has to be made concerning T.F. Allen´s (1837 - 1902) edition of “Boenninghausen's Therapeutic Pocket Book“, first published in Philadelphia in 1891 being followed by four American and many Indian reprints and even a German edition dating back to 1897. In comparison with the edition of 1846 it has been mainly enlarged by the addition of new remedies. It is not known whether T.F. Allen really understood the exact plan of grading by Boenninghausen. Boenninghausen never gave exact details on how he arrived at his grades, but only faint hints. Maybe T.F. Allen learned more about Boenninghausen´s system of determining grades from Carroll Dunham (with whom he was acquainted) who had visited Boenninghausen twice in 1851 and 1854/1855. But this is absolutely not sure, and therefore it would be wise to be very careful with these added remedies.
Epilogue
It was intended to give a short overview about the revival of practising homoeopathy according to Boenninghausen in the German speaking countries within the last decades. Much more could have been said, and of course many colleagues not mentioned here have contributed by seminars and publications to spread Boenninghausen´s hints and method. One should always keep in mind the method of Boenninghausen being one approach only among others to arrive at the proper remedy. The method applied - Boenninghausen´s, Boger´s, Kent́ s or others - to obtain the simillimum in a given disease depends completely upon the symptoms of the patient. We have to adjust the method of case-analysis to the symptoms and not reverse!
To summarize Boenninghausen´s major contributions to homoeopathy we arrive at the following: * author of the first repertory in homoeopathy * development of a grading system* remedy relationship * the first to use high potencies regularly in his practice * introduction of the genius of a remedy * case-analysis by dividing the symptomatology into main and side symptom•intercurrent remedy •Late symptoms (those appearing in the later part of a proving being of highest value) •gold nuggets
The following is a list of all publications of Boenninghausen not yet translated into English (to my knowledge):
-Abgekuerzte Uebersicht der Eigenthuemlichkeiten und Hauptwirkungen der homoeopathischen Arzneien. Hrsg. A. Jansen. Hamburg 1999. -Beitraege zur Kenntnis der Eigenthuemlichkeiten aller bisher vollstaendiger geprueften homoeopathischen Arzneien. 2. Aufl. Muenster 1833. - Der homoeopathische Hausarzt. Muenster 1853. - Die Aphorismen des Hippokrates. Leipzig 1863. - Die Heilung der asiatischen Cholera. Muenster 1831. - Die Homoeopathie. Muenster 1834. - Die homoeopathische Diaet. 2. Aufl. Muenster 1833. -Kurze Belehrung fuer Nicht-Aerzte ueber die Verhuetung und Behandlung der asiatischen Cholera. Muenster 1849. -Uebersicht der Haupt-Wirkungs-Sphaere der Antipsorischen Arzneien. Muenster 1833. - Versuch einer homoeopathischen Therapie der Wechselfieber. Leipzig 1833.
References
Allen, T. F. Boenninghausen's Therapeutic Pocket Book. Philadelphia 1891. Boenninghausen, C.v. A Systematic Alphabetic Repertory of Homoeopathic Remedies. Ed. C.M. Boger. Philadelphia 1900. Boenninghausens, C.v. Systematisch-alphabetisches Repertorium der antipsorischen Arzneien. 2nd Ed. Muenster 1833 (11832). Boenninghausen, C. v. Abgekuerzte Uebersicht der Eigenthuemlichkeiten und Hauptwirkungen der homoeopathischen Arzneien. Hrsg. A. Jansen. Hamburg 1999. Boenninghausen, C. v. Die Aphorismen des Hippokrates. Leipzig 1863. Boenninghausen, C. v. Die Aphorismen des Hippokrates. Nachdr. Goettingen 1979 (11863). Boenninghausen, C. v. Die Homoeopathie. Nachdr. Goettingen 1979 (11834). Boenninghausen, C. v. Manual of Homoeopathic Therapeutics. Transl. J. Laurie. London 1847. Boenninghausen, C. v. Therapeutisches Taschenbuch. Muenster 1846. Boenninghausen, C. v. Therapeutic Pocket-Book. Muenster 1846. Boenninghausen, C. v. Therapeutic Pocket Book. Ed. C. J. Hempel. New York, London 1847. Boger, C.M. Boenninghausen´s Characteristics and Repertory. Parkersburg 1905. Boger, C. M. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. Parkersburg 1915. Bradford, T. L. The Lesser Writings of C. M. F. von Boenninghausen. Philadelphia 1908. Frei, H. Die homoeopathische Behandlung von Kindern mit ADS/ADHS. Stuttgart 2005. Frei, H. Effiziente homoeopathische Behandlung. Stuttgart 2008. Frei, H. Homoeopathische Behandlung multimorbider Patienten. Stuttgart 2010. Frei, H. Polarity Analysis in Homoeopathy. Kandern 2013. Gypser, K.-H. Boenninghausens Therapeutisches Taschenbuch als Quelle der "Generalities" in Kents Repertorium. ZKH 29(1985)223-227. Gypser, K. -H. Boenninghausens kleine medizinische Schriften. Heidelberg 1984. Gypser, K.-H. Boenninghausens Therapeutisches Taschenbuch. Revidierte Ausgabe 2000. Stuttgart 2000. Gypser, K.-H. Der „Genius der Arznei“ bei Boenninghausen. Zeitschrift fuer klassische Homoeopathie, 36(1992)224- 230. Gypser, K. -H. Generalregister zu den Werken Boenning-hausens. Heppenheim 1992. Hahnemann, S. Organon der Heilkunst. 6. Aufl. Leipzig 1921. Kastner, R. F. Boenninghausens Physiognomik der homoeopathischen Arzneimittel. Heidelberg 1995. Kastner, R.F. Boenninghausens Repertorium der homoeopathischen Arz-neimittel. Heidelberg 1998. Kottwitz, F. Clemens Maria Franz von Boenninghausen (1785-1864). Med. dent. Diss. Berlin 1983. Lieth, B.v.d. Therapeutische Taschenkartei fuer homoeopathische Aerzte. Hamburg 1989. Lorbacher, A. Die Reihenfolge der Arzneimittel. Allgemeine homoeopathische Zeitung, 99(1879)129-131. Moeller, B. Einfuehrung in die Methodik Clemens von Boenninghausen´s. Archiv fuer Homoeopathik, 6(1897)7- 21, 53-80, 149-168. Roberts, H. A. and A. C. Wilson. The Principles and Practicability of Boenninghausens Therapeutic Pocket Book. Philadelphia 1935. Stahl, M. Der Briefwechsel zwischen Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)und Clemens von Boenninghausen (1785-1864). Med. Diss. Goettingen 1995.
2 Gypser, K. -H. Boenninghausens kleine medizinische Schriften. Heidelberg 1984, p. 811 3 Gypser, K. -H. Generalregister zu den Werken Boenning-hausens. Heppenheim 1992.
4 Kottwitz, F. Clemens Maria Franz von Boenninghausen (1785-1864). Med. dent. Diss. Berlin 1983. 5 Boenninghausens Therapeutisches Taschenbuch als Quelle der "Generalities" in Kents Repertorium. ZKH 29(1985)223-227. 6 www.boenninghausen.de 7 Moeller, B. Archiv fuer Homoeopathik, 6(1897)7 - 21, 53-80, 101-108, 149-168. 8 Boenninghausen, C. v. Versuch ueber die Verwandtschaften der homoeopathischen Arzneien nebst einer abgekuerzten Uebersicht ihrer Eigentuemlichkeiten und Hauptwirkungen. Muenster 1836. 9 Boenninghausen, C. v. Abgekuerzte Uebersicht der Eigenthuemlichkeiten und Hauptwirkungen der homoeopathischen Arzneien. Hrsg. A. Jansen. Hamburg 1999. 10 Kastner, R.F. Boenninghausens Repertorium der homoeopathischen Arz-neimittel. Heidelberg 1998.11 Lorbacher, A. AHZ 99(1879)13012 Gypser, K.-H. Der „Genius der Arznei“ bei Boenninghausen. Zeitschrift fuer klassische Homoeopathie, 36(1992)224 - 230.
13 Gypser, K. -H. Boenninghausens kleine medizinische Schriften. Heidelberg 1984, p. 774 - 775. 14 Boenninghausen, C. v. Die Aphorismen des Hippokrates. Leipzig 1863, p. 303. 15 In lack of a better term I choose “polarity”. Boenninghausen had never used it but described the fact in his publication “Die Aphorismen des Hippokrates”, Leipzig 1863, p. 215, 341, 408, 447. 16 Stahl, 1995, p. 154-155. 17 Boenninghausen´s Therapeutisches Taschenbuch 2000. Ed. K.-H. Gypser. Stuttgart 2000, p. XXXVI-XXXVII. 18 Frei, H. Polarity Analysis in Homoeopathy. Kandern 2013.
My thanks go to Daniel Cook MD of Dallas,Texas who kindly helped to improve the style of this article.
The “Glees Academy of Homoeopathic Physicians” and the “Revision of Our Homoeopathic Materia
Medica” (MMRH)by Dr. Robert Goldman
On September 20th 2014, the Glees Academy of Homeopathic Physicians celebrated its 10th anniversary in Lahnstein, Germany. Several talks about the Academy´s first decade were presented by members and supporters of this loosely organized institution that holds one of the world´s largest homoeopathic libraries, offers structured homoeopathic training for physicians in the Academy, as well as lectures for medical students at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bonn, and has published nearly 50 monographs of homoeopathic remedies. These monographs contain the available primary homoeopathic literature of two hundred years (remedy provings and clinical symptoms clearly distinguished) and will be the base for a reliable future repertory.
Beginning In his opening speech at the anniversary the Academy´s founder and director, Dr. med. Klaus-Henning Gypser, spoke about his considerations for creating such a centre to study and teach homoeopathy and offering the homoeopathic community a place for research and collegial exchange. After training with Dr. med. Jost Künzli (1915-1992) in St. Gallen, Switzerland, Dr. med. Will Klunker (1923-2002) in Heiden, Switzerland and Dr. med. Georg von Keller (1919-2003) in Tübingen, Germany, he had planned for years to establish an institution to get the desperately needed revision of the homoeopathic materia medica on its way. During the history of homoeopathy such a project had been repeatedly announced, but efforts by Constantine Hering (1800-1880), Timothy Field Allen (1837-1902) and others had never been successful. Dr. Gypser´s friend and philosophical mentor, Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Fräntzki, advised in the project´s early phase to combine the training of colleagues with the necessary research work since such an immense undertaking could not be launched by a handful of co-workers.
In 2003, two old houses were purchased in the village of Glees situated in the hills of the Eifel, just across the ridge of the volcanic Lake Laach. The buildings needed extensive renovation before they could meet the requirements for classroom teaching and scientific research: this was accomplished in less than a year. The two buildings were linked into one and now consist of classroom, administrative office, research facilities and an extensive homoeopathic library.
Library
The library combines the private collection of Dr. Gypser, the library of the late Dr. von Keller as well as the libraries of the late lay-collector Chris Ellithorp (1946-2004) and of Dr. Pilaka Krishnamurty, thus making the Glees library one of the largest homoeopathic libraries world-wide. The library´s facilities are available by appointment for research. To secure the independence of the Academy, the financial obligations such as repair and maintenance of the buildings and the library as well as salaries were borne by the Gypser family.
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Teaching
After decades of therapeutic experience flanked by research, international lecturing, publishing books and editing journals, Dr. Gypser set up a structured beginners´ course for medical doctors wishing to study homoeopathy; enrollment is generally limited to ten licensed physicians. Held on 27 Saturdays, this basic course in homoeopathy takes eighteen months to complete, culminating in a final test, and can be followed by an advanced course of 9 Saturdays. Students have access to Dr. Gypser´s medical office to see patients with him. There are other seminars with varying focal points such as the study of materia medica, the use of repertories (Bönninghausens Pocket Book, Boger-Bönninghausen´s Characteristics and Repertory, Kent´s repertory and others), rubric analysis, case analysis and philosophy. Most courses are led by Dr. Gypser and his assistants; however, over the years guest-lecturers, including Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Fräntzki, Dr. Heiner Frei, Dr. Abdur Rehman, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Heinz Schott, and others have also shared their knowledge and experience. Occasionally, there are evening sessions for colleagues to discuss cases and related topics. All teaching events are acknowledged by the Chamber of Physicians.
Opus magnum - Revision of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica
A dozen homoeopaths were present at the inauguration in September 2004 to exchange their thoughts concerning the situation of the homoeopathic profession: all agreed that the tools for a solid homoeopathic practice need to be improved considerably. The standard works, the Encyclopaedia of Timothy Field Allen, published 1875-79 and the Guiding Symptoms of Constantine Hering, published 1879-91, are over a hundred years old, were incomplete even at the time of their publication, and contained a number of mistakes that were transferred into the repertories. We, as homoeopathic practitioners, have at this point no comprehensive and accurate collection of the homoeopathic sources, not even when we have access to modern computer programs. The material of two hundred years of provings and clinical symptoms, dispersed mostly in periodicals, has to be made available to the homoeopathic community for the sake of our patients.
In foresight Dr. Gypser had already laid the foundation for this effort by publishing the “Bibliotheca Homoeopathica” with Jacques Baur, Georg von Keller and P. W. Thomas in 1984. The book was compiled of 682 homoeopathic journals and arranged according to country, date and location of publication, with a newly created abbreviation index for bibliographical reference.
The next step was to install an alphabetical remedy index by going through the most valuable journals and separating provings on the healthy, toxicological symptoms (poisonings) and clinical symptoms from published cases (including verifications of proving symptoms).
Consequently, a computer program had to be created to facilitate the logical arrangement of the symptoms according to the head-to-toe-scheme. The emphasis was on finding a certain symptom quickly so that it could be compared easily with the patient´s symptoms. With the symptoms in proper order, a study of the remedy is so much more reliable than the compilations of secondary source material we find on the market. In addition, any rubric in the common repertories can be analysed for its content by looking up the symptom in the monographs.
In 2007, the first three volumes of the MMRH-Project (Materia Medica Revisa Homoeopathiae) were published: Introduction, Dulcamara and Rhododendron. With the growing number of co-workers (about two dozen at this time) 45 printed monographs followed under the supervision of the editor Dr. Gypser: all authors contributed their time and work on a voluntary basis. The publication, including printing and copying, was generously supported by colleagues, several foundations and homoeopathic organizations. The 47 monographs from Agaricus to Zincum contain more than 67,000 symptoms.
This material is now at our fingertips, independent of any homoeopathic school or tradition. We can now compare the patient´s symptoms with the proving and clinical symptoms of published cases of the past, study a remedy thoroughly or analyse any repertory rubric for its content. The more homoeopathic practitioners support and possibly join this project – a wonderful opportunity to return the benefits we received ourselves from the homoeopathic method – the sooner we will hold an accurate repertory in our hands. With a reliable modern repertory we can expect a considerable improvement of the therapeutic results following our prescriptions.
Dr. med. Robert Goldmann, Berlin, Germany
See also: www.mmrh.info http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-interviews/dr-klaus-henning-gypser/
In the context of the help to Latin American countries requested by Dr. Galassi, at the 68th Congress of the LMHI held in Ecuador, in June 2013, the President of Argentinian Homeopathic Medical Association (AMHA), Dr. Eduardo Yahbes, offered Dr. Jaime Ortiz, who attended on behalf of the Vice President for Bolivia of LMHI, two half scholarships for Intensive Course of Homeopathic Medicine. Two Bolivian doctors, Drs. Karen Lizbeth Calvimontes Carrasco and Diana Ingrid Rosado Arteaga have been attending the “Course of Homeopathic Medicine 3 in 1”. Both physicians have been perfectly integrated at the course and had an exemplary performance. They wrote this letter:
“In the 68th Congress of the International Homeopathic Medical League, held in Ecuador, Latin American Committee for Homeopathy was formed by suggestion of Dr. Renzo Galazzi, President of LMHI. Having few Unicist Hahnemannian Homeopaths in Bolivia, the representative of the country, Dr. Jaime Ortiz Moreno, requested help for a correct training in Homeopathy for the Bolivian Medical Doctors. This shortage of homeopaths is in part due to the fact that physicians lack enough financial resources to be able to pay for a course at a recognized local school. In response to this need, Dr. Eduardo Yahbes, president of Argentinian Homeopathic Medical Association, and Dr.Marcelo Candegabe, Director of Candegabe University of Homeopathy, offered 2 half scholarships and 5 full scholarships respectively, for those Bolivian doctors who wished to get the Diploma in Homeopathy
This was the beginning of the real unity that should exist between the Latin American countries, like the European Committee for Homeopathy. We were selected to take up the 2 places of AMHA after the interview we had with Dr. Ortiz in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and it was the opportunity of our access to the Postgraduate Homeopathy Course. This is very important for us, because we know that the training we are receiving is very solid since we are being trained by internationallywell known professors with vast experience in teaching homeopathy and with a great human quality. All these factors are contributing to our personal and professional growth and we are very fortunate to be able to acquire the necessary knowledge of a science that was unknown to us until now. We are discovering subjects which we had never imagined either that existed or even that they were important to restore the health of sick people. Day by day we are learning new things that motivate us to keep going and wake up in us a great interest in getting to know the true Homeopathy. “ The two Bolivian colleagues have obtained the degree in homeopathy on November 29, 2014 with flying colors. Congratulations!
To finish this report, AMHA offers two half scholarships to those Latin American countries that need help in homeopathy training. The offered courses are: Course of Homeopathic Medicine 3 in 1 (three years of regular course in one year). Course of Homeopathic Dentistry and Homeopathic Veterinary 2 in 1 (two years of regular course in one year) and Course of Homeopathic Pharmacy (4 months of course, from April).
Information of courses with half scholarship offered by Argentinian Homeopathic Medical Association (AMHA) to LMHI members. Two Bolivian physicians have already obtained the degree in homeopathy
Dr. Diana Rosado Arteaga, Dr. Silvia Mercado y Dr. Karen Calvimontes Carrasco (f.l.t.r.)
First Days Spain – Cuba. II International Meeting of Homeopathy Canary Islands-Cuba-Mexico. Report for the Executive Committee LMHI and for the NVP. La Laguna, 23rd. November 2014
In the 23rd. November have concluded activities from I International Homeopathy Days Spain – Cuba, which included the II International Meeting of Homeopathy Canary-Cuba-Mexico. These acts have taken place during 16 days (among day 7th until 23rd) along the Spanish geography. Specificially in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza, Bilbao, Oviedo, Córdoba, Sevilla, Las Palmas and Tenerife. Also in the La Palma and Fuerteventura Islands. With 22 activies and with the participation of Medical and Pharmaceutical Colleges, Governments from Canary Islands and Ateneo in Madrid, among others. The Honour Committee of these Days was compouned by a vary number of politics personalities, institutions, colleges and associations. Spain, Cuba and Mexico have been homeopatically very related each other during almost two centuries. Homeopathy came to Cuba and Mexico mid-century XIX through Spain (Barcelona). Also to Mexico (Yucatan) through Cuba. In first decades of the twentieth century this relation among the three parts was consolidated and with the Foundation of the LMHI, even more strong ties was formed. In the second part of XX Century Homeopathy suffered certain decay in Spain and Cuba. Coming back since 1980 by the international teaching labour and with such a importance of programmes from teachers from Mexico. Currently Cuba has developed researchs on several fields of Medicine, Agriculture, Dentristy, Veterinarian, Basic Invertigations, Treatment and Prevention of Epidemics, which can result of much interest for the acredition of Homeopathy in other countries, in addition to be incorporated elements of medical interest in general. Opening doors to collaboration among the three countries and with others around the Word through the Liga. The celebrated activities were success due to the interest of the content and to the public participation. Furthermore, the movilization and union of all homeopaths and spanish associations were promoted. All the parts were very satisfied of a meeting which lasted too much to take part again (in 1998 was the I International Meeting Canary-Cuba-Mexico), and now with the propose of mantain the continuity of these relations and activities during next years. Also for the participation of researchers from South America and from other parts of the Word. This time also was exposed works from Germany and Switzerland. We also have noticed with surprise that skepticals for first time in ten years haven’t done any massive attack in Internet against a event organized by spanish homeopaths. It seems to be that the word Cuba made the difference. Researchs on Agriculture, Cattle Industry and Prevention and Treatment in Epidemics have broken their speech about suggestion and placebo. We are looking foward to new possibilities of cooperation in Researchs on Agriculture and Cattle Industry for the next years. Kind regards. Antonio Marqués.
NVP Spain LMHI. Secretary for Public Relations of LMHI.
30 LIGA NEWS
Asintants to the “Taller de Homeopatía para Agricultura y Ganadería” with the teachers that are siting: from right to left: Dr.Niurka Meneses (Suiza) and Dr. Ramón López (Cuba).
From right to left : Dr. Mayra Reverón (NVP from Cuba for LMHI) and Dr. René Torres, (Teacher from Homeopatía de México A.C.).
Homeopathy in Slovenia - a green-light for change The assembly of the Slovenian Medical Chamber called on December 17, 2014 on the Ministry of Health to change regulations so that doctors practising homeopathy would not get their licences revoked. The call on the ministry to change the medical doctors service act, which bans doctors from practising homeopathy and envisages revocation of licence as a punitive measure, was endorsed in a 40-18 vote at the assembly.
Medical Chamber president Andrej Možina said that a debate on homeopathy has been shelved for too long and that Slovenia is the only country in which medical licence is taken because of homeopathy. Human Right Ombudsman Vlasta Nussdorfer called the assembly not to reinvent the wheel and to look upon practices in other European countries. The open letters were sent by the President of the LMHI Dr. Renzo Galassi and President of the ECH Dr. Thomas Peinbauer to all members of the Assembly, presidents of medical organisations, deans of medical schools, media and other high politicians and officials.
Background information The Medical Chamber started dealing with homeopathy more seriously about six months ago, when German medical doctor Joachim Gross, working also in Slovenia, reported himself to the chamber over his dual practice. So far one doctor has been stripped of medical licence for practising homeopathy, and one doctor has received a warning. The legal status of homeopathy in Slovenia is absurd. Whenever we tried to change it, the ministry of health said that they will not go against official medical doctrine and that they would like to achieve broad consensus among the medical organisations (Medical Chamber, National Medical Ethics Committee, Slovenian Medical Society, Section of Medical Sciences of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts etc.). And the medical organisations always answered that they only respect the law. It was a vicious circle. Now the ministry of health has finally got the »historical permission« by Medical chamber to change restrictive and discriminatory regulations. This is the first step. The ministry of health has to prepare new regulations, which will be adopted by the Parliament. This process will take at least a year. By the Act of Healing Practices (2007), only medical doctors with additional qualifications in homeopathy are allowed to practise homeopathy in Slovenia, however, by the Medical Doctors Service Act (2008) the practices of conventional and homeopathic medicine are not compatible. If medical doctors practice homeopathy, the Slovenian Medical Chamber may never issue a first license or may withdraw the medical doctor’s license either temporarily or permanently and s/he will be struck off from the Register of medical doctors. Homeopathic medicines are available in Slovenian pharmacies since 2011, and because of that is the absurd situation even more evident. Only pharmacists in pharmacies (as healthcare professionals) are allowed to “select” homeopathic medicines for patients (for so called “self-treatment”), but licensed medical doctors (as healthcare professionals) are not allowed to advice, to select or to prescribe homeopathic medicines for treatment of acute or chronic conditions. Medical doctors with licence who are by law the only persons qualified and authorised to treat patients and to prescribe medicinal products for human use are not allowed to prescribe homeopathic medicines, because the Medical Doctors Service Act does not allow a licenced medical doctor to practice homeopathy nor to prescribe homeopathic medicines. Since 1992 considerable time and efforts have been directed towards changing laws regulating the practice of homeopathy. In April 2010, when we organised the International Symposium on Homeopathy with the LMHI and the ECH in Ljubljana, a window of opportunity for positive change was slightly opened. But, closed again because health care reform was completely stopped due to ongoing political instability and fall of several governments. New government took office in September 2014. Health minister declared that health reform is on agenda at the end of 2015 (changes of the Health Services Act, the Medical Doctors Service Act, the Health Care and Health Insurance Act, the Act of Healing Practices etc.).
On February 10, 2012, we presented the written petition to the Human Right Ombudsman. In March 2012 we had first consultation with the ombudsman Ms Zdenka Čebašek Travnik and her colleagues. On January 27, 2014, we had second consultation with the new Human Right Ombudsman Ms Vlasta Nussdorfer and her colleagues. The ombudsman said that she will warn new health minister and Medical Chamber that our rights are violated. She might also request the Constitutional Court to review the constitutionality and legality of the Medical Doctors Service Act, or file a constitutional complaint about a rights violation. Our case was mentioned in the Regular Annual Report of the Human Right Ombudsman for the year 2012 and for the year 2013. Our case is still open.
We are preparing, with great passion for homeopathy, the 70th Congress LMHI, Brazil, in the Wonderful City of Rio de Janeiro and better, in Copacabana Beach, which will be held between 25 and 29 August this year. The Scientific Committee is being careful to build a program of scientific quality, by professionals of great competence and great experience in Homeopathic Science, where we will have a strong interrelationship between the four areas of homeopathy (Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary and Pharmacy). The beginning of our scientific activities begins with the Working Groups, supervised by Dr. Alok Parrek and its coordinators on 25 August. Special invited speakers from various world countries, will dispose all their efforts to offer us the best that homeopathy has to offer. We will have several conferences, panels, round tables, free themes and poster presentations, of both the academic and professional area, we are giving great importance by rewarding the best posters, evaluated by a specific commission and incentive awards for all can continue the construction of new studies, contributing to the growth of homeopathy and arousing interest of further homeopaths.
The theme of our congress covers: Education – the teaching of Homeopathy in graduate and postgraduate courses; the Clinic, Emergencies and Hospitals Experiences; the pathogenetic, classic and clinic research, the evidence outlined in a demanding criterion beyond the Healing Arts of believing in the teachings of Hahnemann in the practice of homeopathy. One of the novelties of scientific grid will be the inclusion of topics addressing Homeopathy in Agronomy. Our scientific program is being constructed with great commitment and dedication. One of our main proposals is the integration of the areas of homeopathy (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary). The presentation of the scientific program will have different schedules between the different activities. The welfare of our congressmen, is for us an item of great value. In addition, are included in this way, in performing all scientific activities of our Congress: data-show and audio and video, simultaneous translation (English and Portuguese) in all rooms. However ..., the Executive Board is building the best we can offer to the Congress: A warm welcome, comfort of well-being among our scientific activities, statement of best places to taste the Brazilian cuisine, a thousand indications for leisure and several opportunities to meet Rio de Janeiro and Brazil. Rio will celebrate its 450th
anniversary!
The Rio450 Committee is making an extensive research on heritage and history to make sure the celebrations highlight the uniqueness of each part of Rio. It will be an one time moment to be in Rio, for both its History and Future will be celebrated. For our traditional Gala Dinner, we suggest that everyone be prepared to learn how to dance samba! It will be a special surprise, ending with typical Brazilian music and many international musical performances for all to dance and sing. The menu of course is nothing less than, among others, a wonderful fish muqueca, seafood and other Brazilian and international options, not forgetting the delicious Brazilian vegetarian menus. The immense happiness of homeopaths, besides the immense happiness for knowledge, is for us our happiness. Anyway, friends, difficulties got the whole world, but with simplicity and a strong will, with an imponderable dedication, we can achieve the best for our purposes. All of this is that the president of the 70º LMHI CONGRESS - FRANCISCO VILLELAalong with the General Secretariat and all Commissions – Scientific and Executive and the Organizing Secretariat of the LMHI WORLD 2015 OF HOMEOPATHY, desire, with much passion for Homeopathy, selflessness, and proudly of all those will participate in this great event of the World Homeopathy. Nothing is done without the patience and wisdom, much less without the love and union of all homeopaths.. Please access our site: WWW.LMHI2015.ORG
WELCOME TO THE 70Th LMHI CONGRESS IN BRAZIL IN THE WONDERFUL CITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO!!
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.homp.2014.08.004, available onlineathttp://www.sciencedirect.com
ORIGINAL PAPER
Efficacy of homeopathic intervention in subclinical hypothyroidism w ith or without autoimmune thyroiditis in children: an exploratory randomized control study
Vijay K Chauhan1 , Raj K Manchanda2 ,*, Archana Narang1 , Raman K Marwaha3 , Saurav Arora2 , Latika Nagpal1 , Surender K Verma4 and V Sreenivas5
1Dr. B. R. Sur Homoeopathic Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, New Delhi, India 2Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, India 3Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, New Delhi, India 4Directorate of Indian System of Medicine & Homeopathy, Government of NCT of Delhi, New Delhi, India 5All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Introduction: The decision to treat subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) with or without autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) in children, presents a clinical dilemma. This study was un- dertaken to evaluate the efficacy of individualized homeopathy in these cases. Methods: The study is an exploratory, randomized, placebo controlled, single blind trial. Out of 5059 school children (06e18 years) screened for thyroid disorders, 537 chil- dren had SCH/AIT and 194 consented to participate. Based on prim ary outcome mea- sures (TSH and/or antiTPOab) three major groups were formed: Group A e SCH + AIT (n = 38; high TSH with antiTPOab+), Group B e AIT (n = 47; normal TSH with antiTPOab+) and Group C e SCH (n = 109; only high TSH) and were further randomized to two subgroups-verum and control. Individualized homeopathy or identical placebo was given to respective subgroup. 162 patients completed 18 months of study. Results: Baseline characteristics were similar in all the subgroups. The post treatment serum TSH (Group A and C) returned to normal limits in 85.94% of verum and 64.29% of controls (p < 0.006), while serum AntiTPOab titers (Group A and B) returned within normal limits in 70.27%of verum and 27.02%controls (p < 0.05). Eight children (10.5%) progressed to overt hypothyroidism (OH) from control group. Conclusion: A statistically significant decline in serum TSH values and antiTPOab titers indicates that the homeopathic intervention has not only the potential to treat SCH with or wi thout antiTPOab but may also prevent progression to OH. Homeopathy (2014) 103, 224e231.
*Correspondence: Raj K Manchanda, Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH), 61-65, Institutional Area, Opposite D Block,Janakpuri, New Delhi 110059, India. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], shmc.thyroidclinic@gm ail.com, [email protected],
1) Organon 6th edition, in the note n. 4 of a veryimportant aphorism Hahnemann states: “We hear daily how homoeopathic medicinal potencies are called mere diluitions, when they are the very opposite, i.e. a true opening up of the natural substances bringing to light and revealing the hidden specific medicinal powers contained within and brought forth by rubbing and shaking …”. Find the aphorism and complete the note
2) Organon 6th edition. In an aphorism Hahnemannstates: “… are exciting causes of such acute febrile affections; in reality, however, they are generally only a transient explosion of latent psora, which spontaneously returns to its dormant state if the acute diseases were not of too violent a character and were soon quelled.” What is the aphorism and what are the exciting causes of such acute febrile affections?
3) Woman 56 yrs old , suffering from hypertensionand tachyarrhythmia, treated with Calcarea carbonica LM potencies. After few months of treatment, arrhythmia disappeared and her hypertensive state improved, but she developed a painful swelling in her right knee. She claimed she had suffered from it few years before for a long period. Can you explain what is happening?
4) Lippe states: “Changeable disposition; hysteriawith suddenly changing disposition, great drowsiness and disposition to faint. Very irresolute, changes his intention continually.” He/she looks like Ignatia, but he/she is not Ignatia! A help to you: “Great inclination to laugh at every thing, especially in the open air”. Who is he/she?
5) Same patient mentioned in quiz n.3. While her rightknee was being painful and swelling, she got a cold and developed a febrile throat inflammation. “What a strange thing! While I was feverish and suffering from the throat pain, my knee didn’t hurt and was no longer swollen. Later, when I recovered from throat pain the knee swelled again, but less than before, and then it recovered taking Calcarea carbonica”. Can you explain what happened and in what aphorism of the Organon, Hahnemann explains clinical cases such as this one?
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6) Nash, quoting Hering and reporting his ownexperience, describes this cross child: “… kicks and strikes the nurse, wants to be carried or rocked, or doesn’t want to be touched or looked at, desires things and then refuses them when offered …” What remedy could help the exasperated parents?
7) “Heat running up the back is more characteristicof this than any other remedy. Deafness is prominent, and is peculiar, in that it is especially deafness to the human voice, a common symptom in the aged” – What remedy is Nash referring to?
8) “Sensation of bearing down in the pelvic region,with dragging pains from the sacrum; or feeling of bearing down of all the pelvic organs” – Hahnemann is describing …
9) Hahnemann states: “82 – Indifference to herchild, whom at other times she dearly loved. 460 – The lower lip is cracked wide open, in the middle. 609 – Sour taste in the mouth, immediately after drinking milk. 1495 - Drawing pain from the knees down into the feet. 1634 – She perspires violently, at the least motion. 1672 – Hands and feet are heavy, like lead. 1796 – Vivid dreams, full of restless activity and business, which he could not finish. “ The remedy is …
10) Female, 56 yrs old, same patient above-mentioned in quiz 3 and 5. A few hours after having walked with her two dogs early in the morning, in the cold and humid air of countryside, she felt violent pain in her throat, “as if a piece of glass were sticking in it, worse on swallowing”. She developed fever and general malaise. She needed to stay in a warm room, to wrap herself warmly and, above all, she needed warm drinks to relieve the throat pain? What is the remedy?
Solutions quiz Corner – LMHI News n. 131) Aph. 108: … to administer the several medicines experimentally, in moderate doses, to healthypersons, to ascertain what changes, symptoms and signs of their influence each individually produces on the health of the body and of the mind; that is to say, what disease elements they are able and tend to produce … Aph. 110: … the only possible way to ascertain their medicinal powers is to observe those changes of health medicines are capable of producing in the healthy organism ..
2) Aph. 110
3) By numerous observations on suitable persons of both sexes and of various constitutions(aph135); when given to many different individuals, varying in their corporeal and mental constitution (aph 136)
4) Everything that is conjectural, all that is mere assertion or imaginary should be strictly excluded.
5) Eupatorium perfoliatum
6) Bryonia alba
7) Euphrasia; 30 CH, recovered in few hours.COUGH, Lying amelCOUGH, Standin aggCOUGH, Daytime onlyNOSE, Coryza, cough withEXPECTORATION, MorningEYES, Pain, sand, as fromEYES, Pain, burning
8) Bryonia alba
9) Hepar sulphur
10) Glonoinum; 5CH, every ten minutes; recovered from her hypertensive crisis in half an hour
GENERALS, Sun, exposure to the sunHEAD, Congestion – sun, from exposure to HEAD, Congestion – redness of face, withHEAD, Pain – sun, from exposure toHEAD, Pain – air open amel.HEAD, Pain – cold air, amel.HEAD, Pain – pulsatingHEAD, Heaviness
