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| VETARINARIA HOMEOPATICA, EL LUPUS Y SU TRATAMIENTO HOMEOPÁTICO. HOMEOPATÍA VETERINARIA
Hace
varios años, una enferma de lupus me preguntó si también los perros
padecían esta terrible enfermedad, le contesté que sí y que remitía
completamente con tratamiento homeopático. Entonces me pidió que
escribiera un artículo sobre mi trabajo para la Revista de Enfermos
Lúpicos, parecía muy interesada, así que saqué de mi fichero todos los
pacientes con esa patología, y reparé por primera vez en algo que se me
había escapado, CASI TODOS ERAN COLLIES, ¿por qué? ¿Qué tiene el collie
para ser candidato al lupus? ¿Qué es el lupus en realidad?
LUPUS ERITEMATOSO
Su
denominación Lupus (nombre latino de lobo) describe la acción
destructiva que produce esta enfermedad, comparable con la voracidad
del lobo.
Las alteraciones dérmicas se caracterizan por necrosis del
colágeno y proliferación del tejido elástico. Puede hacer o bien
engrosamiento o adelgazamiento de la epidermis y una peculiar
infiltración perianexal y/o liquenoide de células mononucleares. Se
considera una alteración del sistema inmunológico que no reconoce como
propio al organismo y lo ataca como si se tratara de un extraño,
provocando graves lesiones dependiendo de la localización de la
escaramuza.
Aunque yo no estoy de acuerdo, para mí sería más simple,
el sistema inmunitario no está equivocado, cumple órdenes, que
consisten en destruir todo lo extraño, y extraño es encontrarse con el
contenido celular fuera de la célula (“Teoría del Peligro” de la
inmunóloga Dra. Polly Mazinger), el sistema inmunitario atacaría a las
células involucradas en el lupus, porque éstas morirían de forma
violenta, derramando el contenido de su interior y no por apoptosis, es
decir, muerte programada, donde la célula se consume por completo, sin
contaminar nada.
¿Por qué morirían de forma violenta estas células?
No lo sabemos todavía, pero teniendo en cuenta que dejan de hacerlo
cuando equilibramos al enfermo a nivel MENTAL, con el medicamento
homeopático, es muy posible que el origen de su alteración sea de tipo
psicosomático.
Nada mejor para entenderlo que estudiar este mismo
fenómeno en un animal (el premio Nobel Don Santiago Ramón y Cajal hizo
su descubrimiento sobre el sistema nervioso con un pollo, todavía
embrionario, tal empresa en un humano adulto hubiera sido casi
imposible)
El hecho tan curioso de que casi todos los perros lúpicos
fueran collies hizo que estudiara la raza para determinar qué tenía de
especial que les convertía en aspirantes.
RAZA COLLIE
Patrón de comportamiento: El perro collie es PERFECTO.
El que mejor se adiestra (ACEPTA LA REPRESIÓN QUE PRODUCE EL ADIESTRAMIENTO)
Educado.
Obediente. No molesta. Se queda quieto (serviría de modelo para un
pintor) Responde perfectamente. Tiene más desarrollada la inteligencia
que el sentimiento (NO MANIFIESTA LAS EMOCIONES). Limpio, se aguanta
todo (SE CONTROLA). Da tranquilidad por lo eficiente que es. No
protesta.. Esta aparente perfección es una REPRESIÓN, un gran control
de sí mismo. Su mirada es seria, fija, fuerte, obsesiva, sin parpadear
(OBSESIÓN).
Si se enferma se HIPERTROFIA provocando síntomas físicos
como condilomas, verrugas, pólipos, hipertrofia de próstata,
hipertrofia de órganos linfoides, infecciones con mucosidad copiosa.
También son “hipertróficos” los síntomas mentales como, por ejemplo,
los pensamientos obsesivos sobre lo que realiza o quiere realizar
llegando a la neurosis obsesiva. Cuando quiere algo lo hace con
insistencia.
En general son síntomas con una marcada tendencia “hiper” (SYCOSIS)
Si este perro, que aparentemente es perfecto, se mantiene en tensión durante mucho tiempo, se terminará enfermando.
Cuando
le entregué el artículo a la presidenta de enfermos lúpicos, le
pregunté si alguna vez les habían hecho un estudio psicológico y me
respondió que sí, pero que no había servido para nada, todo era normal,
no encontraron nada raro, y no estaba bien que lo dijera ella, pero
eran personas perfectas, en el sentido de que todos eran muy correctos
y responsables ¡BINGO!
Aunque hemos dicho que no tiene emociones
afectivas, ni se apasiona, podría ser tremendamente violento si se
soltara, llegando a dar con gran ferocidad una cantidad desmesurada de
mordiscos.
CASO CLÍNICO
Pepe, Collie de 6 años que viene de Bilbao diagnosticado de Lupus eritematoso.
Pepe
era un perro de costumbres muy concretas, con un horario fijo, entraba
dentro del patrón arriba descrito. Los dueños lo consideraban un perro
perfecto que siempre había hecho lo que se le pedía y que nunca hacía
nada malo. De cachorro estaba sano y feliz, tenía horarios y era
meticuloso, siempre hacía lo mismo a la misma hora, siempre dormía la
siesta en el mismo sitio y con la misma postura. No aceptaba cambios ni
a gente extraña.
Se empezó a enfermar cuando el dueño, un joven
soltero, cambió de casa y con ello de hábitos. El perro sufrió muchos
cambios desapareciendo sus hábitos fijos que tanta estabilidad le
daban. En múltiples ocasiones cambió de hogar, de gente, incluso de
dueño, ya que lo dejaba grandes temporadas con sus padres o con sus
suegros.
Para encontrar el medicamento se hizo un estudio
BIOPATOGRÁFICO, análisis de la vida íntegra del paciente, desde el
nacimiento hasta la actualidad, estudiando uno por uno todos los
procesos patológicos, es decir, todas las enfermedades anteriores,
antecedentes familiares, los hechos que rodearon el principio de la
enfermedad y la manera individual de enfermar, ya que cada paciente es
diferente.
En el caso de Pepe el medicamento en cuestión era Thuya,
encajaba como un guante cubriendo síntomas físicos y mentales. Se
utilizó Thuya 12 LM, método plus, una gota en 5 ml de agua, cada 48
horas, durante 20 días. Esto fue el 29 de Agosto de 1994, curó
completamente, estaba más animado y más juguetón.
Apareció de nuevo
la enfermedad 4 años más tarde (el tiempo real en un paciente humano
sería de 16 años aproximadamente) pero más suave y volvió a desaparecer
con el mismo tratamiento.
¿Por qué a veces falla la homeopatía?
Porque no se encuentra el medicamento idóneo y se utilizan varios
simultáneamente. A veces son muy parecidos y se potencian en unos
síntomas, pero difieren en otros y dan órdenes contrarias al organismo
(que bastante confundido está). También puede ocurrir que el
medicamento sea el adecuado pero no la potencia.
Existen cuatro medicamentos fundamentales para el Lupus:
● Arsenicum album
● Lycopodium
● Nitricum acidum
● Thuya
No
obstante, en algunos casos el paciente no encaja en ninguno de estos
cuatro medicamentos, lo que nos obliga a seguir profundizando en el
caso, hasta encontrar el apropiado.
Ejemplo: Pispa, una mestiza
Collie de 4 años, que venía diagnosticada de Barcelona: Lupus
eritematoso. Su problema había empezado años antes:
Pubertad
retrasada. Rechazo de su sexualidad. Masculina. Aversión al sexo
opuesto. Levanta la pata para orinar (acto exclusivamente masculino,
para marcar el territorio) Dominante. Agresiva. Quiere estar sola para
que no la molesten, pero con alguien cerca para no sentirse sola.
Irritabilidad. Actitud violenta, muerde, se arrepiente. Agrava cada vez
que tiene el celo y se convierte en una hembra, esto le origina un
conflicto.
El medicamento está claro, Sepia.
Tratamiento: Sepia 6
LM, para mejorar la agudización que padecía y cuando se normalizó un
poco empecé a subir de potencias de tres en tres hasta la 30 LM.
Al
terminar el tratamiento la dueña me llamó por teléfono desde Barcelona
para decirme que estaba casi curada, así que le mandé invertir el
tratamiento, es decir, empezar a bajar las potencias de la 30 LM hasta
la 9 LM. A partir de ahí curó completamente y recibí una carta de
felicitación de su veterinaria.
He elegido estos dos casos de Lupus por haber estado diagnosticados por otros veterinarios y revisados posteriormente por ellos.
Autora: Coral Mateo, veterinaria
Artículo publicado en REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE HOMEOPATÍA, número 16, invierno 2005.
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Etiquetas: Casos clínicos, Patología crónica, Potencias Q o LM, Veterinaria homeopática
Digital dermatitis (DD) – Dermatitis digitalis – Morttellaro
This
infectious leg disease in cattle, that over the last years have spread
to many – in some areas to all loose housing systems ( it is also seen
in organic herds ), has become a big problem for cattel farming. This
not only has become a problem in Denmark, but all over the world.
Therefore
a lot of research has been made, to try to find the reason for this
problem. Until now nobody has succeeded in showing if this problems
comes from bacteria, virus or both ?One thing has been shown – the
bacteria Treponema comes up again and again, but until now nobody has
been able to make this disease artificial with this bacteria!
That means, that until now internationally no explanation has come up, to clarify this problem.
In
Danish studies it has been shown, that there is a clear genetic
difference in the susceptibility,Holstein-Frisian (HF) are most
susceptible. HF are 3 times more susceptible than Red Danish Milkcows
(RDM) and 10 times more susceptible than Jersey!
Internationally the
problem has been known for many years (the Americans for more than
30-40 years). It has been tried to treat this disease in very many
different ways, but unfortunately with only little effect. Clean floors
and boxes gives cleaner limbs, witch give results, but not enough.
Cleaning of the claws with water or footbaths with saltwater has been
working in mild cases.
Copper sulfate in footbaths some effect,
depending on the size of the problem. Unfortunately the only efficient
treatment has been footbath with some types of Antibiotics.
This has lead to the international advise, to treat this disease with antibiotics in footbath!
This is not legal in Denmark, so we have a problem!
The
advise in Denmark, ask for optimal claw environment, optimal feeding,
leading to healthy claws and intensive claw trimming. In early
treatments the wounds can bee treated with antiseptic dressing and a
bandage.
On this background it is not so strange that it is tried to treat the problem with Alternative treatments.
When
I last year heard a lecture by the German veterinarian and homeopath
Christine Nowotzin, where she had some suggestions to try to handle
this problem with homeopathy. I therefore took contact to her, to
discuss this issue and on basis of this I decided to try her strategy.
I
have now, in close cooperation with her, been going through the data
and the findings in a farm with this problem in high degree.
Together
with the farmer I have evaluated the development on the farm, on
background of the reaction that the cows has been showing in the barn
and the visible findings at the clawtrimming.
There are several
conditions in the strategy of Christine Nowotzin, that deviate from the
classical way of homeopathy. She is working a lot with, getting a clear
picture of a possible reason for the disease, the development of the
disease – in this also the tissue and organ changes. Therefore it is
very central to get a clear picture of the feeding, environment and
general health on the farm now.
It is central in this treating
strategy, that the whole group of animal are treated –this is secured
through the drinking water. The treatment was carried out, by treating
3 times with 12 hours in between with a 1-4 week interval. As described
above, we did not succeed in controlling DD – until now!
We have been treating with several remedies: Pyrogenium, Silicea, Acidum carbolicum, Carbo vegetabilis and Luesinum.
The
background for the changes, is first and foremost that we are looking
for the remedy with the best effect in the longest period. Additionally
the findings on the farm have changed, and that is also taken in
account.
At several of the treatments, we already have seen clear improvements in the herd after 2-3 days!
In
the end of April 06, there again was clear problems in the whole herd –
many of the animals was lame and had visible findings!
We therefore decided to treat on the 24-25 of April – with Luesinum.
On
May the 2 ( about 1 week later)the claws was trimmed ( about 100 cows)
– it looked well – 12 Animals got a bandage – 8 because of Interdigital
hyperplasiaand 4 because of DD. 10-15 cows had findings that lokked
like inactive DD.
When it last year was worst, 50-60 % of the cows had lamness and visible findings of DD.
Author: Veterinarian Jes R.Nissen, Denmark, in cooperation with Dr. Christine Nowotzin.
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Etiquetas: Casos clínicos, Veterinaria homeopática
Little doses - Big results! Homoeopathy for animals
Part II (p. 221-226)
FIRST
CASE: One of my old school-mates, Dr. Ferreol, a veterinary, having
heard of mysterious homoeopathy, met me one day by chance. "What is
homoeopathy at bottom"? he asked me. "Is it a serious method"?
"Serious"! I replied, "that's not the question: it is a method which
cures affections that are curable according to a law, and by means
which do not poison the patient". "But", said he to me, "that's all
very well for human beings whom one can make believe all that one
wishes, but can these infinitesimal doses really have any action at all
on animals"? "It is perfectly simple", I responded, "not theories but
facts; results, first, and then afterwards we will discuss it"!
Just
at that time he had a series of cases which were bothering him a great
deal. It was a matter of an epidemic of swine-fever in a piggery of
more than one hundred and twenty animals. Many had already died and,
called urgently on the 30th of January, 1928, he autopsied a pig which
had just died in convulsions. He found a haemorrhagic gastro-enteritis
with inflammation of Peyer's patches and the mesenteric glands, a
haemorrhagic nephritis and, above all, endocarditic and myocarditic
lesions which permitted him to diagnose the chronic form of swine-fever
(rouget du porc).
The absence of erythema allowed one to think of
"white swine-fever". Bacteriological analyses confirmed the diagnosis
by the presence of Bacillus rhusiopathiae suis.
When a piggery is
infected one gives serotherapy, not only to the small number infected
but to all the pigs, as a preventive measure. That is why he proceeded,
on the 4th of February, to immunize to the full by the appropriate
serum, which he had sent for expressly from Bern from the Federal
Institute of Hygiene. Eight to fifty cc. of serum were injected into
each animal according to its weight. Result: Two days later they found
eight pigs newly infected and showing clonic convulsions. A bleeding at
the ear was ordered, to reduce congestion of the nervous centres.
Ferreol noticed that the blood of the animals in convulsions did not
flow until after several seconds, which confirmed his diagnosis of a
chronic form of swine-fever of which endocarditis is the principal
manifestation. The symptoms abated after bleeding and he waited for the
effects of his immunization. Two days later he was sent for urgently
and found the swine-keeper distracted, his cutlass in his hand, ready
to kill the eight animals of whom we have been speaking, all of whom
were again going into convulsions. Another pig, fifty kilos in weight,
a new case, struggled into the passageway, laid down on its back and
remained in opisthotonos two hours.
Having lost confidence, the
proprietor summoned another veterinary secretly, who confirmed the
diagnosis and declared peremptorily that the cases were lost, all
treatment hopeless, and the only thing to do was to cut the throats of
all the sick animals as soon as possible. There was the situation!
It
was, then, a question of an infections condition due to a specific
bacillus; the diagnosis was perfectly clear. The treatment had been
conducted according to modern knowledge of this condition, and the
results were completely negative. The verdict was formal: To sacrifice
these animals since science declared them incurable.
Ah! We may well
repeat the classic phrase of Hahnemann: "When it is a question of the
sacred art of curing, to neglect to learn is a crime"!
Here it was
not a question of human lives but of animals which must be saved
because the financial loss was great. All these young animals had cost
a great deal to raise and now, although they were still too young for
the butcher, it was necessary to kill them. The infection had spread to
these nine new cases and others would follow. You can judge of the
state of mind of the proprietor and the caretaker. It was these cases
which Dr. Ferreol put up to me, on which to prove to him the value of
homoeopathy. I accepted the challenge.
The symptoms then were:
1. The rapidity of invasion, when all the animals had seemingly good health.
2. Convulsions in young subjects.
3. Active congestion as observed by autopsy.
4. The disease showing grave symptoms of the nervous and arterial systems.
5. The absence of rash (possibly the cause of the convulsive symptoms).
All
these can be found literally in the same words pages 32, 34, 36 and 41
of the first volume of Guiding Symptoms published in 1879 by Dr.
Hering, an allopath converted to homoeopathy, these symptoms having
been produced by Aconitum napellus.
As Belladonna possesses a great
analogy in its toxicology to the symptoms above indicated, I proposed
to make the following experiment:
1. To give ten drops of a solution
of Aconite in the 200th centisimal dilution in a glass of water, one
coffeespoonful (one single dose) to four pigs which were to be marked
with a red cross of the back.
2. To give ten drops of a solution of
Belladonna in the 200th centesimal dilution in a glass of water, one
coffeespoonful (one single dose) to three pigs to be marked with a
black cross.
3. To leave one pig without a mark and without medicine, as a control.
4. To give ten drops of Aconite in the 200th to the 50 kilogram pig which was lying in opisthotonos in the middle of the stable.
All
this was carried out exactly. It was very interesting that exactly
twenty seconds after the single dose of Aconite the convulsions of the
pig stretched out on her back ceased, leaving the caretaker
open-mouthed before this incredible spectacle! The beast remained
stretched out for five hours perfectly calm. After this length of time
she got up unaided, went to the trough and ate her food as if nothing
had ever happened. The attacks were not renewed and the animal has been
in perfect health ever since. (This 200th dilution, gentlemen, was
prepared by me and was not one of those high dilutions concerning which
one is ignorant of its origin and especially of its mode of
preparation. It was not a tincture of Aconite succussed two hundred
times, but a preparation made according to the Hahnemannian rules.
diluted two hundred times and vigorously shaken at each dilution. The
tincture used as a base had been made from plants gathered in the high
Jura mountains in a moist, cold place a little before the time of
complete flowering.)
A fortuitous case, a case due to chance, you
say, but listen to the next: All the pigs which had received either
Aconite or Belladonna ceased their convulsions almost instantaneously,
but the next day two of the pigs with a black cross had convulsions
again, tonic but not clonic this time, and much less violent than
heretofore. As these did not seem to be decreasing we gave to the two
relapsing pigs, on the 21st of Feb. 1928, a coffeespoonful of the
solution of Aconite 200th ten drops in a glass of water. (The
recurrence of the convulsions proved that the Belladonna was not
sufficiently similar to the case to hold.) The reception of the
veterinary this time was very different, confidence was restored, the
battle was won.
Forty-eight hours after the administration of the
Aconite the most perfect calm reigned in the piggery. However, on the
morrow, there was a hurry call to autopsy one pig which had suddenly
died. It proved to be none other than the unmarked pig who was the
control. All the others were in good health.
One month after this
interesting experiment (for it well deserves the name) there was a very
slight relapse among the eight pigs which had been treated. A new dose
of Acon. 200 was accordingly administered. The little piglets, born of
the last animals who contracted the swine-fever (rouget) but previously
cured by the Acon., perished one after another at their birth, which
meant a severe loss for the proprietor. The autopsy done on most of the
cadavers and the bacteriological analysis showed the same disease which
the mothers had, so we gave at birth to all subsequent piglets a dose
of Acon. 200. One week afterward, out of eleven treated but one died;
the other ten, thanks to the Acon., began to grow fat and had no
attacks. Fifteen days later they told us that one pig among the last
group treated had had a violent tonic convulsion lasting a quarter of
an hour. Another of the same litter had had to be killed in the midst
of a convulsion, in extremis. At the autopsy the essential organs were
found normal but an enormous haematoma was discovered accompanied by
deviation of the spinal column at the level of the eighth dorsal
vertebra. Several piglets perished despite Acon. On examining each
case, one after another, we found that after eight days they were
having fewer crises and one could not deny the helpful action of Acon.,
as, before its intervention, more than thirty pigs had died in a week.
But homoeopathy was not at the end of its resources and we knew that
when Acon. has exhausted its action, in order to get a deeper action,
one must employ what 's called its "chronic", which, in this instance,
was Sulphur in the 200th centesimal dilution, which we gave to all the
pigs who where ill, or who had been so. It is now three months and the
result is marvelous. There has been neither death nor infection since
the chronic dose.
These grave cases, incurable by ordinary methods,
were, then, cured by high homoeopathic dilutions chosen simply in
accordance with the law of similars. The multiplicity of the cases
treated, although it did not run into the thousands, nevertheless
obliges one to think, because it illustrates and confirms the law of
similars.
A case declared incurable by classic medicine does not
deserve this definite label if homoeopathy or other unofficial
therapies have not been tried. Homoeopathy does not pretend to cure all
so-called "incurable cases", it also has its limits, but it offers
different possibilities of such a value that an honest and conscientous
doctor cannot afford to neglect them. Doses in such dilutions could not
have any action if they were not administered according to a scientific
law.
SECOND CASE: Satyriasis and impotence: Prize bull 2 years old.
This bull which had always served well, and whose matings had been
followed by gestations had been subject recently to perverse sexual
excitations. When he was led out to the drinking fountain, for example,
he would rush to the entrance from which the cows were ordinarily let
out for mating, and, then, when he saw that it was not for that reason
that he was led out of the stable, he would rush back again and
masturbate by friction of his hind legs until ejaculation occured. His
keeper said that he did this two or three times a day. In addition,
whenever a cow was brought to him, although the erection took place it
was impossible for him to perform intromission and the ejaculation did
not occur despite his marked excitation. This state of affairs meant a
considerable financial loss to his owner, for a prize bull, although
very expensive and used only for reproduction, will bring from the
butcher a comparatively negligible price. Allopathically these cases
are considered incurable, the only way out being castration, which
would mean the negation of his main value.
This condition of general
excitation associated with impotence and onanism responds admirably,
however, to a homoeopathic remedy which has brought out similar
symptoms on healthy men: Delphinium staphysagria. Accordingly Staph.
200, a single dose, in globules, was given him in the morning by Dr.
Ferreol. Four days afterwards he was in excellent condition and able to
mate normally to the great relief of his owner and veterinary. You can
judge what this cure was worth when I tell you that this bull had been
bought for $ 600.00 and that his butcher 's worth would have been only
$ 160.00 to $ 180.00. This loss was avoided thanks to a single dose of
Staph. in the 200th centisimal dilution.
Part II (p. 327 - 329)
THIRD
CASE: Motor paralysis following distemper in a German hound dog seven
months old, sick for two months with distemper which was manifested by
the usual symptoms:
Temperature.
Catarrhal symptoms of the urinary tract.
Dyspnoea
Purulent discharge from the eyes and nose.
Loss of appetite.
Diarrhoea alternating with constipation.
The
owner had given various allopathic pills with ipecac as a base, purges
and syrups, without any result except the suppression of certain
symptoms and the progressive development of a spasmodic paraplegia of
the hind quarters.
The striking features on examination of the dog were:
Spasmodic muscular symptoms.
Trembling of the limbs.
Marked paresis of the hind quarters.
Increased reflexes.
Symptoms only during the day.
The animal drinks little.
Aggravation from cold air.
Aggravation after motion.
Swaying, very uncertain gait.
Agaricus muscarius
Repertory
study, taking into account the non-pathognomic symptoms, done with Dr.
Ferreol, showed Agaricus muscarius as being the remedy corresponding
best to the case and alone possessing all the indicated symptoms. In
fact, all these spasmodic and paretic symptoms, associated with the
curious aggravation from cold, are found in the pathogenesy of this
poisonous mushroom.
June 15, 1928, we gave Agaricus muscarius 200 dilution, ten drops in a single dose.
Five
days after, this dog, who previously could not go up stairs, could
mount them although with difficulty. He swayed less but he still
frequently fell to the right in walking.
Eleven days after the first
dose ist eyes suppurated abundantly and the owner, of course, ran to
the pharmacy to buy a collyrium which Dr. Ferreol hastened to empty
down the sink! The dog no longer fell, although he still tottered a
little; he could mount the stairs without difficulty, run, jump and
play with other dogs; his general condition was much improved.
Agaricus
being supposed to act forty days, and the ameloriation having been
progressive from the time of the first medication, we allowed the
remedy to act and simple advised bathing the eyes with boiled water.
Fifteen days after the first dose the animal was cured.
On july 13,
1928, four weeks after the first dose, we again saw the animal who was
marvelously well: He walked, ran and behaved like a normal dog. His
eyes still discharging a little but we ordered no local treatment as
that is a natural vent for distemper which we knew ought to be
respected.
All veterinaries know the progressive evolution and the
gravidity of of the nervous sequelae of distemper. This cure was
complete, patent and permanent.
Was the 200 centissimal dilution of
Agaricus too weak to act in this case? Is this not the confirmation of
the law of the similars? A verification of the symptoms of this
dangerous mushroom? A proof of the undeniable action of high dilutions
when they are administered according to Hahnemannian rules? And a plain
demonstration that a single dose is entirely sufficient to cure even a
severe case, if one knows enough to give the organism time to react to
the action of the remedy administered?
Although insufficient from
the point of view of numbers, the two cases cited in the previous issue
together with this case, which were experiments rigorously conducted,
admirably illustrate this great general law, the law of similars. This
therapeutic law has an inconceivable bearing on cure; and the imperious
necessity of plumbing it and giving it the place of honor which it
merits in therapeutics, is none other than the crown and object of
medical work. It is this law, together with the cases which have
permitted ist establishment and confirmed it, which gives to
homoeopathy the right to be a science and a therapeutic method.
Medicaments applied according to this law and studied along
Hahnemannian lines become positive substances whose action on healthy
men and whose application to the sick are no longer variables as they
are in allopatic therapeutics. No sooner have the remedies of the
so-called official school had their burst into prominence and been
proclaimed so marvelous at their debut, then they rapidly arrive at
their period of decline and disappear without leaving behind them, most
of the time, any traces except their inconveniences, one could even
say, with the French pharmacologist Pouchet, "...their bad results".
On
the contrary homoeopathic remedies are not subject to the influence of
style or an extravagant modernism; once firmly established by
experimentation they become medicaments and the homoeopathic physician
who know them and use them remain constant to them.
Hahnemann said, in his Prolegomenon to the treatise on Materia Medica Pura, written in French in 1834:
Homoeopathy
rests entirely on experience. Imitate me, says she out loud, but
imitate me well, and you will see at each step the confirmation of my
claim. That which no materia medica, no system of medicine, no
therapeutics has done or has been able to do heretofore, she loudly
demands: to be judged according to results.
Homoeopathy has never
pretended to cure diseases by the same power as that which produced
them; she wishes to do it by a power which is not identical but simply
analogous, by a medicament which can only produce a morbid condition
analogous to the disease.
Take cases of illness one after another,
describe them in the order outlined in the Organon; paint them so well
to all their perceptible symptoms that the author of homoeopathy,
himself, could have no criticism of the exactitude of your picture;
and, supposing that these cases are among those for which one can find
a remedy in the medicines already proved today, select the medicinal
substance which is the most appropriate, homoeopathically speaking;
give it alone and unmixed, in doses as weak as the doctrine precribes,
while removing all other medicinal influences; and if the patient is
not cured, if he is not cured promptly, if he is not cured gently, if
he is not cured in a durable way, cover homoeopathy publicly with
shame, while proclaiming the failure of a treatment rigorously followed
according to ist own principles. But abstain, I beg you, from all
mistakes.
If, after you have acted in good faith, others no less
conscientious than yourself arrive at the same results in repeating
your experiments, if al that homoeopathy promises to him who follows it
faithfully is not made good, then this doctrine can be considered as of
no account.
Do you know any better method of disproving this
doctrine which only needs to appeal to good sense and to minds free
from prejudice in order to find access everywhere? Do you wish to
obtain the same successes? Imitate me freely and loyally.
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