I've come to the conclusion that many homeopaths are either too lazy, too complacent, or maybe too greedy to follow Hahnemann to the letter.
Just lke big pharma doesn't want to find a cure because it impacts the $$$ bottom line, many homeopaths make their income having followed their own interpretation of genius. Why change now?
Many musical greats have had "covers" done. i.e.; there's The Beatles and then there's The Rain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6bKPZDvSFA&feature=related Like going to a bar lounge and listening to a has been or never to be imitating a great one. Or visiting Madame Tussauds Was Museum, almost, but not quite.
Maybe we need a homeopathic judge review board, ala American or British Idol TV show, that yeas or nays the ideas and practices of those who want to claim they are Classical or Hahnemannian homeopaths. Sorry, try again next year!
Then, like Susan Boyle, a middle-aged British unemployed & unknown whose God given voice is now heard by millions, a John Harvey emerges!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSrAJsWvEIc&feature=related
One true voice needs to rise above and lead the rest!
Susan
-----Original Message-----
From: John Harvey <john.p.harvey@gmail.com>
To: Irene de Villiers <furryboots@icehouse.net>
Cc: Homeopathy@Homeolist.Com <homeopathy@homeolist.com>
Sent: Sat, Jan 7, 2012 5:02 pm
Subject: Re: [H] Combos and complexes
Dear Irene,
ince your ideas here clearly arise from a most unfortunate misreading of
very *Organon* aphorism that you referred to earlier -- §§ 40, 41, 52, 75,
49, 244, and 276 -- let's make an effort to comprehend them, beginning
ith those you quoted or paraphrased.
§ 40)
ou paraphrased *§ 40*, which does indeed refer to treatment of complex
iseases. It does not, as you claim ("Hahnemann however GAVE UP on complex
iseases"), surrender to such complex disease. It states Hahnemann's
onviction (a conviction whose accuracy, as I indicated earlier, I think is
uestionable) that two disease processes coexisting in the one organism --
hat is, neither being suspended or annihilated, but both continuing to act
- exist in "parts that are adapted for it", with their cure being "completely
ffected by a judicious alternation of the best mercurial preparation, with
he remedies specific for the psora, each given in the most suitable dose
nd form".
o these sound like the words of somebody who has given up on complex
iseases?
§ 75)
ou quoted *§ 75*:
These inroads on human health effected by the allopathic non-healing art
more particularly in recent times) are of all chronic diseases the most
eplorable, the most incurable; and I regret to add that it is apparently
mpossible to discover or to hit upon any remedies for their cure when they
ave reached any considerable height."
t is certainly easier to see how you could mistake the meaning of this
hort passage in isolation than the meaning of § 41, as supporting your
iew that he had given up on complex diseases. All you need do are (a)
retend that complex disease was the topic of discussion and (b) overlook
hat the word "apparently".
n fact, of course, the topic under discussion is revealed in the passage
receding this one, which refers not to complex diseases but, again, to a
tate
whereby the vital energy is sometimes weakened to an unmerciful extent;
ometimes, if it do not succumb, gradually abnormally deranged… in such a
ay that… it must produce a revolution in the organism… and develop faulty
rganic alterations here and there in the interior or the exterior (cripple
he body internally or externally)",
state
artificially produced in allopathic treatment by the prolonged use of
iolent heroic medicines in large and increasing doses; by the abuse of
alomel, corrosive sublimate, mercurial ointment, nitrate of silver, iodine
nd its ointments, opium, valerian, cinchona bark and quinine, foxglove,
russic acid, sulphur and sulphuric acid, perennial purgatives,
enesections [along with food deprivation], shedding streams of blood,
eeches, issues, setons, etc."
n these two passages, then, Hahnemann was not giving up on treating
omplex diseases, or giving up on anything. He was not even discussing
omplex disease. He was referring to the enervation that he frequently saw
n patients deprived of their life blood; purged; and violently poisoned
ill they were near death -- a state we do not see produced by violent
xertions in modern allopathy -- and the difficulty of saving them from
hat moribund state.
§ 149)
inally, you quoted *§ 149* as follows:
...More especially do the chronic medicinal dyscrasia so often produced by
llopathic bungling, along with the natural disease left uncured by it,
equire a much longer time for their recovery; often, indeed, are they
ncurable."
nd you choose to interpret this as representing Hahnemann's frustration at
is inability to treat complex diseases.
f, however, you simply read in its entirety the passage from which you
xcerpted that quote, you will find that you have again wholly
isunderstood his meaning:
Diseases of long standing (and especially such as are of a complicated
haracter) require for their cure a proportionately longer time. [Not the
ords of a man who has given up, you see; and not speaking in particular of
omplex disease, or referring to it specifically at all.] More especially
o the chronic medicinal dyscrasia so often produced by allopathic bungling
long with the natural disease left uncured by it, require a much longer
ime for their recovery; often, indeed, are they incurable, in consequence
f the shameful robbery of the patient's strength and juices (venesections,
urgatives, etc.) [there it is again] on account of long-continued use of
arge doses of violently acting remedies given on the basis of empty, false
heories for alleged usefulness in cases of disease appearing similar, also
n prescribing unsuitable mineral baths, etc., the principal feat performed
y allopathy in its so-called methods of treatment."
hat does this say, then, in a nutshell? It says that enervation of the
atient by heroic doses of truly violent drugs such as mercuric oxides; by
enesection; and by purging will necessitate a longer period for the
atient's cure, and may even be incurable. That is, the patient may die
efore a cure is possible. That's hardly surprising, is it, considering
ow weakened they had become and the commonness, at the time, of simple
utritional deficiency!
§§ 41, 52, 244, 276)
ou made passing mention of a further four aphorisms as evidence for the
ossibility of polypharmacy within homoeopathy: §§ 41, 52, 244, and 276.
§ 41* states that the mercurial damage compounding the effects of masked
yphilis, especially if additionally complicated with psora or simultaneous
ondylomata and gonorrhoea, is curable only with the greatest difficulty,
hen it is not quite incurable.
gain, Hahnemann is discussing the most violent assaults upon the patient
f a most specific kind: not complex disease per se, but a specific kind of
ouble disease of a dire kind, a kind you do not see in daily practice with
our kittens. And he is hardly giving up.
§ 52* distinguishes the two principal approaches to cure -- the
eteropathic or allopathic, and the homoeopathic -- and *§ 244* refers to
he need for antipsoric treatment of malaria even if prompt removal from
he malarial district leads to prompt recovery. How does either in any way
elate to your conclusions?
The last, *§ 276*, is most instructive of all of these, being most relevant
o your own incautiousness. In it, Hahnemann cautions against using a
omoeopathic medicine either in too large a dose or in frequent repetition,
ecause, he says, they easily lead to a more violent medicinal illness than
he original natural one -- a medicinal disease most difficult to destroy.
n order to forestall the otherwise inevitable flat denial of that, here
re Hahnemann's exact translated words:
For this reason, a medicine, even though it may be homoeopathically suited
o the case of disease, does harm in every dose that is too large, and in
trong doses it does more harm the greater its homoeopathicity and the
igher the potency selected, and it does much more injury than any equally
arge dose of a medicine that is unhomoeopathic and in no respect adapted
o the morbid state (allopathic). [If you the significance of that doesn't
trike you, then try reading it again, aloud. It's a passage easy to
ismiss if your mind has wandered.] Too large doses of an accurately
hosen homoeopathic medicine, and especially when frequently repeated,
ring about much trouble as a rule. [This too is easy to dismiss, as is
requently evident in the unnecessarily confused cases that homoeopaths
ring to the attention of their colleagues.] They put the patient not
eldom in danger of life or make his disease almost incurable. [That is,
ahnemann's reference to incurability here is not a reference to complex
isease at all; it is a reference to the intractability of purely medicinal
iseases occurring through patently unintelligent or uninformed overuse of
ore-or-less homoeopathic medicines!] They do indeed extinguish the
atural disease so far as the sensation of the life principle is concerned,
nd the patient no longer suffers from the original disease from the moment
he too strong dose of the homoeopathic medicine acted upon him; but he is
n consequence more ill with the similar but more violent *medicinal disease
, which is most difficult to destroy."
his passage, then, relates to *homoeopathy* in which subsequent doses are
dministered without regard to the patient's state, and warns, as Hahnemann
arns in many other places in the *Organon*, against injudicious
epetition: repetition without first checking that the medicine remains
uitable, is needed, and is not in a dose too large.
ere, Hahnemann is highlighting stupidity of a simple kind: a single
nattentiveness that he points out unnecessarily troubles the patient and
otentially prevents her cure. It's true that he is not, here, bothering
o go further and address the stupidity of complicating such unintelligent
ractice by *doubling* it -- risking establishment of a *complex* medicinal
isease. His caution here is for the practice merely of injudicious
epetition of doses potentially too large of the single medicine prescribe
n the homoeopathic principle.
et you confidently -- not to say smugly -- assume that Hahnemann was too
itless or too clueless to understand the wisdom of the kind of
olypharmacy (whatever name you choose to give it today) that you, in your
ngenious originality -- in a long tradition of identical ingenious
riginality -- personally developed and that, in your honour, your earlier
dmirers named Irenopathy.
ould your total incomprehension of what you've read be due to something as
traightforward as careless inattentiveness? Or is it due to something
ore complicated?
ind regards,
ohn
n 5 January 2012 20:24, Irene de Villiers <furryboots@icehouse.net> wrote:
> John wrote non-indented quoted items below
(assuming the indents are not lost in the bit bucket):
> Hello, Irene --
>
> Hahnemann however GAVE UP on complex diseases
>
> Really, do you think so? What basis have you for making such a claim?
It's not that *I* think so - *he* did, as I already quoted from the
Organon - MUST you go in circles?
:-)
I'm afraid if you do not agree with what he wrote, you'll need to dig up
his ghost to argue it with him directly. I'm not responsible for his
published views.
>
> It's a matter of how you subdivide the system and its tissues and how
you subdivide diseases and their separate effects.....
>
> Ah. Let's see the evidence for that hypothesis
It's no hypothesis, it's simple anatomy. Did you forget to study it?
> And, while you're about, it, if you have any evidence to offer that
supports your contention that the dynamic derangements we know as illness
may occupy entirely discrete tissues, then it would be very interesting to
see it.
Did you forget to read the detailed example (of an actual case) which I
presented in order for you to see just that? (The one contrasting FIP and
HLH). Or was your knowledge of anatomical terminology insufficient to
follow the example? Did you even realize it was an example?
I'll presume not, or you would not ask for evidence that was already
supplied in sufficient detail to readily demonstrate the principle:-)
> Also highly helpful would be any shred of evidence to suggest that the
unpredictability of synergistic and antergistic (okay, antagonistic, if we
must) interactions has been overcome in a systematic, replicable manner:
That one's easy: Just read my paper describing over 500 cases with
carefully matched remedies based of Law of Similars, in Nov 2009 issue of
Hpathy:-)
Now before adding more hot air, DO supply YOUR studies and cases to show
the contrary that YOU claim?
> Your usual response to the irrefutable being audacious point-blank
denial,
The only irrefutable point I see is that you spout your version of theory
with not a single case as evidence.
State your studies and cases to prove that YOUR interpretation of
Hahnemann in the matter of the effective treatment of complex diseases,
(not single diseases as you keep sending quotes about as if they were
complex) is anything but hot air?
> I'll include those quotes for you again below. If one of them
accidentally catches your eye
I do not work by "accident". I know what I am doing and why, before I do
it.
It's why I am approached to work on the very complex cases for which I am
known. I get asked to take all the ones that vets and others find
impossible to help.
Show us your cases. When you've done that, we can continue the discussion
as it takes understanding of real cases - complex ones at the very detail
level - understanding the body and how it works, as well as the pathologies
and how they work - plus the diseases as defined by homeopathic principles
so as to know properly how to recognize which makes what symptom - to fully
know how to USE homeopathy correctly for the diseases presenting. I speak
of the cases Hahnemann claimed could not be cured (and any of the many more
complex ones that have occurred subsequent to his time.)
I challenge you to provide even one case of YOURS - so we can see that
you understand the interplay between anatomy, pathology, cause and effect
and homeopathically relevant symptom discernment towards a simillimum for
each of at least two diseases presenting as simultaneously active diseases
in a complex.
Namaste,
Irene
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