THE HOMEOPATHY BEYOND HAHNEMANN
Advances in Chronic Diseases
Hugo Calatayud M.D. With the collaoration o! E"iliano Calatayud M.D.
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7n Me"oria" To the "e"ory o! Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, who gave mankind the formidable power of curing through energy. Clemens van !nninghausen, whose prodigious collection of tropism and the peculiar modality of medicines which allows the cure of many patients. "ames #. $ent whose %epertory pointed out simillimum t o generations of homeopathic doctors. "orge #orrent, my intellectual father, who opened the doors of homeopathy for me. Carlos &utierre', my teacher, who put me on the path of t he sources of doctrine. %icardo Haehl, &uillermo oericke and (illis (ard, whose generosity and perseverance made possible the rescue of the almost lost )th edition of *+rganon. #hose ignored e-perimentalist doctors of ateria edica /ura, of whose work we still profit today0 dams, egidi, hner, pelt, aher, echer, ethmann, runer, ute H.&. Caspari, Cubit', Foissac Foissac,, Fran', Fran', &ersdo &ersdorff rff von, von, &oullo &oullon, n, &ross, &ross, &utman, &utman, Hahnem Hahnemann ann Frederi Frederik, k, Haubo Haubold, ld, Hartlaub, Hartmann, Haynel, Hempel, Hering, Herring, Herrmann, Hornburg, "ahr, $retschmar, anghammer, ehmann, ehmann, "., es3uereur, eyer, ichler, 4enning, /iepers, %ohel, %ummel, %ueckert, #h. Schoenke, Schr5ter, Schweikert, Seidel, Staff, #euthorn, #iet'e, #rinks, (agner, (ahle, (islicenus, (oost. nd those anonymous e-perimentalists0 ds. H. b. Sch. (.
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AC8NOW9ED:EMENT; #o all those patients who honored me by their trust in me. #o the volunteer testers of the e-perimental scales. #o Sa8l &amboa, for his help in calculating. #o 9:ctor ;apana for the same reason. #o Chris Havas, for his contribution to the e-perimental laboratory. #o /ablo . #o "osefina adano, for her work as computer operator =?nglish>. #o the collaborators in the e-perimental laboratory0 Santiago Calatayud, @ora 9erona, #omAs Calatayud and Horacio ;anetto.
7N DEEP :6AT7T#DE #o @ouglas ". le-ander, #ranslator. #o iliana Calatayud, for her help and criteria. #o Carlos anuel "essen, to whom this book owes its understandability. #o my parents, from whom B learnt the value of nobleness. #o elia Calatayud, my companion in this work and in life.
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“The Supreme Being has allowed me to discover, or I may say, He has revealed to me, the alleviation (mitigation) of mankinds suffering! Samuel Hahnemann, $!then, 7D1D1E2 =letter to his friend ". ?. Stapf> HAHNEMANN<< He sa% the sic& in a totally di!!erent %ay. He elieved in %hat he sa%= although he %as asolutely alone= and %hen he couldn5t go ac& one y one the secrets to C#6E %ere eing decoded. He didn5t &ee$ the" !or hi"sel!. Even today he continues giving the" to all %ho allo% the"selves to e illu"inated y Truth. H7; ME;;A:E “In the course of these investigations I discovered the path of Truth, path that I foresaw I must follow alone and very far from the great road followed "y the traditional medical world#!$ “%nder no way do I demand "lind trust and neither do I presume these truths to "e understood# &either do I understand them# It is enough that they are a fact and nothing else# It is only e'perience that avers so and I trust e'perience, "efore my own intelli gence#! “These truths pure and "ig shall "e dou"ted for many years, even "y homeopathic doctors and shall not "e put into practice due to theoretical speculation and prevailing convictions!# “I have felt it was my duty to make known to the world these great truths it needs so much, and it does not concern me if it is possi"le for mankind to correctly o"serve them or not!#
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Samuel Hahnemann, *+rganon, /reface to the 1st edition, 1E1G.
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Samuel Hahnemann, *?nfermedades Crnicas, 5-ico ?d. /orr8a 1IIG, pages 26D26).
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7NT6OD#CT7ON The !irst $art o! this oo& %as %ritten in ho"age to ;a"uel Hahne"ann and his i"$osing %or&. Bts aim is to recover many discoveries and concepts of HomeopathyJs creator that were forgotten, others partly misunderstood or altered, and some scarcely ever put into practice. Bt also aims to present in an ordered and revealing se3uence the development of medical thought engendered by HahnemannJs uni3ue intelligence, whose legacy has not as yet given all its fruit. Bt is also a short narrative of how Homeopathy strayed from its path due to inevitable human passions up to a point of difficult return. The second $art o! the oo& is dedicated to all the chronically sic&= assuredly that on account o! the advances here noted= "any "ay reach their cure. 7t contains the advances reached in 2+ years o! laor in %hich clinics %as correlated to e>$eri"ental laoratory. (ith the convicion that #ruth has its own paths apart from human opinion, the findings and proofs here noted do not intend to convince anyone, as only facts illuminate truths. #hey are e-pressed with the hope they should be Kudged only by their clinical results. #his work was written hoping0
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to avoid the loss of these works arouse in other people passion to interrogate 4ature, stimulating new research that increase the great art of healing, “the most sacred vocation among all!, according to the words of the #eacher. The si> ne% i"$rove"ents in the treat"ent o! Chronic Diseases
ost of medical works e-clude going into the depth of the marvelous process of dynami'ation of homeopathic medicines, and above all the therapeutic significance of fundamental concepts therein implied, leaving a large conceptual vacuum. @ue to discoveries in /hysics after 4ewton, and with modern laboratory techni3ues, those investigations aim to fill out this most important void in the art of curing via energy. #his book, therefore, contributes in estalishing Magnitudes in ho"eo$athic "edicines, absent to date, and so necessary to evaluate and compare therapeutic results. Bt is also the medium to communicate the !inding o! the o$ti"al har"onic thera$eutic Balance et%een the t%o !unda"ental ho"eo$athic "agnitudes, which allows through continuous treatment, with ultiple @oses to cure severe and old Chronic @iseases, taking into account the best entryway, the most convenient fre3uency of doses and make prescribing an art, not a routine. Bn accordance with up to date /hysics, it brings a ne% understanding o! ho"eo$athic Dyna"i?ation= as %ell as the "edicine5s Energy @ield and the signi!icance o! its e>$ansion, which replaces the idea of simple dilution, which stops being an inactive agent and accessory and ac3uire an eminent dynamic power so fundamental as is friction. Bt is also the co""unication o! the creation o! the !irst alanced ho"eo$athic scale, that possesses the value of optimal alance in all their potencies and as a result has a penetration that allows to reach the necessary depth to cure embedded Chronic @iseases with ma-imum tolerance possible, if employed as art.
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#he fifth advancement that is e-pressed are the conditions to carry out continuous treat"ent throughout the years, convinced there is no method more efficient for the cure and prevention of Chronic @iseases. #he si-th and last breakthrough is the development of a ne% "ethod o! "edicinal i"$regnation %hich allo%s the treat"ent and cure o! highly hy$erreactive $atients. Finally, the second part of this book, the result of these years of research, is also meant to those doctors who follow this path opened by #he #eacher. ?ven today, to relate e-perimental laboratory to clinical observation opens wide territories that only wait to be e-plored, if the person who so does has a spirit devoid of preKudice as the * small child referred by #homas Hu-ley. 6
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PA6T 7 7n search o! the !orgotten Hahne"ann The eight o"itted conce$ts •
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The accu"ulative character o! !riction and deconcentration. The @unda"ental Disease or the lost clue. The ne% "edicinal entry%ays. Multi$le Doses. Discards ;ingle Dose. 6eects using the 8orsa&ov "ethod. Medicine in solution increasing degree of potency . Discards dry "edicine. Continuous treat"ent during "onths. Millesi"al scale.
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CHAPTE6 7 A it o! history. :eneral conce$ts. “Hippocrates, the sclepiade, says that &ature, including that of the "ody, may only "e understood as a whole!# */hedre =/lato>. “* do not undertake curing the "ody without the soul* The great mistake of our times in treating the human "ody is that doctors separate soul from "ody!# *Carmides =/lato>. #owards the middle of the B9 century .C., Hippocrates, one of the greatest doctors of the (est, considered diseases as natural and not divine, which brought about a deep revolution on account of its conse3uences0 “I shall discuss a disease called sacred L?pilepsy or Sacred aladyM. In my opinion, it is not more divine or sacred than other diseases, "ut has a natural cause and its supposed divine origin is due to man+s lack of e'perience and its peculiar character!# He also announced one of the principles he applied to his medical practice which was later e-tensively developed by homeopathy0 “By means of the like a disease is produced, and applying the like it is cured!# #his principle rediscovered after almost 2GGG years, at the beginnings of the year 1GG .C. by Swiss doctor and alchemist /hilipus ureolus #heophrastus ombastus von Hohenheim, selfNnamed /aracelsus =17I6N171> who formulated the atin adage si"ilia si"ilius curentur, which means The li&e is cured %ith the li&e, which later became HomeopathyJs motto. He averred0 “That which produces .aundice, also cures .aundice and all its varieties# /ikewise, the medicine that will cure paralysis must come from what caused it and in this manner we practice according to the method of curing "y arcane! #0 /aracelsus affirmed that medicinal action is hidden “in the interior of the her" and the mineral!, which he called “arcane or 1uintessence!, foreseeing the nature and characteristics of the dynami'ed medicine, though employing esoteric methods0 “rcane or 1uintessence is a things virtue at its highest potency# The dose of this medicine is so small and light as to "e un"elieva"le# It should only "e taken in wine or something similar and always in a minimum 1uantity, due to its heavenly power, its virtue and its efficacy!#2 He clearly stated that doctorJs work goes beyond diagnosis and t reatment0 “"ove all things mercy is most necessary, and must "e innate in a doctor# 3here love is lacking, there is no art!#4 #he same concept that Hippocrates had named Physis was later developed by the elgian doctor aptist van Helmont =1EN1)77> who called it ital Princi$le, stating0 7
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“* governs the organism and may also sicken it!# #he idea that ital Princi$le, as the sole capability to autoregulation and conservation, considering the organism as the best therapeutic agent was e-tended by &erman doctor &eorg ?rnst Stahl =1)IN167> who said0 “The simple truth is that man has the doctor in himself, that &ature is the doctor of diseases and offers the "est ways to cure them than the most successful resources of our art!# Bn 11, Swiss physiologist lbrecht von Haller announced another fundamental pharmacological principle that hadnJt to date been developed as a system0 medicines must "e tested in healthy "odies without having "een mi'ed! .I ater, /aul "oseph arthe', French doctor, consultant to 4apoleon =167N1EG)>, who gave the concept of ital Princi$le its due, as he considered a disease as an alteration of said principle and proposed the practical rudiments of the 9a% o! ;i"ilarity= or Cure, averring that the doctor should base his treatment on “indications! he receives from the disease0 if the patient has nausea, an emetic must be given, if he has colics, then e purgative, that is its alike. t last, in 1I), &erman born doctor Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann =1N 1E76>, who was then 71 years old, and was little known published in HufelandJs newspaper an e-tensive paper, the result of si- years of e-perimenting, titled0 *ssay on a new principle to discover the curative power of medicinal substances, in which he registered symptoms produced by many substances, which at the same time were capable of curing those same symptoms in a patient. He announced in this publication the fundamental 9a% o! ;i"ilarity or Cure in the following terms0 “To cure radically certain 5hronic 6iseases we must find medicines that produce a similar disease in the human "ody!# #hus, Homeopathy was born in 1I), though conceived si- years previously. Hahnemann repelled the conKectural vision of the older medicine because he understood it went against the scientific method sustained by systematic e-perimentation he was imprinting on the new science0 “I will not remem"er here the madness of those old doctors who "ased curative 1ualities of medicinal drugs "y their shape and colour, that is "y the doctrine of the signs7 who "elieved orchis cured se'ual weakness "ecause its roots have two "ul"s grossly resem"ling testicles7 the pumpkin should "e of use in .aundice "ecause it is yellow7 Hypericum flowers efficacious in wounds "ecause they produce a red .uice, etc* I set aside all this childishness even though they are present in recent medical materia . 1G ccording to Hahnemann, the doctor must interrogate 4ature, observing in himself and in other healthy e-perimentalists symptoms that each sole substance produces in tests, as they are the same that cure the ill patient. Having drafted0 the aw of Similarity or Cure, e-perimentation of single medicines in healthy men as a way to know their curative capability, and the e-istence of the 9ital Force, Hahnemann proved that it is possible to stimulate it by means of the method of @ynami'ation of medicinal substances.
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He called 9ital Force what today we may understand as iologic ?nergy, especially based on the gigantic developments in /hysics, this is why it shall be e-pressed from now on with a more modern title. #his *vitalism has no relation with that which affirmed that living matter obeyed different natural laws that ruled over inert matter, which was practically discarded by the end of the 1Ith century. t present, *vitalism in homeopathy recogni'es in living beings the e-istence of a Biologic Energy that0
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Con!ers the" ne% a$titudes in each level o! integration =the new aptitudes are not e-plained by the sum that belong to the integrated parts>.
7ts !inal oect is the e>$ansion o! li!e= and its e>tinction $rovo&es the end o! all organi?ed iologic syste". At the sa"e ti"e= constitutes the only di!!erence et%een a live eing and a cor$se. #herefore, iologic ?nergy0 • • •
constitutes health= i! it is in alance= constitutes disease= %hen not in alance= constitutes the "ost $o%er!ul healing !orce e>tant %hen sti"ulated y a si"ilar dyna"i?ed "edicine= in order to recover its o%n order.
Bn short, e-cluding epidemic diseases, a disease is not an entity that attac&s the organis" !ro" %ith4out= ut it is the sa"e $erson a!!licted. S'ent &y!rgyi, 4obel pri'e in Chemistry, said0 “8y career has "een like a descent from the highest dimensions to the smallest dimensions with the desire to understand what life is# In this way I passed from animals to cells, from cells to "acteriae, from "acteriae to molecules and from molecules to electrons# The irony of this story is that molecules and electrons precisely have no life# nd here am I from now on o"liged to retrace my steps to clim" the stairs again, which I descended with great effort!# #his perple-ity and disappointment is the outcome of searching for a material and visible structure that distinguishes living beings from unanimated entities, when there is only pure iologic ?nergy that impregnates all. We recogni?e it %hen y its $o%er a deter"ined level o! co"$le>ity is reached= that sel!4regulates and re$roduces= ut %e in!er its $resence in the de$th o! the "ost "inute and unani"ated $article. Claude ernard, father of physiology, testified on this iologic ?nergy or “pree'isting law! that organi'es, puts in order and harmoni'es the organism, when he affirms0
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“* Lthe processesM are su".ect and follow one another, according to a pree'isting law9 they repeat in order, regularity and constancy and harmoni:e in such a manner that they create the organi:ing and development of the individual!# oreover, ?rwin Schr!dinger , 4obel pri'e of /hysics =1I66> admitted that0 *O we cannot e-pect that the *aws of /hysicsO are sufficient to e-plain the behavior of the live matter. 12 Bt is noteworthy that Biologic Energy is $roved not only y ho"eo$athic $ractice= ut also y allo$athy= %hen it "ani!ests this energy in so"e organs= as %hen $er!or"ing an Electroence$halogra"= an Electrocardiogra"= or an Electro"iogra"= even though !acing such evidence= allo$athy does not recogni?e it as a general iologic energy= nor does it e"$loy it as a healing "ediu". 16 Hahnemann completed the new medical system formulating another great homeopathic principle0 The Doctrine o! the Chronic Mias"as, particularly that of Psora, which turn out to be indispensable to cure Chronic @iseases. lthough iologic ?nergy and the aw of Cure or Similarity and e-perimentation with single medicines in healthy individuals had already been drafted, when dynami'ation of the substances and the doctrine of a sole chronic disease or /sora =e-cluding venereal diseases> were added, Hahnemann developed these four notions, taking them to a level of therapeutic system, and established doctrinary norms to employ them in the practice of a true healing method. He achieved the "arvelous result o! converting Biological Energy sti"ulated y dyna"i?ed "edicine in the greatest curative !orce &no%n. ll these concepts, systemati'ed and developed, gave birth to a 4ew edical Science0 Homeopathy, based on four fundamental pillars0 1. Ac&no%ledge"ent o! the e>istence o! a Biological Energy %hich and "aintains the organis" as a unit= giving it ada$taility.
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@isease as an unbalance of this ?nergy. Signs and symptoms as an e-pression of its suffering. esions as its conse3uence. 2. Possiility o! sti"ulating Biologic Energy y "eans o! Dyna"i?ation o! "edical sustances= ased on successive @riction and Deconcentration. ?ach one of them becoming dynami'ed medicine and this, employed alone, without mi-tures, constitutes a stimulus which bestows that ?nergy its own direction towards health. 6. 9a% o! Cure or ;i"ilarity= y %hich Nature is interrogated y e>$eri"entation %ith single "edicines ad"inistered to healthy hu"an eings= in %ho" they $roduce sy"$to"s= %hich in the ill "ay e cured y those sa"e dyna"i?ed "edicines. 7. E>istence o! a ;ingle Chronic Disease e>cluding venereal diseasesF that lies at the otto" o! chronic su!!erings, and which must be treated to reach a stable cure. Facing each non venereal clinical chronic state, the doctor should bear in mind he is facing only a fragment of that Basic Disease o! Man&ind= or Psora, and to cure each one of those fragments called Chronic @iseases he must employ those remedies which their nature have the power to reach the utmost curative depth, and these are the Anti$sorics.
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?mploying A$soric remedies, which lack power in dealing with Chronic @iseases, only changes the mask with which this @unda"ental 7llness e-hibits, cure is not achieved, although they may cure acute diseases. He maintained that to provide stability to the cure of all chronic diseases =non venereal>, before, during or at the end of treatment with Anti$sorics= ;ul$hur must be employed, as it is the remedy that cures this @unda"ental Disease, as in his research he proved that its symptoms coincided with those that this dynami'ed agent produced in healthy e-perimenters. Dyna"i?ation o! sustances allowed the ama'ing achievement of stimulating iologic ?nergy, and the idea of Chronic @iseases as a sole disease, which he called Psora =e-cluding venereal diseases>, are discoveries that have no previous recordings and belong to HahnemannJs intelligence, to whom mankind is indebted in gratitude.
9a% o! Har"ony #he aws of 4ature that have been formulated are in accordance with another one which was developing in the medical mind throughout time and states0 “There is no disease against which a remedy that cures it hasnt "een created and discovered#!$ nalogically0 “;or each particular disease, for each peculiar structure, there are particular remedies directly effective*!#$#his noteworthy 9a% o! Har"ony, not formulated as such to date, but true nevertheless, may be formulated thus0 There is no anarchy or chaos in eco"ing ill= one gets ill in a %ay that there is al%ays in Nature a sustance that %hen dyna"i?ed and chosen y si"ilarity is ca$ale o! curing.
The o"itted clues “That which we already know, fre1uently stops us from learning!# Claude ernard. Bt is ama'ing that the homeopathic medical world hasnJt incorporated all the discoveries the creator of homeopathy had made in his last 1 years of life, which are of e-ceptional richness in treating Chronic @iseases. Bt is surprising that these revelations of this uni3ue genius of medical science should be wasted when precisely severe Chronic @iseases a re impinging on mankind as never before. #his phenomenon may be e-plained in many ways, but the bitter fact is that this veritable treasure for our well being remains almost unknown. Bt is therefore necessary to rescue it and then direct our steps beyond Hahnemann, following its own path.
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His life was long and fruitful N as the epitaph he chose for himself describes it0 “I havent lived in vain! N, the complete e-ploring of his discoveries will re3uire many lucid minds and a lot of time. Bn the words of @r. Carlos . &utierre', .@., “Hahnemann is still too modern to be fully understood”. +nly by impassioned research and unpreKudiced thought this sacred work of human knowledge may continue being built, that is to say0 &no%ledge to cure.
;u"ary o! Hahne"ann5s "onu"ental %or&. Bn the 7 years that elapsed since HomeopathyJs birth =1I)> to HahnemannJs death =1E76>, two evolutive periods may be recogni'edR in the former, bases were settled for the new science, in the latter, its development and culmination.
Bases o! the Ne% ;cience #he first evolutive period spanned 62 years from 1I) to 1E2 included, and its five landmarks are0 203(. 9a% o! Cure= published that year, yet conceived in 1IG. 2033. Dyna"i?ation o! ;ustances , discovered that year and e-posed in 1EG1. 2)2. Ho"eo$athic Doctrine, developed in Organon, with three editions, until 1E2. 2)22.
Materia MGdica Pura, in which up to 1E2 he studied E6 medicines, of 111 he e-perimented during his life.
2)2(. Method to Pre$are Ho"eo$athic Medicines. First scale0 Centesi"al.
Develo$"ent and cul"ination o! the Ne% ;cience #he second evolutive period spanned the last 1 years of his life, from 1E2E to 1E76, and brought about seven fundamental advances0 2)-).
Doctrine o! Chronic Mias"as or “the lost clue”, developed in his work Chronic Diseases= particularly that of Psora= foreseen in 1E1). The i"$ortance o! Anti$sorics. Mias"atic Prescri$tion.
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Discovery o! Ne% 6outes !or the Ad"inistration o! Medicines. 7nhalatory and Percutaneous.
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CHAPTE6 77 The ases o! the Ne% ;cience 2. / 203(. 9a% o! Cure. “That which produces illness, cures#! @elphic +racle Bn 1IG, while translating the chapter on Iuina in CullenJs ateria edica, Hahnemann suspected that this, as other substances that produce fever =strong coffee, pepper, arnica, Saint BgnatiusJ bean, arsenic>, would neutrali'e intermittent fever, and to prove it he took four drachma =apro-. 6.) mgs.> of Iuina twice a day for a few days. He wrote down his e-perience as follows0 “* my feet and fingertips got cold7 I "egan to feel weak and sleepy7 later my heart "egan to palpitate, my pulse "ecame hard and fast7 intolera"le an'iety and trem"ling7 lassitude of the lim"s7 afterwards thro"s in the head, redness of cheeks, thirst9 "riefly all the symptoms associated ha"itually with intermittent fever appeared in succession# * In "rief9 all those symptoms which for me are typical of intermittent fever cropped up, such as sensorial dullness, rigidity of all the .oints, "ut a"ove all drowsiness, disagreea"le sensation that seemed to "e seated in the periosteum of all the "ones of the "ody# These paro'ysms lasted two or three hours each time and reappeared when I repeated the dose and in no other instance# “I suspended the medicine and once again I was in good health! #$0 ased on this e-perience, he supposed that the /eruvian bark, employed as a medicine for intermittent fever, acts because it produces similar symptoms to those of intermittent fever in healthy persons. Bn 1I), after e-perimenting with several substances, he confirmed the aforesaid hypothesis and officially gave birth to Homeopathy in an e-tense paper called *?ssay on a new principle to discover the healing power of medicinal substances.1 s an outcome of this e-traordinary work, product of si- years of proof, Hahnemann had no doubts that an illness was cured by producing symptoms similar to it, and in this sense, said0 “In my addenda to 5ullens 8ateria 8edica L1IGM I had o"served that the "ark Lfrom 3uinaM given in high doses to sensitive "ut healthy individuals, produces a true fever attack, very similar to that of intermittent fever and for that reason pro"a"ly surpassed it and therefore cured it# &ow after mellowing e'periences, I add, not only pro"a"ly "ut with a"solute certainty! =underlined in the original>. Bn this mentioned work =1I)> he e-pounded concepts which constitute the bases of a new curing system and are0 N
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“In order to cure certain 5hronic 6iseases radically, we must search for medicines that can stimulate a similar disease (when more similar, the "etter) in the human "ody!# From the discovery and proof of these concepts, the doors to an e-traordinary new medical science were thrown open for Hahnemann. He was then 71 years old. -. 4 2033. Dyna"i?ation o! ;ustances. “ll the countless diseases "egin in the energy# The moment that there is an un"alance in the energy, any disease may crop up!# Classic by the Tellow ?mperor, 2GG .C. “ purely inert matter, a totally gross matter does not e'ist# ll element of the %niverse contains in a more or less infinitesimal degree, some germ of interiorness and of spontaneity, that is to say of conscience!# #heillard de Chardin, *9ision of the past. Up to 1IE, Hahnemann employed the medicine as was current in his time, that is employing "assive doses. Bn the following e-amples, the daily 3uantities recommended by him, reached to 2.7EG milligrams. 1I) For @ysentery child =I months> child =7 years> child =) to years>
%4BC 2 to ) grains daily. 7 to I grains daily. ) to 12 grains daily.
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9?%#%U U 6 grains daily during one month.
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For /ainful owels
9?%#%U U 7 grains daily.
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4#B+4BU submuriate0 V grain daily. 4UW 9+BC0 E grains daily. 1IE B&4#B0 E grains daily in adults. C+//?% sulphate0 V grain daily. +/BU0 X grain daily in adults. ?@U0 1E to 21 grains daily. C4/H+%0 1 to 7G grains daily. CHB40 X to 1 drachma =6.) mg>. ?ach 4Yremberg grain, ancient weight employed by Hahnemann, was e3uivalent to the weight of a fat grain of wheat i.e.0 G,G)2 grams or )2 milligrams =see &lossary>, that is to
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say that doses were easily measured, but in 1II he decided to e-periment and reach the final limit0 !ind the s"allest use!ul dose, in order to avoid to-icity. s the minute 3uantities he intended to employ could not be accurately weighed on his scales, he decided to dilute them in water and later fraction them, and aiming to homogeni'e these progressively smaller 3uantities in solution, he applied prolonged shakes to it during one, three, and up to five minutes in each of the s uccessive steps of dilution. ut as the medicine so prepared continued to produce e-cessive effects, he diluted progressively reaching high deconcentrations, a procedure he had to repeat several times until achieving the desired effect0 mild responses and at the same time curative. esides the innumerable accumulated shakings, the dilutions he achieved in 1II are unbelievable for many, although low for present homeopathy. #herefore y chance he interrelated t%o $rocesses that are @riction and Deconcentration= in successive ste$s= $roducing a $heno"enon o! energetic i"$regnation un&no%n at the ti"e= and even no% not !ully understood= %hich he na"ed Dyna"i?ation o! ;ustances. ut what distinguishes genius is the ability to see. Hahnemann knew he was facing a phenomenon that was lying dormant and had enormous therapeutic possibilities, as it awakened in the substances astounding medicinal properties. #he necessity of fractioning imponderable 3uantities made him dilute solutions, while the need to make them homogenous took him to apply many shakings. #hus, the succession of dilutions and shakings awakened a dormant capacity of 4ature. There!ore= a!ter only one year o! using "assive doses= !or the !irst ti"e and in a sudden "anner the doses he reco""ended acJuired an astounding in!initesi"ality. Bn his paper *Concerning the cure and prevention of Scarlet Fever, published in 1EG1 but related to his e-periences of 1II, that is only one year after employing massive doses, Hahnemann recommended amounts to which the present homeopaths are accustomed0 For Scarlet Fever0 +/BU For a child 7 years old0 1 drop of the fivemilli onth part of 1 grain. =+ne year previously, the recommended dose was 1D of a grain>. lso for Scarlet Fever0 B/?CCU4H Small child0 2,GGG th part of one grain. =one year previously, the recommended dose was grains>. For the 1st stage of Scarlet Fever0 ?@+44 #he 762,GGGth part of 1 grain =intermediate between the 2 nd and 6 rd centesimal>. For /ost Scarlet Fever sufferings0 CH+B. Small child0 one drop of the EGG,GGG th part of 1 grain.1E 7"$erce$tily= Hahne"ann crossed a !rontier= and $enetrated all o! a sudden in the vast !ield o! dyna"i?ed sustances. Bn another essay of the same year =1EG1> and as a nearly hidden definition in a paragraph unnoticed by many, Hahnemann said0
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@udgeon, %.?. *ectures on the theory and practice of homeopathy. ecture WB9, 4ew @elhi, ?d. . "ain, 2GG2, page 6I2 and foll.
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“* medicine does not act atomically "ut only dynamically* 1I So, after only two years he understood the e-traordinary phenomenum discovered by him which constitutes one of the cornerstones of the new medical science, to wit0 ;ustances $re$ared y a ho"eo$athic "ethod= and y e"$loying @riction and Deconcentration successively= do not act atomically in the Che"ical !ield= that is on the extent of their physical surfaces = ut in the Physics !ield dynamically= or y "eans o! their energy. Habitually the tendency is to deny what is not known, therefore one does not easily admit the e-istence of something whose nature is new, and more so if it is related to the 3uotidian. Contemporary doctors to Hahnemann did not understand the astounding emergence of a powerful energy of the substances subKected to the homeopathic method, and reKected what Hahnemann called “the ama:ing development of some dynamic energy! in the medicine. #here even were homeopathic doctors who cured precisely by that energy while denying its e-istence, as did @r. %obert ?llis @udgeon, who was the best translator of his work into ?nglish. 4evertheless, this dynamic state of the medicine places it on the same energetic plane as that of iologic ?nergy, which is evident by its capacity to produce an illness similar to the natural one and even stronger than it, and this in turn makes the cure possible. There!ore= Dyna"i?ation o! ;ustances %as orn in 2033= $roaly the "ost e>traordinary $heno"enon that u$holds Ho"eo$athy and %hich %ithout it nothing %ould have een $ossile= as it converted the ho"eo$athic "edicine into an energy ale to cure y "eans o! sti"ulating hu"an Biological Energy. 7n this %ay= !or the !irst ti"e= hu"anity had at its dis$osal the !or"idale $o%er to cure y "eans o! energy. Hahne"ann clearly understood he %as !acing “an amazing development of some dynamic energy” in the "edicine “3hen one prepares a homeopathic medicine one does not limit oneself to dilute a small amount of medicine in a huge amount of fluid and mi' it, at least lightly# =n the contrary, shaking is necessary, whose ru""ing makes the mi'ture more "inding7 what is more and is the main point, the outcome is an amazing change, the nature of which is to date unknown, in the development of some dynamic energy of the medicinal substance, subjected to this process”.! #his fantastic finding was being ratified as time passed, and a few years later he proved that non medicinal substances, in their natural state, such as marine salt, coal, lycopodium, gold, silicon, lye and others, by means of this method of preparation turned into powerful remedies, and also risky poisons lost their dangerousness and took on e-traordinary curative capacities. Bn 1E17, on account of the e-perience obtained in eip'ig from the typhus epidemic, brought about by the retreat of the 4apoleonic army from %ussia, Hahnemann had no doubts that “a dynamic energy! lies in a homeopathic medicine. From then on he defined these medicines as “potencies!.21 1I
S. Hahnemann, *esser writings. +n the power of small doses of medicine in general, 4ew @elhi, ?d. . "ain, 1IIG, page 6E. 2G S. HahnemannR *+rganon, 7th edition, reproduced in *?studios de edicina HomeopAtica, first series, page , 3uoted by @. @emar3ue in *Homeopat:a medicina de la e-periencia, e-ico, ?d. /ropulsora de homeopatia, 1IE, page 627. 21 %. Haehl. *S. Hahnemann, his life and work, 4ew @elhi, ?d. . "ain 1II2, 9ol B, page 61.
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Hahnemann capped the development of this unknown fact in the long note on the 11 th paragraph of the )th edition of +rganon =1E72>0 “These medicines act upon our state of health* without transmitting material particles from them, in a dynamic way* It is not in the material atoms of these highly dynami:ed medicines, nor in the e'tent of their physical surfaces * where the medicinal energy under an invisi"le form resides# =n the contrary, on every small impregnated glo"ule or in its solution, lies a medicinal force now "are, freed, specific * and which acts with more force, the freer and more immaterial the energy has "ecome, due to dynami:ation!# critical argument towards Homeopathy says that due to the lack of molecules, high dynami'ations cannot have medicinal activity0 *a medicine without medicine. #his reasoning ignores that successive @riction and Deconcentration generate a $heno"enon o! energetic i"$regnation o! the sustances= which was already noted by Hahnemann0 6aily we hear that the homeopathic medicinal potencies are referred to as mere dilutions, "ut in fact, they are the opposite9 it is a real dissociation of the natural su"stance from which surge and reveal the hidden specific medicinal powers contained in its interior, made manifest "y ru""ing and shaking# The aid of a selected non medicinal attenuating medium is merely a secondary condition# The simple dilution, as the solution of a grain of salt in a"undant water, makes the grain of salt disappear in it, "ut it will never turn it into medicinal salt, which "y means of our well prepared dynami:ations gets to develop a marvelous power!# lso, too fre3uently, emphasis is put on that infinitesimal doses is what distinguishes Homeopathy from llopathy, whereas the difference lies in the dynami'ed state of the substances and not in their minuteness. The clue is the dyna"is" or energy o! the ho"eo$athic "edicine= and not its in!initesi"ality= as it is due to this dyna"is" that it is ale to sti"ulate Biologic Energy= %hile Allo$athic "edicines do not have this ca$aility. #he former ac3uire the capacity to stimulate iologic ?nergy making it the therapeutic agent while the non dynami'ed medicine does not put into motion the biggest curative force known because it lacks this capacity. Bn short0 7n Allo$athy "edicines act u$on certain tissues= %hereas in Ho"eo$athy they act u$on the Biologic Energy= sti"ulating it= in order that it e the "eans o! curing the %hole syste". #o 3uote ".#.$ent0 “Homeopathy acts in the world of causes, llopathy in t he world of effects!# Bn reference to the notable activity of the dynami'ed medicine upon the iologic ?nergy of the sick man, it must be said that when this energy is ill, due to the state of unbalance, it has an ama'ing avidity for the energy of the dynami'ed medicine that cures it by similarity. #his avidity is called sensitivity. ikewise in reference to that avidity /aracelsus said “illness wants the medicine that cures it like man wants woman!.
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#he particular sensitivity of the organism facing the dynami'ed similar medicine had been pointed out by Hahnemann in 1EG1, in his essay *+n the power of small doses in general and of elladonna in particular, where in bold lettering noted that high doses are habitually inactive in a husky farm hand, and minute doses of identical medicine, in the same but sick man, may produce violent reactions if they are administered diluted in a great volume of water, at short intervals and shaking them for a long ti me. Bt may be concluded that the dyna"is" or energy o! the ho"eo$athic "edicine= as the dyna"is" that governs the organis" or Biologic Energy are o! the sa"e nature= then oth energies "ay interact. This analogous nature is de"onstrated y the ca$acity that the "edicine5s energy has to $rovo&e an illness si"ilar and even stronger than the natural one= as has been mentioned. #he ill iologic ?nergy reaches its e3uilibrium or cure only by the stimulus given by the energy of the same type of the homeopathic medicine, thus placing homeopathic medicine in a dynamic field to which allopathic medicine does not accede. His unpreKudiced lucid mind allowed him to discover this energetic character and reveal he was facing an unknown phenomenon of gigantic curative capacity. *. 2)2. The Ho"eo$athic Doctrine. Organon Bn 1EG, Hahnemann published his e-traordinary treatise *edicine of ?-perience, which was the matri- on which he based his doctrinaire masterpiece0 *+rganon. conceptual summary of the first book allows us t o discover the kernel of the doctrine0 Certain acute contagious diseases, such as rabies, pest, yellow fever, smallpomeasles, as they have the same origin, always preserve the same character and course. Bndividual names may be given to them, and if one medicine cures one of them, it will always cure the same ones, as their symptoms are invariably the same. 26 LBt may be said that in the acute contagious diseases, that always preserve the same character and course, one chooses the medicine of the diseaseM •
Chronic @iseases are always different to one another and in every individual, they may not carry individual names, their symptoms are all different, therefore their medicines must be chosen for their own symptoms and especially if they are peculiar.27 LBt may be said that in Chronic @iseases, as they have character and course according to each individual, one chooses the medicine of the patientM. •
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/resents symptoms are the means by which illness e-presses itself and all the reason why the medicine must be chosen for the acute as well as for the chronic diseases.
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Bf two diseases of di!!erent character appear simultaneously, the weakest is te"$orarily suspended by the strongest. (hen the latter ends, the weakest reappears.
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Bf two diseases of a very si"ilar character appear at the same time, the weakest is de!initely e-tinguished by the strongest.
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@iseases of parts of the body do not e-ist, the whole body participates.
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ll dynami'ed medicinal substance by itself =without mi-ing> produces in the healthy human being its own unnatural specific disease, always the same and by this fact may cure, if it is similar to the natural disease.
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edicines should be tested on the healthy human being and without mi-ing.
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Bn pathogenetic tests weak medicines have no effect on all healthy people, and yet they do on all persons when ill.
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He 3uotes HippocratesJ notable ma-im0 “By means of the similar illness is produced, and applying the similar it is cured!#
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ention of usefulness of any route of administration0 oral, anal, percutaneous and inhalatory.
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Five years later, in 1E1G, he published the 1 st edition of *+rganon, when he established that only e-perimentation is the bases of Homeopathy0 “In the course of these investigations I discovered the path of truth, a path I intuited I had to follow alone and very far from the great route followed "y the traditional medical world!# “The more I advanced from truth to truth, the more my conclusions went further and further from the old system, which having "een "uilt on the outside of common sense, was sustained only "y con.ectures7 therefore I did not allow myself to announce even one conclusion unless it were totally confirmed "y e'perimentation*! “The results of these convictions are written down in this "ook!.2
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Note%orthy conce$ts o! each editions o! Organon2) B4 #H? 1S# ?@B#B+4 =1E1G> Hahnemann developed the aw of Cure via the similar medicine, he noted the importance of symptoms and promoted the use of 4atureJs substances, even the to-ic ones. #hough he recommended the use of small amounts of medicine, he did not specify the e-act dose for each of these to-ic substances, he was then violently critici'ed. For having employed minute doses he was accused of bad faith and ignorance, therefore Homeopathy was reKected in toto and was not understood by the most eminent doctors of the time. Bn spite of these attacks, Hahnemann had understood, nine years previously =*bout the cure and prevention of Scarlet Fever Z 1EG1> that by the homeopathic method of preparing, medicinal activity was “dynamic!, that is, of an energetic 3uality very different to the current allopathic medicines. B4 #H? 2 4@ ?@B#B+4 =1E1I>, Hahnemann suppressed paragraphs referring to the usefulness of some slight into-ications when thes e have similar symptoms to the disease t o cure, as those produced by . He also eliminated paragraphs referring to the employment of multiple doses in favor of the single dose, though this practice was reverted at the end of his life =1E62>. Bn this edition, he also pointed out as very convenient that the doctor test the medicines on himself, as it is “the source of true wisdom!# #his recommendation was repeated up to the last edition =paragraph 171 and its note>. B4 #H? 6%@ ?@B#B+4 =1E27>, he incorporated animal magnetism or esmerism as a theme, which he maintained up to the last editi on. B4 #H? 7 #H ?@B#B+4 =1E2I>, *+rganon had already doubled the number of pages of the 1st edition. Chronic diseases were included for the first time0 $sora= sycosis and sy$hilis, and the need to treat them only with antimiasmatic medicines, pointing out particularly to anti$sorics, in accordance with conclusions reached after 12 years of reflecting and e-perimenting, which he had published in *Chronic @iseases the previous year. Bt must be noted that a$soric medicines may cure acute diseases, though they cannot cure psora. For very old and entrenched diseases he promoted the percutaneous route, by friction on healthy skin, as a means to enter the body by the medicine, and not as a local treat ment. He enthusiastically advised on the use of the inhalatory route, and pointed out the small probability of causing a worsening of the condition, without losing depth of action. He began to refer to a “"ital #aculty” = gross and not intelligent that acts as a curative force.
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B4 #H? #H ?@B#B+4 =1E66>, he denied that illness be a different entity from the disordered 9ital Force. He 3ualified this 9ital Force as dynamic =?nergy> and maintained that it could only be put into order as a conse3uence from the stimulus given by medicinal dynamism, as a result from the homeopathic method of preparing medicines. #herefore, he pointed out that e-periments should be carried out with dynami'ed medicines and not with untreated ones. He stated that potency 6G of the Centesimal scale was the most appropriate for these e-periments. He e-plained the techni3ue to prepare the medicines for the Centesimal scale, which was previously published for the first time in the Chapter rsenicum lbum of the 2 nd volume of ateria edica /ura =1E1)>. #H? )#H ?@B#B+4 FB4BSH?@ B4 1E72, one year before HahnemannJs death, and published in 1I21, contains fundamental notions and even astounding innovations made at the end of his life. Bn it he developed a ne% scale to be able to accede to the highest dynami'ation of homeopathic medicines. #he Millesi"al scale =or fifty millesimal> as the Centesimal, starts from the first three traditional triturations, that is to say from the millionth, to reach the e-traordinary deconcentration of 1G\ 17, and the accumulated sum of 6,GGG succussions in its last potency, and it is by means of this tool one may accede to the cure of the deepest of Chronic @iseases. “fter many la"orious e'periments and countere'periments I have found that the activity of the preparation thus achieved shows its ma'imum power and utmost gentleness, i#e#9 it is the most perfected!.2 Bn the )th edtion, the norms for preparing and employing medicines according to the illesimal scale =paragraph 2G> are totally new, as the instructions in the th edition refer to the Centesimal scale. /ierre Schmidt summari'ed “the hidden treasures of the last “=rganon! as follows0
Bn the illesimal scale one should start from the traditional first three triturations, i.e.0 from the millionth. /reparing must be carried out in multiple flasks, reKecting the single flask system of $orsakov, who knew about it from 1E2I, that is 16 years previously. edicine should be given in a solution. #he “degree of potency! must be increased with the globule diluted in a great amount of water succussioning previously to every intake or dose.
/otencies must be given in dynami'ations of ascending progression.
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Continued stating that in taking the case, all the symptoms present must be considered, and particularly the peculiar ones. He continued promoting the Bnhalatory %oute, and the /ercutaneous %oute, pointing out their advantages, as he had been doing since the 7 th edition of *+rganon =1E2I>. He de!initely estalished the e"$loy"ent o! the single "edicine in $aragra$h -0*= Juali!ying as “inadmissible” the ad"inistration o! "ore than one "edicinal sustance at a ti"e= reecting %ithout dout the so called $luricist= co"$le>ist= drainage= alternative ho"eo$athies and others not ased on the single "edicine.
Bn this last edition Hahnemann warned of the danger of dynami'ing machines that were then beginning to be designed, which after the millionth re3uire flouting the rules, with the aim that the medicine be manufactured only in a fluid. The Millesi"al scale has a !luid $hase and a dry $hase in each $otency= and does not allo% the "anu!acture o! "edicine e"$loying these dyna"i?ing "achines= unless the conditions o! $re$aration are altered. Bn shortR the Centesimal scale and the illesimal scale must be prepared in several flasks and manually. #he other most important innovation appeared from the discovery o! the reJuisites that allo% a continual treat"ent !or "onths, indispensable to cure old and severest Chronic @iseases, which Hahnemann employed for some years previously, and will be developed later in this work, in the chapter *#he Continual #reatment.
The story ehind the (th edition o! Organon. ll events have more than one interpretationR this is crystal clear in the history of the definite *+rganon, finished by Hahnemann shortly before dying, though he did not get to publish it. His widow, marchioness elanie dJHervilly, who was 77 years younger than her husband, after his death, refused to publish the work, in spite of !nninghausenJs repeated insistence to do so. He was the other person who knew about its e-istence. HahnemannJs last discovery annotated in this work was the illesimal scale, described as “that of ma'imum potency, the most gentle, and the most perfected! . !nninghausen knew about it, and had tested it with success, with the understanding of not making it known before its publishing, which was postponed due to the FrancoN/russian war. Finally, elanie Hahnemann put the manuscript up for sale, but the price tag she put on it was so high that those interested in it could not raise the money to buy it. Bn 1EEG, a little after elanieJs death, Hering, a pupil of Hahnemann, and father of Homeopathy in the United States of merica, in a new attempt, could not obtain by subscription among his colleagues the re3uired sum the heirs asked for. eanwhile, due to the need to reach high dyami'ations by homeopaths and not knowing the norms established by Hahnemann to achieve them, on account of elanieJs decision, Ho"eo$athy veered its course to a point of difficult return. #hus, methods were introduced for the making of medicines which Hahnemann tried to avoid, such as0 •
$orsakovJs method of the single flask, which produces erratic deconcentrations.
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#he enormous mistake of arbitrarily producing an e-aggerated number of succusions to each potency Z 2GG and up to 6GG per potency, in dynami'ers currently in use.
s a conse3uence of this anarchy, the violent aggravations that were produced have hampered the cure of many patients and at the same t ime helped to discredit Homeopathy. t last, after the ending of (orld (ar B, thanks to the efforts and generosity of @rs. (illiam oericke, (illis (ard and %ichard Haehl, the manuscript of the last edition of *+rganon was purchased =1I2G> and was published in &erman and ?nglish, in 1I21 and 1I22 respectively, after being almost lost for I years. #his purchase included HahnemannJs mail, made up of appro-imately GGG sent and received letters, and nearly all of his clinical histories, from 1EG1 to 1E76, in 7 large volumes, at present they are being studied and translated at the %obert osch Bnstitute for the History of edicine, Stuttgart, &ermany. (hen the legacy saw the light, the development of the illesimal scale could be fully appreciated, is was also the solution given by Hahnemann to accede to high dynami'ations without using $orsakovJs method of the single flask, nor the dynami'ers that use this method, their errors were already noted. Bn the )th edition of *+rganon, he annotated the discovery of the illesimal scale, but the unfortunate delay in its publishing, brought about by elanieJs refusal to do so, veered HomeopathyJs route, though as to balance this deed, it was precisely she, whom Hahnemann called “my girl! the person who gave him those eight years of happiness during which he could conceive that finding. Hahnemann died at daybreak on "uly 2, 1E76, and elanie retained the body of her husband for nine days, finally it was buried in the ontmatre Cemetery. Some time later his remains were taken to /[re achaise Cemetery, and on opening the coffin it was noted his head rested on elanieJs tresses. 1. / 2)22. Materia Medica Pura ateria edica was published in si- volumes, from 1E11 to 1E21, during the 4apoleonic (ars. Bn that period, specifically from +ctober 1) to +ctober 1I, 1E16, while Hahnemann was trying to register the action of the drugs, e-clusively by e-perimenting, the booming of cannon from the outskirts of eip'ig reached his home. 2I Hahnemann critici'ed ateria edica lopatica of his time in0 *?-amination of the sources of ordinary materia medica, 1E1, where he pointed out that the main source of knowledge of the drugJs activity was conKecture and not e-perimentation. +n the other hand, registers of the effect of drugs in the human body, in cases of accidental poisoning or suicide, were incomplete and of massive doses, which only gave an appro-imate idea of their curing power. @uring the current clinical use of medicines in treating the ill, to be able to separate the diseaseJs symptoms from those produced by the administered drugs, was uncertain. 2I
%. Haehl. *S. Hahnemann, his life and work, 4ew @elhi, ?d. . "ain, 9ol. 1, page 1G6.
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ll of this convinced him of the truth asserted by the great Swiss physiologist lbrecht von Haller, that drugs should be tested on healthy persons, and one at a time =not mi-ed>. #herefore, HahnemannJs aim was the immense and formidable task of creating a new materia medica, which he called ateria edica /ura, determining with methodic seriousness the action of each drug on himself, his family and his pupils, a task that nearly surpasses the length of one human life. #hese e-periments on his own body gave him an intimate perception of the *spirit of each substance, and for this reason he insisted that every doctor should e-periment on himself. Bn this manner he studied till the end of his life 111 substances that form the basis on which homeopaths of all the world work by. Since then not many drugs were e-perimented methodically and systematically to be added to Hahnemann and his pupilsJ work. 4umerous e-periments carried out after his death, e-cluding e-ceptions, were not wholly systematic, incomplete, and in many cases thwarted the knowledge of the curing capacity of these drugs. Bn the th edition of *+rganon =1E66> he pointed out that illness =disordered vital force> and the medicine, are dynamic =energies> and that is why they may interactR and established not to e-periment with raw substances, as he did years before, but dynami'ing them to potency 6G of the Centesimal scale. ateria /rima /ura, Hahnemann had for his practice, contained a limited register of curing capacities of each medicine, not only in the physical sphere, but also in the mental, and does not abound in descriptions of clue symptoms or peculiar ones. nyway, the ) volumes of ateria edica /ura are in themselves a homage to tenacity, observation capacity and HahnemannJs passion at the service of the i ll. @ifferent then is the present situation, as there can be no doubt that the inclusion of clinical proof to ateria edica /ura, by homeopaths the world over, after the death of Hahnemann has been decisive for the complete knowledge of the medicines.
The $ri"ary e!!ect. Bn *edicine of ?-perience =1EG> he clearly stated that0 “every simple medicinal su"stance causes a peculiar and specific disease7 a series of determined symptoms, which are not produced in e'actly the same manner "y any other medicine in the world!# Bn this work he also remarked that $eculiar sy"$to"s are the surest !or choosing the "edicine, and the curative capacity of the tested medicines lies only in the primary symptoms produced in the e-perimenter. (hen Hahnemann investigated the curing capacity of medicines, he proved that the first series of symptoms to appear were effects of the medicine on trial, and when these disappeared, the series of ulterior symptoms and o$$osed to the !irst were the reaction of the e-perimentatorJs iologic ?nergy and not a direct action from the medicine. He named them *primary and *secondary respectively, and concluded that to know the curative capacity of medicines, only the primary symptoms are to be considered. “$n the course of these investigations that have taken many years, $ have made an important discovery. $ have observed that experimenting on a healthy human being, medicines produce two series of symptoms% some appear immediately or a little while after the substance had been passed into the stomach or contacted some part of the body% whereas others entirely opposite, make themselves known shortly after the disappearance of the
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former. $ have ascertained that medicines provide lasting alleviation only in those cases in which there is a concordance between the symptoms produced during the first hours of their acting on the healthy hum an being and the symptoms of the disease one wants to cure&” 6G
K!e'perimenting on healthy "odies with moderate doses of a medicine, we shall only note its primary action*!#61 “The more moderate the doses within certain limits of the medicine used for these e'periments* the clearer will "e the primary effects that develop and only these are the ones we are most interested in knowing*! 62 “'he secondary action is not a product of the medicine, but invariability is the result of the body(s vital force working antagonistically” .66
(ithout doubt, pathogenesis that erroneously register the primary as the secondary effect, as many books assert, "i> the action o! the "edicine %ith the o$$osite reaction o! the e>$eri"enter(s ody= inducing to error. #herefore, it is very important when testing a "edicine to &no% its curing ca$acity= to only consider its $ri"ary e!!ects. astly, Hahnemann had pointed out that in metals and minerals such as arsenic, mercury, lead and others, primary effect declines gradually up to the reestablishment of the previous state of health, without any secondary effect to oppose it.
Anti$soric "edicines. Peculiar sy"$to"s. Up to the announcement of the Psora Doctrine in 1I2E, to develop ateria edica /ura, Hahnemann fre3uently e-perimented with medicines that later were called a$soric, and from then on principally with those called anti$soric. #he concept of antipsoric medicine will be developed later, nevertheless, it is important to say that the psora doctrine allowed him to discover medicines with the power to cure it, i.e.0 anti$sorics, and others without that power, i.e.0 a$sorics, though the latter have the power to cure acute diseases. There!ore= starting !ro" the $sora doctrine= he e"$loyed "edicines according to the character o! the disease
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s for the choice of medicine Z particularly the antipsorics for Chronic @iseases, Hahnemann chose taking into account the peculiar symptom of the patient, be it physical or mental. Bt is important to understand the word $eculiar according to the maKority of dictionaries belonging e-clusively to one person, group or thing. Bn Homeopathy, as from its creator, it refers to sy"$to"s that elong to the $atient and not to the disease. #he peculiar or characteristic symptom must be a personal manifestation, be it a general, local, physical or mental symptom.
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#o define an illness in allopathy, those symptoms common to all patients that constitute a determined clinical picture are considered, reKecting those not common or belonging to each of them. #he criterium is opposite in homeopathy, as the symptoms belonging to each patient or peculiar symptoms are privileged over those common to all, from which it is inferred that this is medicine of the person, whereas the other is medicine of the illness =e-cepting the case of acute epidemic diseases, in which the medicine may be for them, as was previously e-plained>. 67 s to mental symptoms, Hahnemann “did not give them the e'cessive weight they have today, as he did not refer to personality “types! to carry out this choice#! *O He was not a mental prescri"er as >ent and his followers O * O He considered mental symptoms if they were characteristic, and not only "ecause they were mental .6 #he search for a similar medicine for the mental symptoms, though not peculiar or characteristic, a habitual practice at present, leads to fre3uent errors. astly, it is pointed out that the clinical e-perience confirms every day that the circu"stances o! %orsening and i"$rove"ent as they occur= e they general or local= "ental or $hysical= constitute the "ost e>act $eculiars to accede to the si"illi"u".
The nosodes #he nosodes are medicines that are obtained from human pathological products or from animals, or from illness transmitting agents. Hahnemann reKected using them, a practice he called Bsopathy, and in a letter dated at the end of 1E66, sent to his best pupil Cle mens van !ninnghausen, he wrote0 * “I agree with your opinion concerning the "lind use of the so called isopathy and other not tested medicines, and our re.ection of t hem will never "e sufficiently strong!.6) nd years later he added0 “If you do not want to e'pose yourself to regretful complications and deplora"le worsenings, do not try to carry out the cure of the disease it produces "y means of a
See subtitle0 1E1G. Homeopathic doctrine *+rganon, Chapter BB. %ima Handley. *Bn search of the later Hahnemann U.$. ?d. eaconsfield, 1II, page 1. 6) %. Haehl. *S. Hahnemann, his life and work, 9olume BB, Supplement 17G, 4ew @elhi, ?d. . "ain, 1II2, page 2I2. 6 S. Hahnemann, *+rganon, )th edition, note to paragraph ), /aris. ?d. 9igot Fr[res, 1I2, pages 7D. #ranslated by /. Schmidt. 6
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+. / 2)2(. Method o! $re$aring ho"eo$athic "edicines. The Centesi"al scale. Bn 1E1), in the Chapter on %S?4BCU U, of the 2 nd volume of ateria edica /ura, made known for the first time the Centesimal scale, briefly describing its preparation. ater, he e-plained it in detail in the 1 st edition of *Chronic @iseases, 1E2E, afterwards in the th edition of *+rganon, 1E66, and in 1E6 more thoroughly in the 2 nd edition of *Chronic @iseases. #hough before 1E1) Hahnemann employed what in those times were high dynami'ations, the truth is that medicines rarely surpassed the e3uivalent to 1 Centesimal potency. Bt was then that, as the procedure to prepare the Centesimal scale was systemi'ed, three points cropped up0 a> b> c>
#he optimal potency to employ with each medicine, for any illness. #he dose or amount of medicine in each intake #he amount of shakings given to each potency throughout preparation. a> Bn re0 to the choice of optimal potency to use with each medicine, Hahnemann added successive changes. Bn his essay *+n prevailing fever * =1EGI> he advised using0
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He also proposed other potencies for the use in each medicine, which he 3ualified as the most appropriate for any illness. 6E Finally in 1E2E, when he announced the @octrine of /sora in *Chronic @iseases, Hahne"ann uni!ied criteria and $ointed out that $otency * Centesi"al as the "ost convenient to e"$loy %ith all "edicines !or any disease, a concept he ratified in the th edition of *+rganon =1E66>. He continued with a constant tendency to employ more dynami'ed medicines, because despite the progressive decrease of the amount of substance, its capacity to stimulate the iologic ?nergy, that is, its dynamism, was every time larger, therefore its curative capacity increased, as he e-plained in the 7 th edition of *+rganon 1E2I.
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b> s to the amount of medicine per intake, though in the 1 st edition of *+rganon, 1E1G, he did not indicate recommended doses, “"ecause as small as a dose may "e, it will "e stronger than the natural disease and will van1uish it , later his advice was as follows0 N #ill 1E1) and even somewhat later, the employment of one drop, and less fre3uently several drops. From 1E1), and probably previously, of one globule impregnated with the medicine, and sometimes of one drop =rarely several>. HahnemannJs employment of lactose globules impregnated with medicine began around 1E16.
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N @ro" 2)-) in his %or& Chronic Diseases and !ro" then on= only one gloule the si?e o! a $o$$y seed= al%ays in the $otency * Centesi"al !or any disease. c> s to the shakings given during preparation for each potency, it is important to make clear that this term is employed for the Centesimal scale, as for these preparations Hahnemann would give a vigorous shaking with the arm that held the flask, taking it from the contralateral shoulder to the homolateral leg. ater when he prepared medicine in the illesimal scale, he applied succussions or knocking the flask against a leather bound book or similar surface. For the Centesimal scale, Hahnemann indicated 1G shakings per potencyR when he ascertained that that amount of shakings worsened the patient, he considered them e-cessive and decreased them to 2 per potency, in this manner the worsenings were avoided. ater, when employing ultiple @oses and having discovered the better tolerance to medicines diluted in a “large amount of water! and “shaking well "efore every intake!, procedure he called “degree of potency increase!, he returned to his first indication of 1G shakings per potency, which he registered at the end of the theoretic part of *Chronic @iseases. ;u""ing u$ to $re$are in Centesi"al ;cale he reco""ended 2 sha&ings !or every $otency. Bn 1E2I, $orsakov proposed to simplify HahnemannJs method to prepare homeopathic medicines in the Centesimal scale, and he based his assumptions on the hypothesis that the current use of several flasks could be replaced by only one. $orsakovJs method was widely employed because it may be adapted to dynami'ing machines, but it produces erratic deconcentrations. t the beginning, it seemed Hahnemann gave it his approval, but after assessing during several years he was not satisfied with it, as there is no mention of this method either in the th edition of *+rganon, nor in the 2 nd edition of *Chronic @iseases, 1E66 and 1E6 respectively. nalysis of the single flask system created by the %ussian researcher shall be enlarged in the chapter0 *1E66. #est and reKects of $orsa kovJs method. (hen the need to count on very high dynami'ations further than 6G Centesimal was evident, and due to the impossibility of employing hundreds of flasks, Hahnemann did not turn to the dynami'ing machines based on $orsakovJs method, he met the challenge creating the illesimal scale, hand made, systematic, trustworthy and of a deeper activity, e-plained in the )th edition of *+rganon. Currently, this scale constitutes a uniform method for all laboratories and apothecaries, and clearly surpasses $orsakovJs method, which besides being erratic in its effects, produces different medicines according to the dynami'ing machine employed.
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The Millesi"al scale has een then the solution that the creator o! Ho"eo$athy delivered to the need o! going eyond the * Centesi"al= and with it every stimulus or dose reach deeper than previously. astly other five points to be solved in the future, according to e-perience, remained, and shall be e-amined laterR that are0
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The cu"ulative character o! !riction or sha&ings and o! deconcentration or dilution. s was previously referred to, when Hahnemann conceived the Centesimal scale, he considered 1G shakings per potency as e-cessive, when he ascertained the worsening the medicine in this manner prepared brought about, he therefore decreased them to 2, this way he obtained good tolerance and curative capacity, as he announced in *Chronic @iseases. lthough later, increasing *the degree of potency he could apply again 1G shakings per stage, it is noteworthy that the i"$ortance he gave to the !act o! giving - or 2 sha&ings $er $otency= only eco"es understandale i! their character o! cu"ulative is ta&en !or granted, as is proved in the final HahnemannJs 6G potency Centesimal as in the first case the accumulated shakings add to )G, and in the second 6GG. +nly multiplying shakings by the number of potencies is when the significant values are evident. #herefore, Hahne"ann assigned an enor"ous clinical i"$ortance to this conce$t= as it is the intensity o! the "edicinal activity= generated y !riction= %hich increases cu"ulatively y the su""ation o! sha&ings. s shall be seen later on, deconcentration or dilution als o possess this 3uality. Bn his paper *How can small doses of those very weakened medicines employed in homeopathy still possess great valueQ =1E2>, Hahnemann warned of the danger in applying to the medicinal preparation more shakings per potency than those indicated, and gave as an e-ample, if a child with whooping cough were given a dose of @rosera 1 Centesimal, prepared with 2G shakings per potency, the worsening that would follow would put at risk the life of the patient, and a dose of @rosera 6G, prepared with 2 shakings per potency, the curative effect would be mild. Hahnemann did not develop this concept, and even if it does sound rather incomprehensible, the e-planation lies in conceiving the intensity given y !riction as the addition o! the received sha&ings in the considered $otency. /otency 1 6G
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#his figure shows that the danger alluded to lies in the e>cess o! accu"ulated sha&ings, received by the medicine in the considered potency N 6GG in the first case and )G in the second N and de"onstrates the cu"ulative character he assigned to it and its !unda"ental incidence in clinical "edicine. (e must bear in mind that pharmacopoeiae of several countries indicate for the Centesimal scale 2G or more shakings per potency which results in an accumulated final of )GG or more shakings instead of 6GG, with its ver y bad conse3uences. nother une3uivocal proof of the importance Hahnemann assigned to the cumulative effect of succussions is clearly stated in this warning0 “3hen the medicine has "een consumed, and it is necessary to continue with same, if the doctor wishes to prepare a new portion of the medicine, with the same degree of potency, he must give the new solution as many succussions as the sum of the amount of succussions given up to the last dose of the former solution ) sum that expresses the totality of succussions given @ and also he shall give a few more, "efore e'tracting the first dose of the new preparation.7G The aove "entioned sho%s the e>traordinary clinical value Hahne"ann assigned to the accu"ulation o! sha&ings or succussions in the considered $otency. Deconcentration or dilution has the sa"e cu"ulative character, as will be seen in the Second /art, Chapter BBB, *#he 3uestion of magnitudes. This enor"ous thera$eutic signi!icance o! the cu"ulative character o! sha&ings or succussions lies in the !act that !riction generates and adds intensity= giving "edicine concentrated energy= deter"ining that the conseJuence o! its activity e "ildly curative or o! a “furious violence”, according to Hahne"ann. 7t ehooves then to rescue this conce$t= as it %as totally ignored a!ter eing announced y the Teacher. s a proof of this ignorance, one must not be ama'ed that at present, dynami'ing machines, employing $orsakovJs method, apply 2GG and even 6GG succussions per potency, that is0 that the final result is a medicine which in the current centesimal potency 6G has )GGG and IGGG accumulated succussions respectively, whereas in HahnemannJs Centesimal the accumulated shakings reach 6GG. Such procedures e-plain the violent aggravations that are observed in every day practice, and these showings prove the accuracy of HahemannJs warning.
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2)-) Doctrine o! Chronic Mias"as. “'he lost clue” .
“The nature of all diseases is the same# They only differ in their location7 their essence is one, the same as the cause that produces them!# Hippocrates. “Areat knowledge sees all in one# Small knowledge e'tinguishes in multiplicity!# Chuang #'u. From 1E2E to 1E6G, Hahnemann published one of his fundamental works0 *Chronic @iseases, of which between 1E6 and 1E6I he wrote a second edition. He announced the @octrine of Chronic iasmas in it an made known the discovery o! the Psora doctrine= or “the lost clue” to e ale to cure Chronic Diseases. “These last four years I have strained night and day to discover the lost clue , and therefore find the means to e'tirpate the old 5hronic 6iseases# Through thousands of e'periments and e'periences, as from unceasing meditations, I have finally reached my goal# & invaluable discovery, whose value for humanity surpasses all $ have ever discovered and without which all present homeopathy would remain incomplete or imperfect. 71
Psoric disease fter ) to 17 days of having been in contact with a person carrier of what Hahnemann called iasma of /sora, or even from contact with clothes contaminated by the transmitting agent, a transient febricula and an eruption of very itchy vesiculae appears on the skin. #hese minute blisters at the onset contain a transparent fluid, later purulent in its acme, and when scratched they tear producing a peculiar odor. #he eruption is intensely itchy, very characteristic, it is impossible to avoid scratching, which elicits a pleasing or voluptuous feeling, after which there is a burning sensation that is habitually suppressed by e-ternal applications. 72 This a$$arently ino!!ensive s&in eru$tion acco"$anied y transient !ever $oints out that the interior o! the ody has een totally invaded y an energy ca$ale o! disordering the Biologic Energy at such de$th= that the $roduced unalance only reJuires ti"e to sho% its grave conseJuences= as it is invarialy $rogressive= and y its nature= incurale= unless it e treated %ith dyna"i?ed "edicines. He descried this unalanting energy o! the Biologic Energy= li&ening it to “the energy of a magnet” .76 The e>ternal "ani!estation is o! such innocence that it see"s al"ost i"$ossile to relate its a$$earing %ith the diseases %hich cro$ u$ years later. 71
%. Haehl. *S. Hahnemann, his life and work. 4ew @elhi, ?d. "ain, 1II2, BB #^. Supplement E6, page 16 =letter to the %oyal &eneral Consul of /russia, regarding the /sora @octrine, written in $!ethen. 1N1GN1E26>. 72 S. Hahnemann, *?nfermedades Crnicas, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a, 1IIG, pages 1GGD1G2.
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thorough 3uestioning of persons with e-cellent memory allow to relate that innocent eruption to the ulterior apparition of severe Chronic @iseases. +ther times, forgetfulness, or having received the evolving unbalance through heredity, hampers this relationship. esides being able to ac3uire them, Hahnemann affirmed that chronic miasmas may be inherited0 “* the disease Lchronic miasmaM received through infection or through heredity*! 77 and further on0 “* psora @ that producer of the ma.ority of 5hronic 6iseases @ which human "eings receive through heredity *!7 Bts natural history sometimes spares more than one generation, and e-plains that it begins in one person, evolves in his son and produces, for e-ample, a cancer in his recently born grandson. Hahnemann also considered the non epidemic acute diseases as e-acerbations of this disorder, or as “flames detached from the "onfire of a l atent psora!# 7) *O acute diseases * are generally transient e'plosions of the latent psora which will soon spontaneously return to such a state if the acute disease is promptly overcome and does not attain an e'cessively violent character .7 Homeopathic doctors who treat patients having vigorous iologic ?nergies see many a time, during treatment, as the older layers of the disorder are being cured, the cropping up of this intensely itchy e-anthema. The a$$earance o! this $ruriginous eru$tion in the oldest o! sy"$to"atic layers con!ir"s that it %as $resent at the onset= as cure runs in the o$$osite sense to the evolution o! the disease. #his deep unbalance re3uires Sulphur, or Hepar Sulphur to be cured. #hese bouts of such peculiar pruritus prove in the daily homeopathic practice, the ancient origin of this severe disorder of iologic ?nergy. #his “chronic miasma of psora! was considered by Hahnemann as the cause of nearly IG_ of chronic sufferings and their havoc 9 “seven eighths LDE`EE_M of all chronic ills grow e'clusively from it*!7E. #he word iasma =from &reek *miainein ` to stain, to corrupt> in HahnemannJs time, previous to the icrobe #heory, referred to the atmosphere which contained the contagious agent enveloped the sick man and had the capacity to transmit the disease. For e-ample0 for smallNpo-, it was assessed that the atmosphere that contained the contagious agent spanned a little over 7 meters =by e-tension also the atmosphere containing the contagious agents in contact with swamps or putrid organic matter, capable of trans mitting diseases>. 7I
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4 Chronic "ias"a chronic disease $roduced y this agent o! $er"anent character= does not tend to%ards s$ontaneous cure. #he microbe theory was unknown during HahnemannJs lifeNtime, as /asteurJs e-traordinary work on the infectious disease of the silkNworm and its conclusions, as his later e-periments in which he announced his “theory of the germs of the disease!, were made more than 2G years after HahnemannJs death. ut Hahnemman intuited with astounding anticipation the concept of “contagious principle! as a vehicle capable of transmitting epidemic diseases. #hus, referring to choleraJs etiology, said in +ctober 1E610 “Born in the warm swamps of the Aanges, millions of minute living creatures *! G Lare the carriers of choleraM# Bn the second note to paragraph E1 of +rganon, ) th edition, he wrote0 “* those epidemic diseases that undou"tedly may "e transmitted in each one of the epidemics "y a particularly contagious principle, which is as yet unknown to us*! Hahnemann classified the acute miasmas in t wo categories, according to their origin0 N acute e$ide"ic "ias"as ac3uired through a “contagious principle!, which today could be e3uated to a microbe or virus infection. N non e$ide"ic acute "ias"as or chronic miasma of psora becoming acute, which were described as “flames detached from the "onfire of latent psora!1 He also classified chronic miasmas according to their origin as0
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- latent chronic "ias"as. - active chronic "ias"as. He considered that in a state of health, chronic miasmas are latent, and illness occurs when they leave that state and become active. Bn his work *Chronic @iseases 1E2E, Hahnemann thoroughly described the Doctrine o! Chronic Mias"as, which comprised syphilis, sycosis and psora. He particularly considered psora as being the cause of nearly almost IG_ of Chronic @iseases of mankind, though in 1E1) he already made a note of it in his work *bout the venereal disease and its inade3uate
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treatment, where he anticipated the basic concepts of the doctrine he later developed in 1E2E, though he had not called it $sora at $sora at that time. 2 He pointed out that the elimination of the e-ternal manifestation of this chronic miasma miasma without without its internal cure, could produce illness, such as phthisis, asthma, insanity, insanity, edemas, apople-y, blindness, paralysis and at times sudden death. Bn short short,, it "ay "ay e a!!ir a!!ir"ed "ed that there there is only only one chronic chronic disease disease =e-cluding venereals>= venereals>= and all the the "ani! "ani!est estati ations ons attri attriute uted d as elon elongin ging g to severa severall inde$e inde$end ndent ent diseases are only !rag"ents o! that sole illness e>$ressed in "ulti$le % ays. The cure The cure o! this this diseas diseasee occurs occurs in an o$$osite o$$osite %ay to the a$$ear a$$earanc ancee o! its "ani!estations= and all these "ay end in a $ruriginous eru$tion= the sa"e !or all and eJual to that %hich a$$eared at the onset o! each e ach one o! the" e>ce$t the inherited $soraF= %hich $roves they are only !rag"ents o! a sole !unda"ental disease= or $sora.
Errors and con!usions concerning the conce$ts o! scaies= "ias"a and $sora. The !irst con!usion. ;caies. #he first confusion which gave birth to enormous and regrettable errors was due to the fact that *krt'e in &erman and *itch in ?nglish not only refer to scabies, but also to pruritus or pruriginous eruption. Many authors too& the %ord as "eaning the disease $roduced y the "ite order acarina= genus acarusF there!ore erroneously considered that scaies %as the cause o! $sora= %hereas Hahne"ann re!erred to the other "eaning= that is= a "ost $ruriginous eru$tion= as the cutaneous "ani!estation o! the $sora disease.+* Hahnemann knew scabies and its cause very well, the ploughing mite, as in 1I2 that is 6) years before announcing the psora doctrine, he wrote in the n'eiger aga'ine of &otha0 itch itsel “'he itc itselff does does not not consi consist st of eman emanat atio ions ns or of cong congen enita itall or ac1u ac1uir ired ed has its origin in acridities, neither is it due to an alkaline or acid condition of the "lood7 "ut it has small living insects or mites, which take up their abode in our bodies beneath the epidermis, grow there and increase largely, and by their irritation or their creeping about cause an itching 7 and owing to the afflu' of humours there"y produced give rise to a multitude of vesicles, which, on "eing ru""ed, or when the thin watery fluid they contain has evaporated "ecome covered with sca"s# This is not an opinion adopted in order to get ride of a difficulty, "ut its is "ased on e'perience!# #hen0 “'he cause of itch given above is the only true one, the only one that is founded upon experience. 'hese exceedingly small animals are a kind of m ite” #7
%ichard Haehl, homeopathic doctor and his principal biographer, affirmed at the foot of this supplement0 “This shows clearly that Hahnemann meant something very different "y his “psora! from the ordinary itch, with which he has "een ac1uainted for a long long time!# #he following evidence is conclusive0 4 6e!e 6e!err rrin ing g to to $so $sora ra in his his ver very y e>t e>ten ense se %rit %ritte ten n %or %or&= &= Hahn Hahne" e"an ann n nev never er re!e re!err rred ed to the acarus as it cause= in s$ite o! &no%ing it very %ell and having descried it years e!ore 2
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but he did did poin pointt out out as a cause ause of psora sora an “infection!, the creation creation o! ho"eo$at ho"eo$athy hy,, but considering as such an invasion of the body by an unbalancing energy of the biologic energy a dynamic effect, neither material nor mechanic* as the energy of a magnet!. magnet! . 4 7n add addit itio ion= n= Hah Hahne ne" "ann ann ne neve verr re!e re!err rred ed to to tunn tunnel elss visi visil lee thro throug ugh h th thee s&in s&in== %hic %hich h at their end there is a "inute $rotuerance %here the acarus lodges. l odges. Bn the numerous pages he wrote on psora, he did not ever make one reference to the parasite or to “the small living insect or mite!, mite!, as he described it in 1I2, or to its tunnels. N Bn *C *Chronic @is @iseeases, s, 1E 1E2E, Ha Hahnemann ann af affirm irmed that her$es= i"$etigo= ring %or"= "il& sca "ay in!ect in!ect $sora. They have no relation %hatsoever %ith scaies5 scaies5 acarus= ut ut evidently they all have rashes %ith the sa"e characteristic and intense $ruritus %hich $roves their $soric nature= and thus their ca$acity to trans"it it. N #he #he dise diseas asee prod produc uced ed by by Sarc Sarcop opte tess Hom Hominis inis or or car carus us Sca Scabi biei ei,, is cal calle led d *sar *sarna na and and *escabiosis in SpanishR *Kucken and *krt'e in &erman, and *itch and *scabies in ?nglish. Bf to name the unbalance causing almost IG_ of chronic diseases Hahne"ann Hahne"ann needed the ne% na"e o! $sora= it is ecause it had no relation to the acarus5 disease= as there already e>isted "ore than su!!icient na"es !or the latter. ?vidently psora was for him another illness, entirely different from the mentioned parasitic disease. 4 astly= astly= as $sora and scaies are t%o non related di!!erent entities= it "ust not call our our atte attent ntion ion that that chro chroni nicc $sor $soric ic dise diseas ases es cont contin inue ue incr increa easi sing ng== %hil %hilee sca scaie iess is disa$$earing. There!ore= Hahne"ann could never eJuate $sora to scaies= so it %as evident he used the %ord in its other "eaning= that is as $ruritus or $ruriginous eru$tion. So then the 3uestions arise0 Ho% can the Psora Doctrine e reected in toto alleging that it %ould e asurd to "a&e the acarus accountale o! all the non venereal Chronic Diseases in "an= %hen Hahne"ann= Hahne"ann= in s$ite o! &no%ing it very %ell= never "entioned it as cause o! $soraL 7sn5t it ti"e to ad"it he re!erred to a dee$ internal disorder %hose "ani!estation is a $ruriginous eru$tion %ith no relation %hatsoever to the acarusL For consid consideri ering ng the word word *itch *itch in its first first meanin meaning, g, i.e.0s i.e.0scab cabies ies,, %.?. %.?. @udgeo @udgeon n critici'ed Hahnemann for including herpes, impetigo and milk scab, as capable of transmitting psora, as according to him “they have not the least right to "e considered of of a sca"ies nature!, but he adopted this stance without considering the second meaning meaning of the word. word .) For the same reason, @r /uffer, HahnemannJs contemporary, held that the latter was mistaken, assigning psora to scabies, as he as he never "entioned the acarus or its tunnels. @ue to the mistake in the choice of the meaning of the &erman word *krt'e, and the ?nglish word *itch, %. ?. @udgeon and several contemporaries thought that without acarus there would not be psora. +n the other hand, C. Hering did not follow the previous reasoning, and empathically reKected the hypothesis that scabies would be the cause of psora. Bn short, the only valid conclusion is that !or Hahne"ann $sora is asically a dee$ internal disorder= its cutaneous "ani!estation consists in a very $ruriginous eru$tion that has no relation %ith the disease $roduced y the acarus.
S. Hahnemann, *+rganon, )th ed., e-ico, ?d. /orr8a 1IE7, paragraph 11, 1st note. ) %.?.@udgeon, *ectures on the theory and practice of homeopathy, 4ew @elhi, ?d. "ain, 2GG2, ecture W, page 2I2. ustrian Homeopathic aga'ine, 2nd volume, 3uoted by %.?.@udgeon op.cit. page 2).
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The second con!usion. Chronic Mias"a. not nothe herr diso disord rder er took took over over the the conc concep eptt of chronic that for Hahnem Hahnemann ann chronic "ias"a "ias"a,, that necessarily re3uires the e-istence of0 aF A trans"itting agent= agent= %ith a "anner o! contagion contagion and route o! entry. F A characteristic e>ternal "ani!estation "ani!estation on the s&in s&in or "ucosae. cF A $rogressive $rogressive chronic disease disease as its conseJuence. dF Possiility o! trans"itting trans"itting this this disease through heredity. heredity. eF Availaility o! one or "ore !unda"ental curative anti"ias"a "edicines.E ?ach one of these five conditions for the three miasmas described by Hahnemann are developed as a simple memory aid, as they are the re3uirements established by him to admit the e-istence of a chronic miasma0 a> #he transmitting agent or miasma, its mode of contagion and its route of entry. entry. Hahn Hahne"a e"ann nn consid considere ered d chron chronic ic "ias" "ias"as as as the conseJ conseJuen uence ce o! an “infection” $roduced $roduced y a trans"ittin trans"itting g agent= agent= understan understanding ding as such the invasion to the ody o! an unalancing energy to Biologic Energy. He conceived the dynami'ed medicine of e3ual dynamic nature, therefore capable of reN establishing the e3uilibrium of said energy. “The dynamic effect of the influences that cause disease in a healthy man, as the dynamic energy of medicines on the principle of life which reesta"lishes it to health, do not differ in any way to the infection and this is neither material nor mechanical, as the energy of a magnet which is not material nor mechanic attracts a piece of iron or steel!# I s to the manner of contagion employed by the transmitting agent, he pointed out it was by casual dermic contact for psora, and through coitus for sycosis and syphilis. #he entry route is at any point of the skin for psora, and the genital mucosae for sycosis and syphilis. b> ?-ternal signs in skin or mucosae. #he e-ternal sign becomes noticeable when the invasion of the whole body is complete, and starts in the entry point of the the transmitting agent or miasma. For psora, it is the pruriginous eruption on the skin, for sycosis, the phycoid warts, and the chancre for syphilis, these latter two in the genital mucosae. c> chronic and progressive disease. /sora, sycosis and syphilis are characteri'ed by their chronicity and progressiveness. d> #he possibility of hereditary transmission. #he three miasmas have the capacity of being transmitted through heredity. e> #he fundamental fundamental antimiasma medicines. For psora0 psora0 Sulphu Sulphurr and Hepar Hepar Sulphu SulphurR rR for sycosis0 sycosis0 #huKa, #huKa, and at times times 4itricum 4itricum cidum, and for syphilis0 ercurius.
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#nluc&ily= y o"itting these !ive indis$ensale conditions to a!!ir" the e>istence o! ne% chronic "ias"as= a great con!usion o! the asic conce$t o! chronic "ias"a %as rought aout. s the five conditions established by Hahnemann were detracted, it was sought to include as chronic miasmas the conse3uence of using allopathic medicines, non chronic infections and even the flu, thus tergiversating the original concept. )G
One "ore con!usion. ;in. new confusion was caused by "ames #yler $ent, and by "ames Henry llen, who identified psora with the religious idea of original si n, which was in turn reKected by C. Hering. $ent did not admit as a psora cause the invasion of the body by an unbalancing energy of the iologic ?nergy, as Hahnemann taught, but attributed its origin “to mans fundamental error, original sin! which would produce a susceptibility to become ill. For $ent, without original sin, susceptibility to psora would not have e-isted. “/ong "efore the ;lood, which destroyed the evil men that were on the Carths surface at that time, there already was a manifestation called leprosy, which was the result of a terri"le profanation that took place in that period# 8any people suffered then that violent aura of leprosy, whereas in the natural order of the human race of today it is a milder form of psora on a race of different people! 0$ “If the human race had remained in a state of perfect order, psora would not have "een a"le to e'ist# Suscepti"ility to psora* goes "ack to the firs t error of the human race!#0 “There must have "een some illness previous to this state which we recogni:e as the chronic miasma of psora# L#o understand itM we shall have to accept the 3ord of Aod as something historic* It is not wrong to reason in this manner and I hope that you will accept it, not only as history, "ut also as a divine revelation#! 0D “'he realm it spans Lpsoric receptivityM is really extense, as it goes back to the fundamental error of man* original sin, a true primary disease of our race7 I understand that the disease thus created, as a primary state, from which all races have engendered what we may call psoric receptivity, which has set the "asis for all other diseases#! 0
#he reason by which $ent was a mental prescriber shunning the physical symptoms, even if they were peculiar or characteristic, lies in the fact he placed the cause of diseases in the mental sphere. When attriuting “the primitive error to the human race” as the origin o! $sora= and as it is in the "ind %here “the fundamental error of man, sin” is conceived and orn= there did not e>ist !or 8ent= "ore i"$ortant sy"$to"s than the "ental= even though they %ere not characteristic or $eculiar. #he merging of medicine with religion, which Hippocrates had separated 2,6GG years previously, is even more evident in "ames Henry llen, as the more alien to the doctrine of Homeopathy. )G
%. Handley, *Bn search of the later Hahnemann U$, ?d. eaconsfield, 1II, page 6E. ". $ent. *Filosof:a homeopAtica. uenos ires. ?d. lbatros, esson WBW. )2 op. cit. esson W9BBB. )6 op. cit. esson WBW )7 $ent, *a ciencia y el arte de la homeopat:a 3uoted b y @. @emar3ue in *Homeopat:a, edicina de la e-periencia, e-ico, ?d. /ropulsora de la Homeopat:a, 1IE, page 22I. )1
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“Truly psora is the first manifestation of original sin, of the first damnation!# “* we see in sin the father of all chronic miasmas, "esides "eing the father of the illness!# * “3hen we suppress a mi'ed miasma as psora and sycosis, what can we e'pect *E ### here are the two processes of sin, the sin of diso"edience, and the sin of lust!# ) All these conce$ts %ere never e>$ressed y Hahne"ann= there!ore they are co"$letely alien to Ho"eo$athy.
One last con!usion. Psora. ". Henry llen also added another confusion, maybe the most serious, as it is widespread, when at the onset of the WWth century he disputed the concept of chronic miasma, as Hahnemann had announced, especially the psoric. n astounding large retinue of followers adopted as valid his hypothesis throughout the remaining century, detracting from HahnemannJs concepts which they said were disseminating. 7n an o$$osite sense to the “destructive” character Hahne"ann had attriuted to $sora as the cause o! 3 o! all chronic diseases and their ravages= . Henry Allen and his !ollo%ers considered it as a "ias"a o! !unctional character= non organic= only inhiitory= a $erturation y de!ect or de!iciency. “3hat is pathologic in any marked degree, rarely or never comes from psoric miasma, it is more of a functional disorgani:er!#)) “ Hahnemann affirmed that from the beginnings of written history which he placed in biblical times, hu"anity su!!ers in an )) $sora exclusively” = and that the re"aining 2-= diseases are a conseJuence o! sy$hilis= sycosis or their co"inations. “+even eighths ))Q of all chronic maladies sprout exclusively from it $soraQ whereas the remaining eighth 2-Q comes from syphilis and sycosis, or a combination of two of these three miasma hronic diseases, or what is rare, from the complication of the three” .)I
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erely )G years later, ". Henry llen postulated that ) o! hu"anity su!!ers !ro" $seudo$sora= or a co"ination o! sycosis and $sora. “Today psoric miasma is found in a high degree merged with sycosis, surely 4FG *! G This clearly $roves that . Henry Allen5s $sora is nothing li&e Hahne"ann5s $sora. ut Hahnemann anticipated the tergiversation of his conepts which ". H. llen and his followers would later carry out, when he affirmed0 “-sora is the miasma illness which is the oldest, more spread out, more destructive and yet the least understood” .1
+ne must not forget that premonition the creator of Homeopathy announced in *Chronic @iseases0 “'hese pure and large truths will be disputed for years and even by homeopathic doctors and shall not "e put into practice due to theoretical speculations, and prevailing "eliefs”&
@ue to all the previous confusions, especially those involving psora, chaos is rampant and to clarify this fundamental Homeopathy doctrine, it is indispensable t o go to the source.
7"$ortance o! anti$sorics. “Those who merely study and treat the effects of an illness, are like persons who imagine they can send winter away "y sweeping the snow fr om the doorstep!# It is not the snow that causes winter, "ut winter is the cause of snow#! “6e vidi"us mem"rorum! /aracelsus. %eturning to the founder of Homeopathy, during 11 or 12 years previous to 1E2E he investigated the reason for failure of the maKority of treatments for Chronic @iseases. “3hich was the reason for failure in attaining lasting health in thousands of intents carried out to cure illness of chronic natureE! “To find the reason for which all medicines found "y Homeopathy failed when intending to a real cure of those diseases *# was a task of utmost importance in which I strove constantly from $4$0 and $4$2, till the Aiver of all good allowed me to gradually solve such a su"lime pro"lem thanks to incessant thinking, infatiga"le investigation, unpre.udiced o"servations and more accurate e'periments, all with the o".ect of the well"eing of mankind! .2 Hahnemann employed many years of his life searching the nature and cure of Chronic @iseases. “I a"stain from relating through how many e'acting efforts * I had to pass to achieve, finally, after eleven years, to cope with that great omission that hampered the filling of the gap in the edifice of homeopathic healing art9 the cure of the countless 5hronic 6iseases O6 He discovered that the a$$arently inde$endent and autono"ous chronic diseases =e-cluding venereals>, %ere only $arts or !rag"ents o! a sole !unda"ental "alignancy %hich he called Psora =&reekR to scratch>.
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Hahnemann reached the concept of a sole chronic disease =e-cluding venereals> when he verified0 4 As only one Biologic Energy e>ists= and it "aintains the ody as a unit= its unalance is also a sole !unda"ental "alignancy= even though it dis$lays y !rag"ents. 4 That very di!!erent sy"$to"s that "a&e u$ a$$arently inde$endent and di!!erent diseases= and are cured y a single "edicine= $roves they !or" a unit. 4 That %ithin the grou$ o! $resent sy"$to"s in each one o! Chronic Diseases= there al%ays lie others that allo% the recognition o! an “essential character” o! $sora. Psora is characteri?ed y “several symptoms that are common to it” = that is= they re$eat in each one o! those grou$s= identi!ying thus The ;ole @unda"ental Disease. 4 That Chronic Diseases non venerealF= %hich "ista&enly "ay e ta&en as inde$endent diseases= "ay dis$lay at the end o! their cure a $ruriginous eru$tion= the sa"e one !or all o! the"= and eJual to that %hich a$$eared at the onset o! each one o! the" e>ce$ting inherited $soraF= indicating they are only !rag"ents o! a sole @unda"ental Malignancy as cure reruns sy"$to"s in the o$$osite sense to their a$$earing. 4 That !or a stale cure= esides the si"ilar anti"ias"a "edicine= the "ias"a ac&ground "ust e treated= the $sora $er se= %hich is carried out %ith a single "edicine ;ul$hur= as is $ro$er !or that single disease. & “ miasma 5hronic 6iseases, as affirmed, always remain invariable in their essential character, particularly psora O
“### psora, the fundamental illness of many chronic maladies, every one of them seem to "e essentially different from the others, which does not conform to reality, as may easily "e noticed in the coincidence of several symptoms that are shared and which appear as the disease runs its course, and also "y the fact that the same medicine cures all manifestations ./0 #he doctrine of the single illness or psora, let Hahnemann discover the e-istence of medicines with power to cure it, or anti$sorics, and others without that power, or a$sorics. He considered as anti$sorics medicines with the following properties0 N That their action e o! long or "ediu" duration, thus they indicate their deep activity. 4ever those of brief activity. N That e>$eri"entally they $roduce a ty$ical $soric eru$tion= there!ore they can cure it= or that clinically they have cured it. N That they "ani!est in their activity “several symptoms they share” and that they remain invariable in their essential character 00= y %hich their $soric character "ay e recogni?ed and which Hahnemann detailed in a very e-tense list at the end of the first part of *Chronic @iseases.E %elating the dates of e-perimentation of each medicine with its a$soric or anti$soric character, show that in 62 years before the /sora @octrine =1I)N1E2E> he studied E6 medicines, 7
S. Hahnemann, *+rganon, )th edition, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a, 1IE7, note to paragraph EG. S. Hahnemann, *+rganon, )th edition, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a, 1IE7, paragraph 1G6. ) S, Hahnemann *?nfermedades Crnicas, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a, 1IIG, page 71. S. Hahnemann, *+rganon, )th edition, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a, 1IE7, paragraph 1G6. E S. Hahnemann, *?nfermedades Crnicas, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a, 1IIG, page 12.
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of which 21 =2_> were anti$soric, whereas the remaining _ were a$soric, as they lacked the power to cure psora. The !act that 0+ o! "edicines %ere a$soric e>$lains Hahne"ann5s !ailure to cure Chronic Diseases= e!ore $ro"ulgating the Psora Doctrine in 2)-). Bn the 1 years following this doctrine, he studied 2E new medicines, of which 2) were anti$soric, that is I6_, he then could cure Chronic @iseases . He reached success from 1E2E on orienting his search for medicines with psoric depth, especially minerals, such as0 lumina, aryta Carbonica, ora-, Calcarea Carbonica, &raphites, $ali Carbonicum, 4atrum Carbonicum, 4atrum uriaticum, 4itric cidum, /etroleum, /hosphorus, ;incum, and others. I Hahnemann included ercurius even though the fundamental antisyphilis may occasionally act as an anti$soric, according to his tests. O *O the other already tested homeopathic remedies not e'cepting 8ercurius cannot "e e'cluded in certain states "elonging to psoric diseases .EG #he following list, published in *Chronic @iseases, contains the 7 medicines considered by Hahnemann till that time as antipsoric0 garicus Z lumina N mmonium Carbonicum N mmonium uriaticum Z nacardium N ntimonium Crudum Z rsenicum Z urum Z aryta Carbonicum Z ora- Z Calcarea Carbonica Z Carbo 9egetabilis Z Carbo nimalis Z Causticum Z Clematis Z Colocynthis Z Conium Z Cuprum Z @igitalis Z @ulcamara Z ?uphorbium Z &raphites Z &uaiacum Z Hepar Sulphur Z Bodum Z $ali Carbonicum Z ycopodium Z agnesia Carbonica Z agnesia uriatica N anganum Z e'ereum Z uriatic cidum Z 4atrum Carbonicum Z 4atrum uriaticum Z 4itri cidum Z 4itrum o $ali 4itricum Z /etroleum Z /hosphorus Z /hosphoricum cidum Z /latina Z Sar'aparrilla Z Sepia Z Silicea Z Stannum Z Sulphur N Sulphuricum cidum Z ;incum. +ther medicines must be added to these, especially minerals, tested later, as0 rgentum 4itricum N $ali ichromicum N $ali Sulphuricum N 4atrum Sulphuricum N Calcarea /hosphorica Z agnesia /hosphorica, and several more. At $resent "any ho"eo$aths e"$loy a$sorics and anti$sorics indiscri"inately to treat non venereal Chronic Diseases= Juali!ying %ithout any asis al"ost all "edicines as tri"ias"atic. #hey face likewise the same snags in curing as Hahnemann faced before the discovery of the /sora @octrine, which he considered *O invaluable discovery whose value for humanity exceeds all $ had ever discovered&” chronic disease may not be cured with /ulsatilla or 4u- 9omica, for e-ample, as with a$sorics the symptomatic picture it presents is only changed and deformed, but not cured, though such remedies may do so in the case of acute diseases. “& the other medicines LapsoricM 1 even though chosen according to the most strict similarity of symptoms 1 in no way give lasting and complete cures in cases of hronic 2iseases, as those recogni:ed as antipsorics do, when chosen with the same homeopathic criteria, "ecause the latter @ as different to the former @ adapt to the infinite variety of symptoms of psoras great malignancy#34 I
%ima Handley, *Bn search of the later Hahnemann, U$, ?d. eaconsfield, 1II, Chapter 9 =see list of medicines and their e-perimentation dates>. EG S. Hahnemann, *?nfermedades Crnicas, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a, 1IIG, page 22. E1
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#his miasmatic concept has an enormous practical importance, for, when the homeopath doctor faces a case of psora, in the daily routine of treating Chronic @iseases, he must, at one time of treatment, hand out a miasmatic prescription, indicating psoraJs fundamental antimiasmatic0 Sulphur, or if the symptoms so point out0 Hepar Sulphur. “mong antipsorics I prefer giving Hepar Sulphur calcarea * in dilution DF I have found it is a valua"le addition to antipsoric treatment, and is superior to sulphur in some aspects# I let it "e inhaled moderately once through "oth nostrils conveyed in a glo"ule saturated with Hepar Sulphur, every 4 to $ days, and were it necessary repeated two of three times#!4 long clinical practice proves that psoric Chronic @iseases only cure with anti$sorics, as solely with these those cures are stable and “lasting!# Bn general, a single antipsoric is not sufficient to cure psora, and the employment of several in succession are needed. “ll psoric diathesis LactiveM * very rarely will "e cured "y only one antipsoric, and on the contrary will re1uire the employing of several of their remedies @ and in cases of ma.or severeness, the use of many of them @ one following the other#!4D “To achieve cure of non venereal 5hronic 6iseases, that commonly stem from psora, it is fre1uently re1uired to administer several antipsoric remedies in succession, and each one of them "e chosen homeopathically and in agreement to the group of symptoms that have remained once the activity of the previous remedy has "een completed#! 4
Mias"atic $rescri$tion. From the discovery of psoraJs chronic miasma in 1E2E, and based on recogni'ing * the essential character of psoraE, HahnemannJs prime goal was the search of a method which enabled him to cure that psoric background underlying all non venereal chronic diseases. @uring the period 1E2ED1E6, while living in $!then, he e-perimented prescribing Sulphur or Hepar Sulphur during or at the end of a series of antipsoric remedies to treat that essential disorder %ithout %hich cure lac&s $er"anence, and considered *indispensa"le to treat that root to stop it from spawning pathologies. Bf psora is the basis of all non venereal chronic diseases, the logical conse3uence is to treat that basis beyond the employment of antipsoric remedies chosen by their characteristic symptoms. Since he started living in /aris =1E6>, and probably before, he decided to invert his strategy and fre3uently opened the case with Sulphur, to remove the underlying psoric miasma, and later treated the remaining symptoms with the * simillimum0 “&ow he opens the ma.ority of his chronic cases with Sulphur, chosen without considering the characteristic symptoms which previously he deemed important, presuma"ly to start the case "y prescri"ing for the underlying psoric miasma * he "ecame a miasmatic prescri"er# 5learly he intended to treat the psoric miasma "efore "eginning treatment for the more individuali:ed symptoms!#40 Bf prescribing an antipsoric, Hahnemann treated psora in the form of displays, by prescribing Sulphur he treated psora in itself, beyond its forms. E2
etter to his favourite pupil Clemens van !nninghausen, from $!then, arch I, 1E66 Z %. Haehl, S. Hahnemann his life and work, 9ol BB, supplement 12G, 4ew @elhi, ?d. . "ain, 1II2 page 2G. E6 S, Hahnemann, *?nfermedades Crnicas, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a 1IIG, pages 2G2D2G6. E7 S. Hahnemann, *+rganon, )th edition, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a, 1IE7, paragraph 11. E S. Hahnemann, *+rganon, )th edition, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a, 1IE7, paragraph 1G6. E) %ima Handley. *Bn search of the later Hahnemann U.$. ?d. eaconsfield, 1II, pages 7G and 7).
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From then on, HahnemannJs 3uest was to treat the cause o! diseases "ore than the diseases the"selves that is %hy he $rescried !or "ias"a "ore than !or the disease. Closing this chapter it must be iterated the astounding and generali'ed acceptance of the tergiversation brought by ". Henry llen to the Hahnemannian concept of psora he said to uphold, subKected homeopathy to enormous harm. For Hahnemann, psora is “the most destructive! of miasmas, “the fundamental disease of mankind!, in ". Henry llenJs concept, psora was reduced to a mere “functional pertur"ation!# #he doctrine of psora which the founder of homeopathy considered “invaluable discovery whose value for mankind surpasses all that $ ever discovered and without which all present homeopathy would remain incomplete or imperfect” has remained unfortunately not only depreciated but also void of content and unusable. +ne must only read HahnemannJs and ". Henry llenJs notion of psora to understand they have nothing in common in their conception nor in their therapeutic implications. ut, besides these statements, the Hahnemannian doctrine of the fundamental miasmatic disease, “the oldest, the most widespread, the most destructive and yet the least understood” , displays its own truth when it is put into practice. -. 4 2)-3. Discovery o! Ne% 6outes !or Ad"inistering Medicines 7nhalatory and Percutaneous. “6iscovery consists in seeing what every"ody has seen and thinking what no"ody thought!# lbert S'ent &y!rgi von 4agyrapolt, 4obel pri'e in Chemistry, 1I6
The inhalatory route +ne has always opted to use the word *inhalation and not *olfaction, as the aspiration with a medicinal purpose is e-pressed by the former as currently defined by the better known dictionaries. #he first mention of inhalation as a medicinal entering route belongs to /aracelsus, who recommended it in cases of patients unable to swallow, as in apople-y and epilepsy. E Bn *+rganonJs 7th edition =1E2I>, homeopathyJs founder started to promote the inhalatory route, though he had tried it since 1EG as he wrote in *edicine of ?-perience, and he did not abandon that route till the end of his life according to the last case histories in /aris. He indicated to inhale deeply once by each nostril. He started from the hypothesis that a globule impregnated with the dynami'ed remedy would emit continually (“perpetually!) a medicinal atmosphere as a radiant energy capable of being retained in a flask, which by inhalation, could emit its curative power to the ill. “* as an e'halation or emanation proceeding from these "odies LglobulesM*EE #o his ama'ement, he not only confirmed his suspiction, but discovered that inhalating it= the "edicinal action %as o! a notale curative ca$acity and also had a Juality o! "ildness and tolerance su$erior to the oral route, only way in current use till before these investigations. E
%. ?. @udgeon, *ectures on the theory and practice of homeopathy, 4ew @elhi, ?d. . "ain, 2GG2 esson B, page 1). EE S. Hahnemann, *#he lesser writings of S. Hahnemann. %emarks on the e-treme attenuation of homeopathic medicines, 4ew @elhi, ?d. "ain 1IIG, page )).
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He oserved that using the inhalatory route= the aggravations %ere "uch "ilder than %hen using the oral route. He was ama'ed to prove that the gentleness that the inhalatory route confers the medicinal activity does not decrease its depth, that is its capacity to cure.
7nhalation o! the gloule in a dry "ediu". “If an idea doesnt seem a"surd from t he onset, there is little hope for it#! lbert ?instein
Bn 1E66 Hahnemann affirmed0 “Homeopathic medicines have a surer and stronger effect as a vapour when the patient inhales it from glo"ules impregnated with medicinal fluid, kept dry in a flask !# *O this inhalation performs its medicinal power in the same degree of intensity as oral doses, and even produces a milder effect and during the same time#EI Bn the same year, in a note to paragraph 2EE of the th edition of *+rganon =1E66>, his enthusiastic words were0 “It is especially in the form of vapour "y olfaction and inhalation of the medicinal aura that always emanates from the impregnated glo"ule with the medicinal fluid of high dynami:ation, and kept dry in a small flask , that homeopathic remedies act in a more accurate manner and with utmost power*! *LinhalationM produces its curative influence on the vital force in the mildest yet powerful manner, and it is prefera"le to all other ways of administering the remedy per os *! “$ am convinced 5something $ would have never believed before6 that by inhalation, the power of the medicine on the patient is at least of the same degree in intensity as when the dose of medicine is taken orally”. F
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7nhalation o! the gloule in a solution Bn 1E67, Hahnemann discovered that the dilution of the globule in * a large amount of water! makes its activity *much more powerful , which was written in the /reface to the 2 nd edition to volume 6 of *Chronic @iseases, published in 1E6E. ater, he also ratified this concept in paragraph 22 of the ) th edition of *+rganon0 “7 globule & diluted in a large amount of water and well shaken before each intake becomes a much more powerful medicine &”
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He veri!ied that the at"os$here that surrounds the dry gloule %hen inhaled is curative= as is the at"os$here that is %a!ted !ro" the sha&en !luid in %hich the gloule had een diluted. s he did for the oral route, he employed ultiple @oses for this medicinal method, diluting the remedy in a *large amount of water and well shaken , previous to every inhalation to “vary the degree of power!, which makes for a better tolerance0 “If in the treatment only a small phial of say one drachma of diluted alcohol were used, and which contained one glo"ule of medicine diluted "y succussions to "e inhaled every two, three of four days, that phial must also "e well shaken eight to ten times "efore each inhalation#
The $ercutaneous route Bn the 7th edition of *+rganon, 1E2I, Hahnemann promoted the use of the percutaneous route by rubbing which he had tried since 1EG, as he wrote in *edicine of ?-perience, from which he pointed out its virtues in *Chronic @iseas es0 “* its curative effect is greatly increased!# “* may cure much faster *! “* has shown e'traordinary curative activity!D nd some years later0 “* may lead to the e'tinction of ver y old diseases *! So, in the last *+rganon, he advised this route using it simultaneously with the administration *per os, giving one half of the dose of the medicine orally in a solution, and the other half percutaneously by rubbing. nd lastly Hahnemann warned that the skin which the remedy is to be rubbed on, must be healthy, as the method is a way of entry, and not a local treatment.
The o"itted routes *That ha"it so often tested should not force you Lto walkM on that path!# (arning by a goddess to /armenides =not let oneself be van3uished by the force of habit>. Unfortunately, like all of HahnemannJs discoveries in the last 1 years of his life =1E2ED1E76>, the Bnhalatory %oute as the /ercutaneous %oute by rubbing, are not habitually used by the present homeopathic world, as they were not used by the great homeopaths of the second half of the 1I th century, and their scope and advantages have not been e-plored. 4evertheless, in these routes of medicinal entry and in other facts which will be put forth, the clues to the art of prescribing which solve the fre3uent, non curative and at times severe medicinal aggravations, lie ignored. lso, in these routes lies the secret to $ut into $ractice continual treat"ent o! Chronic Diseases !or years= which allow them to be subKected to the remedyJs activity in a permanent, prolonged and undecreasing manner.
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The inhalatory route= $articularly that o! the dry gloule= has the Juality o! "ildness and is %ell tolerated= Jualities not e>tant in any other route= and %ithout losing its dyna"is". +n the other hand, the Juality o! de$th= ale to treat the "ost entrenched diseases= only elongs to the $ercutaneous route= %hen it is e"$loyed as an only route= %ithout the si"ultaneous use o! the oral route. Bt behooves to incorporate these methods to avoid fre3uent aggravations in current practice in which through an e-cess of stimulus many treatments come to naught.
9a% o! Oversti"ulation Bn paragraph 2) of the ) th edition of *+rganon, Hahnemann warned of the dangers of overstimulation0 “* a medicine * would harm with each too "ig a dose * more so, the larger its homeopathicity and the higher its potency! and a little later0 “Too large doses of a well chosen homeopathic medicine, and especially if repeated fre1uently, as a rule create many pro"lems# In not few instances, the patients life is put at a risk, or turn almost incura"le his illness9 certainly they e'tinguish the natural illness as the sensitivity of the vital principle has "een affected and the patient does not suffer from the original illness from the moment a too high a dose of the homeopathic medicine had dealt with it, "ut he "ecomes sicker on account of the similar medicinal illness, but more violent , which is more difficult to e'tinguish (enhanced in the original)# s a result from HahnemannJs assertion, and the daily verification homeopathic doctors perceive in their clinical practice, a aw of +verstimulation may be e-pressed in the following terms0 The "ore e>cessive the sti"ulus the si"ilar re"edy $roduces on Biologic Energy= the less curative is its action and vice versa. Countless ti"es= %hen the $atient co"$lains and says “$ am worse” = ho"eo$athic doctors have sus$ended the "edicines as they attriute the aggravation o! sy"$to"s to an error o! choice= %hen it is a conseJuence o! oversti"ulation y a %ell chosen "edica"ent. Bt is due to this law that forgotten medicinal entry routes, especially the inhalatory route, crop up as valuable curative means to obtain mild stimuli better tolerated, therefore more curative.
*. / 2)*-. Multi$le Doses. Aandons ;ingle Dose. From the 2 nd edition of *+rganon =1E1I> to 1E61 included, Hahnemann currently prescribed the remedy in ;ingle Doses. fter having indicated a single dose, he waited during 7G, )G or 1GG days till its effect petered out and symptoms reappeared, not giving any dose during waiting time. Bf the returning symptoms continued indicating the same remedy, he then repeated it. Bf, on the contrary, they pointed to another remedy, he administered the new one repeating afterwards the previous waiting.
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#herefore, Hahne"ann decided to give his conce$t o! ;ingle Doses a radical change= as the preface he wrote for !nninghausenJs book *%epertory of antipsoric remedies 1E62, shows0 “I am not ashamed to confess of not knowing yesterday, what e'perience could teach me today#! I am not ashamed of "eing a"le to pu"lish now an a'iom I was not very sure of when pu"lishing the th edition of “=rganon! L1E2IM which, confirmed "y repeated e'periments and e'periences since then, I can now communicate to the medical world, more completely, and more definitely, to wit9 that9 it is not necessary as affirmed in paragraphs and following, to administer on each occasion only =&C dose of the remedy in (acute) and chronic diseases and allow for their effect "efore giving another remedy# =n the contrary, it is always necessary and of a great "enefit to administer more of the same remedy, "efore employing another one! =underlined in the original>. little later, in the 2 nd edition of *Chronic @iseases published between 1E6 and 1E6I, he ratified the new concept, and considered “indispensable” to e"$loy "ulti$le doses to cure chronic diseases. Multi$le Doses di!!er !ro" ;ingle Doses in the !or"er= doses are re$eated %ithout %aiting !or the sy"$to"s to rea$$ear= an indis$ensale reJuisite !or the latter. ?mploying ultiple @oses, Hahnemann was faced with the problem that they produced fre3uent aggravations, even when administered dry, an inconvenience he admitted in the th edition of *+rganon =1E66>. s a conse3uence he indicated to interpose after every two or t hree doses of the remedy, another medicine related to it. For e-ample, in a treatment with Sulphur he interposed Hepar Sulphur. nd if in spite of this aggravations cropped up, he counteracted with the remedy corresponding to the symptoms present. #his method, that still produced fre3uent aggravations, he modified one year later, as he was able to resolve them administering the remedy diluted “in a large amount of water, and well shaken "efore each intake* to increase its “degree of potency!#
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Multi$le Doses can be omitted when a vigorous iologic ?nergy e-ists, in a not serious and recent chronic disease, as its cure may be achieved through a ;ingle Dose, though in the great maKority of cases these circumstances are rare.
7t is note%orthy that !ro" 2)*- and to the end o! his li!e 22 years later= Hahne"ann aandoned ;ingle Doses in !avor o! Multi$le Doses= achieving cure in cases $reviously incurale= and in a shorter ti"e. 1. / 2)**. Tests and reects 8orsa&ov5s "ethod. Bn 1E2I general Simeon $orsakov, %ussian state adviser, wrote Hahnemann a letter asking him to consider a modification to the method of preparing the Centesi mal scale. #he norms on dilutions for that scale, established by HomeopathyJs creator, briefly indicate0 take one drop from the preceding flask and dilute it in II drops of alcoholi'ed water in the ne-t flask, repeating in "ulti$le !las&s this procedure successively 6G times. #o avoid using a large amount of flasks, corks and alcohol this procedure employed, $orsakov estimated that a single !las& could be used, which was emptied after achieving each potency and as he considered that the e3uivalent of one drop remained on its walls, he added afterwards II drops of alcoholi'ed water. esides simplifying the preparation, this system allowed achieving the goal many homeopaths of that time proposed0 to reach high dynami'ations, manually as by dynami'ing machines. t the beginning, Hahnemann seemed to approve this modification, as he states in a letter to his pupil ". ?. Stapf0 “* the procedure * descri"ed "y mister >orsakov is very sensi"le * allows a fidelity and a certainty of the ensuing dilutions, therefore there is nothing to reproach it9 it makes the operations enormously easier!#Surprisingly, after this approval and after four years of tests with the new procedure, Hahnemann made no mention of it when he described the Centesimal scale in the th edition of *+rganon =1E66>. 4either did he refer to the proposed method in the 2 nd edition of *Chronic @iseases, two years later. =1E6DI>. 1E66 may be considered as the year Hahnemann abandoned tests with the single flask system, whose evaluation he began in 1E2I. This silence %as surely due to his dissatis!action %ith 8orsa&ov5s "ethod o! the single !las&= as he "ust have veri!ied erratic clinical results= %hich today= a!ter tests in the Curie 7nstitute o! Paris= %ith radioactive "ar&ers= are attriuted to its irregular deconcentration= as o$$osed to the regularity o! Hahne"ann5s "ethod o! "ulti$le !las&s. #his irregular deconcentration is made evident in a higher degree when dynami'ations are higher. ater on Hahne"ann gave his ans%er to the need o! reaching high dyna"i?ations %ithout 8orsa&ov5s single !las& "ethod= creating the Millesi"al scale %hich $roduces "edicines %ith regular deconcentration= o! uni!or" results and %hose clinical res$onses are co"$arale a"ong the"selves. t the end of 1E7G, Hahnemann began to use this new scale, which he detailed in the ) th edition of *+rganon, finished in 1E72, though unfortunately only published in 1I21, after a delay of I years.
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This delay and the easiness that 8orsa&ov5s "ethod o!!ered !or the use o! dyna"i?ing "achines= ent Ho"eo$athy5s course to a $oint o! a very di!!icult return, as will be e-plained further on. +. 4 2)*1. The re"edy in solution %ith an increase o! “degree of potency” . Aandons the re"edy in a dry "ediu". round 1E67, Hahnemann made eight very important advances in the search for a greater depth of medicinal activity to treat chronic diseases. His thera$eutic ideal %as to ad"inister "edicine in the "ost continuous "anner $ossile= !or %hich= since 2)*-= he e"$loyed Multi$le Doses. ut when treating during long spans of time, employing the globule diluted in a large amount of water, he faced the drawback that it ruined after a few days. Sometime later, adding alcohol, he obtained a “medicine in an incorruptible solution”, being able then to dissolve the globule in as many tablespoons of alcoholi'ed water as he later were to administer0 up to 7G, and more at times. He indicated to ingest it daily, sometimes every other day, for 7G or more days. This $re$aration %as not si"ilar to the si"$le re"edy in a solution he e"$loyed y dro$s since the eginning o! ho"eo$athy= e!ore discovering the i"$regnation o! gloules= as no% he indicated it to e “dissolved in a large amount of water . 4evertheless, he verified that ultiple @oses employing the globule thus diluted, provoked0 #hat in successive intakes the beneficial effect of the first became annulled.
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esides avoiding aggravations, increasing dynami'ation before each intake, he also verified that the diluted re"edy “in a large amount of water ! is “& much more powerful” than %hen used in a dry "ediu", so that this way of preparing became a very important tool to treat chronic diseases. *8ne dry globule of these= put on the tongue is the minimum dose for a recent and moderate illness# In this case the medicine touches few nerves# But another one, the same as the former, crushed with milk sugar, diluted in a large amount of water and shaken well before each intake , becomes a much more powerful medicament , in condition to "e used for several days# Cach dose, however small it may "e, will affect many nerves#! 2 %eferring to the crushed globule with milk sugar he indicates the following procedure0 a globule is crushed over a certain amount of milk sugar so as to obtain a volume of powder which can be handled better than the powder volume of only one globule. With this "ethod %hich he called “increase of degree of potency”, he avoided sy"$to"atic e>acerations that $roduced re$etitions %ithout increasing the degree= "a&ing $ossile a good tolerance to Multi$le Doses throughout ti"e and achieving a !aster cure. HahnemannJs concept of the increase of degree of potency that was previously referred to means an increase in dynami'ation given to that potency, but not reaching the ne-t one. For e-ample, a globule of 1 HC potency *diluted in a large amount of water and well shaken previous to every intake! after being submitted to this procedure, has a higher dynamism than what that potency had, but not reaching 1) HC. @ue to new discoveries, Hahnemann achieved his ideal of Continuous #reatment for months, thus increasing in the medicine “the surprising change of nature, till now unknown in the development of dynamic energy of the medicinal su"stance! according to his writings =7 th edition of *+rganon>. Summing up, with the improvements he could0 N
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“* a single dose of a homeophathic remedy * will "ring an improvement * within F, -F, 0F or $FF days * it will "e of utmost importance for the patient and the doctor to reduce this period to half, to a 1uarter and e ven more , in order to achieve a faster cure!#4 I
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#hese combined factors are the essence of the art of prescribing, and if well chosen constitute the necessary conditions to achieve the cure of chronic diseases. Besides= good tolerance to treat"ent given y the “increase of degree of potency” $revious to each dose %as $ro!ited y Hahne"ann to increase the "edicinal intensity o! the Centesi"al scale %hile $re$aring it= a$$lying ten 2F sha&ings $er $otency instead o! t%o -F= %ithout causing sy"$to"atic aggravations that the !or"er rought aout= which constituted the eighth step forward of those years. #his increase is evident when considering that friction given by shakings is a cumulative magnitude. #hus, in the final potency of this scale it now accumulated 6GG shakings instead of the previous )G, achieving his purpose of increasing the intensity. "oining these advances Hahnemann revolutioni'ed homeopathic therapeutics and opened the possibility of curing many chronic diseases previously considered incurable. (. / 2)*0,). Continuous treat"ent !or "onths. From 1E62 Hahnemann intended a continuous treatment, though at the time, after several intakes he was obliged to suspend them for 6G or 7G days. “To influence with the remedy on the Jital ;orce & in a continuous manner & so that the curative reaction be continuous. ?arely Lgive the dosesM "efore 2 days * giving the intakes every , $, $ days# fterwards * let the remedy have its effects to 0 weeks!# For Hahnemann, the fre3uency of the repetition of doses had to be higher, if the disease were more acute and recent, and lower when the disease were chronic and old. #his was a general rule, dependent on the patientJs reactivity. (ith the discovery of the good tolerance of ultiple @oses of the remedy diluted in “a large amount of water and well shaken "efore each intake! he achieved an increase of “degree of potency! and then de!initely acceded to the "ost $o%er!ul tools to vanJuish the oldest and severest Chronic Diseases The Continuous Treat"ent. The Continuous Treat"ent y "eans o! Multi$le Doses di!!ers !ro" treat"ent %ith ;ingle Doses in that the !or"er re$eats doses %ithout %aiting !or the rea$$earance o! sy"$to"s= an indis$ensale reJuisite !or the latter, as was e-plained previously. #his fundamental tool, habitually ignored in current practice by employing Single @oses, suects the disease to a constant activity %ithout declining o! the re"edy= and so the continuous reaction o! the Biologic Energy there!ore "a&es the curative $rocess e also continuous= %hich o$ens a ne% thera$eutic %orld. Bn the note to paragraph 27) of the ) th edition of *+rganon, Hahnemann e-pressed0
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C. van !nninghausen, *%epertory of antipsoric remedies, 1E62. /reface by C. Hahnemann.
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“3hat I have said in the - th edition of =rganon, in a long note to this paragraph K0L and with the o".ect of preventing those undesira"le reactions of the vital principle, was all my e'perience allowed at that time# But for the last four or five years K$4D2MD4L, thanks to a new procedure, I perfected even more, all those difficulties were completely solved# The same well chosen remedy may be now repeated daily and for months if it were necessary# Further on he made clear that potencies must be given in dynami'ations of increasing progression. (hat follows is the summary of the conditions that "ust e>ist to e ale to carry out a Continuous Treat"ent o! a Chronic Disease. a>
Conditions relative to the remedy0
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/repare it by 6 hours of trituration in a mortar, reaching the millionth.
N Use HahnemannJs method of multiple flasks of Centesimal or illesimal scale, and not the single $orsakovJs flask. N @o it manually and not with dynami'ing machines, which employ an e-aggerated amount of succussions per potency, and whose results are not uniform nor comparable, as they vary according to the design each inventor gave each machine. N Bn the making, give the remedy 1G shakings per potency for HahnemannJs Centesimal scale, and 1GG succussions per potency for the illesi mal scale =or Fifty illesimal>. b>
Conditions relative to treatment0
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#o prescribe especially for the peculiar symptoms, be they physical or mental.
N #o choose e-clusively antipsoric remedies for non venereal Chronic @iseases, which shall be prescribed in series. N
#o administer only one remedy at a time.
N #o employ one globule, rarely two, the si'e of a poppy seed, diluted in a “large amount of water!, increasing the “degree of potency! by E,1G or 12 shakings or succussions previous to every dose. N #o employ ultiple @oses daily or every I, 12, 17 or more days according to the patientJs sensitivity. N #o choose the +ral, Bnhalatory or /ercutaneous route, according to the desired depth and the reactivity of the patient. N
#o employ potencies in increasing dynami'ations.
N For psoric diseases a miasmatic prescription should be made with Sulphur or Hepar Sulphur, before, during or after treatment with antipsoric remedies. #hese re3uisites make up HahnemannJs teachings as a result of his latest discoveries and give shape to the doctrine corpus indispensable to achieve the cure of chronic diseases. 0. / 2)1. The Millesi"al scale. round 1E2ED6G, some homeopaths began the search for high potencies, &. (. &ross, &. . Schreter and S. $orsakov among others, who produced potencies )G, IG, 2GG and even reached 1GG.
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Hahnemann himself in those times e-perimented with Centesimal potency 2GG of SulphurR nevertheless, for current use, he asked not to go beyond the boundary of potency 6G Centesimal, in order that all homeopaths ac3uire their medical practice with remedies made by only one system, the same for all, so as to be able to interchange clinical e-periences0 “I do not approve of your high medicinal dynami:ations (for e'ample "eyond NII and NN) Lpotencies 6) and )G CentesimalM# There must "e an end to this, you cannot go to infinite# 8aking this a rule9 that all homeopathic remedies "e attenuated and dynami:ed to N Lpotency 6G CentesimalM we have a uniform manner of procedure in treatment for all homeopaths, and when they descri"e a cure we are a"le to repeat it, as they and we work with the same tools.1GG 4evertheless, "enichen of (ismar reached potencies 2,GG, E,GGG and 1),GGG, though he kept the procedure a secret. pparently he employed manually $orsakovJs method, applying 6G shakings per potency. With these re"edies "ade y "ethods devoid o! any syste" egins the con!usion in %hich %e are i""ersed related to dyna"i?ation techniJues !or high $otencies $orsakov probably employed a single flask, whereas "enichen = Fincke and Swan kept their methods a secret. Bn reference to FinckeJs system, very little is known, as he never revealed it. pparently, he used some variation of the illogical procedure of continual flu-ion, which is not seen here as it is devoid not only of logic but of the most elemental norms that allow it to be 3ualified as a method. Swan also employed some continual flu-ion procedure. $ent confided Hayes in a letter =GN6GN1IG6>, that after personally seeing Swan prepare his remedies, he threw away all those he had made 3ualifying the procedure as a “deceit of the worse kind!.1G1 Besides Hahne"ann !oresa% a ne% cause o! con!usion as he antici$ated the “dangerous” conseJuences that dyna"i?ating "achines %ould $roduce= %hen in the Centesi"al scale y "eans o! the" an e>cess o! succussions %ere a$$lied= and he !oretold %hat reactions they %ould $roduce= he descried the" as very severe. “But with such a low ratio of the diluting medium respecting the medicine9 $FFM$ , if it were forcibly subjected to many succussions by means of some ade9uate machine it would develop medicines that, especially in the highest degree of dynamization would act almost immediately but with a furious and even dangerous violence &” 1G2 #he “furious and even dangerous violence! of the remedy made with dynami'ing machines, that “su".ects it "y force to many succussions! as warned by Hahnemann, was made evident by the ease that $orsakovJs method offered for the employment of those machines. Bt must be remembered that the first proKect of a dynami'ing machine was designed by @r. esserschmidt, and was published in the *rchives of Stapf, 1E67, in HahnemannJs lifetime.1G6 These grave conseJuences "ay not e understood i! sha&ing= succussion or @riction are not considered %ith dilution or Deconcentration= as cu"ulative $rocesses =see *#he cumulative character of friction or shakings, in the Chapter corresponding to 1E1)>. s an e-ample and to point out the truth in HahnemannJs warning0 1GG
S. Hahnemann0 *esser writings of Samuel Hahnemann. 4ew @elhi, ?d. . "ain, 1IIG, footnote on page ) =letter to @r. Schreter, dated GID12D1E2I>. 1G1 @. @emar3ue, *#5cnicas HomeopAticas, uenos ires, 1IE1, ?d. arecel, page 11I. 1G2 S. Hahnemann *+rganon, )th edition, 5-ico, ?d. /orr8a 1IE7, note to paragraph 2G. 1G6 %. Haehl, *S. Hahnemann, his life and work, 4ew @elhi, ?d. . "ain 1II2, 9olume B, pages 662D7.
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N HahnemannJs potency 6G Centesimal =6G HC>, end for this scale, has an accu"ulation o! * sha&ings. N HahnemannJs potency 6G illesimal =6G > end for this scale, has an accu"ulation o! *= succussions. N current potency of 1G,GGG $. Centesimal, made with one of the common dynami'ing machines, which apply 2GG succussions per step, employing a single flask according to $orsakov, has an accu"ulation o! -== succussions. (ith the last astronomic figure and other similar ones made with the dynami'er, they enter the field of effects of “the furious and even dangerous violence! as Hahnemann warned. Bt is superfluous to give as an e-ample the accumulated succussios of potencies like G,GGG $ or 1GG,GGG $ or more. 4evertheless, luckily, as @econcentration by $orsakovJs method is irregular, its conse3uences are also irregular, so they do not always produce the severe effects if they were regular. #he higher $orsakovJs dynami'ations, the higher their irregular deconcentration, as probably it be of an increasing and progressive character. 4o new evidences are needed to reflect on the warning from homeopathyJs creator. Hahnemann wrote a letter to $orsakov, in which he e-pressed that these high dynami'ations must be of an e-perimental nature, and for the current use of all homeopathic doctors the potency 6G Centesimal must not be surpassed, in order to obtain uniform results therefore comparable. Bn this letter, on the other hand, he e-pressed that $orsakovJs works confirmed his own evidences that0 “The development of the powers of medicinal su"stances "y the homeopathic process may "e considered almost illimita"le!#
“The higher the dynami:ation (demateriali:ing), the faster and deeper its activity!#
“But its effects cease faster!#$F
Bn spite of all which was e-pressed regarding $orsakovJs method, it is official for /harmacopoeiae of several countries, as that of the United States of merica. Bt must be remembered that when developing the Centesimal scale, Hahnemann doubted in giving 2 or 1G shakings per potency, due to the aggravations the latter amount produced, and adopted the practice of 1G shakings per potency when he varied the “degree of potency of the remedy diluted in “a large amount of water and well shaken "efore each intake! , thus avoiding aggravations.1G 4otwithstanding, /harmacopoeiae of several countries indicate 2G and more shakings per potency for the Centesimal scale. As a result o! it %as e>$ressed= the furious and even dangerous violence !oreseen y Hahne"ann has een oserved y every ho"eo$ath.
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S. Hahnemann, *#he lesser writings of S. Hahnemann. %emarks on the e-treme attenuation of homeopathic medicines, 4ew @elhi, ?d. "ain 1IIG, page )6. 1G see *#he Centesimal Scale, in the corresponding Chapter to 1E1).
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Besides= the e"$loy"ent o! di!!erent dyna"i?ing "achines= according to the design o! each inventor= resulted in re"edies that %ere also di!!erent= even though they have the sa"e $otency deno"ination and are sold as the sa"e $roduct= y %hich clinical res$onses sto$$ed eing co"$arale. #herefore, we homeopathic doctors have lost what the #eacher asked to preserve * “a uniform manner in the procedure of treatment for all homeopaths, and when they describe a cure we may be able to repeat it, as they and we work with the same tools.” 4!0 @ynami'ing machines vary a lot in the intensity and fre3uency of the succussions, the si'e of the drop and the single flask, and there are some machines not designed to count succussions, and these are estimated by the time employed. known dynami'er applies 2 succussions per second, reaching in 12 seconds it takes per potency, a total of nothing less than 6GG, which for the previous e-ample, a potency of 1G,GGG$ accumulates 6,GGG,GGG succussions. #he same prescribed homeopathic remedy with the same denomination of potency to be prepared by $orsakovJs method may be solicited in different pharmacies, or come from different laboratories, and each one will be different from the rest, according to the dynami'ing machine employed. #he /harmacopoeia of the United States of merica decreased 6 hours of trituration in the mortar to 1X hour, by which the degrees of friction and deconcentration accumulated in the dry stage are different to those made according to HahnemannJs norms. #he French pharmacopeia sets a limit to the development of potencies, conditioning it to the chemical proof of the presence of the medicinal substance in them. #hat is impossible when dealing with potencies beyond I or 12, which correspond to Centesimal BBB and B9, as that presence cannot be demonstrated chemically when they surpass vogadros number. #heir action is not felt in the chemical field but in the field of /hysics, which re3uire another order of magnitudesR as if, one tried to weigh electricity Unfortunately, when all the homeopathic medical world of the WBW century was trying to achieve the highest dynami'ations, the founder of Homeopathy in U.S.., C. Hering, created the @ecimal scale, of low dynami'ations, though in one of his last works he appeared to regret his creation.1G #he @ecimal scale meant a step backwards in the development of medicinal potency in respect to the e-tant Centesimal scale, nevertheless, it is the official scale of the /harmacopoeia of the United States of merica. 7n the (th edition o! “8rganon”, Hahne"ann solved through the Millesi"al scale or 9M the need to achieve high $otencies y a trust%orthy= syste"atic and uni!or" "anual "ethod o! "ulti$le !las&s= ut as this too& 03 years in eing $ulished= it generated the chaos %hich today is a !act 4 The use o! dyna"i?ing "achines that e"$loy 8orsa&ov5s "ethod= %hich $roduces= due to an enor"ous accu"ulation o! succussions= a violent increase o! the "edicinal activity %ith &no%n conseJuences y every ho"eo$athic doctor. 4 The $rocedures e"$loyed in the $re$aration o! ho"eo$athic re"edies are not co"$arale as a conseJuence o! di!!erent designs a"ong the dyna"i?ing "achines. 4
;a"e $otency deno"inations do not indicate sa"e re"edies.
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S. Hahnemann, *esser writings of Samuel Hahnemann, 4ew @elhi, ?d. . "ain, 1IIG, footnote on page ), letter to @r. Shreter dated GID12D1E2I. 1G %.?. @udgeon, *ectures on the theory and practice of homeopathy, 4ew @elhi, ?d. . "ain, 2GG2, ecture W9BBB, page 2.
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4 Clinical results are there!ore anarchic= not co"$arale and at ti"es even dangerous. #hese e-amples illustrate the e-tant confusion, and even as there are many others, these are sufficient so as not to insist on the matter. Hahnemann was not opposed to the development of high dynami'ation, he only was afraid that the re3uired techni3ues to prepare the remedies enter a venue devoid of a systematic method and whose results were neither trustworthy nor uniform. #his is ascertained in a letter he sent to his pupil Schreter in emberg0 “8y opinion is that you rigorously stick to the precepts contained in my “Treatise of 5hronic 6iseases!, and if possi"le, it is necessary to go even further than I have, giving antipsoric medicines for even longer periods, also administering them in smaller doses that I have advised and dynamizing all antipsoric medicaments beyond :!”. 4!3 astly, a little before the year 1E7G, Hahnemann admitted0 N #he need to reach very high dynami'ations beyond 6G Centesimal, indispensable to treat severe and old Chronic @iseases, N #he convenience to this end in proKecting a new scale, the illesimal, which would systemi'e the techni3ue of manual preparation for these new high potencies, such as he did previously with the Centesimal scale and would also avoid the use of $orsakovs single flask method. #his new scale would be his answer to the need of going beyond potency 6G Centesimal. #he biggest practical difficulty he had in conceiving the illesimal scale was how to subdivide in GG parts the medicinal drop in the diluting process, so as to achieve high dynami'ations. round 1E7G in his E th year, in full possession of his e-traordinary intelligence he kept till the end of his life, Hahnemann solved this enormous technical challenge when he verified that GG globules =si'e0 poppy seed>, absorb one drop of the substance, therefore one of these impregnated globules is the GG th part of that drop, which diluted in 1GG drops of alcohol gives a dilution of 1DG,GGG =1DGG ]1D1GG>. ?ach one of these steps, starting from one of these globules, gives as a result a potency of the illesimal scale, so, repeating this process 6G times, the scale is completed and the final HahnemannJs 6G illesimal potency is achieved. #his high dilution per potency allowed him to apply 1GG succussions per step, by which he reached his goal0 “3ith this highly disproportionate ratio "etween medicine and diluting medium a development of a higher potency may "e o"tained "y means of numerous s hakings ###! “fter many e'erting e'periments and countere'periments, I have found that the activity of the preparation achieved has the ma'imum potency and the most mildness, that is the most perfected *!$F Bf in the last potency of the Centesimal scale the amount of 6GG shakings and a dilution of 1G are reached, in the illesimal scale, the succussions are 6,GGG and the dilution is 1G N17 accumulated. N)G
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@. @emar3ue, *#5cnicas HomepAticas, uenos ires, ?d. arecel, 1IE1, page 111.
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S. Hahnemann *+rganon, )th edition, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a 1IE7, note to paragraph 2G.
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Bn reference to this enormous dilution, Hahnemann e-pressed his admiration0 “It is surprisingly evident that the material part, "y means of dynami:ations, has finally dissolved into its individual essence, simil ar to the spirit (conceptual)# In conse1uence, it may "e considered that in its raw state, such conceptual essence is really contained, though not developed!# $$F Bt is evident that Hahnemann looked for0 N An increasing in the nu"er o! succussions to %hich he attriuted all the "edicine5s activity. The higher the Juantity= the higher the $o%er. N To increase the nu"er o! succussions he had to increase the dilution= to %hich he attriuted the $o%er to “attenuate” or “moderate” the e>cess o! intensity given y these succussions. To the dilution $er se he considered it an “accessory devoid of all therapeutic activity”. N The ratio et%een oth !actors / succussion and dilution or their eJuivalent @riction and Deconcentration= res$ectively= he estalished esti"atively. N Bt is clear that his purpose was to be able to apply the ma-imum of succussions, to which he attributed all the medicinal potency. “3ith this highly disproportionate ratio "etween medicine and diluting medium a development of a higher potency may be obtained by means of numerous shakings. !$$$ “6aily we listen to references a"out homeopathic medicinal potencies as if they were mere dilutions, "ut actually they are the opposite9 it is a true dissociation of the natural su"stance "y which the specific medicinal hidden powers contained in its interior surge and are revealed, displayed by rubbing and shaking. 'he aid of a chosen non medicinal attenuated medium, is solely a secondary condition !#$$ “* the aim is the development of medicinal potencies, but only in the same degree as the re9uired attenuation is achieved 7 e'pressed in another way9 we try to moderate the potency of the medicament in the same degree in which its powers penetration increases#! $$D HahnemannJs ultimate goals in creating the illesimal scale were0 N To accede to the highest curative ca$acities in severe and old chronic diseases= y "eans o! a considerale increase o! the re"edy5s intensity given y increasing succussions !or every $otency. N
To decrease violent "edicinal aggravations= in !reJuency and severity.
N To avoid 8orsa&ov5s "ethod= as it $roduces an irregular deconcentration= %ith erratic clinical res$onses. N To avoid the use o! dyna"i?ing "achines %hich "a&e re"edies o! a “& furious and even dangerous violence” = as he %arned in a note on $aragra$h -0 o! Organon5s (th edition.
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To avoid the need o! using a large a"ount o! !las&s and alcohol.
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S. Hahnemann, *+rganon, )th edition, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a, 1IE7, note to paragraph 2G. S. Hahnemann, op. cit., note to paragraph 2G. 112 S. Hahnemann, *+rganon, )th edition, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a, 1IE7, note on paragraph 2)I. 116 S. Hahnemann, *Chronic @iseases, e-ico, ?d. /orr8a, 1IIG, page 2E2. 111
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N To uni!y the "ethod o! $re$aring ho"eo$athic re"edies= that "ust continue eing "anual and %ith "ulti$le !las&s as in the Centesi"al scale= %hich allo%s to co"$are e>$eriences a"ong di!!erent ho"eo$aths. N To achieve very high dyna"i?ations %ithout the aid o! illogical "ethods devoid o! nor"s= as the continuous !lu>ion e"$loyed later. +n @ecember 1), 1E7G, while living in /aris, Hahnemann indicated for the first time a remedy in the illesimal scale. His patient . %ousselot that day received Sulphur 1G ..117 t present, to all the chaos regarding the norms to prepare homeopathic remedies, the following is added0 as the illesimal scale or , has, starting from the millionth a fluid phase and a dry phase in which globules are impregnated, it does not allow the use of dynami'ing machines that employ $orsakovJs method, as it re3uires that the remedy only be in a li3uid state. 4evertheless, countless pharmacies and laboratories, tergiversating HahnemannJs norms, prepare remedies on the illesimal scale starting from the millionth only in the li3uid phase so as to adapt them to $orsakovJs method, obtaining through this pharmaceutical practice, medicaments that do not belong to HahnemannJs illesimal scale, though they are sold as such. Up to the millionth, or dry phase, HahnemannJs method is compatible with the employment of triturating machines. From the millionth onwards, the procedure must be manual with multiple flasks and not with d ynami'ing machines which use $orsakovJs system. #he homeopathic doctor must be warned of these practices0 N
when he observes severe symptoms of aggravation and of return.
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when cure does not begin and the remedy is well chosen.
ll the effort that the doctor e-erts in achieve the clinical record, which habitually takes two or more hours, and whose prescription is trusted to those pharmacies or laboratories, may be sterili'ed by the procedure above mentioned. He %ho considers these conce$ts as an e>aggeration= "ay ignore the sur$rise that a doctor !eels %hen he oserves !or the !irst ti"e the "arvelous results that the re"edies o! high dyna"i?ations done "anually %ith "ulti$le !las&s $roduce. #hese manual dynami'ations may be reserved only to prepare antimiasmatic remedies for the treatment of Chronic @iseases, whose amount is no problem as their limited number varies between )G and EG substances. Bn 1E)G !nninghausen commented an article by . Fincke in which he affirmed that his e-periences confirmed is own conclusions0 dyna"i?ation done y "anual sha&ings haitually do not cause sy"$to"atic aggravations, e-cept when they are very numerous. 11 One "ay %ell as& hi"sel! i! hu"an health is not %orth "ore %or& i"$lied in $re$aring ho"eo$athic re"edies "anually and %ith "ulti$le !las&s= according to the nor"s given y ho"eo$athy5s !ounder= as the thera$eutic results are very su$erior. fter so much disorder as to the norms to prepare homeopathic remedies, it is evident that the only trustworthy, systematic and comparable is0
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%. Handley. *Bn search of the later Hahnemann U.$. ?d. eaconsfield, 1II, page 172. C. !nninghausen, #he value of high potencies. Bn *#he lesser writings, 4ew @elhi, ?d. . "ain, 2GG6, page 17G. 11
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N @or the u$ to date considered lo% $otencies= Hahne"ann5s "ethod o! the Centesi"al scale= o! "anual $rocedure= o! "ulti$le !las&s and 2 sha&ings $er ste$= u$ to $otency *= e>$lained in Chronic Diseases. N @or high $otencies= Hahne"ann5s "ethod o! the Millesi"al scale= "anual $rocedure= that a!ter the "illionth has a !luid $hase and a dry $hase i"$regnation o! gloules= also %ith "ulti$le !las&s and 2 succussions $er ste$= u$ to $otency *. His e>$lanation is in the (th edition o! Organon= $aragra$h -0. #he rest pertains to the confusion caused by the delay in publishing the ) th edition of *+rganon, and is the cause of erratic clinical results and also the violent aggravations that have harmed patients and Homeopathy.
Conclusions * It is much easier to disintegrate an atom than a pre.udice. lbert ?instein. #his historical review shows that HahnemannJs seven last discoveries, which run from 1E2E to the end of his life, are omitted in routine practice when treating Chronic @iseases, as it is usual that0 N A$soric and anti$soric remedies are employed indiscriminately in treatments for maladies derived from the psora, forgetting how easily when using the former it changes its appearance without curing. N #he oral route used e-clusively, disregarding the advantages of other medicinal routes of administration0 inhalatory, which is the mildest and better tolerated, without losing dynamism, and percutaneous, which should be chosen in those entrenched diseases that re3uire great depth in stimulating the iologic ?nergy. N Single @oses are prescribed, delaying or not achieving the cure of old and grave diseases, which are only cured by means of ultiple @oses and continuous treatment, which subKects the illness to an without declination medicinal activity and in a constant manner. N #o administer fre3uently the dry medicine, depriving the patient of the higher power and better tolerance that it emits in a solution, with an increase of “degree of potency!, and even omitting to indicate the dose, so the amount of globules to dissolve in the mouth is left to the patientJs decision. N #he Centesimal scale is nearly always indicated, sometimes the @ecimal, in old and chronic diseases, depriving them of high dynami'ations of the illesimal scale. N %emedies made by $orsakovJs method of a single flask are employed, they have an erratic deconcentration, instead of employing the manual method of multiple flasks, of HahnemannJs Centesimal and illesimal scales, whose deconcentration is regular. Bt is evident therefore, that the homeopathic doctor has a great richness of therapeutic resources that are omitted in daily practice. #he last great discoveries of HahnemannJs e-traordinary genius tend towards making the daily prescription an art and not a routine.
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Magnitudes o! ho"eo$athic re"edies. Balance et%een oth !unda"ental "agnitudes. A ne% understanding o! dyna"i?ation and o! the e>$ansion o! the re"edy5s energy !ield. The !irst alanced scale in ho"eo$athy. Continuous treat"ent !or years. A ne% "ethod o! "edicinal i"$regnation to treat very hi$erreactive $atients.
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CHAPTE6 7 @ollo%ing Hahne"ann5s !ootste$s The Millionesi"al scale. “="serve, see and test "y thyself! Hippocrates.
“fter all, empiricism is the "asis of science!# Claude ernard Bt is desirable to make clear that the concepts and findings that are here e-pressed, as in general those of all the second part of this book, were not achieved in a linear se3uence as is followed in te-tbooks, as throughout the years there were advances, countermarches, tests, successes and errors as happens in every empirical science. (ith the same criterium, the dates are appro-imate. (ith the obKect of presenting a revealing understanding of the concepts, they have been displayed here, as a summary of a succession of Koined notions in the search of a remedy of deep effect and well tolerated. Bn the year 1II2, the rgentine Homeopathic Foundation was created, its mission was among other aims, the diffusion, the teaching and research of homeopathy. %eferring to one of its aims, which was to elaborate techni3ues and research in e-perimental laboratory in homeopathy, a thorough analysis of the methodology for HahnemannJs Centesimal and illesimal or fifty millesimal was carried out during the years 1II1, 1II2 and 1II6. #hroughout that period, the laboratory procedures and techni3ues were also systemati'ed, in order to prepare them for e-perimentation. Bt was vastly useful to have counted on the mathematical development of the illesimal scale, not e-pressed by Hahnemann in the ) th edition of *+rganon, carried out by @r. Horacio ;anetto, which allowed a thorough study of that scale. For a long time, the author had systematically employed the illesimal scale, orally by inhalations or percutaneously, always with the purpose of curing relatively recent Chronic @iseases, as also the old and severe ones. #hough in many cases cure was achieved, there was always an appreciable percentage in which results were not favourable due to aggravations, in spite of the correct choice of the similar remedy, therefore since 1II7 the following e-perimental proKect was planned0 N Follow the path opened by Hahnemann, when he passed from the Centesimal to the illesimal scale and advance to the creation o! a ne% scale o! higher dyna"i?ation the Millionesi"al scale. N
Study the $o%er o! the ne% scale5s dyna"is" in the severest Chronic Diseases.
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Bnvestigate how employing it aggravations could e avoided or attenuated.
efore broaching the following analysis, the fact that ho"eo$athic re"edies are $re$ared y "eans o! the $rocess o! successive @riction and Deconcentration must be pointed out. #hroughout the book, the following terms may be associated among themselves as they allude to the same concept.
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deconcentration e-tended or e-panded energy e-pansion or *liberation dilution.
Friction is achieved in a dry medium by rubbing the medicinal substance in the mortar, and in a fluid medium by shaking or by succussions of t he flask with the substance in a solution. @econcentration is achieved in a mortarJs dry medium by separating the particles of the medicinal substance, employing lactose powder, and in an ac3uous medium by diluting it in alcoholi'ed water. #hrough the variation of these two processes0 Friction and @econcentration, homeopathyJs creator designed the Centesimal and illesimal homeopathic remedies. s was e-plained, shakings mean the vigorous movement of the arm that holds the flask, taking it from the opposite shoulder to the leg of the same side, this being the method used by Hahnemman for the Centesimal scale. Succussion means the knocks given with the flask to a book of leather binding or similar surface, being the procedure he employed for the illesimal scale. oth methods refer to the remedy in a solution. Bf Hahnemann in the Centesimal scale applied 1G shakings with a dilution of 1D1GG per potency, to increase medicinal power he designed a new scale in which he could apply 1GG succussions per potency, as he attributed all curative capacity to those succussions, considering the dilution as necessary but not therapeutic. Bn order to achieve it, he was obliged to reach high dilutions to “moderate the power of the medicament! but he considered the dilution “devoid of all therapeutic activity!. He estimated that to be able to apply those 1GG succussions, for each potency, a dilution of 1DG,GGG was necessary, also for each one, which was an estimated ratio, as no system of measures e-isted for both magnitudes. s in the first scale he created dilutions were 1D1GG per potency, it was named Centesimal scale =or HahnemannJs Centesimal, or HC>. #he last scale he designed has dilutions of 1DG,GGG per potency, was named illesimal scale =or fifty millesimal or >, in correspondence with the Centesimal that precedes it. Bn a similar manner the new e-perimental scale, for reasons displayed in the following figures, should have dilutions of 1D2,GGG,GGG and would have been called illionesimal =or twentyNfive millionesimal, or > 11) HahnemannJs estimation for conversion factors from the Centesimal to illesimal scale were as follows0
Shakings per potency @ilution per potency
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Bn %oman nomenclature, the symbol representing one million is the letter with a hori'ontal bar over it, for practical reasons, it will be e-pressed by .
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s it shows, Hahnemann multiplied shakings by ten =1G> and dilution by five hundred =GG>. pplying these same conversion factors to make the new illionesimal scale of the e-perimental proKect mentioned previously, these results were obtained0
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illesimal scale 1GG 1DG,GGG
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illionesimal scale 1,GGG 1D2,GGG,GGG
#he methodology chosen to work out what would become the illionesimal scale was to follow all the procedure of HahnemannJs illesimal scale, with the sole addition of intermediate steps of dilution in each potency, to reach millionesimal =1D2,GGG,GGG> dilutions, and also giving 1,GGG manual succussions for each potency.
Clinical e>$erience %ith the Millionesi"al scale. “;ailure is the clue of success! orihei Ueshiba, creator of ikido. t the onset of 1II7, an e-perimental test in volunteers was begun, and from then on to the end of that test, at the end of the same year, the results were disappointing. #he very high fre3uency of symptomatic aggravations, though not severe, as in general non oral entering routes were employed =percutaneous and inhalatory>, led to deem this scale as not appropriate for current clinical use. +ne repeated observation was the fre3uent apparition of psoric pruritus. +nly very seldomly, in hyporeactive volunteers, was it well tolerated and useful. #hough the fre3uency and amount of doses were decreased, though low potencies were employed, and even if the intakes were limited to the inhalatory route, the most appropriate to produce mild stimuli, the result in the great maKority was the same0 aggravation of clinical symptoms. Several 3uestions then cropped up0 Bf the conversion factors Hahnemann used to pass from the Centesimal to the illesimal scale were respected, why did the new ill ionesimal scale cause such fre3uent aggravationsQ Bs there a clinical limit to the increase of processes of Friction and @econcentrationQ or put in another way0 is there a clinical end for the very high dynami'ationsQ Bt is evident that to answer these 3ueries it was necessary to e-periment modifying factors that intervene in preparing homeopathic remedies. #he first decision adopted was to abandon the estimation of these factors and then, as if proceeding for the knowledge of medicinal activity, 3uery 4ature by means of systematic research to discover the cause of such fre3uent aggravations. Due to the !act that in the "a&ing o! ho"eo$athic re"edies= only t%o $rocesses e>ist @riction and Deconcentration= one o! the" %as &e$t unchanged and the other %as "odi!ied= as a "eans to identi!y the !actors that incide in its tolerance and its curative ca$acity. (ith the aim to preserve unchanged the achieved millionesimal deconcentration, it was decided to prepare remedies with four variants of the new scale in the following conditions0
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@uring the two following years =1IID1II)>, e-perimental verifications of these four variants of the illionesimal scale were carried out. #he techni3ue to prepare this scale is not e-plained here as it was abandoned for another perfected newer one, which will be shown further on.
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CHAPTE6 77 7n search o! alance “Sit down like a small child and face the facts, and prepare yourself to a"andon all preconceived notion7 hum"ly follow wherever and to any chasm &ature leads or you shall learn nothing!# #homas H. Hu-ley. iologist. @efender of the #heory of ?volution. t the beginning of 1II, the e-perimental verifications with the four variants of the illionesimal scale were put into practice. #he first verifications were done on old chronic diseases, with remedies prepared with the variant of the illionesimal scale, made with GG succussions per potency. @ue to the fact that clinically the most hyperreactive patients are those called allergic, in whom their illness lies precisely in that pathological e-cessive response, and therefore present many aggravations during treatment, asthmatic volunteers were selected for these verifications in order to easily detect the slightest intolerance. Aggravation "eans that as a conseJuence o! the re"edy5s activity= there is an increase o! the $resent sy"$to"s o! the $atient= %hile the return sy"$to"s re!er to the rea$$earance o! $revious sy"$to"s= not evident at $resent. Both= unless they e slight= usually are a sure sign o! an e>cess o! "edicinal sti"ulus and the stronger the aggravation $roduced y the e"$loyed re"edy= the %ea&er its curative e!!ect= %hat is "ore= great aggravations virtually annul all thera$eutic $o%er o! the re"edy. ?-pressing it in other wordsR to a better toleration or a larger absence of aggravation symptoms andDor returns employing the similar remedy, the process that leads to health is deeper. #herefore, this relation surged as the most sought for premise to reach the re3uired curative depth. #he relation between aggravation and cure was dealt with at the end of the Chapter0 *1E2I. @iscovery of 4ew %outes for dministering edicines, under the subtitle0 *aw of +verstimulation. #he target then was to achieve remedies that do not produce symptoms of aggravation andDor return, or that these were very moderate and transient. %eturn symptoms evoked by medicinal overstimulation, also shows the presence of a memory of previous sufferings. Bt is understood that all the e-pressed refers t o the similar remedy. #ime confirmed the criterium that if besides searching for the medicinal power of the new scale, better tolerance was also a goal, there were no better verifiers than the asthmatic volunteers, due to their enormous reactivity and their tendency to worsen which characteri'es them. 7! %ell tolerated re"edies y asth"atics %ere achieved= tolerance %ould e e>cellent in all other $atients %ith lesser reactivity. #he clinical results obtained with medicines made with GG succussions per potency of the illonesimal scale showed a slight but stimulating decrease of the aggravation and return symptoms compared to those made with 1,GGG succussions.
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#his was a stimulus to pass without delay to the ne-t variant of 1GG succussions per potency of the illonesimal scale, which took place at the beginning of 1II). (ith this variant clinical responses surpassed all previous achievement, especially tolerance, though the fre3uency of aggravations still re3uired a solution as they only improved very little in relation to those produced by the employment of HahnemannJs illesimal scale. Bn spite of this, now we were certain to be on the right track, so with the hope of having at armJs length the possibility of obtaining in hyperreactive patients better curative results in chronic diseases, than those achieved with all the known scales, we began verification of the two last variants proposed for the illionesimal scale0 with 1G and with succussions per potency. No% the clinical e!!ects sur$assed all e>$ectations. Asth"atic volunteers s%i!tly started and %ith astounding gentleness the $ath to%ards cure. #his cure, logically is related to the length of time illness set in, the reactive capacity of the iological ?nergy of each patient in particular, and to the maKor or minor disorder or deterioration allopathic treatment may have caused, principally through prolonged use of corticoids. t the end of 1II), it was evident that when comparing both variants of the illionesimal scale, with 1G and with succussions per potency, from the point of view of the e-perimental clinical results, one was not superior to the other. There %as no dout that these "arvelous clinical res$onses highly sur$assed tolerance and ca$acity to reestalish health o! the Centesi"al= Millesi"al and Millionesi"al scales e"$loyed $reviously. #hrough these last two variants of the illionesimal scale had these astounding results, they did not reach the dynamic depth hoped for, nevertheless, they were deemed an enormous step in the right direction. #hen, what had to be understood was in which factors were lodged the capacity to cure and the almost absence of aggravations, precisely in patients with great reactivity. (hich was the clueQ Having understood that the goal of good tolerance could be achieved, what had to be understood were the phenomena that were displayed so clearly. #he clue was nearer but not wholly understood. gain we had to stop for deep thinking.
CHAPTE6 777 The Juestion o! "agnitudes. “8atter is constituted "y the regions of space in which the field is very intense# ;ield and matter do not e'ist as all is field!# lbert ?instein. “The particles are merely local condensations of the field7 concentrations of energy that come and go thus losing their individual character and dissolving in the underlying field!# FritKof Capra For the full understanding of the e-periments of the previous Chapter it is evident that none of the factors there involved had to be estimated as what was needed was a system of measures. #he bad, fair or e-cellent therapeutic results obliged to a deep understanding of the processes at play, as e-perience was very rich and no doubt it held the lookedNfor clue. Progress %ould not e "ade in these investigations %ithout !irst counting on an accurate &no%ledge o! the !unda"ental "agnitudes o! the ho"eo$athic re"edy, so at the onset of 1II the utmost effort was e-erted to establish the definition and measure of those magnitudes.
A revealing conce$t #he e-traordinary assertions of ?instein and Capra that prologue this Chapter, in the sense that all is energy !ield in t%o di!!erent states according to its degree o! intensity or concentration, opens our sight to the phenomena that intervene in that invisible and marvelous universe that awakes when dynami'ing substances by means of the homeopathic method. We call dyna"i?ation the $rocess o! energetic i"$regnation that successive @riction and Deconcentration give to "edicinal sustances suected to the ho"eo$athic elaoration "ethod. #his dynamism possesses0
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There!ore= oth !ields corres$ond to the conce$ts announced y Einstein %hen he a!!ir"ed that all is energy !ield in t%o states= according to its degree o! intensity or concentration. Actually oth are only states o! a single energy !ield in %hich %hen "ore intensity is a$$lied= a higher e>$ansion o! it is reJuired so the "edicine e alanced as to its tolerance and ca$acity to cure. Thus= during the $rocess o! dyna"i?ing the energy !ield that is eing intensi!ied y !riction accedes to the state o! E>$anded @ield= through deconcentration in the "ortar adding lactose= and through dilution adding alcoholi?ed %ater to the !las&s %hen it is in solution. And= the state o! Concentrated @ield a$$ears %hen the intensity reaches a high charge in the energy !ield as a conseJuence o! !riction in the "ortar that contains the dry sustances= and !ro" sha&ings or succussions o! the !las&s that contain the" in solution= %hich is also !riction.
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Simple dilution, *devoid of all therapeutic activity belongs to the realm of chemistry, but dynami'ed substances are in the realm of energy, and in it all is field with a maKor or minor e-pansion and concentration. Concentration as deconcentration =for reasons which shall be e-pressed in Chapter 9B>= enhance the "edicinal ca$acity o! the energy !ield o! sustances %hen they are dyna"i?ed and thus develo$ the e>traordinary ca$aility to sti"ulate the Biologic Energy. Even i! the !ield5s intensity decreases %hen it is deconcentrated= %hat is !unda"ental is that at the sa"e ti"e it e>$ands signi!icantly= %hich enales it to e>ert its o$ti"al thera$eutic $otential. There!ore= the curative ca$acity is in direct ratio to the degree o! e>$ansion o! the energy !ield as clinical oservation veri!ies. (hat follows is to refresh what was e-pressed at the beginning of Chapter B of this Second /art, in the sense that the following terms may connect one to the other as they refer to the same concept0 concentrationDconcentrated energyDintensityDfriction, shakings and succussions lso these0 deconcentrationDe-tended or e-panded energyDe-pansion or *liberationDdilution The si"$le "edicinal sustances not suected to successive concentration and deconcentration= "a&es these act che"ically and not on account o! their energy or dyna"is"= ust as %hat ha$$ens %ith allo$athic re"edies. y introducing the notion of field of energy in e-panded and concentrated states, replacing the concepts of simple dilution and friction, a new s cene opens to the understanding of these phenomena. 7! the re!erred states o! the @ield o! Energy could e considered isolated one !ro" the other= it "ay e $roved that the Concentrated @ield lac&s curative aility ecause it is an e>cessive energy and there!ore clinically “violent”, %hereas curative energy "ay cure only %hen lierated= as %hen it is the state o! E>$anded @ield. Nevertheless= as oth are $art o! a sole energy !ield= one cannot act inde$endently !ro" the other= though to cure they "ust &ee$ a har"onic relationshi$. @uring the dynami'ing cycle the process continues to increase concentration and e-pansion of the field of energy, as one of their characteristics is accumulation. s it does not return to previous states, it is irreversible, and also it is almost illimitable as at present the moment when its dynamism stops stimulating iologic ?nergy is not known. #he conclusion is0 that the development of dynami'ation is a process that is0
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Summing up, as the process that both fields follow is cyclic =concentration Z e-pansion Z concentration O> it may be considered that in space it represents an imaginary traKectory of a double helicoid =see following figure>. 11
Hahnemanns affirmation referring to homeopathic dynami'ation in a letter to $orsakov, in *%emarks on the e-treme attenuation of homeopathic medicines in *#he l esser writings of S. Hahnemann, 4ew @elhi, ?d. . "ain, 1IIG, page )6.
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#he same double helicoid figure was designed by eonardo da 9inci for the construction of the central staircase of the Castle of Chambord belonging to Francis B, $ing of France, on the banks of the river oire. +n it, two people may descend, each one on his own helicoid following independent traKectories, Kust as with the Fields, though both belong to the same double helicoid.
#he double helicoid which represents these phenomena must not be confused with a spiral, as the former revolves around a cylinder, and the latter around a cone. #he dynami'ed substance subKected to a succession of ?-panded Field and Concentrated Field states, progressively displays its medicinal capacities making the hidden and latent therapeutic 3ualities more noticeable. #hat is called dynami'ation, and it is precisely what gives substances the e-traordinary capability to stimulate iologic ?nergy, so as t o recover its lost balance. Moreover= the dyna"i?ed "edicine not only sti"ulates Biologic Energy= ut also directs the sti"ulus to%ards the sy"$to"s to e treated= %hich is achieved y choosing the si"ilar "edicine. #herefore, each medicine bestows iologic ?nergy an e-clusive orientation according to the symptoms it shall cure, so it is possible to affirm that that ?nergy may be stimulated in as many directions as e-tant remedies. #he above mentioned e-plains the failure of treatments that administer several medicines at the same time as iologic ?nergy is incapable of reacting therapeutically in several simultaneous directions. Biologic Energy sti"ulated y the single sustance so dyna"i?ed and chosen !or si"ilarity is the greatest curative $o%er e>tant in Nature. 7t is as i! the succession o! lin&ed energetic states o! E>$anded @ield / Concentrated @ield / E>$anded @ield= %hich %e call dyna"i?ation= %ere a $o%er!ul doule helicoid that ores and $enetrates into the inti"ate nature o! sustances= a%a&ening its dor"ant curative $otentiality. Both states o! energy have a relationshi$ that "ay or "ay not e in thera$eutic alance. 7! the Concentrated @ield is e>cessive in relation to E>$anded @ield= thera$eutic activity is “violent” = according to Hahne"ann5s %arning. Conversely= i! it is scarce= it does not $rovide etter thera$eutic results and ha"$ers laoratory %or&.
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When the states o! Concentrated @ield and E>$anded @ield are in har"onic relationshi$= they are in an o$ti"al thera$eutic agree"ent= and then the re"edy has the ut"ost ca$acity to sti"ulate Biologic Energy so it "ay reach its alance. 7n short= %hen the !ield o! energy is "ore concentrated or intensi!ied= a greater e>$ansion or lieration is reJuired !ro" it. 7n conseJuence= Concentrated @ield and E>$anded @ield constitute the t%o asic "agnitudes o! the ho"eo$athic re"edy. ?ven if the e-pressed must be deemed as a simplified hypothesis on the process of dynami'ation of substances, there probably does not e-ist at present an interpretation of what happens in it, that e-plains it better, and that penetrates deeper into the nature of this e-traordinary phenomenon. astly it must be admitted that the marvelous interaction between the energy of dynami'ed substances and iologic ?nergy is a phenomenon even devoid of a true e-planation, and perhaps its intimate nature will never be known.
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CHAPTE6 7 Magnitudes o! the ho"eo$athic re"edy “* I affirm that the notion of “normal si:e! is ar"itrary and does not e'ist in &ature# There is a purely human pre.udice that decrees that the si:es that run from a fleas to that of a hippopotamus are normal7 "ut the si:e of a hydrogen atom or of the 8ilky 3ay though not normal for us, are perfectly normal for &ature# ;or all these reasons, arguments over the infinitesimal dose seem to have no sense!# Salvador de adariaga 11E s a result of the investigations related in the previous chapter, during the first half of 1II all effort was centered in achieving in homeopathic remedies0
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fter countless tests of trial and errors, in the middle of 1II, we were in condition to establish and calculate the magnitudes, apply them to known scales and make noticeable the direction in which the research must proceed. #he first consideration taken into account referred to the definition of those two basic magnitudes that intervene in the development of dynami'ation of medicinal substances in the process to make homeopathic remedies0 Concentrated @ield and E>$anded @ield.
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Concentrated @ield or intense state o! energy !ield.
Energy !ield "ay acJuire through high !riction a high charge o! energy= in %hich case it is called intense or Concentrated @ield. (e may then define0 Concentrated @ield C@F is the "easure o! the state o! the !ield energy %ith a high charge. @riction given to the "edicinal sustance originates its !ield o! energy %hich increases its intensity %hen !riction is greater. Thus= the !ield acJuires a high energy charge. @riction is achieved in a dry "ediu" y ruing the sustance %ith lactose $o%der in a "ortar= and in a !luid "ediu"= y sha&ing or succussing the sustance in alcoholi?ed %ater. 11E
*%efle-iones sobre la edicina, in *+bras ?scogidas. ?nsayos. uenos ires, ?d. Sudamericana, 1I2, page 1GGG.
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#here is no doubt that Concentrated Field is a cumulative magnitude, so its measure must reflect this property. Measure o! Concentrated @ield it is "easured y the nu"er o! the accu"ulated su" o! sha&ings or succussions in the considered "edicinal $otency. For e-ample0
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E>$anded @ield or deconcentrated state o! energy !ield.
The energy !ield that is eing intensi!ied y !riction= accedes to the state o! E>$anded @ield %hen it deconcentrates y "eans o! the addition o! lactose to the dry sustances= or alcoholi?ed %ater to the sustances in a solution. 7n this case= even i! the energetic concentration decreases y e!!ect o! the greater e>$ansion o! the !ield= this e>$ansion $recisely has thera$eutic relevance. @ynami'ations are more active when the Concentrated Field increases, which is an inde- of the intensity given by friction, and also when the deconcentration of the ?-panded Field increases, as in that case a lieration e!!ect is produced or an unfolding of the energy generated by its e-pansion. Actually these $heno"ena= seen !ro" the Ne% Physics= are "uch "ore co"$le>= and include the conce$t o! increase o! velocity energyF o! the $articles= directly $ro$ortional to the se$aration or deconcentration a"ong the". oth states of energy, Concentrated and ?-panded Field, also have an accumulative character and the dynami'ing process which originates them is i rreversible. 4o doubt that to understand what happens in the marvelous phenomenon called @ynami'ation, a long road must still be traveled. #o the effect of defining the phenomenon called ?-panded Field, from this new point of view, the notion of the meaning of its e-pansion or *liberation i s sufficient. So we may define0 E>$anded @ield E@F is the "easure o! the state o! the energy !ield that has een intensi!ied y !riction %ithout attaining a high charge= ut is very deconcentrated. 7t originates and increases y e>$ansion o! the energy !ield %hich is achieved in the dry "ediu" o! the "ortar= y se$arating the sustance5s $articles e"$loying lactose $o%der= and in an acJuous "ediu" y diluting the "edicinal sustances in alcoholi?ed %ater. ctually the E>$anded @ield is si"$ly the !ield o! in!luence o! the Concentrated @ield= oth states corres$ond to a sole entire !ield o! energy. #his is also an accumulative magnitude, thus its measure must reflect this property. Measuring the E>$anded @ield it is "easured y the value o! the e>$onent o! the "athe"atical $o%er o! ase 2 o! deconcentration or accu"ulated dilution= in the considered "edicinal $otency.
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For e-ample0 N ?-panded Field of potency 12 HC0 @ilution of potency0 12HC01G N27 ` =?F> 27 N ?-panded Field of potency 6G 0 @ilution of potency0 6G 01G N17` =?F> 17
Bn conse3uence, it is the e-ponent of the accumulated dilution in the considered medicinal potency, which indicates the degree of deconcentration, e-tension or *liberation of the energy of the ?-panded Field. #aking as definitions of both magnitudes =CF and ?F> the chosen above, we have parameters that bestow a trustworthy value to the intensity generated by friction, and to the e-pansion produced by deconcentration. #he higher the value of the Concentrated Field, the higher is the intensity generated by friction has the remedyR the higher the value of the ?-panded Field greater is the e-pansion of the energy field by deconcentration has the remedy. Conversely the numbers decrease in the same manner. #aking into account the definitions of Concentrated Field and ?-panded Field, and the measuring system for each of these magnitudes, we shall see how these values become a most useful tool to relate them to the clinical evaluation, and they fill an enormous void in homeopathic doctrine. s homeopathy has at its disposal these concepts, for the first time two other magnitudes which to date were estimated, may now be calculated0 the measure of @ynamism or the capacity to stimulate iologic ?nergy and the measure of the %atio or degree of therapeutic accord between both basic magnitudes =CF and ?F> which is an inde- of tolerance and curative capacity of the homeopathic remedy. *.
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Dyna"is" DF is the "easure o! the ca$acity o! the re"edy to sti"ulate Biologic Energy. 7t constitutes an inde> o! the de$th in %hich the "edica"ent o$erates= sho%ing the activity o! the Concentrated @ield= in the e>tension o! its E>$anded @ield o! in!luence= and is related to the gravity and,or ti"e o! evolution o! the disease to treat. Bt is a fact that the greater the intensity generated y !riction has the Concentrated @ield= and the greater the deconcentration o! energy has the E>$anded @ield= the greater %ill e the ca$acity o! the re"edy to sti"ulate Biologic Energy. There!ore= the dyna"is" o! the re"edy "ust e considered as a $roduct o! oth values. #his is also an accumulative magnitude, so its value should reflect this property. Measuring Dyna"is" DF it is "easured "ulti$lying the value o! Concentrated @ield y the value o! E>$anded @ield= in the considered "edicinal $otency. #aking the previous e-amples0 @ynamism =@> of potency 12 HC0 =CF>12G ] =?F>27` =@> 2,EEG @ynamism =@> of potency 6G 0
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=CF>6,GGG ] =?F>17` =@> 771,GGG From the high figures of this inde-, comes the need Z especially for high potencies Z to establish a unit called @ynamic Unit =@U>, that allows the employment of smaller numbers. Considering as @ynamic Unit the value corresponding to @ynamism of the last potency of HahnemannJs Centesimal scale, or 6G HC, the most universal of potencies, conditions were set to define it so0 Dyna"ic #nit D#F is the Dyna"is" o! the last $otency o! Hahne"ann5s Centesi"al scale= or * HC= %hose Concentrated @ield is *= and its E>$anded @ield is (= there!ore its value is 2)=. @ynamism =@> of potency 6G HC0 Concentrated Field of potency 6G HC0 =CF> 6GG =1G]6G> ?-panded Field of potency 6G HC0 =?F> )G =1G N)G> @ynamism =@> of potency 6G HC0 =CF> 6GG ] =?F> )G ` 1E,GGG or =@U>`1 #aking the previous e-amples to determine their @ynamic Units0 @ynamism of potency 12 HC0 =@> 2,EEG 0 1E,GGG ` =@U> G,1 @ynamism of potency 6G 0 =@> 771,GGG 0 1E,GGG ` =@U> 27, Bn this manner, measuring @ynamism with @ynamic Units we employ smaller figures which makes calculating much easier. #he other magnitude that arises from the concepts of Concentrated Field and ?-panded Field is that of 6atio, which measures the harmony between both magnitudes, and will be treated as follows0 1.
6atio.
6atio 6F is the "easure o! the thera$eutic accordance et%een Concentrated @ield and E>$anded @ield o! the re"edy. 7t "easures the synergy that governs the oint action et%een these t%o "agnitudes and constitutes one o! the $rinci$al !actors o! tolerance and there!ore the curative ca$acity o! the "edicines. Bt is a magnitude that has an enormous relevance in the conception of scales of homeopathic remedies. Measuring 6atio 6F it is "easured y the Juotient !ro" dividing the value o! Concentrated @ield y the value o! E>$anded @ield in the considered "edicinal $otency. ?-ample0 %atio of potency 6G HC. CF 6GGD?F )G ` =%> %atio of potency 6G . CF 6GGGD?F 17 ` =%> 2G . 7 This "agnitude is o! ut"ost i"$ortance in the treat"ent o! diseases= as there e>ists a relation or Juotient o! o$ti"al Balance et%een concentrated @ield and E>$anded @ield so that oth e>ert the "a>i"u" thera$eutic synergy. The nearer this Juotient is to this value= the re"edy %ill e etter tolerated and "ore curative= the o$$osite ha$$ens %hen it is higher in res$ect to the value o! Balance.
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Bnferior 3uotients to the value of alance do not give better therapeutic results and make laboratory work difficult. Summing up, the four magnitudes are0 N
Concentrated @ield or measure of the state of the energy field with high intensity.
N
E>$anded @ield or measure of the state of the very deconcentrated energy field and devoid of great intensity.
N
Dyna"is" or measure of the capacity to stimulate iologic ?nergy.
N
6atio or measure of the therapeutic accordance between Concentrated Field and ?-panded Field.
#hey allow to 3uantify and compare HahnemannJs Centesimal scale =HC> and illesimal scale =>, and also the new ?3uilibrium scale =?3> a product of more than a decade of tests, which is displayed on a chart in the ne-t chapter. To e ale to relate these scales one to the other= in all o! the" %e "ust start !ro" the "illionth= achieved a!ter three hours o! trituration in the "ortar= according to nor"s laid do%n y Hahne"ann= in order that the initial degree o! the Concentrated @ield and that o! the E>$anded @ield in the dry $hase e uni!or" in all. #hese magnitudes are not applicable to medicines obtained by dynami'ing machines that employ $orsakovJs method, as their irregular deconcentration does not allow a sure measure of the ?-panded Field in remedies made this way, even less for the continuous flu-ion method, as its complete lack of common sense and of norms do not allow it to be 3ualified as a coherent method.
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CHAPTE6 The clue is revealed. @inding the value o! Balance. “To understand is not arriving at some logical conclusion, it is not an intellectual movement, it has no relation whatsoever with thought# 3e understand when the Intelligence that is not from the mind, as neither are /ife nor /ove, illuminates us!# "orge #orrent. “To understand what is, does not re1uire time "ut only complete o"servation!# "iddu $rishnamurti. s we now have the magnitudes of the homeopathic remedy, one may understand where is the clue to its mild action, its good toleration and deep activity. #he magnificent clinical results of e-perimentation on asthmatic volunteers, with the two last variants of the illionesimal scale referred in Chapter BB of this Second /art, illuminating concepts arise which reveal the reason of those astounding effects. Thus it is evident that the e>$lanation lies in the values o! 6atio as in the re!erred Millionesi"al scales= %ith 2 and %ith + succussions= such a"a?ing results are a conseJuence that their values o! 6atio are notoriously di!!erent to those o! the other scales. The "uch sought !or clue lies in the value o! 6atio %here the Juotient et%een oth !ields C@,E@F e>$resses the greater thera$eutic concordance or har"ony et%een the" in order to e>ert the "a>i"u" thera$eutic synergy. 7n $ractice= !acing a deter"ined intensity o! Concentrated @ield= to %hat e>tent "ust the E>$anded @ield e deconcentratedL Conversely= !acing a certain deconcentration o! the E>$anded @ield= %hat intensity "ust e a$$lied to the Concentrated @ieldL #he chart which will be shown clarifies the previous 3ueries and from it we may understand the phenomenon which could not be understood before due to the lack of magnitudes. This alanced or har"onic 6atio et%een the Concentrated @ield and the E>$anded @ield e>$resses the synergy o! the oint action o! oth. 7t is in the e>cellent thera$eutic concordance o! its lin&ed activity %here lies the secret o! these astounding results= and the crucial datu" consists in achieving the o$ti"al value o! the 6atio in the Juotient C@,E@F= that is in acceding to the "a>i"u" alance et%een the". oth magnitudes, Concentrated Field and ?-panded Field, in an ade3uate proportion, may produce marvelous curative responses, mild and at the same time deep, the condition is that they keep a harmony between them, besides appealing to the art of prescribing according to the route of intake, to the best choice of fre3uency between doses and the remedy according to the law of similarity. chieving this optimal value of therapeutic concordance is to accede to that crucial point where the highest synergism between both magnitudes arises, which van3uishes old and grave Chronic @iseases.
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#his optimal relationship was the most sought for goal of these tests, achieving at the end of 1II the value of ma-imum balance, which later constituted the core of a new scale of homeopathic remedies, in which each one of its potencies preserves that relationship of unsurpassable synergy. #hroughout these years of e-periments, ten scales were reKected, but each one of them made a progressive appro-imation to the sought ideal. Bn the conception and in the results of the eleventh scale that goal was achieved when for each one of its potencies the value of alance in the %atio between the Concentrated Field and the ?-panded Field was reached. #hus the purpose of attaining a greater curative capacity and a better tolerance for the remedy was accomplished. As a conseJuence o! these investigations %e reached the iterated con!ir"ation that the sought !or Balance has the value o! 2 oneF= and "ay e e>$ressed as Balance BF S C@F,E@F S 2 For e-ample, a potency that has GG accumulated succussions =CF GG>, must have a deconcentration or accumulated dilution of 1G NGG =?F GG>, for its alance to be 1 =one>. CF ` GG ` 1 ?F GG Bn this relation of optimal harmony, its capacity to cure and its tolerance shall be at a ma-imum. 7n the !ollo%ing chart= %hen a$$lying the "agnitude 6atio to the scales o! ho"eo$athic re"edies= a andage !alls !ro" our eyes and the !unda"ental i"$ortance o! the value o! Balance BS2F in "edical $ractice is revealed in all its signi!icance. Clinical observation shows how the degree of tolerance and therefore its capacity to cure depends entirely on the pro-imity to or distance from the %atio value of one =1>. Scale
Final %atio =%>
#olerance and curative capacity
1GN)G
6GGD)G ` +
&ood
1G
1GN6G
6GGD6G ` 2
6G
1GG
1GN17
6GGGD17 ` -
6G cC 6G 6G 6G
2GG 1GGG GG 1GG
1G N)G 1GN22E * *
6G 6G
1G
Sometimes not acceptable any times not acceptable 9ery bad 9ery bad ad Sometimes not acceptable ?-cellent ?-cellent
=> 6G HC 6G W
Shakings or succussions per potency 1G
@econcentration
)GGGD)G ` 6GGGGD22E ` 1GGGD22E ` 6GGGD22E `
* *
2 2*2 (+ 2*
6GGD22E ` 2=*2 1GD22E ` =(+
=> HC is Hahnemann CentesimalR W is @ecimalR is Hahnemann illesimalR cC is current Centesimal done wih a dynami'er, employing $orsakovJs method, and is illionesimal. @econcentration or ?-panded Field of potency 6G current Centesimal done with a dynami'er employing $orsakovJs method, actually cannot be measured, as its deconcentration is erratic. Here it was imagined as having a regular deconcentration only as a didactic aim. From this chart the notable evidence points out that0
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#he optimal value of alance is around 1 =one>.
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#he HC scale is distanced points from the alance value. #he W scale is distanced 1G points from the alance value. #he scale is distanced 2G points from the alance value. #he cC scale is distanced 1GG points from the alance value.
=the illionesimal scale Z and its variants Z was abandoned in favour of a more balanced one>. #hese values per se e-plain the good, fair and bad results observed clinically. #he potencies made by continuous flu-ion are not compared here due to the reasons mentioned previously. s we see in the previous chart, the instruction to apply 2GG or more succussions to each potency in the current Centesimal scale =instead of 1G> by means of dynami'ing machines that employ $orsakovJs method, while this is not based on e-perimental laboratory findings relating it to clinical observation, alters and denatures the norms given by Hahnemann, outcome of meticulous tests and countertests carried out for years. #hey produce the “furious and even dangerous violence! which he pointed out. %emedies prepared in this manner have in the last potency ),GGG or more accumulated succussions instead of 6GG, so its %atio values pass from being points away from alance to 1GG points away, in conse3uence change their clinical responses from &ood to 9ery ad. Scale
Shakings or succussions per potency
6G HC
1G
6G cC
2GG
CF
@econcentratio n
?F
%atio
#olerance and curative capacity
6GG
1G N)G
)G
6GGD)G ` +
&ood
),GG G
1GN)G
)G
),GGGD)G `2
9ery ad
?very day, patients and doctors are witnesses of the results due to this baseless pharmaceutical practice by ignoring HahnemannJs norms and by omitting the cumulative character of the Concentrated Field =shakings or succussions>. Bn the ne-t chart, compare the following four potencies, the last one belongs to the new scale ?3uilibrium, which will be e-plained in its proper Chapter. ll have the same Concentrated Field value, but different values for the ?-panded Field, therefore their %atio values are not the same.
/otency
6 =illesimal> 6G W =@ecimal> 6G HC =Hahnemann> ?3. =?3uilibrium>
CF
?F
%atio
#olerance and curative capacity
6GG
21
21
6GG
6G
2
6GG
)G
+
Sometimes not acceptable Sometimes not acceptable &ood
6GG
6GG
2
?-cellent
s we can see, the curative responses are very different and the clue to a better curative capacity lies in *unfurling the ?-panded Field so that the %atio between it and the Concentrated Field =CFD?F> be 1 =one>.
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4ot all the attention must be given to the Concentrated Field giving the greater number of shakings or succussions possible, ignoring the importance of the ?-panded Field as the latter is indispensable to be able to reach t he value of alance ` 1 =one>. Bn curative results it is not the same having a Concentrated Field of 6GG with an ?-panded Field of 21 which in potency 6 of the illesimal scale has a %atio value of 17, than having the same Concentrated Field with an ?-panded Field of 6GG which in potency of the ?3uilibrium scale has a %atio value of 1. Bn short, the e>cellence in tolerance and also its !ull ca$acity to cure are $laced around the value o! Balance S 2 oneF= as in that 6atio the degree o! energy lieration &ee$s an o$ti"al relationshi$ %ith its concentration. Many o! the 6atio5s values dis$layed in the $revious charts e>$lain $er se the !reJuent aggravations and the ad "edicinal tolerance that are oserved in daily $ractice= har"ing the $atients and har"!ul !or ho"eo$athy. earing in mind that alance => has a value of 1 =one>, in the first chart displayed in this Chapter, one notices that no scale has that e-act relation, though the two last illionesimals clinically have that value and to that end the di fference between them is irrelevant. From the results that the chart e-hibits, it is noteworthy that tolerance and curative capacity are e-cellent with values around 1, good in value , and from there on both capacities become ad and very ad responses according to their progression. #herefore, it may be affirmed that the ideal scale is the one that in each o! its $otencies has the Balance eJual to one B S 2F. %emedies prepared in a way that the 3uotients between the referred magnitudes be inferior to the value of 1 =one> also have an e-cellent curative and tolerance response as those of alance, but they hamper laboratory work due to the large amount of flasks re3uired for their preparation, conclusion reached after testing an e-perimental scale with a value of % ` G,66 and ?F ` 22I) =1G N22I)> which demanded the use of more than )GG flasks. Having at our dis$osal the conce$t o! Balance= this can e a$$lied in e>a"ining the scales re!erred to in the chart= %hich had to have the !ollo%ing a"ount o! sha&ings $er $otency to e ale to reach the value o! Balance Scale HC W cC
Shakings or succussions per /otency 2 1 2 E
%atio =%> in the end potency )GD)G ` 1 6GD6G ` 1 1GD17 ` 1 =appro-.> )GD)G ` 1 27GD22E ` 1 =appro-.>
(e must remember that Hahnemann achieved the e-act value of alance when he gave two shakings per potency in the Centesimal scale, as he wrote in *Chronic @iseases. 4evertheless, as he intended to increase shakings and at the same time avoid aggravations, he increased them to 1G shakings per potency and 1G more shakings previous to each one of the multiple doses diluted “in a large amount of water! , observing that the remedy was of an acceptable tolerance. He called this procedure “variation of the degree of potency!. (hat follows is that to preserve the value of alance in the illesimal scale and apply to each potency 1GG succussions, Hahnemann would have had to reach a deconcentration or final dilution 2G times greater. ?ach potency would have had a deconcentration of 1D1,GGG,GGG instead of 1DG,GGG.
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#here is a widespread ignorance of the fundamental importance of the cumulative character of succussions, which #he #eacher had pointed out, due to the lack of e-perimental laboratory work related clinically for the training of homeopathic doctors. Bn homeopathic te-tbooks referring to the preparation of medicines in the Centesimal scale, it is indicated that to each potency G to 1GG shakings may be given, that is to say for potency 6G it would mean 1,GG and 6,GGG accumulated shakings respectively, considering erroneously that one as the other of the remedies obtained in this manner are similar in their therapeutic responses. #hese figures are impressive when compared with those employed by Hahnemann in the Centesimal scale0 1G shakings per potency and an accumulated final of 6GG of them. The Concentrated @ield cannot e evaluated %ithout ta&ing into account the accu"ulative character that this "agnitude has in the considered $otency= and the sa"e ha$$ens in the E>$anded @ield. The great relevance in res$ect to its curative e!!ects that Hahne"ann assigned to the di!!erence o! a$$lying - or 2 sha&ings $er $otency in the Centesi"al scale= e>$ressed in his %or& Chronic Diseases= gives us an idea o! the signi!icance o! this !actor. He who bears in mind the cumulative character of shakings and succussions, and relates work in the e-perimental laboratory with clinical practice, may verify with certainty what was previously e-pressed. Bn reference to the clinical importance of the accumulation of shakings, the reader is referred to the First /art of this book, Chapter BB, corresponding to the Centesimal scale where it is treated under the title *#he cumulative character of friction or shakings, in which it relates that Hahne"ann co"$ared the activity o! Drosera $re$ared %ith - and %ith - sha&ings $er $otency= a!!ir"ing that the !or"er endangers the $atient5s li!e= the latter cures. (e iterate that deconcentration or ?-panded Field of potency 6G current Centesimal, made with a dynami'er using $orsakovJs method, actually cannot be measured due to its erratic behaviour. Bn the previous and following charts it was imagined as having a regular deconcentration, only as a didactic procedure, and not forgetting that there are no trustworthy assessments that allow us to know its real value of ?-panded Field. Bn remedies obtained by $orsakovJs method with widespread dynami'ing machines which apply 6GG succussions per potency altering even more HahnemannJs Centesimal scale which only gives 1G manual shakings per potency, the calculation of @ynamism of potency 6G current Centesimal that is displayed in the following chart proves its dangerousness. Scale
6G HC
Shakings or succussions per potency 1G
ccumulated shakings or succussions 6GG
@econcentration
@ynamism
@ynamic Units =U@>
1GN)G
6GG ] )G ` 1 1E,GGG N)G 6G cC 6GG I,GGG 1G I,GGG ] )G ` 6G 7G,GGG =HC is Hahnemann Centesimal and cC is current Centesimal made with a dynami'er using $orsakovJs method>. #he value of @ynamism 7G,GGG, or of 6G @U of this potency current Centesimal is e-tremely high, as it surpasses @ynamism of potency 6G , which is of 27, @U and is 6,GGG_ greater than the 6G Hahnemann Centesimal. ikewise we can understand the enormous unbalance shown by the calculation of the value of its %atio. Scale 6G HC
%atio =%> 6GGD)G ` +
I1
6G cC
I,GGGD)G ` 2+
#his value of %atio, distanced 1G points from the value of alance e-plains the violent aggravations that so fre3uently are seen in daily practice. et the reader imagine what happens with potencies 1,GGG, ,GGG, 1G,GGG and higher of the current Centesimal scale, made with a dynami'er employing $orsakovJs method. #he two previous charts show that the potency 6G current Centesimal with 6G @ynamic Units, and a %atio value of 1G, made with a dynami'ing machine using $orsakovJs method, has a value greatly distanced from the optimal therapeutic concordance, therefore it is a very decompensated medicine, and on account of the great @ynamism it has, i t e-erts its activity very deeply, therefore it rings aout an unalanced and violent sti"ulus to Biologic Energy. 4evertheless, as we e-pressed previously, due to the fact that deconcentration produced by $orsakovJs method of a single flask is irregular, its conse3uences not always have the dangerousness they should have if this accumulated deconcentration were regular, and is at the same time the reason why these magnitudes are not applicable to remedies made with this method. With 6atio values higher than 2 oneF= the "ore energy in concentrated state is trans!erred to the e>$anded state= the re"edy %ill have a etter curative activity as in the case o! high Juotients= energy is $ure "edicinal violence. 7t is $ossile that curative energy "ay act only under the state o! E>$anded @ield= though this and Concentrated @ield constitute a one and only !ield o! energy. This is de"onstrated y intensi!ying e>clusively the Concentrated @ield= a$$lying nu"erous sha&ings !or a long ti"e to a "edicinal solution %ithout diluting it= %hich "a&es it clinically intolerale. Summing up0 4
Concentrated @ield C@F is constituted y the energy generated y the high intensity a$$lied= %hereas the E>$anded @ield E@F is the !ield o! in!luence o! that !or"er and e>$resses the degree o! lieration o! that energy.
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Dyna"is" DF is the su" o! the high charge C@F and the e>$ansion o! its !ield o! in!luence E@F and "easures the ca$acity o! oth o! the" to sti"ulate Biologic Energy.
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6atio 6F is the degree o! har"ony et%een the Concentrated @ield and the E>$anded @ield E@F= and "easures the thera$eutic concordance et%een oth states. The greater the intensity a$$lied= greater e>$ansion or lieration o! its !ield o! in!luence is reJuired.
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The o$ti"al $oint o! this thera$eutic concordance is the value o! Balance BF.
#herefore, the curing capacity of a remedy for its use in continuous treatment of Chronic @iseases is linked to0 N
that the chosen remedy be the only one and similar especially in its peculiar symptoms, and it be an anti$soric if itJs a non venereal chronic disease, which will be prescribed in series with other antipsorics.
N
the appropriate choice of the scale whose value of %atio be the closest to the value of alance = ` 1>R
N
the appropriate choice of potencies that shall be used in increasing dinami'ation, starting by the lowestR
I2
N
the appropriate choice of intake routeR
N
the appropriate choice of fre3uency of doses and
N
the appropriate choice of amount of dose to prescribe.
The notion o! o$ti"al thera$eutic concordance C@F,E@F or o! "a>i"u" synergy e>$ressed y the value o! Balance is one o! the "ost i"$ortant results o! this %or& o! e>$eri"ental laoratory carried out a!ter 2+ years= it is also one o! the reasons !or %riting this oo&. central issue already related was the search for this =CFD?F> optimal correspondence, which was clinically revealed through the therapeutic responses. nother fundamental aspect was the understanding of the entity called ?-panded Field and its function in the @ynamism of the homeopathic remedy, which shall be treated in the ne-t Chapter.
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CHAPTE6 7 The e>$ansion o! the energy !ield o! the re"edy. “* perceive the essential to understand the multiple!# ao #se. (hen Hahnemann designed the Centesimal and illesimal scales, his main goal was to apply to each potency the greatest possible amount of shakings or succussions, as the greater the amount, greater would be its capacity to reestablish health. He assigned all the curative aptitude to those shakings or succussions, 3ualifying dilution as “devoid of all therapeutic activity! and only destined to “moderate the strength of the medicament!# “This nota"le transformation of the properties of natural su"stances due to the mechanical action of friction and succussion (and "y adding a neuter su"stance, solid or li1uid, that serves as a permanent su"stratum to the particles of matter so transformed to "e separate) develops and enhances its dynamic forces, latent, masked, as "y this procedure the mechanical activity alters even the elemental structure of the matter!# $$ Hahnemann then attributed to friction done in the mortar with the dry remedy or by shakings or succussions with the remedy in fluid, all the development of the medicinal powers and all the capacity to “increase its power of penetration!, deeming deconcentration or dilution as “non medicinal! and “devoid of all therapeutic activity!, which plays “an indispensa"le "ut accessory role!, “only a secondary condition!, and whose sole obKect is to “moderate the strength of the medicament! in the same degree its friction is increased. He thought that there must be a correspondence or relation between shakings or succussions and dilution, and this relation linked both magnitudes. Bn practice, he did not doubt that for a greater friction =shakings or succussions> he needed to achieve greater deconcentration =dilutions> of the remedy to avoid aggravations. He could not increase the amount of shakings or succussions as he intended, without increasing the dilution of which he thought as “only a secondary condition!, in a proportion he had to estimate. Summari'ing his convictions0 N
ll medicinal activity is given only by friction =shakings and succussions>.
N
@econcentration or dilution is necessary but not active0 *only an accessory condition devoid of all therapeutic activity!#
N
#here is a relation or correspondence that links both magnitudes0 friction and deconcentration. Bf friction is increased, deconcentration must be increased simultaneously.
N
#he relation or correspondence between both magnitudes were evaluated by estimation.
4evertheless, from concepts of 4ew /hysics, from e-perimental work of more than a decade e-pressed in this book and having been able to clinically observe the activity of very high deconcentrations as a result from using precision micropipettes, a new and astounding 11I
S. Hahnemann, *+rganon, )th edition, paragraph 2)I translated from &erman to French by @r. /. Schmidt, /aris. ?d. 9igot Frres, 1I2, pages 21)D.
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finding arises of great importance for the development of dynamism of the homeopathic remedy. The so called dilution or deconcentration o! the !ield o! energy= or E>$anded @ield= is not a "agnitude devoid o! thera$eutic activity %hose only goal is to "oderate "edicinal strength= Juite the o$$osite= it is an active and !unda"ental agent in the curative dyna"is" o! the re"edy. Bt is a factor as important as Concentrated Field, the latter as a result of friction in the fascinating and e-traordinary process of dynami'ation of substances. /recision micropipettes have been able to divide the medicinal drop into "ost "inute "easurale !ractions thus allowing the field to e-pand easily in a measure previously not imagined, making evident the fundamental therapeutic activity of the ?-panded Field. n e-ample is given comparing the value of deconcentration of the last Hahnemann illesimal potency which is 17 =1G N17> and the last ?3uilibrium potency which is I =1G NI>, and this means that the e-pansion of the latt er is ))7_ greater 12G. Having reached these very high deconcentrations of the ?-panded Field and relating them to different intensities of the Concentrated Field, the importance of the former as also the scope of the Koint action, were revealed clinically. So it is now understood that it is not a si"$le deconcentration or dilution o! the "atter= a vacuu" devoid o! thera$eutic activity. #he new concept implies0 N
That it is a $o%er!ul thera$eutic energy called E>$anded @ield= that coe>ists %ith the Concentrated @ield. Both are t%o states o! a sole entire !ield o! energy.
4
Even i! deconcentration "eans decreasing the intensity o! the !ield o! energy= %hat is !unda"ental is that at the ti"e it e>$ands notaly allo%ing it to e>ert the greater curative a$titude as this is in direct relation to the degree o! its e>$ansion.
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That the deconcentration o! the E>$anded @ield inevitaly "ust &ee$ thera$eutic concordance %ith the intensity o! the Concentrated @ield.
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The higher the Juotient o! the 6atio et%een the Concentrated @ield and the E>$anded @ield over the value o! Balance= the thera$eutic concordance %ill e lo%er and so %ill e "edicinal tolerance= and lo%er %ill e the a$titude to recover health.
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That achieving Balance et%een oth "agnitudes the highest synergy is reached acceding to a greater ca$acity to cure.
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That !or ho"eo$athy= the conce$t o! e>$ansion or lieration o! the !ield o! energy= in $lace o! that o! si"$le dilution and the !inding o! the "a>i"u" thera$eutic concordance C@,E@F constitute t%o ne% curative tools.
Bn the WBWth century, Faraday and a-well introduced the notion of energy !ield= or condition in the surrounding space of a body charged electromagnetically, capable to influence over other charged bodies and their fields. ater, ?insteinJs theory of relativity e-tensively developed the notion of field of energy. #o have an obKective evidence of a field of energy the reader should remember the area of e-tant forces in the space among poles of magnets when they are near to each other.
12G
#he ?3uilibrium Scale is developed in Chapter 9BB of this Second /art.
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7t "ay e a!!ir"ed that the energy !ield o! dyna"i?ed re"edies is o! a nature si"ilar to that o! Biologic Energy= %hich %ould e>$lain their interaction. Summing up, the simple raw medicinal substances i.e.0 non dynami'ed do not stimulate iologic ?nergy as they act in the chemical field and not in the energy field and must be rubbed and deconcentrated successively up to achieve a degree of e-pansion that allows them to reach the state of ?-panded Field, which through greater friction reaches high intensity, which is to say that part of it takes on another state which is that of Concentrated Field, having both to be in alance to e-ert all its curative capacity. Bf both states Z Concentrated Field and ?-panded Field Z grow in harmony, a medicinal dynamism arises with such a therapeutic capacit y that healthJs lost order is recovered. 7t is then reJuired that to a higher intensity o! the !ield o! energy there should also e a greater !reeing or its e>$ansion. (hen Hahnemann diluted the remedy in a “large amount of water! and applied 1G shakings previous to each dose, thus increasing the “degree of potency!, %hat he $recisely did %as to increase the intensity o! the !ield and also lierate the concentrated energy y e>$anding it "ore. The i"$ortance o! the state o! E>$anded @ield is revealed in the asolute need that there e>ist a alanced relationshi$ et%een that energy and that o! the state o! Concentrated @ield= !or the re"edy to e %ell tolerated and there!ore curative. Besides= i! e>$eri"entally the Concentrated @ield is "aintained !i>ed a!ter a$$lying "any succussions to it= and the E>$anded @ield is "odi!ied decreasing or increasing the dilutions= the e!!ects o! the re"edies $re$ared in this "anner run !ro" a “furious violence” to the "ildest cure res$ectively. @urther"ore= su$$osing it %ere $ossile to consider the" in an isolated "anner= the Concentrated @ield %ould not e thera$eutic as it is only intensity %ithout "easure= and the energy could only cure in the state o! E>$anded @ield. But as they are t%o states coe>isting in one sole energy= oth are interde$endent and none could e>ist or act %ithout the other. +ne evidence of the enormous therapeutic power of the ?-panded Field is manifest in comparing two potencies with similar Concentrated Fields and with different degrees of e-pansion. /otency ?3. is much more “powerful! than potency 6G HC, as shown by clinical verification during one decade. Bn both the Concentrated Field is almost e3ual, as ?3. has 2II accumulated succussions, and 6G HC has 6GG accumulated shakings, therefore the greater therapeutic power of the former cannot lie in that magnitude. #he notable difference is found in the values of the ?-panded Field, while in the former =?3.> it is of 2II =1G N2II>, in the latter =HC> it is )G =1G N)G>, that is that the former is almost GG_ more e-panded than the latter. There lies the di!!erence. This signi!icantly "ore e>tended !ield o! energy o! the re"edy is %hat esto%s that notale greater thera$eutic ca$acity= to which is added the value of e-tant balance between both Fields. Conse3uently, the therapeutic importance of the ?-panded Field radically alters our concept of the dynami'ing process of substances. Bt ama'es he who relates clinical findings with e-perimental laboratory, that under the light of this new notion, and considering the two basic magnitudes involved in the process of dynami'ation, that the state of ?-panded Field be the one that plays the leading role in the
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conception of new scales, when previously, for Hahnemann it was the state of Concentrated Field. Bf the founder of Homeopathy created his two scales with the intention of applying to each potency the greater amount of shakings or succussions possible to produce a more intense Concentrated Field, employing dilution or ?-panded Field as an “accessory! factor, “devoid of all therapeutic activity!, today the e3uation is inverted as the concept of field of energy and the value of alance are available. No% the goal is to e>$and or lierate the !ield o! energy= deconcentrate it or dilute it as "uch as $ossile= a$$lying to it intensity or !riction in the necessary "easure= so that the Juotient et%een Concentrated @ield and E>$anded @ield e o! "a>i"u" synergy= that is= that oth e alanced to one another and in this %ay reach the value as near as $ossile to one BS2F. #he definition of magnitudes in homeopathy, the notable change in the concept of simple dilution to “attenuate or moderate! dynami'ation, to the new one consisting in *liberation or e-pansion of the field of energy, and the finding of the value of alance or ma-imum synergy between Concentrated Field and ?-panded Field, revolutioni'e our conception on the development of dynami'ing substances. #o achieve this, precision micropipettes which were used to *build the ?3uilibrium scale were of great help, with drops 1GG times smaller than those employed by Hahenmann, who to pour only one drop, with great effort had to abrade with sand the interior wall of the neck of every glass flask. #here is no doubt that modern techni3ues and instruments, such as precision micropipettes, and concepts of the new physics which Hahnemann did not know, allow at present to accede to a great advance in resources which the homeopathic doctors can count on to cure. Bncorporating these concepts to a new medicinal scale whose ratio between Fields must be balanced, the stimuli given by remedies thus prepared to iologic ?nergy, provoke a mild and deep curative response, if the medicine is the similar and if the routes of administration and the fre3uency of the repetition of doses are the correct ones. Continuous treatment for years with ultiple @oses of these balanced remedies, produces a continuous reaction of the iologic ?nergy which gives place to a continuous curative process. #hus it introduces a decisive factor of stability at the levels of curative activity throughout time, which leads to the cure of very grave and old cases, which previously were incurable.
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CHAPTE6 77 The EJuiliriu" scale EJF The most perfect actions are the echo of patterns that are found in nature! orihei Ueshiba Bn 1II7, we began e-perimenting with new scales of homeopathic remedies, in 3uest of greater tolerance, dynamism and curative capacity, than those obtained with the illesimal scale. So as not to tire the reader, we shall avoid relating all the e-perimental process carried out for four years =1II7N1IIE>, during which 1G successive scales were designed, e-perimented and discarded, among them the illonesimals, referred to previously. (ith the definition of magnitudes of homeopathic remedies, the new conception of field of energy and its e-pansion, and particularly with the finding of the value of alance, it was intended to proKect an eleventh scale whose fundamental basis had to be that each one of the potencies reach this value of alance. HahnemannJs procedure to make the Centesimal and illesimal scales was to apply to each potency a fi-ed increase of the ?-panded Field =1D1GG and 1DG,GGG of deconcentration or dilution respectively>, and a fi-ed increase of the Concentrated Field =1G and 1GG shakings or succussions, respectively>, also for each potency. No% it %as dee"ed that !or the ne% $otencies to re!lect the est thera$eutic concordance et%een "agnitudes and clinical oservations= they should e lin&ed %ith the value o! Dyna"is"= %hich is the "agnitude that "easures the ca$acity to sti"ulate Biologic Energy= instead o! a$$lying se$arately to the E>$anded @ield= as to the Concentrated @ield= !i>ed increases devoid o! clinical corres$ondence. 7t %as resolved then to assign to these $otencies values o! Dyna"is" that %ere su"ulti$les or "ulti$les o! the Dyna"ic #nit= to reach very high deconcentrations o! the E>$anded @ield and a$$ly succussions that generate intensity and increase the Concentrated @ield only in the necessary "easure to "aintain the value o! Balance in each one o! the". #herefore, it was decided for the ?3uilibrium scale =?3>0 4
That all its $otencies have the value o! Balance.
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That Hahne"ann5s "ethod o! !riction and deconcentration o! the sustance in a dry "ediu" to reach the "illionth= a!ter three hours o! trituration in the "ortar= as Hahne"ann5s Centesi"al and Millesi"al scale= should continue.
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That in the !luid $hase !ollo% the $rocedure o! !or"ing the Millesi"al scale= %hich Hahne"ann e>$lained in $aragra$h -0 o! the (th edition o! Organon= $lus the $articular inter"ediate ste$s o! dilution o! this ne% scale=%ith the ai" to reach the intended deconcentrations.
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That all $otencies have Dyna"is" values that e su"ulti$lies or "ulti$les o! the Dyna"ic #nit.
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That it have values elo% the Dyna"ic #nit in the !irst $otencies to treat hy$erreactives= and in the last $otencies these values e high to treat hy$oreactives.
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That in the last $otency it reach doule the Dyna"is" o! Hahne"ann5s Millesi"al scale.
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That !ro" one $otency to the ne>t= there e su!!icient Dyna"is"= so its activity e clinically oserved= so as not to lea$ over $otencies to a$$reciate it.
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That conseJuently its nu"er o! $otencies "ay e reduced y hal!.
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That it e si"$le to "a&e.
Bn the middle of 1IIE, we achieved the intended goal deeming Zsomething later confirmed clinically Z that the potencies thus conceived have a milder activity, are better tolerated, and have greater aptitude to cure Chronic @iseases principally, with the condition of employing the art of choosing the appropriate similar remedy, the intake route and intervals between doses during continuous treatment with multiple doses. #his scale should be employed fundamentally to prepare antimiasmatic remedies Z the only ones capable of curing Chronic @iseases Z and especially the anti$sorics, as for the acute diseases HahnemannJs Centesimal scales up to potency 6G and of manual preparation is in general sufficient to achieve their remission. s the principal reason of the new scale is to have the value of alance => in all its potencies, it was called EI#797B67#M EJF, atin ae1ui`e3ual, and li"ra`scales. #he name refers to the state of the scales when both pans are balanced at the same height, thus alluding to the fact that in the new scale both basic magnitudes, the Concentrated Field and the ?-panded Field, are also in balance. The $rocedure that "ust e !ollo%ed to $re$are the EJuiliriu" scale is the sa"e that is e"$loyed !or the Millesi"al scale= as is descried in Organon= (th edition= $aragra$h -0 and its notes= e>ce$ting s$eci!ic ste$s the !or"er reJuires, which will be e-plained in the following note. #he starting point is one grain =) milligrams> of the substance to be dynami'ed, triturating it with lactose powder, to reach the millionth at the end of 6 hours, according to instructions alluded to in the previous paragraph. +ne powdered grain =) milligrams> of a millionth is diluted in a flask which contains GG drops of ) milligrams each, of a mi-ture of one part alcohol and 7 of distilled water, to which succussions must be applied. +ne microdrop of G,) milligrams of this solution Z obtained from the previous flask with a micropipette Z is dissolved in 1GG drops of alcohol G_ of ) milligrams each, and this operation of successive dilutions is repeated ) times. #o each one of the ) flasks, succussions are applied. ) milligram drop is taken from the last flask, and is diluted in 1GG drops of G_ alcohol of ) milligrams each one, in a flask that does not take succussions. &lobules whose si'e is such that 1GG of them weigh ) milligrams are impregnated with this mi-ture. +nce dry, these globules constitute the first ?3. potency. For the second ?3. potency, only one of these globules is dissolved in 1GG drops of G_ alcohol, of ) milligrams each one, and succussions are applied =previously it should be diluted in one drop of distilled water, as i t is not very soluble in alcohol>. +ne microdrop of G,) milligrams of this solution obtained with a micropipette is dissolved in a solution of 1GG drops of ) milligrams each of G_ alcohol, and this operation of successive dilutions is repeated twice. #o each one of the two flasks 7 succussions are applied. From the last flask a microdrop of ), milligrams is taken, with which G globules of the same si'e as the previous one are impregnated. +nce dry, these globules constitute the second potency of ?3.
1GG
s was done for the 2 nd potency, the procedure continues up to the 1 th, which is the last of the scale, varying only the number of steps of deconcentration, and the amount of succussions. #he ne-t chart shows the number of steps of deconcentration =G,GGG1, or 1 N7> and the amount of succussions re3uired for each flask, varies for each potency. /otenc @ynami @ynamis @econcentrati ?-pande Succussio Concentrat alanc y c Units m on steps d Field ns ed Field e 1 1D1) 1,12 ) 2I) 6 6 1 2 1DE 2,2G 2 7E 16 7E 1 6 1D7 7,GG 7 )I 21 )I 1 7 1D2 I,GGG I6 27 I6 1 1 1E,GGG I 167 71 167 1 ) 6 7,GGG 26 261 I 261 1 IG,GGG 1) 2II )E 2II 1 E 12),GGG 16 6) 6) 1 I I 1)2,GGG 1G 7G1 7 7G1 1 1G 16 267,GGG 2G 7E E7 7E 1 11 1 6G),GGG 1) 7 )I 7 1 12 21 6E,GGG 17 )1 )1 )1 1 16 2I 22,GGG 2) 27 1GI 27 1 17 6 ))),GGG 22 E1) I2 E1) 1 1 6 I7,GGG 6I I 1)1 I 1 4ote0 #he ?-panded Field of a millionth =1G N)> must be added to the e-panded field of the 1 st potency which has the value of 2I.
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1 &rainDGG drops ` )mgD62,GG mg ` 2 =N6> 1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 dropD1GG drops
` ) mgD),GG
CF`6 ) times ` 1=N27>
` 1 =N2>
?F`6
@U`1D1)
succussions to each of the flasks e-cept for the last one.
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1 globuleD 1GG drops ` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
CF`7E twice ` 1=NE>
` 2 =N1>
?F`7E
@U`1DE
7 succussions to each of the 2 flasks and to the first one. #he last step is the impregnation of globules, so succussions are not done, neither in this potency nor in all the following ones.
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1 globuleD 1GG drops ` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
CF`)I 7 times ` 1=N1)>
` 2 =N1>
?F`)I
@U`1D7
7 succussions to each of the 7 flasks and to the first one.
1G1
7
1 globuleD 1GG drops ` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
CF`I6 times ` 1=N2G>
` 2 =N1>
?F`I6
@U`1D2
7 succussions to each of the ) flasks.
1 globuleD 1GG drops ` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
CF`167 I times ` 1=N6)>
` 2 =N1>
?F`167
@U`1
7 succussions to each of the I flasks and to the first one.
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1 globuleD 1GG drops ` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
CF`261 26 times ` 1=NI2>
` 2 =N1>
?F`261
@U`6
7 succussions to each of the 26 flasks and to the first one.
1 globuleD 1GG drops ` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
CF`2II 1) times ` 1=N)7>
` 2 =N1>
?F`2II
@U`
7 succussions to each of the 1 flasks.
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1 globuleD 1GG drops ` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
CF`6) 16 times ` 1=N2>
` 2 =N1>
?F`6)
@U`
7 succussions to each of the 16 flasks and to the first one.
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1 globuleD 1GG drops ` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7>
CF`7G1 1G times ` 1=N7G>
1G2
?F`7G1
1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
` 2 =N1>
@U`I
7 succussions to each of the 1G flasks and to the first one.
1 G
1 globuleD 1GG drops
` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7>
1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
CF`7E
2G times ` 1=NEG>
` 2 =N1>
?F`7E
@U`16
7 succussions to each of the 21 flasks.
1 1
1 globuleD 1GG drops
` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7>
1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
CF`7
1) times ` 1=N)7>
` 2 =N1>
?F`7
@U`1
7 succussions to each of the 1) flasks and to the first one.
1 2
1 globuleD 1GG drops
` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7>
1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
CF`)1
17 times ` 1=N)>
` 2 =N1>
?F`)1
@U`21
7 succussions to each of the 17 flasks and to the first one.
1 6
1 globuleD 1GG drops
` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7>
1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
CF`27
2) times ` 1=N1G7>
` 2 =N1>
?F`27
@U`2I
7 succussions to each of the 2) flasks and to the first one.
1 7
1 globuleD 1GG drops
` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7>
1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
CF`E1)
22 times ` 1=NEE>
` 2 =N1>
1G6
?F`E1)
@U`6
7 succussions to each of the 26 flasks.
1
1 globuleD 1GG drops
` G.)mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7>
1 microdrop D 1GG drops ` G.) mgD),GG mg ` 1 =N7> 1 microdropD G globules ` ). mgD62. mg
CF`I
6I times ` 1=N1)>
?F`I
` 2 =N1>
@U`6
7 succussions to each of the 6I flasks and to the first one. #he first and last step of each potency are the same as those of the illesimal scale, the difference is that it uses in every last step a ) milligram drop to i mpregnate GG globules which weigh 62 milligrams, and the ?3uilibrium scale employs a microdrop of ), milligrams to impregnate G globules that weigh 62, milligrams, thus the result =G.2 or 2 N1> is the same in both. #he main difference lies in the intermediate steps of dilution or deconcentration =of G.GGG1 or 1 N7> which correspond to the ?3uilibrium scale and do not belong to the illesimal scale. s may be noted0 N #he ?3uilibrium scale differs from the illesimal scale, principally on account of having a number of intermediate steps of deconcentration or dilution of the ?-panded Field =G.GGG1 or 1 N7> different for each potency, carried out with precision micropipettes, attaining drops 1GG times smaller =G,) milligrams> than those attained by Hahnemann, aiming to achieve the value of alance => in each potency and the proKected values, submultiples and multiples of the @ynamic Unit. N #he new scale has the Concentrated Field or succussions shared among the dilution flasks for each potency, instead of receiving all the succussions together at the end of each potency. N #he slightly slightly variab variable le number number of succus succussion sions, s, 7 or , applied applied to each each of these these intermediate dilution flasks, is due to the need of reaching the e-act Concentration Field, to attain the value of alance in all potencies. N /otency 1 has a @ynamism e3ual to 1D1) of @U. N Bn potency , @U has the value of 1. 1. N /otency 1, end of the new scale has 6 @U. N eing able able to divide the drop into into one 1G times smaller, smaller, at the end of each potency, potency, only G globules are able to be impregnated, and as the new scale has half the potencies of , this means that the total amount a mount of globules is 2G times smaller. Bt is evident that the procedure to prepare the ?3uilibrium scale is basically similar to the illesimal scale. #he starting point for both is the millionth after three hours labour with the mortar. #he new ?3uilibrium scale can then be compared to the illesimal scale, taking for both the values of their final potencies. Factors to compare Concentrated Field =CF>
6G illesimal =>
1 ?3uilibrium =?3>
6,GGG
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1G7
?-panded Field =?F> %atio =%> @ynamism =@> final in @U Succussions per potency @ilution or e-pansion per potency Submultiples and multiples of @U mount of /otencies mount of globules used mount of flasks used
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2G.7
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27.
6
1GG
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T?S
6G
1
1,GGG
G
)G
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s the chart shows, the ?3uilibrium scale is is ) X more deconcentrated and 6 times times less frictioned than HahnemannJs illesimal scale, in order to reach the value of alance for each potency. esides, having that value in all its potencies, it has a better tolerance and a greater capacity to recover health. #he illesimal scale, having a %atio value of 2G points distant from the value of alance leads to results of fair tolerance and fair capacity to cure. #he chart shows shows that that @ynam @ynamism ism or capaci capacity ty to stimula stimulate te iolog iologic ic ?nergy ?nergy in the ?3uilibrium scale, reaches to more than twofold than in the illesimal scale. lth lthou ough gh 2 2 flas flasks ks must must be empl employ oyed ed for for the the new new scale scale inste instead ad of )G for for the the illesimal illesimal scale, which means a greater greater cost, nowadays it lacks the economic economic weight it had in HahnemannJs time. s for the fact that preparing the ?3uilibrium scale must be manual, the same as for the illesimal scale, as they do not adapt to the dynami'ing machines that employ $orsakovJs method, because both have a fluid phase and a dry phase of globule impregnation, this is not a hindrance due to the limited number of remedies to dynami'e, as the new scale should be prepared principally for antimiasthmatic remedies, and especially for anti$sorics, anti$sorics, whose whose number is only between )G and EG substances. #o tergiverse the norms of preparing the scale, as is fre3uently done with the illesimal scale, will lead to obtain remedies that do not belong to the ?3uilibrium scale, and the results will be very different to those obtained according to the norms and manually. And lastly the e>traordinary deconcentration o! the E>$anded @ield o! this ne% scale is noted= as it is i s ((1 greater than that o! the Millesi"al scale. #his e-ceptional e-ceptional e-pansion of the ?3uilibrium ?3uilibrium scale is evident evident when comparing comparing the average increase o! the E>$anded @ield $er $otency in each scale.
Scale Hahnemann Centesimal Hahnemann illesimal ?3uilibrium
verage in increase of of th the ??-panded Fi Field pe per po potency 2 7.I )
1G
s both magnitudes are balanced, the Concentrated Field also has an average increase of ) succussions per potency. Ta&ing the E>$anded @ield to such a"a?ingly high values= and considering that this crucial energy is in a state o! "a>i"u" synergy %ith the energy o! the Concentrated @ield due to the alance oth $arta&e= these re"edies have the greatest $o%er to cure. Bn the ne-t Chapter, a summary of the correct use of the ?3uilibrium scale for continuous treatment of Chronic @iseases for years will be displayed.
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CHAPTE6 777 Continuous treat"ent !or years %ith the EJuiliriu" scale in Chronic Diseases. “The dose of a homeopathic chosen remedy and highly potentiated * will never "e prepared so minute as not to "e stronger than the natural illness and not "e capa"le of surpassing its power*! S. Hahnemann.121 #he ?3uilibrium scale has the ma-imum capacity to stimulate iol ogic ?nergy, and %as develo$ed to treat Chronic Diseases, as for acute diseases, habitually HahnemannJs Centesimal scale is sufficient, up to potency 6G, prepared manually, employing multiple flasks and prepared with 1G shakings per potency. Conforming to conditions set down by Hahnemann, doctors shall prescribe0
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+nly anti$sorics, if the chronic illness is non venereal, they shall be administered in series.
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For peculiar symptoms be they physical andDor mental.
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+ne globule, sometimes two.
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Choosing the most convenient medicinal intake route.
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astly, Sulphur or Hepar Sulphur shall be prescribed before, during or after the use of anti$sorics.
For more than a decade, the new ?3uilibrium scale was tested in oral, percutaneous and inhalatory routes, to treat the most various chronic pathologies in hyperreactive, normoreactive and hyporeactive volunteers, duration of therapy, fre3uency and amount of doses, employing a dry globule or in solution. #he out come of all this e-perience is s yntheti'ed here0 Bn the last or ) years of his life, Hahnemann applied continuous treatment “for months”. With the EJuiliriu" scale= continuous treat"ent "ay e carried out not only “for months” ut !or years, always choosing the remedy similar to the present symptoms, which vary in time as new symptomatic layers crop up. ;o= this continuous treat"ent !or years introduces the decisive !actor o! staility at sti"ulation levels in the course o! ti"e= asent %hen single Doses are e"$loyed. s the unbalance is subKected to a constant not declining activity for long periods, it gradually yields and iologic ?nergy gently recovers its order.
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s was stated ultiple @oses, are repeated without waiting for the symptoms to reappear an indispensable re3uisite for Single @oses. As each one o! the 2+ $otencies o! the EJuiliriu" scale has the o$ti"al thera$eutic concordance= et%een Concentrated @ield and E>$anded @ield= that is= that they all reach the value o! Balance= their de$th and ca$acity to sti"ulate Biologic Energy is "a>i"al. Due to this great ca$acity to sti"ulate= t%o "ost i"$ortant conditions "ust e care!ully res$ected as to avoid aggravations %ith the loss o! curative a$titude= during continuous treat"ent !or years o! chronic diseases. #hese two conditions refer to0 B> the "edicinal inta&e route, and BB> !reJuency in re$etition o! doses. 7F Medicinal inta&e route. #he outcome of all clinical e-perience accumulated during one decade shows that for Continuous treatment the EJuiliriu" scale "ust e al%ays e"$loyed y inhalatory route. Bn these prolonged treatments of chronic diseases which may last years, the oral route and the percutaneous route cause aggravations. @or nor"oreactive $atients= inhalation o! the gloule in a solution shall e e"$loyed. Bn a 1GG ml. caramel colored flask half full with alcoholi'ed water at _ or 1G_, one globule the si'e of a poppy seed which has been previously impregnated with medicinal fluid and dried afterwards shall be diluted. efore each dose, 1G succussions shall be applied to the flask, and the indication is to inhale deeply once through each nostril, at night, before going to bed. @or hy$erreactive $atients only the inhalation o! the dry gloule= it is the only route %ell tolerated y these $atients, and shall be carried out in the following manner0 Bn a small 1G ml. caramel colored flask, one or two globules, the si'e of a poppy seed shall be placed, these having been previously impregnated with medicinal fluid, and later dried, to be inhalated by one or by both nostrils, according to reactivit y, at night, before going to bed. 7t is indis$ensale to %arn the $atient that a!ter every inhalation avoid e>haling into the !las&= as the va$or o! the e>haled air da"$ens and ruins the s"all gloules. Bt is useful to add to the flask E to 1G round rice grains called *mochi to keep a dry atmosphere, and besides they seem to be globules of a larger si'e, without them the flask seems empty, due to the minute si'e of the medicinal gl obules. 77F @recuency that doses should e re$eated. ?-perimentation and prolonged clinical use, definitely confirm that inhalations o! a gloule in a solution or o! a dry gloule "ust not e re$eated e!ore * days= as %ith shorter intervals and in continuous treat"ents !or years they $roduce aggravations in chronic diseases. n interval of 6G days between doses avoids superimposing the high level of stimulation of each dose over the preceding one, a conclusion reached after countless tests in which all possible fre3uencies were e-perimented.
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7n continuous treat"ents !or years= the oral route as the $ercutaneous route= and also intervals shorter than * days in the re$etition o! doses lead to aggravations %hose intensity is in direct rates to the loss o! its curative $o%er. (e reiterate that the above is referred to long lasting treatments, sometimes several years, a reason why tolerance must be optimal. #hroughout therapy of Chronic @iseases using the ?3uilibrium scale it is convenient to egin y the lo%est dyna"i?ations= ascending to the i""ediate su$erior $otency every t%o to !our "onths. Though it "ay see" a"a?ing= in these continuous treat"ents o! chronic diseases !or years %ith the EJuiliriu" scale= it "ay e asserted that a$$ro>i"ately ) or "ore o! the $atients tolerate etter and cure in a gentle %ay= inhaling the dry gloule every * days= than %ith a li&e gloule in solution. (hen presenting the doctrine of Chronic iasmas, Hahnemann affirmed0 “But making the world know of this great discovery I regret I cannot e.ect the dou"t if my contemporaries will understand the logical se1uence of these, my teachings * or if, alarmed "y the unusual character of many of these revelations, they may prefer to re.ect them "efore having started to test them, in conse1uence turning them useless#! $ s inhalation every 6G days of the dry globule of the ?3uilibrium scale to subdue vast Chronic @iseases also has an “unusual character” , the doctorJs own preKudice may become the great roadblock to admit its effectivity. (hat follows is a sche"e !or $rescriing doses o! increasing intensity according to the $atients reactivity and the duration o! the chronic illness, for treatments for years with the ?3uilibrium scale0
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pplying the ?3uilibrium scale for years by means of ultiple @oses every 6G days by inhalation, when aggravations do happen, these are notably different to those observed in treatments which employ scales distanced from the value of alance, and employ Single @oses and the oral route. Aggravations e"$loying the ne% scale y inhalation are sutle and consist in a slight increase o! one or several sy"$to"s o! the state eing treated. At other ti"es sy"$to"s su!!ered $reviously to the state %hich led to consultation= rea$$ear slightly= and on occasions these sutle aggravations a$$ear as cures that do not co"$lete. All this ehooves the ho"eo$athic doctor and his $atient to e a%are o! these $heno"ena %hich indicate oversti"ulation.
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7n other cases= having $rescried an erroneous re"edy= it $roduces in the $atient the cro$$ing u$ o! sy"$to"s not $resent $reviously and that do not $ertain to the s$here o! action o! the given re"edy= ut sho% %ith "ore clearness the i"age o! si"illi"u" there!ore easing the choice. #he r5sum5 of a clinical case is an e-ample of the subtlety the aggravation may present, impeding the complete cure of a chronic disease. CS? HBS#+%T0 H. S. female, age 67R consulted for suffering psoriasis since the age of 1I, with pla3ues and scabs on hands, knees, legs, sacrum, nape of the neck and scalp, accompanied by arthralgia o! !ingers= aggravated u$on %a&ening and alleviated y "ove"ent= with progressive deformation of nails. 6etarted "enses and "uscular contractions in nec&= also alleviated y "ove"ent. #he patient felt hot, she li&ed very hot !ood and %as a!raid to e alone= su!!ered claustro$hoia and anguish on %a&ening. Several members of her family had psoriasis, varicous vens and renal colics. (as medicated with a continuous treatment of ycopodium in ?3uilibrium scale, with low potencies, inhaling a dry globule every 1 days, a fre3uency the author employed years ago. dry globule was used thinking she was hyperreactive, according to the clinical picture. Bn the course of the first year of treatment all her symptoms cured, e-cept pla3ues on the scalp which seemed to be impervious to treatment. ;ur$risingly and al"ost auto"atically= they disa$$eared %hen the !reJuency o! inhalation o! the dry gloule %as set at every * days= sho%ing ho% a sutle aggravation i"$eded the co"$lete cure. #he aggravation caused by an e-cessive fre3uency of doses, was displayed as a resistance to a complete cure, more than a s ymptomatic increase. nother interesting case is the following, which shows a subtle aggravation in the course of a good evolution. CS? HBS#+%T0 .;., female, londe, age 61, dentist, showed since years pervious to consultation a marked fear of going to a clinic to give birth to her children, which she bore at home. #wo years later, she started with sporadic hallucinations %hich terrori?ed her= and %hich she recogni?ed as a vision o! an anor"al reality= against %hich she struggled %ith e!!ort. She said she clearly sees a person already deceased, sitting in an armchair, and also a threatening human figure in her bathroom. t the same time, she felt it was i"$ossile !or her to listen to horrile stories= she would not see the news on television, horror films, nor read the newspaper. ;he %as a!raid o! the dra%ing o! lood !or tests and though she kept on with her work, she stopped practicing surgery, and !eared greatly to e assisted odontologically y colleagues. Since adolescence she suffered consti$ations o! 2 days and urinary infections with a periodicity of around EG days. 4o other significant antecedent. edicated by continuous treatment with Calcarea Carbonica in ?3uilibrium scale with low potencies by inhaling a globule in solution every 6G days, in E months all sy"$to"s %ere cured= including hallucinations= e>ce$t !or the increase in !reJuency o! urinary in!ections= %hich a$$eared every 1 days. This last event %as dee"ed as a sutle aggravation due to the inhalation o! the gloule in solution= so the treat"ent %as continued %ith the inhalation o! the dry gloule= also every * days. With this last $rocedure at the end o! ( "onths the urinary in!ections ceased co"$letely= eing asy"$to"atic a!ter 21 "onths o! continuous treat"ent= sho%ing that the greater !reJuency o! urinary in!ections %as a sutle aggravation due to oversti"ulation. (hen the ?3ulibrium scale is employed by inhalation of the dry globule every 6G days, slight aggravations in hyperreactive patients may occur with the first and second doses, which are transitory, habitually well tolerated and rarely occur after the s econd dose. +n the other hand, employing the same scale by inhalation of the globule in a solution every 6G days, if the aggravation is intense or it continues well beyond the second dose, this
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indicates the need to inhale the dry globule, also every 6G days, these patients then may be considered hyperreactive, which are more numerous than can be estimated. The doctor "ust e certain that the re"edies o! the EJuiliriu" scale have een $re$ared in "ulti$le !las&s= "anually and co"$lying to the given nor"s so there should e no douts as to their ca$acity to cure. Bn this way the only remaining factor of error is the mistaken choice of the remedy, which must be reconsidered if the curative process does not take place. Bf there are doubts about more than one factor involved, as for e-ample0 a remedy prepared not complying to the norms and a mistaken choice of the remedy, there can never be certainty where the error lies. #here must be only one factor to be corrected, so as not to lose control of treatment, and this should be a mistaken choice of the remedy. #he amount of globules to employ is not as important as the intake route and the fre3uency the doses are repeated, though it is sufficient to employ one or two of them. 7n old $ersons %ith very old diseases= not even a continuous treat"ent !or years %ith the EJuiliriu" scale "ay give a stale cure= as the alanced state o! Biologic Energy does not hold. Nevertheless= the continuous treat"ent allo%s to "aintain the" asy"$to"atic %hile they are suected to it. As %as e>$ressed= 2 years o! e"$loying the EJuiliriu" scale leave no dout %hatsoever that in continuous treat"ents o! Chronic Diseases= carried out !or years= the oral and $ercutaneous inta&e routes= as re$etition intervals o! doses elo% * days= lead to a sy"$to"atic aggravation and conseJuently to a loss o! curative ca$acity. 4evertheless, isolated symptoms very old and entrenched, resistant to the inhaled remedy, may be cured combining the percutaneous route with the inhalatory route. #his way, the depth is such that cure surprisingly may be achieved with ease. Bn the article *Commentaries on the e-treme attenuation of homeopathic medicines, included in *esser (ritings, Hahnemann confirmed $orsakovJs affirmation that the effects produced by high dynami'ations “cease faster!# Bn spite of this, e-perience of this decade with high dynami'ations of the ?3uilibrium scale, categorically affirms that employing these remedies the above mentioned does not take place, when used in continuous and prolonged treatments. #he e-planation may lie in the great capacity to stimulate that the Scale has, as it possesses an optimal balance between two basic magnitudes =CF and ?F>. #herefore, in the mentioned continuous and prolonged treatments, notice should be taken that intervals between doses, of less than 6G days produce sooner or later aggravation of symptoms, and i! co"$lying to intervals o! * days= i! the re"edy is the si"ilar and the inta&e is inhalatory= the results are "arvelous. fter these concepts, in the following Chapter a ne% "ethod o! "edicinal i"$regnation for the treatment of very hyperreactive patients will be analy'ed.
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CHAPTE6 7 Treat"ent o! very hy$erreactive $atients. A ne% "ethod o! "edicinal i"$regnation. “n enormous effort is re1uired to admit that something so minute, that a dose so prodigiously negligi"le of a remedy, may have even a minimum effect in the human "ody and even less to cope with those overwhelming and immensely vast diseases#! S. Hahnemann 126 Bf there is one difficulty with which the homeopathic doctor must contend daily, besides finding the similar remedy, is how to treat the very hyperreactive patients. #hese may be, as an e-ample, those called allergic, especially those suffering from rhinitis and from asthmaR those who have a state of great irritability of their nervous system, as in facial neuralgia or in hysteriaR those who suffer the intolerable psoric pruritus, when it is at its full strength or e-tended, those who suffer the penphigus diseases, and so many others. (hen treated, these patients worsen easily, and these worsenings are habitually so severe that the case generally comes to naught. Sometimes, patients even worsen with the remedy in the lowest potencies of the ?3uilibrium scale, inhaling a dry globule every 6G days. As %as stated= to a greater aggravation= a lesser curative $rocess !ollo%s= so it ehooves to search !or a %ay that allo%s a sti"ulus o! very lo% dyna"is" to treat very hy$erreactive $atients which is very difficult if there is a lack of the remedy sufficiently mild in its activity, that gives a stimulus whose dynamism be so minute to be in accordance to such hyperreactivity. How to help these patients without worsening their conditionQ $orsakov stated in an essay that in a flask he had placed only one dry medicinal globule, in contact with other 16,GG also dry non medicated globules. 127 He had shaken the flask for minutes so that the only medicated globule be in contact with all the others, and according to his assertion, each one of the 16,GG had a similar medicinal power as the single medicated globule. He e-plained that medicinal power was transmitted through contact, that the gloules i"$regnated in this "anner had a lo%er tendency to $roduce aggravations= and their curative activity was greater. Bn reference to this $orsakovJs essay, Hahnemann in an article of ay 6G, 1E62, titled *%emarks on the e-treme attenuation of homeopathic medicines, thanked him his contribution to the new science, but pointed out that as to the e-periment so related, he did not consider it proved by facts, and he deemed it incredible until it were sustained by e-perimental proof. Bn spite of this evaluation, he also $ointed out that trans"ission o! the "edicinal $o%er to the virgin gloules= carried out in 8orsa&ov5s e>$eri"ent= "ust have ta&en $lace y "eans o! “emanation or exhalation” that the "edicinal gloule e"its in a continual and constant "anner= “perpetually”, even though dry= ust as the e"anation is used y inhalation o! the dry gloule= as a thera$eutic ai".
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?ndorsing the perdurability of this “emanation!, Hahnemann refers to having verified the medicinal power of globules of Staphisagria 6G, kept dry in a flask for 2G years, notwithstanding that the flask was opened several hundred times, to be used by inhalation in a dry medium. #o that “emanation!, to which he referred in 1E62, he de!ined as a "agnetic !orce in the ) edition of *+rganon =1E72>, a force that today new physics Koined to the electric force, and so it is conceived as electromagnetic force. th
Bn the long note on paragraph 11 of that work he wrote0 “The magnet attracts towards itself and this implies that it acts on the piece of iron or on the steel needle, "y means of an inherent energy, purely immaterial, invisi"le, conceptual, that is, it communicates dynamically to the steel needle the magnetic energy (dynamic) e1ually invisi"le#! ater on, in the same note he affirmed0 “$n a similar manner the effect of medicines on the live man must be judged”.
Bt is very probable that the dry globule emit a radiant energy continually and constantly, “perpetually!, and also when diluted the energy be transferred to the fluid, which also will emit it. Bf the dry non medicated globules of $orsakovs e-periment had medicinal activity, very probably if was due to them being e-posed to the radiant energy of the single globule impregnated in medicinal fluid and afterwards kept dry in the same flask. Bn other words, i! in that e>$eri"ent the non "edicated gloules %ere activated %ith "edicinal $o%er= it %as not due to direct contact %ith the single "edicated gloule= ut y the "edicinal at"os$here e"itted y it to %hich they %ere e>$osed. Searching for an impregnation method that achieved remedies whose activity were of negligible dynamism, as from the year 2GG7 the author employed a system that may be called i"$regnation through "edicinal at"os$here. This "ethod is in total agree"ent %ith Hahne"ann5s inter$retation o! 8orsa&ov5s e>$eri"ent= %hen he attriuted the "edicinal $o%er achieved to the !act that the gloules had een suected $recisely to the action o! a "edicinal at"os$here. ccording to the stated concepts, on a cylindrical glass flask, appro-imately 1G cm. high, and a cm. base diameter, a steel filter of very fine mesh was placed on its mouth, on it 1GG non medicated =virgin> globules were placed, and at the bottom of the flask there were medicated globules of some of the lowest potencies of the ?3uilibrium scale, et%een oth grou$s o! gloules there %as a distance o! al"ost 2 c".= there!ore= no $hysical contact et%een the"= the entire a"ount o! gloules shared the sa"e "edicinal at"os$here. #hey were all in a dry medium and their si'e was such that 1GG weighed ) milligrams. 6G to 7G rice grains, to keep a dry atmosphere, were added to the flask, and that flask was closed for not less than a week before using the globules. +ne of these globules was taken from the filter and put dry in a 1G cubic centimeter flaskR from it patients with a highly increased reactivity inhaled only once through each nostril, every 6G days for some months. Surprisingly therapeutic responses were e-cellent, and with scarce and brief aggravations, but the cases whose results e-ceded all e-pectations were those when iologic ?nergy was highly enhanced, as with very hyperreactive patients, such as those bearing a breakout of intolerable generali'ed psoric pruritus, and other conditions. s these e-periences show, it is more than e-traordinary that0
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s incredible this may seem, the facts are there for those who wish to prove them in e-perimental laboratory. &oing to the results obtained by dry globules impregnated by medicinal atmosphere, a r5sum5 of a clinical case may serve as an e-ample. CS? HBS#+%T0 ". %. age I, when 2G years old had an outbreak of $ruriginous listery ec?e"a on the back of his hands, suppressed by radiumtherapy, that reappeared mildly once or twice per year, for the ten following years. Bn these last years presented a unilateral glauco"a =left eye>, and muscletendinous retraction of both palms. Since E months previous to consultation0 hoarseness= aggravated y tal&ing and hawking, after having suffered an important financial loss, accompanied by a "ar&ed general !ear. +ne week before consulting a sudden outbreak of listery ec?e"a, “similar to what $ had when $ was !, but much more severe and more extended” , accompanied now by !ear o! death. #he eruption caused a very intense volu$tuous $ruritus, almost impossible to avoid scratching, aggravated y hot aths and alleviated y cold contactR in this respect, his description was0 “I sleep almost naked!# He had been treated with antihistaminics and inKectable corticoids, but no alleviation of pruritus. #he indication was0 for three months, every 6G days to inhale through each nostril from a flask of 1G c.c. which contained one dry globule of G,) miligrams, of /hosphorus 1 ?3, which had been i"$regnated y "edicinal at"os$here. fter a mild aggravation that lasted 2 days, a notale i"$rove"ent egan= %ith a total disa$$earance o! $ruritus 2+ days a!ter the !irst inhalation= to the ama'ement of the patient and more so of the author . A $rogressive and gradual cure o! the ec?e"a !ollo%ed. The "edicated gloules contained on the otto" o! the !las&= destined to e"it the "edicinal at"os$here= "ust e very !e% et%een 2 and += other%ise aggravations ta&e $lace in these highly reactive $atients= and according to e>$erience a good ratio is estalished %hen the non "edicated gloules $ut on the !ilter are a$$ro>i"ately one hundred. What is signi!icant is that the "ethod o! i"$regnating dry gloules y "edicinal at"os$here and its e"$loy"ent y inhalation also in a dry "ediu" o! the lo%est $otencies o! the EJuliriu" scale= "ay $ut an end to aggravations in very hy$erreactive $atients= %hich have een one o! the greater di!!iculties in ho"eo$athic thera$y. Since Hahnemann discovered dynami'ation of substances in 1II, up to the present, he as all the homeopathic world searched for a way in which the remedy be better tolerated therefore more curative. #his search of the remedy capable of e-erting a mild activity without producing an aggravation is taking over 2GG years. #he ideal continuous treatment for years, as a means to subdue the most severe and oldest Chronic @iseases, is only possible with remedies whose stimulus Z each dose is a stimulus Z be according to each patientJs reactivity.
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#here e-ists an inverse ratio between the reactivity of iologic ?nergy of the patient and the @ynamism of the medicament to be used. #o a greater reactivity, there must correspond a lesser @ynamism, the reverse is also true. All in all= every ill $erson is hy$erreactive due to the enhanced sensitivity or avidity that his unalanced Biologic Energy has !or the dyna"is" o! the re"edy that cures. A"ong the hy$erreactive= nor"oreactive and hy$oreactive $atients there are only di!!erences in degree= ut they all have their reactivity greatly increased in res$ect to %hen they %ere healthy. Bn short= cure "ust e attriuted not only to the dyna"is" o! the si"ilar re"edy= ut also to the avidity o! the dyna"is" o! the unalanced Biologic Energy. Both energies are o! the sa"e nature= there!ore "ay interact. #hese investigations may attain that so yearned for goal in the treatment of Chronic @iseases in very hyperreactive patients, by being available a minute stimulus by means of inhaling once every 6G days one globule =rarely two> impregnated by the atmosphere of a similar remedy of the lowest potencies of the ?3uilibrium scale, and placed dry in a flask of 1G c.c. astly, in order to be able to graduate the dynamism of the inhaled remedy, it is convenient to recall HahnemannJs teachings in this respect, which are still in force for this case. Bt refers to graduation, which goes from inhaling through both nostrils and deeply to inhaling through one nostril and slightly. 7n cases o! su$er hy$erreactive $atients= when Hahnemann used the oral route, he subKected the solution of one medicinal globule diluted in a glass of water to the following procedure of successive dilutions0 he took from there a teaNspoonful and diluted it in a second glass of water. From this last one, he took one =or more> teaspoonful to give to the patient. 7n cases o! e>tre"e hy$erreactivity he proceeded in a like manner, successively, with a third and sometimes with a fourth glass, always taking a teaspoonful from the last glass to give to the patient. “If he Lthe patientM were unusually e'cited or were very sensitive, one teaspoonful of this solution Lone globule diluted in a glass of waterM may "e poured into a second glass of water, the contents well stirred and given doses of one or more teaspoonful!# “There are patients with “such an extreme sensitiveness” that it may "e necessary to prepare "y the same means a third and even a fourth glass!#$#he same procedures employed by Hahnemann to treat ver y hyperreactive patients, may be used in the case of impregnation by atmosphere. Bn this way, the impregnated globule by atmosphere may impregnate another one also by atmosphere, and from this last one the patient inhale. Bn cases of “e'treme sensitivity! following Hahnemann, the same procedure may be carried out, and successively employ three, four or more steps of atmosphere impregnation so that the patient inhale the last globule. This ne% "ethod o! "edicinal i"$regnation then avoids the turulent aggravations that are $roduced in $atients so sensitive= and accede gently to a ho"eo$athic cure.
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CHAPTE6 @inal considerations “* To all those who as I, have taken the firm resolution to devote the rest of their life to homeopathy and suffering humanity!# Clemens von !nninghausen. #his book cannot be ended without first reflecting on the surest techni3ue to choose the appropriate similar remedy. Bn 1EG1, in his essay *+n the power of small doses of medicines in general and of belladona in particular, Hahnemann asked about the effect that 1D1GG,GGG parts of a grain of belladona could have on the human being. efore developing his answer, and aiming to study the problem thoroughly, he proposed to e-amine it following the atin principle which separates the subKect in it classical parts of0 %"i, Ouamodo, Ouando and Oui"us u'ilis, that is9 (here, How, (hen and (ith what help. Under this same analytical scheme of the problems, he asked Clemens van !nninghausen, his best pupil and friend, to develop a repertory of homeopathic remedies. Hahnemann said to him0 “if some day I "ecome ill and cannot cure myself, he would "e the one to whom I would entrust myself!# #he %epertories point to the remedy according to the symptom, and are the reverse of ateria /rima, which points to the symptom according to the remedy. (hen !nninghausen was labouring on his prodigious work, whose opening words head this Chapter, it seemed more like a result from a computer than a manual achievement. efore getting half the work done, !nninghausen observed that the length of the manuscript was increasing to an enormous si'e, so he asked his teacher about reassessing the bases on which he was building. His 3uestion was referred to the possibility of considering local aggravation and i"$rove"ent "odalities as general "odalities, that is, if local modalities could generali'e. For e-ample, as lycopodium cures Koint inflammations which produce pain in the knees or hip, aggravated by rest and improved by moving, the 3uestion consisted in considering if it was possible to affirm that the remedy cures the symptoms wherever their site of appearance, which aggravate during rest and improve by moving, which would make the local modality a general modality. This generali?ation %as a$$roved y Hahne"ann= to the e>tent o! "a&ing it a la% o! ho"eo$athy, by which the length of the %epertory was reduced considerably. Bn his work published in 1E7, !nninghausen maintained the premise of (here, How, (hen and (ith what help, which was called in brief *Handbook of homeopathic therapies and repertory. #he Where (%"i) refers to the site of symptoms or functions, and for which each remedy has an affinity, that is the tropism of remedies for each tissue, organ, region or functions of the body =corresponds to items 6) to 1)> .12) 12)
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#he Ho% (Ouamodo) refers to the type of manifestation of each symptom, sensation or painR for e-ample0 is the pain penetrating or fiery, i.e. it alludes to the characteristics of how the symptom is perceived =corresponds to items 1 to 1)2>. #he When (Ouando) refers to the circumstances the symptoms appear as the time of day or the season, as also the modalities of aggravation or improvement in a particular movement, position and other circumstances =corresponds to items 1IG to 2621>. #o With What Hel$ (Oui"us au'ilius) he assigned the na"e o! Conco"itant ;y"$to"s, or symptoms that appear at the same time with those that motivated consultation, these do not seem to be related to the latter, but nevertheless constitute a unit with them, and many times help to find the similar. He $ointed out that the Conco"itant ;y"$to"s= i! they are $eculiar= "ay lead to the si"ilar re"edy %hen this is not $ossile %ith the Princi$al ;y"$to"s or those that "otivate the consultation. He also affirmed that the higher the dynami'ation, the sphere of action of the remedy increases in respect to the Where and the Ho%, nevertheless remaining constant the When, which he considered as another law of 4ature. 12 Tears later !nninghausenJs %epertory was incorporated by $ent to his own %epertory, but0 N Bn the following editions he progressively eliminated the Where, or tropism of the remedies for each tissue, organ or function, and in his last edition only left the item iver, in the Chapter bdomen. N He scattered throughout the book the When or modalities and circumstances of aggravation and improvement of symptoms which !nninghausen had grouped in the Chapter ?tiology, and in the Chapter &eneralities, valuables modalities of symptoms, were left out. BUnninghausen5s 6e$ertory even today continues to e the est resource the ho"eo$athic doctor has to &no% the Where= or a!!inity o! the re"edies !or each tissue= organ or !unction= and to have at hand in a grou$ed and co"$lete !or" "odalities or circu"stances o! aggravation and i"$rove"ent o! sy"$to"s or the When. #his is the work that follows most loyally HahnemannJs clinical conception. Bn short, the use of the e-tense and detailed $entJs %epertory, later corrected and enlarged by @r. Fredrik Schroyens with contributions from many homeopaths and published under the title of *Synthesis, together with !nninghausenJs %epertory, lead to the similar remedy in the surest way. fter the death of the latter, @r. Cyril . oger enlarged and updated his work with new remedies, which was published as *!nninghausenJs characteristics and repertory. The "odalities or aggravating and i"$rove"ent circu"stances o! sy"$to"s or When= grou$ed in BUnninghausen5s 6e$ertory in Cha$ter Etiology= constitute a real treasure= as they are a co"$lete collection o! $eculiar or characteristic sy"$to"s= and it is through the" that the choice o! re"edy is done %ith ut"ost $recision. This is due to its so $eculiar nature that there is no resource that gives a s"aller "argin o! error in the choice o! a si"ilar re"edy than that o! When= or aggravating and i"$rove"ent circu"stances o! sy"$to"s. #he r5sum5 of a clinical case serves as an e-ample of how the Where =Ubi> and especially the When = can lead with the greatest degree of precision to the choice of the similllimum. 12
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alues 1 and + !i> dee$ly in the "ind o! the doctor the i"age o! each re"edy. #he study of ateria edica, enriched by these values has the same importance as in astronomy has the graded e-amination of stars according to their magnitudes. For a good schooling of the homeopathic doctor, it must be emphasi'ed that the unavoidable need to study, besides ateria edica, HahnemannJs work, particularly *+rganon, *Chronic @iseases, all work contained in *esser (ritings and his letters, part of which are in *S. Hahnemann, his life and work, by %. Haehl. "ames #. $ent, in his *Homeopathic /hilosophy e-plained according to his lights what Hahnemann had e-pressed in *+rganon, but as the latter is clear, conceptual and constitutes the great doctrinary foundation of the entire Homeopathy, nothing replaces its direct reading. The other indis$ensale activity in the good schooling o! the ho"eo$athic doctor lies in regular %or& in e>$eri"ental laoratory= relating it to clinical e>$erience= as it dee$ens the understanding o! the %onder!ul $o%ers that the doctor has availale to co$e %ith Chronic Diseases.
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EP79O:#E t the beginning of this book, we stated the e-istence of a iologic ?nergy that organi'es and governs the living beingsR that we call disease the loss of its balance, that the symptoms are an e-pression of their suffering and the lesions its conse3uence. ut why does iologic ?nergy lose its balanceQ Bf acute diseases, e-cepting epidemic disease, are only worsening of chronic diseases, what is the ultimate cause of the latterQ Concretely= %hy do %e !all illL Energy invade the odyL
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(hen the #eacher warned that to avoid illness one had to avoid errors in the way of life and in the diet, carry a life of penuries or break moral laws or oneJs own conscience, actually he advised to live in harmony with oneJs own nature and the &reat 4ature. t present, the lack of harmony is evident in the mistreatment man is inflicting on his own planet, through the flame of hope remains always lit, as Heraclitus affirmed0 “The Sun is new each day!# 7t "ust e ad"itted that to e healthy it is not enough to achieve the order o! the s"all universe %e are= alancing its Biologic Energy= as the union and har"ony o! "an&ind %ith The :reat #niversal Order is indis$ensale= as %e eco"e ill %hen %e se$arate !ro" it. As a conclusion %e "ay a!!ir" %ith ut"ost conviction that the "ost e!!ective "ethod to cure Chronic Diseases= having $reviously chosen the si"illiu"= is the continuous treat"ent !or years %ith anti"ias"atic re"edies e"$loying once a "onth the EJuiliriu" scale y inhalatory route. #his method is also marvelous to cure the onset symptoms of illnesses, before they spawn their disorder, thus it is also the best preventive system of chronic maladies.
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9A;T WO6D; few words in the first person, as only they carry the force of feelings. #he reason of this book lies in the fact that B feel a deep responsibility in communicating the findings of these 1 years of research with the conviction that they may give back to many people the Koy of being healthy. Health implies that full Koy. nother reason is linked to the sentiment of fraternity towards all, which nobody has not e-perienced at some time. #his impelled the search. s B let go off these pages and for the well being of those who suffer, B wish that the advances here narrated be applied without bias and only be Kudged by their results. B give these concepts to those open in mind and sentiments to allow to be illuminated by “Intelligence that is not from the mind, as neither are /ife nor /ove!.12E
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“The most precious treasures treasures are an irreproacha"le irreproacha"le conscience, conscience, and a good health7 the love of Aod and the study of oneself give the former , Homeopathy the latter!#
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“In the cour course se of my life life,, I have have not not desir desired ed reco recogn gnit itio ion n what whatso soev ever er for for the the "ene "enefi ficie cient nt truth truth I disinterestedly spread# 3hat I gave the world, I did for the highest reasons!# Samuel Hahnemann
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:9O;;A6Y Aggravation See Symptoms =ggravation> Anti$sorics The only re"edies ca$ale o! curing non venereal Chronic Diseases= %hich "eans %ith a ca$acity to turn latent the @unda"ental 7llness or Psora. A$sorics 6e"edies e"$loyed to cure acute illness and %hen used !or a $soric disease change or su$$ress so"e sy"$to"s not turning it latent= there!ore they co"e ac& shortly. Balance See agnitudes of homeophatic remedies. Biologic Energy ital @orceF #nitive energy= organi?es and esto%s ada$taility to living eings. When lac&ing= the ody is a cor$se. 7ts unalance is the cause o! all hu"an diseases. 7ts alance is the state o! health. 7t is the "eans y %hich ho"eo$athic cure is carried out= as it is sti"ulated y the energy o! a dyna"i?ed si"ilar re"edy= so as to recover its o%n order. $ansion $revious to their a$$liance. better tolerance is obtained when employing it in ultiple @oses and besides allows to apply 1G shakings to each potency in preparing the Centesimal scale, without them producing aggravations. Doses Multi$leF Method to re$eat doses= %ithout reJuiring the rea$$earance o! sy"$to"s= though this re$etition "ust e "ade at intervals that do not $rovo&e aggravations.
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Doses ;ingleF Method conditioned to %ait haitually !ro" 1 to 2 days !or the rea$$earance o! sy"$to"s to re$eat the dose. Bt produces a pendular effect between the symptoms and the remedy which makes the cure almost endless. Dyna"ic #nit #nit o! "easure o! the re"edy5s Dyna"is"= %hich is the ca$acity to sti"ulate Biologic Energy. Bt is e3ual to @ynamism of potency 6G HahnemannJs Centesimal, whose value is 1E,GGG, therefore @ynamism 1E,GGG is e3ual to one =1> @ynamic Unit. Dyna"is" Energy= %hether it e Biological or o! the ho"eo$athic re"edy =see @ynamism as a agnitude, in agnitudes of homeopathic remedies>. Dyna"i?ation A $rocedure consisting in "a&ing "ani!est y "eans o! successive !riction and deconcentration a latent energy in "edicinal sustances= ca$ale o! sti"ulating Biologic Energy in the direction o! its alance i! it is the si"illi"u". The $rocess is Cu"ulative= 7rreversile and al"ost 7lli"itale. #hey ac3uire is this manner the power to cure, each one has its own capacity and different to those of the rest. Energy @ield Condition o! the surrounding s$ace o! an energy source= ca$ale o! in!luencing others and their !ields. E>$anded @ield See agnitudes of homeophatic remedies. :rain Ancient "edicinal %eight unit= eJuivalent to the %eight o! a !at %heat grain. a> Hahnemann employed the 4Yremeberg grain, e3uivalent to G,G)2 grams. b> #he ?nglish grain is e3uivalent to G.G)7II grams. c> t present and conventionally a grain is considered e3uivalent to G.G) grams. 7llness Chronic or acute unalance o! Biologic Energy. 7n!ection 7nvasion o! the ody y an unalancing energy o! the Biologic Energy= si"ilar to that o! a “magnet” , according to HahnemannJs conception. 7nhalation As$iration o! the re"edy in a solution= or dry= %ith a "edicinal goal. #he word *olfaction is not applied when the goal is therapeutic. 8orsa&ov5s Method Dyna"i?ing syste" ased on the use o! a single !las&= !it to e e"$loyed in dyna"i?ing "achines. Bts deconcentration is erratic, as opposed to regularity of HahnemannJs s ystem of multiple flasks.
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Medicinal at"os$here 6adiant energy= e"itted y dry gloules= that %ere $reviously i"$regnated %ith a "edicinal !luid and later dried= or e"itted y the !luid in %hich they %ere i""ersed. Mias"a Trans"itting agent o! acute and chronic diseases. Hahnemann conceived it as a magnetic energy, e-cept in epidemic diseases. Mias"a AcuteF Transitory unalance o! Biologic Energy. Brie! in character= has a s$ontaneous tendency to cure= though it "ay end in death. #he creator of homeopathy distinguished two types of acute miasma. a> ?pidemic miasmas, at present attributed to a bacteria or a virus, already suspected by Hahnemann0 “Cpidemic diseases produced "y a peculiarly contagious principle which is still unknown to us!# $ b> 4on epidemic miasmas, which he attributed to the chronic miasma of psora becoming acute. He described them as “flames detached from the "onfire of t he latent psora!#$DF Mias"a ChronicF Per"anent unalance o! Biologic Energy. Progressive in character= no s$ontaneous tendency to%ards health= incurale unless treated y the energy or curative dyna"is" o! a si"ilar re"edy. Other%ise= sooner or later it ends in death. Hahnemann affirmed that it is caused by an “infection!, considering the latter as an invasion o! the ody y an unstaling energy acting on Biologic Energy. “ dynamic effect * neither material nor mechanic * as the energy of a magnet!#161 12I
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Psora or the @unda"ental 7llness The “oldest most widespread and destructive and the less understood”, o! the three chronic "ias"as descried y Hahne"ann= %hich he called “fundamental illness”. ;ole unalance= $er"anent and $rogressive o! Biologic Energy= cause o! al"ost 3 o! chronic ail"ents o! "an&ind. E>ternally= it dis$lays a very $ruriginous eru$tion= not y scaies %ith %hich it is !reJuently con!used. Hahnemann 3ualified the psora doctrine as “*invalua"le discovery whose value for mankind e'ceeds all I had ever discovered*!$D #he remaining 1G_ correspond to chronic miasmas0 syphilis and s ycosis. #heir cure consists in achieving their latency and that re3uires the employment of anti$soric remedies and of Sulphur and Hepar Sulphur, to give permanence. llopathy calls the fragments of this sole unbalance0 diseases, giving them a character of independent and autonomous entities. 6atio See agnitudes of homeopathic remedies. 6eturn See Symptoms =%eturn>. ;cales Deci"al or DF has a dilution of 1D1G and 1G shakings per potency. Has G. @U at the end. Bts ratio value is 1G points away from the balance value. Bt was created by C. Hering and not by Hahnemann as it is sometimes said, and meant a drawback in the development of dynami'ation in respect to the e-tant Centesimal scale, reason why the former seemed to regret his invention at the end of his life. Centesi"al HCF Has a dilution of 1D1GG and 1G shakings per potency. Has 1 @U at the end. Bts %atio value is points away from the value of alance. Millesi"al 9MF Has a dilution of 1DG,GGG and 1GG manual succussions per potency. Bt is incompatible with the use of dynami'ing machines which use $orsakovJs method of a single flask. ust be done manually. Has 27. @U at the end. Bts %atio value is 2G points away from the value of alance. EJuiliriu" EJ.F Bn each potency Concentrated Field and ?-panded Fi eld are balanced, and their dynamisms are submultiples or multiples of the @ynamic Unit. Bt is incompatible with the use of dynami'ing machines which use $orsakovJs method of a single flask. ust be done manually. Has 6 @U at the end. Bts %atio value is e3ual to that of alance.
;ha&ings igorous "ove"ents o! the ar" %hich holds the !las& %ith the re"edy in solution= ta&ing it !ro" the o$$osite shoulder to the ho"olateral leg during the dyna"i?ation $rocess. They have a cu"ulative character. Hahnemann employed this procedure for the Centesimal scale. ;uccussions 8noc&s %ith the !las& that holds the re"edy in solution given to a leather ound oo& or si"ilar sur!ace during the dyna"i?ation $rocess. 7t has a cu"ulative character= sa"e as dilution or deconcentration. Hahnemann employed this procedure for the illesimal scale.
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PA6T ONE Bn search for the forgotten Hahnemann. #he eight omitted concepts. CHAPTE6 7 A it o! history. :eneral Conce$ts.
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1. 2)-) Doctrine o! Chronic Mias"as. 'he “lost clue” /soric @isease. ?rrors and confusion concerning the concepts of scabies, miasma and psora. #he first confusion. Scabies. #he second confusion. Chronic miasma. +ne more confusion. Sin. Une last confusion. /sora. Bmportance of antipsorics. iasmatic prescription. -. 2)-3. Discovery o! Ne% 6outes !or Ad"inistering Medicines 7nhalatory and Percutaneous. #he inhalatory route Bnhalation of a globule in a dry medium. Bnhalation of a globule in a solution. #he percutaneous route. #he omitted routes. aw of +verstimulation.
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